Thanks for refreshing my memory. Perhaps Joe floated, perhaps not. But as for
the Catholic Church being thorough in their investigations in making folks into
saints (absurd on the face of it), recall Padre Pio, recently canonized, and
later found to have used acid to create his famous stigmata. So no, such
evidence as the Church canonizing someone hardly qualifies as "science."
george_deforest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
Angela Mailander wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, I can't remember the names and dates,
> but there are reports of levitation in the Neo-Platonic tradition,
> so the mysterious East is not the only source for such stories.
Craig Pearson, of MUM faculty, wrote a book about levitation;
i dont think it was published yet;
but, it includes the spontaneous levitations of
St Joseph of Cupertino, a Catholic saint from the Middle Ages.
of course there wasnt much Science back then, so there is
not scientific "proof"; however, the suspicious Catholic Church
was convinced of what he was doing; they dont make just anyone
a saint; in their way, they investigate things quite thoroughly.
this passes for me as: as scientific as you can be for that age;
this monk did float into the air.
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