Healing: a Conversation: A Field Guide to Redemption

By Annette Cravera Goggio

Desperately ill with a brain infection, Ms. Goggio begins a review of her life. Each morning before waking, she finds herself observing a particular time, a particular place in which she views with remorse events that unfold before her eyes. From that review comes a word or phrase that she knows she must write down, so she does, and the conversation begins. She hears a voice talking to her, and she responds, never knowing where the conversation is heading, never editing the words or questioning them, just writing them down. She comes to understand that the voice is her Guidance, Jonathan, the soul from the other realm that created her and watches over her, life after life, guiding her to her best being, her best learning as a soul. This illness is a life lesson, he says, and he imparts to her the pathway to healing. A pathway for everyone. She knows she must follow it, however difficult, to achieve redemption, the redeeming of her energetic, physical and spiritual self.

Part story, part self-help book, Healing: A Conversation shines a bright light on the "mystery" of illness and healing. Her honest revelations and heartfelt insights into her own illness give readers hope and permission to examine their own life story. This remarkable book breaks new ground in its account of healing as a platform for understanding the greatest aspects of life, that of relationships, life purpose and the intentional education of the soul. Part story, part self-help book, Healing: A Conversation shines a bright light on the mystery of illness and healing. Her honest revelations and heartfelt insights into her own illness give readers hope and permission to examine their own life story. This remarkable book breaks new ground in its account of healing as a platform for understanding the greatest aspects of life, that of relationships, life purpose and the intentional education of the soul.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504365246

Annette Cravera Goggio

Annette Goggio MPH, EEMCP, holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in the health sciences. Her practice in energy medicine is based on the teachings of Dixie Yeterian, renowned clairvoyant and healer, and Donna Eden of Eden Energy Medicine. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Holistic Theology at Holos University Graduate Seminary.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

How to Use This Book

What You Should Know before Reading This Book

Prologue

Beginning the Conversation

1. Healing Is Not a Mystery

2. Loving Is Not a Choice

3. What You See Is Not What You Get

4. Healers Are Not; They Only Assist

5. Allowing Is Not Accepting

6. Struggle Is the Inflammatory Process

7. Accept All That Is

8. Acceptance Is Not Surrender

9. The Unknowable

10. Pain

11. Serenity Comes from the Soul

12. Why?

13. All Is God All the Time

Some Wisdom Comes

14. Home Is Not a Place

15. Hiding

16. The Mind Is a Tyrant

17. Spirituality Is Not a Practice

18. All I Need Is a Normal, Healthy Brain

19. Make Peace to Have Peace (Peace of Mind)

20. Peace, Peace, Peace

21. Life Is a Dream

22. What You See, You Own

23. Healing Is Not a Straight Line

24. Living

25. Living—Part 2

26. Hope Is a Hammer

27. The Only Thing That Is Certain Is God

28. Clearing Out the Soul Body

More Wisdom

29. Struggle

30. Empathy

31. Major Life Transitions

32. The Review

33. Faith

34. The Float

35. Doing Injury

36. Spiritual Distance

37. Destiny

38. Destiny—Part 2

39. Sleeping, or Not

40. Choices

41. Identity

The Review

42. Cheating

43. Cheating—Part 2

44. Rape

45. Medicine

46. Cheating—Part 3

47. Showing Off

48. Benny

49. Bar Mitzvah

50. Work

51. Kicking Ass

52. Moving

53. Seizure

54. Kidnapping

Reconciliation

55. Sleeping with Cats

56. A Body Is Only as Good as the Messaging

57. The House That Roared

58. There Is No End

59. The Childhood I Never Talk About

60. An Ancient Bed

61. My Father

62. A Pile of Brains

63. My Twin

Redemption

64. Copious Amounts of Love

65. Redemption

66. All Is Easy

67. Buying into the Crabbing Business

68. Love and Money (The Crabbing Business)

69. Redemption—Part 2

70. Muddling Through

71. The (Last) Spot in My Head

72. Peace as a Lake

Epilogue

Endnotes

FOREWORD

I feel that this book written by my beloved student and friend, Annie Goggio, is a very important one. It is important because it presents principles of living that form not only an in-depth vision of our world, from a spiritual perspective, but it also offers a way of navigating through the world. Annie stresses that it is not enough for us to begin and end each day with accomplishments. She teaches us that it is also important for us to understand the purpose in the doing, the meaning of the events and relationships that become our lives. This book offers a window into Annie’s life. Through sharing her life she shines light on the difficulties/challenges of living and the meaning and purpose of those challenges. To quote Annie, We can’t live without meaning, or else why live?

