---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote :
I'm healthily skeptical about such claims. (Notice how skepticism is always described as "healthy"?) I think "essential" is an even better term. But if there is anything to these tales I doubt if the saint *physically* levitated. Ie, a Kodak Brownie would not have recorded his flight. A more likely explanation (though still demanding a lot of credulity) is that people witnessed his "astral" vehicle. He was, after all, spending most of his time in prayer and contemplation - ideal conditions for having an out-of-the-body experience. Perhaps the veneration surrounding the holy man raised the witnesses' own level of consciousness so that they could sense his astral form. More plausible? On that theme: do TM meditators in the Dome (sidhas or not) ever report having an OBE? Someone on my "flying" course did, she had all sorts of weird adventures like that. I just got a head ache and forgot where I was, a sort of Out of Mind Experience where my body wandered about on its own.
