Saturday Evening Posts
November 15-21 Edition
Touching Wisdom Inside Your Mind
Part 2
By coincidence, "Jose Mari Chan Loud and Clear On The
Huggybear Show," my one-act play, part of
my first fiction anthology, is also about an occult radio program.
Huggybear, my nickname-sake hero
and host, interviews a ghost, a neurotic and an angel. He plays original
Filipino music with the opening theme from VST & Co. Huggybear is like Edu
Manzano meets Martin Nievera meets Rex Navarette.
My play is inspired by parapsychologist
Jaime Licauco and his Inner Mind On Radio which was my Sunday night ritual for
years until I lost signal when I left Luzon early last year.
Just recently, I was tuned into
another Sunday night supernatural radio show, Kasindak Sindak hosted by
Benjamin "Tsongkibenj" Felipe, while reading about how the U.S. and
the USSR have sent out psychics for espionage during the Cold War.
The study of the paranormal is one
of my major interests since my teen years. It's now a part of my life, like the
more wholesome influence of my idols Aga Muhlach and Gary Valenciano, not even
including James Dean and Bruce Lee.
Worker is like a reunion with some
figures from my youth like Edgar Cayce. There's also Ingo Swann and Uri Geller,
both of whom, by coincidence, I have written about in one of my magazine
articles last December - months before Worker called out to me from the bottom
of a pile in BookSale in Elizabeth Mall in Cebu last February.
One of the most prominent
characters in the book is Don Juan Matus, the Yacqui Indian sorcerer who's also
one of the stars of "My Most Unforgettable Literary Characters," one
of my earliest published works which appeared in January 2005 here in
Philippine Panorama, the Sunday magazine of The Manila Bulletin. I first knew
Don Juan from Carlos CastaƱeda's Journey To Ixtlan, which "is the first to
open my eyes about the infinite mysteries beyond the everyday world and made me
see Death in an entirely different way," as I said during my author
profile interview for my eBook publisher SmashWords.com.
I'm learning a great deal from
Noory. One is a technique while meditating, supremely priceless, that took me
to a higher (and deeper) level. I now get rid of intrusive thoughts by
enfolding them in my white light of protection then gently breathing them away.
I inhale the creative and healing energy of God, and I exhale all that is
negative in my mind, body and spirit. Every deep breath becomes an act of
purification. Meditation becomes a way of life.
To Be Continued Next Saturday
See Part 1
A Warrior's Perspective
Carlos Castaneda and The Lessons of Don Juan Matus
Jonathan Aquino's Books
My poem "I Believe" in Shibumi
I believe that love conquers all
I believe that divided we will fall
I believe that truth sets us free
I believe that forever we will be.
I believe spirits rise
I believe in fire and ice
I believe in fire and rain
I believe time heals all pain.
I believe not all angels have wings
I believe the joy love brings
I believe that fairies dance
I believe in that second chance.
I believe that for very child who
prays
An angel smiles besides him, always
I believe tomorrow will be a better
day
And every lost boy will find his
way
Download the Shibumi Ebook version from Smashwords
I Believe
Gary Valenciano
"I believe
for every drop of rain that falls,
a flower grows..."
4 comments:
“For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.” ~ Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan
The study of the paranormal is one of my major interests since my teen years. It's now a part of my life...
"In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia." ~ Charles Lindbergh
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"I believe that love conquers all..."
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