A Book About a Man Who Could Fly

[sofia]

A like this book as it stretches the mind. Catholic Saints are not usually my area of interest, but "The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino" is so much more than that. I add a review I made about it and maybe you will find it interesting as well.


When we open up to a spiritual life, we also expand our minds to what is possible and what we are capable of, beyond a materialistic and mechanical world view. For most of us there are however limits to how far we are willing to go in our beliefs in human capacity. When I read 'The Man Who Could Fly: St. Joseph of Copertino and the Mystery of Levitation,' I felt my belief system was challenged further. The levitations of St. Joseph of Copertino is so well documented it stretches the imagination. Most thrilling perhaps that those that went out of their way to disapprove his abilities, also ended up testifying that they were real.



Was there really a man who could fly? Michael Grosso makes the case that it was, and he does so in the most elegant way. We get to follow the life of St. Joseph of Copertino, who was an interesting character enough, even if he hadn't levitated. Interwoven with St. Joseph's life is Grosso's in depth ideas of the human consciousness and human abilities. What I take with me from this book, apart from being a thourougly enjoyable and well written, is a deeper belief that mind really do shape matter.

[sparklekaz]

Hi Sophia,

Thank you so much for sharing this book review. It sounds absolutely fascinating. I will definitely check it out as it sounds just my kind of read.

Love and light
Kaz

[syedali2020]

St.Joseph of Copertino was a great saint. The wikipedia article about him is not entirely accurate. For example the Wikipedia article says he was “unclever” and this is based on a judgement hundreds of years later yet in the same Wikipedia article they are doubting him flying because the books written were two years after his life but it’s ok to make the judgement he was unclever hundreds of years later but the books which say he could fly were only two years after his life so surely those books are more accurate than the abrupt judgement hundreds of years later that he was “unclever”. St.Joseph was the very intelligent in my view. Same issue exists in other religions as well there’s a lot of animosity against saints....