- Source: Tolly Burkan
Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan, (born May 17, 1948 in New York City) is a firewalker and former magician. He is part of the Human Potential Movement. He is also the founder of the Firewalking Institute of Research and Education.
Biography
During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public. In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors.
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. Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later 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 or teleportation
Bibliography
Extreme Spirituality
Let It Be Easy
Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy
Guiding Yourself Into a Spiritual Reality
References
Further reading
Carey, Art (1 May 2002). "A guru's guide to fire walking and forgiving". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. D01.
Beth Ann Drier, "The Curious Hot Foot It to a New Fad," Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1984, pt. 1, 1.
Chipello, Christopher (18 April 1989). "If Past-Life Trauma Has Got You Down, Firewalk May Help". Wall Street Journal. pp. A1–A2.
USA Today 4-2-90 Page 1, Section D
External links
Official website
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"
