PureInsight | December 24, 2001
I would like to share my multiple experiences of items in this dimension with detrimental consequences in another.
1. I practiced yoga for only a few months prior to Falun Gong because it was fashionable and easy. I had dubbed a cassette of meditation music that I would use to fall asleep. I no longer had the original tape and I thought that a copy would be harmless. But I never forgot about that tape in my room; it was at the back of my mind, but I chose to ignore it.
One day, as I was having a nap in broad daylight in my bedroom, a force on my chest suddenly awakened me. I was not able to breathe or move. An angry male voice said "I will not let you go." The feeling I got was that it was preventing me from practicing Dafa. I kept pleading for help in this dimension to get away this from thing. I was only centimetres away from bedroom door but I could not move. It was very frightening. I knew immediately it was the entity associated with the yoga tape near my bed.
Somehow, with all my might, I got up. I took that tape and threw it away. This never happened again.
Obviously the teachings of the Dafa have explained that the messages associated with dark forces remain in different dimensions, although, most of the time, we are not aware.
2. I use to dream of a lot of snakes. It was awful and I had a phobia about them. I never understood why. I was also studying psychology at the time, and I had been introduced to Freud, a famous psychologist who taught, among other things, that snakes represent sex. As I studied the principles of Falun Dafa more, it came to me in my dream one night that the academic books that I had in my room, the ones by Freud and other similar theorists, were all associated with my dreams. Without going into details of the different theories, I realized like the sexual connotations in Freud's theory were all deviated and incorrect. After enlightening to this and throwing the books out, I no longer had any more problems. This also explained why I did not always get the marks that I thought I deserved in my academic studies. There was always an empty gap that was not bridged. I understood this to be the fact that modern thinking is too far from the principles of the universe and that human thought is too deviated. Thus the limitations of my studies made sense. Thankfully I was destined to attain Dafa.
3. When I first joined the work force I was very excited and got caught up with fame and gain. On my first business trip, my hotel was near a casino. Although I knew that gambling was not part of a cultivator's behavior my curiosity and attachment to shopping got the better of me. I had heard that there were many creatures lurking around casinos, but I thought if I only looked around in the shops outside the actual gambling area I would be immune to the evil.
I was ill immediately when I entered. My stomach churned and I had to look for a bathroom. That night I was haunted by weird things, I was alone in my bedroom and after reading Zhuan Falun briefly, I turned off the lights and heard wet feet on tiles but the room was carpeted. At that time, after one year of practicing Dafa, I recalled Master saying that our celestial eye no longer encountered such low level things. I was shocked. I immediately began to turn the lights on and off to see what would happen. Every time I switched the lights on, the footsteps would stop. This went on for at least 10 minutes. I was very scared and knew that this test was for me. Alerting others would not help me learn anything from what had happened. I searched everywhere for possible sources of the sounds. I realized that my room was haunted so there was nothing to detect in this dimension, since "it" was elsewhere. When the footsteps stopped, then the toilet would flush by itself. This continued for a while. Again I turned the lights on and off to see if it made any difference. Every time the light was on the toilet would stop flushing. As I looked at my copy of Zhuan Falun beside my bed, I thought of getting rid of the evil. But I also thought of not using Master Li as a way to get rid of evil spirits, as that would be an insult. Moreover, I knew that my heart was not pure and I also realized that I was too attached to fame and gain during that period. This scary experience never happened again.
4. Recently when I was watching TV, I saw two women in bikinis promoting a horror movie. I thought there was some kind of a gimmick, because one of the females had a deteriorated face. Her face was something similar to the face of a corpse that was badly decaying. There was skin hanging off her face and awful colours. But as my eyes focused to double check in this dimension, I saw what appeared to be a normal woman. In this dimension, they were actually pornographic models being interviewed in bikinis on a talk show in America, but I immediately enlightened to the demonic nature of TV itself and those degrading sex industry things.
5. One of my latest experiences involves an almost fatal car accident. My partner and I could have lost our lives, but somehow we both escaped. The first moment I hit something, I saw Faluns showering all over my windscreen. We were both un-hurt. We didn't even get whiplash. Prior to the accident I also saw big Faluns. What I have enlightened to is to think about and analyse the things around me less and be more aware i.e., better wuxing. Also, at the time of the accident I was really involved with some Dafa projects. I also realized that there would be destructive forces wanting to hinder any progress for Fa-Rectification.
6. I should have known better after years of practicing and considering the experiences mentioned above, but I have another example of not letting go of attachments. I used to be a musician and loved weird or different music. There was one musical score that I really liked. It was associated with the movie "Twin Peaks." The movie and the TV show with the same name were tales of evil and dark forces at play in a town. There was an evil character that was at the source of all the troubles, "Bob." After all these years, recently, I kept seeing his presence, a freaky scary man, who followed me everywhere. And this was also at the back of my mind then: not only did I still play the music on the piano, but I still had the music in my bedroom. When I finally made a firm decision to throw it all out, I cleaned my mind and never saw him again. Whenever I hear the music in shops or in public I clean the environment. Soon I hope to not even recognize or remember this. The music is mellow and seems harmless, but only at the very surface level in this dimension, certainly not in another.
7. I also have this habit of watching fashion shows and looking at magazines. Recently I saw the latest CHANNEL (a famous French fashion label) fashion show. All the models looked virtually identical, very tall and very slim. Their nails were long and white, they looked like claws, and their facial expressions were blank. I thought they did not look human at all. After some pondering, I realized there was something very weird about the fashions of today. For instance, let's consider the women labeled "Supermodels." They seemed to be "molded" to perfection. Are they human? These women claim not to eat, yet still to be working and doing other things. There is also a lot of discussion regarding drug abuse. What does this mean? They set examples for young girls and the world to follow. These body types did not exist before, nor were they fashionable. The concept of beauty is quite distorted, starvation is encouraged and some women die for "beauty" whether it is via plastic surgery or eating disorders. As explained in Zhuan Falun, the human body is so hard to come by that such treatment is quite abusive.
The potential damage and evil to one's spirit and mind is exceptionally real and concrete as one becomes closer to the Fa.
Throughout these experiences I have become to appreciate more and more the signs and messages that are there to help me enlighten more. I know to thank our Teacher would not be profound enough, I know that to be better cultivators and aim to reach perfection is the best thing to do.
