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Levitation (paranormal)
Rising of a human body and other objects into the air by mystical means / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Levitation (disambiguation).
Levitation or transvection, in the paranormal or religious context, is the claimed ability to raise a human body or other object into the air by mystical means.
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While believed in some religious and New Age communities to occur due to supernatural, miraculous, psychic, or "energetic" phenomena, there is no scientific evidence of levitation occurring. Alleged cases of levitation can usually be explained by deception and fraud, such as trickery, illusion, and hallucination.[1][2][3][4][5]