Of Angels and Demons

Hi folks,

As usual,

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Hunting Flies," he responded.

"Oh!, Killed any?" she asked.

"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.

Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"

He responded, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."


To continue on the third dimensions, ha-ha….

Taken from Taoist Master Hua-Ching Ni, ‘The Book of Changes and The Unchanging Truth.'

‘The truth of spirit is very different from ordinary descriptions in literature and religion or general imagination. The existence of spirits is a fact of nature.

The difference between spirits and ghosts is an important one. The two great spheres in the subtle realm are the divisions of yin and yang. Spirits belong to the yang category. Ghosts, on the other hand, belong to the yin category and are of a much heavier energy.

Spirits offer their services by staying with their spiritually developed human friends. They can also disclose the personality of a new acquaintance and warn habitually kind and tolerant people of impending danger. A gathering of numerous spirits can accomplish what human beings never could. They can stop an electric current for as long as they wish, be mischievous with a mechanical system (Hmn, wonder if the Singapore Flyer had anything to do with it?) or control certain points of the human nervous system and cause paralysis for protective reasons or other intentions.

The significant difference between spirits and ghosts is that spirits are essential, light and pure whereas ghosts are the opposite. Spirits come from the formation of nature: they are pure and mild.

Ghosts are souls that have recently departed from human life and are still contaminated with their life experience. A spirit is much lighter than a ghost. Ghost usually sinks into the ground. (Heavenly Qi and Earth Qi?)

Since Ghosts have ‘heavy’ energy, they sometimes appear in human forms at night and attack people. Actually this seldom happens. The sudden interference of an ill-intentioned ghost can cause vehicles or machines to completely stop and thus create land or air accidents. The ghosts in an inferior negative sphere are more apparent and can easily reach a person’s level of emotion, such as fear, or, of feeling, such as becoming chilly of a sudden. (Probably refer to weak will people)

Troublesome spirits haunt troublesome people. The kind of energy a person has will attract a spirit of like energy. Thorough spiritual purification can have a good effect on these problems. (If you will to meet one such spirit in a fengshui audit)

Sometimes people who wish to strengthen their spiritual power and augmented their spiritual protection find an incorrect spiritual source. This people bring trouble on themselves through their own ambition.’

Spirits and ghosts, especially real demons, can incite riots mob and through morally undeveloped people who come together as a mob and who are often used without even knowing it. These people carry out the evil wishes of such spirits in order to persecute one who is righteous and has fulfilled his moral duty and actually protected people from the harm of these demons and evil spirits. In most cases, demons and evil spirits cannot carry out these actions themselves. They must be enacted through morally undeveloped people whose inner darkness is reflected in their ignorance and vicious behaviour. The practice of virtue protects one from this level of evil spiritual influence or interferences ( as you can invoke kind spirits to help you, my quote for those in bracket ).'

Till-then, cheerio!!!

Still have not send my desktop CPU for repairs. And as I say, I sure hate the squeezed keyboard on my lap-top....

Black Magic?

Hi my fellow practioners,

Been down lately for five days with a strange kind of magic after a fengshui audit about a week ago for a friend. Didn’t suspect anything to do with it until I remember that the year before, I had undergone an unusually bad cycle of luck after an audit on the same house. It was in Spring that the audit was done and which was supposed to be a favourable period of luck for me but had turn out otherwise for health. However as last year was not a favourable luck pillar for me, I had dismissed the audit as having anything to do with it. For Bazi, I am strong yang water element and I have a complete water seasonal combination which was unfavourable last year. How I wish I was Strong Earth Element as I would have at least hit 2 or 3 Toto jackpots (Lottery) and became a millionaire last year. Well, that’s life…Ha-ha. When you want it, you can’t have it.




