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Can Humans Walk on Water? · UFOS & PARANORMAL WITH PRESTON DENNETT

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Speaker 1: Hello everyone. My name is Preston Dennett, and welcome to
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Speaker 1: a new episode of UFOs and the Paranormal. Today, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to be talking about the paranormal, specifically human levitation,
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Speaker 1: and more specifically the ability to walk on water. In fact,
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Speaker 1: that is the name of today's episode, Ken Humans walk
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Speaker 1: on Water. And the answer I believe is yes. There are,
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Speaker 1: in fact dozens of cases throughout history where people have
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Speaker 1: displayed this ability. It's not just the very famous account
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Speaker 1: of Jesus and Buddha, but many other cases throughout history
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Speaker 1: and all different cultures really right up to the present day.
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Speaker 1: I think this is an important ability that hasn't got
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Speaker 1: a lot of attention. That's why I want to do
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Speaker 1: this episode for you today, and I'm going to present
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Speaker 1: about twenty or thirty cases, starting with the earliest, moving
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Speaker 1: all the way up to the most recent that I
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Speaker 1: could find, and I think you'll find it pretty compelling
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Speaker 1: that people do have this ability. So let's just get started.
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Speaker 1: So the earliest case that I can think of in
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Speaker 1: history that I was able to find is, of course
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Speaker 1: Buddha Siddharta Gautama Buddha, and there are many accounts of
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Speaker 1: him performing all kinds of miracles. I mean, it's really
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Speaker 1: quite an amazing list of the things he's been able
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Speaker 1: to do, which include walking through fire, invisibility, taming wild animals,
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Speaker 1: and just all kinds of things, teleporting, it goes on
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Speaker 1: and on, miraculous healing. But he did also reportedly levitate
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Speaker 1: on a number of occasions, and that includes going over rivers.
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Speaker 1: There's one very specific example where he was reported to
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Speaker 1: have walked over the Roheni River. There was a war
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Speaker 1: that was about to break out between the Shikaya clan
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Speaker 1: and a neighboring kingdom, and at the time, the region
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Speaker 1: was in drought and the two kingdoms were on the
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Speaker 1: verge of fighting so that they could divert the water
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Speaker 1: from the Rohini River for their own use. And as
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Speaker 1: the two armies gathered on opposite sides of the river,
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Speaker 1: the Buddha sets off by air to stop them and
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Speaker 1: appears before them, levitating right over the river. He asks
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Speaker 1: the rulers of each side if water or human life
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Speaker 1: is more valuable. Each side replied that human life is
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Speaker 1: more valuable, and that's when Buddha persuaded them to make
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Speaker 1: a deal to share the water. And that's just one account.
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Speaker 1: There's another account where he reportedly teleported across the Ganges River.
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Speaker 1: Buddha and his monks were crossing the river and were
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Speaker 1: seen on one side, disappeared and rear appeared on the
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Speaker 1: other side, instead of searching for boats or creating rafts
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Speaker 1: as all the other people were doing. And another account
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Speaker 1: across the same river, the Ganges River. This occurred shortly
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Speaker 1: after Buddha's enlightenment and he was about to deliver his
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Speaker 1: first sermon, and as he reached the Ganges River, he
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Speaker 1: approached a ferryman to cross the river, who asked him
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Speaker 1: for money, says, you need to pay the fee to
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Speaker 1: cross the river. The Buddhas said he had no money
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Speaker 1: and proceeded to cross the river through levitating. So he
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Speaker 1: is not the only one at this time who reportedly
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Speaker 1: walked on water. There's a story about the believing layman.
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Speaker 1: This was a faithful and pious person, a disciple of Buddha,
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Speaker 1: and one evening, on his way to Jetravana, he came
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Speaker 1: to the bank of the river Asira Vati and the
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Speaker 1: feriman had pulled up the boat on the shore in
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Speaker 1: order to attend service, and this guy decided that he
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Speaker 1: would just walk across the river, and his mind was
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Speaker 1: on Buddha at the time, and he just walked right
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Speaker 1: into the river, reportedly, and his feet did not sink
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Speaker 1: below the water. But he got as far as mid
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Speaker 1: river and thought he was on dry land when suddenly
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Speaker 1: he noticed there were waves, and his ecstasy he was
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Speaker 1: focusing on Buddha suddenly subsided and he began to sink
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Speaker 1: into the water. So he quickly fell back into meditation,
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Speaker 1: focusing on Buddha, and was able to arrive at the
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Speaker 1: city of Jettevana greeted the Buddha and started to talk
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Speaker 1: to him, and Buddha said, I hope you had no
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Speaker 1: mishap on your way, and he said, well, on in
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Speaker 1: my way, I was so absorbed in the thoughts of
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Speaker 1: Buddha that I set foot upon the river. I walked
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Speaker 1: over it as though it had been dry ground. And
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Speaker 1: Buddha replied, you are not the only one who has
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Speaker 1: been kept safe by remembering the virtues of the Buddha.
