Tolly Burkan
{{Short description|American firewalker and writer}}
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| birth_date = May 17, 1948
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
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| occupation = Firewalker
Magician
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| website = {{url|https://tollyburkan.com/}}
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Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan ({{IPAc-en|b|ər|ˈ|k|æ|n}} {{Respell|burr|KAN}} {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EclxaLc41G0|title=Firewalking, Rights of Passage and Youth w/ Tolly Burkan | Human Patterning Podcast Ep. 10|work=YouTube|date=November 14, 2018|accessdate=24 April 2025}}) born May 17, 1948 in New York City, is a firewalker and former magician.{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/06/03/Firewalking-hot-trend-in-Southern-California/5105455083200/|title=Firewalking hot trend in Southern California - UPI Archives|website=UPI}}{{cite book|last1=Vilenskaya, Steffy|first1=Larissa, Joan|title=Firewalking: A New Look at an Old Enigma|date=December 1991|publisher=Bramble Co|isbn=0962618438|pages=[https://archive.org/details/firewalkingnewlo00vile/page/253 253]|edition=First|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/firewalkingnewlo00vile/page/253}} He is part of the Human Potential Movement. He is also the founder of the Firewalking Institute of Research and Education.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2001/10/12/rare-feat/|title=Rare feat|website=Tampa Bay Times}}
Biography
During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public.HEALING STATES
by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D. and Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.
Simon & Schuster 1987 In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors."ANCIENT ART IS A HOT EXPERIENCE - WALKING ON FIRE", Miami Herald, February 14, 1997.
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.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9901E5D81E3CE63ABC4E51DFB667838C679EDE&legacy=true "Missing 2 Months, 'Dead' Jersey Boy Returns to Family"], New York Times, October 25, 1967"19-Year-Old Bruce Burkan 'Returns From The Dead'", AP report in Jackson (TN) Sun, October 26, 1967, p2 Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later "From Misery To Near-Death To A Glimpse of Happiness", by Joan Barbato, Morristown (NJ) Daily Record, March 13, 1975, p17 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 [https://books.google.com/books?id=EIWWpUOtdgUC&dq=%22on+august+22%2C+1967%22&pg=PA181 Our Haunted Planet], by John A. Keel (Galde Press, 1999) p181 or teleportation "Teleportation... The Ultimate Trip", by George Cunningham-Tee, in Pittsburgh Press Sunday Magazine, November 20, 1983
Bibliography
- Extreme Spirituality
- Let It Be Easy
- Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy
- Guiding Yourself Into a Spiritual Reality{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewesterlysun.com/news/lifestyle/in-the-easy-chair/in-the-easy-chair-with-mike-merner/article_09cacf0e-d0b3-58d3-8aa3-2f05ca3b3a28.html|title=In the Easy Chair with Mike Merner|date=July 29, 2018|website=Westerly Sun}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite news|last1=Carey|first1=Art|title=A guru's guide to fire walking and forgiving|agency=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=1 May 2002|page=D01}}
- Beth Ann Drier, "The Curious Hot Foot It to a New Fad," Los Angeles Times, 11 April 1984, pt. 1, 1.
- {{cite news|last1=Chipello|first1=Christopher|title=If Past-Life Trauma Has Got You Down, Firewalk May Help|agency=Wall Street Journal|date=18 April 1989|pages=A1–A2}}
- USA Today 4-2-90 Page 1, Section D
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.tollyburkan.com/}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050910181639/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/09/0901_050901_firewalking_2.html National Geographic]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=lOW2OqyVFxEC&pg=PA261 Loring M. Danforth, Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement, Princeton University Press]
- [http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/04/03/3469725.htm ABC Science article]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150813042525/http://videos.howstuffworks.com/discovery/30558-one-step-beyond-mind-over-matter-and-firewalking-video.htm Discovery Channel]
- [https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/f/E_Edwards_Firewalking_1998.pdf Edwards, Emily D. “Firewalking: A Contemporary Ritual and Transformation.” TDR 42 (1998): 98-114.]—analysis of Burkan's seminars
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130726183157/http://www.spike.com/video-clips/rm0ig8/mythbusters-firewalking-101 Mythbusters - Firewalking 101]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=n2LTTK5B_OMC&pg=PA111 "The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena"]
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