Good morning, Cubao!
The sky is an empire made of glass.
Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017
Friday, June 30, 2023
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You with seven syllables in your name: Continue perfecting your art. Never believe for a moment that you have already leaned everything you have to learn.
Thursday, June 29, 2023
Old
Watched M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 movie Old (1:47:48). Families check into Anamika Resort, a .high-end, tropical paradise. Some of them are secretly invited to the resort's private beach off a nature preserve--and are consequently trapped there. Strange things begin to happen, among them everyone's rapid aging.
The movie's first major flaw is its sophomoric screenplay. We are not given time to sympathize with the characters before they start dying, and, when they do die, they remain the one-dimensional sketches they started out as. The dialogue is stilted, peppered with unlikely phrases, and ends up being hilarious, like a Bollywood script that decided to try and go serious without everyone's permission. The overall situation the characters are thrust into comes across as material for a cheap, group dynamics exercise. The usual, O. Henry twist at the end has become tired and predictable by now, and the entire movie becomes a mere, Halloween feature.
Its second major flaw is in casting. The performers are unable to portray their scenes with truth and with the right facial expressions, which is probably why many of the intimate scenes are under-lighted or defocused. The accents are perplexing, especially with East Indians on vacation--from where?--because they seem to be talking like New Yorkers.
Perhaps the third major flaw is the director himself, He is already notorious for making movies based on "ideas" snatched from here and there, rather than on three-dimensional characters. As such, his oeuvre never stands with a strong, philosophical spine. Old, in particular, screens like a short story instead of a novel of a movie.
The best thing that might be said about this movie is that it took the risk of hiring actors who don't look like stars and who will never be stars. It's what Hollywood has been needing for the longest time.
One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Ever night Of The Year
You with five syllables in your name: When feeling under the weather, take one-hour naps as often as you can.
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Your Messenger message:
"Hi Tony. Congratulations on your recent exhibit! I'm sorry to bother you with this but lately, I've been smelling acrid odors such as intense incense smoke at work and something like an electric fire at home. I have checked my surroundings and nothing seems to have caused them. I've read on phantosmia and now I'm wondering if this may have an underlying medical cause although I haven't been sick other than the seasonal allergies. I haven't experienced anything like this before either. Thank you for your time."
My reply:
Hello _____!
Observe whether this goes on for a longer time In the meantime have the wiring in your house checked.
Olfactory memory, to sensitive persons, not only visits you from the past--it can also warn you of danger in the future, as a form of olfactory precognition.
Haunted
Watched all six episodes of the U.S.A.'s Haunted (2018). Every episode is narrated by the actual person with first-hand experience (2013).
Episode 1 ("In the Pines") is narrated by Hannah, who moves in with her boyfriend, in a remote cabin in the woods. They discover a false wall that covers a torture chamber. Its original owner apparently used to take women there to "feed the house" with blood and kill them.
Episode 2 ("Haunted by Henry") is narrated by Wyatt, whose family moves into a house formerly owned by mining king Henry Croft in British Colombia. Croft's spirit continues to live in the house, smoking cigars and sitting in a rocking chair. He is, however, hostile toward the new tenants. Wyatt does research and discovers that the house's previous tenant must have also been haunted and eventually committed suicide.
In Episode 3 ("Gift of Evil"), Emily is attacked by a spirit that resides in an old music box. She takes the box to a medium, who sees that the music box and the locket within were owned by a girl who was murdered by two men and thrown in the river.
Brandy narrates the events in Episode 4 ("The Witch Behind the Wall"). When her mother can finally afford to rent a house, they end up in one whose adjoining residence belongs to a witch. The witch build a dollhouse with dolls corresponding to Emily's family members, and performs hexing rituals to drive them away.
In Episode 5 ("Demon Cat"), young Alicia and her family move from a mobile home into a house in Garden Grove, California. A demon cat violently attacks the family members, especially Alicia, who develops typhoid fever and is hospitalized. A shamanic practitioner is called in to perform a cleansing ritual on the house.
Half-Mexican Christian tells of how, in the final episode ("Sins of the Father"), his father and he are, one after the other, diabolically possessed in Oregon and undergo destructive fugues..