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Speaker 1: In olden days, pious laymen have been shipwrecked in mid
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Speaker 1: ocean and saved themselves by remembering the Buddha's virtues. And
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Speaker 1: so that's another report. In fact, there's yet another report
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Speaker 1: during this time in which a gentleman, a student of Buddha,
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Speaker 1: crossed the river through walking on water and boasted to
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Speaker 1: the Buddha about it, and Buddha chided him, saying, this
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Speaker 1: is not something you should display or use, for you
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Speaker 1: know no reason, and that you could have just taken
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Speaker 1: a bridge or a boat across instead of showing everyone
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Speaker 1: that you have this ability. But the point is there
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Speaker 1: were several people in very early history already walking on water.
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Speaker 1: And of course there's the very famous account of Jesus
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Speaker 1: on the Sea of Galilee. And as it says in
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Speaker 1: the Gospels of the Bible, and I quote, Jesus constrained
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Speaker 1: his disciples to get into a ship. The ship was
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Speaker 1: now in the midst of the sea. Jesus went unto
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Speaker 1: them walking on the sea. And when the disciples saw
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Speaker 1: him walking on the sea, they were troubled. And Peter said, Lord,
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Speaker 1: if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on
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Speaker 1: the water. And he said come. And when Peter was
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Speaker 1: come down out of the ship, he walked on the
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Speaker 1: water to go to Jesus. And at this point reportedly
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Speaker 1: Jesus calmed the storm and pulled Peter who was beginning
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Speaker 1: to sink back into the boat. So I'm personally not
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Speaker 1: a religious person. I don't know how much credence to
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Speaker 1: place into these really early accounts. We can't prove them.
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Speaker 1: But the fact is there are many, many other accounts
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Speaker 1: throughout history of people levitating, and a number of them
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Speaker 1: come from the saints throughout history. One of the earliest
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Speaker 1: ones was Saint Bassarian, who in the fourth century reportedly
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Speaker 1: walked across many rivers, including the Nile River, the Takazi River,
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Speaker 1: and the Barrata River. So that's just one account. There
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Speaker 1: are more modern accounts. In the early fifteen hundreds, Saint
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Speaker 1: Peter of Alcantara was observed by people to walk across
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Speaker 1: the Guadiana River in Spain. There was a very famous
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Speaker 1: account which took place in eighteen hundreds to an Azandi
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Speaker 1: medicine man from Africa by the name of Dengna Been,
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Speaker 1: and he reportedly walked on water after he was by stones.
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Speaker 1: He carried big rocks and actually walked across the water.
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Speaker 1: So here we see this appearing in many different cultures.
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Speaker 1: And here's another case which is fairly modern. This occurred
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Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds to a lady by the name
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Speaker 1: of Mademoiselle Frederica Hofe. She is known as the Seer
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Speaker 1: of Prevorst. She's quite famous. She lived from eighteen oh
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Speaker 1: one to eighteen twenty nine in France and her case
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Speaker 1: was investigated by doctor Justinus Kerner and Fredrika Hoffe displayed
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Speaker 1: many psychic abilities. She could see where her eyes closed,
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Speaker 1: she talked to spirits. There was constant poltergeist activity going
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Speaker 1: on around her. She was extremely clairvoyant. She could do autobody,
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Speaker 1: travel and by location. She taught spiritual subj while in
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Speaker 1: a trance state, and she also reportedly, on one instance,
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Speaker 1: walked on water. I don't have the details of it,
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Speaker 1: but her case is definitely one of the more recent cases.
