Levitation is Real! St. Joseph book by Michael Grosso

This right mind matters blog wrote a nice summary of Michael Grosso's book on St. Joseph levitation

I posted a comment to her blog post so lets see if it makes it past moderation! She posted a couple of my previous comments.

Sex sublimation and levitation - glad this is finally getting some discussion! youtube

Miracles in the age of Materialism - Michael Grosso

The interview is conducted by Michael Peter Langevin.

The Sanskrit root for smile is also the root for the word miracle? Wow.

Michael knows 2 people who saw a nun levitating in Spain in the 1990s - in a church while praying! One of the witnesses, a lady, fainted on the spot!

The qigong master who befriended me saw an Indian yogi levitating in India.

Another podcast with Grosso

The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of ...

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1442256737

Michael Grosso - 2015 - ‎Philosophy

St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation Michael Grosso ... over nature and created all the new and indisputable miracles of modern technology.

 Oxford University tried to censor Michael Gross so he had to cancel his book contract!

 

  Yes, argues Grosso, if slowly, because with the development of quantum mechanics, consciousness has undertaken ‘a return of the repressed’ rather than being seen as a quirky (and limited) epiphenomena, it is becoming potentially a constitutive, structuring reality that permeates everywhere. In his penultimate chapter, Grosso explores a number of approaches to mind in quantum mechanics that are a suggestive basis for a renewed interest in consciousness as a non-local, unifying reality that transcends and configures ‘matter’. We are reminded that if the world is seriously strange at the quantum level, why stop there?

 right!

Another Michael Grosso podcast - May 2017

http://consciousnessunbound.blogspot.com/

Michael Grosso has a blog!

 A skeptic tries to dismiss Grosso's levitation claim!

Though Grosso's book is indexed and contains hundreds of references, skeptics are conspicuously absent, a predictable but unfortunate omission that might have better grounded his discussion of levitation. The book is also undermined by its endorsement of a hodgepodge of dubious and discredited phenomenon ranging from Ted Serios (ably debunked decades ago by James Randi and others) to inedia (claims that people can live without eating through meditation and focus) to reincarnation. Though Grosso avoids the common New Age trap of throwing everything in but the kitchen sink, he comes close, with discussions of near-death experiences, ghosts, demonic possession, out of body experiences, astral travel, ESP, consciousness, and so on, most of which have only the most tenuous connection to levitation.

 This is just not true! I recently posted on Ted Serios from my research 10 years ago. Serios was not "debunked" by magic James Randi with his closeted illegal gay lover doing fake debunking. haha.

(For information on the hoaxed levitations of Home see Milbourne Christopher's 1970 book ESP, Seers & Psychics, whose complete absence from Grosso's book is inexcusable if he's going to cite those events as evidence.)

I read a book on Home's levitations - back around 2001! I guess it was 2005:

 Lamont, Peter (2005). The First Psychic: The Extraordinary Mystery of a Notorious Victorian Wizard.

 Lamont, P. (2013). Extraordinary Beliefs: A Historical Approach to a Psychological Problem (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)

Let's see what he followed up with!

He cites this research:

P. Brugger ‘Functional hemispheric asymmetry and belief in ESP: towards a “neuropsychology of belief”.’ Perceptual and Motor Skills, 77 (1993), 1299–308.

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P. Brugger and C. Mohr ‘The paranormal mind: how the study of anomalous experiences and beliefs may inform cognitive neuroscience.’ Cortex, 44 (2008), 1291–396.