The episodes are scary in that they involve people getting seriously hurt and dying. Most of the scenes, of course, could have been exaggerated for cinematic purposes, such as the appearance of monsters, persons levitating, and even a python emerging from a protagonist's mouth. In the end, one questions how and why the series must manage to be more frightening than horror movies.
Very entertaining, but a strain on one's suspension of disbelief.
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You with six syllables in your name: Never take good things for granted. Be grateful that they are there, and be grateful for the persons who make them be there.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
One Message For One Of 2,900 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year
You with five syllables in your name: Never feel that you are alone and abandoned, for the persons who truly love you are they whom you don't see everyday.
Monday, June 26, 2023
Your Messenger message:
"Hi Sir Tony, just want to aak your help. My 10 yr old grandson wrote this apparently unintelligible words but when i searched on Google Lens, it was translated from Russian and talked aboit some books. I dontk now how he knew about this though he is always on Ipad and the net. May i ask your advise how to deal with this? Is this harmful content that he has accessed?
"This is the original that he wrote
"Then i had it checked on Google Lens, and yielded those words above pic{"
My reply:
Hello _____!
I am at present getting ready to resume my paintings for Maryhill School of Theology. I will refer this to both Nick Nangit and Peachie Dioquinio. They can decide which one of them, or whether both of them, can work on this.
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You with five syllables in your name: You do not have to be on the forefront all of the time. As a matter of act, life is very much enjoyable from a back seat.
Sunday, June 25, 2023
Haunted Latinoamerica:
Watched all five episodes of the USA's reality TV show Haunted: Latin America (2021). Each episode is narrated by a protagonist surrounded by relatives and friends in a living room. The stories are set mostly in Mexico and in Colombia, and occur between 2004 and 2018.
In the first episode ("The House of the Damned"), housewife Brisa Ramirez fights to own a house after her divorce, only to find out that it is haunted by the ghosts of two abusive men and an abused child. In the second episode ("The Cursed Doll"), single mother Zully Daza is obsessed with a ballerina doll that is possessed by a male spirit that is in love with her and is out to kill her. Episode 3, titled "The Woman from El Molino," recounts the experiences of police NCO and criminology student Rodrigo Casas, who is rescued more than once by a female spirit that he recognizes from a legendary story. Episode 4, titled "Something Knocking at the Door," is about student Diego Ruiz, who is followed by rapping sounds wherever he goes--and who always has a neighbor who dies. In the final episode ("The Devil Dances Before Easter"), young Emmanuel Cifuentes is sent to live with his grandmother, a gypsy, after his parents are divorced. Despite being warned by his grandmother not to leave the house on Good Friday, he does so, and is subsequently hounded by a big, black dog and a devil. He grows up and asks his grandmother to train him as a spiritualist.
The settings and situations will remind viewers of those in the Philippines. A variety of experts are consulted by the narrators: researchers, a parapsychologist, native healers, a priest, and a pastor. Each episode is open-ended, which could be disturbing to audiences accustomed to closure.
All episodes are well-performed, but there are too many lit candles in the narration sequences, and almost all of the scenes are under-lighted.
There is some semi-nudity.
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You with five syllables in your name: adjust well to sudden changes. Do not let them affect you emotionally.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
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You with six syllables in your name: Rest well before a tedious day trip.
Friday, June 23, 2023
Former students who participated in my exhibit opening, Left to Right:
Peachie Dioquino Valera gave remarks before the ribbon-cutting at the P. Tuazon gallery; Nick Nangit gave remarks before the ribbon-cutting at the Shangri-La gallery; Vanessa Bicomong emceed the programs at both galleries, and Joel Cruz modeled for the prologue painting titled _The Magician_.
In the background, left, is Allan Fulgencio, and that's me in the background, right.
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You with five syllables in your name: Always make sure you relax during weekends. Never make them stressful days.
Thursday, June 22, 2023
_Lockwood & Co._ Season 1: Review
Watched all eight episodes of the U.K.'s Lockwood & Co. (2023), about young ghost hunters in an indeterminate time period (there are no cell phones and no Internet) set in London. The country is beset with The Problem, an epidemic of ghosts whose touch bring death, and only psychic young people and children have the ability to fight them. Several agencies, supervised by adults, are tasked to conduct training on talented, young students, who must pass Fourth Grade in order to be considered professionals. These agencies are overseen and monitored by the DEPRAC (Department of Psychical Research and Control). The protagonists in the series are Lucy Carlyle, Anthony Lockwood, and George Casper Karim, who work as an independent and unlicensed team.
