In 1884, after a journey to the mysterious land of Tibet, the late Reverend Huc returned to Paris and recounted an extraordinary tale to a friend. He said: “One day, while conversing with a monk in the Koumboum Monastery, I suddenly felt a sense of stillness, as if listening to something. Then, he said, ‘I must go.’ Surprised, I asked, ‘Where are you going? And who were you talking to?’ He replied, ‘I am going to Monastery X. The Abbot there needs to speak with me, so he called for me.’”
Koumboum and Monastery X were very far apart, requiring several days of walking. However, the monk traveled by astral projection. He entered his meditation room, and I followed. He asked another monk to close the door. A few minutes later, the monk informed me that the first monk had left. Astonished, I asked, “How could he leave with the door closed?” The monk replied, “He left in a flash, using astral projection, not his physical body.”
Three days later, as I had not heard any news, I inquired and was told that the monk had returned that afternoon. Indeed, as the sun was setting, I heard a voice from the clouds telling me to open the door. I looked up and saw the monk descending, then entering his room.
A few days later, Reverend Gabet and I were escorted out of the Koumboum border because of our excessive curiosity.
Regarding astral projection, about 25 years ago, we heard a similarly mysterious story from an elderly teacher. At that time, he was the headmaster of a public school in the suburbs of Saigon, a respected and trustworthy man.
He recounted the following story: “When I was in my early twenties, I went with some friends to visit the Dien Ba Mountain (Tay Ninh). As we reached the foot of the mountain, we met a monk from the Linh Son Cave who was walking down the mountain. No one knew his name, so we simply called him ‘Cham’.
When we arrived at the cave, Cham was already there to greet us. I was a little surprised but thought perhaps he knew a shortcut and had arrived at the cave earlier.
After talking for a while, he told us, ‘Please wait here for a moment while I take care of something.’
Then, he became silent and lowered his head onto the table as if asleep. We were puzzled and didn’t know what to do. However, we sat quietly and waited, not daring to disturb his slumber. After a long while, he looked up, and to our amazement, the table was covered with incense, lamps, tea, and cakes that he claimed he had just bought in Cholon.
After telling this mysterious story, the teacher laughed and said, ‘That is a true story that I witnessed firsthand. Seeing this miracle, I wanted to become a monk, but because I was young and had family obligations, I could not follow my heart.’
Later, the teacher did become a monk. He joined the Dai Dao Tam Ky Pho Do and practiced his religion fervently.
As for Cham, after attaining enlightenment, he received the title of Hue Mang Truong Phan and left behind the following four-line poem:
In Tay Ninh, practicing meditation in Linh Son Cave, I disregard the world’s gains and losses. I endure a hundred bitter and a thousand painful experiences, What more do princes and kings have?”
Thanks to writing, ordinary people can communicate with disembodied spirits who exist in the immaterial realm, beings that people categorize as gods, saints, ghosts, and demons.
In France, spiritualists have used a more practical method to definitively prove the existence of spirits by taking photographs and fingerprints of deceased individuals who have manifested. These experiments were conducted with great care to prevent fraud or illusion.
And after conducting these experiments, many scientists investigated further and finally came to believe, despite the deliberate distortions of materialists.
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