The 'spirit of Bibiana' flees sis' house because of prayer and fasting

"The spirit of Bibiana!"

The phrase popped up in my head in the dream.

I found myself, in this dream, in a certain house that, I discerned, was haunted by a spirit.

Observing and deciphering the kind of spirit it was, I heard the phrase popping up in my mind.

When I uttered the phrase with my mouth, something moved on its own and I realized the name of the spirit was already determined.

The next scene I saw was the steel bed that was inside the house bended by itself. 

End of dream.

The dream took place on June 17, 2020 and in my nephew's house where the inhuman entity I call "bonsai kapre" was freed of.

It so happened that my Manila-based sister came home and the only house she could stay was the house owned by my other sister based abroad -- and it was unmanned.

She was alone in the house and I decided to accompany her and little did I suspect that that house was the house shown in the dream.

July 21: About a month since the dream, it was my first night in the house.

A bungalow-type, the house was large enough.

I had the sofa in the living room for my bed while sister slept in the room.

As soon as I fell into sleep, I heard a distinct, isolated "sssssst!" (whistling sound) but I heard it being whispered into my mind and not through my ears.

Twice I heard the catcall and twice I awoke.

July 22: "Someone" or "something" touched my nape and I was awakened.

July 23: The long version of St. Michael Prayer started to be recited and cast out the spirit.

July 24: At the start of the day, I began the prayer and fasting exercises to ward off the spirit's attachment to the house.

During the night, I was roused because "something" touched my foot.

July 25: There was a thick concentration of goosebumps tingling in both of my feet while asleep. I still felt it when I was awakened because of what seemed to be a numb feeling.

July 26: I happened to open my eyes at dawn and checked the surroundings while still laid on the couch. It was a normal awakening -- no supernatural intervention.

July 27: No one or nothing bothered my sleep anymore. I had a sleep of peace. I left the house the next day and my sister has returned to Manila days after.

Several persons who happened to take shelter in or visited the house witnessed a female figure passing by outside the kitchen door and when they took a second look, nobody was there.

The whole experience in house deliverance demonstrates the factuality of the Biblical Truth that only by prayer and fasting can we drive out stubborn and tenacious spirits.

Such as the "spirit of Bibiana."

(Postscript: The house and lot was sold to my sister by its former owners, a couple. The couple decided to sell the property so they would divide the proceeds and part ways. By a twist of fate, the couple reconciled after the property was sold. Another incident happened, my mother died in that house; and the figure of a woman, according to descriptions of witnesses to a woman figure passing across the kitchen door, was that of my mother! That was not the soul of my mother because, by a dream, it was revealed to me it was the "spirit of Bibiana." One of those who live there had a testimony to tell. Out of nowhere, her hand was spanked by an unseen hand! One time, my nephew was asked to man the house. Out of fear, he asked his buddies to accompany him. He didn't tell them the scary tales about the house. One of the friends thought my nephew was not alone as he saw the feminine figure passing by the door. When my nephew told them he was alone in that house, the guy asked in astonishment, "Who then was the woman just passing by the door?" Just then, they scrambled getting out of the door and left the house! After the house deliverance, my sis' family is now at peace.)

Testimony: 3 o'clock prayer normalizes nephew's urination

May I share a testimony? The spinal injury my nephew incurred from car accident made half of his body immobile and unable to urinate normally so that straight catheter had to be performed on him every time urine is to be drained out from his bladder. I was trained and had to do it on him out of necessity since he was discharged from hospital.

Every three in the afternoon, it is already a habit to say the three o'clock prayer and afterwards asking for provision of a specific, immediate need -- this time, the normalization of his urination.

This afternoon, after the 3 o'clock prayer and the lifting up of the said intention, I felt the need to follow it up with the "hand-it-over-to-Jesus" prayer and the chaplet of the Divine Mercy.

Minutes after, nephew was able to pee normally in which other cases took months and longer. It is now 24 days since he was discharged and 38 days since the accident!

Regarding his mobility, he can now sit up on his own by the help of physiotherapy. The operation wound is already healed. Neck brace is no longer used as ordered by the surgeon. Out of his own realization, he is already wondering on God's plan for his life.

Note: This testimony was written in 2016. Six years has passed and my nephew can now walk on his own, has a family of his own and a business of his own that he has managed. To the glory of God. Amen. -Author 

The house haunted by an elemental -- duwende or bonsai kapre?

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The gaze penetrated my core while asleep mid of the night.

I sprang up from the folding bed looking where the sharp, piercing look came from -- the kitchen door: open yet the screen door was locked.

The coldness was biting, embracing and suffocating.

That was my first of all paranormal encounters inside the house of my nephew whose mother asked me to man the house as the whole family would be going to the capital Manila.

