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Experience, as defined in dictionaries, is knowledge derived from one's own action, practice, perception, enjoyment, or suffering. So what will you expect in this page? Experiences, experiences and nothing but experiences—encounters with types of people, dangers, and any other category wherever these might fall.
Below are two columns. On your left are my experiences, while on the right is others' experiences. If you want to share an experience, mail 'em to me including your location, name, desired title (short & relevant) for your column, and email address. The bullets you will see will contain alternative texts showing the sender's particulars. Click to email the person.
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 Tempest Jaz
With a Tarot card reader...
I was dying to know where I could find a Tarot reader. Gladly, my classmate tells me she had been to one and it's just near the city. Quickly I asked for the location and I immediately went their (along with two of my other classmates). On the way, we were excited and preparing for our questions.
At last, we spotted the house. It was small but comfortable. To our surprise, the sister-in-law of another classmate lives there. Then comes the reader. She was an adult lady who looked kind. I volunteered first since my company didn't want to be first. She asked for my palm and I gave it. "Four children in the future," she told me, "Two male and the others, female." I wasn't quickly amazed. Then, she began telling me what my attitude is, "You're loving, envious, and you'll have a lucky future especially in business about food. But you have to get rid of your 'pilosopo' behavior." I jumped! Everything she said about me was true, so true. She also told me that I'll be able to finish my studies, my friends are loyal to me, and because of my wise mother, our life will progress. I was also amazed when she knew about my parents' condition. I tried to hide my amazed reaction but it won't. Then my classmates, some things that I knew about them were said, too. When we left, we talked about how great it was.
Spooky encounter, I remember
Reminiscing my childhood, I remembered one time when I was still a playful youngster, I washed my hands in the kitchen sink. I was alone at the dining room and the kitchen at that time. "Pssst!" Someone was like calling me. "Pa?" I asked. I knew that my father always went outside because he always gets some of his repairing things there. "Pa?" I asked again. "Pssst! Pssst! Pssst!" My hair stood to the end. With a crying voice, I cried, "Pa! Ikaw ba yan? (Is that you?)" It responded with, "Pssst!" I trembled and ran to my mother's room. There, I saw my parents and my brother. Therefore, it wasn't my father outside there. I also realized that the "Pssst!" sounded like that from a giant.
The shame of accusation
Me and some other Fourth Years went out from another school because a competition partook (and I lost -_-). Our next destination would be in another school to watch the musical play, the Prince (of Egypt). When I was already in the jeepney, a lady asked me to go down and invited me to talk to her in her restaurant. I refused. She might be a kidnapper or something. Then, we talked right in front of the school gate. She began asking me why I snatched her bag. I was surprised. What does she mean? I haven't met her before and neither did I eat at her restaurant. Right where the students passed, she blamed me. All who passed were looking and listening. She even told me, "Shame on you. You even belong from a Catholic School." I asked when it happened. She answered Tuesday, 6 in the evening. I laughed. How could that be? There was a training in school which lasted up until 6:30. I had many witnesses, my officers, my commandant who was with us. No one believed her. She even said, "It's between my God, and your God." Without any more word, we left.
When I got home, I quickly reported it to my mother. To my mother's anger, we charged at the restaurant and searched for her. She wasn't there anymore. My mother was very angry that she shouted at the top of her voice. She wasn't there anymore. We asked for her number and quickly called her. My mother argued with her over the phone and after fifteen minutes of talking, she was sorry. Later at midnight when I was already asleep, she went in our house! They talked and she said she couldn't sleep because her conscience was bugging her.
Not-to-near death experience
One time, me and my family went in Olongapo to swim in the beach. We invited my father's sister who had a one-year baby girl. She came, too. On the beach, my parents were busy swimming with the baby girl. My brother was doing his own business.
I noticed a slide playground in the waters where there are kids who slide their. It was fun I thought. I walked in the water until I got near it. Because I was having so much fun in the waters, I decided to walk around the slide first before I climb it. I walked around it. I didn't realize the water is deep already. Then, I realized I was being pushed away from the shores by the strong waves. I could no longer reach the seafloor with my toes. I was taken farther and farther from the shallows. I tried to shout for help, but I couldn't. I was too busy panicking in the waters. Gladly, someone saw me and quickly rescued me.
When the fun was over, I was crying. I blamed my parents for not looking after me. I nearly drowned. I nearly died. I even blamed the baby girl for it. Since then, I had a phobia over bodies of water.
