VML-12/12/99

[Guest guest]

He next told us about Some events that would happen to us in the

future. Then he said, " Now, think of a word or a sentence, from any

language you like. " I thought of a long sentence from Sanskrit, a

language of which he was entirely ignorant. " Now, take out the paper

from your pocket, " he said. The Sanskrit sentence was written there!

He had written it an hour before with the remark, " In confirmation of

what I have written, this man will think of this sentence. " It was

correct. Another of us who had been given a similar paper which he

had signed and placed in his pocket, was also asked to think of a

sentence. He thought of a sentence in Arabic, which it was still less

possible for the man to know; it was some passage from the Koran. And

my friend found this written down on the paper. Another of us was a

physician. He thought of a sentence from a German medical book. It

was written on his paper. Several days later I went to this man

again, thinking possibly I had been deluded somehow before. I took

other friends, and on this occasion also he came out wonderfully

triumphant.

 

 

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