Our Party Levitation Experiment took place on Friday, March 20th, 1998 at 7:30 PM. Here is ....Clockwise, beginning with Paul in the red shirt, Margie Smith, Rhona Eklund with arms crossed "pharoah style," about to be lifted, Laura Lee, and Beverly Walton. All hands are laid over Rhonda's head as we count to nine .....
	....and on ten, lift! This is with just our index fingers of each hand placed side by side, under Rhonda's knees and arms. Jo Curran was also present during our Levitation Party. She took these photos. We used Richard Lefors Clark's instructions, and modified them a bit.

Report on Party Levitation by Laura Lee

During our first session, on the morning of 3/20/98, present were Cate Buckley, Rhonda Eklund, Jo Curran, Paul and Laura Lee.

We read through Clark’s instructions, tried it out a few times ….. nothing happened. We didn’t get anyone up out of the chair. So we reread the instructions, and made a few minor adjustments. We changed the postition of our chair to face due North, and we learned that we are to take hands from stacked over Liftee’s head to under knees or arms on the count of nine, not ten as we had been doing, and suddenly, it worked every time!

We all took turns being the Liftee. We four girls even got 180 pound Paul off the chair and up into the air as far as our arms extended! Size and weight didn’t matter. And although Clark recommends male/female/male/female for the Lifters, our group of all girls, and one guy, had no problems.

Once we got the Liftoff working, we experimented with the chair facing various directions. It didn’t matter what direction it faced, it worked all the same. We put a blanket over the chair to soften the landing of the Liftee.

It was also interesting that the day of our experiment was the Equinox. We easily managed to get eggs to stand on end on the counter. It felt like they "clicked into place" when we got them to stand up. (see photo, "egg standing") Will this work any other day of the year? I’m going to have to try that and see.

Later that day, we reconvened. Present at our second session were: Rhonda Eklund, Jo Curran, Bev Walton, Margie Smith, and Paul and Laura Lee. We realized we needed a sixth person to take photos.

And, yes we did the "control" every time before Liftoff. Prior to hands stacking over the head, the Liftors would put those same two index fingers under knees or arms of Liftee and try lifting. The result: The Liftee felt like a ton of bricks! Limbs would go up slightly, but the bottom stayed on the chair seat. What a change when we held hands over head and counted. Up you go, almost springing out of the chair. Perhaps this is some hypnotic effect, or perhaps this effect results somehow by the hands placed alternately, first left hands, then right hands, over the Liftee’s head, and counting. We found that exerting a slight pressure helped the effect. Is a magnetic effect created by this simple exercise, as Clark suggests?

We made a number of additions to our protocol which may work for you, too. They are not necessary to get this to work, but we found them useful. Inspired by the time Paul and I spent with John Anthony West in the Great Pyramid’s King Chamber, as we took our turns laying in the Sarcophagus, I suggested we add a new bit: Prior to stacking of hands, each Lifter placed their hands together, and toned "Om". We felt it helped unite the energy of the group. And who knows, I think there is something to sound used in levitation.

And I suggested the Liftee fold arms, "pharoah style." After all, this was what the mummies did, in preparation to having their soul launched heavenward. Jo felt this addition had the practical advantage of keeping the arms neatly placed, offering easier access for the Lifters to quickly getting the two fingers under the armpits for lifting. Doing so between the counts of 9 and 10 doesn’t allow much time.

Our most exciting addition: we discovered that we could hold the Liftee up longer than the quick moment up and down. I remembered how both Uri Geller had said shouting at the broken watch to "work, work!", and Jack Houck had said, similarly, shouting at the spoon to "bend, bend!" in spoonbending was an important factor in getting the energy going. So I figured that if we kept counting, we would keep the energy going. And it did! The first time we tried this, Rhonda was the Liftee. At the count of ten, we lifted, and continued counting to twenty. She stayed aloft, held up by just our fingers. "I felt like we could have kept going, but I was starting to get worried hanging in the air up there. That broke the spell," she said.

We just kept getting better and better at this. And you can believe that party levitation will be a feature at my future gatherings!