You are reading this sentence alone inside a deserted room. The next statement follows with a question: Does this story know what I am doing? You will then look puzzled. You continue reading on. You will wonder why the word alone is italicized. Yes, it is just you and this paper, you are alone – or are you? You feel shivers run up your spine. Your instinct tells you that someone so sinister is staring at you, in the corners. Coldness creeps within your entire body. This room holds a dark secret. You could sense a ghastly creature floating outside the window near you. A heavy feeling envelops you as a sheer voice whispers at the back of your ears. Or maybe you see in your periphery a blurry image of a woman in white gown, with blood dripping from her neck, eyes flaming red. She comes closer… closer… a frozen hand grips your neck… You can hardly speak… then you keep reading on …
There are things that orthodox science could not explain, events that scientists could not predict and entities that a common man could not see. They linger just within our midst, watching, moaning. So many evidences and sightings have been recorded, yet physical science until now continues to dismiss the mysteries brought by the Unknown. The stories of ghosts and other peculiar stuff never die. They persist to exist.
Perhaps the most intriguing of all phenomena that most people would not involve themselves into is the experience with the paranormal, the supernatural. But these occurrences are beginning to open the doors to new fields and documented manifestations of what science accepted to ignore. Lo and behold, as we open the Inner Eye. Picture it to be opening… alter your consciousness… then alas, you see this same world but in a different and unbelievable manner.
A Center of Psychic Energy
You may not know how blessed is the place where you are now. The Philippines is bound to a culture believing in paranormal beings and events. In the olden times, a great many people sought help from ‘albularios’ to cure unknown diseases. They aid the indigenous folks in their well-being with great success even without medical attention. A reflective reason for Filipinos’ affinity with the supernatural is that our country is said to be located above a great center where psychic energy flourishes. Think of it as one of two poles of a huge magnet, the Earth. Many psychic foreigners attest that their psychic abilities heighten when they go to the Philippines (as the same happens when they go to the northern part of South America
which sits directly above the other energy pole). This may also explain why so many Filipinos already have innumerable encounters with the unknown like ghosts, fairies, dwarves, etc.
Parapsychologists also believe the Filipinos to be direct descendants of a long lost Lemurian civilization, whose people were naturally gifted with supernatural abilities. The empire sank together with Atlantis beneath the ocean surface. It is easy to dismiss such incredible theories, as that they pose no feasible evidences, just yet.
The SEVEN Levels of Existence
It is very unlikely that any Filipino knows nothing of any ghost story. Filipinos are very well acquainted with such stories that ghost-story telling has already become a good pastime. It is said that when a person dies, the soul leaves the body, and ascends a level higher into the Planes of Existence. These levels are where all creatures in the universe interconnect. Seven planes exist in the Universe: nature spirits, dwarves, fairies and other elementals occupy the first and second levels; man is at the third plane or the physical world; the fourth plane of existence serves as a transitional stage for earth souls where they need to reflect on their lives before they can ascend to the upper fifth and sixth dimensions, where dwells the angels, highly evolved spirits and spirit guides of some human psychics; the seventh plane is the final destination for all souls, as godlike status can now be achieved. In here, the so-called Source exists. Every living creature’s goal is to ascend to these levels and struggle to return to the Source, the Infinite Creator, the Alpha and Omega. This concept is parallel to the Buddhist principle of Enlightenment – where one needs to do good to attain perfection.
A problem occurs when human souls die, enter the Fourth Dimension, but can no longer ascend further. They are what we know as ghosts, or earth-bound spirits. They get stuck into the same plane because of strong attachment to worldly possessions, unfinished businesses, and failure to accept death. As a result, their though processes, memories and emotions are left on earth. If we happen to stumble across these we experience a gut feel or acold spot. And if one is sensitive enough, he can hear or even seethe deceased owner of these memories but not in a manner that we usually know by convention. Ghosts are said to be some forms of energy that have mass. This is proof to a slight decrease in the mass of a dying person.
Ghosts coexist with the living in the same place but on a different dimension. Most ghosts would prefer to reside on churches or hospitals, or places where they had connection when they were living. It is however ironic but very unlikely to hunt ghosts in cemeteries.
