Travelling Occultly

Question: How do occultists travel from one place to another?

Sri Chinmoy: There are many ways occultists go from one place to another. One way is that they go through the skies. Most people cannot see it. What the occultists do is they go up quite high, and then they fly very fast. That is one way.

Another way is more difficult. What some occultists do is to blow up a huge balloon, like the ones used in the sky where two or three persons can sit. But that balloon is blown up in a human, mechanical way. You can see that someone is pumping, and then it becomes big. But occultists blow occultly, and the balloon becomes huge. Then one or two people can sit there – the Master and the disciple or whomever is travelling.

When occultists fly in the subtle plane, they can fly much higher than airplanes. Sometimes they lower their height and fly right by the side of the airplane. The pilot will not be able to see them, because they are flying in the subtle plane. But very nicely the occultists enjoy this, and sometimes like children they laugh at the plane because they can fly much faster.

When Sudhahota [Carl Lewis] runs with me, he runs at my speed, but whenever he wants to, he can go so fast. Then where am I when I am running with Sudhahota? There also the occultists can go very fast and defeat the plane. It is not actually defeat; they are not comparing themselves with the plane. It is because they have something else to do. They can go much higher than the plane’s altitude.

Question: Can they bring their physical body as well?

Sri Chinmoy: When they come to the destination and stand on the ground, others will not be able to see how they came. Only they will see all of a sudden two human beings. How did they come? Not by train, not by plane, not by car, not by boat – they are just standing there. That is what they do – from where to where? There are so many ways to travel occultly. Astral travel is not the only way; there are many other ways they use.