Tolly Burkan
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Biography
During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public.[5] In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors.[6]
Burkan's disappearance from Asbury Park, New Jersey and his subsequent reappearance two months later, after a memorial service, was the subject of national news in 1967.[7][8] Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later [9] that he had run away from home for two months, the incident would continue to be cited in pseudoscience books as "still unexplained" and evidence of alien abduction [10] or teleportation [11]
Bibliography
- Extreme Spirituality
- Let It Be Easy
- Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy
- Guiding Yourself Into a Spiritual Reality[12]
References
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- ↑ HEALING STATES by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Simon & Schuster 1987
- ↑ "ANCIENT ART IS A HOT EXPERIENCE - WALKING ON FIRE", Miami Herald, February 14, 1997.
- ↑ "Missing 2 Months, 'Dead' Jersey Boy Returns to Family", New York Times, October 25, 1967
- ↑ "19-Year-Old Bruce Burkan 'Returns From The Dead'", AP report in Jackson (TN) Sun, October 26, 1967, p2
- ↑ "From Misery To Near-Death To A Glimpse of Happiness", by Joan Barbato, Morristown (NJ) Daily Record, March 13, 1975, p17
- ↑ Our Haunted Planet, by John A. Keel (Galde Press, 1999) p181
- ↑ "Teleportation... The Ultimate Trip", by George Cunningham-Tee, in Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine, November 20, 1983
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Further reading
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- Beth Ann Drier, "The Curious Hot Foot It to a New Fad," Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1984, pt. 1, 1.
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- USA Today 4-2-90 Page 1, Section D
External links
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- National Geographic
- Loring M. Danforth, Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement, Princeton University Press
- ABC Science article
- Discovery Channel
- Edwards, Emily D. “Firewalking: A Contemporary Ritual and Transformation.” TDR 42 (1998): 98-114.—analysis of Burkan's seminars
- Mythbusters - Firewalking 101
- "The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena"