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Levitation is the raising of the body as a result of spiritual light having neutralized gravity; a gift that has been given to any number of the saints. | Levitation is the raising of the body as a result of spiritual light having neutralized gravity; a gift that has been given to any number of the saints. | ||
It is popular today to equate mysticism with raptures, ecstasies, visions or even levitation. But the Christian mystics often warned, and so do the Gurus of the East, that phenomena are not the goal of the mystical path. They said it is dangerous to ask God for or to expect such experiences because this leaves us open to projections from our own imagination or from the devil. | It is popular today to equate [[mysticism]] with raptures, ecstasies, visions or even levitation. But the Christian mystics often warned, and so do the Gurus of the East, that phenomena are not the goal of the mystical path. They said it is dangerous to ask God for or to expect such experiences because this leaves us open to projections from our own imagination or from the devil. | ||
== Physical and spiritual levitation == | == Physical and spiritual levitation == | ||