Well back to my strange illness, I had not wanted to ask the client about it as it would have been too sensitive. Anyway about the spiritual background of the client, the client had worshipped Thai Deities and one of them was the Guman Thong, a child idol or read the following part taken from an article by Wilson Yong of www.
Taoistsecrets.com

'In Thailand its a very common to see numerous business establishment having an idol of a child called Guman Thong, it is widely worshipped it seems like a cult. The idol is created in the form of a lovely young child, named Guman Thong but it's really a ghost!
Khun Paen is a legendary figure (1491-1529); he was born in Suphanburi Province (some 70 km. northwest of Bangkok) but grew up in the close bordered Kanchanaburi Province. Khun Paen was the first who created Guman Thong. He brought the dead baby from the womb of the dead Bua Klee, one of his wives, to the Temple outer area within the chanting hall where the Buddha image is placed. The Temple and its outer area are so sacred place that no mighty ghosts or spirits can enter. Based on the legend descriptions, Khun Paen was chanting some sacred mantras to invoke the spirit of Guman Thong while roasting the dead baby on the fire.

Creating Guman Thong in the ancient time can be terrifying. The practitioners had to go to the cemetery alone in the night, dig up the corpse, cut the corpse's abdomen removing the dead baby out, and then proceed directly to the nearest temple outer area for the roasting processes. That's the safe place to protect the ghost mother from trying to bring her baby back. So only the strong-mind person who possesses the advanced magical knowledge to subdue the ghost may do this.

Bear in mind that Guman Thong is actually a dead infant. But it is now created in the form of a young child with various materials, such as wood, bronze, ivory tusk, plaster, and various materials. The main purpose of creating Guman Thong in the ancient time is for protecting the owner. The young child ghost could be activated with mantra to fight the owner's enemies or to protect the owner's treasures. Almost all the present-era Guman Thongs have been created for wealth and for fortune purposes,

Worshipping Guman Thong needs consistent practice. He will be a great fortune bringer.

Some compassionate practitioners invoke the souls of aborted foetus to liberate them. The souls of aborted foetuses are in great suffering, they are lost earth bound ghosts. These practitioners chant a specific mantra to invoke and summon their souls to their altar where an idol of a child is placed. The soul of the aborted foetus actually resides in the idol. Offerings are made daily includes milk, toys, sweets and other edible foods. By offering these aborted foetuses a place to reside and with daily recitation of mantra’s the practitioners transfer their merits to these souls and pray that they are liberated.'

From another source,

'The Guman Thong is in fact a spirit of a child that has been captured in the idol by a medium or monk that understands and has knowledge of arcane spells and incantations. It is thought that these spells are preserved by the spirits in the Himpan forest (known to us from Thai literature)

There are two types of child spirit – the spirit having fate and karma from a past life and the spirit without fate and karma. If a spirit previously had bad karma then it is their karma in this life to be exploited by practitioners of magic or controlled by withayathorn. (a guru of black magic) They are susceptible to become Guman Thong.

The other type of spirit is that has no previous karma and cannot become a Guman Thong. They will be re-born according to karma.'

Anyway, the client have business dealings with Thai people and accordingly, had some major dispute over some deals in Thailand. The year before was a very bad year for him which though after checking his bazi, can’t find anything wrong with it and I had then concluded that it was the house fengshui bad flying stars causing the problem.

Interestingly, after having enough with all this strange health problems which had leads to insomnia, stomach upsets, loss of appetite, etc I decided to ask the I Ching using poker cards. The centre card was an ace of Spade signifying a very bad relationship. With what? That I would leave it to you to decide. Anyway about the poker cards divination, I would have to carry on later. Now how? More or less, I had the impression that I had offended something or whatever it is. I can’t ask the client, he might answer it truthfully if he is aware or he might panic as he had just recovered from his bad patch. He had no worry about his house as I had given him a consecrated wind chime for protection from spiritual influence. The I Ching had made me lend it to him temporary at that time but it had end up with the wife having strong belief in it after his luck had started to improved, had then decided to give it to him as a gift instead. I don’t care, My dear I Ching, you better give me something times ten the value back, ha-ha…just kidding.




I had then invoked the tarot spells that I had been taught. Had thought of putting up a Mao Shan or Taoist Talisman at my main door but I had not wanted to give any misleading impression to my mother who is living with me alone as she might worry. She already had been observing that I had not been feeling well and had been making TCM herbal soups, you know, old people are like that. Now as I ‘m feeling much better today finally after invoking the tarot spells for protection from the spirits against those who are against me now, let’s talk about magic for today. Nah, not encouraging you folks to believe in spooks and hula boola stuff. Just sharing my experience, ok?

