Post #132685 by cybertiki on Fri, Dec 24, 2004 3:35 PM

Yeah ... more to the world than we know man. I have a friend from Australia who walked (and took ferries or freighters where appropriate), and literally walked from Sydney to Beirut (where I met him). In walking across India, he said there were a lot of "mystics" who wanted to tell his fortune usually for a few bucks. However, he got to one village in central India, and children came out to meet him and said there was a man who wanted to talk to him. He knew this ususally meant spending a bit of money, but he's well off, and was willing to do the meeting anyway. Oddly, unlike other villages or towns, the man he met with was not asking for money. The man told him that he was the only son with 9 sisters (correct), the man (who spoke no English) then proceeded to name his sisters. The man told him the reason he left Australia (which was a dark secret), and told him where he was going (also a fact that he had not disclosed to anyone). The man asked him if he wanted to tell him his future.

Well, what would you do? Andrew, gave a resolute NO as an answer, and asked only if he'd reach his destination. The answer was yes. Five years later I got a card from London saying that he'd finally reached the home of his great-grandparents in England, and was returning by air to Australia.

There's more to the world than we know. Modern science, in all it's arrogance, thinks that we know more than we really do. I don't want to say "magic" because I'm sure that the caveman (not understanding the nature of lightning) sat in awe and fear of those events he could not comprehend. Still, there is MUCH we don't understand, and more to the world than we know.

I am glad that there are still true Kahuna to pull us around our Western certainties and show us that we don't know everything!

Cheers!