The series is in English but features English subtitles, which is just as well not only because the cast tends to mumble their dialogue but also because the script employs untypical terms taken from the novels authored by Jonathan Stroud, such as sensitives instead of psychics, listeners instead of audients, Type One, Type Two, and Type Three Ghosts; visitors, changers, wraith hunters, relic men, cold maidens, agents, death glows, and ghost-locking, to name several. The last series that attempted this, as far as I know, was Grimm and its Wesens, woging, hexenbiests, and zauberbiests
The problem with the concept and script of the series is that they work too much off the Harry Potter template. If you look closely enough, Anthony Lockwood is Harry Potter, Lucy Carlyle is Hermione Granger, George Karim is Ron Weasley, Quill Kipps is Draco Malfoy, and DEPRAC is the Ministry of Magic. The depiction of young psychics seeking to escape from an abusive family has become old hat by now--so is the predictable insertion of a ball sequence to show the protagonists in glamorous attire. The cheap exposition technique of culprits confessing their motives and movements to protagonists, really to the audience, is employed more than once. And the use of iron, silver, and sand, filings, chains, rapiers, silver nets, and incendiaries also seem both unlikely and inconvenient.
Yes, despite all of the special effects and AI, we are all still waiting for writers to step out of the 20th century and enter the 21st, and it is already 2023.
Strangely, the saving grace of this series is the laid-back, self-effacing, but intense performance of Cameron Chapman as Anthony Lockwood. He makes no effort to shine, but he dazzles. There is the danger, though, of his getting stuck with the same predicament that Tyler Posey was in with Teen Wolf, He should be given non-supernatural roles from time to time.
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You with six syllables in your name: Plan ahead. Avoid getting trapped in unexpected situations.
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
One Message For One Of 2,800 Friends, One Every Night of The Year
You with six syllables in your name: Never give in to rou0p pressure, Have a mind of your own.
Till the End of the Moon: Review
Watched all 40 episodes of China's Till the End of the Moon (2023). The Devil King threatens to destroy the Four Continents and Three Realms and all living beings within. Li Susu, the daughter of an Immortal, volunteers to travel to the past, retrieve the evil bone from the Devil King's body, and then kill him. She practices The Loveless Way on her path toward becoming a goddess, and is confident that she will succeed in her mission--until she develops feelings that conflict with her cultivation.
The story takes the viewers not only through the past, the present, and the future but also through at least three parallel existences in which the characters play a variety of roles and engage in a variety of relationships. The overall design of the series is polished, and the costumes, magnificent--they are not recycled from previous productions. Due to the expertise of everyone in the make-up and lighting departments, Luo Yun Xi, Bai Lu, and even Sun Zhen Ni are at the height of their beauty in every episode.
One can sense that the creators and crew are in love with Luo Yun Xi and are developing him as China's Keanu Reeves, but Bai Lu manages to outshine him with her masterful acting. She demonstrates that every role she plays is carefully interpreted--she is, amazingly, a different person in every character she plays--unlike Luo Yu Xi and Sun Zhen Ni, who retain acting mannerisms and tricks from previous series they appeared in.
The series, unfortunately, dwindles from Episode 33 onward, as though the writers could not agree on how to give it a proper ending. There are too many gadgets and gizmos that appear out of nowhere, and the special effects featuring cataclysms eventually become boring. In the end, the story is really about the Yin and the Yang within the Self, illustrated, strangely, not as Taoist philosophy but in a dissonant, Western, Jungian manner--we get an overdose of I love you/I hate you, truth/lies, life/death--albeit providing a perfect vehicle for Luo Yun Xi, who, because of his expressive eyes, easily projects masculinity/femininity, good/evil, and an entire range of emotions.