Now what is magic? I’m not talking about stuffs from David Copperfield, let’s look at it as what is a spell instead. Can we with all our technology and progress today be expected to believed in it or treat it as an escapism from the unexplained phenomena that we meet with in our daily life. There are many theories about why and how spells work. Some people believed that supernatural forces are involved, others that the unconscious mind is a powerful instrument that responds to symbols and ritualistic actions in a very special and interesting way. In other words, a spell is simply a way of concentrating the power of the mind in order to bring about a desired result. Anyway, modern science still have not figure out why an average person uses less then 30% of our total brain cells. Now about Black magic, it’s more about the ethics of magic. The basis of magic should be to bring about greater freedom, love and happiness. When hatred or gains at the expense of others as emotions is used to create negative changes in the lives of others, this is often called black magic. When a individual moves down this path, he or she sows the seeds of his or her destruction.

Black magic not only uses magical forces for selfish ends but is also generated by emotions such as hatred, fear and ignorance, and has as it ultimate aim the harming and destruction of humanity. Those who choose to practise such magic may experience short-term gains; they may well get their revenge or attain wealth very quickly. However, in a relatively short space of time, the negative forces they are sending out will return and act against them, but even stronger.

About love spells in Tarot, yes we have it but as a wise master have said ‘ A wiser policy is to let the identity of your future love be determined by the higher spiritual forces that watches over us, and guide us whenever we give them the chance. To interfere with the free will of another for our own gratification takes us close to black magic, no matter how much we may feel justified in doing so, or how desperate we may be. Yes, by the way, I’ m a white magic practioner so don’t worry that I will put a hex on you, ha-ha. Have to learn it for self-protection from my sole view point.

Till-then, cheers!!!
At last, Tiger Time for some beers after five days of suffering (couldn’t drink beer) Ha-ha...

The Marshall Plan?

Politics Jargons:Corned Beef

A man went into a deli shop and took a seat at the lunch counter. "Give me a corned beef sandwich," he ordered.

"Corned beef sandwich is not on the menu, but I can give you a sandwich with corned beef in it, like our Midnight Special."

"What's a Midnight Special?"

"A triple decker with corned beef, tongue, bologna, tomato, lettuce, onion, pickle and mayonnaise, on toasted raisin bread."

"Could you just place a piece of corned beef between two slices of white bread and serve it to me on a plate?"

"Why, sure!" Then, turning to the sandwich man, he sang out: "One Midnight Special. Make it one deck, hold the tongue, bologna, tomato, lettuce, onion, pickle and mayonnaise, and make the raisin bread white, untoasted!"

Hi Folks,

See the bird the last few times when I ain't around, it means I'm on LEAVE, flapping around, ha-ha. Anyway, I'm getting bored with metaphysics, let's talk about something else,

ECONOMICS,

Ha-ha.....

Met up with one of my learned friends today, an economist who expounded that two countries, Japan and Germany who lost the World War 2, are in the top economic forces to be reckoned with in the world today because of the Marshall Plan implemented by the US and that the US economy should learn from it. Not clear with all his jargons, same mutual feelings when I try to explain wealth creation with the water theory in Fengshui to him. Did some non fengshui researches and came up with this amusing article by a Pulitzer Prize Winner. If you hate economics, I suggested you skip it to avoid wasting your time, ha-ha..

FPRI Wire: What the U.S. Needs to Promote in Iraq (Hint: It’s Not Democratization per se - FPRI

My Super gaming computer is down and I 'm using my laptop. Argh, I sure hate the squeezed keyboard, cramping my fingers. For sure, you would see me doing less posting elsewhere too tempoary or the BIRD, ha-ha....



Till-then, cheers!

If Qi understand English......

Astrology vs. Economics

Why was astrology invented?

So that economics could be an accurate science.

Ha-ha,



Back to Poker cards divinations.

About arranging the circle of cards, you start with a centre card and then go clockwise with the 1st card which is the King of Clubs on the left which is the East and then the 2nd card which is the Queen of Heart which is South East and so forth. The last card which is the Eight of Spades completes the Bagua of the first inner circle.