A soul shall remain in the Fourth plane unless he has contemplated about his life and purpose on earth. Oftentimes, he tries to communicate to the living to help him move on by means ofpagpaparamdam or a psychic. He who fails to ascend is bound to be stuck for eternity, unless reincarnated. Examples are the ghost friars and guardia civil who had been in Intramuros for centuries. But once a soul establishes a stable identity, his journey to the Source continues – the soul may then rise to the Light or to what mystics describe as the never ending spiral that grows higher or finer and finer.
Murmurs from the Past
Have you ever wondered why you get the light feeling (gaan ng loob) upon meeting someone whom you only knew at that precise moment? or why you utterly dislike someone with obviously no reason at all? That person may have played a distinct role in one of your past lives.
Déjà vu in French “already seen” is defined as a distortion of memory in which a new situation or experience is regarded as having happened before. Most people regard this phenomenon as merely psychological in nature, but parapsychologists think otherwise. They suppose that experiencing déjà vu is significantly related to the Hindu and Egyptian concept of reincarnation. According to them, a person after death or after a moment in the afterlife is reincarnated as another living creature, a plant, an animal or another human until he perfects himself. The process of reincarnation is repeated over and over until such time that the soul has undertaken many singular lives and accumulated enoughgood. Each past life may differ from another in the elements it meets, but the plot in every past life is constant. The plot should consequently be perfected by undoing the mistakes done in the past lives. The concept of soulmates comes alive when we consider a timeless relationship in a past life to be again applicable for the present life – and thus begins the search for the soulmate, the other half of an incomplete and imperfect soul.
Sometimes when we experience déjà vu, very often do we gasp, “Parang naulit na ‘to!”. You may then think you just remembered something that previously happened, and ignore it afterwards. But actually, we are subconsciously remembering an event that did not happen in our present life, but in one of our past lives. It could possibly tell us that history is about to repeat itself, and this time the result should mend faults made in the past.
A highly-gifted clairvoyant once told that the ambitious Pharaoh Ramses II and his favorite wife Nefertari who lived 3,500 year ago were reincarnated into the former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and wife Imelda. Remarkable similarities have been noted between the two couples.
Of Records and Projections
You may have heard of people having had out-of-body experiences or astral projections. Esoteric science informs us that the body is composed of seven distinct but interpenetrating layers. One of which is the astral body, which the higher entities use to communicate with the physical body. Normally during sleep, the astral body projects itself into the astral planes. When we dream of flying, our astral body is more likely actually flying while the physical body stays in bed. It is also not uncommon that it goes out of the body when we are tired, sick or in physical danger. Oftentimes, it projects to travel on distant galaxies or realms, which often registers into our dreams. The astral body is linked to the real body through a silver cord connected at the navel area. This cord can never be cut except at the moment of death. In rare cases, two astral bodies can unite in what we may call astral sex – where those involved experience extreme bliss beyond space and time!
A character named Piper in the popular series Charmed demonstrated psychometry or the ability to read the origin and circumstances surrounding an object by merely touching it. How can some people have this ability? There is an ancient belief that a person leaves something of himself to an object he touches or vice versa. The object or person then imprints the person’s every detail to its akashic record. Humans also have this record, and a person who is sensitive enough can read this record through intuition. Could this record possibly be the Christian’s concept of the “Book of Life” that St. Peter is supposed to read when one dies and which forms the basis for judgment? The last chapter of the akashic record ends when we die.
Mystics of Ancient History
Egypt has been found to hold and preserve architectural and literary feats of the past. The Pyramids of Giza are renowned not only as the First Wonder of the Ancient World, but also a fabulous mystery for both modern engineers and psychics. It has long been a puzzle how the early Egyptians made such near-perfect colossal figures of pyramids using only the very basic engineering materials present at that time. Paranormal researchers however hypothesize that extraterrestrial intervention may be the rationale.
The symbol of pyramids in the ancient has long been regarded to possess mystical properties. The Pyramid in
Egypt itself is aligned with the moon, the sun and the rest of the cosmos. Psychics relate that aliens assisted the Egyptians in loading the massive blocks of rock in place to form the Great Pyramids. The theory was laughed on and deserted until Egyptologists unearthed a temple near the Pyramids. There they discovered a hieroglyphic illustrating how the Egyptians built the pyramids. It included an outline of what seemed to be a helicopter and a disk-shaped UFO carrying lumps of rock! How authentic these hieroglyphics is still indefinite.