There are continuity lapses, as can be expected from all multi-episode movies. In Episode 11 a dangling jewel from the king's crown is missing in some shots and is suddenly there in other shots. In Episode 20, Bingchang says goodbye to her husband Xiao Lin while she is looking down, but in the succeeding shot she is looking up. In Episode 25 Ye Xiwu blows on sweet porridge that has logically run cold after all those hours. In Episode 26 Ye Xiwu's purple eye due to the world-alluring jade transfers from right to left, possibly because of reverse shots. It is also quite discombobulating when a character spits blood and shows that his teeth are covered with blood, but in succeeding shots his teeth are the whitest; this first occurs in Episode 27. I still have to watch a xianxia in which tea is poured and does not spill on the table; something must be wrong with all of those spouts. The title is perplexing because the series really has nothing to do with the moon, either literally or figuratively, unless the writers are making an indirect reference to the passing of lunar years. And, as with other xianxia, the music track diverges from the Chinese and goes Indiana Jones, especially in battle scenes.
Having said all of this, I love xianxia because they demonstrate that philosophy can justify evil when theology cannot. Indeed, morality should never be based on religion but, rather, on the greatest good of all, and religion frequently has nothing to do with that.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: Never react impulsively to criticism. Nine time out of ten the person did not mean what he said the way you understood it.
Monday, June 19, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: Value simplicity in life. A complex life will always have complex problems and complex solutions.
Sunday, June 18, 2023
One Message For One Of 2,800 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year
You with five syllables in your name: Half of the month is over. Did you do well within the first half? How do you plan to manage the second?
Saturday, June 17, 2023
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You with five syllables n your name: Be patient and let your spirit guides do the vengeance.
One of five persons who did mew wrong in 2009, for example, was finally punished early in 2023.
Staggered dinnertimes.
Night chores.
Rayven gave Yukiko Taka a soap bath and a shampoo.
My favorite time of the day has come again: an evening shower, and then snuggling in bed with Agatha Christie. Rereading Dumb Witness tonight because I forgot whodunnit. If I suddenly remember, though, I'll place the book back on the shelf and resume my viewing of Till the End of the Moon.
Finished reading The Hound of Death last night--a dozen short stories by Agatha Christie, most of them supernatural and the rest deeply psychological. I never read this anthology before and I'm glad my sister Sylvia gave it to me. The closest Christie ever got to the occult in her novels were in The Pale Horse, featuring amateur detective Mark Easterbrook, who investigates murders occurring in a Tudor-style inn run by alleged witches, and in Sad Cypress, in which there are several scenes with a mysterious gypsy woman.
Ashes of Love
Watched all 63 episodes of China's Ashes of Love (2017), a xianxia set in the Heavenly, Floral, Demon, Water, and Earthly Realms. Heartbroken and on her death bed, the Floral Immortal gives birth to a baby girl and feeds her the Yun Elixir that will prevent her ever falling in love and sharing her mother's fate. When the girl grows up, however, she meets Xufeng, the Fire Immortal, and Runyu, the Water Immortal, who are half-brothers and who both fall in love with her. Events unfold to a series of royal and famiy intrigues, adventures and misadventures, and wars between realms
Like all xianxia, the sets are spectacular and massive, and the special effects flawless. Except for three or four ham actors the cast delivers superb performances, their characters maturing and evolving over 63 episodes. Due to inexpert exposition--and perhaps too much information for the viewer's mind to quickly process--the story is at first difficult to absorb, especially since it is initially set in gaudy, if not stagey, locations. Everything is gripping, however, from Episode 13 onward, and, despite minor lapses in continuity, becomes an unforgettable screening for xianxia fans. There is too much heavy drama--too many scenes on pining and yearning and fretting over love, both requited and unrequited--that the writers sought to counterbalance with too much comic relief. In all, nonetheless, this is a commendable production and will easily become a favorite to lovers of this genre.
Yang Zi gives a fine performance even if, despite her many close-ups, she has limited facial expressions. As Grape Elf she verges on caricature. She is completely overshadowed by Deng Lun and Luo Yunxi, who also overshadow everyone else in the cast. These two lead actors are perfectly orchestrated, physically and psychologically. and deserve to remain on China's silver screen through their old age.
"If the heart does not die, fate will not perish."
