Inner Awareness by Jaime T. Licauco

2 cases of hypnotic regression

2009-02-17T02:22:00.000-08:00

WARSAW, Poland—I just had two extraordinary cases of clients who came to me for past life hypnotic regression. I have changed their names to protect their privacy.

Rina, 40, is a tall, attractive woman who works as a receptionist in a small service company. Over dinner the previous evening before I did regression on her, I asked her if she has had a traumatic experience in childhood and she said, no. She asked why the question?

“Because your eyes look sad,” I told her, she just smiled. “Why are you always serious and quiet?” I asked her again, and she said she has always been like that, but she also said she had a happy childhood.

The next day, I was surprised that she wanted me to do a regression on her because she didn’t believe in reincarnation or past lives. So I told her, “Let us just chat for a while and see what happens. Let’s not do regression right away.”

As customary with me, I never do outright regression even when requested to do so. I first ask why a client wants to be regressed and then I also ask the client’s subconscious mind if it will permit us to do this. If the client’s subconscious mind says no, I don’t proceed with the regression. I do this with a simple technique using finger movements.

Past life in ancient Rome
Quite unexpectedly, Rina went into relaxation very fast and her subconscious mind cooperated fully. It answered right away and allowed me to put her into a deeper state of hypnosis.
In the regression she saw herself as a young woman of 20 in ancient Rome waiting for her lover who was out at sea.

A storm developed and the boat capsized drowning everybody inside. The next scene she saw was of her lover lying dead being watched by a large crowd. She cried.

The next scene was still in Rome and this time she had another lover. But he was accused of a serious crime and she saw him surrounded by a big crowd watching his execution. She saw her lover being beheaded. The colors red and blue were vivid in her memory.

The next scene, she was looking out the window waiting for her lover to come but he never did.
I asked her to go to the time of her death. How did she die? She said she jumped out of the window into the sea and drowned.

During her present life, Rina is always waiting for her true love. Her current boyfriend is in jail accused of a crime. She is afraid of water that’s why she never learned how to swim. She loves to wear golden armbands or bracelets just like Roman women did in the past and Rina has Romanesque features.

She said what she saw were so vivid it really shocked her. For a long time after I woke her up, she just sat there on the chair immobilized. I had to tap her shoulder three times before she could completely get out of trance.

“Now,” she said, “I understand why I am like this. Thank you very much.”

Depossession process
The second case was not a regression, although that was what she came to me for. It was more a case of depossession, that is, the removal of a benign entity that attached itself to her without her knowing it.

Let’s call her Anna, 55, and a psychotherapist by profession. She came to me for consultation she said, because she was slowly losing control of her life, somebody is controlling her and she thinks it’s her lover whom she wanted to separate from but could not.

Anna has been separated from her husband for a long time now. Her daughter acted as interpreter. I asked since when she noticed her life changing and her being out of control, she said “about a month or two ago.”

I asked her what happened to her during that time. She couldn’t think of anything special, except that she had been trying to get away from this relationship with a man for years now, because she felt it was a destructive relationship.

During my attempt to talk to her subconscious mind, it would not cooperate. It responded negatively to the question of whether it would allow us to probe into her past life. Then I asked if it would allow this to be done later. Again, it said, no. Then I asked if something was blocking it, and it said, yes. Is it her mind? It replied, no.

I thought for a moment what to do next. Then I suddenly asked, “Is it a spirit that’s blocking this?” It said, yes. That was a breakthrough! I knew then what to do. I said, “I want to speak directly to the spirit within Anna’s body.” To my relief it said, yes.

“Are you a relative of this woman?” It said, no. “How long have you been with her? Have you been with her a long time?” It said, no. Then I asked, “One month?” No, “One and a half months?” Yes.

Then I told the spirit that he no longer belongs to the earth plane, that he should seek the light in the spirit world. There are relatives of his waiting for him.

“Look for the light,” I said. “Can you see a light? It said, yes. “Good,” I said. “Then go towards the light and leave this woman in peace. She has suffered enough. Are you willing to do this?” It said, yes. Go now into the light and be at peace.”

After a few moments, I woke up the client. She was completely amazed. I told her that the spirit would not bother her anymore. It will not be controlling her life. She will regain control over herself. She was so relieved but asked what she should do when it comes back. “How can I protect myself from such entities?”

I told her to strengthen her will power. She will be able to end the destructive relationship she has with the man she wants to leave, now that the entity has stopped controlling her. It is significant to note that she began feeling that she was losing control of her life at the time the entity or spirit entered her body. This confirmed it was the spirit, which was behind her losing control of herself, not the man she wanted to separate from.

She came out of the room with a big smile on her face, quite a contrast from when she entered it.
Note: The next Inner Mind Development seminar will be held Feb. 21-22, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I Cond., Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 8107245 or 8926806; e-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com.

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Nothing happens by chance?

2009-02-10T14:36:00.000-08:00

POZNAN, Poland—Do you believe in coincidences, meaningful simultaneous events that do not seem to have any causal connection?

I don’t, because everything has a cause, nothing happens by chance. Yet it is a fact that certain events do happen without apparent causal connection.

We were having dinner last Jan. 30 at the house of Anna, a Polish interior designer, where I was staying in Poznan. At the dinner table were the officers and staff of the Institute of Valeology who had invited me to conduct my seminars in Poznan and Warsaw, namely, Irena, Andre and Thomas.

With us were two other house guests of Anna: Gilbert Renaud of Canada and Marie-Jinette Rheault from southern France who conduct seminars on Total Biology.

We talked about the group of followers of the Bulgarian mystic, Mikhael Ivanhov, in Jeffrey, British Columbia in Canada. The place was called IDEAL Ranch led by Russian immigrant Natasha Kolesar. I stayed for a week in that ranch about five years ago upon the invitation of a Canadian named Mr. Couto. I didn’t know that Gilbert and Marie-Jinette had also stayed there for a much longer period, and so did Irena Galinska, head of the Institute of Valeology.

“I was told that there was a Filipino who stayed in the ranch,” said Gilbert to me. “I didn’t realize it was you!”

“What a coincidence, isn’t it?” I said. “Imagine all of us who had been to that ranch in Jeffrey meeting here in Poznan!”

The IDEAL Ranch was a community of around 40 to 60 people from different countries who were studying and applying the teachings of Mikhael Ivanhov.

I told the group at dinner what happened to me the first time I joined the members in an early morning ritual to greet the rising sun. The group would sit facing the East and wait for the sun to rise over the Rocky Mountains. As soon as the first rays of the sun appeared over the horizon, they would all stand up and raise their right hands in salute to the sun.

As I did the same gesture, I told the group that I had a distinct feeling that I had done this ritual before as a monk in ancient Egypt. I was shocked at the memory of it. It was as if I was transported back to Egypt.

When Gilbert heard that, he smiled at me and said that he had been told that the teachings of his master, Mikhael Ivanhov, are a restatement of the rituals and teachings of ancient Egypt told in modern language. I didn’t know that.

Egyptian monk
I was told in 1979 by an extraordinary Filipina psychic (now dead) and in 1984 by an entity from the upper 5th dimension that I had been an Egyptian monk and scribe, a keeper of esoteric wisdom 3,500 years ago during the time of Ramses II. This was told to me at a time when I didn’t believe in reincarnation.

I asked Gilbert and Marie-Jinette whether they heard from the people staying at the IDEAL Ranch what happened to me there. And they said no.

I told them that on the second day of my stay, something extraordinary happened to me. I was staying in a room formerly occupied by Marie Christine La Foret who had a newborn. When I arrived, they moved to a bigger room in the same house.

That early morning, as I was lying in bed on my side facing the wall, I distinctly “saw” with my mind’s eye a man wearing a brown leather jacket enter my room. He stood beside my bed, looking at me intently. I didn’t open my eyes and I thought I was dreaming, yet I knew I was awake. I thought the man was Mr. Couto because he had the same build and height, only slightly slimmer. A few moments later, the man turned toward the door and went through it without opening it. It was then I realized it was not a living person.

Later that morning, I asked Mr. Couto if he came to my room earlier. And he said he did not. I asked if he had a brown leather jacket, he said no. When I described the person I “saw” in my vision, Marie Christine said, “That must be my husband Yves La Foret you saw.”

La Foret was the first Canadian who climbed Mt. Everest. He died in a freak river boat accident when his wife was pregnant. He never saw his child.

Gilbert and Marie-Jinette got very excited about my story because they knew Marie Christine and Yves La Foret very well.

“At the time of his death, he didn’t know his wife was pregnant.” Gilbert told us. “We were all shocked and very sad at what happened.”

I was amazed at the coincidence of meeting Gilbert and Marie-Jinette who come from different countries and who turned out to be good friends of the person whose ghost I had seen in Jeffrey, Canada. And here we were in Poznan, Poland in Eastern Europe.

The next Inner Mind Development seminar will be on Feb. 21-22, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I Cond., Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 8107245/8926806; e-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20090209-188359/Nothing-happens-by-chance

Book launch in Poland set

2009-01-27T14:41:00.000-08:00

BY the time you read this column, I would already be on Board a KLM flight to Warsaw, Poland for another series of seminars and consultations sponsored by the Institute of Valeology based in Poznan City.

What makes this trip different from previous ones is that this time my newly-revised book “Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man” will be launched in the Polish language by Helion Publishing, the biggest publisher of computer, business management and psychology books in Poland.

The publishing contract was signed between Helion Publishing Company, represented by Ewa Szczecinska-Budziak and myself in Warsaw last November.This is the third book of mine to be translated in Polish.

The first two were “Magicians of God” and “Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation” published by the Institute of Valeology in Poznan last year.

As far as I know, this is the first time that books written by a Filipino author have been translated and published in Poland.In an e-mail to me, Ms Budziak of Helion said that the formal book launching in February will be done in “one of the biggest book stores in Poland at the center of Warsaw.”

They also plan during the book launching a meeting with my Polish readers, plus a taped interview with me. Since very few people in Poland speak English, a translator will be provided by the publisher.

I have observed that despite the fact that 90 percent of Poland’s population is Catholic, compared with the Philippines’ 80 percent, there seems to be greater openness among the Polish people about psychic, esoteric and paranormal topics as compared to us here. My seminars attract a greater number of people than here in the Philippines.One unexpected development during my last trip was my meeting with a former management representative of Poland to the European Community.

He had written a model for quality management which was adopted by the European Community and received recognition for his contribution for the advancement of quality management in European business organizations.

What was surprising was that he realized that what he had done was not complete because his model only addressed the left critical and analytical brain but almost nothing about the creative and intuitive right brain.

He asked my help in modifying the model to include the right side of the brain and train business executives how to do this. I have been teaching Whole-Brain Management for the last 20 years now.

Brain programming

During this Whole-Brain Development seminar, I teach participants how to program their brain for better decision-making, how to visualize and realize their goals, how to heal themselves using only mental imagery or visualization, how to meet their inner advisor from whom they can seek advice, and even how to use dreams to solve problems.

The seminar also contains techniques on how to develop psychic reference points and perform remote-viewing to know what’s happening in their companies even from afar.As a result of our initial discussion, we have decided to establish together the European Institute for Intuition Development in Management.

Because I will be very busy in Poland, I may not be able to submit my column for the next two weeks. I will be back in the Philippines on Valentine’s Day, Feb. 14.Note: The next Inner Mind Development seminar will be held Feb. 21-22, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I Cond., Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 8107245/8926806; e-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20090126-185717/Book-launch-in-Poland-set

Woman wants to improve her love life

2009-01-20T14:47:00.000-08:00

“I’VE been reading you for years.

I’m actually very interested in your ESP and Intuition Development Workshop. I feel it will be very useful in making decisions. Since I study in Australia, I can’t attend it. I hope you can share some basics to improve my ESP and intuition. I had it when I was younger, but somehow lost it.

“I have been very unfortunate in my romantic life. At 26, I have not had a serious relationship. Sometimes the guys I liked didn’t like me. Other times, the guys who liked me were already married. I recently had a relationship with a foreigner which I thought was serious, but he ended it in two months and left me in pain.

“I am not asking for love advice. I just want to know why these series of unfortunate incidents happen. I wonder if there are things I’m not doing right, some misplaced elements in my life, perhaps? How I can bring more positive energy to improve my love life?
—JULIET (not her real name)

I’m glad you said you’re not asking for advice on your love life, because there are really more competent people you can consult. Besides, my views are very radical and may come as a shock to many. But since your case is not really unique and I’ve been asked similar questions, I might as well share what I teach about relationships in my Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation seminar.

The teachings are based on these principles or concepts:
1. I believe we don’t live only once on earth. “Most people have had many lifetimes.” Even Buddha, at the moment of enlightenment sitting quietly under the Bodhi Tree, saw no less than 500 of his previous incarnations on earth.
The view that we had lived explains to me why we get attracted or repulsed by certain people at first meeting, why certain places we have never been to are familiar to us.

2. “The people who are around us, for good or ill, are with us because we have attracted them to us.” One sacred law of the Universe is “like attracts like” on the mental and spiritual planes. This is more popularly called the “Law of Attraction” which I’ve been teaching for more than 20 years now, but is only now being accepted by more people, specially after the very popular book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne came out and sold millions of copies. There is absolutely nothing new in that book, but I recommend it to people who have never heard of it.

3. “Everything that we do comes back to us, nothing less and nothing more.” This is more popularly known as the “Law of Karma,” or “Law of Compensation” or the “Law of Universal Justice.” And karma is based on choices, intentions, desires or actions we have done.
Even certain illnesses we suffer from could be results of choices made in past lives. Even so-called “accidents” may not really be accidents at all.

4. “Both great love and great hatred bind you to another.” So if you don’t want to meet your enemy again in the next life, you must learn to release or forgive him or her now in this lifetime, or you are surely bound to meet that person again in a future life.

5. “The secret of happiness,” according to Buddha, “is not in having what you want, but in not wanting what you do not have.” Juliet should meditate on this great message. She should learn from the failed relationships she has had, knowing she may only be paying her karma to these men. She must not get angry with them or wish to seek revenge on them but learn the lessons they are giving her.

6. “If you love somebody, let him go; if he comes back, he is yours, if he does not, he never was.” The reason for this is that we never lose what we truly own.

7. Here’s something that may shock this predominantly conservative Christian country: “God does not punish or reward us, we punish or reward ourselves,” because we have been given absolute freedom of choice or free will by God.
As Epictetus, the great ancient Greek philosopher, once said: “The good or ill of man lies within his own will.”

Note: The next Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation seminar will be held Jan. 24, 1-7 p.m. at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I, Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 810-7245/892-6806; fax 815-9890; e-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com.

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What the end of the earth in 2012 means

2009-01-13T15:05:00.000-08:00

ARMAGEDDON! Apocalypse! End times!

These terms conjure visions of calamities, cataclysms and upheavals. They induce fear and anxiety because they are believed to be the end of the world.

The great Mayan Calendar, which predicts the end of the present cycle to occur precisely at midnight of Dec. 21, 2012, suggests not the end of the world, but merely the end of a 26,000-year earth cycle, divided into five sub-cycles of about 5,200 years.

According to the Mayan Calendar we are on the last fifth earth cycle where a new beginning looms.

According to Mayan prophecies, “All moons, all years, all days, all winds, reach their completion.

Measured is the time in which we can know the benevolence of the sun. Measured is the time in which the stars look down on us.”

On Dec. 21, 2012, several heavenly planets will be in complete alignment with the earth and solar system, an event which takes place only once in about 26,000 years. And such an alignment will exert a great magnetic pull that will affect all life on earth. Great changes will take place. There will be a breaking down of the old order of things to give way to the new.

In the words of Dr. James J. Hurtak, president of the Academy for Future Science and author of the prophetic book “Secret Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch”—“Humanity must begin to understand that in a new era of true enlightenment, the exclusive material mind-set will have to pass away in order for human nature to implement new tools at quantum change.”

To help with this formidable information dissemination task, I wanted to consult Gabbey, an angelic entity that communicates with Dr. Jun Aquiatan of Pangasinan, who teaches management. But before I could, Jun texted to say he had received a message about the Mayan

Prophecy from Gabbey.
According to the entity Gabbey, “The Mayan people had some contact with other beings in the universe who gave them knowledge about the heavenly bodies.”
This explains how the Mayans were able to foretell accurately the movements of planets without the use of modern instruments. They were taught by beings who came from outer space.

End of an era
The end of the present Earth cycle on Dec. 21, 2012 mentioned in the Mayan Calendar “does not mean the end of the world but the end of a cycle or an era. This means that a new kind of consciousness in the world will begin to take shape which will also affect the way of life on earth.”

Gabbey said that everything in the universe is interconnected. “The phenomenon that will happen on Earth has a parallel event in another place in the universe. The change in your earth’s consciousness will have an effect in the consciousness of other beings in other planets.”
Gabbey continued to explain that the new consciousness means “a better understanding of the meaning of life. Cultures on earth will gradually change based on a new understanding of life.

New philosophies will emerge, religious beliefs will gradually shift and scientific inventions will proliferate, but this time, it would not be geared towards destruction but to improve human life.” He also said, “organizations, including religious organizations, will be shaken.”

Gabbey predicted calamities to come, a prediction that echoes what is in the Mayan Calendar. But Gabbey added that these calamities would be brought about not only by the alignment of different planets but by other phenomena.

“Another far planet which has no name yet because it has not been detected yet by your scientists will have a great effect on your sun, and this will trigger tremendous sun flares that will affect not only the earth but also the other planets in your solar system. This will cause diseases and other global calamities.”

When asked what we can do about these coming changes and calamities, Gabbey replied, “Pray that you survive these calamities. Remember that this phenomenon is a natural occurrence in the higher order of things and, therefore, they will come. This is a part of the grand evolutionary scheme under the universal set-up by God. I will tell you later what is in store for the world once the new era sets in.”

Then Gabbey abruptly ended the message by saying, “We are through.”
Note: The next Basic ESP and Intuition Development seminar will be Jan. 17 and 18, 9 am-5 pm. and Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation seminar on Jan. 24, 1-7 p.m, Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I, Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 8107245 or 8926806; fax 8159890; e-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com.

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Unusual incidents in Poland

2008-12-08T13:45:00.000-08:00

I JUST got back from Poland after almost a month there.

There were unusual and interesting incidents that happened in Poznan city, where all the seminars and consultancies I did were held.

A woman participant told me that when the drawings of my seven spirit guides were projected onscreen, she got a big shock to see that the most prominent of them, a Chinese-looking man with a long beard, was the same spirit she had seen three months before.

“Is it possible,” she asked, “for two different people living so far apart to have the same spirit guide?”

I replied, “Yes, because these guides are highly evolved masters and can guide several people at the same time.”

The faces of my seven spirit guides, who come from different nationalities (Filipino, American, European, and Chinese), were drawn by the famous British medium, Coral Polge. She can see and draw the faces of one’s spirit guide, given only one’s handwriting, or by simply looking at the person.

Another woman came all the way from Berlin, Germany to the ESP seminar. She didn’t know I was in Poznan. She was driving to a seminar on acupuncture when a friend texted her that I was holding a seminar that day in the same city.

Upon seeing me, she hugged and kissed me on the cheek. I didn’t recognize her because she looked much prettier and more svelte than when I first saw her in Warsaw earlier this year.

She said my seminar had transformed her life. “Your book is always beside my bed.” One night she had a dream—there was a big snake that was about to attack her. “You were there,” she said, adding that I gave her a watch that had the power to ward off the snake. So she was not afraid anymore. Unfortunately, she spoke only Polish and German.

Exorcist and healer
Then there was this very interesting guy in his 50s who attended my four seminars. He said he was an exorcist and healer. He said he wanted to come to the Philippines to learn how to perform bare-hand psychic surgery the way Filipinos are known to do. He asked me to recommend a healer who could teach him.

I told him that, according to the healers I’ve talked to, no healer can teach another to do psychic surgery. It is only the spirits who can. It is the spirits that choose who will become a psychic surgeon. I’ve observed this to be true. Not one of the psychic surgeons I’ve interviewed said they wanted to be a healer, much less a psychic surgeon. But I told the man I’d ask around and let him know.

Another interesting, but no longer that strange, incident was what happened in a special Catholic Church very far from Poznan. There, a former staff of the Institute that invited me was exorcized and converted to something similar to our Born Again Christians. She felt several spirits get out of her body and since then, she has dedicated her life to Jesus.

She left the Institute, relying only on the priest to guide her. I was curious about this church she went to and the priest who exorcized her. So one weekend, I went with her and her family to that church. I didn’t know the ceremony would take three hours, because aside from the usual mass, there was an exorcism and healing the priest did. No wonder the church was filled to capacity that evening.

Although the service was in Polish, I felt at one point the presence of spirits whom the priest must have invoked. I was kneeling beside this former staff member when I went into a trance.

Fortunately, she knew what was happening to me without looking at me. She held my left arm tightly to keep me from falling. She tried to shake and tug at my hand but I couldn’t move. I was in a trance for maybe five minutes. Then the energy lightened up and I snapped out of trance. It almost happened again after the exorcism and when the priest held the chalice and walked towards the back where we were. When he was beside me, I almost went into a trance again.

This time I was able to control it.

Now I know what happened to that girl. She was so sensitive she felt the energy around her and was healed of negative entities.

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Earth changes based on Mayan prophecies

2008-12-02T13:50:00.000-08:00

POZNAN, Poland—Precisely at midnight on Dec. 21, 2012, the planets Pluto, Uranus and Neptune will be in perfect alignment, an extremely rare event that takes place only once in 26,000 years.

The Mayan calendar has predicted this long before the telescope was invented. The Mayans were able to predict eclipses of the sun, although these were not visible to them. They were able to calculate the average revolution of Venus with an error of just one day in 6,000 years.
How these ancient and simple people were able to do all these without the use of modern instrument has never been discovered. Nor why their civilization suddenly vanished around 800 CE.

This cosmic event which will occur on Dec. 21, 2012 is known as “galactic synchronization.” This means that the earth and solar system will be in line with the plane of our galaxy, the Milky Way. According to the Mayan calendar, this astronomical synchronization marks the end of the present world age or cycle and the birth or beginning of a new one.

The Mayan prophecy does not say nor does it imply that it would be the end of the world. But certain unprecedented changes would take place on planet Earth that will affect all its inhabitants. Planet Earth is on the last 5,126 years of its present cycle which, according to the Mayan calendar, began on Aug. 13, 3114 BC and will end on Dec. 21, 2012.

“The Maya,” according to Gerald Benedict, in his fascinating and important book, “The Mayan Prophecies for 2012,” were able to work with vast periods of time and calculated that it would take a cycle of approximately 26,000 years for a constellation to reappear over the same observation point on earth. Modern astronomy has confirmed this period as 25,800 years.

According to Benedict, “What will actually happen is that at sunrise on Dec. 21, 2012, the sun forms a conjunction with the galactic center of the Milky Way at the constellation of Scorpio. Because of the precession of the equinoxes the winter Solstice sunrise has been moving toward that point of the Milky Way known as the ‘galactic center.’ Thus, the planet Earth and the solar system will come into galactic junction with the rest of the universe.”

And what, according to the Mayan Prophecies, will happen to our planet at the end of this present earth cycle?

1. “There will be violent sunspot activity that will cause a radical change in the Earth’s magnetic fields, perhaps amounting to a reversal of the poles.”

According to Benedict, even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has confirmed this. NASA has predicted that there would be very intense solar storm in 2012, and the sun would reverse its magnetic poles because of the ending of the 11-year sunspot cycle. This would cause disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic fields.

2. “The end of each Mayan age, or sun, is marked by extreme natural catastrophe. The Earth will experience violent earthquakes and volcanoes together with the side effects these produce.”

3. Although the Earth will be at risk, it is prophesied that as we move toward 2012, “it will become increasingly apparent that the various races, religions and classes that divide us, mask an essential unity and despite the conflicts, people will be drawn closer together. The prophecy emphasizes that only by realizing our inherent unity can the problems now facing both our planet and our civilization be solved—it points to a more outward-looking interfaith dialogue and mutuality.”

4. According to a Mayan priest, “The Earth will not end on Dec. 21, 2012. It will be transformed.” And Pacal Vocan, one of the most widely known Mayan leaders and prophets, foresaw that “human beings will develop a universal telepathic facility, a considerable heightening of our senses and a more perfectly focused self reflecting consciousness.”

Already the heightening or elevation of human consciousness is beginning to be felt all over the world, despite all the material problems mankind is experiencing right now.

There is growing awareness that we all belong to this one planet—not only to our own individual country. If this planetary consciousness accelerates, and the Mayan Prophecies certainly point towards that direction, then the message of the Mayan calendar is one of hope and a beginning of a new era, as we leave the destructive nature of the past.

Concludes Benedict: “The prophecy calls us to reconsider what it means to be a human being in the broader context of the whole of nature, to rethink our relationship with it, and to acquire a new understanding of the meaning and purpose of life.”

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20081202-175536/Earth-changes-based-on-Mayan-prophecies

Baffling cases of regression in Poland

2008-11-25T14:07:00.000-08:00

POZNAN, Poland—This third trip to Poland was quite different from previous ones where I conducted seminars, did TV and radio. This time, I did more individual consultations than seminars. These were mostly for past-life hypnotic regressions, and a few for business concerns.

Memorable
The most fascinating, memorable and challenging consultations were with women who came for regression.

One had fear of crowds and open space. She was afraid to ride buses, especially when packed.
She was given anti-psychotic drugs, which didn’t help. After two years, she stopped taking them and seeing the psychiatrist. She wanted alternative solution.

She said her problem began about three years after she had abortion. She was having serious marital problems, thus the decision to have abortion.

The first panic attack came when she was shopping in a crowded supermarket. At the checkout counter, she was suddenly seized with panic, threw up and couldn’t breathe. She ran out of the supermarket.

I put her in a light trance, talked to her subconscious mind to see if her fears originated in this lifetime or in a previous one. Her subconscious mind revealed they began in a past life. I placed her in a deeper trance, told her to go to that past.

She saw herself as a girl of 10 sitting alone in a dark cave. I asked her what she was doing in a cave. “Nothing” she said. Why was she in the cave? “Because it is safe here.”

I asked her to move forward in time, leave the cave, to go to the place where there were people.
I asked where she was. “I am in the marketplace, there are plenty of people. I am just walking among the crowd.” I asked if she was afraid. “No, I am not afraid.”

I told her to remember that feeling of being alone in a crowd but not being afraid.
When she opened her eyes, she smiled broadly, and said she saw everything very clearly. I told her she was grown up now, so she shouldn’t be afraid. I believe she must have been punished into staying inside a dark cave. I told her that now all her fears of crowded places were gone.

Interesting
I saw other interesting clients in Poznan. One was a woman with severe headaches, and emotional and behavioral problems, all stemming from an unhappy childhood. She had a very strict, domineering father.

She could deal with this problem because she knew its cause. She learned to meditate and make positive affirmation. I learned she was a doctor of medicine who was also interested in alternative or holistic therapies.

When she finally was in deep relaxation, I brought her back to the past life chosen by her subconscious mind to reveal the causes of her headaches.

In that past life, she saw herself in a dark place. She was in a dungeon or underground torture chamber—alone. Later she felt the presence of a person who was doing something with her head. She felt heavy pressure on both sides of her head.

I asked her to look at the person. She said she couldn’t see his face because it was covered. “Why was it covered?” I asked. “He’s the executioner,” she replied.

“Are you being tortured to death?” She said yes. “Why are you being punished?” Because she’d done something or something they didn’t like.

I told her to see how she died, but without feeling pain. She said her skull had been cracked—that was how she died. I told her it was the past, and she was no longer in that period. She no longer had to carry that memory when she opened her eyes.

Snapping out of her trance, she smiled and said her head felt very light. She could feel no more pain.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20081125-174145/Baffling-cases-of-regression-in-Poland

Lecture on karma at 33,000 feet

2008-11-18T14:19:00.000-08:00

ON the way back from Cyprus to Manila, our plane made a stopover at Dubai.

On the Dubai to Manila flight, one of the almost all-Filipino crew named Kristine recognized my name when I presented my boarding card to her.

“Oh, you’re the one who writes about soulmates and things like that, aren’t you?” she beamed.
“Yup!” I said, “Same guy.” She got excited and said she’d talk to me later in the flight.

A little later, she came back to where I was seated (which was on the aisle) accompanied by her Eastern European Flight Purser we shall call Michelle.

Kristine wanted a picture taken with me so we went to the flight attendant’s station and had somebody take our picture with my camera.

Kristine said Michelle wanted very much to consult me when she learned who I was. She asked me to come with her to the First Class cabin where it’s less crowded and had more space.

My wife, Yoly, was sleeping soundly at the economy section and didn’t know I was “kidnapped” by two lovely flight attendants.

After offering me champagne (which I didn’t take because I don’t drink any alcoholic beverage) she asked me if I could give her a reading while Kristine listened intently as she sat on my right side. Michelle sat next to me on the left.

I told her I didn’t really make psychic readings of people, neither did I read minds. I said I was not a fortune teller, nor a psychic, as commonly understood. She insisted on my telling her what I saw in her.

“Well, okay,” I finally said half joking. “I think you are highly emotional and you cry easily.”
“Yes, you’re right. I cry even over small things.” I was surprised at the accuracy of my guess.
“I didn’t know that!” Kristine said in a loud voice. She had known Michelle for 13 years and she never saw her cry, she said.

I sensed she really needed someone whom she could talk to about her problems. But she didn’t tell me at first what those problems were, which were very personal.
Michelle’s past life

“Let’s see what I can tell about your past life that’s causing whatever problem you may have now.” I stared at her and she turned her face away, a bit embarrassed or self-conscious. I told her to look at me straight in the eyes which she did.

Then the impossible happened! I literally saw her face change into an Arab man’s face!
“You were an Arab in your past life,” I told her. She didn’t say anything. She seemed stunned. So

I asked her, “What do you think of Arabs?”
“Oh, I am attracted to Arab men,” she suddenly replied, “but I don’t really like Arabs, I don’t know why I am attracted to them.”

“Because you were an Arab before,” I told her matter-of-factly.
She revealed to me soon afterwards she was married to an Arab and all her previous boyfriends were Arabs.

“Maybe you did something to these men in your past life, that’s why you are attracted to them and they are in turn attracted to you, too. This is all part of your karma that you have to work out with them.”

Although she had heard of the term, she wasn’t sure exactly how the law of karma works. So I gave her a short lecture about karma and reincarnation 33,000 feet above the ground!

After thanking me profusely, she asked my wife to join us in the first class cabin and offered us drinks and snacks. She allowed us to stay in that more comfortable cabin for the rest of the flight, which passed so fast.

What I did on that plane was nothing extraordinary. Anybody can do that if one just blanks his or her mind and says whatever comes to mind without evaluation, guessing or criticism.

When one does this without anticipating at all, the right intuitive side of our brain begins to release information stored in one’s subconscious mind which is connected to other’s subconscious minds.

Very accurate, detailed information about a person can be obtained this way which cannot be done by the left, critical or logical brain.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20081118-172767/Lecture-on-karma-at-33000-feet

How to contact one’s spirit guide

2008-11-11T14:24:00.000-08:00

MANILA, Philippines—“I’m Vince Punzal of Taguig City. I always read your column because I’m very interested in paranormal things. I hope you can explain to me the following:

“Do all people have guide spirits? My classmate in college told me that when he was in high school, he had a teacher who was very mysterious. He told him and two other classmates that they had guide spirits, but they can’t see them because they needed to do something first. He told my classmate he needed to climb three mountains and to the other he said he had to see three white birds at night.”

Thank you Vince, for your interest in my works. According to people who can see spirits, we all have at least one spirit guide. A spirit guide is different from the Christian concept of a guardian angel, which most of us are familiar with.

According to Christian doctrine, if I remember my high school catechism class, when a person is born, God assigns a guardian angel to protect and guide him in his lifetime. An angel is a pure spirit and has not been human before. A spirit guide may have been human before and now chooses, while in the spirit form, to help others by being a guide to them. It is usually by mutual consent between the guide and his ward that the former will guide him or her. A person may have several spirit guides but only one guardian angel. Also, a spirit guide may change in the course of a person’s lifetime depending on the person’s needs and development of his consciousness. A guardian angel, by my understanding, remains the same throughout a person’s lifetime.