This is an inspiring piece of work for it seeks to understand the ultimate purpose of living, through examining our relationships, our reactions to life events and the thought processes that entangle and detangle the larger story: the education of our souls. It explains the process of dis-ease and its mitigation. It explains the meaning and purpose of pain.

Through her book, Annie offers us a new and different way of viewing life. It is Annie’s view of life and understanding of the deeper meaning and purposes that make her such an accomplished healer and counselor. It is impossible for us to experience healing of physical disease without first releasing our emotional pain, for all physical disease begins with emotional dis-ease. Many healers seek to heal the body without addressing the emotional pain that lies beneath the disease. They are often able to accomplish relief of physical symptoms. However, those symptoms return if the underlying source has not been resolved. It is never enough to just address the physical ailment. In order to accomplish a permanent remedy the healer must also address societal, emotional and spiritual distress. It is Annie’s understanding of this principle and her ability to help people probe deeply, to discover and resolve long suppressed trauma, that makes it possible for her to achieve a high level of success.

I was pleased when Annie first came to me as a student. She was obviously a very gifted intuitive. Teaching her has been an incredible journey for me. It is unlike Annie to do anything casually, she dives into life with an immense curiosity. She had studied with other teachers before she came to me so she already had a lot of information. It became apparent immediately that it would be my task to take her to new, deeper levels of understanding. As you read this book you will see that this hasn’t been an easy path for her. Annie worked hard to become all that she is today.

What I like most about this book is the honesty and courage with which Annie describes the emotional pain and then, ultimately, the release and inner peace she experienced as she delved into her own life, clearing and releasing painful attachments to past events, so that she might ultimately become the healer that she is today. In order to help the reader come to a deeper comprehension of the information, Annie has left no stone unturned. She reveals herself as few people would dare, naked and without embellishment. She offers you her real life to examine so that you might be better able to unveil your own in confidence…to explore every part of your life and to heal.

It is possible for you to experience the same kind of healing and clarity that Annie has gained if you are brave enough to really look at who you are and who you have been, to really see yourself, and if you have enough love in you, to be able to offer some of that love to yourself, to forgive yourself and others and to release your painful attachment to past events. It is possible that by reading this book you will be changed. You will have a better understanding of your self, the world and your life. What better way to start your healing process.

I feel certain that you will find, as you read this account of Annie’s life, that you and she are one. The purpose of our lives is to experience living with all of our senses….as fully and completely as possible. We all experience pain and redemption, we all experience joy and love. We all are of one story. We all are of one soul.

Dixie Yeterian

September 2016

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PREFACE

This book is a gift to you. Not from me necessarily but from them—God and all the spirits who watch over us and help us through life, teach us. Yes, I believe in God, not as a person or a man sitting in a chair above us but in a consciousness, an all-pervasive being-awareness that weaves through every living thing and everything that does not appear to be living—all of it. I see God in everything and everyone.

This book is an odd thing. It doesn’t follow the rules of fiction or nonfiction because it is neither. It is a direct teaching from another realm, the realm in which many souls live, that are in training to be great masters of guidance to us. Each of us has been assigned one and that soul has followed us through many lifetimes, likely thousands of lifetimes, perhaps hundreds of thousands. I don’t think we can comprehend what constitutes a life, or thousands, only that we are here, now, the sum total of all our lifetimes and struggling to make good of it.

This book is about healing. It is written because I needed to be healed, I needed to understand and experience at a deep level each step in the process and the role of God in healing. I could not have been healed without deepening my relationship to God, without understanding how God heals. Now I’m beginning to sound religious, but I can assure you I am not. I do not follow any religious doctrine. No affiliation is required. What this book offers is how the invisible energy of God works, what quantum physicists call the zero-point field. There is nothing more normal or natural than the energy field that makes up our physicality and everything else that has mass. There is nothing more normal or natural than information passing through this energetic highway we call the zero-point field. The body uses this information highway to communicate within and between cells, and it is this information highway that is the medium of thoughts and emotions that ultimately influence our physical state of being. Healing is the content of the messaging within the body, and that messaging consists of only one thing: love. It takes love to heal, and I call it God.

