(I’ve had hundreds of ideas over the years and, due to finances, sheer laziness, or the fact that the idea is completely ridiculous, have only attempted a few of them. As I dribble slowly towards quietus, it is time I quit holding so close to my chest the ones I am unlikely to ever attempt)
This idea is truly harebrained, ethically reprehensible, and stems from dreams of flight I’ve had since childhood:
You take two or more children, fresh from the womb, and somehow raise them in isolation from the rest of the world, their only interaction coming from their “siblings” and the people involved in the experiment.
The children are led to believe from birth that their parents – everyone – can fly simply by willing themselves to do so. Via a series of optical illusions, the children daily witness their parents and other visitors floating about the room as one means of locomotion (these people would also demonstrate more traditional modes of locomotion, such as walking, running, and crawling around on their hands and knees desperately hunting for a lost contact lens).
The children are told that they, too, will eventually come to have this ability. All it takes is time, concentration, and practice: to will yourself off of the ground. The children are directly and lovingly nurtured in this direction until they either achieve the impossible or … hmm: what would you do in the end if you failed? Soylent Green? (obviously this idea is, as stated above, extremely questionable on a moral level)
Now, I don’t believe levitation is possible. I am a total skeptic when it comes to anything remotely woo-woo. However, if the human brain is capable of psychokinesis of this sort, as so many people have theorized, I believe this might be one of the only ways of causing this elusive ability to blossom forth.