I do not know how the teacher of your classmate got the idea that to see one’s spirit guide, he has to climb three mountains and to see three white birds in the night. It is just saying that one can never see or contact one’s spirit guide. In my Inner Mind Development seminar, I teach people how to contact their inner advisor but I do not define it as a spirit. The inner advisor is defined as a symbolic representation of one’s subconscious mind. It acts as a bridge between one’s higher self and that part of our mind that thinks in pictures or images.

Automatic writing
According to one young American spiritual medium, Sarah Christine Lalonde, in the April 2008 issues of FATE Magazine, the best and safe way to contact one’s spirit guide is through automatic writing, which I also teach in my class. Sarah gave useful guidelines, which I summarized here:

1. “Never ask if ‘anyone’ is there.” This opens you up to possible negative spirits hovering around.2. “Always protect yourself with prayer, grounding or the white light before going any further.”3. “Be respectful. Always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ Your spirit guide will love you for it and would want to help you more.”4. “Do not expect your guide to predict the future or tell you everything you want to know.”5. “Do not drink alcohol or take drugs before doing automatic writing.”6. “Do not ask for famous people that you are not related to or know on a personal level. Calling spirits is a serious thing, not a game.”7. “Relax and enjoy yourself.”

When attempting to contact spirits, whether through automatic writing or some other method, be sure you are in touch only with highly evolved beings or masters and not with lower spirits or negative ones. When you feel afraid or apprehensive, stop. Or when the spirit starts building your ego or promising you power or riches, stop. These are usually the work of lower discarnate spirits or negative and evil forces.

As the well-known psychic prophet Edgar Cayce has always admonished, when doing spiritual work, always attune yourself to “your highest ideal,” and you won’t go wrong. The highest ideal is, of course, God.

Psychic surgery
A third-year medical student who is doing research on body-mind connection asked me the following question which he said has puzzled him:

“Why is it that psychic surgery is so popular among foreigners but locally, nobody really takes it seriously?”

Well, it is not exactly true that “locally nobody takes psychic surgery seriously” because I do. I have devoted over 15 years of serious research on this subject and have written three books on it.

One reason it is not taken seriously, especially by educated urban Filipinos as compared to foreigners, is because all we ever hear about this subject are highly negative and critical. Can you cite me any single news item, television episode, or magazine article that is positive or at least impartial and objective in its discussion of psychic surgery?

Another reason is this: Because of the incredible nature of the process—the reported ability of a psychic surgeon to open up a patient’s body with his bare hands, take out diseased tissues and close the incision without a trace at all—our rational scientific minds cannot accept it. So we at once suspect trickery or sleight-of-hand.

All our psychic surgeons are “espiritistas” or spirit mediums and they all claim they have spirit guides that do the healing, not themselves.

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Kid sees ‘monster’ inside refrigerator

2008-11-03T14:29:00.000-08:00

READER Amie from Las Piñas City wrote about her three-year-old son who sees a “monster” at the door, in the toilet, or even inside the refrigerator.

“Last night,” according to her, “he was perspiring and covering his eyes because he saw the ‘monster’ again.” Amie wondered why she couldn’t see anything, although her hair would stand when the “monster” was present. “After a while I would ask him if the monster is still there and he would say, ’no more.’ Then he would start playing again as if nothing happened.”

Here are the mother’s questions:
1. “How come he sees the ‘monster’ and I don’t?”
Children’s third eye or clairvoyant vision is normally open. They can often see elementals and other invisible beings. They are also very intuitive and creative. When we are born, our right brain, our intuitive and creative part, is dominant. As we grow older, we are trained to use mainly our left critical or logical brain. That’s why, as the child grows older he ceases to see invisible creatures. By about seven to 10 years old, he has become one of us ordinary mortals.

But there are people who are able to retain their clairvoyant vision up to their adult and even older age. They are called psychics or sensitives. The late Prof. Tenhaeff of Utrecht University in the Netherlands calls them “paragnosts.”

The fact that your hair stands when the “monster” appears means you are also sensitive. You are sentient. You “feel” rather than “see” things.

2. “Is a monster one of the spirits that roams all over?”
I cannot tell precisely what type of creature your son sees inside your house. You have to ask him to describe how this creature looks like. You can show him some pictures of dwarves, gnomes and other creatures to have an idea of what exactly he sees.

I asked two sensitives to tune in to your house. They reported that they see a small-faced hairy creature but not a dwarf as we know it. It likes to eat sweets or some food inside the refrigerator. It is not particularly a bad spirit. So there’s nothing to be worried about. To a child, anything strange-looking is a monster.

3. “I keep saying, ‘In the name of Jesus Christ, go away.’ Do you think this works on the ‘monster’? I say it because I believe the monster is an evil spirit and is afraid of our God.”
You have actually answered this question yourself. You kept saying this invocation but the monster still appears. Because these words, if uttered by a person of authority and power, may work against demonic spirits, but not if they are elementals who are not necessarily evil.

4. “If I call a priest to exorcise our house, do you think it will work?”
If the person you call has authority and power over such creatures, the answer is yes, if not, it won’t work.

Not all priests are exorcists. We have been to a house that has been exorcised by three priests before our group was called because the residents were experiencing the presence of ghosts. The priests only succeeded in inviting more spirits to the place rather than driving them away. Better perhaps for you to call a clairvoyant, esperitista or a good albulario than an ordinary priest.

Note: I’ll be conducting a series of seminars in Poland the whole month of November, so I may not be able to answer e-mails immediately. The next Basic ESP (Nov. 8-9) and Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation (Nov. 15) will be handled by Silvia Mijares in my absence. Mijares has been trained to competently conduct these seminars. Call 810-7245/ 892-6806; visit website www.jaimelicauco.com or e-mail jaimetlicauco@yahoo.com.

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Not only on Halloween

2008-10-28T14:34:00.000-07:00

FOR as long as I can remember, every All Saints’ Day I get calls for interviews from radio and TV about ghosts, witchcraft and other mystical phenomena. This has become so regular and predictable that my children and their friends have labeled me the “Halloween Personality.”

Last week, a friend of my youngest son told him, “Oh, Halloween is coming. We will see your Dad again on TV.”

I used to be merely amused with mass media’s preoccupation with ghost stories, witchcraft and the supernatural every time Halloween came around. But lately, I have become bored and tired—even cynical about it.

The media keep on repeating the same worn-out stories. The same questions I’ve been asked the last 20 years are being asked me this year. So I have declined most requests for interviews, unless they want to know something new.

One of the most often-repeated stories this year is about the ghosts in society columnist Maurice Arcache’s house in Sta. Ana.

The story had been told and retold so many times that poor Maurice had to hide from reporters every Halloween. The latest I heard was that Maurice finally sold his famous (or infamous) house and the new owner had it demolished.

Although he lived alone in that house for a long time, Maurice said he was never afraid of them. He went about his business without minding them at all.

Horror stories
Most articles that come out at this time are horror stories or scary encounters. The scarier these are, the better.

One TV network researcher texted me, asking if I knew of “a love story that developed between a ghost and a living person or about a ghost and a living person writing to each other, or a wife who was embracing her departed husband, but when she realized he’s dead, he’s gone.” What is really the value of repeating such stories?

They are not really new. There are hundreds of documented cases in the history of paranormal phenomena around the world. People don’t seem to tire of hearing them year in and year out.

Evidence
Celebrating Halloween or the “Day of the Dead” on November 1 is not indigenous to our culture. It was introduced by the Spaniards and the Americans. Halloween, in the West, is one of the year’s most important “festivals of the witches.” It used to be a sinister occasion linked to the pagan Sabbath and the Black Mass.

Today it is celebrated principally by children. And yet, for the most part, people still associate it with ghosts, witchcraft and scary encounters.

For years, I have refused to succumb to the temptation of writing about Halloween ghost stories because everybody will be talking about the same topic anyway. But the other reason is that it is not true that ghosts appear and make their presence felt only at this time. Truth is, they may, and do appear, any time, day or night.

What I can’t understand is why, despite so much incontrovertible evidence of the existence of ghosts and other spirits, people still ask: “Do ghosts really exist?”

Let me say this much for the last time. Spirits of the dead not only have been seen by so many people since time began. There is enough evidence to prove they have been photographed, appeared solid to some people, wrote letters, sent fax messages, texted loved ones on their cell phones, fried eggs, flushed toilets, turned on and off TV and radio sets, photo copying machines and computers, called and talked to loved ones on the phone, signed their names on vouchers and delivery receipts, drank soft drinks and wine, saved people from accidents, or even had sex with the living.

On a more positive note, some “ghosts” have even healed the sick. Ghosts have been known to be able to do everything a living person can do, except beget or bear children.

Note: I’ll be conducting seminars in Poland the entire month of November, so I may not be able to answer e-mails immediately.

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Criminals who use hypnosis

2008-10-20T14:37:00.000-07:00

MANILA, Philippines—Reader Lorenzo Tan wrote to say he has also encountered criminals in the Binondo area who use hypnosis to rob people.

“My few encounters,” he said, “included chanting of prayers and the use of hypnotic eyes. You won’t notice their eyeballs or even see their mouths open during the chanting. I was hearing words that seemed foreign, as though they were coming from my own brain.

“Although I have managed to avoid previous hypnotic attempts, in my third encounter, I was forced to look deep into one’s eyes and that had a bad effect on me. I couldn’t help recalling the face of this person and the chanting during sleep.

“Fortunately, I recalled from one of my readings on visualization how to counter such condition. I made a visualization of fire, burning his face repeatedly until his face ceased to appear in my mind.

“An encounter with these types of people is really scary. Avoid looking into their eyes, and distract them. That’s the only thing I can recommend.”

Thank you for that suggestion. The problem is in practice, one realizes only too late that he or she has been hypnotized. It comes without warning.

Mr. Tan followed his letter with the following questions:

1. “Is the future fixed?” Is it true we can’t change our future?”
My answer is “yes” and “no.” If the future depends on the will of man to be fulfilled, and is not yet completed in the astral or spiritual realm, it can still be changed. However, if the future event is already completed on that higher plane, it cannot be changed anymore.
For example, Edgar Cayce, the late American psychic and prophet who died in 1945, was in a building waiting for the elevator door to open. When it opened, he saw three or four persons inside. Instead of entering the elevator, he stepped backward. The elevator door closed. After a few seconds, he heard a loud crash. The elevator cable broke and everybody inside crashed to death.
When asked how he knew the elevator would crash, Cayce replied that when he looked at the people inside the elevator, they had no more aura.
In other words, they were already practically dead and there was nothing he could do about it. Cayce could see the aura and knew that only living beings have auras.

2. “Why do some people have the gift of seeing the future even if they can’t change it?”
There are several reasons. First, to prepare the person emotionally and mentally to accept the inevitable. Second, since we really cannot tell for sure whether the future, even if seen, can be changed or not, seeing it beforehand can serve as warning to avoid it, if possible.
Some say the future is just a bunch of probabilities and really not fixed. It can still be changed by us.

3. “Are spirits given the rights to influence the future?”
Not really “rights,” but the fact that they’re spirits let them see things happen before they actually do. Before anything happens on the physical plane, they appear or happen on the mental and spiritual planes.

There is no exception to this. Before a chair or a table becomes a physical reality, it must exist in the mind of the carpenter or designer.

So if one can see what’s happening on the spiritual plane, he or she can influence its becoming a physical reality.

Why 30% of people can’t be hypnotized

Reader Mary Ann Ong asked why 30 percent of people can’t be hypnotized. What prevents them from being hypnotized?

Actually, there’s no definite answer hypnosis experts can give us. What some say is these people who can’t be hypnotized either cannot focus or concentrate. Their mind or attention span is flighty or of short duration. They may be emotionally disturbed.

They may be too skeptical or too analytical and can’t relax. Or it could be the other way around. Others are not easily distracted and may be too focused on other more important things.

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Of what practical use is ESP?

2008-06-09T00:45:00.000-07:00

I was recently taken by surprise when a business manager friend I was inviting to attend my seminar suddenly asked me: “Of what practical use is ESP? What for should I try to develop it?”

“You mean you do not know?” I asked him incredulously.

“Nope,” he snapped back, “Never bothered to find out.”

After I had gained some composure and began to think calmly, I realized he was right, not many people, even supposedly highly educated and intelligent ones, are aware of the many uses of ESP in everyday life, in business and practically any human endeavor or activity.

Let’s begin with some scientific background info, which many of us do not know about.

Back in the ’70s, two researchers from the Engineering Department of the University of Newark, New Jersey in the United States started to ask a somewhat similar question. They were John Mihalasky and Douglas Dean. They wanted to know whether there was any correlation between business success and ESP ability.

So they devised an experiment to find out. They asked 50 chief executives of various companies to guess what two-digit numbers would come out of a randomly generated set of numbers. Then they asked them to fill out a questionnaire about the financial status of their firms during the last five years.

They discovered those executives who scored very high in correctly predicting what two-digit numbers would come out were managing companies that doubled their profitability in five years. And those who scored average or below in their ability to guess the numbers correctly were managing companies that had either average profitability or were even going down.

When they presented their findings to the university, they were told the results were interesting but not conclusive because their sample of 50 executives was too low.

So, when given the opportunity to test their theory on some 1500 top executives who held a convention in the university, they repeated the ESP test and business success correlation with them. The results were the same. Those who scored high in the ESP test were running highly successful firms while those who scored low on the test were running firms with average or even declining profitability.

This was the first scientifically controlled experiment that shows without doubt the relevance of ESP ability to business success. And I tend to believe this because I have been for about 20 years almost a regular speaker of an elite and prestigious international organization of top-level executives called the Young Presidents Organization based at that time in Dallas, Texas.

During my talks, I invariably give these executives an exercise in remote viewing, and in all occasions, I never got an average success rate below 90 percent among those who attended my sessions. Remote viewing is a scientifically validated skill that began at the Stanford Research Institute (now called SRI International) in Menlo Park California in the ’70s.

I conduct a modified version here of the scientific protocol developed by physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff.

Other uses

There are many other uses of ESP aside from business. It has been successfully used in crime detection and investigation, finding missing persons, lost objects and even hidden treasures or sunken ships.

During the last World War, the military suppliers used psychics to detect or find leaks in underwater pipelines, which could not be detected by any scientific instruments. They used dowsers or water diviners to locate them and they succeeded in doing so.

Persons with above-average psychic ability can sense danger or problem before it arises and avoid it. They can find solutions to problem faster than the average person.

A mother found her son, whose car fell into a ravine, by remote viewing. She saw him hanging precariously at the branch of a tree at the edge of the ravine, which rescuers missed.

In the ’80s, I talked to the head of the Psychotronics Research Society in Utrecht, The Netherlands, who showed me a letter signed by the Chief of Police of Utrecht certifying that 12 serious crimes that year were solved through the help of psychics.

Is there a practical value to developing ones’ psychic ability? Why don’t you ask the people I have mentioned above? They will tell you.

I have been teaching ESP development for the last 25 years worldwide. It wouldn’t have lasted this long if it had no practical value at all.

Note: The next Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation seminar will be held June 14, 1-7 p.m. and Inner Mind Development seminar, June 21-22, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I Condominium, 106 Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 8107245 or 8926806; fax 8159890.

E-mail innerawareness_2005@yahoo.com.

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Can the future be seen?

2008-06-02T15:03:00.000-07:00

Here’s an intriguing question from a female reader who calls herself Alpha, regarding the nature of time and seeing the future.

“Let’s say everything from 2005 to the present has already happened, as well as the future. Then, we are just repeating things that happened before.

“If that is the case, then the coming events already took place. I want to know if hypnosis can help a person see the coming events, since they are considered merely a repetition of the past. If not, how is it possible to see future events?”

Time, as we know it, exists only in our three-dimensional world of physical reality. Actually, time does not exist in the mental and, specially, in the spiritual planes.

To define time is almost an impossible task. The usual division of time into past, present and future is merely a convenient metaphor for us to rationally or logically function in this physical world.
In reality, there is no such thing. There is only the eternal now.

That is why there is some truth to the saying that, “The future is now!” The past is forever gone, and the future is yet to be.

The present

But in reality, what we consider to be a future event in the physical world is actually the present in the spiritual or nonphysical world. Because before something appears on the physical plane, it must first appear on the mental and spiritual planes.

According to some modern physicists, time travel is theoretically possible. And if man can invent a machine that can travel at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles per second, then this can become a physical reality.

The next question is: If the future can be seen, say an accident or impending danger, can it be prevented?

The answer is: Sometimes yes, at other times, no.

What makes the difference one way or the other? A future event can be prevented if not all the elements for its completion are present.

For example, if it requires the will of man to complete the event, it can still be prevented. However, if all the elements are completed on that higher astral plane, nothing can be done to prevent it from happening on the physical plane. In other words, we live in a multidimensional reality.

Negative vibes

Another reader asks if negative thoughts and feelings take physical form or become tangible “even in the absence of the negative person?”

“My family,” she continued, “went through an emotional crisis the last few years. It involved mainly my two sisters who lived with my parents. My older sister stayed in the room where I felt strong negative vibes when I visited the place. Her envy, anger and all other pent-up emotions have become so tangible that they fill the room with negative vibes. Is this possible?”

Yes, because the feelings expressed by any person especially if strong negative ones, are imprinted in the akashic record of that place which can be felt by a sensitive person. A non-sensitive person may not feel these negative vibes but will still affect him or her.

To remove negative emotions, light an incense or candle, or sound Tibetan bells in the room. You may also leave clear quartz crystals in the room to somehow neutralize the negative energies.

The next Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation seminar will be on June 14, 1-7 p.m. Call 8107245, 8926806; fax 8159890; e-mail innerawareness_ 2005@yahoo.com.

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Believing in ET’s is not in conflict with Christianity

2008-05-26T14:59:00.000-07:00

Two successive news items in last week’s Philippine Daily Inquirer caught my attention. The first was on May 15 where the Vatican’s chief astronomer declared that believing in the existence of extraterrestrial creatures (ET’s) is not in conflict with Christianity.

The second was the news item the following day, May 16, saying the British defense department released a formerly classified file showing that aliens from outer space have been visiting the earth for many years now.

In an interview with the Vatican newspaper, Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, a 45-year-old Jesuit priest who heads the Vatican Observatory was quoted as saying, “How can we exclude that life has developed elsewhere… certainly, in a universe this big, you can’t exclude this hypothesis. Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on earth, there can be other beings, even intelligent, created by God.”

The declassified UFO files of the British defense department, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer news item, included a 1983 report from a 78-year-old man out fishing at midnight who followed aliens in green overalls to their spaceship and was told to go away because he was too old and decrepit for their purpose. The ministry has files of 11,000 sightings dating back to 1950’s. The existence of aliens from outer space visiting earth has consistently been officially denied by the US military establishment up to now, despite massive evidence to the contrary. This, despite the opinion of some highly respected American astronomers, like Dr. J. Allen Hynek of Yale University who believes in the possibility of intelligent alien life forms in other galaxies.

I believe in UFO’s because I’ve personally seen several such space crafts myself. And I have read about very credible stories told by authorities and professional people who have no reason to make up such stories about them. Some of the opposition for such belief in alien existence is religious in nature. Now that a Vatican astronomer himself has expressed belief in aliens, this should dispel some doubts about their reality.

Actually, even the Christian Bible itself gives a very vivid account of an alien encounter by the prophet and priest Ezekiel which is related in the very first chapter of this part of the Bible.

ET in America

About 15 years ago, an American graduate student in San Francisco wrote a Ph.D. thesis showing that aliens have been living on earth for hundreds of thousands of years now and have adopted earth personalities and habits. In his book “From Elsewhere, Being ET in America,” researcher Scott Mandelkar even included a questionnaire which would indicate whether one is an alien or not.

In my Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation seminar, I have come across at least two students of mine whose past lives were not from earth but from some other galaxies in outer space. Many times, such aliens among us have contributed new knowledge or invented new products that would help ease life on the planet.

I have been told that the Vatican keeps in its secret vaults a skull of an alien with big head and diamond-shaped eyes. Somebody in fact had sent me a picture of such mysterious skull through my cell phone. It is of course very difficult to verify the veracity of such a picture but it looks like the usual image we have of ET’s.

Erich Von Daniken in the 1950’s or 60’s was the first to popularize belief of alien visitation of earth through his very popular books, beginning with “Chariots of the Gods.” The book was even made into a movie and created a cult following. But Daniken was later criticized by serious scholars for his questionable research, methodology and for his tendency to exaggerate his findings to fit his preconceived theories.

Other authors followed suit and made their own research. One of them was Andrew Thomas who wrote the book “We are Not the First” which showed that some ancient peoples already had invented computers, batteries, electricity and even airplane models.

Alien abduction stories began appearing in the west. They tell of how creatures from outer space abducted them, examined them in their laboratories and then erased their memories of the abduction. Through hypnosis, they remembered everything. One of the most celebrated alien abductions was that of Betty and Barney Hill. Their story is told in a book entitled “Interrupted Journey” by John G. Fuller. Then came journalist Whitely Strieber’s books on the same theme, beginning with “Communion,” about his close encounters with alien creatures who had abducted him and brought him to their spaceships.

In the Philippines there are also numerous sightings of UFO’s in the sky but rarely do I hear of alien abduction of Filipinos. It seems the aliens visiting the west are different from those visiting the Philippines and other Asian countries. Here we do not experience cattle mutilations or aliens experimenting on humans. We are lucky in this sense.

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Trip to Poland full of surprises

2008-05-19T14:54:00.000-07:00

My second trip to Poland last April 24 to May 7 was full of surprises, pleasant and unpleasant.

The unpleasant ones were due to the sudden changes in visa application procedures arising from the membership of Poland in the European Union, resulting in delays in processing of papers. Because of such delays, my wife and I missed our flight and the seminars I was to conduct in Poland were postponed twice.

Also, my wife didn’t make it to the trip, the number of people who were supposed to attend went down.

The good news is that all the four seminars I conducted were a complete success—the Basic ESP and Intuition Development, Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving, and the Advanced ESP and Mediumship Training.

All these, except the last one, were held at the fabulous Pope John Paul II Museum in Warsaw which houses some 450 original paintings and sculptures by great artists of the 14th to the 20th century—Rembrandt, Reubens, Van Dyck, Titian, Van Gogh, Rodin, Dali, and Picasso.

About 60 persons attended my ESP seminars and about half of that in the other seminars. The least number of attendees was the Advanced ESP seminar, which was purposely limited to those who are really interested in advanced studies of the esoteric sciences and metaphysical knowledge. “We could have had double those numbers,” said Irena Galinska, president of the Institute of Valeology in Poznan, my host, “if your seminars had not been postponed twice.”

Some of the participants came as far as 300 kms away, such as Poznan and Krakow, others all the way from Germany and England.

ESP seminar

In the Basic ESP and Intuition Dev’t seminar, many participants performed the psychic reading and diagnosis, psychometry and remote viewing exercises very well, much to their amazement.

In the remote viewing exercise, 90% of the participants succeeded in describing details of the house of their partners whom they had never met. Six of 60 bent a metallic spoon with their minds, and about 12 or 13 moved a small object through telekinesis.

These may not be big percentages but enough to convince anyone of the tremendous untapped powers of the human mind.

A big surprise for me was in the psychometry exercise where participants were asked to describe the person they did not know by simply holding an object inside an envelope, such as a finger ring, earring, pendant or necklace. The feedbacks were fantastic!

Soulmates, Karma

In the Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation seminar, a number saw their past lives very vividly during the hypnotic regressions. Most saw only vague outlines or figures. The percentage of success I got during this seminar was much less than what I normally get in the Philippines and I attribute this to the language problem. The translator they assigned was not very good.

The Creative Thinking and Problem Solving one-day class was the first I ever held outside the Philippines. Participants had a lot of fun doing creative exercises.

Here they learned how to do Brain Storming to generate original ideas, how to solve problems creatively through the Synectics Method and other idea-generating techniques such as Attribute Listing and Checklists.

The great appeal of the seminars in Warsaw was evident in the fact that many participants in the Basic ESP course also enrolled in succeeding seminars.

Books in Polish

One other good news is that two of my books came out in Polish when I was there—“The Magicians of God” with Muslim healer Warka Adala on the cover and “Soulmate, Karma and Reincarnation.” The latter was almost sold out during the Basic ESP seminar and Irena had to order more copies from Poznan .

Another Polish publisher will publish two of my other books later this year—“Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man” and “More Encounters with the Unknown.”

The next Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation seminar will be on May 24, 1-7 p.m. at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I Condominium, 106 Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 8107245/ 8926806; e-mail: innerawareness_2005@yahoo.com.ph.

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A classic psychic powers book

2008-05-12T14:55:00.000-07:00

Part 2

MANILA, Philippines—In the first printing of the book, I asked a lady friend if she could pose naked for the cover. Just out of fun, she agreed to do it, provided her face would not be shown and that her identity would not be revealed. I asked well-known photographer Toch Arellano to take the photo and the rest was history.

The book has since become a classic in the field and in book-publishing history.

Why the book had such staying power may be attributed to the following factors:

First, it fulfilled a hunger of the Filipino public for rational and credible answers to many questions regarding psychic experiences that could not be explained by either science or religion.

Second, it was written in a very simple and easily understood language. Even elementary and high-school students could read the book and understand it. Every new word I used was explained simply and with examples. I even provided a glossary of terms at the end of the book.

Third, I found out that some professors of psychology and English literature in several schools, such as San Beda College, University of the Philippines and Perpetual Help College in Las Piñas, recommended the book as collateral reading material to their students. One faculty member also required his students to read my column in the newspaper and discussed it in class.

Many students began to write term papers and theses about ESP or psychic powers for their school requirements. And teachers were encouraging such research on these subjects because they themselves were interested in them.

I also discovered later that the book could be found in most school libraries all over the Philippines. My children and later on my grandchildren would suddenly find the book in their school libraries, to my great surprise.

The influence the book has had on the lives of many was simply incredible and really unexpected.

One female doctor, for example, told me in the late ’80s that the book saved her from being confined in the mental hospital.

How? She said she was having strange psychic experiences she could not understand and which no medical specialist could explain. She was seeing spirits and hearing voices. She thought she was going crazy, then she read the book and learned there were people who possessed such powers. It didn’t mean they were hallucinating. She found out she was clairvoyant. She could see and hear things others could not. Then she studied pranic healing and became a pranic healer as well as teacher of this healing modality.

Another person wrote me a very interesting story of how he got hold of my book. He was a junk dealer and buyer of old newspapers and magazines. One day, he saw a small book among the pile of old newspapers. Its cover had already been torn, but he got curious and started reading it. He found the subject matter very interesting. It was my book “Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man.” He was so fascinated by the book that he said he read it over and over again. When he read my name in the newspaper with my address in it, he decided to write me to tell me how he found the book among the old newspapers he was about to sell. He thanked me for the knowledge he had acquired about the subject.

When the book ceased to be published in 1998, people still kept looking for it. It became a collector’s item. Some who wanted to have a complete collection of all my books, which after 20 years number 15, had the first book photocopied. One of those who found my works so fascinating that he had to have a complete collection was the former Nigerian Ambassador to the Philippines, Dada Olisa. Another was a Russian healer and researcher named Yuri Vedov, who also had the original book photocopied.

So after much prodding from my publisher and friends, I decided to revise and update the book for those who never had a chance to read the first book written in this field by a Filipino author. Now this book will soon be available in all branches of National Book Store and PowerBooks.

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How psychic powers book came to be

2008-05-05T14:30:00.000-07:00

The book “Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man," which I have recently completely revised, has had a long and colorful history. It is the first book of its kind written by a Filipino author. It first came out in commercial book form in 1978 and was in print for 20 long years! It only ceased to be printed in 1998. My publisher, Anvil Publishing, had been asking me to revise it so they could publish a new edition of it but I didn't have time, or the interest to do so until now, 30 years after its first publication.

Let me recall how this book came to be written. In the early 70's after I obtained my Master in Business Management (MBM) degree from the Asian Institute of Management, I went back to my hobby or avocation, namely, doing psychic research and experimentation.

In a few years, I developed enough knowledge about the subject to be considered some sort of an authority on it, although it was far from the impression I had of myself.

Then I noticed that the questions were the same ones being asked wherever I went. I found myself repeating the same answers I had given to others before. So, one day, I thought of summarizing the most significant lessons I had learned from these readings, as well as true-to-life experiences of people who were good enough to share their psychic stories with me.

The summary I wrote grew into a hundred or so pages which the now late Proserfina, wife of officemate Atty. Prescillano Adamos, typed. I printed only 100 copies of the typewritten material and sold them to my friends at cost.

Meantime, I had the mimeographed manuscript displayed at the ESP seminars of Chita Albert-CuUnjieng, in Manila.

One day, Chita's aunt, Telly Albert-Zulueta, former editor of Weekly Women's Magazine, happened to read the manuscript and asked me if I would be interested in having it serialized in the magazine. Although she was no longer connected with the magazine, she would ask the current editor, Luisa Linsangan, to take a look at it. Ms. Linsangan liked it and ran the whole manuscript in four long installments in her magazine. The response from readers was so amazing the editor asked me if I could contribute articles to the magazine on a regular basis. That launched my career as a writer.

Not only that. One day, I received a call from Ben Ramos, whose family owned National Book Store, the largest bookstore chain in the country. He asked me if I would be willing to have my articles in the Weekly Women's Magazine published in book form. After adding two chapters to the series that came out in the women's magazine I asked a friend, Narzalina Lim (who later became Secretary of Tourism under the Cory Aquino administration) to edit the work and fortunately she agreed to do it.

Then I asked the well-known veteran journalist and educator, Maximo V. Soliven, to write the Introduction or Foreword to the book and to my great surprise, he agreed to do it. I also asked a German scientist and parapsychologist, Dr. Alfred Stelter, to comment on the book, which he did.

When the book finally came out in 1978, many prominent people came during the launching.

The book became an instant best seller and it had been reprinted about seventeen times until it ceased publication in 1998 when the publishing arm of National Book Store was absorbed by its sister company Anvil Publishing Corp.

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Woman describes partner’s house accurately

2008-04-28T14:43:00.001-07:00

The case of Alma is really quite extraordinary. In another exercise, which is called Remote Viewing or Traveling Clairvoyance, I asked each participant to choose a partner he does not know and describe the partner’s house in detail both inside and out. Alma this time chose an elderly woman whom she had never met before.

The information she obtained about her were so accurate that her partner had goose bumps as Alma was describing her house, specially certain details that are not expected. For example, Alma said, “In one of the rooms, there are so many scattered things all over the floor. The whole room is always in disarray.” The elderly woman said she had a special child that’s somewhat retarded who loves to scatter things around. “He pulls down and throw anything he could lay his hands on.”

In other psychic exercises done in the class, like psychometry, telepathy and telekinesis, she also performed remarkably well. I told her she must have had those talents or psychic gifts even before. That’s when Alma started recalling her other remarkable psychic feats, which she thought, were just coincidences or chance events.

For example, in her company, employees could not hide anything from her. And her secretary was present and confirmed everything she told me. One time she suspected that one female employee did not turn in the complete collection for the day so she called the employee but the latter denied it. So, Alma made a thorough audit of that day’s transactions and discovered that the employee had indeed pocketed P7,000 worth of company money, as a result of which she lost her job.

Materializes photocopies of document
But the most remarkable story Alma told me, which was confirmed by her secretary who witnessed the whole thing, was when Alma without intending it materialized 10 photocopies of a paper she wanted copied in their copying machine.

Alma had a piece of paper on top of a chair across her desk. She asked the secretary to have ten copies of that paper copied on the Xerox machine located a few meters away from her desk. The machine had no more paper so the secretary placed enough blank bond papers into the tray and closed it. Alma told her to Xerox the paper lying on the chair. When the secretary was about to get the paper from the chair, the Xerox machine started pouring out printed copies of that paper which never left the chair.

