page_title: Tolly Burkan
hierarchical_section_title: Tolly Burkan
caption_attribution_description: Photo of Tolly Burkan http://www.firewalking.com/instructor.html
context_page_description: Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan, is a firewalking spokesman.
  During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public. In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors.
  He has written eight books that have been translated into 15 languages, including Extreme Spirituality, Let It Be Easy, and Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy.
  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. Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later 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 or teleportation
context_section_description: Tolly Burkan, also known as Bruce Burkan, (born May 17, 1948 in New York City) is a firewalking spokesman.
  During the 1970s, Burkan created a firewalking class and began teaching firewalking to the general public.  In the 1980s, he started working with large corporations and began training instructors.
  He has written eight books that have been translated into 15 languages, including Extreme Spirituality, Let It Be Easy, and Dying to Live: From Despair and Death to Freedom and Joy.
  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.  Although he would explain in his book Dying to Live and in news stories years later  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  or teleportation
caption: Tolly Burkan, 2005
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