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.
Makes the case that physical phenomena (levitation, bilocation, luminosity) associated with mystical states are documented across independent cultural traditions with sufficient frequency to constitute a genuine research problem — even if the mechanism is unknown, the evidence is too consistent to ignore.
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