Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00597)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Drpsionic@a... wrote:
> But then I have the joy of knowing that I'm perfected. Now if only 
that 
> would get me a winning powerball ticket...

I had one I would have given you but I did not think you would want 
it.

So I wadded it up and threw it away.

If only I had seen your e-mail sooner.

Failing that consider the strange case of David Edwards. He was out 
of prison so living off the state was not an option. He was about 
out of unemployment checks. His water was turned off so he had to 
fill the toilet manually using water from the neighbor's tap whenever 
he used it. Talking about being down on your luck. David could not 
even take a dump without bumming a flush!

Despite that he and his girl friend seem to have had lots of money 
for drinking - and, yes, lotto tickets. The following is quoted from 
the article by Paige Williams, "Jackpot!" PLAYBOY, August 2002, pp. 
110, 139-141:

"'God,' he had prayed in bed the night before he bought the lottery 
ticket, 'me and you have been through a lot of things and you know I 
mean well. If you've got an answer I wish you'd tell me or else let 
me hit this lottery!' The Powerball was up to $295 million. The 
chances of winning were 80 million to one."

"Standing at the checkout counter of Clark's Pump 'n Shop in 
Westwood, Kentucky, David Edwards decided to forego his usual lottery 
ritual. Instead of picking numbers by family birth dates, he closed 
his eyes and went with the first thing that came to his mind: 8, 17, 
22, 42, 47, 21. Half a dozen numbers, locked and loaded like a 
thousand fruitless times before."

The upshot was, David didn't have to crap at the filling station or 
bum a flush at home anymore. He put the winning ticket in a vault 
until he was ready to ride down on the lotto office, then went in 
with bodyguards. Several other people also won. He took the lump 
sum payment. They wired the loot to his bank account so he did not 
have to lug $35,000,000 in small bills through bad neighborhoods in 
that beat up old clunker of his trying to somehow get to his bank and 
wondering just how trustworthy those menacing looking bodyguards 
really were. You only get one shotto at the lotto and he was not 
shooting his shot. [Those readers who do not read English as a first 
language, don't bother trying to make sense of that last sentence.]

After that David traded in his rags and his broken down old Buick for 
some upscale living. There is no word from God why He selected 
David. Why he and not me, God?

A similar story comes from Jose Silva, founder of Mind Control.  
Nobody but Silva seems to be able to make his stuff work, but man did 
it work for him.

The story can be found in:
Jos‚ Silva and Robert Stone, The Sila Mind Control Method for Getting 
Help from your other Side. New York: Pocket Books, 1989, p. 22.

And in more detail in:
Ed Bernd, Jr., Jose Silva's Ultramind ESP System. Franklin Lakes, 
N.J.: Career Press, 2000. pp. 20-

Like David, Silva was up against it mentally.

"Late one night I sat in the living room reading a psychology 
book. ... But I'd had enough."

"I've learned enough to help my family. I thought. My church thinks 
I'm wrong to delve into these areas. People in the town, religious 
people, are beginning to shun me. I'm taking time and money that I 
xould use for my family and spending it on this research. Why should 
I continue?"

[Funny, that is the same question I had about his research.]

"I threw the book across the room. Paula heard it hit the wall. ... 
Apparently someone on the Other Side did, too."

"I went to sleep right after that, but two hours later a bright light 
inside my head woke me up. It was a light like the midday sun. ... 
Hanging in space were twp sets of numbers, one on top of the other.  
The first was 3-4-3; the second set, under the first set, was 3-7-3.  
Right after that, an impression of Christ and One Solitary Life given 
at the army reception center came to me. Why Christ? I wondered.  
Why me? What does this have to do with the numbers?"

[Funny, that is the same thing I was wondering. Why he and not me?]

"I ioebed my eyes and it was dark. I glanced at the clock on the 
night stand. It was 4:30 a.m. I said to myself 'Maybe it's a 
telepathic message.' I had become aware of parapsychology by this 
time, and had read that such things could happen. I figured maybe 
this was the way it was done."

"Fascinated, I tried some experiments with myself and the light. I 
closed my eyes and tried to keep the bright light from disappearing, 
because it was fading gradually. I tried breathing slowly, but that 
did not help. I tried to slow down my heart, but whatever I did was 
not enough. The light faded until it disappeared."

Silva says he stayed awake the rest of the night trying to figure out 
what the numbers meant. He studied several possibilities the 
following day, then a series of coincidences led him to a lottery win.

Both of these stories are told in much more detail in the original 
sources.

Anyway, I did not make these stories up and these people are not 
lying, so unless they are mistaken, which is a distinct possibility, 
we have to tentatively conclude that:

(1) before the lotto numbers are actually selected, the information 
exists in the universe. This notion will make sense to people who 
have some smattering of knowledge of the theosophical theory about 
why the future can sometimes be foretold. That theory, in brief, is 
that future incidents sometimes congeal as it were on subtler levels 
before they become manifested on the gross level. It is not clear 
whether or not this theory is true, but it is clear that it is not at 
all absurd, however it may strike the uninitiated. It is rather 
intruiguing to those with a scientific bent.

(2) If (1) is true we could also tentatively conclude that it is 
possible for people to occasionally access the information prior to 
the drawing.

(3) There are numerous common denominators between Silva and Edwards 
which can be seen in the complete stories as published. If statement 
(2) above is correct (which implies the correctness of the one 
preceding) then these common denominators could be part of the 
explanation why this happened to some and not most.

I have checked with the pendulum and asked if statements (1) and (2) 
above are accurate and got a "yes" on both. The proof would of 
course be that someone could replicate the experiment. Neither 
Edwards nor Silva has been reported to have been able to do this at 
will and that leaves open the possibility that this apparently 
psychic experience was just a combination of coincidence and hpnest 
misinterpretation. It does raise an interesting question, though, 
which could be tested empirically.

So you are on. Publish the winning powerball numbers before the 
drawing and you will have made an interesting contribution to science.