Firewalking Q: The firewalkers and certain tribes do they use that process [biological transmutation]? RK: No. That appears to be a different function where they are able to keep a force-field of some sort between their bodies and the hot gasses arising from the coals or even the contact with the coal itself. It seems to be closely related to the ability of some people to walk on water or to levitate. I think there is a close relationship between the energies involved in fire-walking and overcoming the gravitational pull which is a very weak force anyway. If you are not able to it, however, it is all just an impossibility, but a seven-year old in Bali has been seen walking in a pit of hot coals, picking up the coals, throwing them over his shoulder and hair, and no part of him is burnt. If you take the aluminum beer-can and throw it into the pit and instantly it just melts down into nothing and starts to vaporize. So, those coals are somewhere around twenty-five hundred to three-thousand degrees. They definitely have the ability to burn someone, but it is there intention and expectation that they will not be harmed because they have seen their elders do it from the time that they were infants, so they say, “Well, not it is your turn,” and they just romp right in there and do not have any processes in the mind of what they are supposed to do or anything else. Q: There must be an enormous amount of energy required to do that? RK: It is very possible. Apparently, they must pick up the technique subliminally. Just a thing as fantastically complicated as throwing a ball and catching it. You can do it so naturally that you do not think about it, but the perception, the calculations, that have to be done lightning-fast to perceive where that ball is and where to reach for it and where is it going to be unconsciously, through experience, you detect how the trajectory is going to work, are able to evaluate velocities and know how to move your body to be at precisely the right place at the right time so you can catch the ball. If you had to design a computer to do the same thing and connect it to a machine, you would have yourself a real task on your hands. But, we just do it naturally. With a small child, in many cases, all you have to do is show them how other people are doing it and they just step right in and do the same thing. Maybe it will take them a couple of times to practice that until they get the gist of how it is occurring. Essentially, though observation they figured out the whole system of how to do it. You did that as a child and your children will do the same thing. You do all these calculations just inherently, as it were. I think that has a lot to do with the child’s expectation in Bali that he or she can walk on fire. Whatever techniques are involved, they just pick up through observation. (11-1981)
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