The secretary almost fainted out of fear because Alma never touched that paper or machine, neither did she move from where she was seated. This is a case of materialization. And this is the first time I’ve heard it done unconsciously or unintentionally.

I told Alma we still don’t know the whole range or extent of her remarkable psychic powers. Only time can tell. But she has taken the right step in trying to understand and to control her tremendous psychic gifts by reading books and attending seminars on them.

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She didn't know she's a psychic

2008-04-21T14:41:00.000-07:00

All of us possess hidden mental powers we are normally not aware of. Sometimes, such powers manifest themselves in extraordinary ways that surprise us, and yet we dismiss these as mere coincidence.

We have discovered such extraordinary people in the many years we've been conducting seminars to develop man's psychic powers and inner consciousness.

Recently in Cagayan de Oro City, a businesswoman in her 40s named Alma, surprised everybody, including herself, with the wide range of psychic feats she was able to perform flawlessly during our ESP Development seminar. From the first psychic exercise to the last, she scored perfect hits.

In the first exercise, I asked the participants to choose somebody in the room whom they had never met. They were to ask the full name of their partner, nothing more. I helped them achieve a deep level of mental and physical relaxation through deep breathing and guided meditation.

Good medical intuitive
Their eyes closed, I asked each of them to focus his attention on his partner's name and/or face, scan the body from head to foot and just observe and write down whatever came to their mind.

What Alma "saw" in her mind's eye and which she told her partner:
"You have a problem with your left ear."
"Yes," said her partner. "I recently had an operation in my left ear."
"You don't like soup or liquid food. You prefer dry food."
"That's right," agreed her partner, "I don't like soup."
"You have a mole or a dark mark on the top left of your head."
"That's correct," she said.
"You also have irregular menstruation and your menstrual flow is not strong."
"That's also right," she smiled. "I have very little blood during my menstrual period and it's irregular."
"Something's wrong with your liver. And specially your uterus. There's some dried blood. You have to have this checked. Some blood didn't go out and could be infecting your body."
"That's right." her partner said, "my doctor advised me two years ago to have this checked but I kept postponing it."
"You also have a cavity in your molar," Alma said.
"That's right," her partner giggled. "I have a cavity there."

Alma couldn't believe she got everything correct about her partner's health condition. I told her partner she should immediately have herself medically checked.

That was an exercise in psychic reading and diagnosis that I ask every student to do before they even get acquainted with each other, to prove that everybody has psychic powers, even those who don't believe in such things.

Many of them are able to tell something that's really in the person's body like a mole, scar or birthmark. Sometimes, a personality trait or an emotional problem is the information sensed by a partner; other times a traumatic incident.

But almost everybody is able to tell something that the partner confirms to be true about him or her although the two had never met until then.

For inquiries on books, paranormal services and seminars on Inner Mind Development, ESP and Intuition Development, and Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation conducted by this writer, call 810-7245 or 8926806; fax 8159890.

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There’s a reason we meet again people we met in a past life

2008-04-14T14:38:00.000-07:00

This is the continuation of Christina’s story after she attended my Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation seminar.

“I attended your SKR seminar last March 8. I was the one whom you said was brave enough to join the seminar although the topic was against her family’s ultra conservative Catholic beliefs. I did not share what I saw during the seminar’s second regression, but I’d like to tell you my experience in it.

“In the first scene, I saw my subject (participants are asked to choose anybody they like to use as subject during the regression with a mate or lover) as a young man in a striped shirt with a beret, probably an English setting. He was very happy to see me and extended his hand to me so we could cross the bridge. He was excited that I was crossing the bridge with him.

“In the second scene, I saw him walking with me, but he seemed to be on a lower platform, but still he was happy to see me.

“In the last scene, I couldn’t see his face. I just saw that he was wearing a suit and hat. I was clinging to his arms and once in a while leaning on him. I was the one who felt so good this time. I felt very happy. I didn’t want to loosen my grip on his arm. The dresses and cobbled stones looked like Fort Santiago.

“But when you said to look at the last scene when we were together and how we separated during that lifetime, I saw him walk away from me without even looking back. He rode a vehicle that was waiting for him. There were people in that vehicle, and there was also a woman there.

“I do not know whether those people were passengers or his family or another woman in his life. I was crying, wailing in fact! Somebody was pulling me away so I couldn’t reach him. It was as though somebody was embracing me from behind to pull me back.

“I could feel the terrible pain of separation, that’s why I was crying during that time.
“This last scene, which I assume was during the Spanish era, made sense to me because when he was here during this present lifetime, for reasons I don’t understand, we’d always send text messages to each other in Spanish. He would tell me ‘Te quiero,’ ‘es muy linda,’ etc., to which I’d text back in Spanish also. This just dawned on me while I was about to go home after your seminar. Still in pain

“I am still in pain after your seminar, because I feel so much for this person. I don’t know why he walked away from me back then, only to see me again this time when time and circumstance would not allow us to be together. As you explained, we are fulfilling our karma to the persons we are with now.

“In this current lifetime we promised each other to definitely see each other again—and that frightens me, because I know that it may not happen in this lifetime, but probably in the next—but I don’t want this pain anymore. I want us to meet under happy circumstances. Do you think it is possible? And if this lifetime is the right time for us to be together, because we still profess our love for each other no matter the distance (he lives abroad with his family), are we drawing bad karma?

“Your seminar has answered some of the questions I have been asking. I hope to attend other seminars you are conducting for my further enlightenment. ”

I thanked Christina for sharing her experience during the SKR seminar and told her, “If you love somebody, let him go; if he comes back, he’s yours. If he does not, he never was.”

There is always a reason we meet again the same people we met in the past. There are certain soul lessons each of us must learn. Perhaps letting go is one of them, I told Christina.

“If you are meant to be together in this lifetime,” I wrote her, “then circumstances will conspire to make this happen. But if not, there’s nothing you can do about it, but to accept your fate gladly and without reservations, knowing that this is not the only lifetime you can be together. There is infinity ahead of you, think about that.”

Christina replied: “I now realize why I met him again in this lifetime: to be able to let him know that the feeling is mutual, unlike when I turned him down when we were in high school. This alone is very comforting for me.”

“I have told him what I experienced in your seminar and he said that explains why the attraction was so strong.

“I am slowly getting back my peace, and my mind is set to cut off any communications with him. I just don’t know how to start because I don’t want to hurt his feelings, but in due time I will do that.”

Note: Attend the Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) seminar to be conducted by Certified NLP Master Teacher John Boja from California April 12-13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Tarot Card seminar to be conducted by Gina Gacer April 19-20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Interested parties may call 8107245, 8926806, or fax 8159890 for details.

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Married woman puzzled by rekindled high school love

2008-03-31T15:17:00.000-07:00

A married woman in her 40’s, Christina (not her real name), wrote me about a high school love that had long been forgotten until it was rekindled 30 years later. What complicated things and caused guilt and fear is that her family belonged to an ultra conservative, militant Christian Charismatic movement. My columns have made her curious about reincarnation—how she and her lover may have been intimately connected in previous lives.

She married late, at 30, and now has a son and “a very responsible” husband. She said she led a quiet life until she met again her first love in high school.

“After graduation, I never heard anything about him, except that he got married early to a woman much older than he.”

After 30 years she saw him again. Something happened that she could not understand, “My knees trembled at the first sight of him.”

That fateful meeting led to something more serious. “I knew what we were doing was wrong, and I attempted to end it, but we always ended making up.

“He told me of places they had stayed in and I was surprised that I had lived in the same area during that time. One time, I was waiting for a bus when a car almost hit me. I learned it was he trying to get my attention, but didn’t have the nerve to approach me. He never saw me again after that because I moved offices. But we managed to continue with our affair, seeing each other whenever we could, but regularly texting and making phone calls.

“We are still in touch with each other. I do not have the heart to end our relationship. I would like to believe that in our past lives we may have had a connection with each other.”

Common case

Christina’s case is not unique.

There are reasons we relate to another person in either a loving or hateful manner. Unless we understand the workings of karma and reincarnation, we will not be able to understand such behavior.

Christina attended my seminar on “Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation.” Next week Christina will relate what she saw during her past life regression in the seminar and how it explained her current relationship.

Note: My next Basic ESP & Intuition Development Seminar will be held April 26-27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I, 106 Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Attend the Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) seminar to be conducted by Certified NLP Master Teacher, John Boja from California on April 12-13, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Tarot Card seminar to be conducted by Gina Gacer on April 19-20, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Interested parties may call 8107245, 8926806, or fax. no. 8159890.

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Can soulmates be of the same sex?

2008-03-24T15:14:00.001-07:00

Can soulmates be of the same sex? This is the essence of the question I received recently from a “discreetly gay” reader whose name we shall withhold:

“As a young man during the 80s, I have always been interested in the paranormal. I have always believed in things like soulmates, karma, and reincarnation. I even became a member of the Rosicrucian for a while. I had to stop when materials coming from them had trouble reaching me in Saudi Arabia.

“I am now 48 years old. I am one of those whom you would call ‘discreet gays.’ Very recently I met a young man, 24, half my age. Although he is straight and is much younger than I am, we jibe so well and we could feel that we're on the same wave-length, so to speak.

“Our relationship is going so well—romantically, emotionally, spiritually, sexually and psychologically, that I am inclined to believe that we are soulmates, something that I’ve felt right from the very start but never told him. How surprised was I when one day, out of the blue, it was he who said that, perhaps, we are indeed soulmates.

“Our lives seem to run parallel with each other. We have almost the same life story, the same woes, the same problems. We even have so many similar characteristics and many things about us are the same. And one of the most surprising things is that we’re both Scorpios and both born in the year of the Pig.

“What could this all mean?”

“I have always prayed that one day I would meet a certain person that would have all the qualities that I hope for. That person I created in my mind has materialized in his being.

“Before I met him, many things contributed to making my life miserable and sad. I used to be a very positive person during my younger years but as I grew older, negativism and pessimism had set in. When I met him, everything changed. He has brought meaning, positivism, and inspiration to my life.

“His being a very optimistic person reminded me so much of my old self.

“Who could he be? I hope, indeed, my soulmate.

“I would appreciate your thought on my case. Thank you very much.”

Intertwined destinies

To answer your question, let us first understand what soulmates are, for there are several different definitions of the term. According to the American psychic and prophet, Edgar Cayce, who first spoke about soulmates in the 1930’s while in deep trance, soulmates are two souls who, after a series of lifetimes together, become so close to each other that their destinies become intertwined. They help each other evolve to a higher level of soul evolution, until they reach perfection and union with God.

From the above definition we can glean that soulmates are perfect partners who help each other attain a higher level of spiritual development which could not otherwise be achieved by being with another person. The main purpose therefore of a soulmate encounter is mutual help towards perfection, or union with God.

We seldom meet and marry our perfect partner or soulmate in a single lifetime. It takes many lifetimes of earth existence to develop such closeness with another human being. The reason for this is that we still have to work out our karma with other people and our soulmate also has to work out his or her karma with other individuals. When they are done with such obligations or have paid off their karmic debts with others, then soulmates will definitely meet and be married to each other. From that lifetime onwards they will always be together until they achieve perfection and union with God.

Before that happens, the two may be involved with other partners or with other people with whom they have to settle some karmic obligations. They may even be of the same sex. But they are not, strictly speaking, soulmates. They may be called “soulmates in the making,” a term I have used to refer to those whose lives are evolving together with another in a very intimate and soul satisfying manner. I believe that in the end, when the two souls are ready for each other, they would be male and female, because one needs the help of the other in all aspects of their being. This is the Yin (female)-Yang (male) combination in Eastern philosophy that creates the whole.

Cayce compares a soulmate relationship with either “a torque to the groove,” or with “a tenon to a mortise.” Torque and groove are two aspects of the same metal when twisted. A tenon is a protrusion or extension, which perfectly fits an opening called a mortise. So there can only be one soulmate for each of us, but we can have several karmic partners in a given lifetime.

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Did Jesus also have past lives?

2008-03-17T14:57:00.000-07:00

The Catholic religion, to which majority of Filipinos belong, has always emphasized the divinity or divine origin of Jesus Christ. “Jesus is our Lord and our God,” intone the faithful. And every Christian evangelist of every denomination has been harping on that same message since the time of Paul, the Apostle.

The divinity and godhead of Jesus has been so much ingrained in our collective psyches that we often forget and sometimes even comes as a shock to some of us, that Catholic dogma also says that he is truly man at the same time.

God cannot die, but as man, Jesus suffered and died. This is what Holy Week is all about, the remembrance of Jesus’ suffering and passion. It is only at this time of the year in fact that the whole of Christendom remembers the humanness of Jesus.

And as a true human being, he must have also gotten hungry and ate like any other man. And like other human beings, he must have also urinated and moved his bowels. What’s wrong with that? Nothing! It’s just that we never think of Jesus as also human.

As a man, he must have fallen in love also. And there is sufficient evidence, particularly in the Nag Hammadi texts, which were discovered in 1945 in Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt, that he had some romantic relationship with Mary Magdalene. Some authors even go to the extent of asserting that the two got married and produced a child. But there is no evidence for this theory.

Reincarnations

Now, the next question is, if Jesus were truly man, did he also undergo a series of reincarnations on earth?

Yes, according to the American psychic and prophet, Edgar Cayce, who, while in a deep trance, revealed that Jesus had undergone some 30 previous incarnations before becoming the Christ.

It is a revelation that the awake Cayce could not accept. Being a very devout Christian lay preacher and Sunday school teacher, he could not believe what he himself had said while in a trance. He considered such a notion as heretical and that’s why for two long, agonizing months, he stopped all his trance readings until he could figure out and got convinced the message was not coming from the dark side or from the devil himself.

Who did the sleeping Cayce say Jesus were in his past lives? He mentioned only several of them. Jesus first came on earth as Amilius, an incarnation in spirit form only. Then he was Adam, the first physically created man, according to Genesis. Then he was Enoch, a man who “walked with God,” according to the Bible. Then he was Melchizedeck, a priest and prophet at the time of Abraham. Then he was Joseph, a son of Jacob, who was sold in slavery by his brothers. Then he was Joshua, the successor to Moses who led the Israelites into Promised Land. Then he was Asaph, the chief musician and seer in King David’s court. Then he was Jeshua, a priest who helped re-establish the worship of God after the Israelites’ return from captivity in Babylon. Then he was Zend, father of the religious leader, Zoroaster. Then he was Jesus, the Christ.

There were also trance readings of Cayce which hinted that Hermes, a god of Ancient Egypt, may also have been an early incarnation of Jesus, as well as Buddha, the Enlightened One. But these personalities were not explicitly identified by Cayce.

Puzzling statements

If it is true that Jesus underwent several previous incarnations, then it can help explain some puzzling statements made by Jesus as mentioned in the Christian Bible.

For example, consider the following passage from John (8:56-58):

“Your Father Abraham rejoiced to see the day of my coming; he saw it and was glad.” Then the Jews said to him, “You are not even 50 years of age and you have seen Abraham?”

“Jesus said to them, ‘I am telling you the truth, before Abraham was, I am.’”

Why did he say that before Abraham was even born he was already there?

If what Cayce said was correct, that Jesus was at one time Melchizadeck who lived during the time of Abraham, then what Jesus said makes sense. He was indeed already there even before Abraham was born. He must have known his past incarnation as Melchizadeck.

I realize that many people in this conservative Christian country do not accept the concept of reincarnation, much less apply it to Jesus Christ. For the word “reincarnation” cannot be found in the Bible. But as Cayce clearly pointed out, “One can read reincarnation in the Bible and another can read it out again.”

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A deeper meaning of the tarot

2008-03-10T14:58:00.000-07:00

Interest in knowing one’s future has always been part of human nature. But such fore knowledge has always been elusive. And therefore man has either discovered or devised means of somehow predicting what is to come. And those who are able to see the future have always been regarded with awe, if not with fear, by certain people.

One of the earliest and most mysterious of these devices for telling the future is a deck of tarot cards, whose real origin or history is almost completely unknown. The earliest mention of it is in the 14th century, but other commentators consider it to be of more ancient origin.

I agree with those who say that knowing how the Tarot card originated and who discovered or invented it is not so important as knowing how to use it. In the same way that it is not so important to know who discovered fire or invented the wheel as knowing how to use it.

Interest in the tarot card waxes and wanes with time, like the phases of the moon. In times of great economic hardships and uncertainties, interest in knowing the future becomes almost an obsession for many people. In times of great prosperity and economic growth, interest in it wanes.

Now, people’s interest in knowing what the future will bring seems to be on the rise. Fortune tellers, clairvoyants and tarot card readers are in great demand. And I’ve been receiving calls if I knew any good card reader from even the most highly educated and intelligent people.

This is not surprising, for even heads of states, from King Saul of ancient Israel to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France and Abraham Lincoln of the United States have been known to consult seers and fortune tellers during their reign.

Most popular device

The tarot deck composed of 56 minor arcana and 22 major arcana cards (total of 78) has become the most popular fortune-telling device in the West. There are at least 300 different tarot cards and the number of new designs grows every year. But they all follow the same basic pattern and divinatory meaning.

Unfortunately, interest in the tarot card has been confined mainly to its uncanny ability to tell the future. But the tarot is much more than that. It is also a device to unravel the deepest mysteries of the universe. One author referred to the tarot cards as “78 steps to spiritual development.”

My interest in the tarot was triggered by a Russian mathematician and mystic named P.D. Ouspensky who wrote a very intriguing and thought-provoking commentary on the tarot in his book “A New Model of the Universe” which I read way back in 1976. P.D. Ouspensky was a follower of Gurdjieff, a man of great wisdom and mystery who developed a good following among the intellectuals and wealthy people of Europe at the turn of the 20th century.

According to Ouspensky, “Outwardly the tarot is a pack of cards but in its inner meaning, it is something altogether different. It is a ‘book’ of philosophical and psychological content, which can be read in many different ways.”

Being the mathematician that he was, Ouspensky could not help observing the relationship between the tarot and mathematics. He continues: “The system of the tarot, in its deeper, wider and more varied sense, stands in the same relation to metaphysics and mysticism as a system of notation, decimal or other, stands in relation to mathematics.”

According to Ouspensky, “In order to become acquainted with the tarot it is necessary to be familiar with the idea of the Cabala, Alchemy, Magic and Astrology.” And to really appreciate it, I might add, one has to have some basic knowledge of philosophy, psychology and even numerology.

Significance of tarot

Whoever discovered or invented the tarot, according to Ouspensky must be more than just a genius. For mere intelligence cannot fathom its real depth and full significance of its symbolism.

Quoting the occultist, Eliphas Levi, Ouspensky pointed out, “An imprisoned person, with no other book than the tarot, if he knew how to use it, could in a few years acquire universal knowledge and would be able to speak out on all subjects with unequalled learning and inexhaustible eloquence.”

Therefore we can say that those who are using the tarot merely as a fortune-telling device do not really understand its deeper meaning and metaphysical significance.

As Jan Woudhuysen in his book “Tarot Mania, The Definitive Guide to the Tarot,” pointed out: “There is much more to the tarot. In ordinary fortune telling we use the cards to give us an answer about the future. The esoteric system allows us to use the cards to answer many other types of questions, and what is more, to suggest new ones.

“The ability to make use of the inherent powers of intuition is the reward given to those using system and the ability to generate new questions the unique attribute.

“The tarot can be used to help you come to terms with yourself, or to understand other people. If we can understand ourselves better, we have an opportunity to grow. If we understand other people better, we can build up better relationships.”

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Desecration of mystical mountain

2008-03-03T14:55:00.000-08:00

Last week, I went up the mystical Mt. Banahaw in Dolores, Quezon, once again, after more than 10 years, in response to a call for help by a descendant of Agripino Lontok, the mountain’s first known mystic and hermit.

I was accompanied by two former students, a male architect who was a frequent visitor to the mountain and a female real estate broker who had never been there but was very curious about its legendary mysteries.

The original inhabitants of the mystical mountain are very concerned about three things: first, the plan of the barangay to collect fees from people going up the mountain; second, the construction of unauthorized and questionable structures; and third, the unabated and indiscriminate cutting down of plants, herbs and trees with medicinal and/or mystical significance.

Old residents and mystics led by Lontok’s granddaughter Estela Lontok Abela are trying to put up a foundation that will protect the mountain from human predators and to preserve its natural features as dictated by the spirits.

Lack of strong leadership

Their efforts at putting up a common or united front against the onslaught of modernization are stymied by lack of funds and strong leadership. Electrification has brought the noise of the lowlands into the mountain.

“We are not against electrification as such,” explained Estela and her followers. “But we are against putting electricity in the sacred places, because one can no longer pray and meditate in peace, which is what pilgrims come here for.” They said there are so many distractions that compete for one’s attention. Thus, the traditional tranquility of the place could hardly be found anymore.

The charging of a fee to anyone who goes up the mountain during Holy Week has given rise to suspicions of anomalies and corruption. “Who accounts for all the money collected? Where do they go?” These questions, according to some old residents, have not been answered adequately.

Mt. Banahaw has been declared a protected National Park and is an important watershed area. But the old residents do not see the place being protected as much as it should be.

Recently, there have been stepped-up military activities in the area reportedly due to the presence of New People’s Army rebels. But according to the residents, they have never encountered any NPA in the area. “Everybody who comes to Banahaw is here either to pray and meditate, cleanse his spirits, or get amulets and charms. But some have come to dig for treasures.”

Unless some drastic and concerted effort is done fast by the local and national government, the predictions of the spirits may still come true. A medium was told 15 years ago that, “when the noise of the city reaches the mountain, that will be the end of mystical Mt. Banahaw.”

Estela and her followers do not wish to see the prediction come true too soon.

I recall that in the early ’80s, when there were yet no concrete steps and railings leading to the Sta. Lucia Falls, we used to hold on to ropes and roots of trees to negotiate the steps in the descent to the canyon. During wet seasons, the muddy steps become slippery, but no accident ever occurred. But with the concrete steps and nylon ropes, I was told there was recently somebody who plunged to his death when the rope to which he was hanging on broke. “The spirits of the mountain must really be angry,” murmured our hosts.

The paths leading to St. Jacob’s Well and some mystical places are now cemented. This makes a lot of difference in one’s mood and attitude.

Whereas before, we had to be very careful and must have full concentration in negotiating the narrow and rocky paths, now we can do so with ease and even talk to our companions without danger.

The old mystics and hermits of Mt. Banahaw know they can’t stop the modernization of the mountain, but they are hoping this can be done without totally destroying the very thing that has made Mt. Banahaw the mystical and mysterious place that has attracted people to it in the first place.

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Her dreams always come true

2008-02-25T14:50:00.000-08:00

Glen Carillo wrote about strange experiences.

I met you... when you conducted a lecture. I forgot what [the] topic was but... you seemed to be answering all questions... my friends and I were at the back and I kept asking [them] questions regarding the topic. What surprised us was that... you would give the answers. Maybe it was just coincidence. But it still puzzles me.

This is not the first time somebody in my lecture or seminar experienced that. Years ago, one local government official in Cagayan de Oro said he asked five questions mentally and I answered them each time.

He said if it were only one or two questions, he would have considered it mere coincidence. But five was too much.

Rapport

I tune in to the audience and feel what they want to know. There is psychic or telepathic rapport between me and my audience. That is why such things happen.

Glen, an English teacher in Japan, added:

I’ve noticed almost all my dreams are happening, whether trivial or important.

For example, I dreamed my boyfriend called from the Philippines telling me he had a car accident. When I woke up, I called him up. He was fine. After a couple of days, he called in the middle of the night and said he had an accident. The conversation we had was exactly the way I dreamed it.

I ignored this. Then two months before coming home for a vacation, I dreamt I saw a former student at Robinsons Place and it was raining. Back home, the dream really happened. It was so freaky!

The oddest thing... is that my deceased father "talks" to me in my dreams. He would inform me about things happening in Manila. When I call home to confirm, what my dad said was really happening or had happened.

What is wrong with me? Is this normal? I am getting scared. If this is a gift, how can I improve on it? The disadvantage is that I am always tired when I wake up. My dreams [are only about] me and my loved ones, never other people.

What is happening to you is not an aberration or an abnormality. It only means you are a psychic without realizing it. Psychic ability manifests in various ways. In your case your precognitive, telepathic and clairvoyant abilities manifest in dreams.

Your dreams are called “precognitive” or “psychic” dreams. These are dreams that come true. According to one study, 12 percent of dreams of Americans are precognitive.

In the Philippines, the average would be probably double that, about 20-25 percent. This is because we are more open to psychic matters and therefore more sensitive.

In your case, your psychic dreams come close to 100 percent. In that sense, you do not belong to the average or “normal” population in terms of having psychic dreams.

What you have is a gift worth developing. I suggest you keep a dream journal. In time you will be able to use this ability positively, warning people of impending dangers or solving problems. Eventually, you will also be able to control your dreams.

Two auras

When I went to see an albularyo recently, he said he was seeing two auras in me. I could not understand what he was trying to say. Can you explain?

I cannot tell for sure what he meant. He might be referring to another entity or spirit guide who is with you. That was why he could see two auras. Spirit guides can sometimes be seen by clairvoyants as another aura because they are really beings of light.

I had students who saw my spirit guides as separate auras from my own.

Absorbing illnesses

Lastly, I seem to be absorbing the illnesses of my loved ones. My boyfriend complained that his wisdom tooth seemed about to explode. He told me this about midnight. Next morning, I was eating pancakes for breakfast when my wisdom tooth split open! I called up my boyfriend and asked him about his tooth. He told me the pain vanished.

On another occasion, my sister told me she had a severe migraine. After a couple of hours, I had a splitting migraine while my sister’s migraine just disappeared. Can you tell me what is happening to me?

You are absorbing the pain or illness of other people because you are too sensitive and are not protected. You are claiming their illness unconsciously. You should not.

You have to make a conscious effort to shield or detach yourself from the sickness of other people. You are an open channel.

You should learn to control or manage your psychic abilities. Learn more about this field. Ignorance is your biggest enemy.

Since you are working abroad, you cannot attend my seminars designed to teach scientifically how to develop and control gifts. The next best thing is to read my book “Exploring the Powers of Your Inner Mind” and the soon-to-be published revised edition of my first book, “Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man.”

The next Inner Mind Development seminar will be held March 1-2, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I Condominium, 106 Legazpi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Call 810-7245, 892-6806; fax 815-9890; or e-mail innerawareness_2005@yahoo.com.ph

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Two rare psychic abilities

2008-02-18T14:44:00.000-08:00

Pyrokinesis is such a rare phenomenon or psychic ability that one could hardly find any documented example of it.

If Tibetan monks can generate extreme heat with their bodies, enough to dry wet blankets, then it is theoretically possible to produce fire by psychic or mental power alone.

One of the first recorded cases of a person’s ability to produce fire was that of A.W. Underwood of Paw Paw, Michigan. Dr. L.C. Woodman wrote about him in the New York Sun issue of Dec. 1, 1882:

“He will take anybody’s handkerchief, hold it to his mouth, rub it vigorously, while breathing on it, and immediately it bursts into flames and burns until consumed.”

According to a report in the book “Phenomena, a Book of Wonders” by John Michell and Robert Rickard, “Underwood would strip, rinse his mouth out and set any cloth or paper alight by his breath.”

Underwood said his ability to create fire was most useful when he was on hunting trips. He could get his camp fire going within seconds without a match.

The Russian psychic Nelya Mikhailova (who later changed her name to Nina Kulagina) was also recorded to have produced fire spontaneously.

The Russian parapsychologist or psychotronics investigator Dr. Genady Sergeyev said, in an interview with the Sunday People on March 14, 1976, “She can draw energy somehow from all around her. Electrical instruments can prove it. On several occasions, the force rushing into her body left four-inch long burn marks on her arms and hands. I was with her once when her clothing caught fire from the energy flow—it literally flamed up. I helped put out the flames and saved some of the burned clothing as an exhibit.”

The book Phenomena also quoted a story in Man, Myth and Magic (1970-72). Kenneth Grant told the story of a male disciple of a female spiritual guru named Anandamayi Ma, who asked her to show him her powers by burning him to ashes.

“As she joined him under a sunshade, he felt a fierce heat beat down upon his head. It grew so intense he begged her to stop. Grant says the man’s umbrella was quite burned in parts.”

In the Philippines I have not yet come across anybody who can produce fire simply by mind power. Come to think of it, in these modern times, who needs such power when anyone can easily produce fire by striking a match?

‘Thoughtography’

Otherwise known as “thought photography,” this is the very rare mental ability to transfer the image of what is in one’s mind into a photographic film. In the West this psychic feat is associated only with one man, a Chicago bellhop named Ted Serios.

Dr. Jule Eisenbud, a Denver psychiatrist, investigated the reported powers of Serios over a number of years. He published a book entitled “The World of Ted Serios.”

How did he do it? Ted Serios would concentrate or focus his mind on a particular object, say a classic Volkswagen car. When he had the image firmly fixed in his mind, a Polaroid camera would be aimed at his head and, upon his signal, the shutter was pushed.

When the film was developed, a recognizable image of a Volkswagen would appear on the film.

Although Serios did not always produce good images on film, Dr. Eisenbud showed that on many occasions he succeeded remarkably well. Eisenbud concluded, according to psychic researcher and author Colin Wilson, that Serios’ powers were genuine.

Much earlier, in 1962, in Japan, Tomokishi Fukurai, a professor of psychology at Tokyo University, investigated and reported on the remarkable ability of a woman “who could transfer specific images, usually geometrical figures or Japanese characters onto unexposed film plates.”

No camera was used and the target plate was sandwiched between the others. The woman consistently succeeded in imprinting the middle plate with the designated images, leaving the center plates entirely clear.

Fukurai published the results of his investigation, which created a serious controversy and resulted in his losing his job at the university.

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Problem may have started in a previous life

2008-02-11T22:09:00.000-08:00

I sometimes read columns that give advice to people with love or relationship problems when I see an interesting question.

Most of the time, the advice is sound and helpful. Sometimes it is even sprinkled with a good dose of humor.

But I notice that the advisers assume this is the only lifetime the people involved have ever lived. And, because of this, the real cause or source of the problem is seldom, if ever, addressed properly.

For example, why does a person get so attracted to another when all reason goes against a relationship with him or her? Why cannot one leave the other despite suffering so much emotionally, mentally and even, at times, physically?

If we assume that we have lived only in this lifetime and have never lived before, we may not find the real answer to the deepest questions our souls are aching to know.

A woman who came to my seminar on Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation several years ago told me before the class began, that she drove her husband out of their house because she could no longer stand his womanizing. She would forgive him and then he would do it again.
So she finally decided to end the marriage once and for all. Her hatred toward her husband knew no bounds.

Role reversal

During the past-life hypnotic regression that I conducted during the seminar, she found out that, in a previous life, she was a man and was the husband of her present husband who, in that lifetime, was a woman. In other words, their roles were reversed.

During that previous lifetime, she was womanizing and cheating on her partner, now the husband she hated so much.

When she discovered this, she was shocked! She realized she was only getting in this lifetime a dose of her own medicine. In the language of the Bible, “She was reaping what she sowed.” She was only meeting her karma.

Karma is the law of universal justice or of cause and effect. It is the adjustment mechanism that refers our actions back to a past life that caused it.

Law of Karma

The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Compensation. It states: “Whatever we do will come back to us nothing less and nothing more.” There is no escaping the consequences of karma.

When this woman realized what she did to her husband in a previous life, she felt very sorry. Her hatred toward him completely vanished. Though she did not reconcile with him, her anger toward him was gone.

Emotional healing took place because of knowledge of her past deeds. She was only getting what she deserved.

This is what makes knowledge of past life and past relationship important. It makes us understand why certain people behave toward us and why we behave toward them in a certain way.

The behavior can either be positive or negative because both great hatred and great love bind us to another person.

Hated son

In another class, a woman discovered why she hated her second son. Unlike her other children, she would punish or castigate him at the slightest excuse. She felt she was being unfair to her second child but she could not understand her behavior or attitude toward him.

