The reluctant faith healer
Inner AwarenessBy Jaime Licauco
He makes the blind see, the paralytic walk, the deaf hear. He heals all kinds of illnesses through bare-hand psychic surgery, reads people’s minds, and sees the future.
He makes the blind see, the paralytic walk, the deaf hear. He heals all kinds of illnesses through bare-hand psychic surgery, reads people’s minds, and sees the future.
Reader Althea R. e-mailed the following comments about spirits of the dead haunting the living, and questions about the powers of the St. Benedict medal:
A RECENT item in Yahoo News caught my attention. It says that Samsung is doing research “that would allow users to control a computing device with their thoughts alone.”
Filipino-American Lilly Galvadores of San Diego, California, sent in questions about astral projection, telepathic communication with her twin sister and strong electronic magnetic energy in her body.
The following is an e-mail I received from Crisanto Aquino, who attended my recent seminar on “Self-Healing Through Visualization.”
In last week’s column, I discussed the inadequacy of conventional science in explaining various paranormal phenomena. Dismissing these as mere anomalies of nature or plain trickery does not really help explain how or why they occur.
One question that has been bugging me for years is why no researcher or medical scientist has ever been able to explain adequately the phenomenon of paranormal healing in general, and psychic surgery in particular.
Emman Sta. Maria (not his real name), an occupational therapist with a graduate degree in Special Education, asked a number of questions about my religious beliefs and other personal things which have also been asked of me in the past.
A news item in the Feb. 21 issue of the Inquirer about the technical possibility of extracting or mining “rare earth” minerals or elements in outer space, i.e. outside the earth, caught my interest.
I was recently interviewed by a 30-year-old Swiss graduate student of anthropology on the topic “Paranormal Anthropology,” and specifically zeroing in on psychic surgery in the Philippines and Brazil, the two countries in the world where this practice is most prevalent or well-known.
Our regular reader named Leah, 46, married and working in an international airline company in Davao, wrote me recently about her many strange psychic experiences, which she could not understand.
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