2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Italian Franciscan friar (1603–1663) who is the most extensively documented case of levitation in the Catholic tradition — reportedly witnessed flying by dozens of credible witnesses including Protestant nobility — and who became one of the most important cases in parapsychological discussions of physical phenomena.
Jeff Kripal's 2021 book examining accounts of levitation in Christian mystical tradition and other cultures — arguing that the body's participation in mystical states has been documented across multiple independent traditions and cannot be dismissed as mere legend.