This Bagua then refer to the eight areas or palaces of your life. Let’s look at it as the eight main directions with North, Ten of Spade at the bottom which is for Affinity, 人缘, then clockwise to North East which is Eight of Spade for Children palace, then clockwise to East, the card of King of Clubs which is for Career. South East, the Queen of Hearts will then be for areas relating to Business or Partnership. The Ace of Hearts which is the South, the top card in the inner circle which is for all Relationships. It is not the same meanings for Affinity. The Next Card, Eight of Hearts is then for Family matters referring to wife, siblings, parents and so forth. The King of Hearts which would be the West as in the Bagua would then be for Wealth Luck. And the King of Diamonds which is then for North West will be for areas related to Personal Health and Virtue.

On the arrangement of the outer circle of cards and fengshui, next episode.

Till then, cheerio!!!

Na Yin

Sorry folks,

Being busy with meetings lately, got an offer to do a fengshui audit in a third world country Argh but wait, it’s in US dollars, still sounds attractive. However, they need to do some markup on my consultation fees and such they have to look for a not known practitioner like me who have nothing to complain. Well, have to say thanks to my connections, principles aside but for a casino? They got to be kidding, it ‘s not my cup of tea, ha-ha. Of course, have to reject it though I can’t do without money, ha-ha, Hah.

Anyway to carry on, let’s put poker card divination aside and instead look at music appreciation which is what Na-Yin is about and what it got to do with Feng shui and the importance of knowing the Chinese language for metaphysics. An MTV to pass your time…..

No, that I’ m starting a music appreciation course, ha-ha but you can try to learn Chinese through songs if you like MUSIC.



Till-then, cheerio!!!

Today

HI All,

As usual,

Slow Down

Farmer John lived on a quiet rural highway. But, as time went by, the traffic built-up at an alarming rate. The traffic was so heavy and so fast that his chickens were being run over at a rate of three to six a day.

So one day Farmer John called the sheriffs office and said, "You've got to do something about all of these people driving so fast and killing all of my chickens."

"What do you want me to do?" asked the sheriff.

"I don't care," said Farmer John. "Just do something about these crazy drivers!" So the next day, the sheriff had the county workers go out and erected a sign that said, SLOW: SCHOOL CROSSING.

Three days later Farmer John called the sheriff and said, "You've got to do something about these drivers. The school crossing sign seems to make them go even faster." So, again, the sheriff sends out the county workers and they put up a new sign that said, SLOW: CHILDREN AT PLAY.


But that sped them up even more! So Farmer John kept calling, and the sheriff kept changing the signs.

Finally, Farmer John said to the sheriff, "Your signs are doing no good. Can I put up my own sign?" The sheriff was ready to let Farmer John do just about anything in order to get him to stop calling every day. He said, "Sure thing, put up your own sign." And after that, the sheriff got no more calls from Farmer John.

Three weeks later, curiosity got the best of the sheriff and he decided to give Farmer John a call. "Hows the problem with those drivers? Did you put up your sign?"

"Oh, I sure did. And not one chicken has been killed since then. Ive got to go. Im very busy." He hung up the phone.

The sheriff was really curious now and he thought to himself "Id better go out there and take a look at that sign... it might be something that WE could use to slow down drivers..." So the sheriff drove out to Farmer Johns house, and his jaw dropped the moment he saw the sign. It was spray-painted on a sheet of wood:

NUDIST COLONY-Go Slow and Watch Out for the CHICKS


Ha-ha, still in relax mode today. Also looking back at the yesteryear, the friends that came and went. Also for the relatives of the victims of the fatal plane crash in New York.Reminds us to treasure our close ones when they are around, right?

No, I am not again on music appreciation. Just can’t help but got caught up with this guy zest for life or music.




In Memory of Joseph Raymond Conniff (November 06, 1916 – October 12, 2002)an American musician. The Ray Conniff Singers (also known as Ray Conniff and the Singers) were a vocal group established 1959 by composer-arranger-bandleader Ray Conniff. Their biggest hit was "Somewhere My Love" in 1966, which reached #9.

Till-then, cheers.
About metaphysics, another day. Why bother, enjoy today first.