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Speaker 1: There's another case which is pretty interesting, which took place
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Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty six, and this involved Saint Zachary of
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Speaker 1: Russia and Saint Basil in sometime in the eighteen hundreds,
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Speaker 1: and both were reportedly seen by witnesses to walk on water.
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Speaker 1: Olivier lee Roy wrote the first book on levitation called Levitation.
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Speaker 1: He was a French researcher and he lists more than
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Speaker 1: a dozen cases of people who have walked on water.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't provide many details, but his list includes Saint
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Speaker 1: Bernardine of cnn Bertin, Saint bern Saint Bogomile, Saint Francois
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Speaker 1: de Paul, Saint Jean of Capistrano, Jean the Hermit, Saint Judah,
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Speaker 1: Saint Marie Oh, I can't pronounce this name, Saint Marie
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Speaker 1: do gwen Uh, Saint Matthew of Bassio, Saint Nazaire, Saint
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Speaker 1: Pierre Regalatti, Saint Ramond de Penafort, Saint Sebald, and others.
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Speaker 1: The point is there are a lot, and some of
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Speaker 1: these cases do have details. There was a very interesting
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Speaker 1: case involving Saint Raymond. He was confessor for the King
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Speaker 1: James the First of Aragon, and while on the island
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Speaker 1: of Majorca to initiate a campaign to help convert the
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Speaker 1: Moors living there. The king brought his mistress with him,
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Speaker 1: and Saint Raymond reproved the king and asked him repeatedly
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Speaker 1: to dismiss his concubine, but the king refused to do so,
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Speaker 1: and finally the saint told the king that he could
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Speaker 1: remain with him no longer and made plans to leave
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Speaker 1: for Barcelona. The king forbade him to leave the island
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Speaker 1: and threatened punishment to any ship captain who dared to
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Speaker 1: take him. So Saint Raymond and his Dominican companion went
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Speaker 1: down to the seashore, at which point Raymond took off
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Speaker 1: his cloak and spread it on the water and used
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Speaker 1: his walking staff as a sort of a mast, and
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Speaker 1: he bid his Dominican partner his companion to hop on,
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Speaker 1: but his companion was too frightened to do so, so
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Speaker 1: Raymond bid him farewell, and with the sign of the Cross,
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Speaker 1: he pushed away from shore and sailed away on his cloak,
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Speaker 1: and this was apparently widely viewed. He went around many
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Speaker 1: boats that had forbade him passage, and this saint was
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Speaker 1: reportedly seen by scores of sailors who shouted in astonishment
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Speaker 1: and urged him on. And he reportedly sailed one hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty miles to Barcelona in the space of six hours.
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Speaker 1: And when he landed on shore, he was greeted by
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Speaker 1: a huge crowd of spectators, and in awe of this miracle,
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Speaker 1: King James the First listened to Raymond and mended his ways.
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Speaker 1: So yes, levitation and walking on water are obviously connected,
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Speaker 1: and there are a lot of cases throughout history. One
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Speaker 1: case is Saint Ammin, and this is way back in
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Speaker 1: three point fifty. He's a well known Egyptian hermit and
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Speaker 1: he lived the first half of his life as a
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Speaker 1: normal guy, quietly with his wife working in manual labor,
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Speaker 1: but was always very religious and would spend the nights
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Speaker 1: in prayer. But one day he decided to leave his
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Speaker 1: wife and retire into the desert, eating only bread and
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Speaker 1: water and spending all of his time in prayer. And
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Speaker 1: as is written in the Acta Sanctorum religious writings, Saint
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Speaker 1: Ammin became known for producing miracles, and one of these
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Speaker 1: involved walking on water. He was with his disciple Theodore
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Speaker 1: when they had come to an overflowing river and they
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Speaker 1: withdrew from each other to undress. Saint Ammin, however, was
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Speaker 1: too shy to undress and suddenly found himself being transported
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Speaker 1: over the river. And when his companion, Theodore, saw that
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Speaker 1: his friend had gotten across the river without getting wet,
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Speaker 1: he begged Saint Ammon to tell him what happened, and
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Speaker 1: Saint Amin reluctantly said that it had been quote a
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Speaker 1: miracle and not to tell anyone until after his death.