The mystery behind the Crop Circles and Stonehenge remains to be unsolved over the years. The experience of some persons with aliens and UFO’s is a never-ending topic (although a Swedish psychic named Olof Jonsson allegedly revealed that he had close contacts with extra-terrestrial beings whose technology is at least 100,000 years ahead of ours). Could ETs have something to do with man’s spiritual and mental evolution? If they do exist, have they really manipulated our ancient genes, rendering us to evolve into modern humans? Some psychics assert that the answers to these questions are the supplement to the‘missing link’ in Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. They cited that this may be the reason how apelike creatures suddenly turned to Homo sapiens with very advanced brain power, and with so much facial variations for the same species as compared to other species who all look the same.
Many theories like those stated above continue to be abolished by science.
Secret Knowledge
Read an article about early civilizations and there is high probability that you would come across a culture rich in mystical accounts. Egyptians, Incas, Mayans, Aztecs, Mesopotamians – all of which share stories of the afterlife, psychic healing, etc. Psychic experts tell us that during the time of these great civilizations, the Esoteric Wisdom has been used by many a man to improve their quality of life. At the turn of the millennium, this Wisdom had been hidden (gnosis, Secret Knowledge) because man is no more a prepared entity. Unless man is ready to receive it, Earth’s journey to the ethereal Planes will delay. At that moment though, modern science, medicine and technology began to dominate the world even until now.
But this well-appreciated development is actually a deterioration of spirituality and a deviation from the path to the Source. Ang Suh, a collective entity from the upper Fifth Dimension revealed through channeling that entities from the Upper Dimensions have long been contacting humans for thousands of years to attempt to renew the values of men. Man has to rise above himself, his petty materialism, the conflicts that blur peace.
We are now at an age that psychics call the Age of Aquarius. They believe that the time is near when paranormal events would be so accepted that it would not anymore be sheer phenomena.
A New Strain of Reality
As of now, you may already have a sneaking suspicion that the reason why so many paranormal or psychic things are told is a conclusive statement that such things do exist. Or if you still think skeptically, forever shall they conceal.
It is very unbecoming for scientists to try to explain these psi phenomena in terms of the concept of the physical sciences and conduct experiments as though such occurrences conform to physical laws. It does not also seem logical to prove the existence of a non-physical being or event through physical means. Take in account the Firewalking rituals performed all over the world. Conventional scientists observe no form of bruising/burning of skin whatsoever after firewalkers danced atop the blazing charcoal pit. They would explain that special fire-resistant oil had been produced at the sole, aiding the firewalkers to walk on fire unharmed. Also, a psychiatrist may regard someone actuallyseeing ghosts to be hallucinating or worse a schizophrenic.
It is not an uncommon scenario where a real parapsychologist or faith healer fails to perform psi-events in a scientific laboratory setting. But ironically it is common that scientists conducted experiments unknowingly with a fake psychic, leading them to biased conclusions. Since when can physicists explain human levitation or telepathic spoon-bending? The voyage of the supernatural continues.
Connecting Both Ends
It cannot be that both the physical and the paranormal are accepted as true, for they oppose each other’s laws. A new science is therefore needed to try to integrate all sciences for the ‘truth’ is one and cannot contradict itself.
“The data on psychic research stands on its own… It is not a domain of any single science… It virtually cuts across all academic boundaries,” says Jeffrey Mishlove, President of the Intuition Network. “We are interconnected with each other and with the most distant galaxies. We are one with everything – as the ancient mystics of every culture, have reminded us in every age.”
Modern science continues to deny, disprove or rather ignore the existence of such paranormal activities because accepting them would totally devastate the very foundations of physics and medicine.
Newton’s Laws and other solid theories would then have to be revised to correspond to the parapshycological concepts.
Once the supernatural establishes itself as an accepted branch of anew age knowledge we would then have a new way of viewing the world of the living and the world beyond. Imagine a world where the almost impossible becomes possible.
Sources:
When the Impossible Happens: Confessions of a Reluctant Psychic by Jaime T. Licauco
More Encounters with the Unknown by Jaime T. Licauco; and other related documentaries.