This book is a conversation. A long one between my Guidance and me. His name is Jonathan, and he is of a large family of souls that descend from a soul named Samuel. In his last incarnation, he was Samuel Llewellyn, a Scotsman born in the mid-nineteenth century, who, together with his friend and compatriot, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, involved themselves in parapsychological research at the Society for Psychical Research as fervent members of the Spiritualist movement in London. Samuel Llewellyn died in 1926. Samuel is Guidance to my spiritual and healing mentor, Dixie Yeterian, a great gift to many souls in this earthly plane over the past eight decades. I would not have known of my Guidance, had this healing experience, or written this book if it were not for Dixie Yeterian. It is to her I give credit for this adventure that has brought so many insights. Thus, I do not feel as if I own this book, for it is surely a collaboration of souls in this realm and the next. I only offer it because it healed me, and if such insights translate to you, transcend my journey to yours, I am most grateful to everyone involved. My journey, my life, may seem specific on the surface, but I believe I was given this conversation because it would benefit not just me. It would benefit you, if you can see what is there for you to know and explore. For without the insights, the knowing, the seeing your life differently, healing is more difficult to achieve. The whole point of illness is to heal—physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. So if you are ill and beginning this book, I wish you love, for that is what this book is about.

May the healing begin.

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

By now, in picking up this book, you’ve decided to move forward on your healing. Congratulations! Now comes the hard part: foregoing preconceived notions of what your illness is about, how it happened, why it happened, how long it will last, how to get well—because I can tell you there are surprises in store for you. You are probably wrong about most of them, as I was. I was wrong about pretty much all of it! So here’s my advice:

1. After you’ve read a conversation, have a quiet conversation with yourself as to what might apply to you and your situation. Then read the discussion following the conversation and prompts for self-reflection. Each conversation gives you an opportunity to do work.

2. Start a journal by writing down what strikes you as true about what is said and what gives you trouble. Be honest. (Only God is listening.)

3. Pay attention to your dreams. Write them down as soon as you wake up or record yourself in the middle of the night using a digital recorder or your phone. The Dream Book, by Betty Bethards (New Century Publishers, 1983) can be helpful to you in interpreting your dreams.

4. Ask for help. Divine help.

5. Never speak negatively about yourself. Or give energy to your illness by talking about it.

6. Stay open to the serious possibility that you can learn something important from this experience and that the something important is really important.

7. Love yourself, accepting your body as it is.

8. Know that you are deeply loved, deeply, deeply loved beyond your comprehension of such love. Accept that fact without questioning.

9. Know that you are not alone. Ever. You are being looked after constantly, helped whenever possible, and guided for your greatest good.

10. Keep learning about yourself, for that’s the whole purpose of life, and hopefully this book will help you do just that.

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW BEFORE READING THIS BOOK

This book is not one of fantasy. I can assure you that consciousness is real and moveable. One can move conscious awareness anywhere, anytime. It is not attached to the body and fixed.

This book is about an occurrence of psychic phenomena. What follows is an unfiltered, unaltered account of conversations carried out over the period of a few months that are seemingly impossible. I talked to and conversed with my Spiritual Guidance, named Jonathan, a dead person living in another realm, another dimension we Catholics would call heaven. The purpose of the discussion was to bring me to the understanding of what made me ill and what it would take to become well again.

How could this take place? Why would I have such an experience? As it turns out, I was able to, through years of study and meditation prior to this illness, pick up this information and transform myself into a higher vibrational state to receive this messaging.

It was not a supernatural occurrence. It was what the British scientist, Frederic W. H. Myers, cofounder of the (London-based) Society for Psychical Research, called supernormal. Normal in the sense that such communication is highly likely given the true construction of the universe as we now know of it. Super because only a portion of the population possesses the supersensitivity to receive it. All experiences we consider psychic, such as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, mind-matter interaction, and psychokinesis, stem from our ability to perceive information and to influence our own personal environment with our thoughts and feelings. Like the blind man who describes the elephant a little at a time, mistaking what the whole animal is, we are at the beginning stages of describing our world as it is. We have undertaken innumerable experiments using sound scientific logic, methodology, and statistical analyses to check our findings, in order to demonstrate the likelihood that something larger than us is really happening.