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Speaker 1: So this comes from a first hand witness. Another case
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Speaker 1: comes from the sixth century, and this involved attemption by
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Speaker 1: the name of Saint Benedict from Subiaco, Italy. He was
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Speaker 1: employed as a caretaker for several children of various noble families,
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Speaker 1: and one day Saint Benedict had a vision that one
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Speaker 1: of his children, one of the children named Placid, had
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Speaker 1: fallen into the lake and was drowning. So he shouted
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Speaker 1: to his friend Morris to rescue the boy, and Morris,
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Speaker 1: without thinking quote ran to the lake and walked on
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Speaker 1: the water. A bow shot from the bank to the
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Speaker 1: place where Placid had been struggling, and taking hold of
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Speaker 1: him by the hare, returned him with the same speed.
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Speaker 1: When he got to the shore and looked behind him,
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Speaker 1: he saw that he had walked upon the water, which
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Speaker 1: he had not noticed till then. So as a result
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Speaker 1: of this action, Placid himself became very religious and was
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Speaker 1: later canonized as a saint. So this is one of
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Speaker 1: a number of cases where people have walked on water
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Speaker 1: without even realizing what they were doing. Another case occurred
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Speaker 1: in fourteen thirty to Blessed Alvarez of Cordova, Italy. He's
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Speaker 1: well known for founding several chapels in this area, and
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Speaker 1: he was very much an ascetic, meaning he for go
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Speaker 1: comfort of any kind and did severe penances and spent
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Speaker 1: much of his time in prayer. And one night, while
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Speaker 1: he was returning to his monastery, when a violent storm
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Speaker 1: struck and blessed, Alvarez's path was blocked by a brook
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Speaker 1: that had been transformed to this swollen torrent. So he
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Speaker 1: knelt down, spent a few moments in prayer, removed his cloak,
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Speaker 1: spread it on the surface of the water, and used
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Speaker 1: it to walk safely across the river. He then put
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Speaker 1: his cloth look back on, which was still dry, and
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Speaker 1: returned to the monastery just in time to take his
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Speaker 1: place in the choir. So these may sound like exaggerations,
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Speaker 1: but there are so many cases of saints doing this,
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Speaker 1: and a person often became a saint not only because
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Speaker 1: they were very humble and religious, but because they would
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Speaker 1: perform these sort of wonder works, as they were called
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Speaker 1: what we would call today displays of psychic power. Here's
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Speaker 1: another case involving a saint, Saint Serafino. He lived from
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Speaker 1: fifteen forty to sixteen oh four. As a young child,
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Speaker 1: he worked as a shepherd who was then orphaned and
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Speaker 1: cared for by his elder brother, who abused him very badly.
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Speaker 1: So Serafino ran away at age sixteen and joined the
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Speaker 1: Capuchin monks, where he worked as a bricklayer, and he
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Speaker 1: eventually became a very popular preacher, became known for his
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Speaker 1: gifts of healing and reading the future, which attracted wide crowds,
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Speaker 1: including people of very high rank, including people high in
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Speaker 1: business and government, and also people very high in the church.
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Speaker 1: And there are at least two quote miracles ascribed to him,
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Speaker 1: and one involves, for its important here, walking on water.
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Speaker 1: Saint Serafino was on a pilgrimage to Loreto, but the
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Speaker 1: river Potenza was unpassable due to floods, so Saint Serafino
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Speaker 1: just walked across the river by walking on the surface
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Speaker 1: of the water and reportedly reached the other side completely dry.
