October 2002, Rishikesh, India :

     I was in a chai shop next to the Ved Niketan Ashram on the Ram Jhula side of the Ganga.
     I had eaten a lot, and I mean a lot of sweet candy bars of caramel with nuts in it and I felt kinda restless, due to the sugar.
     So I went to the ashram, to my room, having this desire to chant a mantra.
     It was around 20.00pm.

     So I sat down on my bed and began to chant, mentally, I began with the Gayatri mantra : Om Bhur Buva Swaha....but considered this too long, so I went on with the next mantra : Om Trayambakan Yayamahe.....but I found this to be also too long, so I moved on to the next : Hare Krishna Hare Krishna......only to find myself too restless for this mantra.

     Suddenly, a voice entered my head (my mind) from the left side, there was nobody in the room, and chanted in a deep strong rhythm : Om Nama Shivaj....3 times in my head (my mind), so I thought : Yes, this is not too long, let me repeat this mantra, so from that time on, I chanted this mantra, not knowing that this was the beginning of Shiva's guidance in dark times for me.

     I began to chant Shiva's mantra and I did this always, mostly in the morning, from 3am on, after intense prayer to God and meditation.
     So one morning, while mentally chanting, I begot a particular sensation in the space between the eyebrows, the seat of Ajna chakra.
     It began to rotate/crystalize or so and I was feeling very peculiar.

     Suddenly on the rooftop, exactly on top of my room, a monkey, out of the blue, like it was awaiting all the time for this, it began to scream, shout and to stamp with his feet in a terrible way, like a nervous madman, the noise was very penetrating, so I lost concentration and the sensation went away, I was mentally cursing this stupid monkey, what a timing !

     Some days later, I was mentally chanting Shiva's mantra again, but in the afternoon.
     After a while I again begot this sensation on Ajna chakra, now I felt like I could go out of my body at will, so I was kinda exited.
     But then I heard a noise outside my room, on the corridor of the courtyard of the ashram, it was like somebody moved a steel pot over the floor.
     So my concentration broke again and I quickly jumped from my bed, irritated, just to see who was doing this, so I opened the door, just to see that there was nobody outside, exept for a steel pot on the floor, I was puzzled.

     So at that dark time, I took this as a sign that some higher power obstructed me in gaining some mystic experiences, I might have abused some mystic powers in my past life as a Templar Knight, so I might have applied them again on my enemies at that time in 2002, well, I am sure I would have done that.

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