• We can read one another’s thoughts (telepathy).

• We can see the future (precognition).

• We can, individually and in large groups with ardent intention, influence the behavior of people around us and the operation of machines (mind-matter interaction).

• We can interact with people in other realms who are no longer alive in this world (survival phenomena).

• We can remember previous lives that we’ve had (survival phenomena/reincarnation).

• We can extend our conscious sight to far-away places as if being there, instantly and effortlessly (remote viewing).

• We can create an expanded sense of self that encompasses everything, and every space in-between, in every time and space dimension, which produces feelings of complete bliss and well-being (meditation).

As I’ve said, this book is not fantasy; it is a version of reality. My reality. Each of us creates our own reality, continually, to the best of our ability and courage to express it.

Some are born with this expanded bandwidth. Others come upon it suddenly, through an experience, a sudden awareness, a vision, or an insight. Still others, like me, ignore it all their lives until they are finally faced with how things really are by nearly dying. In any case, we find ourselves one with Spirit, with Godness, a soul in the middle of an all-pervasive consciousness, whether we like it or not. We are bound to this vibrational highway and vast sea of energy because we are made entirely of it, and all structures we consider physical are built from it.

What is the proof of this? There is plenty. We have been having psychic experiences since we first opened our eyes as humans. We have endeavored to make sense of ourselves, and these experiences and our surroundings, for millennia. In that attempt, we have come up with all sorts of ideas to explain the stars above and sickness and misfortune below. Ideas have evolved over time. Experiences of the phenomenal have not.

People have been able to foretell future events, affect the weather, and cure the sick and dying since the dawn of time. Some of these experiences have been well documented, including those in Patanjali’s classic yoga texts, Yoga Sutras, written two thousand years ago.¹ Stories of divination, witchcraft, and miraculous happenings were plentiful in ancient times. Up to the seventeenth century, the prevailing consensus was that people, all living organisms—plants and animals—had souls, and souls were natural, not supernatural. Spirits were not material but interacted with beings through the soul. Prophecies were common and popular and directed the actions of kings, such as in the story of the Oracle of Delphi and King Croesus of Lydia’s decision to invade Persia. Religious mysticism embraced the psychic traditions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with stories of the stigmata of St. Theresa of Avila (1515–1582) and levitations attributed to St. Joseph de Copertino (1603–1663). Religious philosophers and writers such as Henri More (1614–1687) documented a number of incidents of psychic phenomena including possessions, apparitions, and poltergeist phenomena in his Antidote Against Atheism (1653) and other writings. Researcher Joseph Glanvill (1636–1680) took up the mantle of documenting these phenomena, popularizing these incidents as case histories, flaming the interest of the public. With the highly publicized account of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), a respected metallurgist in Stockholm, in foretelling of a fire near his home one afternoon in 1759 while in a town three hundred miles away started a whole new approach to psychic investigation, inspiring writers such as Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) and Edgar Allen Poe (1809–1849), boosting interest in Spiritualism and Mesmerism ² on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.³

Spiritualism began officially in 1848 with the Fox sisters, Margaretta and Catherine, who reported hearing the rappings of spirits in their séances. These and other mediums were vigorously investigated as mediumship grew in popularity. At its height, it is said that President Lincoln’s wife held regular séances at their home. With steady interest in contact with spirits from the hereafter, two scientists, Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) and Frederic W. H. Myers (1843–1901), in 1882 established the Society for Psychical Research (PSR) in Britain. And soon after, William James (1842–1910) established the American Society of Psychical Research (ASPR) in America. Their investigative focus was on extrasensory perception, psychokinesis (PK), and survival phenomena, collectively coined psi after the Greek letter ψ, the first letter in the Greek word psyche, which means mind or soul. Myers’s contribution, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, published posthumously, reflected more than two decades’ research and remains one of the most important works in this field.

