It is difficult to convince the average person about the reality of a paranormal phenomenon, such as spirits of the dead (popularly known as ghosts) appearing to living persons or visiting a place they used to live or work in, unless one has had a personal or eyewitness encounter with them.
I think it was in the mid-1970s or early ’80s when I read the story of an American housewife who was preparing lunch in the kitchen, when she suddenly felt a very sharp pain in her chest. She thought she was having a heart attack.
My attention was called to a Letter to the Editor (Inquirer, July 14) written by Dr. Mary Jacquiline T. Romero of the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. In that letter, Romero stated that my article about quantum physics, Eastern mysticism and ESP was “terribly misleading.”
Let’s talk about awareness or mindfulness, which is the main thrust of this column.
Ciudad Verdadero, which literally means “City of Truth,” is a large tract of private hill between Sampaloc and Lucban towns in Quezon Province, owned by a humble, soft-spoken businessman from Pateros named Artemio Cataquiz.
Three out-of-the-ordinary things happened during my seminar on “Soul mates, Karma and Reincarnation” on Saturday, May 17.
Emilio “Nonoy” Ozaeta is no ordinary professor of Architecture at the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City. He sees and talks to angels any time. He has been doing this since 1993.
I remember reading, a long time ago, the short novel “Notes from the Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the great 19th century Russian novelist, writer and philosopher.
Cecilia (not her real name) has some questions about karmic relationships: “How do you know when a relationship is karmic? Is that a positive or negative thing? Can that be avoided, or does one have to go through it no matter what, since it is supposed to be part of his life’s journey?
The much-maligned placebo has, in recent years, been getting unusual attention from some medical researchers because of unexpected results that cannot yet be fully explained.
