I closed and bolted the door again and settled down, but no sooner was the light out than the table seemed to be lifted up and hurled down onto the floor with great violence, while several books flew through the air (28)
a levitation/a vision
to be lifted up: "We must invent a new conceptual system that suspends, or clashes with the most carefully established observational results, confounds the most plausible theoretical principles and introduces perceptions that cannot form part of the existing perceptual world. " (29)