Immortal Yuanji
My art trek titled Ambiguous opens next Friday at Gallery 928 Shangri-la Plaza Mall (5:00 PM) and Gallery 928 AYSN Building, P, Tuazon Boulevard (7:00) PM, June 23, 2023. I look forward to seeing everyone who clicked on "Going" at both galleries.
Here is the scenario for the event:
5:00 PM Vanessa Bicomong, one of my former university students, will welcome everyone and emcee the short program at Gallery 928 Shangri-La Plaza Mall.
Spirit Questor Nick Nangit will give brief remarks.
Ribbon-cutting follows.
The viewers will be given an hour to view the paintings, and another hour to commute to P. Tuazon Boulevard..
7:00 PM Vanessa will welcome everyone at Gallery 928, AYSN Building, P. Tuazon Boulevard.
Former Spirit Questor Peachie Dioquino will give brief remarks.
Ribbon-cutting follows.
Refreshments will be served at both venues.
https://www.facebook.com/events/917136343071166?ref=newsfeed
Friday, June 16, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: It is always a good idea have a supply of healthful, non-perishable food. They come to your rescue when least expected.
Thursday, June 15, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: Enough sleep every night paves the way to success for every man. .
Wednesday, June 14, 2023
If there is anything that other men should envy me for, it is neither for the material things I have nor for my special talents. It is for the freedom I have to be whatever I want to be, and I have always had this freedom since childhood.
I realize that not all men have this freedom, because they are usually enslaved to religion, to tradition, to convention, and to the expectations of others.
One Message For One Of 2,800 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year
You with five syllables in your name: Always step back and observe what is happening in the world from where you are. Wisdom descends on the detached, not on the proactive participant,
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
One Message For One Of 2,800 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year
You with five syllables in your name: Always be neat, and appropriately dressed, an presentable. Get rid of old and shabby clothes, no matter how comfortable they are.
Your Messenger message:
"Good afternoon Sir Tony. I have a weird dream last night. In my dream, I was flying and could see the stars. Then, while on air, I saw a car full of people. Then a girl told me that the passengers were the souls of persons who just died in a car accident. I went back to my hotel, but instead of human guests, they were souls waiting for their guide, particularly that red car. Then, another soul reminds everyone that they can only travel to the afterlife if they have their travel cards.
"In my dream, I'm not a ghost but I can see them, and can communicate with me. But they don't bother me."In my waking life, I just lost a cousin yesterday, whom I grew up with. Then last week, a friend and a comrade passed away."
My reply:
Hello ______!
You went on astral travel. One way to check the authenticity of astral travel is to interact with the characters you encounter. If the characters are spirits, they will be able to see, hear, and talk with you. If they are living human beings, they will be unable to see, hear, and talk with you. They won't feel a thing even if you strike them on their shoulders.
Monday, June 12, 2023
You were in my night class last night if:
--You were in a group of four men and three women, all of them adults
--We were on a compound and slept in a house and took breakfast in another
--The house we slept in had two sofas
--I placed red, Chinese throw pillows on both sofas
--We were on a compound and slept in a house and took breakfast in another
--The house we slept in had two sofas
--I placed red, Chinese throw pillows on both sofas
--We had rum coffee with our breakfast
--One of the women, named Nelia, left us early
--One of the women, named Nelia, left us early
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You with five syllables in your name: Know what your priorities are. They are the biggest steps in achieving your concrete goals.
Sunday, June 11, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: Never go back to a partner who left you for anther man and then wants you all over again. She will leave you for yet another man when she finds one.
Saturday, June 10, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: Avoid company whose influence on you is negative. Only then can you be yourself and live a life of satisfaction and contentment.
Back from jalan-jalan at the center with Angelique, Aubrey, and Jazz.
This entire day was all about my grandchildren, Angelique and Aubrey went to the salon. We had lunch out. Aubrey went to a second salon, at Gateway. Bought a floor fan for Aubrey's bedroom. Passed by Book Sale but found nothing of interest. A small, hot Americano at Seattle's Best, where my grandchildren later passed by for me from the department store .Major groceries. I was a mere shadow of a stage manager all day.
Grandpa is poorer by thousands.
Friday, June 9, 2023
Thursday, June 8, 2023
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You with five syllables in your name: Always be prepared for disasters. Have a waterproof bag with all your important documents, your wallet, necessities, and other things.
