Heather Graham, 39, has a new interview in The Daily Mail. We haven’t heard much from Heather lately, but she’s starring in the new comedy The Hangover, which was a close second in its opening box office this weekend to the animated film Up. I’m surprised to hear she’s 39 because she looks about 10 years younger and is still drop dead gorgeous. She might not be the brightest bulb, though, if we take her latest statements at face value. Heather says she’s into tantric sex and she explains it well as a kind of connection with your partner rather than something as salacious as Sting made it sound. She’s also into transcendental meditation and is trying to learn how to levitate so she can “can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.” Maybe she’s trying to put her bid in to play Wonder Woman, but she doesn’t fly on her own and has an invisible jet:

When I was a child my parents threatened to send me to a convent.
I’ve often wondered how that would have worked out. I’d have made a terrible nun. I’m a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I’m not that good at all. If the church is having a hard time recruiting nuns, I’d make an ideal poster girl. ‘Become a nun or else end up like her!’

You haven’t lived until you’ve tried tantric sexual healing.
I first got into it when I was filming The Guru in 2002 and I haven’t looked back. What most people know about tantric sex is that Sting does it and it lasts eight hours. But he’s not having sex continually. You can take a bath, massage your partner, listen to music. The idea is that you let the whole thing build very slowly until finally you merge with your partner. It works for me.

My next ambition is to teach myself to levitate.
So far I’ve only succeeded in my dreams. I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you’re meant to lift off the ground. It hasn’t happened yet. I’ll manage it one day. In fact, I’m aiming beyond levitation. I want to be able to fly like a superhero. I won’t be happy until I can fly across oceans and cities, saving people from being murdered.

[From The Daily Mail]

Transcendental Meditation does teach followers that it’s possible to fly when you’re enlightened enough. Critics say there is no flying in advanced stages and the demonstrations they’ve seen of yogis flying are more akin to “hopping.” Here’s a good segment from a National Geographic on the supposed phenomena of “Yogic Flying.” The practice is beneficial to the mind and body but there’s no evidence that anyone has actually defied gravity.

Transcendental Meditation, while seemingly innocent and helpful in theory, has been denounced as a cult by many former members and cult awareness groups. It costs money to learn and advanced courses can run up to a million dollars. The founder, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, is now a billionaire. A former legal advisor to the TM organization says that they use fraudulent and systematic accounting to avoid any tax liability.

Does Graham really think it’s possible to levitate to the point where humans can fly? Some people believe in astral projection and all that, but it sounds like she completely buys into Transcendental Meditation and believes that with enough practice humans can defy physics and fly around saving the world. Fellow practitioner David Lynch also thinks that levitation is possible and is trying to push to teach TM in schools.

People can believe in whatever they want. If they’re famous they should probably try and censor their statements to the point where they don’t sound completely wacky. Tom Cruise learned this the hard way.

Heather Graham is shown at the premiere of The Hangover on 6/2/09. Credit: WENN.com