I Witnessed UFOs
After shopping in SM North EDSA, we made a decision to go home. I was with my family, uncle, aunt and cousins. On the way home using the van, I was the only one awake (and the driver, of course). I was watching the sky. It had no clouds. Then, I saw explosions of bright, red lights. It didn't stop until five minutes. "Those were just firecrackers," I told myself. When we reached home, my father put the TV on the night news. It was reported that UFOs have been seen in Manila. The picture taken was exactly like what I saw.
Another story was when our family was visiting my uncle in California. We came in a party then. Because of bore, me, my brother and cousin went outside the house. The sky was starry and cloudless. But then I was so amazed to see white fireballs transferring from star to star. For every movement was a very strange sound. It didn't stop until we left the place.
Living in a jungle
We also visited my father's brother-in-law at West Virginia. Him being a soldier in the navy, they live in a jungle-like place which is the base of some soldiers. It was so different. When you are taking a shower in the bathroom, you can see monkeys watching you. At night, you will hear owls hooting. When we wandered around the place using my aunt's car, we see a snake passing by. My Dad also caught a turtle and we raised it until we left for the Philippines.
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Ines Calma (my mother-side grandma)
Seeking advice from the spirits I
My grandmother was a spiritist back in her time. One time, she had a goiter. Then one night, she dreamt of four Americans operating her. When she visited the spiritist group, the spirit tells my grandma through a channel, "Your dream is true. Go seek for those men in Manila and they will be the one to cure your disease." My grandma obeyed and she found those men from her dreams and her goiter was gone.
Seeking advice from the spirits II
My grandfather was then adored by many ladies because he was a soldier and he was running for mayor in Porac, Pampanga. When my grandma sought the spirit's advice, the spirit gave her a procedure: when my grandfather is sleeping, she must put her hand on top of his head without touching it, and then reciting a prayer. My grandma did it. It worked.
Seeking advice from the spirits III
It was summer and sore eyes had plagued the town. My grandma came to the usual house where they channel the spirit. Many went their, too and my mother came with my grandma. The spirit asked for a "sago" jar filled with water. Then, the medium laid his hand on the jar. To my mother's surprise, the clear water became purple! The spirit then asked everyone to bring bottles to contain the medicine and at home, to put the water to their eyes. The sore eyes plague was gone.
Seeking advice from the spirits IV
It was the time of Martial Law. Bullets trespassed the house every night. The spirit gave my grandma a prayer and some powder. She was ordered to put the powder around the house while praying the given verses. Since then, no bullet entered the house.
Christ channeled
It was Lenten Season when my grandma went to a church where spiritists went their, too. One medium was able to channel Jesus Christ. It said in a dying voice, "Where is my mother? I'm hungry and thirsty." He meant that he hungers for the goodness of mankind. There was also one medium whose soul was taken in a tour in heaven where she tells she met Jose Rizal with his golden medicines and Mother Theresa in a very fragrant garden.
Patria Laxamana (my mother)
Meeting a psychic
My mother once consulted a clairvoyant. The clairvoyant was an old woman. She told my mother about her future (too long to mention), and now, it appears they are becoming true—the positive and the negative.
One time, my Mom and her friends consulted her and she guessed right away who among them has a soon-to-end life due to cancer.
Liezl Buan
Possession
For fun, me and my classmates in Grade 4 tried Spirit of the Coin. We recited the Lord's Prayer without mentioning Amen in the end, making 'evil' the last word. We felt scared after the prayer. We all removed our fingers from the coin though it didn't move, but it was too late. The girl from the other section, Liezl Buan, was already possessed. She cried loud, then laughed wickedly, then faints. Outside the building, many of my classmates report appraitions of three men descending from the bamboos, my other classmate crying when she saw the tree moving cruelly beside the bathroom, and many others, too.
When Liezl wakes-up, she relates how it happened. First, she suddenly sees a white lady coming in the door. She stared at it and the next thing she knows, she was outside of her body while the white lady kept laughing at her.
Diana Roxas (classmate's sister)
Held in father's arms
My classmate's sister rode a Caterpillar in a fair. Then, it collapsed! The Caterpillar broke down and all passengers fell. She was with her classmate and her classmate was badly hurt.
Diana relates that when they were falling, she felt as if her father held her to protect her. Her uniform wasn't dirty at all after recovering from the rubble. She wasn't hurt at all except from the pain in her leg. But, comparing to other passengers, they were all badly wounded. She believes that her dead father rescued her.
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