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Speaker 1: So I've studied a lot of the saints because they've
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Speaker 1: exhibited so many of these amazing psychic abilities. And one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite saints is Saint Gerard of Magella, who
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Speaker 1: lived from seventeen twenty six to seventeen fifty five, and
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Speaker 1: he experienced all kinds of miracles. I mean, way too
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Speaker 1: numerous to list here, but pretty much the full gamut
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Speaker 1: of supernatural abilities, including numerous levitations. And there was one
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Speaker 1: incident involving walking on water. Saint Gerard of Magella was
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Speaker 1: on the Bay of Naples, this is in Italy, when
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Speaker 1: a storm threatened to sink a small ship. A huge
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Speaker 1: crowd had gathered on the beach and they pleaded to
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Speaker 1: Saint Gerard to help. So Saint Gerard made the sign
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Speaker 1: of the Cross, then stepped out into the water, saying
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Speaker 1: out loud in the name of the Most Holy Trinity. Pause,
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Speaker 1: then he commanded the ship to come here, or some
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Speaker 1: say he actually laid hold of it and drew it
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Speaker 1: after him safely towards the shore. So there was a
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Speaker 1: huge crowd watching this. They became maniacally enthusiastic and mobbed Gerard,
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Speaker 1: who quickly fled to Naples and hid himself in a
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Speaker 1: friend's home until the furor died down. And afterwards, Father
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Speaker 1: Margotta asked him how he was able to perform such
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Speaker 1: an amazing miracle, and Saint Gerard replied, and I quote,
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Speaker 1: oh Father, when God wills, everything is possible. And later
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Speaker 1: another person asked him how he do it? How he
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Speaker 1: did this miracle. Father Collone asked him, and Saint Gerard elaborated,
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Speaker 1: and he said, and I, quote, I caught it the
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Speaker 1: ship with two fingers, and I drew it to shore
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Speaker 1: in the state in which I then was in. I
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Speaker 1: could have flown in the air. So yeah. Saint Gerard,
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Speaker 1: although he died very young, was became very very well
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Speaker 1: known for his amazing abilities, which included among levitating by locating,
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Speaker 1: multiplying food, healing predictions, and more. Probably my favorite case
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Speaker 1: of all of walking on water occurred on July eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: eighteen thirty seven, to an eight year old Russian boy
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Speaker 1: by the name of Nikolai Yurlov. On the evening of
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Speaker 1: July eighteenth, eighteen thirty seven, Nikolay was woken up by
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Speaker 1: a ghostly apparition in his room of a quote, tall,
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Speaker 1: bald headed elderly man who appeared next to his bed.
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Speaker 1: And so this frightened him half to death and gripped
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Speaker 1: with this uncontrollable terror, Nikolay jumped up and ran out
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Speaker 1: of the house, across the garden and across the nearby
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Speaker 1: Swaga River, and at the time servants were chasing the
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Speaker 1: boy and found him quote absolutely dry on the far
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Speaker 1: side of the river, and as Nikolay says in his words,
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Speaker 1: several of our servants were running after me. They swore
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Speaker 1: that they had seen me flying across the river with
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Speaker 1: my feet touching the water sometimes. So there aren't a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of cases of this, but there's plenty to
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Speaker 1: show that I think this does happen. And one of
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Speaker 1: the most dramatic cases of this kind was actually witnessed
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Speaker 1: by a psychical researcher by the name of Baird T. Spalding,
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Speaker 1: and he wrote a series of books called Masters of
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Speaker 1: the Far East. This series of books is quite controversial.
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Speaker 1: Some have declared them hoaxes, other believed them to be genuine,
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Speaker 1: but at any rate, in December of eighteen ninety four,
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Speaker 1: Baird Spalding says that he joined an expedition of eleven
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Speaker 1: men to undertake metaphysical research in India, and after two
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Speaker 1: years of studying, he met a group of Yochis who
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Speaker 1: were exhibiting supernatural powers of many different kinds, and so
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Speaker 1: Spalding and his group of researchers were really amazed the
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Speaker 1: way these Yogis were able to do all these kinds
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Speaker 1: of things, such as communicating with wild animals apparently teleporting,
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Speaker 1: appearing out of nowhere, displaying an incredible range of knowledge.
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Speaker 1: They were unaffected by the elements. They could walk in
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Speaker 1: great heat or very cold weather with just a robe on. However,
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Speaker 1: nothing could have prepared Baird's Spalding for what he saw next.