Another incident happened in the same house where my sister left her daughter, my baby niece, in my care one night.

I laid the baby on the sofa located in the sala and patted her to sleep -- and she dozed soundly.

While waiting for my sister to arrive, I straightened up my back on the couch in the room leaving the baby in the sala -- but I passed out to sleep.

I woke up suddenly as I remembered the baby.

I was stunned seeing the baby soundly asleep not on the sofa but already on the kitchen floor!

Who -- or which -- brought the baby there?

I remember another incident when I was munching crackers one night and power outage broke out.

I heard a crackling, felt something moved the cracker I was holding and when lighted with my cellphone flashlight, the cracker was already half bitten!

This time when I was asked to man the house again, I saw "something" that I was not supposed to see.

Though, I was expecting to see it because I know I have this "gift" -- if it is a gift -- that I can see the spiritual realm happening in my physical surroundings while asleep.

One night, I was sleeping on another sofa and on the edge of it, I "saw" this entity sitting and fondly looking straight into my "eyes."

Just a little taller than a bottle of one liter, the entity was dark red skinned, a bit plump, of round eyes, of feet without toes and body thinly covered with long hairs!

The night after, I slept on the floor beside the sofa where I saw the entity.

In my dormant state, I did not "see" the entity because I was facing opposite the sofa but perceived the presence behind me, seated on the same spot of the foam-soft bench.

I was observing the "being" and when I discerned it was already about to enter into me to "possess" me, I struggled to wake up and I woke up. It was not able to enter into me.

In separate incidents, while conscious of its presence, I was touched in my inner thigh and my crotch as I laid on the back-to-back sofa opposite to where the "bonsai entity" was seated on its fave spot.

Three of us in the family could sense its presence and the neighborhood had tales of seeing an entity smoking in the old lot before the house was constructed. In Philippine folklore, we call it "kapre," a tree giant that has the penchant to smoke.

Rebuking "in the name of Jesus" would send it away outside the house immediately -- but would be back when the rebuker was already silent or asleep.

Only by prayer and fasting can we cast out a clingy, tenacious spirit, I remembered the Bible saying.

While still manning the house, I started prayer and fasting and in my conscious state during the day I could see in my mind's eye the entity in the form of a black shadow attacking me -- but it could not touch me.

When my nephew and family arrived home, I continued prayer and fasting in the house where I live; and I had no way of knowing if the inhuman entity had already fled.

The pandemic the other year left my nephew and family stuck in his father's (my brother's) house because of mandatory lockdown and I was called in to man the house again and I nodded so I would know if the jinn had already left for good.

In the midst of sleeping that night, I woke up from laughing because of the hilarious dream that I had -- the dream that I could not remember any scene at all.

No more hair-raising energies and auras and gazes too in the wee hours of midnight. It has already left -- thanks to prayer and fasting.

Note: Please I need financial support for my blog, dear friends. I am fresh from homelessness since 2013, off and on; and taking shelter right now with my sibling's family. Whatever amount you can extend is deeply appreciated. You can channel your financial help via GCash 09810692733. Thank you. God will reward you for your help. I will include you also in all my daily prayers. -Author

Three experiences: Lucid dreaming or seeing through spiritual eyes during sleep?

Dream, according to Merriam-Webster, is a series of thoughts, visions, or feelings that happen during sleep. Lucid dreaming, on the other hand, is dreaming in such a way that "the dreamers are aware that they are dreaming." In my case, I have this sort of a situation where I "see" in my sleeping state my actual physical surroundings in conjunction with the reality happening in the spiritual plane. Those situations cannot be called dreams per se or, although I was aware of the whole proceedings going on, lucid dreaming. Those are "seeing" not with the physical but spiritual eyes in my dormant state. To illustrate, I have three situations of this experience.

In 2014 when I happened to sleep the night out at the park of then-Davao Medical Center, I "saw" myself on the ground sleeping with my left knee raised and my right leg in flat position. A white appearance of someone I know came to approach me and bent down to touch my raised left knee. As soon as he touched my knee, coldness spread throughout my whole body so that I woke up; and I woke up according to the situation I saw myself in my sleep -- with my left knee still up and feeling the coldness I felt in my dormant state. I no longer saw the apparition in my waking state. This "someone I know" was my companion in my work with the NGO back in 1992. Because the presence was white and hazy, I had a feeling it was his soul. He might be already dead! Days after, I went to their house and asked his brother for the whereabouts of "Favio." To my amazement, his reply was: "Gikan mi sa paglubong niya!" (We just came from burying his remains!)

