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  • Writer: Wyrd & Highly Strange
    Wyrd & Highly Strange
  • Jul 4
  • 1 min read
The Torment of St Anthony (1487), Michelangelo (1475-1564)
The Torment of St Anthony (1487), Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Did you read the caption of this photo and do the math? Michelangelo was 12 or 13 years old when he painted this astounding image. I invite you to sit with it. There will be much more to say about levitation, but this may be your only opportunity to experience this phenomenon through the imagination of Michelangelo.

 
 
 

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m3
Jul 22

Wowza! Michaelangelo was 12 or 13 years old when he painted this....oh my! what imagination, what seeing. Love this painting. Is lack of understanding or experience with levitation a byproduct of our distracted, industrial growth, materialist society? Think so.

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Wyrd & Highly Strange
Wyrd & Highly Strange
Jul 27
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I have a hypothesis, which is that belief plays a role. We no longer "believe" that things like levitation are possible. I will dig into this more sometime soon.

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