Tolly Burkan Explained

Tolly Burkan
Birth Date:May 17, 1948
Birth Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation:Firewalker
Magician

Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan, (born May 17, 1948 in New York City) is a firewalker and former magician.[1] [2] He is part of the Human Potential Movement.[1] He is also the founder of the Firewalking Institute of Research and Education.[3]

Biography

During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public.[4] In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors.[5]

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.[6] [7] Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later [8] 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 [9] or teleportation [10]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Firewalking hot trend in Southern California - UPI Archives. UPI.
  2. Book: Vilenskaya, Steffy. Larissa, Joan. Firewalking: A New Look at an Old Enigma. December 1991. Bramble Co. 0962618438. 253. First. registration.
  3. Web site: Rare feat. Tampa Bay Times.
  4. HEALING STATESby Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.Simon & Schuster 1987
  5. "ANCIENT ART IS A HOT EXPERIENCE - WALKING ON FIRE", Miami Herald, February 14, 1997.
  6. https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E5D81E3CE63ABC4E51DFB667838C679EDE&legacy=true "Missing 2 Months, 'Dead' Jersey Boy Returns to Family"
  7. "19-Year-Old Bruce Burkan 'Returns From The Dead'", AP report in Jackson (TN) Sun, October 26, 1967, p2
  8. "From Misery To Near-Death To A Glimpse of Happiness", by Joan Barbato, Morristown (NJ) Daily Record, March 13, 1975, p17
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=EIWWpUOtdgUC&dq=%22on+august+22%2C+1967%22&pg=PA181 Our Haunted Planet
  10. "Teleportation... The Ultimate Trip", by George Cunningham-Tee, in Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine, November 20, 1983
  11. Web site: In the Easy Chair with Mike Merner. July 29, 2018. Westerly Sun.