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Speaker 1: He says he and his group were invited by the
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Speaker 1: men to travel with them into the Himalayas, and they
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Speaker 1: accepted the offer and began the expedition. And as they
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Speaker 1: reached the foothills of the Himalayas, that came upon a
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Speaker 1: large river, which Spalding says and I quote, was about
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Speaker 1: two thousand feet wide, running bank full, and the current
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Speaker 1: was at least ten miles per hour. So Baird's Faulding
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Speaker 1: in his group assumed that at this point the Jogis
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Speaker 1: would go upstream and cross the river on a bridge. However, instead,
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Speaker 1: one of the Jogis by the name of Jast, told
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Speaker 1: Spalding that they planned to cross the river without a bridge,
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Speaker 1: and Spalding and his group assumed that he meant that
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Speaker 1: he and the other Yogis were going to swim across
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Speaker 1: the river, and Spalding thought that was really dangerous and stupid. However,
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Speaker 1: to the surprise of him and his group, jast and
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Speaker 1: the twelve other Yogis used another method, and, as Spalding
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Speaker 1: writes in his book and I quote, when jast rejoined
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Speaker 1: the group, the twelve fully dressed, walked to the bank
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Speaker 1: of the stream, and with the utmost composure, stepped on
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Speaker 1: the water, not into it. I shall never forget my
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Speaker 1: feelings as I saw each of these twelve men step
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Speaker 1: from solid ground upon the running water. I held my breath, expecting,
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Speaker 1: of course, to see them plunge beneath and disappear. I
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Speaker 1: found out afterwards that that was the thought of all
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Speaker 1: our party at the time. I think each of us
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Speaker 1: held his breath until they were all past midstream. So
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Speaker 1: astonished were we to see these twelve men walking calmly
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Speaker 1: across the surface of the stream and not sinking below
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Speaker 1: the souls of their sandals. When they stepped from the
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Speaker 1: water to the farther bank, I felt that tons of
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Speaker 1: weight had been lifted off my shoulders, and I believe
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Speaker 1: this was the feeling of everyone of our party, judging
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Speaker 1: from the size of relief as the last man stepped ashore.
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Speaker 1: It was certainly an experience that words failed to describe.
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Speaker 1: There was little discussion regarding what we had witnessed, so
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Speaker 1: engrossed were we with our own thoughts. So Spalding and
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Speaker 1: his group were not able to do this. They had
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Speaker 1: to go upstream to find a place to cross. And
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Speaker 1: when Baird Spalding later asked Jast the Monk about this incident,
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Speaker 1: the monk replied, and I quote, do you think that
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Speaker 1: the men you saw walk across the stream yesterday to
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Speaker 1: save themselves the inconvenience of this trip are in any
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Speaker 1: way special creations any more than you are. No, they
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Speaker 1: are not created in any way different from you. They
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Speaker 1: do not have one atom more power than you were
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Speaker 1: created with. They have, by the right use of their
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Speaker 1: thought forces, developed their God given power. The thing that
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Speaker 1: you have seen accomplished while you have been with us,
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Speaker 1: you yourselves can accomplish just as fully and freely. The
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Speaker 1: things you have seen are so accomplished in accord with
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Speaker 1: the definite law, and every human being can use the
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Speaker 1: law if he will. I think this is a really
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Speaker 1: important point. This is really the reason why I wanted
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Speaker 1: to do this video, because it shows that any one
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Speaker 1: of us can do this if we just meditate and
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Speaker 1: spiritually elevate ourselves. So yes, saints, enlightened masters, yogi's, magic users, sorcerers.
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Speaker 1: Most of the reports come from these types of people,
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Speaker 1: but not everyone. There was, of course, a popular belief
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Speaker 1: in medieval times that witches could not be drowned. Back
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Speaker 1: in those times, it was a very fine line between
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Speaker 1: being accused as worshiping the devil or being a witch,
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Speaker 1: or being canonized as a saint. If you exhibited paranormal abilities,
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Speaker 1: it could go either way pretty easily. Some were canonized
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Speaker 1: and others were put on trial lynched by public mobs,
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Speaker 1: and a popular method of lynching a witch was known
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Speaker 1: as quote swimming, and the accused was thrown into a
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Speaker 1: body of water and if they floated, if they had
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Speaker 1: the ability to not drown, they would be found guilty
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Speaker 1: and killed. So kind of a catch twenty two there,
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Speaker 1: But there are some actual, first time recorded instances of this.
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Speaker 1: For example, on June five, sixteen ninety six, several people
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Speaker 1: were accused of sorcery and put on trial in Montaigni, France.
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Speaker 1: The witnesses were bound by hand and foot and thrown
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Speaker 1: into the Sane River, where they quote didn't sink in
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Speaker 1: the water no more than Gords. So here's another case,
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Speaker 1: which occurred in July of seventeen thirty seven to an
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Speaker 1: anonymous young woman who was accused by the townspeople of
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Speaker 1: Bedfordshire in England of witchcraft. She was surrounded and quote swum.
