Tolly Burkan
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Tolly Burkan | |
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 Burkan in 2005 | |
| Born | May 17, 1948 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Firewalker Magician |
| Website | tollyburkan |
Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan (/bərˈkæn/ burr-KAN [1]) born May 17, 1948 in New York City, is a firewalker and former magician.[2][3] He is part of the Human Potential Movement.[2] He is also the founder of the Firewalking Institute of Research and Education.[4]
During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public.[5] In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors.[6]
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.[7][8] Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later [9] 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 [10] or teleportation [11]
Bibliography
- Extreme Spirituality
- Let It Be Easy
- Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy
- Guiding Yourself Into a Spiritual Reality[12]
