A Sense of Wonder

You wonder. How is it possible to put a billion transistors into a slice of silicon thinner than a candy wrapper and smaller than a ten-centavo coin? You wonder how it can perform trillions of calculation per second. Your mind wanders into the factory as you try to imagine the machines that made this possible.

Well, because people share your sense of wonder, microchips of this magnitude and power are a reality today.

You wonder. Is color real? Is the blue I see the same blue that my friend sees? Do colors tell me something about the things around me? You wonder about the rainbow and the how light dances on the water during an exceptionally clear day.

Well, because others that came before you have wondered as much, the science of spectroscopy was born. Now the study of heavenly bodies becomes more precise and the healing of human bodies is made easier.

You wonder. Is there is anything other than gas, liquid or solid that exists in the universe? Now you know that plasma is the fourth state of matter and that it is the state of most matter in interstellar space.

Finally you wonder, like so many great minds have before you, whether the atom is really the basic building block of matter. This sense of wonder has led scientists to build complex and expensive machines to dissect the very essence of matter. That’s how they discovered quarks.

Children are often called “makulit” because they ask a lot of questions. They want to know so many things about the world around them. “Bakit kaya” is often heard springing from their mouths. A discovery is often punctuated by gleeful exclamations of “kaya pala!”

The sad thing is that m any of us lose this sense of wonder as we grow older. We take things for granted or we simply lose the will to wonder. A lucky few, however, never lose this and keep it well into their old age. Wondering and thinking are pleasurable daily activities that make them happy and alive.

A sense of wonder is worth keeping and enriching. It’s a treasure that can never be taken away from us. It is a bright flame that will throw a ray of light on dark paths and alleys. With a healthy sense of wonder we will never lose our way. - Bato Balani

Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 3 )

Is psychic surgery true? Studies of foreign researchers have remained inconclusive, some says it’s real, and others say it’s complete fakery. The inconsistency perhaps lies in the fact that some healers are genuine but there are others who are fakes. And there are times when even genuine healers face an operation when they have temporarily lost powers.

Still it is a fact that these healers the genuine ones at least, have healed thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world specially those otherwise given up by their country’s medical doctors.

Despite discouragement from some foreign governments and the adverse publicity against the faith healers, there are still thousands of foreigners, who flock to the Philippines every year in search of a miracle cure. Some go back either completely or partially healed; others not at all.

My friend have personally observed around 33 psychic surgeons in the Philippines and one in Brazil. She have witnessed thousands of psychic surgeries performed by them. She have also two laboratory reports of specimens taken from patients of the healers and another report from a Japanese medical specialist. All the reports proved to be genuine. Still we cannot openly advocate faith healing except perhaps as a last resort, because we are dealing here with a paranormal phenomenon whose results cannot be pre-determined or predicted. A lot depends on the powers of the healer at the time, the belief and attitudes of the patient and the people surrounding the healing process. It is a mystery that waits further study and explanation.

For those interested in seeing a Filipino faith healer, the above points are worth considering. Although it had seen many spectacular cures in the course of extensive research on the subject, it had also seen many spectacular failures. The decision lied in the visitor where he should subject himself to faith healing or not..


What do you think ? . . . . . . . . . . . . FACTS OR FALLACY ?

Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 1 )

For about half of the 24 years in the business management of my friend, she was engaged in a very unusual hobby after office hours, doing research and writing books and articles on various paranormal and psychic phenomena. During her offbeat hours, the presence of a fascinating hidden culture of the Philippines became evident to her – a culture that is much more fundamental, more powerful and more pervasive than the outward culture that the ordinary visitor to our country becomes easily familiar with.

This hidden aspect of our culture, which she call the esoteric cultures of the Philippines, consists of beliefs in the supernatural, in the existence of various in habitants of the spirit world and the many rituals and practices connected with their supplication and intervention into our daily affairs. The esoteric culture also refers to the Filipino’s persistent belief in the awesome powers of the mind to transform one’s life and protect him from harm so long as that mind is connected with the spirit source. The paranormal is part of the hidden culture.

The Philippine Paranormal Research Society, a non-profit organization found in 1986, together with several business professionals and scientists, defines the paranormal as “any observable or experience able phenomenon, object, energy, force, event or human capability for which there is yet no generally accepted scientific explanation.”


Don’t miss the second part of my article . . . . . . . You’ll be surprised !!!!!!!!