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Namah Vol. 30, Issue 3, 15th October 2022

The Mother’s insights on war and virus He proposed the virus was a gateway through
which hostile forces may invade individuals
The Mother, Mirra Alfassa, had deeply and populations, and that there were occult
clairvoyant skills, and when she visited forces behind the Covid-19 pandemic (9).
Japan in 1919, she received psychic insight
about a virus inflicted upon the population Insights from Japan
there. She wrote, “I saw clearly a being,
with a part of the head cut off, in a military According to traditional Japanese beliefs,
uniform (or the remains of a military all humans have a spirit or soul and when a
uniform) approaching me and suddenly person dies, it leaves the body,then waits for
flinging himself upon my chest…” This ghost funeral rites to be performed. so it may join
of a deceased soldier made her extremely its ancestors. If this is done appropriately,
sick. She continued: it becomes a protector of the living family.
However, the situation is not the same if a
“I had understood that the illness originated person dies in a sudden or violent manner.
from beings who had been thrown out of their Yūrei, spirits or ghosts, can be found in
bodies. I had seen this during the First Great graveyards, or near a place where death
War, towards its end, when people used to live happened. They keep clothing they wore
in trenches and were killed by bombardment. when they died, including their uniform as
They were in perfect health, altogether healthy fallen warriors (if they didn’t receive proper
and in a second, they were thrown out of funerals). They may haunt a place or a person,
their bodies, not conscious that they were be reluctant to accept their death, and can bring
dead. They did not know they hadn’t a body misfortune on others. Sociology researcher
anymore (8).” Yuka Kudo, studied the phenomenon of
phantom taxi passengers: she interviewed
100 taxi drivers about ghostly encounters
they’d had in the aftermath of the 2011 earth-
quake disaster (10).

Two insights from South America

Medical anthropologist, Dr Alberto Villoldo
informs us that the visible and invisible worlds
are inextricably intertwined:

“The shaman does not believe in a division
Pondicherry psychiatrist, Dr. Soumitra Basu between the body and the spirit, or between the
suggested there was an underlying assumption visible world of form and the invisible world
in Western traditions that people’s health was of energy”.
only influenced by post-natal experiences, rather
than by past lives, planetary, karmic, para- He continues, “There is no difference between
psychological or super-natural influences. being killed by a jaguar and being killed by

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