During the past-life regression, she saw herself as a slave in Africa centuries before. They had a slave master who was very cruel to them and who would whip or punish them for the slightest infraction. She hated the slave master so much that she cursed him and vowed never to forgive him.

This slave master became her son. She now had the opportunity either to continue hating him and exact revenge or to forgive. She chose to forgive. Her relationship with her son improved.

If you love somebody very much, you are bound to meet that person again in another lifetime. And, if you hate somebody very much, you are also bound to meet that person again in another lifetime.

So, if you do not want to meet your enemy again in your next life, better forgive him now and release him to his/her highest good. Otherwise, you are bound to meet that person again—and again, until you learn to forgive and release all things.

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Rationale behind the inner dance

2008-02-05T21:59:00.000-08:00

Part V

Several members of our discussion group reported moving or swaying their hands and body involuntarily even after they had gone home. And, always, the feeling was one of bliss and inner tranquility.

But how does one explain such a mysterious process? Even Pi Villaraza was at a loss to find a rational explanation for it.

Carlos Castañeda explains this in his book “Magical Passes.”

In Castañeda’s foreword, I found the explanation I was looking for.

The magical passes, according to Castañeda’s teacher, the Mexican Yaqui Indian mystic named Don Juan Matus, were not invented. They were discovered by the shamans of Don Juan’s lineage who lived in ancient times, while they were in shamanistic states of heightened awareness.

“The discovery of the magical passes was quite accidental. It began as very simple queries about the nature of an incredible sensation of well-being that those shamans experienced in those states of heightened awareness when they held certain bodily positions or when they moved their limbs in some specific manner. Their sensation of well-being had been so intense that their drive to repeat those movements in their normal awareness became the focus of all their endeavors.”

This is similar to what happens after experiencing the inner dance. People want to continue it.

Two states

There are two states of consciousness. The normal state of awareness is what Don Juan calls the “tonal” and the heightened state of awareness, the “nagual.” Psychologist Lawrence LeShan calls it “sensory” reality and “clairvoyant” reality.

Don Juan believes “there is an inherent amount of energy existing in each of us, an amount which is not subject to the onslaughts of outside forces for augmenting it or for decreasing it.”

Usually hidden from the ordinary person, such energy, these shamans believe, can be released and perceived through heightened states of awareness and by performing those magical passes or movements.

One can recall such a heightened state only by breaking down the rational barriers erected by western mental conditioning. Once we go past these rational mental barriers then we can truly perceive reality.

Don Juan calls that “seeing” as contrasted to merely “looking.”

When we only look, we see a person as an ordinary physical solid being. But when we “see,” we see him or her as “luminous fibers of light.”

I think Don Juan is referring here to seeing the human aura, because those fibers of lights are “egg-shaped,” which is the shape of the human aura when seen in its totality through clairvoyant vision.

Don Juan described “seeing” as “a state of heightened awareness in which the human body is capable of perceiving energy as a flow, a current, a wind-like vibration.”

During such magical passes or inner dance movements, one’s rational mind steps momentarily aside and he or she sees things from a totally different perspective.

He/she sees himself/herself as connected to everybody also through an energy flow and he/she gravitates toward those with similar vibration. And there is a redeployment of energy to where it is needed by the body.

Healing automatically happens, I believe, because during those altered states of consciousness one becomes whole, not fragmented as we ordinarily are because of the stresses of modern life and negativity in our mentality.

When we become whole and connected to the entire universe, the automatic effect is healing. What does healing really mean except to be “whole?”

And that is what the inner dance of the ancient Babaylan is ultimately all about.

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Inner dance explained

2008-01-28T13:55:00.000-08:00

PART IV

MANILA, Philippines—PI Villaraza told me I could find some explanation of what the inner dance was all about and what happened during the dance in the book of Carlos Castañeda, “Magical Passes.”

I am familiar with that book. I told Pi I bought that book in 1999 but never read it. Pi said, “Read it.”

And when I did, I was really amazed at what Castañeda had to say about “Magical Passes” that Don Juan taught him but were never mentioned in his previous books, most of which I had read, beginning with “The Teaching of Don Juan” that became an instant bestseller in the ’80s.
That a person stores within himself/herself tremendous power and energy has been known since ancient times. How to release and control that stored energy has preoccupied mystics, gurus and seers all over the world.

Different names

What caused some confusion is the fact that such energy is called by various names. In ancient China it was called chi, in Japan ki, in India prana.

Western researchers like Reichenback called it “odic force” and Wilhelm Reich, “orgone energy.”

Indian yoga philosophy teaches that at the base of our spine lies a powerful force or energy called kundalini which, if opened prematurely, can be dangerous.

The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus stated, “Everything is in a state of flux.” Nothing in the universe remains static or stationary.
Modern quantum physicists could not agree with him more because they have discovered that the fundamental stuff of the universe is energy, which is constantly in motion. Movement is the law governing the smallest particles of matter.

And the release or activation of that energy within us is the primary goal of the Babaylan Inner Dance. But what is activated is a feminine energy so it is gentle and safe.

Pi explained it this way:

“The word ‘dance’ may confuse people into thinking that the Inner Dance is a discipline. It is not. A discipline is something that can be studied and practiced regularly by a disciplined person. A discipline is an active cause that leads to a desired effect.

A mirror

“The Inner Dance is not a cause. It is an effect. Think of a cosmic mirror that reflects whatever kind of energy is within you. The acronym of the Inner Dance is ID, for identification. The Inner Dance mirrors who you really are outside of your masks and illusions.”

According to Pi, “People, for a long time, have been looking for an inner work that works, a way of connecting with our Creator” as sitting in meditation and memorizing prayers do not seem to do the job quite well.

He said the Inner Dance worked in several dimensions.

“First, it is a way of quieting the hyper-mental space of even the busiest workaholic.” Members of our spiritual discussion group, for example, are extremely busy businessmen and women.

“Second, it has miraculously healed some difficult ailments.” He cited two examples: a large cyst popped out of the wrist of a participant after he did the movements and a woman’s acute glaucoma was healed.
In our own group, several reported the complete disappearance of serious back pains, stiff neck and headaches.

“The third dimension,” according to Pi, “is the most important. The Inner Dance even clears a pathway to a higher state of energy awareness not in a conceptual way, but through a very real and often transformative experience in mind and body in a way that is difficult to doubt, especially once you notice your appendages moving without your conscious volition.”

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Like an Indonesian ritual

2008-01-21T13:54:00.000-08:00

Part III

MANILA, Philippines—Jimmy was only supposed to take pictures, but right at that time I was feeling Samuel in the room, Jimmy started making noises through his throat, I think? He just dropped his camera and lay back on the chair,” Celia recalled.

“But since my eyes were closed, I did not know what was happening to him because he was getting affected by what was happening. All I knew was that everything would be okay. Although I was aware, because I could hear Jimmy, I was too relaxed in my state and was being told it was okay.

“Everything was recorded in that video. Jimmy’s hands also started moving in a very smooth way, not like him. The energy can lead anyone present in the room.

“What an experience! My lower back pain was so relieved. (My) stiff neck was gone. After the session, I could still feel the high. My body was still moving in that same motion.

“Once it is opened, it will always be there. And so now, I am able to do this inner dance on my own. It feels so great! It is a form of meditation that keeps you very focused.”

Ritual

When I first heard of this inner dance and after talking to Pi Villaraza about it, the process reminded me of the so-called latihan, an Indonesian ritual that was not a ritual.

I first came across this process in the early ’60s. Latihan is the main ritual or process of an Indonesian esoteric practice called Subud (if I recall the name correctly).

During latihan, participants, who may be complete strangers to one another, go inside a room. They are not told what to do or what to expect. There is no leader to lead the group or explain what will happen.

For a few minutes they start to wonder what the whole thing is all about. After a while they experience some uneasiness at the whole thing. Still, nobody talks or gives any hint of what is going on.

Somehow the energy in the room changes and one by one the participants in the room move or sway or drop to the floor. Others begin to roll all over the floor but nobody bumps into each other. Pretty soon, everybody is moving in whichever way the energy moves him.

After the latihan, everybody feels very good. This is similar to what happens during the inner dance. Pi does not so much lead as activates one or few persons and the rest begin to follow on their own with their eyes closed.

The second time I experienced the inner dance was with our small spiritual discussion group called the Areopagus, which meets once a month. I invited the members last year to meet Pi and be introduced to the Inner Dance.

Surprisingly, a great majority of them attended although I hardly told them anything about it except that the process was a very powerful experience that Celia and I had experienced.

If I recall, there were about 13 or 14 of us who attended that special meeting. Since they are publicity-shy and very private individuals, I cannot reveal their identities.

Remarkable & special

Almost everybody in the group experienced something remarkable and special during that inner dance session with Pi. He started by making Celia dance until everybody started moving on their own, propelled by an inner energy stored in their bodies.

At this time, something happened to me that I had not experienced before. I went into a trance and fell from my chair to the floor. Then I went into a journey back in time from my present adult life to childhood and then birth. I saw myself inside the womb of my mother. I crouched and assumed a fetal position for a few minutes, then I went forward in time again until I reached my present age. I went back in time and returned.

It was an inner dance—an inner rebirth. It was a very powerful experience for me and I found myself teary-eyed. It was a cathartic experience I could not forget.

Each one experiences the inner dance in his or her unique way. And each experience is not necessarily the same. About two members of our group said they felt nothing special. Maybe the place had something to do with it, maybe the group had something to do with it and maybe even the phases of the moon had something to do with these different experiences.

I wanted to find out more about it.

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Demonstration of inner dance

2008-01-15T13:51:00.000-08:00

POMPET VILLARAZA, the person who rediscovered the lost healing inner dance of the babaylan, was told later that he had to share the inner dance with his fellow humans.

That's when he started teaching the inner dance to the fishermen in Palawan and later to the farmers in Cotabato, at the foot of mystic Mt. Apo where he decided to stay. Once in a while he came to Manila to conduct workshops.

He found a ready audience among people he did not expect would be interested in what he taught.

He realized that what he discovered was the lost healing inner dance of ancient Filipino medicine men and women, the Babaylan, healer priests and priestesses of pre-Hispanic Visayan tribes.

As he said, he found his body creating movements on its own without his voluntary will. It was being moved by a very strong invisible inner energy.

He found he could transfer this inner energy to other people, who moved involuntarily, many being healed while doing the inner dance.

Later he discovered they could also send energy to other people and heal them. Today he has a good number of followers or disciples wanting to help protect the environment and heal planet Earth.

Activating the inner dance
When I first met Pi (as Pompet is known in Mindanao), he demonstrated the activation of the inner dance to Celia, who readily cooperated. I was content just to take pictures of the whole process because I never danced in my life. In fact, I panicked every time somebody asked me to dance.

I just watched the process from a distance. Pi asked Celia to sit on a chair and relax while he did some fancy movements and body contortions behind her back. She did not see what he was doing but all of us who were there could see.

Aside from Rosanna Escudero, the hostess, there was her family friend named Mike who was also very interested in everything esoteric, mystical and strange.

Pi started moving closer to Celia while moving rhythmically and swaying in a strange way. He was making quick motions, both with his hands and feet without touching her.

Then I noticed that Celia was getting into a trance-like state. She began swaying her head ever so slowly to one side then the other. Then Pi lightly touched the top of her head with his index finger. One of her hands began to swing, then the other. This went on for a few minutes as I continued to take pictures.

Shortly after he touched her forehead, I felt the energy in the room change and I went into a trance. I sensed the presence of a tall male spirit, like a shadow.

My camera fell on the chair beside the big armrest but I did not mind. I could not move. I let out an eerie scream and started coughing. It was as if negative energy was coming out of me.

I felt Pi touch the top of my head and my head started moving. He helped my hand go up by lightly touching my elbow. My hand began swaying on its own. I felt funny doing these motions, but I just allowed the energy to flow through me. I could not resist it, or did not want to.

Healing touch
After a short while, I felt somebody sit on the right armrest of my chair and place his hand on my chest, as if healing me. I thought it was Pi. I found out later it was Celia. She stood up, swayed and moved closer to me until she sat on the armrest and placed her hand on my chest.

I have a heart problem but Pi did not know that. Celia knew that but she had no recollection of what she did. Later, she was surprised to see herself seated on the armrest of my chair.

She said she felt like I needed healing. Pi explained that really happened during the inner dance. One felt like going to a person in the crowd and heal that person with no words being spoken. It was automatic. No one directed the movement.

This was how Celia described her experience to her cousin Billy, who was abroad: "What a super experience for us! We went to the house of Rosanna who had invited Jimmy to meet up with Pi Villaraza. He is the one doing this inner dance thing. Through the energies, he is able to tap something inside of you and make you move in a very healing and relaxing way. Each person moves in a different way. I was strangely sensual in my dance. Rosanna took a video of it. Nakakahiya nga. But I couldn't help my movements. Jimmy was supposed to be the one, but he just wanted to observe, so I was suddenly his 'guinea pig.'

"Anyway, he let me close my eyes just seated on a chair in the middle of the room. Then slowly I felt my head turning around. It was like some string was pulling my head toward a certain direction and all I did was follow whatever it was. My hands were also moving and later flowing. My back was moving, too. He only touched some points in my body, like the crown and some parts in the arm or back. It caused my arms to just lift up as if a magnet was pulling it in a very warm relaxing manner.

"While in that state, I was still conscious, wondering what this was that was making me move. It's just that the feeling was so nice that I just moved according to that energy.

"In the beginning of the session, I invoked Sam (her spirit guide) to be with me for protection, as I did not know what I was going to be doing. Then, in the middle of the session, I felt his strong presence and I felt better that he was with me in whatever I was doing."

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Ancient ‘babaylan’ healing dance rediscovered

2008-01-07T13:48:00.000-08:00

Part I

MANILA, Philippines—Babaylan is a Visayan term that means medicine man or woman, in other words, a shaman.

For American Indian and other cultures, a shaman is a respected member of a tribe who is not only a healer and priest but also an intermediary or channel between the living and the departed.

It was only after reading the article of Jeffrey Tupas in the Sept. 16, 2007, issue of Philippine Daily Inquirer that I learned of “inner dance” in connection with the babaylan’s healing practices.

I found the article very interesting but rather sketchy and incomplete. It left many questions unanswered. I was told Gilda Cordero-Fernando wrote earlier a much longer article on the same subject that unfortunately I had not read.

I was still looking for Gilda’s article when I received a call from Rosanna Escudero (a natural catalyst and magnet for esoteric things) that Pompet Villaraza, the person who rediscovered the lost healing inner dance of the babaylan, would be a guest in her condominium in San Juan. She asked if I wanted to meet him. I jumped at the opportunity. I sent text messages to several friends who, I thought, would be interested in the subject but only Celia (not her real name), a real estate broker and educator, made it.

Accidental

The story of how Pompet accidentally rediscovered the lost inner dance of the ancient Filipino babaylan was fascinating. It reminded me of the story of how Carlos Castañeda, an anthropologist at the University of California in Los Angeles, met the Mexican Yaqui Indian mystic and sorcerer Juan Matus, who became his teacher.

Like Castañeda, Villaraza was in California when, in 2002, he stumbled on a mysterious Mexican in San Gabriel mountain, who taught him everything he knew about working with the subtle energy in the human body.

The mysterious Mexican named Francisco knew everything about Villaraza’s background and, like Juan Matus, actually anticipated his ward’s coming.

Villaraza followed the Mexican wherever he went until, after walking for God knows how long, Francisco collapsed. How long he remained unconscious, Villaraza could not tell. But afterward, he was a changed person.

“For what felt like two hours (it could have been no more than 30 long minutes), I was moved to dance in a way I didn’t think was humanly possible,” Villaraza said.

“I felt powerful surges of electricity [and] I was trying to contain them, but the only way I could keep from exploding—I really thought then I would combust—was to keep screaming. I cannot describe the actual movement in words. I was doing somersaults, something I cannot do, as I twirled this stick that lay on the sand. And I found an intricate and powerful stick-fighting technique which, I was stunned to find, I had unknowingly mastered.

“I remember praying in thankfulness for experiencing an inner gracefulness... And when it was over, the perfect moment collapsed into this dead-tired 29-year-old man spread-eagled on the beach, staring at a clear blue sky that was as empty as the conscious mind.”

Time to come home

Then suddenly a spirit of a woman appeared and told him it was time for him to return to his native country. So he did as he was told.

He came back to the Philippines to look for a place the woman described to him. He found it in a small, uninhabited beach called Kalipay on an island in Palawan. He stayed there alone for two years. He abandoned his work, his family, his friends and everything else about the modern world.

He ate only what he could find on the island, mostly coconut, bananas and other fruits. He became as lean as the coconut trunk he learned to climb to survive.

He was told by his spirit guide to use the name Pi in Mindanao. But in Palawan he was known as Juan Lima.

What happened to him in Kalipay Beach he could not forget. For three nights he could not sleep. Then a voice spoke to him and said, “The Mother and I are now One.”

This is how Pi Villaraza described what happened after that.

“In an instant, I was a human puppet and strings were dragging me from the first-floor hammock to the second floor of my Robinson Crusoe-inspired beach house. Without my conscious say-so, I was lying on the mat and my throat began to make guttural noises, finally settling into a primal yet rhythmically enchanting melody.

“The voice again whispered, ’It began in Africa.’ After about 15 minutes of these chanting sounds, simultaneously my hands ended up automatically making percussive movements on my lap, chest, hips and the bamboo floor mats. My upper body swung upwards and I found myself facing the leaves of the bamboo shoots directly bent over my ‘Flower-of-Life’ vegetable garden.

“I wasn’t possessed by some external force. That much was crystal clear. This was the first time it happened to me. A year before this, I fasted on a ‘tree bed’ I made in central Palawan for a week-and-a-half and, for the duration, my hands kept twirling over my seven energy centers as if directed by an inner force I knew was coming from within.”

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The Law of Causality

2008-01-01T02:07:00.000-08:00

Another hidden law that governs our lives, the Law of Causality states that “everything has a cause.”

Put another way, “There is no such thing as an accident or coincidence.”

At first glance, it is difficult to accept this law from a purely logical standpoint because all of us must have experienced or witnessed coincidences before.

Things do happen sometimes for no apparent reason, or without any known cause. That is why we call them coincidences or accidents.

Let me cite several examples of extraordinary coincidences that have been documented:

1. A bouncing baby. “Joseph Figlock was walking down a street in Detroit in the 1930s when a baby fell on him from a high window. A year later the same baby fell on him again from the same window. Figlock and the baby both survived.” (This was related by Ms Arthur Figlock of Michigan).

2. Double jeopardy. “Jabez Spicer, of Leyden, Massachusetts, was killed by two bullets in the attack on the federal arsenal at Springfield on Jan. 25, 1787, during Shay’s Rebellion. At that time, he was wearing the same coat his brother Daniel had been wearing when he, too, was killed by two bullets on March 5, 1784.

“The bullets that killed Jabez Spicer passed through the holes made by the bullets that had killed his brother Daniel three years earlier.”

3. The bullet that found its mark. “In 1883 Henry Ziegland, of Honey Grove, Texas, jilted his sweetheart, who then killed herself. Her brother tried to avenge her by shooting Ziegland, but the bullet only grazed his face and buried itself in a tree. The brother, believing that he had killed Ziegland, then took his own life.

“In 1913 Ziegland was cutting down the tree with the bullet in it. It was a difficult job, so he used dynamite. The explosion sent the old bullet through Ziegland’s head and killed him.”

“Coincidences are baffling,” according to the Reader’s Digest book on mysteries, “because they seem to represent order arising by chance. They resemble the results of an orderly causal process, but they do not have a causal connection that fits our experience. They violate our notions of cause and effect.”

The great Swiss psychologist Carl G. Jung had long been fascinated by the occurrence of coincidences and even invented a term for it: synchronicity.

As defined by Jung, it is the “simultaneous occurrence of two unrelated but meaningful events.”

In his treatise “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle,” Jung related an extraordinary coincidence that enabled him to break the psychological resistance of a difficult patient.

“A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping. I turned around and saw a flying insect knocking against the window pane from the outside. I opened the window and caught the creature in the air as it flew in. It was the nearest analogy to a golden scarab that one finds in our latitudes, a scarabeid beetle, the common rose-chafer (cetonia aurata), which contrary to its usual habits had evidently felt an urge to get into a dark room at this particular moment.”

Why do coincidences happen if we say that everything has a cause?

It is possible that coincidences are simply two points of a long series of causal connections that we do not see. We see only the beginning and the end, but not the psychic or unconscious connections between them.

There must be some mind at work that put those seemingly noncausal events together. In other words, there must be a cause behind these so-called coincidental events. That is what the Law of Causality says.

If we understand these four hidden or secret laws of nature, we will understand why certain things happen the way they do.

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Law of Compensation

2007-12-25T02:00:00.000-08:00

This is another hidden law of nature not mentioned in “The Secret.”

This law states, “Whatever you do will come back to you, nothing less, nothing more.” It is also known by various names, such as The Law of Cause and Effect, or Karma, or Law of Universal Justice.

The American psychic and prophet, Edgar Cayce, put it simply as “meeting yourself.”

This law is absolute, perfect, objective and resolute. It works whether we are aware of it or not, whether we like it or not. It is a natural law, just as the law of gravity is.

Karma, by which this hidden law is known in the East, is a Sanskrit word that means action. Usually, when we talk of action we refer to physical action. But in the case of karma action can also refer to mental actions, such as “desires, choices and intentions.”

Karma is more strict than human or man-made laws. If I intend or desire to kill you, for example, even if I do not actually do it, I have already incurred a karmic debt to you that I must pay in the future.

It matters not that I did not act on it. The harm has already been done on the spiritual or mental level. And that must be compensated or paid for.

The reason for this is that everything begins with the mind. Nothing exists on the physical plane that did not originate on the mental plane. Therefore, the mental is as real as the physical.

Perhaps this explains the biblical passage in which Jesus Christ said: “It is written, ‘Thou shall not commit adultery,’ but I say unto you: whoever looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

Mental action can bring about karmic consequences, as much as physical action does.

A mother of four came to my class on Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation, where I conduct two hypnotic regressions to help participants remember their past lives.

This woman could not understand why she hated her second son. She would punish him for the slightest fault or infraction but not the others who did a similar offense. She was feeling guilty about her attitude toward the boy.

During regression, she found herself in a previous life in Africa as a slave. The slaves had a master who was very cruel and would whip or punish them for the slightest excuse.

She hated that cruel slave master so much that she cursed him and said she would always hate him and never forgive him. Now this slave master came as her son. She now has the opportunity to exact her revenge against him or to forgive what he did to her.

She chose to forgive and soon, the relationship with her second son improved so much. Had she chosen to continue her hatred the cycle would continue.

Karma is the immutable law that refers effects back to their rightful causes. Everything comes back to its source. It has been said by a physicist that if you throw a stone up in the sky and if there is nothing to obstruct its path, it will eventually come back to your hand where it originated. That is the law of karma at work.

Everything we do will come back to us in full measure, nothing less and nothing more.

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The power of positive affirmation

2007-12-18T01:50:00.000-08:00

This story was told to me by the wife of the man involved.

Jose was a lowly clerk in a government agency in Quezon City. His salary was barely enough to support his wife, but Jose was consumed by a desire to own a Canon SLR 35mm still camera with a zoom.

Its cost was way beyond his meager income. Digital cameras were not yet in vogue at that time.

So he contented himself by looking at the Canon camera in a store near his office. Every day, after office hours, he would go to that shop and just stare at the camera displayed there.

He imagined owning the camera and using it with delight. Every day he never failed to stop by the shop just to look at the camera of his dream. He would just stand in front of the glass display case for a few minutes and leave quietly.

I cannot recall how many weeks he did that routine.

A surprise

Then, one evening, a cousin who had just arrived from Saudi Arabia where he was an overseas Filipino worker telephoned.

“Pinsan!” the cousin exclaimed. “I bought you something from Saudi. I hope you like it.”

“What is it?” Jose eagerly asked.

“Well, I bought a camera for you.”

“What kind of camera?”

“It’s a Canon SLR 35mm camera with a zoom!”

Jose almost fainted. He never told his cousin he had been dreaming of such a camera for a long time but could not afford it. His strong desire, affirmation, visualization and intention to own that camera became a reality in no time at all!

Professional gamblers, as well as successful businessmen, are very much aware of the power of positive affirmation or suggestion. When betting on a number or launching a new project they do not let a negative thought enter their minds. They believe it is bad luck to think of negative things.

We Filipinos have an intuitive knowledge of the power of thought. If somebody during a trip says, “Be careful or we may have an accident,” another is likely to exclaim, “Don’t say that. It might come true!”

Scientific proof

Scientific studies conducted in the west proved the power of intention or positive affirmation. It has been scientifically shown for example that intention can retard the hatching of a fruit fly’s larvae and affect the alkalinity of water.

A Japanese researcher named Masaru Emoto of Yokohama has shown, after years of meticulous experiments, that one’s intention and emotion can affect the molecular structure of water crystals.
He cursed a container of water and froze it. Under a microscope, he saw the water crystals scattered and in disarray. When he expressed loving thoughts before the water, the molecular structure became harmonious and beautiful.

The experiment was repeated over a long period of time using different emotions. Sometimes, a piece of paper with words written on it was left on the water. The results were similar. It seems there is an innate intelligence in water and in nature in general.

In my Inner Mind Development Institute, I have the following motto: “The mind knows no limits aside from those it accepts.”

This is another way of stating the Law of Affirmation or Intention. We are the ones that put limits to what we can do or accomplish. Remove the mental limitations and we can accomplish anything we want.

“This world,” as Buddhist masters have been telling us, “is largely our own mental creation.” We create our own reality. We are, in a very real and literal sense, co-creators with God.

Ancient mystics of the East have been saying this for thousands of years. And now modern western particle physicists are saying the same thing.

It is because of the tremendous power of the human mind that the Bible forbids us to curse anyone, because a curse can result in real physical injury or harm to others.

A curse is similar to a spell inflicted on a victim. It brings serious karmic consequences to the perpetrator. That is why we are forbidden to curse anyone. If we do this, we suffer somehow a karmic debt for which we have to pay later in life.

I have received letters from readers telling me that whenever they wished for something, they always got it. They wondered why that was so. That is due to the operation of the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion, one of the secret laws of nature.

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Power of suggestion

2007-12-11T22:45:00.000-08:00

In my seminars, I have summarized the Law of Attraction in the following simple steps:

1. Be sure you know what it is you really want. What is your goal specifically?

2. You must slow down your brain waves to at least the alpha level (from 7 to 14 cycles per second on the EEG or electro-encephalogram). But you do not need an EEG machine to know that. All you have to do is go into a relaxed, passive meditative state.

3. Once you have reached the alpha state, visualize or form an image of your goal using all your five senses. To make things happen, you must engage also the right hemisphere of your brain that only understands pictures, images and symbols.

Your left brain is your analytical, logical and critical side. The right brain is your intuitive and imaginative brain.

4. You must mentally program or visualize your goal at least twice a day, once in the morning after waking up, and once before going to sleep.

You must visualize your goal as already achieved and not how you are going to achieve it.

5. To make your brain programming successful, there are three important factors you must keep in mind. You must have a strong desire for your goal, you must believe in the method or programming you are doing and you must expect the result to happen without any doubt at all.

If doubt enters your mind, you will not achieve your goal because you are putting a monkey wrench to its achievement.

The Law of Affirmation

Closely related to the Law of Attraction is the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion. This law states that whatever we affirm or suggest becomes a physical reality.

Rhonda Byrne, in her book “The Secret,” discusses affirmation or suggestion or intention as part of the Law of Attraction but it is really a separate law in itself.

The Law of Attraction states that “like attracts like.” We do not have to affirm it verbally for it to work. We attract what we are, whether we say it or not. It is like the theory of vibrations, similar energies or vibrations attract themselves to one another.
In a social setting we say, “Birds of the same feather flock together.” I recall here the true and documented case of an American woman who married and divorced five different men, all of whom turned out to be drunkards. She could not understand why she attracted this type of men.

Positive affirmation or suggestion, however, is one of the keys to the achievement of any goal we have. Realize that thoughts are things, thoughts have energy, thoughts have power.

In the 18th century, a French pharmacist turned healer, Emile Coué, became famous because of his discovery of the power of positive suggestion or affirmation.

Parisian medical doctors considered Coué a quack. But when terribly ill patients started getting healed after visiting his clinic, they sent spies to find out how he cured the patients.

The spies reported that, whatever illness the patient had, Coué asked him to repeat to himself the following statement 16 times a day: “Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.” And they indeed got better.

That was long before Anton Mesmer discovered what became known as “mesmerism” and “later hypnosis.” And, long before psychology was established as a science, Coué already knew the tremendous power of suggestion in helping people heal themselves.

Coué told the story of an asthmatic who went to another town and stayed in a hotel he had never been to before. That evening, he felt the start of an asthma attack. Usually, when that happened, all he had to do was open a window and breathe fresh air.

But he was in a strange place. It was dark and he did not remember where the light switch was. In desperation, he began walking in the dark touching all the walls in search of a window.
When he touched a glassy area, which he assumed was the window, he hurled a chair and broke it. He breathed deeply and his asthma subsided, enough for him to go back to sleep.

The next morning he looked at what he broke. It was an old grandfather clock. His hotel room did not have a window. The thought of breathing fresh air stopped what could have been a fatal asthma attack.

Such is the power of suggestion or affirmation!

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Beyond the secret Law of Attraction

2007-12-04T00:39:00.000-08:00

Everyone wants to be in on a secret, no matter what it is. We want to feel we are in the know. We do not want to feel left out.

And that’s how Rhonda Byrne, an Australian divorcee and former television producer, became a multimillionaire almost overnight. Her life was in shambles until she wrote a book about a long-known principle or philosophy she called “The Secret.”

According to a Newsweek report, the book sold 1.5 million while the DVD version 1.7 million copies in three months. It became a phenomenal bestseller in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.

Even in the Philippines, where the average population is not known to be avid book readers, “The Secret” did quite well. People bought copies for themselves and as gifts to friends and relatives.

Is the book really worth its price, containing substantial information, or is it just a product of good marketing strategy?

Going over the book that a friend gave me, I found nothing that is really new or that I did not know before. The book talks mainly about the Law of Attraction, which is only one of the four hidden laws of nature.

Calling it “The Secret” was a stroke of marketing genius. And showing people how the secret works in daily life insured its success with a reading public always hungry for something new and practical.

The following passage in the book’s foreword proved irresistible:

“A year ago, my life had collapsed around me. I’d worked myself into exhaustion, my father died suddenly, and my relationship with my colleagues and loved ones were in turmoil. Little did I know at the time, out of my greatest despair was to come the greatest gift.

“I’d been given a glimpse of a Great Secret—The Secret to life. The glimpse came in a hundred-year-old book, given to me by my daughter (“The Science of Getting Rich” written by Wallace Wattles in 1910). I began tracing The Secret back through history. I couldn’t believe all the people who knew this. They were the greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Emerson, Edison, Einstein.

“Incredulous, I asked, ‘why doesn’t everyone know this?’ A burning desire to share The Secret with the world consumed me, and I began searching for people alive today who knew The Secret.

“One by one they emerge. I became a magnet: as I began to search, one great living master after another was drawn to me. In a few short weeks I had traced The Secret back through the centuries and I had discovered the modern practitioners of The Secret.”

The Secret that Byrne talks about in the entire book is the Law of Attraction, which she describes this way:

“If you can think about what you want in your mind and make that your dominant thought, you will bring it into your life.”

According to her, “People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do not allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds. Their predominant thoughts are of wealth. They only know wealth, and nothing else exists in their minds. Whether they are aware of it or not, their predominant thoughts of wealth are what brought wealth to them. It is the law of attraction in action.”

The Law of Attraction works in all aspects of our life, including our spiritual life.

Unfortunately, the book focuses mainly on attracting riches and wealth, which is what most people want to hear about and that is why the book has become so successful. Who does not want to be rich?