Other talented mediums, such as Mrs. Leonore Piper and Mrs. Mina Stinson (Margery) Crandon in the United States and Mrs. Gladys Osborne Leonard in Britain inspired new research in the field of extrasensory perception (ESP) under the direction of William McDougall (1871–1938) and his colleague, Joseph B. Rhine at Duke University. This brought the investigation of mediumship and other psychic phenomena to the laboratory setting. The Pearse-Pratt experiments developed by Rhine are historically important in demonstrating through repeatable experimentation and statistical analysis that ESP and other forms of psychical phenomena are indeed real. In his seminal work, Extra-Sensory Perception after 60 Years, A Critical Appraisal of the Research in Extra-Sensory Perception, Rhine in 1940 discusses his card experiments that totaled 2,400 runs with thirty-two subjects, achieving a positive deviation of 489 hits (correctly identifying the target card). These results reflected odds against chance of 1,000,000 to 1.⁴

Scientific research into psychic phenomena within the controlled laboratory environment increased dramatically at the beginning of the twentieth century. By the 1920s, there were universities in many countries of Europe, Asia, and Russia, in addition to the United States, that had spawned laboratory-based research of psi. Edgar Mitchell, an Apollo 14 astronaut, conducted an experiment in extrasensory perception in space. Moved deeply by the view of earth from that vantage point, he established the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Petaluma, California, to conduct rigorous research on par with the universities.

Dean Radin, senior scientist at IONS, furthered our understanding of the mechanisms of psychical experiences in his own research, and in that of other scientists, by collectively and rigorously analyzing their methodologies and their results and presenting his findings in the following books: The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena (1997), Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality (2006), and Supernormal: Science, Yoga and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities (2013). From these books, from the data he has compiled, from his diligent attention to these data sets and outcomes of thousands upon thousands of experiments, and in consideration of the statistical reality of their effects, we can be reasonably assured that psychic phenomena are very real.⁵,⁶,⁷ We are, as Dean Radin would say, entangled.

So what are the various psychic phenomena? And what is the convincing evidence for each? What do we know now, at nearly the quarter mark of the twenty-first century?

Dean Radin classifies psi into two categories: information flowing in to us that can be perceived without the ordinary senses (clairvoyance, telepathy, precognition, and extrasensory perception) and information flowing out of us and having an influence at a distance: mind-matter interactions, such as telekinesis and psychokinesis (PK). Together, these classes represent the majority of psychic experiences and the focus of most experimentation. From the more than four hundred years of research in this field, combined with what we have gained from the research and operating principles of quantum physics, this is how the world really works:

• Everything is connected (entangled) within a vast energetic field.

• Time and space do not present any limitations on information exchange (forward, backward in time or across any distance—any dimension).

• What occurs in life is determined by conscious thought and feelings.

• What we think of ourselves as being alive persists after death.

• What appears solid or physical is an illusion.

This may sound surprising, but all psychic phenomena are the manifestations of our increased sensitivity to how the world really works.

It may be that we will never achieve a full understanding of our world, our universe, and our lives, as quantum physics presents worldviews that are quite confounding, but we will keep testing them to regard them objectively, however subjective our experience of them is. We know now that, in terms of psychic experiences, the evidence is in.

1. Telepathy. This includes information sent from one person to another, J. B. Rhine’s ESP 5-Card Tests in particular and the Pearce-Pratt experiments involving 1,850 individual trials. Pearce obtained 558 hits, 188 hits above chance expectations, producing odds against chance of ten²⁷ to one.⁸ The Ganzfield Studies—two people separated at a distance, one sender of an image and one receiver drawing or writing what was received, decades of data produced, including data as recent as 2010. Meta-analysis of decades of trials showed 1,323 hits in 4,196 trials for a hit rate of 31.5 percent versus an expected 25 percent, resulting in odds against chance of thirteen billion trillion to one.⁹

2. Clairvoyance/clairaudience/clairsentience/ESP. Clear seeing differs from telepathy in that information is not sent from anyone; most famous studies are in remote viewing experiments that were top secret in the 1970s as directed by Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI International in Menlo Park, California, wherein one person traveled to a randomly selected distant location while the remote viewer, secured in a laboratory, described where the agent went. Use of talented psychics, such as Pat Price, Ingo Swann, and Uri Geller, increased hit rates significantly, although nongifted viewers also produced greater than expected hits but were less consistent in their hit rate.¹⁰

