Hi all. I am sure many of you have done this but I haven't seen an explanation yet as to exactly how it works. When we were kids (16-19) while partying we used to do this and it is hilarious( especially when under shall we say 'illegal influences' but also done it straight). One guy sits on a chair and 4 others push down on his head for 30 secs with both hands. Then removing hands in clockwise order (just for effect i'm sure) and placing an index finger under each armpit and each knee (remember the guy is sitting on a chair and the four people use just one finger each) it was really easy to pick the guy up as if he was lighter than air and throw him at the ceiling (lost count of the banged heads and smashed lightshades). Sounds stupid and it was but really funny when it was someone who had never seen it done who was on the chair. I am sure its just simple physics but if someone could just confirm this for me. Cheers

Many years ago I participated in almost an identical ritual. The hands thing was slightly different, but the effect was the same.

The guy in the chair was about 6'4" weighing 215 lbs. Two of the lifters were small females 5'2" 105 lbs. and they were weaklings too.

We only lifted the sitter about a foot, but all of the lifters agreed that very little effort was used.

We scratched our heads on that one. Then we decided to just try to lift the guy without the hand ritual and we couldn't even lift him one inch. More head scratching.

I've never heard anyone else mention this trick or whatever it is.

yeh mate...exactly the same , we always used to do it to the biggest guy around if possible and we would try again without all the hand on head stuff and it wouldn't work...its like they coil down like a spring from the force put down into them...but we were really hitting the ceiling almost everytime....i was reading a post about pushing arms against door frame and then them sort of floating up to horizontal and that reminded me of this....not done it for 15 years now tho...used to do it in the pub too and no-one has ever explained it...sure its nothing spooky tho..lol

wow, that sounds really cool, I will try it

Sounds almost unbeliavable, if I can convince my friends to try this without making a complete fool out of myself I will try it. Thanks!

( Still doubt it ) Guess Ill have to try it very soon.

Levitation, I have also taken part in a similar ritual and had it done to me ( nearly hit the ceiling) as well to others. The ritual is a way of tuning and timing in the groups collective energy to pick the person up with just a finger. It's why you can't budge a person without following the routine first, it's not about physical strength.

any further explanation than 'levitation' mate as we usually did it very late at night after being in the pub since the afternoon and were generally in the process of partaking in much illegal substances and I would say that the collective energy of our group wouldn't have ammounted to much ! Usually out of the 5 involved (chair guy and 4 round) none would have been serious about tuning anything and at least 2/3 would have thought it was complete nonsense. Does no-one have a physical answer e.g. four fingers, close to the person, standing above him provide small moments(distance*force) and therefore is physically posible. But then again that doesnt explain the fact we couldnt do it without all the hand business and pushing down.Anyone tried it?

It's probably a case of mind over matter, much like the panicked mother lifting a wrecked car off of her child. We used to play a game as children, called 'Light as a Feather, Heavy as Stone." In this particular version, we'd have the largest person in the group (one weighed close to 185 lbs) lie on the floor with their arms crossed on their chest and legs straight out, as if lying in a coffin. Then four or five of us would gather around and chant a little 'prayer' that involved the person's name and the words, "When they found her dead, they said she was light as a feather." Using one finger from each hand beneath the person to be levitated, we would easily lift them up off the floor and up over our heads. Then, the same thing was repeated with the words chanted, "When they found her dead, they said she was as heavy as stone." We tried to lift again and could not for the life of us get the person more than a couple of inches off the floor. We tried the 'heavy as stone' version with the lightest person in the group, a girl who weighed barely 80 lbs, and again, we could not lift her more than a foot off the floor. It was strange and to this day I can't figure out the physics of it.

You might have found my reply rather hippy, but it was giving a physical explantion. Even in your wasted and terribly drug induced states, using such a ritual would have acted to tune and correctly time the group energy. The process is ALL about timing and balance. It just doesn't work without doing somesort of ritual to collect and time everyone.