Skydiving, levitation, and accidents (video)

Skydiving over the Bahamas: best jumps of 2018

(Skydiving in Paradise, April 4, 2018) Here is a video covering a few months of jumps over the Bahamas. Diving out of planes is amazing. The second half features my friends and I jumping over Miami, Florida. The song is called "Pop Dat" by Florida break beat legend Huda Hudia & DJ30A.

Music: From the album POP DAT! licensed to YouTube by [Merlin] Symphonic Distribution (on behalf of Kaleidoscope Music); Symphonic Distribution Inc. (Music Publishing), and 5 Music Rights Societies.

What is levitation?

Magic? Meissner Effect. Levitation by science.

Levitation is real and it's easy. Whether or not a human can master it remains to be seen, but the theories on how it is done are sound. One yogic technique is to practice breath control (pranayama), taking in the subtle airs and nobles gases, which are lighter than air. This is done by will, mental training (samadhi), and purification. Then there are magnets and superconductors, spinning disks like those used on UAPs/flying saucers, which overcome gravity.

Diamagnetic live frog is made to levitate.

There's propulsion. Another is to develop such lightness of mind -- as in the absorptions (jhanas) -- that the body lifts just as the mental state is effervescent. Then there's the self-mastery the Buddha talked about, cultivating psychic powers or what the Yogis warned about, called siddhis.

Magical powers

Siddhis (Sanskrit सिद्धि or "fulfillment, accomplishment") are magical, material, paranormal, supernatural, psychic powers, abilities, and attainments that are the byproducts meditation and yogic advancement through sādhanās such as yoga (David Gordon White, Dominik Wujastyk, Yoga In Practice, 2012, Princeton University Press, p. 34). The term ṛddhi (Pali iddhi, "psychic or magical powers") is often used interchangeably in Buddhism. More

Accidents will happen

FAA investigating death of skydiver

(CBS Sacramento, April 19, 2021) Sabrina Call was 57 and from Watsonville, California. She was identified Monday by San Joaquin County Coroner’s officials as the woman who dived/fell to her death in Acampo, California, after her primary parachute and reserve parachute tangled together.