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Speaker 1: She reportedly floated like a cork three times, but finally
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Speaker 1: drowned after being tied down. And if you can believe it,
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Speaker 1: this ritual of quote swimming witches was practiced as late
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Speaker 1: as nineteen thirty one, so you can see this is
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Speaker 1: taking place all across the world. The most modern case
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Speaker 1: that I could find was one that was actually scientifically proven.
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Speaker 1: It's an amazing case which occurred to a gentleman by
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Speaker 1: the name of Angelo Faticoni of Jacksonville, Florida. He was
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Speaker 1: known as quote the human cork, and throughout the nineteen
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Speaker 1: twenties he displayed his ability to float on water for
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Speaker 1: an indefinite period of time over and over again. He
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Speaker 1: became known also as the man they could not drown.
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Speaker 1: He could assume virtually any position, lying on his side,
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Speaker 1: his back are curled up in a ball. He was
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Speaker 1: even able to sleep on the water. He was able
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Speaker 1: to swim great distances with metal weights, tied to his body,
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Speaker 1: and during one experiment he was observed to float in
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Speaker 1: the water for a period of fifteen hours with a
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Speaker 1: twenty pound lead weight tying up to his ankles. On
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Speaker 1: another occasion, a twenty pound cannonball was lashed to his legs.
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Speaker 1: He was sewn into a sack and thrown into the water.
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Speaker 1: This would of course kill most people, but Angelo Faticoni
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Speaker 1: remained motionless, floating on the surface of the water for
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Speaker 1: a period of eight hours. So his fame grew quickly
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Speaker 1: and he began to attract crowds of people who wanted
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Speaker 1: to study his case, and at one point his abilities
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Speaker 1: intrigued doctors at Harvard University who agreed to examine him,
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Speaker 1: and it was their theory that there was a peculiarity
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Speaker 1: in his physiology that would account for his unnatural buoyancy. However,
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Speaker 1: these doctors from Harvard did examine him. They did a
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Speaker 1: thorough medical examination by doctors and students, and they could
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Speaker 1: not find any physical abnormality whatsoever. His experiments were of
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Speaker 1: course photographed, and one of these experiments shows Fatconi floating
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Speaker 1: in the water while tied to a weighted chair. His
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Speaker 1: arms lay in his chest and his head rests just
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Speaker 1: above the water with a calm expression on his face,
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Speaker 1: and according to Angela Faticoni, how he acquired this ability
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Speaker 1: was the result of a traumatic childhood incident. He never
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Speaker 1: described what exactly happened, but he often promised to reveal
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Speaker 1: how exactly he became quote the human cork. But unfortunately
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Speaker 1: this was not to be, because on August thirteenth, nineteen
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Speaker 1: thirty one, he passed away. The New York Herald Tribune
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Speaker 1: announced the death of Angelo Faticoni with the headline human
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Speaker 1: cork is dead. His secret unrevealed. So again, I covered
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Speaker 1: all of these cases in my book. Human levitation and
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Speaker 1: this ability to walk on water may seem like magic,
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Speaker 1: but the above cases show that it's available to anybody.
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Speaker 1: And the ability to remain dry after being exposed to
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Speaker 1: water appears in many other accounts of saints and seems
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Speaker 1: to be related to perhaps incombustibility, protection from fire, and
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Speaker 1: immunity to coal to cold. So perhaps these levitators, these
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Speaker 1: people are able to produce some sort of electro magnetic
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Speaker 1: field around their body which can repel fire, water, and earth.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, hard to say, So there you go.
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Speaker 1: Twenty thirty cases of people who have displayed this ability
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Speaker 1: to walk on water. Again, this is something that any
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Speaker 1: person can do once they reach a certain level of
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Speaker 1: spiritual advancement. So that's why I wanted to do this
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Speaker 1: episode for you today, because I think it shows how
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Speaker 1: truly power we as human beings are, and that we've
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Speaker 1: only really begun to tap into all the many, amazing,
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Speaker 1: unlimited things that we can do. I did cover these
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Speaker 1: accounts in my book Human Levitation. There's a chapter in
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Speaker 1: the book called walking on Water, and I was shocked
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Speaker 1: to find out how many cases there are. And I'm sure,
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Speaker 1: really the cases that I've presented here are just the
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Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg. So I hope you've enjoyed this
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Speaker 1: episode today. I really want to thank you for watching.
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Speaker 1: I truly appreciate it, and until next time, keep having fun.