But there are other equally important hidden laws of nature that the book fails to mention or emphasize such as the Law of Affirmation or Suggestion, the Law of Compensation and the Law of Causality.Nevertheless, I must credit Byrne and congratulate her for bringing to a large number of people around the world the tremendous powers of human thought and emotion.
I have been teaching this in my inner-mind development seminars in the Philippines for the last 25 years. With her book, the same teaching has reached a wider audience.

In my seminar, I define the Law of Attraction as “like attracts like.” We attract what we are, or what we think we are. If you want to be loved, you must be lovable; if you want to be happy, you must think of happiness; if you want to be prosperous, you must think of prosperity.
That is exactly what Byrne is saying in “The Secret.”

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Is Mariang Makiling myth or fact?

2007-11-27T00:33:00.000-08:00

Alfredo Salcedo Jr., a young doctor from Iloilo City and a regular reader of this column, sent several questions that might be of interest to other readers as well.

He said, since childhood, he had been interested in paranormal phenomena and even tried to discover them on his own.

Here are Dr. Salcedo’s questions and my replies:

1. Is Mariang Makiling true? Have you ever encountered her? What is her nature?

According to Philippine folk beliefs, there are three diwata or enchanted beings, all named Maria, living in sacred mountains. They are Mariang Makiling in Mt. Makiling, Mariang Sinukuan in Mt. Arayat and Mariang Banahaw in Mt. Banahaw.

They are considered mythical and legendary creatures that do not have real existence.

However, some mystics and mediums in Mt. Banahaw told me the three Marias were real and had appeared to those they wanted to see them.I do not know personally if these three are true or not. But I do not doubt the existence of such enchanted beings as fairies or diwata. They are part of the elemental kingdom or nature spirits.

2. If the Mayan Calendar’s prediction is true (that the present Earth cycle will end at midnight of Dec. 11, 2012), what can we do to prepare (religiously, morally or practically) for that event?

There is actually not much time for humankind to prepare, is there? That is only five short years from now. There is really nothing we can do about the changes that will occur.

But we can prepare ourselves by raising our consciousness or developing our sensitivity to psychic and spiritual forces. According to information from some benign entities, those who have raised their levels of awareness or clairvoyance will know what to do and where to go before the cycle ends, which is always preceded by natural calamities and disasters.

It is only very recently that more people on Earth are beginning to be aware of and doing something about the world’s environmental and ecological problems. For so long, warning signs were ignored by almost all governments.

Each of us must do our part to help reduce the pollution we caused. We cannot rely on any outside agency to do this for us.

3. Have you heard about hemi-sync? Is that effective? In what way?

Yes, I have heard about it and I even have two tapes of hemi-sync. As far as I know, this was developed by the late American engineer Robert Monroe of the Monroe Institute.

Hemi-sync is short for hemispheric synchronization. It consists of scientifically made sounds aimed at synchronizing the brain waves of the left and right hemispheres of our neocortex to achieve quickly the alpha or theta state.

Its effectiveness depends on individual sensitivity and inclinations. For some it is effective. They reach the alpha state by listening to it using an earphone. Separate but synchronized sounds are heard in each ear as one listens.

However, one can also reach the alpha state easily even without such a device by simply practicing the meditative technique I teach in my courses.

4. During my internship, I wondered why I got gloomier (and sicker) when on duty at the pediatric ward than at the medical ward. Are there more negative energies at the pediatric ward?

Perhaps in the hospital where you did your internship, yes, but we cannot generalize. Some people are just sensitive to energies and others are not. We must look at the pediatric ward to tell what was causing your negative reaction.

In any big hospital, I read that there were rooms where more patients died than at other rooms or wards. Hospital administrations should be concerned if they notice such a pattern.

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Mystics and quantum physicists speak the same language

2007-11-20T20:21:00.000-08:00

MANILA, Philippines—Quantum physicists have discovered to their amazement that, in the sub-atomic world, particles behave in very “unscientific and unpredictable” ways.

For example:

1. An observer watching a particle affects the way it behaves. It can appear as a particle (with a mass, static and at a specific location in space) or as a wave (nonlocal and dynamic).

2. A particle can affect the action or behavior of another at a distance.

3. A particle can revolve in an orbit at one time then suddenly disappear and appear in another.

4. Cause may occur at the same time as, not before, an effect.

5. The exact location of a particle cannot be pinpointed, only the probability.

6. A fourth dimension known as space-time exists.

7. Everything is constantly in a state of motion, never static. Therefore, everything is really energy.

In his best-selling book “The Dancing Wu Li Masters,” Gary Zukav says, “The new physics, quantum mechanics, tells us clearly that it is not possible to observe reality without changing it.”

Two ways of seeing

Psychologist Dr. Lawrence LeShan says there are two ways of looking at the world. The first he calls sensory reality, the way most of us see it; the other is clairvoyant reality, how mystics and visionaries see the world. These are not opposite but complementary ways.

The Mexican Yaqui Indian mystic Don Juan Matus, who called himself a brujo or sorcerer in the books by anthropologist Carlos Castañeda, called the two ways of looking at the world tonal and nagual.

Tonal is the way ordinary people see the world, while Nagual is the way sorcerers or mystics see it, i.e. from an inner or esoteric perspective.

It is difficult for mystics to describe the world they see to ordinary people who see it only from the macro-level, the tonal.

The world the mystic sees is indescribable or difficult to verbalize. The world of particle physics that quantum physicists see is indescribable from the Newtonian stand point. Nor can it be understood rationally and scientifically.

The same is true with clairvoyant vision. It defies all known laws of physical vision.

Quantum physics has definitely and clearly shown that there is no such thing as objective reality. Buddhists and other Eastern mystics have been telling us for thousands of years the same thing, that everything is maya or illusion.

New allies

Psychics and the world of paranormal phenomena have at last found an ally in modern or quantum physicists. They seem to be talking the same language when describing the world. There cannot be any contradiction because truth is one and, if both are telling the truth, both should be correct.
The following statements were made either by a physicist (scientist) or by a mystic (philosopher). They were quoted side by side by psychologist Dr. Lawrence LeShan in his book “The Medium, The Mystic and the Physicist” to show that their language, when describing the ultimate or fundamental nature of physical reality or the universe, was almost indistinguishable from each other:

1. “No doubt we should not speak of seeing, but instead of seen and seer, speak boldly of a simple unity. For in this seeing we neither distinguish nor are there, too.” (Plotinus, ancient Greek philosopher)
2. “When we thought we were studying the external world, our data were still our observations. The world was an inference from them.” (Dingle, physicist)
3. “ ...The reason why our sentiment, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere in the world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that word picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as part of it.” (Schrödinger, physicist)
4. “ ...All phenomena and their development are simply manifestations of mind, all causes and effects, from great universes to the fire dust only seen in the sunlight, come into apparent existence only by means of the discriminating mind. Even open space is not nothingness.” (Suringama Sutra, mystic)
5. “Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world; all knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends there. Propositions arrived at by purely logical means are completely empty of reality.” (Einstein, physicist)
6. “As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.” (Einstein, physicist)
7. “Vaccha asked the Buddha: Do you hold that the soul of the saint exists after death?

“I do not hold that the soul of the saint exists after death.”

“Do you hold that the soul of the saint does not exist after death?

“I do not hold that the soul of the saint does not exist after death.”

“Where is the saint reborn?

“To say that he is not reborn would not fit the case.” (Majihima—Nikaya Sutra, mystic)
8. “If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say no; if we ask whether the electron’s position changes with time, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say ‘no’; if we ask whether it is in motion we must say ‘no.’” (J.R. Oppenheimer, physicist)

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Why quantum physicists talk like mystics

2007-11-13T04:30:00.000-08:00

One of the most difficult problems confronting psychics, mystics, visionaries or clairvoyants, is how to make what they see real to ordinary people who do not and cannot see it the same way they do.

And since they are in the minority, their views are often ignored or disregarded by the majority, which constitutes the mainstream opinion.

What psychics and mystics see as the real nature of the physical universe lies outside the purview of classical or orthodox science. And, because of this, it is considered to be unreal or non-existent.
To ordinary people, anyone who insists that there are such things as psychic or paranormal powers or phenomena must surely be hallucinating or imagining things.

This view prevails among the great majority of western scientists, despite so many incontrovertible proofs presented and reliable experiments conducted by reputable scientists showing that such things do exist.

This negative attitude may soon change. Psychics and mystics have found an unexpected ally within the ranks of a relatively new scientific field called by various names like quantum mechanics, modern physics, particle physics and, lately, quantum physics.

Indistinguishable

In fact, the way pioneers of quantum physics describe the ultimate nature of physical reality is often indistinguishable from the way mystics talk about it.
This uncanny and incredible parallelism in the thinking of both mystics and modern physicists was not lost on several keen observers of recent developments in science.

Four major and exciting books have come out in the last 15 years showing such parallelism. These are:

1. “The Dancing Wu Li Masters, An overview of Modern Physics” by well-known writer Gary Zukav

2. “The Tao of Physics” by physicist Fritjof Capra

3. “The Medium, the Mystic and the Physicist (Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal)” by psychologist Dr. Lawrence LeShan

4. “Mysticism and the New Physics” by science writer and researcher Michael Talbot

What has come out of the studies of quantum physicists is that it has rendered Newtonian physics and Euclidean geometry, which have been the bases of modern science for centuries, inapplicable when it comes to the sub-atomic particles of matter.

No longer the same

Matter can no longer be looked at merely from the way Isaac Newton and classical physics have always looked at it.

Classical physical science makes the following assumptions about the world:

1. There is an objective reality that lies outside of us, i.e. separate from us.
2. This reality is absolute, fixed and stable and can be observed, measured, weighed and analyzed.
3. It stays at a certain locus that can be pinpointed.
4. It exists either in the present, past or future.
5. Its activities or characteristics are governed by the deterministic laws of physics established by Newton.
6. The cause always precedes the effect, etc.

No one has ever questioned these assumptions that are regarded as true and absolute, until Albert Einstein came along and pointed out that everything was relative, including the nature of physical reality.
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity shattered the very foundations on which classical physics was built. It laid the groundwork for the development of the new or modern physics now referred to as quantum physics.

Quantum physics deals with the nature, behavior and characteristics of the smallest, sub-atomic particles of matter.

In this unseen world of particle physics, sacred laws of Newtonian physics no longer apply. In fact, the behavior of the smallest particles of matter defies all previously known and accepted laws of physics.

That is why it took these new physicists a long time to realize and accept what they were seeing in their laboratories and in their mathematical formulations.

In essence, what governs the behavior of the smallest particles of matter is human consciousness. This led the great modern physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington to declare that the “stuff of the universe is mind stuff.”

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Hearing, smelling and feeling psychic information

2007-11-06T01:40:00.000-08:00

Clairaudience is the mental ability to hear voices or conversations from afar. This happens rarely and when it does, it is almost always spontaneous or involuntary. One just hears a conversation without the concerned parties anywhere near the individual.

This happened to an officemate of mine way back in the early ’60s. I was working in an installment financing firm located along a very busy and noisy street.

During lunch break, I was still in the office finishing some work. My officemate, named Greg, was looking out the window facing the street. When he looked down from the sixth-floor windowpane, he saw two of our female co-employees talking on the sidewalk under a tree. But to his surprise he could hear very clearly what they were talking about.

When the two female employees went up to report for work, Greg told them, “I heard what you were talking about down there.”

“Oh yeah?” said Cora, one of the female employees. “What did you hear me say?”

“Well,” replied Greg, “you were telling Jane that you had just broken up with your boyfriend after a big quarrel last night!”

Cora was shocked, because that was exactly what she had told Jane a while ago.

How did Greg hear a conversation six floors down with the windows closed? Here is an example of a spontaneous psychic connection that took place between Greg and the two women. He tuned in to them without intending to, because his eyes were focused on them while in a relaxed state of mind.

Mothers develop strong psychic connection with their small children. They can hear them crying even when far away. Emotional closeness can bring about psychic attunement or connection.

Clairolfaction

Clairolfaction is a psychic or mental ability to smell psychic information rather than see, feel or hear it. I never would have known of such a rare psychic power were it not for the fact that I had a student who discovered precisely such an ability in my class on ESP and Intuition Development.

Oscar (not his real name) was a young man in his late 20s when he came to my class. He did not think he had any psychic power at all. In fact, he was getting disappointed with the ESP exercises during the seminar.

Then it dawned on him that the psychic information he was getting was from his sense of smell and not from his sense of sight, hearing or touch. He could smell psychic information.

For example, when I gave the class an exercise on psychic diagnosis, he could smell something bad on the head of his partner, although they were not really sitting that close to each other. He found out later she was suffering from a severe headache.

In another exercise, he smelled something in the kidney of another partner who was suffering from a kidney infection. He was able to prove his ability to smell psychic information during a meeting of the graduates of the course. He again was able to accurately smell the condition of his partner.

This psychic ability is known by various names in other books.

Clairsentience

Clairsentience is the mental ability to sense or feel the presence of invisible things like spirits, energies or even thought forms which are not normally sensed by ordinary people. There are more people who are clairsentient than clairvoyant. They can feel things but can’t see them.

I am one of those who can feel more than I can see. For example, I can tell if there are spirits around the house or any place without seeing them. Many times I can do this even at a distance. Given only the exact address of a person, I can tune in to the place and tell if there are negative spirits around. If the spirits are not negative, I have more difficulty sensing them.

When there are highly negative entities around, I feel some difficulty or heaviness in my breathing and I develop a headache. Others have goose pimples or feel their hair standing up. Sometimes, when an elemental or earthbound spirit comes too near, one may go into a trance and he or she can’t move. Avoid going to hospitals or wakes because there are usually earthbound spirits there. Cemeteries are even less of a problem. I don’t usually feel entities in them compared to funeral chapels during wakes.

Although most people’s third eye or clairvoyant vision is not fully developed, they can usually sense or feel spirits during their waking states and even during sleep. We should learn to accept whatever psychic gifts we have such as clairsentience, clairaudience or clairolfaction and not try to force ourselves to be clairvoyants. As St. Paul said in Corinthians, there are different gifts of the Holy Spirit.

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What are the orbs in photos?

2007-10-30T01:11:00.000-07:00

In photos you have taken, especially with a digital camera, do you notice globules of light like little moons?

They can appear on any part of the picture. Sometimes there is only one and may be inconspicuous at first; other times there are so many they cover the entire picture.

If you have those circular lights on your pictures, then you have captured images of what are called “orbs.” Lately, more and more orbs are appearing in pictures taken by digital cameras.

The first to call my attention to these strange lights was movie actress Rosanna Roces. She told me about two years ago that they had appeared in almost all the pictures she took everywhere.

I thought at first they were Santelmos or St. Elmo’s fire, fireballs seen usually in marshlands or swamps.

But when Osang showed one of her photos, they were definitely not St. Elmo’s fire.

She told me she found out she could even command them to appear where she wanted them to be seen on the picture.

Convinced

Her former husband Tito did not believe her. So she asked the orbs to appear on his head before she took a picture and they were all there. Next, she asked the orbs to appear at his feet and they all did. He finally believed her.

Soon after Osang showed me pictures of the orbs, other people began telling me that orbs appeared in their pictures, too. So I began to be really curious, but could not find any reference to them anywhere.

Then I saw an article in Fate Magazine, an American publication devoted to the strange and supernatural. I have been a subscriber to this magazine for a long time but that was the first time the subject of orbs ever came out.

At first there was a great deal of skepticism about the objects. It was theorized they were merely dust particles or water droplets. The theories were later abandoned as more people began examining them.

I wrote a letter to Fate Magazine about my own observations, which was published two years ago.

I found that if you enlarged the orbs, especially the brightest ones, there were geometrical figures or even strange faces in them. Some look like the surface of the moon with craters.

Other figures look like extra-terrestrials’ (ET’s) heads with big black diamond-shaped eyes, small noses and mouths.

Orbs are mostly circular. But later Osang took pictures of diamond, oval and triangle shapes. They had white, blue, orange and violet colors.

Women only

Strangely enough, orbs seem to appear only in photos taken by women. Some of them are getting scared.

What do these orbs mean? Why do they appear only in some people’s photos and not in others? Is there any danger connected with those pictures? Are they warnings of bad things to come?

So far, I have not heard of anything bad happening to people who have taken pictures of orbs.

The only negative incident I heard was told to us during a television program in August where I was a resource person on this paranormal occurrence.

Television personality Alicia Mayer said she took pictures in a Singapore hotel. In almost all the pictures, many orbs appeared.

That night, one of their companions named Paul was sleeping on the tenth floor when he was suddenly lifted up. He fell to the seventh floor and broke several ribs but survived.

I told Alicia the two events, the appearance of orbs and Paul’s accident did not have to be causally related. It could be just coincidence.

In my opinion, it was likely that negative, earthbound spirits played a trick on Paul or tried to kill him. They told me they felt a strange, eerie feeling in that hotel. So I cannot attribute that fall to the orbs.

As I said, most reports I received on orbs were harmless.

This really calls for further investigation because pictures of orbs appear almost everywhere lately. The wife of a high government official told me, quite anxiously, that orbs must be following her because her pictures in China, France, England and Rome were filled with them. She was getting scared.

Even photos she took back home also had orbs. She found a book about orbs, “Beyond Photography,” by a British author but it did not answer fundamental questions.

What are they? Why do they appear? Where do they come from? Are they dangerous?

The only way to answer these questions is to get more facts.

We are asking people who have had orbs in their pictures to contact us and give us copies, with a written description of where, when and under what circumstances they were taken, and the cameras used.

We also want to know if they noticed anything strange before and after taking the photos.

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Women’s intuition may be fact

2007-10-23T06:46:00.000-07:00

The popular belief that women are more intuitive than men, and children more intuitive than adults, seems to have some biological and anatomical basis.

In the human brain, there are two parts that appear to be connected to intuition and extra sensory perception or ESP. These are the pineal gland and the corpus callosum.

Medical science does not know much about the real function of the pineal gland except that it has something to do with light and darkness.

The pineal is located in the middle of the brain near the pituitary gland, which is considered the master gland in the entire endocrine system of the human body.

“The endocrine system,” according to the Merck Manual of Medical Information, “consists of a group of organs (sometimes referred to as glands of internal secretion) whose main function is to produce and secrete hormones directly into the blood stream. Hormones serve as messengers to coordinate activities of various parts of the body.”

Seat of telepathy

Now, from an esoteric and non-scientific point of view, the pineal gland is considered the seat of telepathy, intuition and clairvoyance.

To give you the exact location of the pineal gland, it has been said that, if you trace an imaginary vertical line beginning at the fontanel (bumbunan) on top of the head and a horizontal line entering the forehead between the eyebrows, where the two lines intersect is the location of the pineal gland.

And that is where the Third Eye is usually depicted, between the eyebrows.

Some psychics and clairvoyants have reported that whenever they transmit or receive a telepathic message they feel a tingling sensation at the center of their brain.

Although there is no scientific proof that the pineal gland is the seat of intuition, there is something curious about the differences in its size for men and women.

It is a scientific fact that the pineal gland of women is slightly larger than that of men, slightly larger in children than in adults.

Could this be the reason why women in general are more intuitive than men and children more intuitive than adults?

Evolution

And why is it that men’s pineal gland is smaller than that of women? Maybe it has something to do with evolution.

Women used their intuition more than men did. And, through the hundreds of thousands of years, men’s pineal gland has atrophied and shrunk.

As any macho Filipino man knows, any organ that is not used shrinks.

There is another possible biological reason why women are more intuitive than men. The human brain, specifically the neocortex, is divided into two hemispheres, the left and the right.

The corpus callosum, composed of some 300 million brain cells or neurons, act as a communication link between the two hemispheres.

When biologist Dr. Roger Sperry made an incision on the corpus callosum, he discovered the two specialized functions of the two halves of the brain that medical science did not know before. The left brain, he found out, was responsible for rational, verbal and analytical thinking; the right brain was responsible for non-verbal, holistic and intuitive thinking.

Science tells us that the corpus callosum of women is also slightly larger and matures faster than that of men. Maybe this explains why women can process information coming from both hemispheres of the brain faster than men. They are able to use their intuition better and can do so at an earlier age.

This seems to be a perfectly rational and neat theory on why women are more intuitive than men, and children more intuitive than adults.

If only we can prove it!

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State of Psi knowledge in the Philippines

2007-10-16T06:32:00.000-07:00

Parapsychology is the science that deals with the paranormal and psychic phenomena.
But, regrettably, not much progress has been achieved by this science in terms of new discoveries or new knowledge since its acceptance as a member of the scientific community in 1969.

No dramatic revelation has been made since Dr. J. B. Rhine started his pioneering scientifically controlled experiments on ESP in the 1930s. On the contrary, the science has remained as controversial as when it first started.

Some members of the orthodox western scientific community even referred to parapsychology as a “pseudo-science,” which is rather an unfair and biased remark.

Despite this, there are universities in several western countries that offer higher degrees in parapsychology.

Not included
In the Philippines, the situation is worse. There is no school of higher learning that includes parapsychology in its curriculum.

The few times this science was included in an academic setting were in 1982, when I taught a one-semester elective subject on Parapsychology under the Behavioral Science Department of De La Salle University; and in 2004-2006 when I taught New Age Philosophy and Parapsychology under the Department of Philosophy in San Beda College.

After teaching for one semester at De La Salle University, a former seminar participant, Dr. Lane Chua-Garcia, revived the class in Parapsychology at DLSU. But it was discontinued after a few years and the subject became just a part of the course in psychology.

The bias against parapsychology by the scientific and academic communities in the Philippines has remained very strong, despite great interest shown by students of various schools in learning more about this subject.

In the last 25 years, I have been besieged by students from various colleges and universities for interviews on different aspects of extra-sensory perception (ESP) and paranormal phenomena as part of their research projects.

There were times I had to decline interviews and speaking invitations for lack of time.

Serious matter
On the other hand, in the former Soviet Union and her allies in Eastern Europe, parapsychological subjects have always been taken seriously. But the Soviets call the science by different names, such as Psychotronics Research, Bio-energetics, or even Biophysics.

Those who engaged in such research were mostly mathematicians, engineers and physicists, not psychologists or sociologists as one would expect.

Since the interest of Russian and Eastern European scientists was more on the practical application of such powers or phenomena, rather than merely proving they exist, they made much more progress in the field compared to their American and Western counterparts.

Russian parapsychologists have focused their research in finding cures for cancer, increasing the yield of agricultural and dairy products, and even assisting in crime detection.

No qualifier
In the Philippines, nobody qualifies to be called a parapsychologist because there is no school offering an academic degree on this science.But there are several local characters who have proclaimed themselves to be such, but they are not recognized at all by any respectable local or foreign organization.

I myself cannot claim to be a parapsychologist, although I have written more than 15 books on paranormal and psychic phenomena (some of which have been translated into foreign languages) because I do not have a formal degree to show for it. Nevertheless, my works have been cited in several scientific publications all over the world.

One reason for the lack of serious interest in parapsychology in the Philippines is religion. The Philippine population is 80-85 percent Catholic. And a very conservative one at that.

The field studied by parapsychologists have falsely been identified with the evil forces in the minds of the conservative public and even by some members of the clergy. Some of them have the mistaken notion that studying paranormal phenomena would be in conflict with their religious beliefs, which is not the case at all.

Parapsychology is a science and has nothing to do with religion. Like any other science, it seeks only to understand the veracity or validity of a psychic ability or phenomenon and not to change or influence a person’s religious beliefs.

This misunderstanding has led to the avoidance by the academic community of various studies of this field.

This is really unfortunate because the Philippines has a lot to offer in terms of diversity of paranormal and mystical happenings. Most of them have remained unrecorded and unheralded, so people outside the Philippines, and even those living in the country, do not realize our rich paranormal and mystical heritage.

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Hypnosis and breast enlargement

2007-10-09T14:49:00.000-07:00

The average Filipino’s exposure to hypnosis is with a stage magician or entertainer who hypnotizes a subject, usually a woman, by dangling a pendulum in front of her, and making her body stiff or rigid.

While in that rigid state, the woman is carried by two assistants who carefully lay her head on one chair and her feet on another chair.

The sleeping woman’s body stays rigid and does not fall. Then the magician walks on top of her stomach without her exhibiting any discomfort and pain.

Afterwards he wakes her up and she does not remember anything that transpired. She is completely unhurt.

In another common demonstration, a hypnotist makes a subject forget a certain number and then makes the subject count while he is awake.

The subject is puzzled why he cannot remember or say that particular number the hypnotist told him to forget. When the suggestion is removed, the subject is then able to recall the number.

Medical tool

Much less commonly known, however, is the use of hypnosis in medicine. In some countries abroad, dental extraction or even surgical operation has been performed while the patient is under hypnosis. No anesthetic is used. Yet the patient feels no pain at all.

Another branch of this practice is called Forensic Hypnosis. This is used in crime detection and resolution. A victim or a witness to a crime is hypnotized to recall a detail that he/she does not remember in the waking state.

Under hypnosis, the forgotten detail is recalled completely and the crime is solved.

Hypnosis has also been successfully used to heal warts and an ugly and incurable skin disease called “fish skin disease.”

Here is a report on how a British doctor cured a 16-year-old boy’s congenital and incurable fish skin disease through hypnosis.

“In the boy’s first session under hypnosis, the doctor, A.C. Mason, told him to focus on his left arm and to see the skin becoming normal. In five days the hardened layer of skin on the left arm softened and fell off.

“During succeeding sessions the improvements were dramatic and rapid. Both arms cleared, 90 percent of the skin on the boy’s back cleared, 50 to 70 percent of the skin on his buttocks, thighs and legs cleared.

“Then there were no further changes, despite repeated sessions of hypnosis. For whatever reason, the treatment had run its course.”

Mason’s unbelievable results were published in the British Medical Journal and attracted a lot of attention. Three doctors investigated and confirmed Mason’s reported results.

Not unique

Theodore Barber was a psychologist who investigated the phenomenon of hypnosis for many years. He considered hypnosis as simply a “heightened state of suggestibility” and not a unique state of consciousness as proposed by other researchers.

By suggestion, Barber meant, “a state in which individuals give full credence to statements they hear about themselves and their capacities.”

According to Barber, there are some people who do not need an actual past experience “to evoke precise physical changes in their bodies.” It is enough that they have good imagination and believe the hypnotist’s suggestions.

For example, he showed that a hypnotized subject could reduce the blood flow after tooth extraction by 65 percent less compared to non-hypnotized patients.

So what else can hypnosis do? Many Filipino women will like the answer to this: It can enlarge breasts of women! That is right.

Barber reported that a total of 70 women, using a hypnotic suggestion, “increased their breast sizes an average of 1¼ inches in 12 weeks.”

How did they do it?

“The women were told to imagine warm water flowing over their breasts or warm towels covering them or the sun or a heat lamp shining on them, and to imagine that their breasts are becoming warm, tingling, pulsating and that they are growing. They were instructed to give themselves these suggestions during sessions of self-hypnosis at home.”
And their breasts enlarged.

However, not all suggestions succeed in inducing physical changes in the body. The subjects must firmly believe in the suggestions made to make them work and they must be able to slow down their brain waves to the alpha level, a meditative and relaxed state.

In my inner mind development classes, I suggest that visualization for health purposes be done for at least 15 minutes, three times a day for best results.
I have not yet tried using hypnosis, suggestion, or visualization on my female students for the purpose of breast enlargement, but maybe this is one application worth experimenting with.

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Mayan calendar prophecies

2007-10-02T07:00:00.000-07:00

I asked the mediums or channels of three spirit entities if the predictions in the Mayan calendar were true.

The responses affirmed the predictions would transpire and humankind better prepare for them.

The following was the answer of Gabbey, the spirit guide of Jun Acquiatan, a professor of business management in Pangasinan. I believe Gabbey is the Archangel Gabriel.
Jun: Jimmy Licauco would like to know if the Mayan calendar prediction that the earth cycle would be finished by Dec. 21, 2012, is accurate.

Gabbey: The end of this cycle is near. Actually, no one knows when this will happen except God himself. The predictions and declarations are approximations. However, there are indicators that the time is near. Usually, the end of a cycle is preceded by great calamities... Many new kinds of calamities, new kinds of wars, and new cultures will come out which are beyond your expectations.

But do not be deceived, as Christ said in the Bible, for new false prophets will emerge. These people are very charismatic and possess special powers that would even surpass the feats shown by Christ.

J: But why should God allow these things to happen? If He loves humankind, He should not allow these to occur. Otherwise, Christ’s mission of saving the world would be in vain.
G: These things happen because of man’s irresponsibility. Many religious personalities appeared in your world showing the way to righteousness but man has not learned his lessons. The world must be cleansed for a new generation to rectify the misdeeds of the past.

End times?
J: So, are we living now in the end times as mentioned in the Apocalypse of St. John?

G: You must understand my friend that, contrary to what you know, time is relative... in the sense that time as a measurement of duration is dependent on a particular cycle. If you refer to your cycle now, then I would say it is now the beginning of an end of a cycle. But another cycle will come and another time will be set.

J: How many years are there in a cycle?

G: I just told you that time is relative to a cycle. You cannot take the time of one cycle as a standard to measure the duration of another cycle.

Actually, a cycle is a way of expressing the series of related events in the world. But, in the spiritual realm, there is no such thing as a cycle for in the spirit world there is oneness and in eternity, there is no time. But the messengers of God have to make things understandable to man and therefore cycles were created. Seven major cycles are to be attained before the Parousia. You are now in the 5th cycle and that cycle is about to end.

J: What is a Parousia?

G: This is what you call the Second Coming of Christ, which is misunderstood even by the Church.

Parousia
J: So, what is the correct understanding of Parousia?

G: If you read the Bible, it (says) Christ will come back the way he departed. A literal translation has been made... by Church leaders. The coming back of Christ will not really be the way he departed. Logic will tell you that this is not possible simply because the Second Coming will happen in a different cycle and therefore the world environment at the time will not be the same.

You see... even if Christ will come today, Israel is not the same as... when he was here about 2,000 years ago. So, how can he come back the way he departed?

J: If Christ left the world by ascending into heaven, then he would come back descending from heaven. This is what is taught in catechism.

G: That is not accurate. By ascending you assume that heaven is up beyond the clouds... heaven is not a place but a state of the soul or spirit. It is another dimension which does not need space and time. Going up is only a manifestation of separation from one dimension to another... a soul of a person who just died will also ascend not because it will go to heaven but because the soul, which is now free from the physical laws, especially the law of gravity, will float and enter into another dimension, the spiritual dimension.

J: But... Christ ascended with a physical human body. A soul of a dead person is pure spirit and has no body.

G: Christ at that time had a glorified body. Even the Bible said so. A glorified human body is one where spiritual characteristics are stronger than physical characteristics... The Bible narrated how Christ just appeared in the midst of the apostles out of nowhere. That was a manifestation of a glorified body. So, when Christ went to heaven, which is actually going to the spiritual dimension, he was seen ascending because that is the way of going to another dimension.

J: So, when is the second coming?

G: Only God really knows. What is true is that all seven cycles must be attained first... That is the divine plan. But how soon it will come, no one knows except God.

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ET is here

2007-09-25T01:47:00.000-07:00

Many books have been written espousing the idea that extra-terrestrials (ETs) have been with us for millions of years.

The most popular of these was “Chariots of the Gods” by Erik Von Daniken in 1968. Then came the book “We Are not the First” by Andrew Thomas.

Later, several books were written about people being abducted by aliens from outer space for experimental purposes. One of these was “The Interrupted Journey” by John G. Fuller. Another was “Communion” by Whitley Strieber.

Hollywood followed with the extremely popular movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” by Steven Spielberg.

Soon, die-hard believers of UFOs (unidentified flying object) formed themselves into societies and research groups to study these phenomena and exchange information. A new specialist began to appear in the lexicon of the English language, i.e. ufologist.

A few of these “specialists” were serious scientists but most were there just for the fun of it. Among the more serious researchers of the UFO phenomena is Dr. James H. Hurtak of the Academy of Future Science in Los Gatos, California.

He is the author of a very important prophetic book, “The Keys of Enoch,” which was dictated to him by higher space intelligence in 1973. Many of the predictions contained in that book have become chilling realities.

