When I was a little boy growing up in Rochester, New York (New York's third largest city) I saw ads for Circus Vargas on tv and in print sometime around 1973, give or take a year. I managed to talk the people who adopted me into taking me to this circus, which is something I had never experienced before. At some point during the show, this woman stepped out onto the stage and she lifted one of her legs up into the air in a sitting position. A few seconds later, she lifted the OTHER leg into the air and she was floating in mid air right in front of everyone. I was up front and only about 15-20 feet away and I could clearly see there were no strings attached. A man then came onto the stage with a steel hoola hoop and with both hands he held it in front of the crowd and smashed it to the ground fairly hard so you could see and hear that it was a large steel hoola hoop he was holding. He then placed the steel hoola hoop over her head and moved it down her body, then reversed it, back up her body so everyone could see that there were clearly no strings attached. He then moved the steel hoola hoop sideways over and around her while she stood still from every angle and direction so everyone could clearly see she was floating in mid air with no strings attached. This was done in front of tens of thousands of people in New York's third largest city, so I KNOW I'm not the only person who saw this. I specifically remember my step father, Bob Kettenburg going crazy when she did this, screaming out loud: "That is NOT possible, it's a trick or a fake gimmick of some sort and you can be ex-communicated from the Catholic church just for doing that!" He went crazy! Fast forward to 1991 when I dove deep into theosophical literature and my new religion, Theosophy. Someone once asked the Sleeping Prophet Edgar Cayce, of all the religions in the world, which one is closest to the actual truth. He responded with "Theosophy" right out of the blue and they had not been previously talking about it. In one of the theosophical books I've listed on my reading list, I believe it's "Teachings of the Temple," but I'm not sure which volume - it's definately in there somewhere as I specifically recall reading that if you stand on one leg for VERY long periods of time, weeks, perhaps even months, eventually you will float in mid air with no strings attached. Looks like they were right...

Rob Kettenburg