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Chapter 11 1911 An occurrence which occasionally takes place at _séances_, and more frequently among eastern Yógîs, is what is called levitation -- that is, the floating of a human body in the air. The Astral Plane Its Scenery, Inhabitants and Phenomena 1890 Among the arts ascribed to Home was that called levitation , in practising which he was raised in the air by an unseen and unknown force, and remained suspended there; this being, so to say, the first step towards human flying without...