Still, mainstream scientists remained nonchalant about the subject.

And the United States government has been very vocal in denying the reality of UFOs and ETs. It has also flatly denied covering up information about ET sightings, UFO crashes and encounters.

“No such thing. Pure imagination! Completely no evidence of their existence,” etc.
3 types of encounters

Dr. Hynek classified human encounters with UFOs into three types. The first is called Close Encounter of the First Kind (CEI) where there are only distant sightings but no communication whatsoever.

The second is Close Encounter of the Secret Kind (CEII) where there are some forms of physical evidence, like burned bushes or trees, strong magnetic field, electrical disturbances in home appliances and street lights and the like. CEII’s sometimes result in extraordinary healing of persons involved.

The third type is Close Encounter of the Third Kind (CEIII) where there is actual face-to-face contact or communication. Alien abductions are examples of this type of encounters.
In 1947, a UFO reportedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico near a secret US Army camp. The US government denied any such incident happened despite sworn testimonies of ex-military officers who were involved in the cover-up.

According to the story that leaked out, the military found three ETs inside the crashed space ship. Two were dead but one was still alive.

The surviving ET was humanoid, greenish-grey in color, without any hair, had a big head and big black almond-shaped eyes.

The dead ETs were brought to a secret camp called Area 51, which the military has repeatedly denied ever existed, for autopsy.

The surviving creature knew every language spoken on earth and was extremely intelligent. It possessed technical knowledge so far advanced compared to what we had on earth.

Bargain
According to one source the ET bargained with its captors that, in exchange for saving its life, it would share their advanced technology with earth people. That was why after the capture, US technology advanced rapidly. The ET even taught Americans the secret of anti-gravity technology, according to one source.

In the ’80s I met an American researcher named Scott Mandelker in San Francisco who wrote a doctoral thesis alleging that there were millions of ETs now living in the US. He later published his thesis in a book, “From Elsewhere: Being an ET in America.” He even included a questionnaire in the book to find out if the reader was an ET or not.

How much of this information can be believed? I do not know. It is difficult to make any conclusion given scant and contradictory data.

We really have nothing to rely on except our gut feel or intuition. There is no hard evidence to prove the validity of the above stories.

My gut feel, although I cannot prove it, is that ETs are real. The crash in Roswell was real, the US government has been engaged in a big cover-up and I have absolutely no idea why it is doing this.

I believe aliens have been with us on earth for a long, long time already and they have been living like ordinary earthlings like us.

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Yes, ETs and UFOs are real

2007-09-18T02:16:00.000-07:00

By Jaime LicaucoInquirerLast updated 09:19pm (Mla time) 09/17/2007
MANILA, Philippines—We do not hear much about extraterrestrials (ETs) and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) lately.
But recently, a member of our Aeropagus Spiritual Discussion Group suggested that we discuss the subject during our next meeting on Sept. 27.
The subject of UFOs has never really been taken seriously by mainstream scientists, despite the well-publicized opinion of highly respected Cornell University astronomer Carl Sagan.
The scientist said, with the sheer vastness of the universe’s innumerable star systems, planets and galaxies, it is possible for intelligent creatures to exist somewhere out there.
Our Milky Way alone has some 250 million stars. About a million of these might have planets capable of supporting some form of highly technical civilization, according to Sagan.
About 30 or 35 years ago, numerous sightings of so-called UFOs in the United States and other western countries prompted the US to direct the Air Force to study them.
Known as the Condon Report or Project Blue Book, the study concluded 90 percent of those sightings were no more than mere light reflections, weather balloon objects, or the result of some other natural causes. There was no evidence of flying objects from outer space.
Ignored
But what about the 10 percent that could not be explained rationally? They were simply ignored and forgotten.
It became obvious to one of the Air Force’s consultants, Dr. Allen Hynek, a Northwestern University astronomer, that Project Blue Book was nothing more than a demolition job against UFOs.
When I am asked if I believe in UFOs, my answer is a categorical yes. I have actually witnessed several of them, some in Mt. Banahaw in Dolores, Quezon; others in Pila, Laguna; Roxas City in Capiz and, once, outside the window of my own house in Parañaque.
All sightings occurred in late evenings or early mornings. And I have talked to many people who have experienced similar sightings.
“What about ETs? Do you believe there are such creatures?” I am also asked.
My reply is still a categorical yes, not only because so many credible witnesses have reported seeing or encountering them at close range, but I myself have “seen and spoken” with one inside a big rock or boulder somewhere in Lukban, Quezon Province.
Not farfetched
The existence of ETs and UFOs is not really that farfetched and people who believe in them are not crazy if we look at the preponderance of evidence in many parts of the world throughout the history of humankind.
In fact the first very clear and unmistakable encounter with a UFO can be found in the Christian Bible, in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel in the Old Testament.
You will find a very detailed description of the priest Ezekiel’s encounter with strange-looking humanoid ETs in a strange spacecraft or vehicle that emitted sounds like thunder and moved mechanically in four directions.
He saw four creatures who spoke to him and instructed him to go to the house of Israel to tell the people the contents of the scroll that they had given him to eat.
“As for the appearance of their faces,” according to Ezekiel, “the four had the face of a human being, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left and the face of an eagle.”
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Can planet earth still be saved?

2007-09-11T00:31:00.000-07:00

We are now living in the end times. Let there be no doubt about that!

We are witnessing the last dying breaths of Mother Earth as she struggles to survive the people’s cruelty out of greed and ignorance.

Warnings of great prophets, from Nostradamus to Edgar Cayce, are unheeded. Even chilling statistics on global warming have not moved governments to action. Some officials even consider the warnings to be a great hoax.

The attitude is similar to that of a cancer patient whose first reaction is denial. Action to stem the disease is not taken until it is too late.

Author Hal Lindsay wrote about the end times in his best-selling book “The Late Great Planet Earth.” He described the terrible destruction of our planet as revealed in the Apocalypse of St. John. People did not take him seriously.

In agreement

I find intriguing the fact that almost all major prophecies concerning the end times agree that the terrible event will occur sometime in the decade of the year 2000, that means around 2010.
Nostradamus’ prophecies stop in the year 2020 if I remember right. Why couldn’t he see beyond that? Is it because Earth will be gone by then?

Said John Hogue in his book “The Millennium Book of Prophecy, Visions and Predictions”:

“The clearest warnings about the final conflagration come from the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest... they see themselves as custodians of those secrets the Great Spirit gave man to help him establish a harmonious relationship with nature.

“In 1948 the Hopi elders broke their long silent witness of man’s pathological treatment of the Earth and shared their prophecies with the outer world. The elders spoke of prior human epochs which rose to great technological heights only to destroy himself. They believe it will happen again unless humans change.”

But it may be too late. The Mayan calendar prophecies placed the end of the present Earth cycle at the Winter Solstice of Dec. 21, 2012, only five short years from now.

The pre-Columbian Mayans observed and recorded movements of the heavens for 4,000 years and developed a calendar so accurate that any given day could be ascertained without duplication for 370,000 years.

The Mayans knew that sun spots and solar flares had a direct link to the rise and fall of civilizations on earth.

The significance of the year 2012, according to novelist Benjamin Anastas in a July article in the New York Times Magazine Section, “first entered the public consciousness two decades ago this August with the Harmonic Convergence organized by Jose Arguelles, author of a number of esoteric books about the Mayan cosmos and his telepathically received prophecies.”

Earth-changing event

Arguelles organized and promoted the metaphysical significance of the convergence of different planets in our solar system as an earth-changing event requiring 144,000 participants, “the number that echoed Mayan mathematics and the Book of Revelation—to free the planet from the dissonant influence of western science and synchronize with the wave harmonic of history set to culminate in 2012.”

Large crowds of people all over the world heeded the call (including myself) and gathered in sacred places like Stonehenge in England, Mt. Shasta in California, Mt. Banahaw in the Philippines, and even Central Park in New York.

I was in Houston, Texas, then and joined several hundred New Agers chanting and swaying at a Houston Park.

What would the post-2012 world be like? According to Arguelles, “It will be a world of universal telepathy. We will be living in a new time, by a 13-month, 28-day synchronometer that will facilitate our telepathy by keeping us in harmony with everything all the time.”

Those who have not evolved highly enough will be taken away in “silver ships,” presumably unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Arguelles is now in New Zealand preparing for the transition.

Before the end of the current cycle in 2012, there will be great upheavals, the likes of which have never been seen before. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions will topple big buildings and sink whole countries and islands.

Few places will be safe. Those deserving and have developed a sixth sense or intuition will be told where to go.

In the light of all these seemingly inevitable predictions, what can people do? Let me quote the last paragraph of Hogue’s book:

“The key to endless tomorrows is the realization that you, me, all of us, are the problem. Stop running away from the seeds of every human misery. Stop making excuses for the past. Your only home in the cosmos is on fire and every one of us is equally responsible for lighting the match and looking the other way. You are the problem, and you are also the answer. The first step toward saving the world is within.”

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Will the world end in 2012?

2007-09-03T22:39:00.000-07:00

The Mayan calendar predicted the world would end Dec. 21, 2012. Is this true?
Yes, the world, as we know it, will definitely end on that date, but it will not be the end of the world.

I hesitated to write this article because I did not want to scare people. But I was told by an angelic being that I must.

This article began on my way back to Manila from Poland. In a big book and electronics store at the Amsterdam airport, two titles caught my attention: “The End of Time, the Mayan Prophecies Revisited” by Adrian Gilbert and “Building Your Mental Muscle.”

The mysterious Mayan civilization flourished in meso America then disappeared without a trace. It left fabulous temples, pyramids and other strange monuments with stranger writings.

The Mayans always fascinated me. The amazing calendar they left behind traced the precise movements of the planets and the stars without using any instruments. It described the present earth cycle from Aug. 11, 3114 BC, to Dec. 21, 2012.

Back in Manila, I got a copy of an article by novelist Benjamin Anastas about the Mayan prophecies, reprinted from the New York Times, from my neighbor Ricky Gonzales, a management consultant. I was struck by the coincidence.

Escalating phenomenon
The article tells about the growing interest in recent years about doomsday scenarios as predicted by the Mayan calendar.

“The Mayan calendar,” according to the article, “is at the center of an escalating cultural phenomenon, with New Age roots, that unites numinous (spiritual) dreams of societal transformation with the darker tropes of biblical cataclysm. To some, 2012 will bring the end of time; to others, it carries the promise of a new beginning; still to others, 2012 provides an explanation for troubling new realities—environmental change, for example, that seem beyond the control of technology and impervious to reason.”

Predictions about the end of the world is nothing new. Ancient Gnostics, for example, predicted the arrival of God’s kingdom as early as the first century. Christians in Europe attacked pagan territories in the north to prepare for the end of the world in the first millennium.

The Shakers believed the world would end in 1792. The Jehovah’s Witnesses have set the end dates from 1914-1994.

“Any religious movement with an end-time prophecy is certain to attract followers,” says Anastas.

In the Philippines, a religious cult believed the world would end Dec. 31, 1999. Its members went inside a cave in Tagaytay wearing helmets and waited for the end that never came.
A few years before that, a retired military officer predicted the world would be destroyed and two-thirds of the population would perish. The other one-third would be taken by UFOs (unidentified flying objects) through a beam of light.

Different
With all these failed prophecies, why is the Mayan calendar prediction attracting a growing following even in the scientific community? Is there something different about it?
Yes, according to experts.

John Major Jenkins says the Mayan lineage goes back to 2000 years. He argues that the ancient Maya “calendar priests” charted a 26,000-year astronomical cycle, called precession of the equinoxes, with the naked eye.

The 2012 end-date coincides with the “galactic alignment” of the winter solstice sun and the axis that modern astronomers draw to bisect the Milky Way, called the galactic equator.

Adrian Gilbert, in his book “The End of Time,” says, “Not only is the night of 21-22 December the longest in the year, but because of the precession of the equinoxes it corresponds with the day the sun stands exactly at one of the star-gate crossing-points of the elliptic with the median plane of the Milky Way.”

Gilbert names this position the “southern star gate—its counterpart, the northern star gate being placed exactly over the up stretched hand of Orion.”

Precession refers to the “slow movement of the axis of a spinning object around another axis.” Equinox is “the time the sun crosses the celestial equator, when day and night are of equal length.”

Gilbert says this means on Dec. 22, any person observing the sun will also be looking toward the core of the Milky Way, the place astronomers say has a black hole with a mass some three million times that of our sun.

Gilbert believes what was prophesied in the Book of Revelations is already happening, coinciding with the Mayan calendar. “This moment,” says Gilbert, “when the sun is located at the southern star gate and Orion, with its northern star gate, is dominant in the night sky, will signify the termination of the tribulation prophesied in the Book of Revelation and the true beginning of a new age.”

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Clairvoyance is seeing the present

2007-08-28T07:08:00.000-07:00

MANILA, Philippines—One classic example of clairvoyant vision was the case of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swiss mystic and clairvoyant.

One evening in 1759, he was at a party about 50 miles from his residence in Switzerland. He suddenly went to the window facing the direction of his house.

He stood there for quite a while and when asked what he was looking at, he replied there was a fire near his house and going toward it. After some time, he gave a sigh of relief and said, “Thank God the fire stopped just three houses away from mine.”

His friends thought Swedenborg had had one too many. But that evening the news came that there was indeed a fire in Swedenborg’s neighborhood and it stopped just three houses away from his house.

This story was related by the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant himself and quoted by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung.

Clairvoyance is the term for the psychic ability of seeing something happening at the present that is ordinarily invisible to physical sight. Seeing something happening in the future is called precognition and in the past, retrocognition.

Hidden mole
Clairvoyance is not all about seeing spirits or events that cannot be seen by the eyes. It is also seeing everything normally hidden from ordinary human sight, no matter where it is.

Sometime in 2004, in my office in Makati City, I had three unexpected women visitors, two of them total strangers who just wanted to meet me, according to the third.

I told the women, “You are lucky, because Rosita is here. She is a very good psychic and fortune teller.”

Rosita used to come to my office Tuesdays and Fridays to make readings. I introduced my visitors to her. One of them said, “We are not interested in having our fortunes told. We came to see you.”

Rosita’s pride was pricked. She said, “Okay, that’s all right. I’ll just give you a sample of what I see.” She told one thing about each of them very quickly.

She told my friend Eva, “And you, you have a mole down there,” looking at the lower part of her body. Eva didn’t get it. “What do you mean? Where?”

“Down there,” Rosita pointed with her mouth below Eva’s stomach region, between her legs.

“No, I don’t. “You are wrong,” Eva said.

The three women and I then sat down to talk.

I asked them, “What do you think of her? Was what she said about you correct?” The two said yes. They said they would see her at another time. My friend Eva said Rosita was completely wrong. “I don’t have a mole down there.”

A week later, I received a very excited call from Eva. “Know what?” she began. “That psychic of yours was correct! I do have a mole in there and I didn’t even know it.”

She said even her husband did not know she had one. He never saw it.

I did not expect her to show me her private part just to prove the psychic was correct but I asked, “How about a picture of it?”

“Well, let me think about it,” she said finally.

After two weeks she sent me a text message: “I got it. I took two pictures of it, but it wasn’t easy. I had to shoot using a mirror.”

I could not believe she actually did it and was willing to show me. Eva is a career woman in her early 40s, an attractive mother of three daughters and an executive in a well-known insurance firm.

She is a very private, quiet person, not one you would expect to show her privates to a man she was not intimate with.

I eagerly waited for her MMS (multimedia message service picture).

Though she said she sent it several times, I could not receive it.

So she said, “I’ll just drop by your office one day and show it to you.” Fortunately, her office was near mine. She came at noontime when I was all alone in my room.

She showed the images on her cell phone and there, for the first time and very clear, was her mole located on the upper left inner part of her vagina.

I thanked her for showing me something so private and intimate, because she knew it was important for me to have proof that the psychic’s clairvoyant vision was true.

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Clairvoyance explained

2007-08-21T07:12:00.000-07:00

MANILA, Philippines -- Science has no satisfactory explanation of clairvoyance and several other psychic phenomena.

In fact, science tries so hard to discredit them because these powers are not always duplicable or repeatable under laboratory conditions.

Open-minded investigators, on the other hand, have merely observed and documented the phenomena without trying to explain them.

This is where the ancient and largely misunderstood occult science is helpful. Our explanation will be derived from occult literature.

Although the explanation is entirely unprovable and may even sound “fantastic” and “incredible,” it offers a fresh view, a mental handle with which to grasp such a nebulous power.

Eastern literature explains clairvoyance in relation to the astral plane. All our physical faculties and senses have counterparts in the astral plane.

Vibrations from all objects are received by astral faculties and transmitted to the consciousness of humans. It takes much practice and discipline to do this, i.e. to make it conscious.

But every person possesses such faculty or power. In other words, it is natural to have such powers.

2 ways of seeing

There are two ways to see clairvoyantly. One is by focusing on a distant object and seeing through the “astral tube.” Another is through projection of the astral body and observing a scene through astral vision.

Through astral projection, a clairvoyant can literally observe and hear what is going on anywhere and report this to the physical consciousness. This ability is much more difficult to accomplish consciously compared to the “astral tube” method.

When we are in the astral body in the astral plane, it is possible to travel “to any point within the limits of this planet.”

People often travel in their astral body in their sleep. Some travel consciously in their waking moments, a few have learned to travel consciously and at will in their waking moments.

However, from years of teaching remote viewing (or traveling clairvoyance), I have come to believe that astral projection is not necessarily involved.

It is possible to project one’s consciousness or awareness to a distant place, describing it accurately, without leaving the body.

But at least once in my class, a person doing remote viewing was actually seen in the house he was looking at mentally. He was described accurately by a person in the house though he was not there physically.

Mental process

What is the mental process in clairvoyance? How does a clairvoyant see?

Many psychics cannot explain or describe what happens. Juan Matus tried for years to explain to anthropologist Carlos Castañeda to “see” the world and not to be content with “looking.”

But, after many years of intensive apprenticeship and four bestselling books (beginning with “The Teachings of Don Juan”), Castañeda still could not understand what it meant to “see.”

Clairvoyant Olof Jonsson asked how he could accurately describe what card would come up next during a demonstration of his psychic powers, told Brad Steiger:

“It is very hard to describe. I just see it. I feel it first in my mind, then I try to visualize it. When I begin to search for it, to visualize it, it will materialize in my mind.”

While Bradley was testing Jonsson, Jonsson’s eye suddenly lit up. Asked why, Jonsson replied:

“I just happened to see something. One of the (laughing) girls is talking about her legs. Yes, I see now that it is Betty (his wife). She is stroking her leg and asking Marilyn whether or not her leg is beginning to sunburn.”

Bradley asked, “You mean you could see the girls, just like watching a moving picture of them?”

Jonsson replied, “Ja (yes), I could see them. I just wanted to know what they were doing and if they were all right.”

Betty later confirmed what Jonsson saw.

Many people are clairvoyant to a lesser or greater degree without knowing it. This is one of the most common psychic abilities. Often, it manifests spontaneously or involuntarily.

A person who sees a spirit, whether a departed person, a nature or elemental like a dwarf or fairy, or the astral body of a person, is a clairvoyant.

I am of the opinion that clairvoyant vision need not involve the use of sight. One can see a spirit or non-physical entity with eyes closed. I have seen ghosts on several occasions with my eyes closed. I have also talked to people with a similar experience.

So how does clairvoyance occur? What is its mechanism? No one has explained the phenomenon adequately. We can only speculate.

For me, clairvoyance can be explained by the fact that humans are composed of body and spirit. We have two types or levels of faculties, physical and spiritual.

When we see things in the physical world we use our external or physical sense of sight. When we see non-physical things we are simply using our spiritual or inner faculties.

Some people can shift their focus of attention voluntarily from the physical to the spiritual sense of sight. Neuroscientist Dr. Lawrence Leshan describes this as from “ordinary sensory reality” to “clairvoyant reality.”

Most people do not have such deliberate capacity. It happens spontaneously.

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Clear seers

2007-08-14T06:14:00.000-07:00

Clairvoyance comes from two French words that mean “to see clearly.” It is the ability or power to have full knowledge or awareness of what has happened or what is happening elsewhere (sometimes in great distances) without using any of the physical senses.

Clairvoyance can also mean “the faculty of seeing with the inner eye or spiritual sight.”

Documented clairvoyant abilities are numerous.

Blind seeress

Vanga Dimitrova was called the blind seeress of Bulgaria. She lived near the Greek border in the small town of Petrich.

Dimitrova found missing people, helped solve crimes, diagnosed disease and read the past. But her greatest gift was prophecy.

Her case was thoroughly studied by Dr. Georgi Lozanov, a physician and psychiatrist, who headed the Institute of Suggestology and Parapsychology in Sofia and Petrich. Scientists who worked with Dimitrova called her an honorable woman.

This example of her ability is taken from the book “Psychic Discoveries behind the Iron Curtain” by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.

When Dimitrova moved to Petrich after marrying Dimitri Georgeyev (a marriage she foresaw), neighbor Boris Gurov, a middle-age farmer, immediately consulted her. His 15-year-old younger brother Nikola disappeared in 1923. The family searched everywhere but did not find any clues.

“I see him. He’s alive!” Dimitrova told him. “I see your brother Nikola in a great town in Russia. He grew up there. He’s a scientist. But… he is not there now. He’s a slave to the Germans… Don’t worry, though, he’ll come to you early this spring. You can recognize him by the gray uniform. He’ll be carrying two suitcases.”

It was too bizarre. Gurov could not buy the idea that his brother was a Soviet scientist, much less that he was in a concentration camp at that moment. He went home convinced he would never know the truth. But he related Dimitrova’s tale to his family.

According to reports, two months later, at dawn of a spring morning, a stranger stopped wearily in front of Gurov’s house. He had two suitcases. He did not look familiar to anyone in the village, including Gurov.

It was Nikola, returning after almost 20 years. He was wearing a gray uniform. All that Dimitrova said to Gurov about Nikola was confirmed.

According to the book, “Vanga says she has no control over the mental images that form in her mind’s eye. They have to come naturally and can’t be forced. They may be about the past, present or the future. Vanga has no way of knowing which period of time will suddenly light up.”

Although Dimitrova was not right all the time because her psychic powers did not work occasionally, the percentage of her accuracy was way beyond the statistical figure attributed to chance.

Most studied

Olof Jonsson, a Swedish clairvoyant or psychic, was probably one of the most studied, aside from the American Eileen Garrett, of all sensitives in the contemporary world.

His psychic feats were so well documented that there was little doubt about his extraordinary powers.

Brad Steiger, author of several books on the occult and psychic phenomena, wrote the biography of this Swedish wonder, “The Psychic Feats of Olof Jonsson.” The following was taken from there:

“On Oct. 24, 1970, when a television production crew was preparing to film a New Year’s Eve Special featuring Jonsson and some of Sweden’s brightest actors and entertainers, several Swedish newspapers and magazines sent reporters to interview him for special holiday features.

‘One of the reporters, Oke Winslow, telephones me from a hotel to set up an interview with me,’ Olof smiled. ‘I had never met him before, so he thought he would try to test me over the telephone and asked me what he looked like.

‘I told him that he had a round face, a beard and that he had started a bad habit of smoking cigars. He asked me how he was dressed, and I said that he had just come from the shower, so he wasn’t dressed at all. He laughed and told me that I was correct. I could see him clearly.’”

Jonsson was also able to solve a brutal multiple murder case without the slightest clue, located three girls in a famous missing persons case, correctly identified an object concealed inside a box as Hitler’s ashtray and literally stopped a clock by merely looking at it and willing it to stop.

In this field he shared top billing with better-known Dutch clairvoyant Gerard Croiset, who made crime-busting his specialty.
Croiset’s amazing story is told by magazine reporter Jack H. Pollack in “Croiset, The Clairvoyant.” He has been called “The Man who Mystifies Europe,” “The Dutchman with the X-Ray Mind,” “The Radar Brain,” “The Wizard of Utrecht.”

His teacher, professor W. H. C. Tenhaeff, director of the Parapsychology Institute at the University of Utrecht, refers to Croiset as a “paragnoist,” a word he coined from the Greek words para meaning “beyond’ and gnosis meaning “knowledge.”

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Nameless psychic ability

2007-08-07T06:43:00.000-07:00

There is another type of psychic ability or power that is so rare that researchers have not even invented a name for it.

It is essentially a person’s ability to hasten or accelerate the natural biological processes.

Hungarian healer Oscar Estebany, for example, had been shown by scientists to have the ability to hasten the healing of deliberately inflicted wounds in experimental mice under controlled laboratory conditions.

The well-known Israeli psychic Uri Geller demonstrated his uncanny ability to germinate within minutes radish seeds on his palm simply by mentally commanding them to grow.

I witnessed this remarkable demonstration of Geller’s psychic power during an international convention in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1994. About a thousand other people in the audience also witnessed the event.

But an even more extraordinary and almost miraculous psychic power was demonstrated by the Brazilian pharmacist Thomaz Morais Coutinho. He has shown, in at least four occasions, his power to make unfertilized eggs hatch into live chicks in less than 10 minutes!

Detailed account

The following is a detailed description of how Coutinho did it, as reported by my close friend, Canadian clinical psychologist, hypnotherapist, psychic researcher and professor Dr. Lee Pulos, in his fascinating book “Miracles and Other Realities” (written with Gary Richman):

“The most provocative and far reaching of all his ‘biological experiments’ defied the basic laws of life itself. On four occasions, Thomaz has taken fresh, unfertilized eggs and ‘hatched’ them into live chicks.

“The first incident occurred in 1982 in the company of several friends and observers. He requested 15 eggs be purchased and placed on the table. Thomaz slipped into a very deep trance with eyes open and unfocused.

“Very slowly, he picked up an egg, stared at it for 30 seconds and then rested it against the middle of his forehead. He performed this curious ritual with each egg. He cracked each egg one by one and broke their contents into a large flat bowl.

“Then he began hyperventilating. He stretched both arms out and with palms down over the eggs, began pulsing and vibrating energy into the bowl. Slowly the yolks began to change their texture, solidifying and becoming darker. Different densities began forming and within five minutes, the fetal forms of baby chicks could be identified.

“Over the next two minutes, the internal organs of the embryos could be seen through their membranes. After nine minutes, the first sounds of life were heard—the ‘cheep-cheeping’ of little chicks. From the 15 eggs, nine baby chicks were hatched.”

Struck by lightning

How Coutinho obtained such miraculous powers, no one knows. But Lee mentioned in his book that when Thomaz was 12 years old, lightning struck his bamboo fishing pole as he fished in a lake.

“His body was catapulted several feet above the ground. He could see what was happening as if he was outside his body. Then he heard a voice that told him he was especially protected by varied forces and that he would perform strange phenomena and help people, but he couldn’t use his powers for his own benefit.”

When he gained consciousness, according to Lee, 12 hours had elapsed. Thomaz believed he had had contact with extraterrestrials who gave him extraordinary psychic powers.

The other baffling psychic powers that Thomaz demonstrated were metal bending without touching the object, transforming a cotton belt into a metal necklace, transforming a coin into a ring and transmuting a currency of one country into another.

What do we make of such powers Coutinho has displayed over and over again?

Dr. Pulos says: “In a sense, Thomaz represents a symbolic mast on our cultural horizon. He is creating widening rifts in the topmost surface of our consciousness and helping us realize the confines of our physical reality. It has been said that the most powerful state of consciousness known to man is an open mind. Perhaps that might be a starting point for deciphering Thomaz.”

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Jet-setting ghost

2007-07-31T15:49:00.000-07:00

When the father of the late Prof. Anton Estrada of the Asian Institute of Management died in London, he went to the United Kingdom to bring the body home. His father was a diplomat assigned in London.

Flying home in a 747 plane, Anton’s father appeared beside him. They talked like they used to when the old man was still alive. Anton had forgotten his father was dead.The father even ordered a glass of wine from the flight attendant. Anton told me his father thanked him for arranging the return of his body. That was when he realized his father, who then disappeared, was dead.

Shortly afterwards, the flight attendant brought the glass of wine his father ordered.
“Where’s the passenger who ordered two glasses of wine?” asked the flight attendant.
Anton replied he went to the rest room and gave her a very sweet smile as he got the glasses of wine.

Speaking of ghosts in an airplane, here’s another story I recall.
I was coming home from California. I can’t remember the date but it was in the mid-90s. Some flight attendants recognized me and asked if I could go with them to their quarters on the upper deck of the plane.

I asked why, but they merely said they felt something there. They could not rest or sleep there as they felt the presence of a spirit. They asked if a spirit could haunt an airplane. I said it was possible.

I asked if anybody who worked in that plane had died. They said one of their stewards died recently.

When I entered their quarters, I could not breathe. My chest became heavy and I was gasping for air. I could not stay too long in the place and had to get out. I told them the spirit of that steward was still there.

I asked how he died. They told me he was asthmatic and he was having difficulty breathing. No wonder I felt all the symptoms he had before he died.

I suggested to them to get a spiritist or psychic to exorcise the plane or at least help the spirit of the flight steward to ascend or elevate itself. Otherwise the crew would not be able to sleep in that place.

They thanked me as I returned to my seat and slept quietly until we landed in Manila. That was my first encounter with a ghost inside a plane!

Pinned down by a spiritIn 1986 I went to Milan, Italy, to speak at an international symposium on alternative healing.

After the symposium, the organizer, a good friend of Pope John Paul II, asked several foreign speakers, including myself, if we wanted to meet the Pope. Of course, we all said yes.
And so about 15 of us flew to Rome to meet the Pope.

We were billeted at the century-old Ambasciator Hotel in front of the American Embassy in Rome. It had one-foot thick stone walls. Though it looked old, it was well-preserved.
A strange incident happened about 10:30 in the evening, the day before we were to meet the Pope at the Vatican.

I was about to sleep when I noticed a very heavy invisible being on top of me, trying to push me down. I sensed it to be a heavily-built male spirit.

I could not move but I did not panic. I remembered that my eyes were closed all the time. I was not sure why I did not open my eyes.

I talked to it telepathically asking who he was and what he wanted. But I got no reply. He continued to pin me down.

I knew it was useless to shout for help because the walls were so thick nobody would hear me.
So, I decided to fight back. I told him mentally, “So, you want to play, ha? Then let’s play. I won’t allow you to intimidate me. I want you to get out of here right now!”

After I said that, the spirit suddenly disappeared. I was able to move. I opened my eyes and saw nobody in the room. Then I readily fell sleep.

The next day, we had a special audience with the Pope. I was able to talk to him face to face for a few precious minutes. I gave him a copy of the German edition of my book on the Faith Healers of the Philippines.

The Pope told me, “Faith is what we need most in the world today.”

When I told him I came from the Philippines, his face lit up. He smiled and came towards me although several others were trying to catch his attention. I cannot imagine that my book is now in the Vatican Library.

I have had several more encounters with the paranormal and supernatural in different hotels, offices, elevators and factories. But I better stop here before I scare you that you do not report for work anymore!

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Elementals force a company to relocate

2007-07-24T14:52:00.000-07:00

A subsidiary of a large diversified company was engaged in agri-business. Following a reorganization in the mother company, the subsidiary relocated the entire operation and rented a big one-story house on a corner lot in Makati that was formerly rented by a foreign consulate. The property had a large backyard.

One early morning, the company president went to the empty boardroom to get something. The chairs were stacked upside down on the conference table. As he approached the table, a chair suddenly rose up and hurled itself to the wall at the back of the room. The president rushed out of the room and went straight to the office of the human resources vice president, my former boss in the firm’s holding company.

The HR officer told the president things had been happening since they moved to the place two years before. A Spanish-looking couple was seen walking around the offices, office machines would start running when nobody was around, lights would turn on and off, etc.
“Why didn’t anybody tell me these things,” the president demanded.

“Well,” said the HR executive, “we didn’t think you would believe us.”
The president asked the HR executive to call me right away.

That’s how I got involved. I brought along a well-known clairvoyant. He confirmed the presence of several discarnate and other earthbound spirits. His description of the foreign couple matched reports of some employees.

