Vaimanika-sastra and flying vimanas

"...There is one book entitled Vaimanika-sastra that was dictated in trance during this century and purports to be a transcription of an ancient work preserved in the Akashic record." "The medium in this case was Pandit Subbaraya Sastry, a 'walking le icon gifted with occult perception', who began to dictate the !aimanika"sastra to #r. !enkatachala Sarma on August $, $%$&. The complete work was taken down in '( e ercise books up to August '(, $%'(. )n $%'(, Subbaraya Sastry also had a draftsman prepare some drawings of the vimanasaccording to his instructions." " *ichard +. Thompson, Alien Identities According to the Vymankia Shastra, purportedly written by #aharishi ,haradwa-a in the .th /entury ,/, there are (' secrets to piloting a vimana. These include0 "Maantrika0 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. Taantrika0 by ac1uiring some of the Tantric powers, one may endow his aircraft with those same powers. Goodha0 This secret permits the pilot to make his vimana invisible to his enemies. Adrishyaaccomplishes the same purpose by attracting 'the force of the ethereal flow in the sky'. Paroksha0 This helpful hint enables the pilot to paraly2e other vimanas and put them out of action. Aparoksha0 3ne may employ this ability to pro-ect a beam of light in front of his craft to light his way. Viroopa Karana0 4ith 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. Suroopa0 )f one can attract the thirteen kinds of '5araka force', one can make the vimana appear to be 'a heavenly damsel bedecked with flowers and -ewels'. Pralaya0 This deadly secret pushed electrical force through the 'five"limbed aerial tube' so that the pilot may 'destroy everything as in a cataclysm'. Vimuknasends a poison powder through the air to produce 'wholesale insensibility and coma'. Taara0 This ability, once mastered, provides the pilot with another means of avoiding contact with an enemy or hiding his purpose from observers0 ',y

mi ing with ethereal force $6 parts of air force, 7 parts of water force, and $8 parts of solar glow, and pro-ecting 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-Gamana0 This secret enables the pilot to attract the forces of air, -oin them with solar ryas, and pass the mi ture through the center of the craft so thevimana will 'have a 2ig"2agging motion like a serpent'. Roopaakarshana permits the pilot to see inside an enemy's airplane, while 5riyaagrahana 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." " ,rad Steiger, Worlds Before Our Own "Aavartaas or aerial whirlpools are innumerable in the above regions. 3f them the whirlpools in the routes of the vimanasare five. )n the Rekhapathha there occurs the whirlpool of winds. )n Kakshyapathhathere occurs Kiranavarta or whirlpool from solar rays. )n Shaktipathha there occursShytyaavarta or whirlpool of cold currents. And in Kendrapathha there occursgharshanavartaor 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 ")n ancient )ndia 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. 3ften they spoke of matter that were beyond the five senses, yet in much detail. )t seems their science was one of e perience more than speculation." " 9ohn 4alker, "The !orte Arena" in Anti-Gravity and the Unified ield "Since the siddhis :paranormal powers; are natural principles, it is possible that machines might be constructed that take advantage of them, and somevimanas and <=3s might operate on this basis. Thus,laghimasiddhi could be used to make the craft weightless, and mano-!ava could be used to move it through the ether. 3ther vehicles might make use of more familiar mechanical or electromagnetic propulsion methods, or they might employ a combination of siddhis and more familiar principles." " " *ichard +. Thompson, Alien Identities According to the "psychic crystalli2ation theory", thought forms as independent energy entities "might be the result of mind blending with a psi substratum".

"Samuel +entine, a physicist at *ensselaer Polytechnical )nstitute, has investigated such 'thought forms', and claims they can be created by mi ing psi energies in the same way you can create certain chemicals by mi ing other chemicals. +entine, blind since childhood, found during meditation that such humanly"created entities can actually e ist by themselves for short periods, causing a whirl of energy about them." As >. Patrick =lanagan "has speculated, it is an all"pervasive 'ether' that actually causes the force of gravity by the pressure it e erts, and forms electricity and magnetism by flowing in whirls and eddies." "...The P5 effect could be looked upon as mind not necessarily intermingling with the physical elements of an ob-ect but altering the etheric or organi2ing forces that supposedly shape the material world " the idea that thoughts are actual things imprinted in the clay of the universe." " #ichael ?. ,rown, "K Plasma0 a collective of elementary particles devoid of atoms which e ist at normal temperatures in metals and so forth. +iving 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.