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You are reading this sentence alone inside a deserted room. Does this story know what you are doing? You will then look puzzled. You 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. Here she comes…closer… 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 and moaning. So many evidences and sightings have been recorded, yet until now physical science continues to dismiss the mysteries brought by the Unknown. The stories of ghosts and other strange stuff persist to exist. These occurrences are beginning to open the doors to new fields and documented manifestations of what science chose to ignore. Lo and behold, as we open the Inner Eye, you will 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’ who can cure unknown diseases 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. 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 ‘Other’ Students

Our ever famous summer capital is ridged with hair-raising and mind-boggling ghost stories. Here in our campus alone, different anecdotes of encounters with spirits roam the four walls of each room in SLU. One story relates how a security guard freaks out after he unsuspectingly follows a running child after closing time in Gonzaga. He was about to corner the little boy who halted in a room when cold air brushed his face, and he found an empty room. Some law students after their evening classes would even hear a female voice that emanates from the stairs leading to the NSTP rooms. Women while voiding in the cubicles in the ladies’ CR would also are disrupted by an unknown entity asking “Tapos ka na ba?” Another story speaks of a little girl who mimics what some students say in the upper floors of Perfecto. She was even said to repeat students’ names. The other buildings of the main campus are also plagued with entities from beyond. A student confirms that a ghost often walks long the corridors and peeks into the rooms in the Adenauer lower storeys. A student organization was having their meeting at the Silang building when a doppelganger impersonated a college official who entered the room and told them to dismiss into the night. Other entities occupy the other parts of the campus like the ghost steps at the stairs leading to the Vath Library, a child that runs near the SLU Hospital, and the many shadows that peek from behind the building windows. Ghosts coexist with the living. Most ghosts would prefer to reside on churches or hospitals, or places where they had connect ions when they were living. It is thus very unlikely and ironic to hunt ghosts in cemeteries.

The SEVEN Levels of Existence

So you think the paranormal is only about spirits of dead people walking the earth. You are dead wrong, because the supernatural holds vast arrays of peculiar topics that may explain the way things should be. It is said that when a person dies, the soul leaves the body, and ascends a level higher into the Planes of Existence. 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; the seventh plane is the abode of the Source. Every living creature’s goal is to ascend to these levels and struggle to return to the Source, the beginning and final destination for all souls. This concept is parallel to the Buddhist principle of Enlightenment – where one needs to do good to attain perfection. A problem occurs when earth-bound spirits or ghosts get stuck in the Fourth planebecause of strong attachment to worldly possessions, unfinished businesses, and failure to accept death. As a result, their thought processes, memories and emotions are left on earth. If we happen to stumble across these we experience a gut feel or a cold spot. Ghosts are forms of energy that have mass, which is proof to a slight decrease in the mass of a dying person. A soul who fails to ascend is bound to be stuck for eternity, unless reincarnated or he has contemplated about his life and purpose on earth. Like the ghost friars and guardia civil residing in Intramuros for centuries, they strive to move on by pagpaparamdam and apparitions. But once a soul establishes a stable identity, his journey to the Source continues – the soul may then rise 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. We commonly experience déjà vu” (French “already seen”) that most people regard this experience as merely psychological. But parapsychologists suppose that experiencing this is significantly related to the Hindu and Egyptian concept of reincarnation. According to them, a person after a moment in the afterlife is reincarnated as another living creature, a plant, an animal or another human only until he perfects himself by accumulating enough good. Each past life may differ slightly but the plot in every past life is constant as clearly depicted in the series Sa Dulo ng Walang Hanggan. 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 the faults we had done in the past.

Secret Knowledge

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. Earth’s journey to the ethereal Planes will delay unless man is ready to receive the Wisdom. From that moment on, modern science, medicine and technology began to dominate the world. But this well-appreciated development is actually a deterioration of spirituality and a deviation from the path to the Source. 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.

Connecting Both Ends

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. 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 if such occurrences conform to physical laws. 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 truly seeing ghosts to be hallucinating or worse a schizophrenic. 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.” 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 paranormal concepts. Once the supernatural establishes itself as an accepted branch of a new 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. Then, as you read this last sentence, a bloody headless priest sits beside you, its head mindlessly resting on your lap… then it stares at you… “Now you know… you are never alone.”

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.

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shaitan said:

	Having traveled to the Philippines including Manila & ILOILO I am facsinated by the monster tales, ghost stories of the philippines. Especially with the interest & popularity of 'nginiiiiig' you would think that Pinoys would start up 'ghosthunting' clubs to visit the many world war 2 battle fields including Fort Santiago...
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