Secondly, I found myself in this situation where I "saw" myself in my sleeping position lying on the lower deck in the pad of a two-story house. It was night and dark -- but I could "see" my hankies dangling from the clothespins and being blown by the wind coming from my electric fan. I was "looking" in that direction when suddenly a white, smoky appearance of a giggling woman came flying into my room through the wall in my right and I followed it with my "eyes" as it went out through the door (still closed) in my left. I woke up with the same situation I "saw" in my sleep -- with my hankies still being blown by the fan. In the morning, I came to hear the news that my neighbor, an old woman, whose residence was situated next to the pad I rented, died in her sleep. Her house was located lower than my room and situated according to the setting I "saw" in my sleep. Could the apparition be her soul as it separated itself from her mortal body at the time of death?

Lastly, this situation happened in my brother's house. I spent the night sleeping in the sofa and my head was so situated that I could see door of the kitchen a bit farther away from me. In that situation, I "saw" a lady in white looking by the window; but, in actuality, there was no window in that location but an enclosure for roosters. It was long before I told my brother about my supernatural experience involving his house. When I came to tell him so, he confessed that the wood used to build the cage for roosters located a bit farther away from where I was sleeping was part and parcel of the window pane of the house that was demolished. The woman, a homebody, who frequented looking from that window, committed suicide! Spiritual eyes are the capacity in us that allows us to perceive (or see) spiritual realities that, in my case, are disguised as and appear to be dreams.

Know thyself: The starting point towards a better self

"Know thyself." -Socrates

If there's a need for us to change, this change we are aspiring for is change to better ourselves -- from worse to bad, from bad to good, from good to better, from better to best -- gradually. The way is self-knowledge, self-awareness -- or to "know thyself." We cannot accept something that is, to our conscious mind, non-existent yet subconsciously existent within us. Try to see if you have worse habits common within your bloodline: your immediate family and relatives. If this is so, your bloodline is suffering from an affliction brought about by the sins of your ancestors. You are carrying a certain curse passed on down from generation to generation to your own generation and on to generations following you if not broken. After self-knowledge is self-acceptance and the realization of the necessity to control our bad habits -- thus, self-control, one of the nine fruits of the Holy Spirit. When we do others good despite the ill treatment we receive from them, we are controlling the curses we have had inside of us, thus we are executing self-control. Doing good despite the ill treatment, however, is not allowing ourselves to be just "doormats" but we can be doing good like praying for them -- at a distance. Walking away is self-care on our side and lessons learned on the side of the other so they may also be taught self-control. When the other side has learned the lesson, both sides then have practiced self-control and we can be one in the same place once again. If the other person is a family or a member of a community and there's no way we can walk away, self-control is put to real test and this process spells pain which can be bearable when offered for our continued conversion and the conversions of those who ill-treated us, the lukewarm and the unconverted. Pain endured, however, will bring to fruition other spiritual gifts aside from the fruit of the Holy Spirit that we already have which is self-control. And one of the spiritual gifts that will be born within us is the breaking off of the curses passed on down to us by our ancestors. In the words of Dr. Wayne Dyer, "How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." Let me reword "karma" in this quote with "curse and blessing." When people ill-treated us, that is their curse; when we reacted violently, that is our own curse. When people do us good, those are their blessings; when we are the recipients of their blessings, naturally goodness begets goodness. However, I repeat, when we do others good despite the ill treatment we receive from them, we are controlling the curses we have had inside of us, thus we are executing self-control. "EVERYTHING is possible with God." It is a gradual process of trial and error. We can do it with the help of God via His Words and the Sacraments.

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours." -Dr. Wayne Dyer

Stubborn oysters

Why do you cling to a concrete seawall like you have found your place forever?

Why can't you be wandering or be one with sea instead?

The sun is yet beginning to grow; and small splashes of low tides intermittently kiss you on a lower dyke.

I can see you in your shell squirting water after every splash of sea waves you are stroked with. You are truly alive.

What if the sea is even nowhere in sight? Can you survive the scorching heat of the sun?

You seem to be dead when dry and resurrected when hit by the waves.

Are you there forever, oysters? You're not, you little stubborn creatures!

Your flesh will soon be rooted up and eaten. Is that what you are called for?

Oysters cannot hear me, for the great waters have come.

Oyster on rock. Photo by fjacinto

Talisay: The hauntings of a demon and enchanted spirits

Photo taken 4/7/2021 by FJ

The huge Talisay tree grounded in the place where I had spent the nights sleeping last year as a homeless person was haunted by a demon and enchanted spirits.

I was still new to the place when a street dog barked and howled in my direction. My thinking was: "Does the dog see a ghost or elementals that I did not see?" My impression on the matter was proven true because of the paranormal activities I would have to experience while sleeping in the area.

I have had this spiritual gift where I can "see" the spiritual world at play in the physical settings where I happen to be. When the area I happen to be has spiritual or paranormal activities taking place, I will see the actual happening in my sleep. Sometimes, I'll see the activities with my physical eyes slightly open in my dormant state; other times, my physical eyes are closed and my spiritual eyes are at work to "see" the spirits at play in my surroundings while sleeping. This gift is activated during nighttime.