But that was not the most disturbing thing we discovered. The clairvoyant said the backyard was an entrance to the elemental kingdom. There was no way the elementals would leave. That’s why they were causing trouble.

Since the company moved to that place, business went bad. Management did not suspect any supernatural causes because the country’s economy was also not doing well then.But there were also other problems, like many employees getting sick or being involved in accidents. Relations among employees was strained and a labor dispute arose.

We recommended the company’s transfer because the elementals were angry and would do everything to make their lives miserable. The comptroller objected because the company still had several months in their lease contract and it was a very expensive property. I told them it was entirely up to them.

The next day, the comptroller called and said, “You know, Jimmy, I was at the Ateneo for four years and the Jesuits could not convince me of such supernatural nonsense. You were here for only 30 minutes and you’ve convinced me that we have to go.”

After the company transferred, I was told sales went up, relations between labor and management improved, and employees were happier and less tense.

Deaths in American firm
A large American food manufacturing company south of Manila consulted me because of a series of employee deaths in its marketing department.Unknown to management, many strange paranormal things had been happening there for many years. The personnel manager was the first to suspect that the deaths could have a supernatural cause.

When I went to this huge factory, I brought a clairvoyant and a Chinese feng shui expert. We all felt the presence of many highly negative and angry spirits, both human and elemental.

The deaths were attributed to a disgruntled former employee dismissed by the company years ago and who had since died. He wanted to punish the company by killing marketing personnel whom he blamed for his dismissal.He was helped by a horde of highly negative engkantos.

When we toured the company premises, there were warehouses I could not enter because of their highly negative energy. Only the feng shui expert and the clairvoyant entered the sites while I stayed in the office of the personnel manager and explained to company executives the situation.

I noticed an old duhat tree filled with fruits and with branches so low the fruits almost touched the ground. I had never seen a duhat with so many fruits.

I also noticed a bulldozer facing the tree. I was told the bulldozer had been there several days. When they tried to bulldoze the tree to give way to the expansion of the building beside it, the bulldozer suddenly broke down. Several mechanics tried to repair the machine but failed.

We told management that the tree was inhabited by many elementals and they did not want the tree destroyed. Something bad would happen to people who would try to cut it down.

We asked the company to get the bulldozer away from the tree. When this was done, they were able to restart the bulldozer. The company decided to spare the tree.

Fortunately they listened to advice. No more deaths occurred after our visit.

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The paranormal in the workplace

2007-07-16T03:35:00.000-07:00

Most paranormal occurrences or psychic manifestations we hear or read about happen in homes.

But these incidents can occur anywhere—in open spaces, churches, hotels, factories, business offices, schools, cars, ships, even inside an airplane.

Here are several true stories of paranormal happenings in the work place or commercial establishments:

Strange deaths in a car accessories manufacturing firm
In the mid-’80s, Bobby, general manager of the well-known firm in Makati City, called me because of certain strange happenings in their factory.

Bobby said when one of their employees died in October they did not see anything strange about it.
“Then in November another employee in the same department also died. Still nothing so unusual from our point of view. In January, a third employee in the same department also died. “That’s when I began to think something strange was going on... Do you think there is something supernatural [here]?”

“I don’t know,” I replied. “Did you do anything different before the incidents began?”
“What do you mean?” he asked.

“Well, anything new that you did in the factory that you did not do before. Think of anything you did before October.”

Bobby said, “There’s nothing unusual I can think of except I had our old warehouse cleaned to give way to an executive parking area. That warehouse was not being used for a long time...”
“That’s it! “I exclaimed. “That could explain the deaths of your employees.”

“What do you mean?” asked Bobby. “What has that got to do with our employees dying?”
“Hard to explain to a very rational guy like you,” I told Bobby, a graduate of the Asian Institute of Management like me.

I told him that since the warehouse was not used for a long time, it could have been inhabited by negative elemental creatures.

When the place was cleaned, the creatures were dislocated. Bobby asked me if I could visit his factory and see if I could provide some explanation, and how to prevent future deaths, if indeed there was some connection among the strange events.

I brought a blind exorcist from Sampaloc who was known to contact bad spirits and get rid of them using a medium. The famous novelist and magazine editor Celso Al Carunungan came along out of curiosity.

The exorcist put his medium in a trance and asked the spirit to enter her. It was learned that there were hundreds of negative engkantos inside the warehouse.When asked if they killed the three employees, the spirit said yes and explained, through the medium, “Because they were making too much noise at night.”

I asked Bobby if that was true. He said the employees worked near the warehouse and usually worked overtime. To keep themselves awake, they played stereo music very loudly. That must have disturbed the engkantos.

They were also angered by the destruction of their habitat.
The exorcist asked them to leave the place but they refused. A battle of wills took place, which looked weird and surreal for us onlookers.

The exorcist said he would melt each one of them if they refused to leave. How one could melt a spirit, I could not comprehend.Anyway, it took the whole afternoon before the exorcist finally “destroyed” all the so-called engkantos in the place.

Whether one believes this story or not, the fact remains that, after the exorcism, there were no more deaths in the factory, which eventually transferred to Quezon City.

Dead tycoon wants favorite desk back
I worked in a large, multinational company in Makati in the late ’80s. When the famous son of the company founder died, a museum containing the history and family memorabilia was established within the building.A company historian-curator was hired to oversee the museum and update the records. The tycoon had three sons, all of them educated in the United States. Each of them headed subsidiaries of the vast conglomerate.

One day, the youngest son noticed his father’s beautiful narra desk was just displayed in the museum. He decided to use it as his desk and asked that it be transferred to his office.

I heard that employees started to experience ghostly manifestations in the son’s room after that. When nobody was around, typewriters sounded like they were being used, paper clips flew from one desk to another and security guards noticed somebody going inside the private restroom of the son then disappearing.

The son did not believe in ghosts and considered reports of haunting merely the product of his employees’ fertile imagination. When I was asked to check at the room without the son’s knowledge, I noticed the center of the ghostly visits was the old man’s desk.

I suggested that it be returned to the museum, as the old man apparently did not want it used by anybody else. The son, I was told, laughed at the suggestion.

The manifestations continued for some time until the son returned his father’s desk.

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How to become sensitive to psychic energy

2007-07-10T03:17:00.000-07:00

Why is it that some people can sense danger or a problem before it happens? Or they can hold an object belonging to a stranger and know accurate details about that person?

Others can feel or sense right away the presence of a spirit or invisible creatures in a place, while their companions may not feel anything at all.

These people have somehow, developed a sensitivity to subtle or psychic forces and energy.

They are called by various names: sensitives, psychics or people with multi-sensory faculties.They are able to combine all senses at once and form conclusions faster than ordinary individuals. They can “read” thoughts, “feel” colors or “see” invisible things.

Sixth sense
People with such heightened sensitivity to subtle or psychic forces represent the next phase of human evolution, according to some thinkers. They have developed an extra sense, or what is commonly known as the “Sixth Sense.”

But everybody possesses a so-called Sixth Sense or psychic perception to a lesser or greater degree. It is not a monopoly of a few highly gifted individuals.

Given some training and mental discipline, anyone can develop his/her sensitivity to psychic forces or energy. Psychic functioning is a natural ability of every human being.

How can ordinary individuals, with no extraordinary psychic powers or perception develop or heighten his sensitivity to psychic or subtle forces? Simply by becoming aware of his thoughts and feelings at any given moment of time.

Awareness is therefore the key to this faculty. But awareness to what? Isn’t it that when we are awake we are aware of things around us? Not necessarily.

Techniques
Consider this: Why is it that when two persons are looking at the same room, one will see or sense the presence of a spirit, but the other will not? The person who senses the spirit can even describe it while it is completely invisible to his/her companion.This is because one has developed sensitivity to the spirits, the other has not.

Another example. If two persons hold a quartz crystal, one will feel a very strong energy emanating from the crystal, but the other person may feel nothing at all. Why is this so?
One person has developed a sensitivity to the subtle energy of the crystal, while the other has not.

There are very simple methods or techniques for developing one’s sensitivity to psychic or subtle energy. The following are only a few examples of what anyone can do without any cost to him/her:

Be aware of the energy emanating from a place or room you enter. How does the room feel when no one is around? How does it feel when another person enters the room without you looking at the person? Does the energy in the room change? Does your feeling change? What is the change?

Can you tell the difference when a room contains a living plant and when the plant is not there?
When you meet a person for the first time, can you tell the type of energy radiating out of him/her? Is it positive, negative or neutral? Can you sense feelings of affection, envy, hatred, jealousy or suspicion in a person without talking to him/her? Can you read the body language?
When holding natural rock quartz crystals, can you tell the type of energy emitted by the crystal and can you distinguish the difference in the energy of each crystal? At first you may not feel any difference at all, but by practice this will soon be clear to you.

Each living creature, from the lowest to the highest form of life, radiates certain colors called the aura. Can you sense light coming out of a person’s body? From a plant or animal? Try sensing the aura of plants, animals and people around you.

Once you begin to focus on or be aware of the subtle energy emanating from objects, animals, plants and people, you will become more and more sensitive to the subtle forces that normally escape the average person. Later you can use this ability to read the soul of things.

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Will the East and West in medical practice never meet?

2007-07-03T00:50:00.000-07:00

One thing I really wish to see in the Philippines is a hospital offering both western and eastern treatment modalities and facilities.

It may take a long time before it becomes a reality, although I understand it already exists in a few countries.

There are a number of reasons why it is difficult for this type of hospital to be established here:

First, Philippine laws recognize only the western medicine as the legally accepted mode of treatment.

Second, schools of medicine do not teach eastern and other modalities of healing. Students graduate with practically no knowledge of other healing methods.

Third, Filipinos, especially in urban areas, have long accepted western medicine as the only effective means of treating disease.

Fourth, pharmaceutical companies lobby for the use of synthetic and chemical-based drugs that are supposed to be scientifically tested and validated.

Not validated
One of the objections raised against traditional and indigenous healing modalities is that they are mostly not validated under strict objective and controlled conditions.Testimonials of users are considered very weak arguments for the effectiveness of a healing method.

While valid, this argument is not insurmountable. There are ways to analyze and validate scientifically the methods, as has been done with acupuncture.

Doctors cannot deny there are illnesses for which there are no known medical cure. There are also illnesses whose causes cannot be determined by medical instrument or laboratory analysis.We can perhaps start with those ailments.

A well-known Filipino healer and psychic surgeon said there were two kinds of illnesses. One was caused by matter, like bacteria, germs, viruses, etc. The other, like unexplained lumps or bloating for which no medical cause could be found, was caused by a spirit.

Several years ago, a medical doctor I did not know personally, referred to me his patient because he did not know how to help her.

Baffling
He was completely baffled because the patient behaved strangely all of a sudden. Her eyes became red with anger, she shouted unintelligible words, cursed those around her and had the strength of several men, although she was physically frail.This happened after she got close to a large tree while cleaning her yard.

It was a clear case of spirit possession to me. Her doctors knew nothing about such a phenomenon so they referred her to me.I called a psychic friend who could see spirits and the disturbing entity was banished without difficulty. The patient had no knowledge of what she did or said during her trance-like state.

In England and Germany, I understand that homeopathy is an accepted modality of treatment even in hospitals.

In fact, Prince Charles of England is a known advocate of homeopathy.This is a mode of treatment developed by a German researcher named Hanneman. He treated illnesses by using the same thing that caused it but diluting to almost zero the chemical composition of the original. In other words, only the energy or vibration remained.

Western medical doctors merely laughed at this method and called it “quackery.” Yet it has remained an accepted treatment in several countries in Europe.

I hope to see the day when western-trained local doctors can practice what is best for their patients, whether such modalities come from the western or eastern tradition, as long as these are safe and effective.The doctors of the future should not only be scientists but also shamans. I have already met several of these pioneering and extraordinary medical hybrids. May their tribe increase!

Poland has great interest in psychic topics

2007-06-26T20:40:00.000-07:00

I DID not know what awaited me when I was invited to conduct a series of inner mind development seminars in Warsaw and Poznan by the Institute of Valeology headed by Irena Galinska-Musiol.

Since Poland is 95-percent Catholic, an even higher percentage than the Philippines', I expected a greater degree of resistance to my ideas and teachings.

I was wrong! Over 200 people attended my Introductory Lecture at the Ethnological Museum in Warsaw.

I was featured in "The Unknown World," the largest esoteric magazine in Poland, interviewed on television and on radio. Another well-known publication in Poznan, whose name roughly translates into "Fortune Teller Magazine" but actually features metaphysical and spiritual topics, also did a long interview with me.

It was a dizzying and hectic 12-day trip. My wife Yoly, who accompanied me, complained that she hardly had time to do some shopping and sightseeing. But I told her this first trip would not be the last but was only the beginning. This turned out to be correct.

The institute asked me to sign a three-year contract to conduct a series of seminars in Poland. Another agreement I signed was a contract for the Institute to translate and publish three of my books into Polish. The books are "Soulmates, Karma & Reincarnation," "The Magicians of God" and "Exploring the Powers of Your Inner Mind."

Faith healersSince the '90s, Filipino faith healers and psychic surgeons from Baguio City have done healing in Poland. The first to go there was the late Jose Segundo, who was killed when he was mayor of a municipality in Abra.

It was healer Hari Lukingan who introduced me to the Institute of Valeology, which invites experts and speakers from various parts of the world to give lectures and seminars on metaphysical, spiritual and new consciousness subjects.

I met during this trip Baguio healers Jaime Pusot and Antonio Pelingan, who were working with the institute. They are not allowed to do psychic surgery, only magnetic healing, physical therapy and massage.

The seminars I conducted in Warsaw were "Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation," "Basic ESP and Intuition Development" and "The Power of Intuition in Management." The last topic was discussed in Poznan with prominent business leaders and executives.

Two young men with the institute, Christopher Horbaczewski and Chris Witalewski, acted as interpreters for Irena and her partner Andrew who did not speak English.

During the seminars they hired a professional interpreter named Sarah to do the simultaneous translation of my lecture. Though I was apprehensive at first, the arrangement proved pretty successful.

I told my hosts that, considering that Poland was a heavily Catholic country, I was surprised at the open-mindedness of participants and the warm reception given my teachings which, in my own country, were regarded with suspicion and even opposed by certain conservative sectors of the Catholic population.

Hungry for knowledgeIrena told me that in Poland the people were hungry for real knowledge about metaphysics, spirituality and higher consciousness. That was why the Institute had been inviting experts in various fields from all over the world as they did not have such expertise yet.
When I was there, the institute had programmed seminars on Hypnosis, Arcturian Sacred Geometry, Tantra Yoga of Sex, Ayurveda and other topics loosely labeled "New Age" in the Philippines.

Journalist Anna Forecka of Fortune Teller Magazine, a writer for 11 years, interviewed me for almost two hours about varied topics saying she would write a long feature article about me in her popular magazine.

A participant in my ESP seminar in Warsaw turned out to be an independent producer of television documentary programs. He interviewed me about the use of intuition in management, which seemed to be a very new subject for them.

A consultant who worked part- time with the Institute of Valeology, asked if I had a seminar on creative thinking that I could conduct in Poland. I used to teach that subject for various companies in the Philippines, including in the Master in Entrepreneurship program at the Asian Institute of Management, where I was a part-time faculty member.

Since Poland has joined the European Union, there is great pressure on the country to catch up with the rest of Western Europe. This is why they need courses that will improve the creative and innovative thinking skills of the people.

Before I left Warsaw, I was told that they got money from the EU to fund a seminar on Creative Thinking and Problem Solving. Next March I will be back in Poland to teach this subject and conduct my other inner mind development seminars.

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Laughter is the best medicine

2007-06-19T14:34:00.000-07:00

About 25 years ago, Norman Cousins, editor of the respected literary magazine Saturday Review in New York City, was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, an incurable and fatal spinal column illness of unknown cause.

He tried all sorts of alternative remedies, including Vitamin B-17 or laetrile, large doses of Vitamin C and several others, with little or no effect on his condition.

So, one day, against the advice of his doctors, he left the hospital and closeted himself in his apartment for one month doing what he enjoyed most—reading humorous stories and jokes, watching comedy movies and reading his favorite comic books.

He did nothing but laugh and laugh each day for one whole month. He also wrote original jokes which he would read aloud to himself then laugh like crazy. He noticed that every time he laughed, his pain was eased.
At the end of one month, Cousins returned to the hospital for a checkup. To the surprise of the medical staff who examined him, they found no trace of the dreaded disease. He was completely cured!

So they asked Cousins what medicines he took that cured him. They would not believe him when he replied he had not taken any medicine since he was told his ailment was incurable.

They said, “You must have done something you never did before.”

He finally replied, “All I did was to laugh myself to health.” He became known as the man who cured himself through laughter, and was even appointed a faculty member of the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, although he was not a doctor.

Later he told his incredible story in a book, “Anatomy of an Illness,” which was made into a movie.

At that time, medical science did not believe there was any connection between the mind, the emotions and the immune system. The immune system was thought to be independent of and not subject to the directions of the mind or the vagaries of human emotions.

In the early 90’s, I met Leonard Ponath of Dallas, Texas at a YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) regional conference in Cebu, where we were both guest speakers. Ponath told the story of how, 18 years before the Cebu meeting, he fell buttocks first from a two-story building, broke his pelvic bones and was paralyzed from the hips down. Doctors told him he would never walk again.

While recuperating in a circular bed in the hospital, he began to visualize 100 construction workers reconstructing his pelvic bones. His visualization was aided by healing sounds used by the medicine men or shamans of Nicaragua’s Mesquito Indians. He did the visualization morning, noon and evening.

On the third month of his confinement, he developed a sensation in his toe, which was medically impossible. On the sixth month, he developed a sensation in his legs. Another impossibility. On the 12th month, he was able to sit down. When I met him in Cebu, he was jogging. Ponath told me, “If the people you (tell) this story to do not believe you, tell them to go to the Museum of Natural History in Dallas, and there they will find my story.”

There are many other stories I can relate here about extraordinary healing that occurred using mental imagery or some other natural means or techniques.

But western-trained medical doctors and scientists normally ignore and even frown upon such stories for several reasons.

First, they happen at random and quite infrequently. Second, they cannot be explained scientifically or rationally.

Third, they seem to happen mainly to people who are suggestible and therefore highly subjective.
But neuroscientists and other specialists in the last 20 or 30 years have begun to unravel the mysterious connections among our nervous system, emotions and the immune system.

They have discovered and are still discovering the vital role our minds and emotions play in the emergence of disease and its possible management and cure.

In the near future, more progressive physicians will be asking their patients not only about the symptoms they have but also the following: “How do you feel about your job? Your wife or husband? Your mother-in-law? What upsets you or makes you angry? Do you get enough sleep? Etc.”

They may prescribe not just drugs or surgery but also meditation, visualization, yoga, Qui Gong, Tai Chi or even laughter to fight disease.

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Stalked by a spirit lover

2007-06-12T14:47:00.000-07:00

I received recently the following urgent letter from a reader named Juancho S. whose girlfriend abroad is being sexually molested by a spirit.

“I am writing to you in desperation. My fiancée has been hounded by a certain entity for quite some time now.
“It started when she was finishing medical school. In the middle of the night, a spirit, who seemed to be a man, would get on top of her, as if to violate her, until she would wake up.

“She would call me up crying, scared and not knowing what to do. It happened several times. She tried to live with it, until it became unbearable because it followed her to Nueva Ecija.

“Being an ardent Catholic, she tried praying while the spirit was on top of her, but it seemed it was mocking her.

“Upon the recommendation of a brother Mason, we took advice from a Muslim priest, who instructed her to say a prayer and gave her blessed water to scatter around her apartment. After that, the molestation stopped.
“Now that she is in the States (Jersey City, NJ), we thought it was unlikely it would follow her since the episodes stopped. But we were wrong. Since she left in January, she had three such episodes, and the entity was starting to take form!

“Please help us, I myself feel helpless for I no longer know what to do, plus the fact that I cannot be there for her.”

Sensitivity
There are women who attract spirits, sometimes negative ones without intending to. These are women whose chakras or psychic centers (specially the third or solar plexus) are open and whose auras are not shielded. They are also usually very sensitive to the psychic forces but are weak-willed.

They are natural psychics without realizing it. Spirit entities see these as openings or entry points into their energy field or vibratory level. Those women become mediums or channels of the spirit.

It is all right if they can shield themselves from the lower and negative spirits and commune only with higher positive ones. But usually they lack the ability to discern the spirits that come to them and they are open to the influences of negative ones.

Sometimes a male spirit gets attracted to a living female because the victim resembles a woman the spirit fell in love with in the past. Sometimes, these spirits are just really demonic and they are the dangerous ones.
The first line of defense against spirit molestations and possessions is to strengthen one’s will to fight and prevent these negative elements from molesting or entering one’s body. A positive and confident attitude will help.

According to psychic Edgar Cayce, “If you align yourself to your highest ideal, that is, to your God, then no lower spirit can bother you. Some healers in the Philippines have suggested that the victim recite the 91st Psalm or the 23rd Psalm to protect him or her from spirit molestation. The wearing of the Saint Benedict medal also has helped many victims of demonic possession. It is also good against snake bites and poisons.”

Dreams
A reader from Zamboanga City named Abbey wants to know what it means if we dream of our departed ones. Her one-and-a-half year old boy died and members of her family often dream of him playing and laughing. “Does he want to tell us something? Is he truly happy in heaven?”

Dreams of newly departed loved ones can mean different things depending on the circumstances of their death and the manner in which they appear in the dreams.

Sometimes it is merely to say goodbye, at other times to convey an important message, and sometimes to ask for help or prayer. Sudden death can bring shock to the spirit and, for a while, it may feel lost in the spirit world.

In the case of your young child, he just wants to tell you and the members of your family that he is happy where he is now in the spirit world and you should not worry about him.

Your husband’s dream, which you also mentioned, is more difficult to interpret accurately beyond the obvious meaning that he may be always thinking of new projects that never get off the ground.

I have no idea of his background nor his present issues in life. A dream cannot be interpreted properly except in the context of the dreamer’s life.

Unless I can ask your husband a number of specific questions about himself, I would rather not venture to interpret his or anyone’s dream.

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Can dreams show us future events?

2007-06-05T05:15:00.000-07:00

News of the arrest of four suspects in the killing of a senior police officer in the May 26 issue of Philippine Daily Inquirer caught my interest and attention.

The victim’s wife was quoted as saying their 12-year-old daughter dreamt of the tragedy the day it happened:

“In the dream, the Bocalbos family was inside the Nissan Urvan Escapade vehicle waiting for Maria Cristina to return from a fast food restaurant. Suddenly, someone opened the front passenger seat and attacked the police officer. Christie looked in the vehicle’s side mirror and saw her father pleading for help.”

The news item added that the victim’s wife wanted to tell her husband about their daughter’s dream and to warn him but she ignored the impulse thinking it was just a dream.

QuestionsThere are several questions that come to mind regarding this story. First, what are dreams, and why do they occur? Second, how can dreams tell us what is going to happen beforehand? And third, can the victim have been saved if the wife warned him?

We spend one-third of our lives sleeping. And dreaming is one of the main activities during sleep. A dream has been defined as “the language of the subconscious mind.”Our subconscious is a vast store-house of information, not only of past, but also of present and future events.

There are many reasons why we dream. Sometimes, a dream is merely a carryover of waking activities and concerns. Other times, it conveys an important message about our health, relationship, job or other personal matter. But there are times when dreams warn us of future events, like what happened in the above case.

How is it possible for a dream to foretell a future event? Of course not all dreams are of this nature. But, according to the beliefs of Australian aborigines, “before an event actually happens in our waking state, we first dream of it.”That’s why they pay close attention to their dreams and do not ignore them, unlike us so-called more “civilized” ones. I think we have much to learn from the aborigines.

The third question is the most difficult to answer: Could Bocalbo’s death have been prevented if his wife told him of his daughter’s dream?

Of course, if his wife called him and he heeded the warning, then the killing would not have taken place that day. But would it not happen at all?Sometimes a foreseen or predicted event can be prevented; sometimes not.

UnpreventableLet me cite two examples, one local, the other foreign.

During the time of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, a psychic reportedly warned him that the plane carrying his son Bongbong would crash. The plane had already taken off. The President asked the plane to return and his son got off.The plane resumed its journey. As we know, that plane did crash, killing almost everybody on board, including Bongbong’s best friend, the son of Judge Serafin Camilon (By the way, in a Playboy Magazine interview, Marcos said he had an intuitive insight the plane would crash and not because he was warned. I don’t know whom to believe, the psychic who told me about it or Marcos. Both are dead now).

Question: “Why didn’t Marcos ground that plane if he knew it would crash?” He couldn’t. If he did, he would have been the laughing stock of the world. He couldn’t prove it would crash, until it actually did. So he just asked his son to get off.

In the second case, Edgar Cayce, the late American psychic and prophet, was waiting for an elevator. When the doors opened, he saw four or five persons inside. He stepped back to indicate he was not getting in. The elevator doors closed and shortly afterwards the elevator crashed killing all passengers.

Question: “How did Edgar Cayce know that the elevator would crash?” He said when the elevator doors opened, he saw the people inside had no aura anymore (the aura is the life force that every living being has). For all practical purposes, therefore, those people were already dead.

Another question: “Why didn’t Cayce ask the people to get out?” Answer: Who would believe him? Those people were as good as dead and there was nothing he could do about it.Same thing with the plane crash. The people in the plane were already doomed. Marcos could not have prevented it.

Should we therefore just let things be and do nothing when we dream or see something bad is about to happen? No, we should always try to warn people of impending danger or accident when we foresee one, because there are times when foreseen events can be prevented.This is when their completion depends on the will of man and is not yet completed on the astral or spiritual plane.

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Healers learn from spirits

2007-05-29T20:11:00.000-07:00

A young girl, about 8 or 10 years old, was seriously ill.

Lying in her bed, she dreamt that a Capuchin monk appeared to her and touched her forehead. Next morning, she was completely healed.

When the child told her parents and other people that a good monk, who appeared in her dream, healed her, they did not believe her. Then they saw a tiny drop of red blood on the child’s white blanket.

The blood was found to be of a different type from the child’s. When Padre Pio’s picture was shown to her, she identified him as the one she saw in her dream.

Padre Pio, as we know, suffered from stigmata or spontaneous bleeding in both hands and feet in imitation of the passion of Jesus Christ.

This is an example of healing done by the spirit, although at that time, Padre Pio was still alive. His astral body must have flown to the sick bed of the child and healed her while his physical body was in his monastery.

He was known to do that during his time, and now that he is dead, he continues to heal people while in the spirit world.

The Christian Bible contains many stories of healing by angelic creatures. In the New Testament, Jesus Christ healed many, although he was not physically with the patients.
While we usually do not doubt stories from the Bible, we have difficulty accepting similar stories of healing from the spirit world when it happens to us today in real life.

We usually attribute such incidents to imagination, hallucination or spontaneous remission of illness. In other words, the disease would have healed by itself.

Verifiable stories
Spirit communication and spirit healing continue up to this day and did not stop with the death of Christ, as some evangelists seem to believe. And there are many verifiable and authenticated stories that these are still happening in modern times.

How do our local herbolarios or indigenous medicine men and women know which of the so many different medical plants and herbs are good for what disease?

According to conventional wisdom, this knowledge was handed down from one generation to another. If this were so, then these healers must have prodigious vocabulary and perfect memory to be able to remember all the different plants useful or effective against certain disease.But many local healers are unschooled and do not have sophisticated intellects. Yet they can put to shame those with doctorate degrees in big universities.

So how can we explain how the first healers learned about medicinal plants?

Incredible as this may sound, I believe that the first healers obtained their knowledge direct from the spirit world through a dream, in a trance state or a waking vision.

In the ’80s, I met a teenage female healer in the Mountain Province. She lived in a small hut with her parents. Although quite young, she was known in the village as a good healer and everybody brought their sick to her.

At the time of my visit, a mother had brought her baby for treatment. The baby’s back was accidentally scalded by boiling water. She was crying hysterically in pain.

No to doctors
Wanting to help, I offered to bring the baby to the hospital and even to shoulder the expenses. The mother simply looked at me and said sternly: “We don’t believe in hospital doctors.”That shut me up and I just watched what the healer did.

She burned some herbs and then poured the ashes on the burned back of the child. I was shocked because the baby could suffer from infection. But I couldn’t do anything.

As the healer slowly covered the burned portions of the baby’s back with ashes, the child stopped crying. I found that pretty impressive. I did not think she could make the child stop crying.

I asked her later how she knew exactly what to do. How did she know which plant was good for which disease? Who taught her how to do this thing?

She replied that no one taught her how to heal. She was told in a dream what plant was good for which ailment. She was even told exactly where in the mountain she could find a particular medicinal plant and which part of the plant to use, for example, the leaves, the bark, the root.

This story is typical of the many healers I have interviewed in the Philippines. Not one of them chose willingly or volunteered to be a healer.

They were somehow chosen by the spirits to become one. They all spoke of an invisible guide that appeared to them in a dream, direct vision, or during a trance or meditative state.

As the Japanese psychic and spiritual researcher Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama said: “No one becomes a healer unless he has encountered a god.” I believe he is absolutely right!

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Body-mind techniques help heal people

2007-05-22T14:42:00.000-07:00

Since 1988, I have been running programs in my Inner Mind Development Institute to train people on the use of their brains to heal themselves through visualization and stress control.
At the time, very few medical doctors realized the importance of my work. Most of them considered such training programs nonsensical.

All that may change pretty soon. There is now incontrovertible scientific evidence about the crucial role of our mind in controlling certain illnesses.

In its May 2007 issue, for example, the Readers’ Digest (Asian Edition) reported the findings of Dr. Kevin Tracey after years of careful experiments.

Tracey, a neurosurgeon, immunologist and director of the Feinstein Institute of Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, showed how our brain might actually help our body’s immune system to fight disease.

According to the magazine, “In a series of studies since 2000, he’s shown that stimulation of the vagus nerve—a major nerve that runs from our brain stem to our belly and regulates our heartbeat, breathing and intestines—stops severe sepsis.

“Sepsis is a condition in which the immune system massively reacts to a bacterial infection, indiscriminately training its canons on the body’s own tissues.

“It stops this self-destructive process by using neuro-chemicals to signal immune cells, which prevents them from releasing alarm molecules that spur inflammation and cause damage. In a 2006 study, he discovered a brain circuit that could stimulate the vagus nerve to switch off inflammation.”

Meditation helpsTracey acknowledged that meditation could help, too, in the fight against disease. “People,” according to him, “can learn to slow down their heartbeat by modifying vagus nerve activity, which suggests they might be able to control their own brains to calm inflammation and fight disease.”

Calming the mind and body through certain mental techniques can even slow down the spread of diseases like cancer.Dr. Carl Simonton, a cancer specialist, has shown for decades that by visualizing white cells fighting cancer cells symbolically or metaphorically, certain forms of cancer can be controlled.Although his method was first junked by the medical community, it is now being taken seriously by certain hospitals in the West.And a new branch of medicine has emerged with the tongue-twisting name of “psychoneuroimmunology” that studies the connection among the mind, emotions, and immune system.

According to a director of the National Institute of Mental Health, “Studies like Glaser’s and Tracey’s have given credibility to mind-body approaches which have been rejected and ignored by the scientific and medical communities. Now, scientists have begun taking the next step, harnessing the powers of the human brain to help people heal themselves.”

The Readers’ Digest reported the work of a biotech company that trained people to “reduce chronic pain by visualizing and learning to control it.” And some were able to do so by more than 40 percent.Well, in my Inner Mind Development seminar, I teach a powerful visualization technique to control pain and some are able to do so with 100-percent effectiveness.Of course, not all succeed in doing so, for a variety of reasons. First, because of lack of concentration; second, failure to slow down their brain waves to the alpha level, and to relax; and third, perhaps the presence of other disturbing factors.

Documented successBut we have documented cases showing the success of such visualization techniques taught in my seminar, like the case of a 35-year-old accountant with myoma as big as a fist, an architect with chronic asthmatic condition, a mining engineer with severe back pain, and a female industrial engineer with a herniated disc.With just a single visualization session in class, they were all relieved of their sickness.

