A Canadian Indian Levitation

     I began this blog with the intention of rescuing "lost" or "forgotten" reports of the paranormal: accounts, apparently genuine, squirreled away in old books or magazines which the rest of the world has passed by. This story certainly fits that category. It has also been my philosophy that, although you should never accept anything until it has been bolstered by a second report, you should not reject anything just because it is fantastic or unbelievable. There is always the slight possibility that it is part of a rare but genuine phenomenon, and one day a second example will arrive. But it you have rejected the first, then the evidence will not accumulate. This story also fits that category. I don't know what to make of it, except that it should be recorded for posterity's sake.

"Paranormal Planet"

     If you keep your eyes and mind open, you will find that the paranormal, the miraculous, the simply inexplicable not only happen, but are not even uncommon. If you haven't had an experience which defies the paradigm of modern science, which appears to violate the laws of nature that we know, then you know somebody who has. Four years ago I published a book entitled, Apparitions: tulpas, ghosts, fairies, and even stranger things, which goes further than simple ghost stories, but explores a parallel world of non-material beings which is only occasionally perceptible to us. Now I have produced a companion volume entitled simply, Paranormal Planet in which I seek to document and explore more than a dozen aspects of the paranormal which do not involve apparitions

Levitating Saints - and Others

     During my visit to Bhutan, one of my travel companions made a reference to levitation practised in Tibetan monasteries, and I commented that I wouldn't rule it out. "I'm glad you don't reject it," said our host (or our guide, I forget which).
    "In our society," I replied, "it occurs among two different types of people: Christian mystics, and the demon possessed."