Dumping some pages that discuss the buddhist conception of and development of "supernormal powers" from a book called The Path of Serenity and Insight by Henepola Gunaratana because I figured it might be of interest to some of you and I was unable to find the book anywhere online
note that most of the necessary work is presupposed by the development of the jhanas, if you don't have that level of skill this won't be of much use to you. I'm not gonna post the sections that go into detail about jhanas because would take too long. If you want to learn about them jhanas here is an online book from a the same author that covers much of the same material in the book I have, minus the bits about the powers: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/gunaratana/wheel351.html
anyway, enjoy.