First of two parts
One of the most exciting and rewarding experiences I’ve had in my long years of research on the human mind and higher consciousness is meeting extraordinary psychics around the world.
Let me cite here two world-renowned psychics I met in 1988 and in 1994, respectively: Olof Jonsson of Sweden and Uri Geller of Israel.
In my book, “Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man,” first published in 1978, 10 years before meeting Jonsson, I mentioned that he solved a brutal 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 ash tray and literally stopped a clock by merely looking at it.
1,250 tons of gold
Jonsson was also known to have been instrumental in helping President Marcos find the fabled Yamashita treasure. When I asked him if the story was true, Jonsson replied in the affirmative.
So I asked how much treasure was found. Without batting an eyelash, he said: “1,250 tons of gold.”
From another reliable source (a respected former president of a large bank), I learned that the huge treasure was shipped separately to three countries, Switzerland, Australia and Hong Kong.
A local magazine said in 1987 that Jonsson hurriedly left the Philippines when he learned that Marcos intended to keep the treasure for himself and not for the impoverished Filipino people.
But another source revealed that he left the country in a hurry when he sensed that Marcos had intended to have him killed and make it look like an accident.
Which version of the story is correct, I cannot tell.
In 1988, two years after the Edsa Revolution, Jonsson was hired again, this time by the administration of President Corazon Aquino. But he found only a few of what was left of the Yamashita treasure.
When I met Jonsson in Manila in 1988, I arranged for him to give a talk to the members of the Philippine Paranormal Research Society and graduates of my Silva Mind Control course and to demonstrate his powers, to which he readily agreed.
Three conditions
In my conversations with Jonsson, I asked him about the nature of psychic powers and how they work in his particular case. His answers, I could never have found in any book on ESP.
What is the state of your mind when performing ESP?
“There are three conditions of the mind involved in ESP. The first is, relax your mind and focus on what you want to do. The conscious mind is still working.
“In the second condition, rise beyond the first condition and become completely peaceful.
“And in condition three, everything that you are searching for appears in your mind. Condition three is a borderline between the light and the void. When I go far into the void, I can see whatever it is I want to see.”
How do you go from one state to another?
“It is a question of your will. When you visualize something, you can send what you visualize to another person.”
He then revealed a secret experiment in telepathy conducted by astronaut Edgar Mitchell during the Apollo mission to the moon.
Mitchell sent telepathic signals to four individuals on earth while he was in outer space. Jonsson was one of those who received correctly the message. This shows that telepathy can work over long distances.
When I asked how he sends a telepathic signal or message to another person effectively, his reply excited me because it is exactly the way I teach my student in ESP how to do telepathy.
“If I want to send a card, I concentrate on the card,” he explained. “Then I visualize the person I want to send it to. If I don’t know the person’s face, the name will do as long as there is some sort of psychic connection between me and the person. As long as you still have the message in your mind, you are not sending it.”
When I asked Jonsson where the faculty of ESP ties in the human brain, he replied: “I think it is at the back of the brain. That would be the area of the thalamus and the hypothalamus, the seat of instinct and intuition.”
Others point to the pineal gland in the middle of the brain as the seat of clairvoyance or the third eye.
However, Jonsson also said that one had to believe in what he was doing in order to manifest any ESP ability. “Without belief, one can do nothing,” he said.
Olof Jonsson died in 1998 in Las Vegas at 79.
Next week: My encounter with Israeli psychic Uri Geller