I am glad that such body-mind techniques are no longer objects of ridicule by the medical and scientific communities abroad. I hope such an open-minded attitude toward alternative modalities of therapy will also begin to influence medical practitioners in the Philippines.They have nothing to lose but their skepticism.

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Limbo’s impact on Philippine folk beliefs

2007-05-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

So now the Vatican has officially declared that Limbo does not exist as it had taught since the 13th century.

Limbo, from the Latin word meaning “border” or “edge,” was considered by medieval Catholic theologians to be a state or place reserved for the unbaptized dead, including good people who lived before the coming of Christ.

The declaration was made by the International Theological Commission, a body of Vatican-appointed theologians who advise the Pope and the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The present Pope, Benedict XVI, headed the Congregation for 20 years before becoming Pope in 2005.

According to the news item that appeared in the Inquirer on April 22, “while the report does not carry the authority of a papal encyclical or even the weight of a formal document from the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, it was approved by the Pope on Jan. 19 and was published on the Internet—an indication that it was intended to be widely read by the faithful.”

ImplicationsThe implications of this declaration, that Limbo does not exist and therefore infants who die without being baptized can still be saved and enjoy eternal happiness, will be debated for years to come by theologians. Let us leave the debate to them. What interests me at the moment is what impact this reversal of a long held Church teaching will have on Philippine folklore, on the beliefs and practices of Filipino albolaryos, healers, occult practitioners and mystics.

Philippine folk religious beliefs often mimic or follow the outward rituals of the Catholic Church while changing their meaning or intent. For example, the Catholic belief that unbaptized infants who die go to limbo has given rise to the folk belief that such infants become tianaks, or engkantos who are mischievous elemental creatures. The negative engkantos are believed to be those who die without being baptized and therefore are still tainted by original sin.

Another example of such mimicry is in the practice of sorcery. I learned that one well-known and confessed sorcerer of Siquijor Island (who died already), used to go to the oldest Church in the island to pray for the success of what he was about to do, i.e. to inflict sickness, harm or even death on his victim. He would ask the help of God and his angels to help him succeed in his task, saying it is not his intention to harm this person but was only hired to do so. This is similar to the perverted reasoning of a hired killer who justifies his action by saying he is only doing a job he is being paid to do and had nothing against the person he was going to kill. And therefore the assassin should not be blamed for the crime.

A French film company actually filmed the entire process of sorcery performed by this sorcerer, from the initial preparation to its actual execution. It’s a sickening and shocking movie to watch. Only the victim’s identity was not shown. What was shocking to me was that all the preparation the sorcerer made followed exactly the rituals of the Catholic Mass and asked God’s blessing for what he was about to do.

How the Filipino folk belief in the unbaptized children as the bad guys will evolve, now that limbo has been eliminated, remains to be seen. Will belief in tianaks or negative engkantos be redefined too? We can only speculate what will happen.

Revised teachingsThis is not the first time the Catholic Church has reversed its own teaching or belief. The Church used to believe that the sun revolved around a stationary earth. And Galileo was arrested and put on trial for saying otherwise. He would have been executed had he not retracted his statement. Centuries later, the Church apologized to him.

A worse fate befell the young French peasant woman, Joan of Arc. She was burned at the stake as a witch. Four hundred years later, the Catholic Church declared her to be a saint!

The late Pope John Paul II, now in the process of being declared a saint, also issued an apology to those who suffered from the persecutions of the Church, referring to the excesses of the infamous Inquisitions during which tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children were mercilessly tortured and killed for allegedly “practicing witchcraft” or “being in league with the devil.”

As science advances our knowledge of the universe we live in, more outmoded teachings of the Church will be revised or redefined in the near future, just as it happened to the belief in Limbo.
Would it be farfetched to speculate that when science finally proves the possibility of multiple rebirth, the church may also reverse its current stand against reincarnation?

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Limbo’s impact on Philippine folk beliefs

2007-05-08T05:50:00.000-07:00

Mother wants to know what religion to teach her kids

2007-05-01T01:02:00.000-07:00

I am confronted with a question that I honestly do not want to be asked. In fact, my first impulse was to ignore it.

But I find myself haunted by the question of this young mother about how to raise her two babies “in terms of religion and spirituality.”

Here is her thought-provoking letter:
“I am a mother of two toddlers, a 2½-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy. How, do you think, should I bring up my kids in terms of religion and spirituality?

“I read a line from your articles that whenever you see one of your former students, you would apologize to them for teaching them things you don’t believe in anymore.

“I, myself, was brought up in a strict Catholic environment. I was very religious then, and very active in church activities. I was a member of different religious organizations and you can say I was the youngest manang then at 10-11 years old.

“I still go to church but I have a different point of view now.

“Since my kids are already in that stage where I can teach them the basics of life (which will form a big part of their growing up years), I am kind of unsure how to introduce religion to them, or if I should.

“And how to explain things to them that will not confuse them given the beliefs of the majority that they will surely encounter when they start going to school? ”

Personal
I really am at a loss how to answer this question because I believe religion is a very personal thing. Each of us has his/her own belief system and no one should ever impose his/her own religious beliefs on others.

I cannot pretend to know more than this mother or anybody else how best to introduce religion to her children or even if she has to.

But since my opinion is sought, here is what I can say about this very important subject, which I do not expect everybody to agree with.

I think it is good to grow up having a religion, no matter what that might be so that the child will have an anchor or foundation.

But whatever religion she chooses to introduce her children to, she should also teach them to be open to other belief systems that may, at first glance, be different from or contrary to their own.
I do not think it is wrong to belong to one religion (Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim or Taoist) provided one does not become fanatical or dogmatic about it.

Ideally, religion should unite all human beings but, instead, it has succeeded only in dividing them. How many millions of lives have been destroyed in the name of religion? Is the world better off today than before Jesus Christ was born over 2000 years ago?

Of course, you will get different answers to this depending on whom you ask. George Bernard Shaw once quipped: “We can’t say Christianity has failed, because it has never been tried.”

But is this not true of all religions? Followers of every organized religion do not even completely agree on what their founder really taught, nor how to interpret them. So every religion eventually splits into various sects and cults, each claiming to be the true one.

One thing more, no matter in what religion you bring up your child, s/he will eventually form his/her own belief system, just like you did, if your kids are intelligent enough.

They will soon see the logical inconsistencies in their adopted religion’s official teachings and will question them either openly or silently.

Respect for others
You have to encourage your children to respect the religious beliefs of other people while maintaining their own beliefs. There is absolutely no point in converting a person from one religion to another because each religion puts one’s mind in a box. And converting people is just like jumping from one box to another. You are still in a box, see?

Despite the fact that I have long ago graduated from my school boy mentality about the Christian religion, I still believe in what Jesus taught, as he originally taught them, not the interpretation of the official Church. As you begin to dig deeper into the origins of Christianity, you will begin to discover to your great horror how different the Church teachings are compared to what he originally taught.

With the historic findings of the Gnostic Gospels in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt, for example, we now have reasonable proof how much of Christ’s original teachings were edited out by the Early Church Fathers.

By declaring such lost teachings as heresies, they have succeeded in making people believe theirs is the only true and authentic teachings. That is the situation we find ourselves now in terms of Christianity.

When the American psychic Edgar Cayce, while in a trance, was asked, “Which version of the Bible is the best?” he replied: “The one that you live.”

I shall answer this mother’s question about religion in the same way. “The best religion you can teach your children is the one that you live.”

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Religion should create happiness

2007-04-24T01:29:00.000-07:00

By Jaime LicaucoInquirerLast updated 01:09am (Mla time) 04/24/2007
Last week, I wrote about Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who is in Manila for the first time. He starts his public lectures and advanced seminar on the Art of Living (AOL) tomorrow at Edsa Shangri-La.
As I said last week, after my initial skepticism, I was grateful to the AOL Organization in the Philippines for what the course has done for me and, I found out, for millions of people around the world.Here are excerpts of spontaneous answers given by Sri Sri Shankar to questions asked of him:

What is your idea of God and how can man reach him through the Art of Living course?
“That which is the basis of all creation, from which you can never be separate, that is Divinity, that is God.

“So there are different levels of understanding. On one level, on the intellectual level, God is like the space, the basis of the whole creation in which we are, we remain and we dissolve all there was, all that is, and all that will be. On the emotional level, we all seek love. Love is God and God is love.

“You cannot know God through the five senses, that has to be felt from the heart. That is why we say love is God, because only in the state of love you can experience love.

“The AOL course can get you into that unstressed state of mind. You cannot experience love if you are stressed; so when you get out of stress and tension and go into deep meditation, then you realize that you can feel the love for God. ”

Have you seen God?
“There are certain questions for which no answer is the right answer. Like if someone is sleeping and you ask ‘Are you sleeping?’ and if he doesn’t answer, then he must be asleep.“If he says ‘Yes,’ that means he is not sleeping. This is one such question. God is not an object of your senses, it is the very basis of your life.”

What is your concept of hell and heaven?
“I have none. Heaven is, perhaps, when there is harmony in your environment and within yourself, and hell is when there is no harmony within you and around you.”

You said, if you wanted to introduce religion, let it be the religion of happiness. That sounds like a negation of religion as we know it.
“No, definitely we should learn a little about every religion and we should be firm and strong about our own religion. Religion should not create hatred, guilt but happiness.“One who is full of happiness, compassion and love is truly religious; it is when one doesn’t see that one gets disheartened. Religious people should bring that happiness. If a religion does not have love and broad-mindedness then it is not worth following.”

What are your long-term objectives?
“To see a smile on every face, a smile that is not fragile, a smile that does not evaporate and disappear just like that.”

Well, Guruji will surely see a lot of smiling faces in the Philippines like he has never seen anywhere in the world.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar will be the speaker at “An Evening of Music, Wisdom, and Meditation,” at 6 p.m., today, at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel. He will conduct a “Health & Happiness” workshop, 6:30-8:30 p.m, April 25-27, at the Isla Ballroom, Edsa Shangri-La Hotel. Call 0917-7910190.

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Guru of joy and happiness

2007-04-17T01:36:00.000-07:00

When I told some people that Sri Sri Ravi Shankar was coming to Manila for the first time later this week to give public lectures and conduct the advanced seminar on the Art of Living (AOL), they all responded: “Who is he? Never heard of him.”

That was the same reaction I had when his AOL course was first brought to my attention a year ago. I completely ignored it.

Only recently did I attend the seminar because a former student volunteered to pay for it and insisted that I attended it.Now I am grateful to her and to the AOL Organization in the Philippines for what the course has done for me and, I found out, for millions of people around the world.
One reason I was reluctant to attend the course is a strong bias against gurus in general and Indian ones in particular.I have met several and they all have bloated egos while preaching love, humility and spirituality.
They all bask in the admiration of credulous people and expect everyone to worship them. So I have avoided them like the proverbial plague.
But my initial skepticism and resistance soon vanished, as I came to know more about this man behind the AOL seminar that has swept the globe in so short a time.
Guru for the skeptics
He is a guru for those like me who hate gurus. He is an exception to the rule. Although I have not personally met him, I have come to admire his childlike attitude toward life and the simplicity and his return-to-basics philosophy.
The breathing technique called Sudershan Kriya and Yoga postures taught in his courses are so easy to do by both young and old that they get their full benefit from regular practice, unlike the more complicated techniques of other schools of thought.
When asked what his goal in life was, he replied: “To put a smile on everybody’s face.” He described himself as “a child who never grew up.”
But let not his childlike innocence, forever smiling face and simple charm deceive you. He is not at all superficial or shallow. In fact, his outward childlike demeanor hides a formidable intellect.
At the age of 4, he surprised his parents and his teachers by reciting complete verses of the Bhagavad Gita, the Holy Book of the Hindus.By the age of 17, he had obtained an advance degree in modern science. Later, he received an honorary doctoral degree from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India.
He was for a time with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who introduced Transcendental Meditation (TM) to the Western world.
In 1981, he parted ways with the Maharishi, “with no ill feelings,” and established the Art of Living Foundation, which has become one of the world’s largest volunteer-based educational and humanitarian organizations with a presence in 150 countries.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has brought to the masses ancient mental techniques, which were traditionally kept exclusive.
He has designed many self-development modules that people can take home to calm their minds and heighten enthusiasm.
Through this highly effective and practical program, thousands have come out of stress, depression, suicidal tendencies and aggressive behaviors.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar public talks are on April 24-27, text AOL space (your name) space (your message) and send to 2920 for Globe and Smart subscribers; or 0917-7910190.

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Meditation posture, focus, etc.

2007-04-11T02:29:00.000-07:00

Here are interesting questions on different types of meditation and their effects, from reader John Morales:
“What are the differences between a meditation with a distinct aim in mind (i.e. trying to lose weight) and a meditation which has no distinct aim, just coasting along and observing? Can one practice these two types … interchangeably without the meditator being affected or confused in the process?

“Do different meditation postures, including the hand postures, have different effects on the meditation process?

“I have been meditating using the seated position with my arms rested on my lap but I have noticed that after about five minutes my hands get numb, which bothers me.

“How can I avoid numbness in my hands? Is numbness in any part of the body a natural occurrence in meditation, and should I just observe it and try not to be bothered? Or should I find a solution to that? Can I adopt the other hand positions, like resting my hands in an upward position and making my first finger and thumb touch in an ‘O’ position?”

Aside from Mr. Morales, I also received several questions about meditation from people I met. Most of them say they have difficulty concentrating on a single topic. They get easily distracted, etc. So the question of Mr. Morales is quite timely. Here are my replies to his query.

I distinguish between two types of meditation depending on the objectives. The first is what I call passive meditation. Here, the objective may simply be relaxation and peace of mind.

The other type is what I call active or dynamic meditation. Here the meditator has a specific objective or purpose in mind like, as you said, losing weight, or solving a problem, or healing one’s self or others, or achieving a particular business or personal goal. This is the type of meditation I teach in my inner mind development seminar or workshop.

In active meditation, one begins with passive meditation to reach a very relaxed mental and physical state. This may simply consist of counting downwards or focusing on one’s breathing.

Once full mental and physical relaxation is achieved, then he/she can begin with the active or dynamic meditation by visualizing achievement of a goal, healing one’s self or others, losing weight, getting a new car, etc.

Of course, one can practice these two types without any bad effect or confusion. The first is only a part of the other.

Different meditation schools have different theories about the value of various postures when meditating.
Some practitioners of Indian yoga and other Eastern schools of thought, like Zen and Tibetan systems of meditation, prescribe strict rules regarding postures. They believe that certain positions have an effect on the subtle energy circulating in one’s body; but others do not think so.

For example, Dr. Herbert Benson, a cardiologist from Harvard Medical School, did extensive research on various forms of meditation and came up with four basic factors to bring about the meditative state, which he called the “Relaxation Response.” He wrote a book with the same title, which sold millions of copies in the United States and abroad, based on his findings.

The four factors are: quiet environment, mental device, passive attitude and comfortable position.
A “quiet environment” is necessary, especially if one is a beginner, to make sure he/she is not distracted. Later, he/she should be able to meditate and achieve a relaxed state even in noisy surroundings.

A “mental device” is any sound, object or symbol that one focuses his/her mind on so it will not wander. A mantra is an example of a mental device. And so is a word, or sound, symbol or object.

A “passive attitude” means a “letting go” feeling. It is the most difficult to achieve, according to Dr. Benson, but it determines whether one succeeds in meditation or not.

Once a passive attitude is developed, the telephone may ring or someone may call and the person will not respond. If he/she does, a passive attitude has not been achieved.

The last factor is a “comfortable position.” Dr. Benson said it was not important to assume a lotus position if one was not used to it. If he/she insisted on doing so, he/she might only get cramps, which would distract him/her from the task. His advice was to assume a position that was most comfortable for the person.
Perhaps what I would advice a would-be meditator is to assume a comfortable sitting position with spinal column straight but not stiff, and eyes closed. That’s all.

Your numbness may be caused by the fact that you may have gone lower than the alpha level of the brain waves. You may already be at the theta state, in which case you may indeed feel numb. The theta level is the level of deep trance. You have to monitor this condition carefully. I am assuming you do not have a medical reason for being numb. Have your uric acid checked. Hope the above explanations help you.

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A unique spiritual discussion group

2007-04-02T02:33:00.000-07:00

In the evening of March 9, a group of 11 intellectually curious individuals, seven men and four women of varied educational and social backgrounds, aged 40 to almost 70, met in a small room of Wack-Wack Golf and Country Club to discuss ideas and questions about Christianity and other spiritual topics in an open and free manner.

After nearly three hours of animated exchange, the group agreed to meet again and start what could be the only spiritual discussion group of its kind in the country.

The usual Bible and other religious study groups have one “authority figure,” a pastor or preacher who tells members the supposedly “correct” interpretation of the Bible. His interpretation is the only one accepted, no matter how ridiculous, baseless or illogical it is.There is really no free discussion of ideas. Members are led like ignorant children to believe only one “official” interpretation. There is no room for disagreement or dissent. Anyone who disagrees is no longer welcome and becomes an outcast.

Dissatisfied
From time to time, I meet highly intelligent individuals who quietly express their personal dissatisfaction with the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church, which they cannot intellectually accept or understand.

Some of my former schoolmates were dissatisfied with their Bible study groups, and eventually got fed up with the discussion leader who could not stand being questioned and who discouraged free expression of contrary opinions.

I also recently met a widely read advertising and marketing consultant who questioned some of the most cherished beliefs of the church but did not know what to substitute for them.

Another person I met could not accept intellectually the concept of hell but was afraid that, if hell existed, he might be condemned to spend the after-life in it. Therefore he just accepted it until proven otherwise.
All of them felt frustrated and said they could not discuss these ideas within their own families and close circles of friends. So they chose to keep these doubts and questions to themselves.

Different
So, one day, I told these people: “Why don’t we form a small discussion group on religious and spiritual matters? But it will be different from any other existing today.

“No authority figure will tell us what or what not to believe. We shall express and share our ideas and opinions and not try to convince each other. We will not allow debates to prove that one is right and the other wrong. We will respect differences in opinion, especially those contrary to our own. No attempt will be made to convert others to our own belief system or religious views.

“In addition, there will be no leader or follower. We are all equals, all on the same boat, all seekers of the light. Each will be as a torch light to the other. This way, everybody grows in consciousness and awareness and no one is intellectually superior to the other.”

These characteristics are what make this spiritual study group unique, the only one of its kind in the country.
I described to them a very effective, orderly and highly democratic way of group discussion handed down to us by our elders and by ancient tribal traditions of various cultures.

Perhaps a major example in history would be the Areopagus in the ancient city of Athens. The Christian Bible describes this in the Acts of the Apostles. When St. Paul started preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in various cities, he was often rebuked, ridiculed, even jailed and tortured for spreading a foreign religion.

Place for free speech
But in Athens, he was welcomed precisely because he talked to them about something they had never heard before. They brought him to the Areopagus where people discussed freely anything new under the sun without any form of censorship.

And they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? It sounds rather strange to us, so we would like to know what it means.”

And the Bible tells us that Athenians and foreigners living there loved nothing more than to tell and hear new things all day (Acts, 17:19-21).

This openness to new ideas, no matter how strange or contrary to our views, is probably why democracy was born in Greece. Freedom of belief and expression could not have survived under an authoritarian atmosphere.

The group, tentatively called the Areopagus Spiritual Discussion Group, will meet again next month. Possible topics for discussion are reincarnation and karma; who Jesus really was; individual concept of God; life after death; pagan origins of Christian teachings; the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Gospels; The Dead Sea Scrolls, etc. There is a strong interest in discussing the ideas of Ken Wilber, Teilhard de Chardin and other thinkers.
Membership in the group is strictly by invitation.

Note: For inquiries on books; paranormal services and seminars on Inner Mind Development; ESP and Intuition Development; and Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation conducted by this writer, call 8107245, 8926806; fax 8159890; or e-mail jtlicauco@tri-isys.com

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The Secret that s no secret

2007-03-20T22:41:00.000-07:00

Have you heard about the phenomenal book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne and its accompanying DVD?

According to Newsweek’s Jerry Adler, it “could be the fastest-selling book of its kind in the history of publishing with 1.75 million copies projected to be in print by March 2, just over three months since it came out, plus 1.5 million DVDs sold.”

Several friends passed on to me copies of the DVD a few weeks ago. Only recently did I receive the book from Annie Rañola, a young businesswoman and graduate of my courses. I didn’t know the book was already in local bookstores.

Intriguing
My curiosity was aroused because of the very enticing and intriguing promo write-up on the jacket of the DVD:

“The Secret,” it says, “has existed throughout the history of humankind. It has been discovered, coveted, suppressed, hidden, lost and recovered. It has been hunted down, stolen and bought for vast sums of money. Now, for the first time in history, ‘The Secret’ is being revealed to the world.

“A number of exceptional men and women discovered ‘The Secret,’ and went on to become known as the greatest people who ever lived. Among them: Plato, Leonardo, Galileo, Napoleon, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Edison, Einstein and Carnegie, to name a few.

“‘The Secret’ reveals how to apply this powerful knowledge to your life in every area from health to wealth, to success in relationships. ‘The Secret’ is everything you have dreamed of and is beyond your wildest dreams.”

Irresistible
Wow! With that kind of a buildup, who wouldn’t want to grab the DVD or book? It seems too good to resist!

As Newsweek pointed out, ‘The Secret’ “was a stroke of marketing genius.” Adds Donavin Bennes, a buyer who specializes in metaphysics for Borders Books: “We all want to be in on a secret. But to present it as the secret, that was brilliant.”

Who is Byrne? “A divorced mother who had hit a rocky patch in her business and personal life. In that moment of despair when she wept and wept (as she recounted to Oprah on the first of two broadcasts devoted to her work), she discovered a long-neglected book dating from 1910 called ‘The Science of Getting Rich.’ In it she found how to let your thoughts and feelings get you everything you want and [was] determined to share it with the world. She called it ‘The Secret.’”

And what is ‘The Secret’ all about? It is the Law of Attraction that holds that you create your own reality through your thoughts.

Age-old principle
So what’s the big secret about that? Actually, nothing. This law or principle has been known for thousands of years. Buddha taught that the world as we know it is nothing more than our own mental creation. In my “Inner Mind” seminars, which I have been conducting regularly for the last 20 years, I mention the law of attraction as one of the four hidden laws of nature that says “like attracts like.”

If you think positive thoughts, positive things happen to you. If negative, then negative things happen.

There is, therefore, nothing new about “The Secret.” In fairness to Byrne, she never claimed that what she discovered was new. What is new is the way she promoted and marketed the book and the film. After arousing the curiosity of the Australian and American public, it is now sweeping the middle and upper-class segments of Philippine society.

The idea that if you visualize strongly enough something you really want, say, a particular car or camera, that object will physically appear before you sooner or later, is still not accepted by mainstream scientists.

“That’s preposterous, on a scientific level,” they would say. But a few quantum physicists claim to have experimental evidence that “thoughts can influence physical objects.”

Dr. Robert Jahn, an engineer, and psychologist Brenda Dunne of Princeton University have been conducting telekinesis experiments under scientifically controlled conditions to show the influence of thought on the fall of a roulette dice (See their book “Margins of Reality”).

Untapped powers
Although the law of attraction is really no secret at all, I would give credit to Byrne for calling attention to one of the hidden laws of nature and to the largely untapped powers of the human mind, which this writer has been teaching and espousing for the last two decades.

By the way, the other three related hidden laws of nature not in ‘The Secret’ are: The Law of Affirmation (what you affirm becomes a reality); the Law of Compensation (whatever you do comes back to you, otherwise known as the law of karma); and the Law of Causality (everything has a cause; nothing happens by accident).

If you want to learn how to apply these hidden laws of nature in your life, attend my next seminar on “Inner Mind Development,” “Basic ESP and Intuition Development,” and “Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation.” Call Inner Mind Development Institute at 8107245, 8926806 or 0906-3561799. There’s one scheduled in Davao, March 24-25. Call 0917-8313649 or 0917-7120253.

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When Signs are Ignored

2007-03-13T23:13:00.000-07:00

What happened to me gave me valuable insights and lessons in life.

Most of us ignore our health. We do not stop smoking until we develop emphysema or, worse, lung cancer; we do not stop pushing ourselves, working hard like a carabao, until we have a heart attack; we do not stop eating junk food until we develop diabetes, ulcer or colon cancer; and men will not stop having unsafe sex with multiple partners until they develop AIDS, and so on.

Before a fatal illness strikes, there are usually warning signs. Even those so-called silent heart attacks (that are symptomless) have some subtle early signs, if we but listen to our bodies more carefully.It is said that 30 days before a person dies (even when seemingly accidental), the soul already knows. Again, our problem is failure to listen, not absence of warnings or signs.
Long before this heart ailment struck me, I had already been warned by my doctors and friends to slow down. Antonio, my eldest brother, a medical doctor, was telling me the same thing.

Time bomb
Dr. Sandra Torres, former medical director of a large pharmaceutical company, told me I was “a walking time bomb.” And even a highly evolved spirit from the upper fifth dimension, Ang Suh, told his medium, Dr. Helen Manguera de Garriz, on Jan. 10, two weeks before I was confined, “Jimmy has to stop [what he is doing] otherwise his body will give way, and death or disability will ensue. Too much electricity [in the body] will destroy the source itself and all branches which carry the current, causing destruction.”

The warning signs were all there: elevated blood pressure, panting when walking up the stairs to the second floor, and the need for stronger medication to keep my blood pressure down.
Being a Type A personality did not help my condition at all. Type A people are always pushing themselves too hard, always ahead of time for appointments and very demanding in whatever they do. They are short-tempered, impatient and always in a hurry.

My almost two weeks’ stay in the hospital gave me valuable insights and lessons I never would have taken seriously if this near-fatal incident did not happen.

First lesson: Working too hard and not taking time off for leisure or vacation is foolish and not worth it. For years, I’ve worked at least 10 hours a day, seven days a week without letup. My children often complained they hardly saw me anymore.

I enjoyed what I was doing and didn’t realize my body and my family were being neglected. Like most people, I always justified it, saying “because of the need to earn a living,” which was also true.

In my case, I also felt it my mission to disseminate information that had been kept secret for so long. I soon realized there were other priorities that mattered more than work.

I failed to exercise, not even simple walking. I was leading a dangerously sedentary and cerebral life, one devoted to the mind and the spirit rather than to the body.

In the hospital, I learned what it meant to relax and just do nothing. I kept asking myself one question that I realized I didn’t have the answer to. “If I died, then what would become of all these things I’ve been doing?” They will cease to exist, not to be remembered forever more.
Everything in the world is temporary. Our life is temporary. Having a near-fatal heart attack gave me a profound feeling of helplessness, sadness and what one great poet said, “intimations of mortality.”The other thing I realized was that I was completely at the mercy of my physician and the pharmaceutical industry.

Caring people
One of the positive things that came out of this incident was the realization that so many people cared and were genuinely concerned about what happened to me. My daughter Sophia, who has been living in California for the last 15 years, suddenly flew back to Manila to be with me, although she was out of a job.

I received so many encouraging text messages and telephone calls from friends, relatives and even from total strangers. One typical message said, “You have touched the lives of so many people by your teachings and writings. And they are all praying for your safe and swift recovery.”

The wife of a prominent and high-ranking government official sent fruits, flowers and a miraculous statue of Our Lady of Manaoag.A well-known but very controversial journalist, television and radio host donated a substantial amount of money without being asked. “It is my dharma,” he told me.

So did another very prominent woman journalist who sent a check for my huge hospital bill. Although what she gave was large enough, she said, “I wish I could have given more,” when I called to thank her.

I felt the outpouring of strong healing energy directed at me during my confinement at the Intensive Care Unit and especially when my angiogram and angioplasty were being performed so expertly by Doctor Dy and his associates.

My recovery was very fast. Just two days after these procedures, I was discharged from the hospital, a bit poorer perhaps, but a hundred times wiser about life.

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When signs are ignored

2007-03-06T23:06:00.000-08:00

On the evening of Jan. 26, I almost died! I did not know how serious my condition was until a few days later.Like most people, I ignored all warning signs and almost succumbed to a heart attack.

That evening I went to see a movie at Greenbelt Cinema in Makati, which was just a few minutes’ walk from my office. Since I was already late, I walked faster than usual.

I was panting when I reached the theater and felt a strange pain and heaviness in my chest. Though the pain was not too severe, I knew it was different from previous ones.

After 10-15 minutes, the pain subsided but I had already called my wife who was shopping nearby. She came, but since the pain had subsided, I decided to finish the movie.

Afterward, as I drove home, I felt weak. I decided to see an old friend, a well-known 85-year-old cardiologist. He examined me, gave me some Eastern European herbal medicine and told me to go home and rest.

I went back to the office, did a little work then decided to go home. Since we have two cars, I drove one car and my wife the other.

EmergencyAs I left the building, I felt bad again, weak and nauseous. I told my wife I wanted to go to the hospital and drove to the emergency room of the Makati Medical Center. My wife followed.It took less than five minutes to reach the hospital, as I ignored all traffic rules and red signals.

An ECG was immediately done. It revealed an ischemia, inadequate blood supply to the heart that could have led to a fatal heart attack.A blood examination revealed an elevated enzyme marker for heart attack. I was told the condition was serious but more tests were needed to determine how bad the situation was.

I refused the other tests because the doctors were not sure but they wanted me to stay in the hospital. I stubbornly refused thinking of a seminar I was conducting the next day that I could not cancel.

I signed a waiver freeing the hospital from responsibility and went home around 3 a.m. Despite very little sleep and a nearly fatal heart problem, I conducted the seminar and finished it with the help of an old student.But I was exhausted. I told my students I might not be able to conduct the seminar the next day and I would refund half of their fees. They all agreed to just have the seminar postponed.

I was back at the MMC emergency room the next day. My new cardiologist, Dr. Dy Bun Yok, was contacted. He prescribed emergency medication and had me transferred to the Chinese General Hospital in Manila so he could attend to me.I learned he was considered one of the best intervention cardiologists in the country. He supervised a team that did a successful multiple heart bypass operation on my older brother barely a month earlier.I was transferred by ambulance to Chinese General that Sunday afternoon and brought to the Intensive Care Unit for heart patients, the Coronary Care Unit.

Unable to decideI stayed there for four days because I could not decide whether or not to have an angiogram (X-ray examination of blood vessels) and possible angioplasty (surgical reconstruction of narrowed or obstructed arteries). I was afraid of surgery of any type.
Although I was assured the procedure was very safe and painless, I explored alternative methods.

But Doctor Dy, despite his long list of patients and a busy schedule, explained to me patiently there was no other way he could find out what artery was blocked and how serious the blockage was unless he did an angiogram.If he found an artery that was severely blocked, he might have to do either an angioplasty or heart bypass.I said a bypass was out of the question. I might allow the angioplasty, I said, but I asked for a couple of days more to decide. “It’s your decision,” he said, “I can only suggest.”

Here is how an angiogram is done. Using only local anesthesia, a small incision or hole is made at the groin (femoral artery in the leg) through which a thin wire (catheter) is inserted and guided to the affected area. The doctor (and even patient) can watch the procedure on a screen. I preferred not to see it.A dye is introduced into the body so the doctor can see clearly where the blockage is and how bad it is. Once the affected artery or arteries are identified, the doctor may do an angioplasty.Doctor Dy found one of my arteries was 70 percent blocked.

In angioplasty, using the same incision made for angiogram, the doctor inserts and positions a balloon in the blocked artery, inflates it and leaves a stent (some kind of a splint) to keep the artery open. Then the wire or catheter is pulled out.The two procedures lasted no more than 30 minutes. I did not even know it was over because I felt nothing at all.

The opening is then pressed by 6 pounds of sand bag and left taped for 24 hours to prevent bleeding. This is the most uncomfortable part of the procedure.The angiogram and angioplasty are considered generally safe. But, still, the fear of being opened up kept me tense while the procedure was going on. After two days, I left the hospital.

Next week, I shall discuss the insights and lessons I learned during my illness.

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