Teleportation is the instantaneous transfer of material objects from one point to another without the visible application or involvement of physical force.
The conviction that such a phenomenon is possible and really exists in nature was long held to be the province of mystics of every kind, and until recently science ignored the idea. In recent years teleportation has begun to be spoken of under the breath in the scientific world as well, above all among nuclear physicists, and then only in connection with the infinitely small particles of matter that can be regarded as immaterial and therefore as no barrier to an instantaneous displacement on the same microscopic scale.
There is also evidence of large-scale instantaneous displacements occurring both in nature and under laboratory conditions. Old Spanish sources record that on 25 October 1593 a soldier appeared unexpectedly in the Spanish city of Mexico City, whose regiment, it turned out, was quartered in the Philippines, nine thousand miles from Mexico. The soldier was seized and handed over to the Inquisition for trial. At the trial he testified that a few moments before his appearance in Mexico City he had been on guard duty at the palace of the governor of the Philippines in Manila, who had just been treacherously murdered before his eyes. How he himself came to be in Mexico City the soldier had no idea. Several months later people who arrived by ship from the Philippines confirmed the news of the governor's death and the other details of the soldier's account.
Medieval sources have also preserved a rather strange account of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda. Between 1620 and 1631 this nun, who never “physically” left her convent, nevertheless made more than five hundred journeys to America by teleportation, and even managed to convert the Yuma Indians of New Mexico to Christianity. In 1622 Father Alonso de Benavides wrote to Pope Urban VIII asking to be told who had converted the Yuma Indians to the Christian faith before him. The Indians themselves declared that they owed their conversion to Christianity to “the woman in blue” — a European nun who had left them crosses, rosaries and a chalice, which they used when they celebrated Mass. It was later established that this chalice belonged to the convent at Ágreda. Later, in 1630, de Benavides visited Mary at the convent in Ágreda and questioned her in detail about her visits to the Yuma Indians. Mary's accounts agreed completely with what the missionary had seen among the Indians.
Mary was even able to describe the customs and dress of the Indians in detail. Commenting on “The Life of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda”, the researcher James Carrico draws the following conclusion: “That Sister Mary did indeed visit America many times is confirmed by the documents of the Spanish conquistadors, by the French explorers and by the absolutely identical accounts of different Indian tribes living many thousands of miles apart”. A mention of this unprecedented phenomenon can be found in any substantial book on the history of the south-western United States.
The contemporaries of events such as those described above by no means always took them for a miracle sent from above. In antiquity many already laughed at the legends of the ultra-fast movement of people and objects, and in the Middle Ages the church urged people not to believe the tales of deranged men and women who said that they flew through the air in the flesh. The tenth-century “Canon Episcopi” explained the origin of such beliefs in this way: “Who is there to whom it does not happen that in the dreams of the night he seems to leave himself, and who has not seen in sleep what he has never had occasion to see awake? But who can be so stupid and dull-witted as to refer everything of this kind that happens to the spirit to bodily existence as well?”
But it turns out that there is every reason to believe that teleportation exists in the animal world and is an inseparable part of the life of the North American atta ants.
The conviction that such a phenomenon is possible and really exists in nature was long held to be the province of mystics of every kind, and until recently science ignored the idea. In recent years teleportation has begun to be spoken of under the breath in the scientific world as well, above all among nuclear physicists, and then only in connection with the infinitely small particles of matter that can be regarded as immaterial and therefore as no barrier to an instantaneous displacement on the same microscopic scale.
There is also evidence of large-scale instantaneous displacements occurring both in nature and under laboratory conditions. Old Spanish sources record that on 25 October 1593 a soldier appeared unexpectedly in the Spanish city of Mexico City, whose regiment, it turned out, was quartered in the Philippines, nine thousand miles from Mexico. The soldier was seized and handed over to the Inquisition for trial. At the trial he testified that a few moments before his appearance in Mexico City he had been on guard duty at the palace of the governor of the Philippines in Manila, who had just been treacherously murdered before his eyes. How he himself came to be in Mexico City the soldier had no idea. Several months later people who arrived by ship from the Philippines confirmed the news of the governor's death and the other details of the soldier's account.
Medieval sources have also preserved a rather strange account of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda. Between 1620 and 1631 this nun, who never “physically” left her convent, nevertheless made more than five hundred journeys to America by teleportation, and even managed to convert the Yuma Indians of New Mexico to Christianity. In 1622 Father Alonso de Benavides wrote to Pope Urban VIII asking to be told who had converted the Yuma Indians to the Christian faith before him. The Indians themselves declared that they owed their conversion to Christianity to “the woman in blue” — a European nun who had left them crosses, rosaries and a chalice, which they used when they celebrated Mass. It was later established that this chalice belonged to the convent at Ágreda. Later, in 1630, de Benavides visited Mary at the convent in Ágreda and questioned her in detail about her visits to the Yuma Indians. Mary's accounts agreed completely with what the missionary had seen among the Indians.
Mary was even able to describe the customs and dress of the Indians in detail. Commenting on “The Life of the Venerable Mary of Ágreda”, the researcher James Carrico draws the following conclusion: “That Sister Mary did indeed visit America many times is confirmed by the documents of the Spanish conquistadors, by the French explorers and by the absolutely identical accounts of different Indian tribes living many thousands of miles apart”. A mention of this unprecedented phenomenon can be found in any substantial book on the history of the south-western United States.
The contemporaries of events such as those described above by no means always took them for a miracle sent from above. In antiquity many already laughed at the legends of the ultra-fast movement of people and objects, and in the Middle Ages the church urged people not to believe the tales of deranged men and women who said that they flew through the air in the flesh. The tenth-century “Canon Episcopi” explained the origin of such beliefs in this way: “Who is there to whom it does not happen that in the dreams of the night he seems to leave himself, and who has not seen in sleep what he has never had occasion to see awake? But who can be so stupid and dull-witted as to refer everything of this kind that happens to the spirit to bodily existence as well?”
But it turns out that there is every reason to believe that teleportation exists in the animal world and is an inseparable part of the life of the North American atta ants.