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Is Levitation a mark of Enlightenment? (Science Article + video)From: Michael Winn
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Date/Time 2006-12-07 09:26:01
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MessageIs Levitation a mark of Enlightenment? (Science Article + video)
From: Michael Winn
Subject: General
Date/Time 2006-12-07 08:17:05
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Note: Christian mystics have long been famous for flying uncontrollably about their prayer chamber.
My brother, a Transcendental meditator, has been "flying" (or hopping) for years - a technique taught to thousands, based on chanting a certain sanskrit sutra in the heart and waiting for blastoff. Recently, levitation was claimed by posters on this forum to be the "test" used to measure progress from training with certain supernaturally gifted qigong teachers. I have read accounts of Tibetan monks chanting to levitate a stone up a steep cliff in order to build a monastery in an inaccessible place.
I myself have long known - based on a flashback experience I had in Egypt - that the Great Pyramid was built using sound technology by a few adepts who vibrated the two million two-ton blocks into place in a short time. It is one of many reasons I make inner sound technology a fundamental part of the internal alchemy training. But I am not concerned with levitation, although that can be a side effect. Why?
The following article and video will give all pause to consider whether levitation is a mark of enlightenment or merely a physical byproduct of stimulating certain sound frequencies. It raises the issue of whether it is valuable to make a distinction between the effect that is achieved using ultrasound to easily raise physical objects, vs. the spiritual vibration that can be heard in the energy body and spirit body as the "music of the spheres".
Are the insects and small animals levitated here enlightened? If they flew by themselves - without the support of ultrasonic fields - would they be enlightened? Are all birds enlightened, proof given by their ability to fly? Amuse yourself with this video and such questions....
michael
SCIENTISTS LEVITATE SMALL ANIMALS
By Charles Q. Choi
LiveScience
November 29, 2006
http://www.livescience.com/technology/061129_acoustic_levitation.html
Scientists have now levitated small live animals using sounds that are,
well, uplifting.
In the past, researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an,
China, used ultrasound fields to successfully levitate globs of the heaviest
solid and liquid -- iridium and mercury, respectively. The aim of their work
is to learn how to manufacture everything from pharmaceuticals to alloys
without the aid of containers. At times compounds are too corrosive for
containers to hold, or they react with containers in other undesirable ways.
"An interesting question is, 'What will happen if a living animal is put
into the acoustic field?' Will it also be stably levitated?" researcher
Wenjun Xie, a materials physicist at Northwestern Polytechnical University,
told LiveScience.
Xie and his colleagues employed an ultrasound emitter and reflector that
generated a sound pressure field between them. The emitter produced roughly
20-millimeter-wavelength sounds, meaning it could in theory levitate objects
half that wavelength or less.
After the investigators got the ultrasound field going, they used tweezers
to carefully place animals between the emitter and reflector. The scientists
found they could float ants, beetles, spiders, ladybugs, bees, tadpoles and
fish up to a little more than a third of an inch long in midair. When they
levitated the fish and tadpole, the researchers added water to the
ultrasound field every minute via syringe.
The levitated ant tried crawling in the air and struggled to escape by
rapidly flexing its legs, although it generally failed because its feet find
little purchase in the air. The ladybug tried flying away but also failed
when the field was too strong to break away from.
"We must control the levitation force carefully, because they try to fly
away," Xie said. "An interesting moment was when my colleagues and I had to
catch escaping ladybugs."
The ant and ladybug appeared fine after 30 minutes of levitation, although
the fish did not fare as well, due to the inadequate water supply, the
scientists report.
"Our results may provide some methods or ideas for biology research," Xie
said. "We have tried to hatch eggs of fish [during] acoustic levitation."
The research team reported their findings online Nov. 20 in the journal
Applied Physics Letters.
Editor's Note: Acoustic levitation has been used for many years. Click here
http://www.livescience.com/technology/061129_acoustic_levitation.html
(SEE LINK BELOW) to see a video of a micro-gravity experiment for a NASA-related project done in
1987 by David Deak.
http://www.livescience.com/technology/061129_acoustic_levitation.html
- Is Levitation a mark of Enlightenment? (Science Article + video): (610) Michael Winn (1190) - - 2006-12-07 09:26 am
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