Everyone on the compound has a lato-lato. I've seen them in all of the colors of the rainbow. The clicking sounds reset the energy in the environment. They remind me of the spinning arm movement shown in the sequel to The Exorcist, meant to drive the evil locusts away.
I suppose they have the same effect on their users as Greek worry beads.
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Your Messenger message:
"Prof. Tony, good morning. I would like to seek your advice on something --- after years of emotional abuse and numerous betrayals by my 'mother' (e.g., always siding with people who have wronged me while I took care of her and provided for her into her 60s), I have confronted them countless times and now, I finally had the courage to move away from her and the rest of the dysfunctional 'family' who have caused me to be dysfunctional myself. This has caused me to be distrustful of people and it has definitely given me a very low sense of self-worth. I have kept my distance from those who show me appreciation and affection (friends and former lovers) because I do not think I am worthy of such. I do not discount my own responsibility for my life and my decisions and so I decided to set boundaries, break away and start anew. It had gotten so bad that I got depressed over the years..lashing out at others highschool... In college and in my early years as a professional... for which I have been taking a prescribed SSRI... I see a shrink. There has been a lot of improvement, thank God.
"At the back of my mind, I think it is too painful to realize that those who should have provided me with basic emotional security treated me with such betrayal over the years...this includes directly emotionally abusing me or constantly siding with people who have abused me and those who have maligned me. This is something my 'mother' is good at. I think she enjoys it also... Since I have been critical of her over the years because of what she has done to me, she gets a real kick out of the fact that I have been taking care of her while she shows me that she does not care about how people malign me, she will still continue to entertain and befriend them all. When your child tells you how you have damaged him/her and you still act the same, I think it's clear that there is real malice, right? I told her she cannot have her cake and eat it too and I moved away. It is upsetting that when confronted about it, no admission and apology is given to me. I try to reconcile this with the thought that maybe this is something that I have to experience and learn from -- in this lifetime. How do I now process all these bad experiences so that I can move forward with my life with a good outlook and also trust people again?"As a private reference, here is an example of the confrontation with my 'mother' that happened recently via messenger (to protect myself, I try to make sure that interactions are recorded electronically)
Me: 'Sayo naman yang bahay. Pwede mo na i-press release na magre-retire ka dyan. Beg off na ako sa pagpunta dyan. Kaya nga humiwalay na ako kasi hindi ko naman pwedeng hayaan na lahat ng masama ang intensyon sa akin at sinisiraan ako, yun pa ang mga taong madalas mong pakisamahan, kahit ilang beses ko nang sinabi na magpaka nanay ka. kaya nga nagpatingin ako sa doktor at umiinom ako ng gamot dahil psychologically maapektohan ako sa mga ginagawa nyo sa akin. Hindi kasi kita mapagkakatiwalaan to have my best interest. Kahit siguro sa mga magkakaibigan, not a good friend ka sa ginagawa mo sa akin. you want your cake and eat it too. meron bang nanay na ganon? Pag sinabi ng anak na May hindi magandang ginaw si ganito at si ganon, ang sasabihin mo, ayaw mo ng kaaway. At lagi ka pang kasali sa lahat ng greeting nila pag bday o kung anu man okasyon. Kahit siguro aso marunong magpaka nanay. And I'm sure tuloy ka pa rin sa bonding sa mga naninira sa akin, libreng libre ka na, hindi mo na kailangan kunyari magtago sa labas para makipagtawagan sa kanila kasi umalis na ako dyan sa bahay.'
"Thanks for giving me a way to continuously seek your inputs on random things and personal issues"
My reply:
Hello ___!
You've already confronted your mother and broken off ties with your dysfunctional family. It takes balls to do that, and I congratulate you.
At this point, you cannot rush your healing It takes time.
You've learned to trust yourself because you love yourself. That is one step closer to trusting others. Yes, love is the secret ingredient.
Do not be afraid to love others. They will betray you from time to time, but that's all right as long as you never betray yourself again. .
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You with five syllables in your name: Look at the things you've accumulated from time to time and determine which treasures to keep and which items have no value and can be thrown away.
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Your Messenger message:
"Good Morning, Sir Tony.