Princeton University’s Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory conducted the largest single remote viewing experiments. As reported by Princeton’s Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne in 2003, twenty-five years of experiments, from 1976 to 1999, produced 653 trials with seventy-two participants, but with a twist. Most of the trials involved a future target randomly selected after the participant had recorded his or her impressions. This twist provided strong evidence against chance, thirty-three million to one.¹¹

This category also includes decades of picture-drawing experiments. Such experiments are captured in the book Mental Radio, published in 1930 by Upton Sinclair, an American social activist, which includes numerous tests conducted with his wife, Mary Craig Sinclair, who could accurately describe a picture drawn by someone miles away. Einstein, a friend of Sinclair’s, wrote of the book, I have read the book of Upton Sinclair with great interest and am convinced that the same deserves the most earnest consideration, not only of the laity, but also of the psychologists by profession …¹²

3. Precognition. Perceiving the future, four classes of laboratory tests were devised to test precognition. First, forced-choice involved a person guessing which of a fixed number of targets would be selected later—milliseconds later, up to a year’s time. Charles Honorton and Diane Ferrari performed a meta-analysis in 1989 of sixty-two investigations of this type from 1935 to 1987, compiling 309 studies, two million trials, and 50,000 subjects, and the result was odds against chance of ten²⁵ to one.¹³

Second, free-response, wherein participants were asked to freely report any impressions they might have about a future target, without restriction. As part of the remote-viewing experiments conducted at SRI International (770 tests from 1973–1988) and later at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a defense research company (445 tests), the results showed odds against chance of the SRI tests at over three hundred million to one, and 1.6 million to one for tests at SAIC.¹⁴

Third, presentient experiments included skin-conductance measures, eye changes, and brain changes to determine if a participant correctly sensed a future calm or emotional image using the International Affective Picture System. Julia Mossbridge and Patrizio Tressoldi along with statistician Jessica Utts conducted a meta-analysis of experiments from 1978 to 2010. Of the twenty-six studies that qualified within the strict guidelines given them, the combined odds against chance ranged from seventeen million to 370 million to one.¹⁵

And fourth, a class of experiments testing the mere exposure effect, a time-reversed twist in which a computer randomly chooses one of two images and repeatedly presents it subliminally to a participant before the participant is asked to select one of the two images. The participant would have no conscious awareness of the subliminal image but would select that image in a test situation. The idea was that experiencing the image in the future would leak backward in time and bias the participant’s present decision. In 2011, a series of nine such studies at Cornell University under Daryl Bem, involving over a thousand participants, resulted in a combined odds against chance of seventy-three billion to one.¹⁶

In addition to experiments involving humans, Rupert Sheldrake shows that dogs also possess psychic perception. In his book Dogs That Know Their Owners Are Coming Home, he presents the results of over two hundred trials in which he documents the awareness of dogs of their owners’ impending return under a number of different laboratory conditions and scenarios.¹⁷

4. Mind-Matter Interaction Telekinesis/Psychokinesis. Included

in this category of phenomena are materialization/dematerialization, levitation, teleportation, psychic surgery, psychic healing, and out-of-body projection. Two classes of experiments for mind-matter interactions have been conducted: on living systems and on inanimate systems. In the former, what is offered by the Transcendental Meditation (TM) organization is yogic flying, which is momentary but repeated levitation of the body that looks like hopping while the body is in a cross-legged sitting position. (It can continue for many hours.) The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has taught students of transcendental medicine this technique as a TM-Sidhi practice since 1976. It is derived from the ancient yogic tradition. How the director of the TM organization explains it, a specific meditative technology (practice) causes a momentary reversal of the gravitational field around the meditator so that levitation occurs, though for a short time. Although students may practice this form of levitation in their own homes, and most do, many students have gathered in Vedic City, Iowa, to engage in yogic flying as a group (separated by sex) for maximum consciousness field effect. Other aspects of levitation as described in the ancient texts, Yoga Sutras, such as hovering and flying, do not appear to be part of the typical expression of yogic flying under the domes in Vedic City.¹⁸