When I changed the name of this column from Inner Mind to Inner Awareness in the early 2000s, I didn’t think anybody would bother to ask the reason for the change. And I was right—nobody did.
It is natural for people to be skeptical of things for which they have no proof. We cannot blame those who do not believe in spirits (or ghosts), UFOs or ETs, elementals and other strange phenomena if they have not encountered any of these. I myself would not believe them if I had not personally seen them.
The more I read the Christian bible as literature and history and not as a religious book, the more I am convinced that it contains most of the psychic, paranormal and supernatural phenomena studied by modern psychic researchers.
How do we know if what we know is real or true? In a recent forum I was invited to talk about this question, I used the controversial phenomenon of psychic surgery, which our local faith healers perform on patients, to provide answers.
Ramon Tulfo is the last person anyone would think to be interested in spiritual, paranormal and psychic stuff.
Last week I discussed the mysterious and unexplainable power of the placebo to heal a patient, even if he was told that what he was taking was something with no therapeutic ingredient.
But first let me define the term. Intention is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a determination to act in a certain way; resolve.” The Oxford Dictionary defines it as “an idea or plan.” It also means “directing the mind toward an object.”
Here’s an interesting question from reader Lulu: “One psychic or espiritista who visited our house once told me, as soon as he entered our house, to finish my karma with my husband or we will reconnect again in our next life. My question is, how can karma be resolved before one of us passes away? It has been a rocky marriage, and I think I am the only one who understands the situation. But my patience is already running out.”
In 2003, I first wrote about Warka Adala, a Muslim energy healer from Zamboanga City.