"I’ve been thinking about it lately to reach out to you about my childhood experience. This happened so many years back when my late granpa was still alive. "Malinaw pa sa aking ala-ala iyong nangyari sa akin nung bata ako. I remember being excited, listening to my lolo’s experience regarding supernaturals— about him meeting with Archangel Gabriel and other saints at our backyard, sa family house pa po namin iyon. And I remember, it was around 5pm at halos hindi ko na namalayan iyong oras na kausap ko siya. Madami po kaming napag-usapan, tulad ng mga orasyon, mga mutya at kung paano po sila makukuha. Bata pa po ako nun. Siguro ay nasa around 9-10 years old ako. Dahil ugali ko pong makinig at magtanong sa kanya sa mga ganitong bagay, natanong ko rin iyong mga orasyon na sinasabi niya; hanggang sa hindi ko po namamalayan na binigyan nga po niya ako ng isa or dalawang orasyon na iyon. Sabi pa niya, meron siya tanging siya lamang iyong nakakaalam at ipapasa niya lamang ito sa mga anak niya. Ako ay curious akong malaman iyon, pero nakuwento nga niya sa akin na mahirap at may kaakibat na pasanin daw iyon. Magtatakip silim na nun, Sir Tony. Napalingon ako sa may puno ng talisay. Nagulat ako ng may mga matang nakatingin sa akin. Nagtama iyong mga mata namin. Naaalala ko pa. Matatalim ang mga titig niyang iyon, at mapupula iyong mga mata niya. Hindi ko po mawari kung may sungay iyon kasi natatakpan ng dilim. Pero tanging ang napatindig ng takot sa akin ay iyong mga tingin niyang nanlilisik. Agad kong sinabi iyon sa lolo ko habang nasa tabi ko siya. Sa una ay hindi niya ako pinaniwalaan. Sinabi niya lamang na magdasal ako. At dahil sa kinakain na rin kami ng dilim, minabuti na naming umalis. "Simula po nung gabing iyon ay sunod-sunod iyong mga masasamang panaginip ko nung bata ako na parang may humahabol sa akin at maiiba na naman ang setting. "At sabi pa nila ay may tinuturo raw ako sa may bintana at sumisigaw. Minsan ay babangon at hihiga, maglalakad ako nang nakapikit ang aking mga mata. Kung hindi ako nagkakamali ay isang linggo rin iyon. Sabi pa nga nila ay dahil daw sa pinasahan ako nung lolo ko ng orasyon niya. "Pumasok po akong altar server, simula nun ay nawala na iyong mga masasamang panaginip. * Fast forward mga college na po ako nun, nanaginip ako, isang gabi, wala na po si lolo nun, matagal na siyang sumakabilang buhay at iniisip ko pa rin iyong hindi niya napapasa na orasyon niya, isang gabi, ang bigat ng panaginip ko, sa likod ng bakuran daw namin, para akong namamangka, at nakatinign sa malaking krus na nakabaliktad. Sobrang bigat po nung pakiramdam ko every time I still recall that dream and it happened twice. Hindi po magkasunod. After 2 years kung hindi ako nagkakamali ay napanaginipan kong muli. Naka-lock po iyong mata ko sa baliktad na krus at sobrang laki niya at namamangka po ako sa likod ng old family house namin, at tanda ko pa na may tumutulong dugo sa krus na iyon. "At bakit po kaya sa tuwing nagdadasal ako ay napapahikab po ako? * "Year 2019, nung lumuwas ako ng Maynila. I was hired in a corporate industry na naka-based po sa Cubao. I rememer, bigla ko na lang binasahan ng kamay iyong mga former workmates ko dahil nakuwento ko po sa kanila na tila nakakabasa rin ako ng palad pero mas nangingibabaw sa akin iyong past experience ng mga nababasahan ko po. At iyon, every time na ginagawa ko siya ay sumasakit iyong ulo ko, tila nauubusan ako ng energy. Nagtutugma iyong mga sinasabi ko sa kanila. May minsan din na iyong iba ay hindi. Pero hindi ko pa po alam kung nakakabasa po ba talaga ako. "Ngayon po ay nais kong mas maintindihan nang mabuti ang mga bagay na ito. Kung bakit nung nagpahula ako sa Quiapo ang sabi sa akin ay may gabay daw po akong liwanag/ spirit sabi po nung matandang nanghula sa akin. I" also tried listening to some podcast, which I heard your name. Matagal na po kitang finofollow dito sa Fb due to common friend na isa ring manunulat. Ako po’y nagdadalawang isip pa nun, pero sana ay matulungan ninyo ako."My reply:
Hello ______!
