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]
Bibliography
Extreme Spirituality
Let It Be Easy
Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy
