How do people levitate?

[fakename]

Someone suggested that I ask this here instead of in “Philosophy”.

So are there any explanations as to how levitation occurs?

 

[CB_Catholic]

Someone suggested that I ask this here instead of in “Philosophy”.

So are there any explanations as to how levitation occurs?

I’ve never seen anyone levitate and don’t expect to, but I’ve heard some Saints have experienced this. I think how it happens will always remain a mystery.

 

[GEddie]

I’ve never seen anyone levitate and don’t expect to, but I’ve heard some Saints have experienced this. I think how it happens will always remain a mystery.

At least until we have our pneumatikon soma, which probably uses levitation and leaping instead of standing and walking!!

ICXC NIKA!

 

[Angelsflight]

Many recorded cases of levitation throughout history have been spontaneous, but there are those that are said to have been achieved through Transcendental Meditation.

How to accomplish Transcendental Meditation, I have no idea…

 

[Gods_Peace]

By giving all the weight to God (Trust), this creates such a lightness in the persons being that it actually draws them Closer to Heaven.

 

[superamazingman]

In short, God very occasionally does it when someone is in very deep prayer.

 

[BluesPicker]

In short, God very occasionally does it when someone is in very deep prayer.

"By giving all the weight to God (Trust), this creates such a lightness in the persons being that it actually draws them Closer to Heaven. "

 Levitation by saints & saintly people in prayer  who are in ecstasy in well  documented in the Catholic Church.  The  diocesan Bishops discern through the Holy Spirit that this of  God.  These events are parts of  Signs and Wonders that St. Paul speaks about.

 The devil is perfectly capable of  enabling some person who consciously or unconsciously has made a pact with Satan and his minions to  levitate. Certain cases such as  Maria de la Cruz , a abbess,  possessed people levitate and mimic saintly people. This woman, Maria de la Cruz, even fooled many priests and bishops but she never fooled St. Ignatius Loyola.  As she grew older, she eventually confessed that she had made a pact with Satan.  She wanted fame and notoriety that comes from these types of events.   Christ warned us about generations that only sought Signs and Wonders.  Christ told us that some would say "I healed the sick and cast demons in your Name"  and He would in Judgment  "I never knew you."  We are supposed to be motivated not by our selfish egos but by a true love and devotion to Jesus Christ that offers true honor to God.  We must be motivated by a love to give Honor, Praise and Glory to God.  If we don't have this love, we don't have anything.

   Also,  some people it seems may retain remnants of  spiritual faculties lost in the Fall of Man.  This is discussed in the Catholic Encyclopedia.  For these people  these remnant faculties pose a burden to their spiritual well-being and can easily fall prey to the actions of  evil spirits.  These people really need a spiritual director because it is easy for them to fall into sin.  This is not dogma; but, may explain why some people are more predisposed than others into falling into occultism or spiritism.

   How people levitate, the mechanisms involved?  I don't know but such abilities either are from God or Satan.

Transcendental mediation and other eastern religious practices are condemned by the Vatican. That is enough for me or any other Catholic who wants to follow Christ.

Many Blessings,
BP

 

[R_C]

So are there any explanations as to how levitation occurs?

Same way that every other miracle occurs: by the power of the Holy Spirit.

If you are looking for a physical explanation, there can be none, since levitation obviously breaks the law of universal gravitation. But then, the accelerating metric expansion of space also sort of does

 

[codefro]

I’ve never seen anyone levitate and don’t expect to, but I’ve heard some Saints have experienced this. I think how it happens will always remain a mystery.

St. Joseph of Cupertino, and St. Thomas Aquinas were some who experienced it.