Ang bawat orasyon--ang bawat TOTOONG orasyon--ay nasa pangangalaga ng kapre. Ang nakita mong mga mata at ang inaakala mong mala-demonyong anyo ay sa isang kapreng sumubok makipagkaibigan sa iyo at maging gabay mo, datapwat natakot ka. Pakatandaan na ang mga kapre at ibang nilalang na hindi tao ay kaiba ang hitsura--ang pangit sa atin ay makisig sa kanila, ang makisig sa kanila ay pangit sa atin. Halimbawa, ang haba at tulis ng ulo ng kapre ang nagdidikta kung guwapo sila o hindi.
Sa pakiwari ko, binigyan ka ng kapreng iyon ng kakayahang bumasa ng tao.
Pakatandaan din, ang mga pangit, may sungay, at mukhang halimaw ay hindi nangangahulugan na sila ay diyablo.
I have always been telling the Spirit Questors this:
Do not see fallen angels where there are none. In the first place, they are of such high ranking that they would not deign to be seen by you. Fallen angels do not disguise themselves as extraterrestrials, elementals, and the like. Why should they step down to a lower level when they are already content being where they are--in churches and inside religious statues, especially those being paraded and worshipped--because they like the attention they get when they are there. As such, they can even answer prayers and grant wishes as celestial beings can. They are the yin to the yang on this planet.
The only other places they are in, of course, are in persons' hearts. After all, if gods, goddesses, saints, and avatars can be in one's heart, why can't fallen angels? Isn't that easier and more convenient than lurking in the dark and disguising oneself as an elemental?
Fallen angels follow the path of least resistance due to their superior intelligence. They do not appear as images from horror movies. They are where they are most comfortable--right under your nose, in your everyday life.
Your Messenger message:
"Hi Sir Tony, i read about your post on reversed reincarnation and retroactive emchantment. I am very interested. I am someone who had been interested in the spiritual and supernatural. But I haven't developed gifts, i know i have some, such as precognition and ability to feel ghosts, but i think I shut my third eye, because i cannot see them. I did space clearing before by just studying Karen Kingston's book. May i know if you still can conduct the ones u mentioned in your post? I am a willing learner..."
My reply:
Hello _______!
I retired in 2015 and it is now 2023. My life is dedicated completely to my family, writing and painting, shopping, and having fun. I do only what I like, what I enjoy most, and what is pleasurable. This definitely does not include teaching, which I consider as work.
Secondly, such sessions are very intimate and I do not conduct them on women. I think you will be better off in the hands of an older psychic of your own gender.
Reverse Incarnation and Retroactive Enchantment
Before I retired in 2015, I conducted two types of therapy: reverse incarnation and retroactive enchantment. Both are forms of regression therapy and are complex procedures.
I regress a subject to a past life in order to determine the roots not only of talent but also the roots of karma. When that past life is particularly traumatic to the subject, however, I immediately transit to a process I call reverse incarnation. This is akin to lucid dreaming, in which the dreamer authors the dream, especially the ending of the dream. In this case, I guide the subject through revising certain portions of his past life in his memory.
Another technique that I taught and practiced was retroactive enchantment, in which the revision is done not in the subject's past life but in his immediate past. For example, when a man is terribly depressed because he lost someone, I regress him to that very moment when he first met that someone, and I guide him through a revision all the way to his present. When the subject awakes, it is as though he never met that someone whom he lost, at all.
Yes, experience and memory are like fabric. They can be cut, sewn together, folded, creased, shirred, smocked, pleated, corded, lined, dyed, beaded, and embroidered to one's contentment. And most especially, washed.
One Message For One Of 2,800 Friends, One Every Night Of The Year
You with five syllables in your name: Your bed, your side table, and your bedside light should be arranged in such a way that they induce you to sleep rather than think of other things.
Monday, June 5, 2023
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