[Tim Brownson]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

It wouldn't.



Again it wouldn't. I'll give you a specific example - it's not about stepping off a building, but it is about levitation, which I think it's close enough.

Now suppose I tell everyone that I will demonstrate levitation is possible. I set a date and venue in advance, and invite 150 witnesses, including journalists from the press. The chosen venue is not on stage, but in an open outdoor area, in broad daylight, with good visibility.

On the actual day, I meditate intensely and enter into a trance, while the 150 witnesses watch me. And then, as promised, I begin to rise into the air, several feet high. This happens not for just a few seconds, but for five full minutes. Photographers walk all around me, and take as many photos as they like. The next day, the newspapers print the full story, complete with photographs.

Well, would the world be convinced that the powers of the mind can create such extraordinary effects?

According to you, yes.

But this turns out to be incorrect. You see, the levitation demonstration I mentioned above has actually happened, in front of 150 witnesses, with press invited, photos taken, in an open outdoor area etc etc.

It happened in 1936, in India.

Click here for more details. Here's a photo:



Note: this photo was one of many, taken at the time of the demonstration, which was in 1936, long before Adobe Photoshop was invented.

But if you ask people today - is levitation possible? Well, you know what answer you'll get.

As I said, people can only perceive what their belief systems permit them to perceive. If something is totally outside your belief system, then either it will happen when you are not around to perceive it; or if it happens in your presence, you will not be able to perceive it anyway; or if you do perceive it, you will interpret it to be a fraud, or an illusion, or a big mistake etc.

And it is not merely that the effect of history & time passing, that makes people disbelieve. I am sure that even in 1936, when this levitation incident was huge news, there would have been many people who would have said that this was just some kind of illusion, some kind of trick, some kind of fraud - the man just cannot be really levitating. That's just not possible - according to their belief system.

So even today, if someone did a "step off the building and survive very well" feat, equally there would be some people who are convinced, and some people who remain unsure, and some people who scoff and say, "This is utter fraud" or "This is just a clever Hollywood special effect".

In the end, you see, your reality is just what you believe. And if you utterly disbelieve it, it just won't be there, even if it is.

So you utterly believe it can't be proved, so it can't, right?

Well you've kind of proved my point for me in so much as we don't know really how to do this because you have had to go back 70 years to find an event to back you up.

When I did my NLP Practitioner course I was taught by one of the top teachers in the UK from South Africa. This lady was really into the LoA and this was way before The Secret. Levitation was her real obsession and she had spent 1000's of pounds trying to find somebody that could show her how to do it in Southeast Asia. She couldn't even find anybody that could do it never mind teach her. She was still convinced and that is cool because I think it's possible after all we're just a quantum soup, nothing really solid about us.

If somebody could step off the building and when I say somebody I don't mean a holy man per se because I feel sure they'd not want to be involved in such a spectacle, but somebody that has learned this and holds a western perspective. Then with modern reporting etc it could be proved, of that I have no doubt whatsoever. This isn't the 1930's. All you do is head for the greatest skeptics with the power to influence, allow them to set it up and do it.

Of course there will always be disbelievers with anything but to hold up your hands and say "nobody will believe it" is sending the wrong message unless of course you're not sure that anybody can do it or you don't want to spread this power for the advancement of the human race.