"...There is one book entitled Vaimanika-sastra that was dictated in
trance during this century and claimed to be a transcription of an ancient work
preserved in the Akashic record."
"The medium in this case was Pandit
Subbaraya Sastry, a 'walking lexicon gifted with occult perception', who began
to dictate the Vaimanika-sastra to Mr. Venkatachala Sarma on August 1, 1918. The
complete work was taken down in 23 exercise books up to August 23, 1923. In
1923, Subbaraya Sastry also had a draftsman prepare some drawings of the vimanas according
to his instructions."
- Richard L. Thompson,
Alien Identities
According to the Vymankia Shastra, purportedly written by Maharishi Bharadwaja in the 4th Century BC, there are 32 secrets to piloting a vimana. These include:
"Maantrika: The
invoking of mantras which will permit one to achieve certain spiritual and
hypnotic powers so that he can construct airplanes which cannot be
destroyed.
Taantrika: by acquiring some of the
Tantric powers, one may endow his aircraft with those same
powers.
Goodha: This
secret permits the pilot to make his vimana invisible to his
enemies. Adrishya accomplishes the same purpose by attracting 'the
force of the ethereal flow in the sky'.
Paroksha: This helpful hint enables
the pilot to paralyze other vimanas and put them out of
action.
Aparoksha:
One may employ this ability to project a beam of light in front of his craft to
light his way.
Viroopa
Karana: With this skill mastered, the pilot can produce
'the thirty-second kind of smoke', charge it with 'the light of the heat waves
in the sky' and transform his craft into a 'very fierce and terrifying shape'
guaranteed to cause 'utter fright to onlookers'. Roopaanara can cause the
vimana to assume such shapes as those of the lion, tiger,
rhinoceros, serpent - even a mountain- to confuse observers.
Suroopa: If one can attract the
thirteen kinds of 'Karaka force', one can make the vimana appear to
be 'a heavenly damsel bedecked with flowers and jewels'.
Pralaya: This deadly secret pushed
electrical force through the 'five-limbed aerial tube' so that the pilot may
'destroy everything as in a cataclysm'. Vimukna sends a poison powder through
the air to produce 'wholesale insensibility and coma'.
Taara: This ability, once mastered,
provides the pilot with another means of avoiding contact with an enemy or
hiding his purpose from observers: 'By mixing with ethereal force 10 parts of
air force, 7 parts of water force, and 16 parts of solar glow, and projecting it
by means of the star-faced mirror through the frontal tube of the
vimana, the appearance of a star-spangled sky is
created.'
Saarpa-Gamana: This secret enables
the pilot to attract the forces of air, join them with solar ryas, and pass the
mixture through the center of the craft so the vimana will 'have a
zig-zagging motion like a serpent'.
Roopaakarshana permits the pilot to
see inside an enemy's airplane, while Kriyaagrahana allows one to spy on 'all
the activities going on down below on the ground'.
Jalada roopa instructs the pilot in
the correct proportions of certain chemicals which will envelop the
vimana and give it the appearance of a
cloud."
- Brad Steiger, Worlds Before Our
Own
"Aavartaas or aerial whirlpools are innumerable in the above regions. Of them the whirlpools in the routes of the vimanas are five. In the Rekhapathha there occurs the whirlpool of winds. In Kakshya-pathha there occurs Kiranavarta or whirlpool from solar rays. In Shaktipathha there occurs Shytyaavarta or whirlpool of cold currents. And in Kendrapathha there occurs gharshanavartaor whirlpool by collision. Such whirlpools are destructive of vimanas, and have to be guarded against.
"The pilot should now these five sources of danger, and learn to steer clear of them to safety."
- Vymankia Shastra
"In ancient India the writers of knowledge were careful to observer every
form of change, every pattern of flow - rest- motion and to describe even the
smallest of effects seen, the causes unseen. Often they spoke of matter that
were beyond the five senses, yet in much detail. It seems their science was one
of experience more than speculation."
- John
Walker, "The Vortex Arena" in Anti-Gravity and the Unified Field
"Since the siddhis [paranormal powers] are natural principles,
it is possible that machines might be constructed that take advantage of them,
and some vimanas and UFOs might operate on this basis. Thus,
laghima-siddhi could be used to make the craft weightless, and
mano-java could be used to move it through the ether. Other
vehicles might make use of more familiar mechanical or electromagnetic
propulsion methods, or they might employ a combination of siddhis
and more familiar principles." -
- Richard L.
Thompson, Alien Identities
According to the "psychic crystallization theory", thought forms as
independent energy entities "might be the result of mind blending with a psi
substratum".
"Samuel Lentine, a physicist at Rensselaer Polytechnical
Institute, has investigated such 'thought forms', and claims they can be created
by mixing psi energies in the same way you can create certain chemicals by
mixing other chemicals. Lentine, blind since childhood, found during meditation
that such humanly-created entities can actually exist by themselves for short
periods, causing a whirl of energy about them."
As G. Patrick Flanagan "has speculated, it is an all-pervasive ether that
actually causes the force of gravity by the pressure it exerts, and forms
electricity and magnetism by flowing in whirls and eddies."
"...The PK effect
could be looked upon as mind not necessarily intermingling with the physical
elements of an object but altering the etheric or organizing forces that
supposedly shape the material world - the idea that thoughts are actual things
imprinted in the clay of the universe."
-
Michael H. Brown, PK
Plasma: a collective of elementary particles devoid of atoms which exist at normal temperatures in metals and so forth. Living organisms are an unusual reservoir and generator of plasma. Almost any plasma generates inhomogeneity, pinching itself together into dense, swirling filaments, separated by diffuse voids.