The tree was haunted by a demon. I saw the shadowy apparition of a demon or higher than a demon (I won't mention the term here.) in my sleep. I didn't like the feeling it provided my whole being. Having sensed the strange, hair-raising effect down my spine, I was transitioned to full wakefulness. The figure was still there and it was the shadow of leaves forming such figure. Appearing probably for four nights, the shadow figure was cast on the roof of a certain building beside the establishment where I slept the night.

Another incident, I was awakened by a thick, sudden gust of wind that fell and crashed itself on the floor as I was sleeping on a hammock.

In my sleep, I was "seeing" a dark male figure that was about to jump and intentionally to fall on the floor before me. When the figure jumped and fell, I sprang up from sleep because of the impact of the fall; but nobody was there -- just the thick, sudden gust of wind blowing on me. The dark spirit was like playing a game on me to awaken and frighten me. I was stunned but I tried to control my fright because the more they see you frightened, the more they would do you other similar acts to frighten you again.

Enchanted spirits, locally termed as "engkanto," had also been taking shelter in the Talisay tree. One night, I was witnessing right before my eyes a carnival ride attached to the tree branch, emanating from the ride various vivid pastel lightings. Bewildered by the display of colors of lights and the whole magical image, I was brought to a full awakening. It was large leaves that caught the lights coming from the adjacent street post.

And, finally, one night, during sleep, I sensed something supernatural: I "saw" luminous lights flickering like stilled fireflies settling on the leaves of the tree above me. The scene of wonder brought me to total wakefulness and I took a picture -- the one I'm using in this post. The photo captured is no longer as magical as I "saw" in that state of my deep sleep.

I ended my homelessness and had done days of prayer and fasting to drive away the spirits dwelling in the tree and its vicinity. I wanted to sleep there again to know if the spirits had already fled. I had no time to spend a night there but I happened to pass by the area at night. The area has been fully lighted and adorned with plants and lanterns. The feeling was no longer sharp, edgy and goosebumpy. I take that as a sign the spirits have already left for good.

Dogs can sense spirits. I am just as gifted as the dog is.

Self-control: Addressing personal toxicities

Photo by Damon On Road

All of us have had some levels of toxicities lurking in and manifesting from our personalities. Some, for example, may be irrationally jealous, envious, temperamental or revengeful; others, habitual liars, gossipers, control freaks, exploiters, seducers, deceivers, et cetera. We have inherited bad mannerisms, worse attitudes and worst habits and traits from our forefathers due to unconfessed ancestral sins. We are in bondage to the effects of the unconfessed sins of our ancestors. Prayers and sacrifices can break off ancestral bondage and curses passed on down to us and mostly the result takes time to manifest so while waiting for prayers and sacrifices to take effect, we need to tame these demons within us. Moreso, when we are practicing Catholics -- Christians, for that matter -- we should put our toxicities on hold. "Self control" being one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is written in the map and almanac of Christianity, the Bible; and as such, Christians are expected to strive for its fruition in our lives. We cannot be double-minded persons. A Catholic or a Christian in practice cannot be, at the same time, an agent of Hell! When, however, we fall into sinning, the Holy Spirit will convict us of the state of our souls. Go back right away by making a confession to a Catholic priest if we are Catholics or confess your sins direct to God if you are a non-Catholic Christian. If, however, this "sinning and confessing, confessing and sinning" cycle becomes a habit, our spiritual life has not at all leveled up. We are practicing Catholics, practicing Christians still -- but toxic practicing Catholics and Christians! We cannot graduate to the next level in the ladder of spiritual progress if and when we allow ourselves to remain imprisoned in the cycle of spiritual redundancy and stagnation. Stop the cycle and get out of the path laid down by our ancestors via unconfessed sins, self-justification and complacency. Let's do our best to level up by humbling ourselves as to indulge in self-examination, self-acceptance and confession and God will bless our efforts towards becoming the original version of ourselves: the image and likeness of God.

Life is waiting

Waiting for a seed to grow

Waiting for a bud to blossom

Waiting for a tree to bear fruit

Waiting is life, life is waiting

Waiting for a sunrise during the night

Waiting for a rainbow during the flood

Waiting for a downpour during the drought

Waiting is life, life is waiting

Waiting for a miracle behind faith

Waiting for an answer behind prayer

Waiting for a reward behind obedience

Waiting is life, life is waiting

Waiting makes a man or breaks him when he quits

Waiting is life, no one can escape

Only a man succeeds when he views waiting at a better end

"But, will God find faith on earth?"

Life is waiting

Awaiting daybreak (Photo by fjacinto)