I'm not entirely sure how to introduce people to this because if you have not already met Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. or Europe or Asia it might not make a lot of sense to you. However, if you are clairvoyant like me and precognitive like me it might. However, what might be important to know is that amazing things often happen in places like Dharamsala and Rewalsar, India. Also, I was traveling with my family and my then wife and I were both 37 years old at this point and our children were 10, 12 and 14 then too traveling with us. Now my 10 year old son from my first marriage traveling with is 51 years old and will be 52 this year and I'm 77 and will be 78 this year.
So, all these things were amazing in and of themselves and then all the other overlays of amazing experiences made all this time from December until almost April life changing experiences that lasted a lifetime in my life.
January 20th 1986
Many amazing things have been happenning here in Dharmsala. We met Tara, a lady from Minneapolis,Minnesota. She went to see the Tibetan Oracle. I wanted to go but I didn't get a clear feeling for me to go. Because I am psychicly very sensitive I got it very strong that I would need special preparation to be present for experiences where Tibetan oracles sometimes levitate while foretelling the future while possessed in a controlled way by Tibetan dieties. The Nechung Oracle wears a headdress of about 150 pounds while possessed so he doesn't fly away while predicting the future. The headdress alone would kill a normal unpossessed by dieties man to wear whose body didn't already contain these supernatural dieties at the time.
Note added Wednesday February 11th 2026: I asked Geshela when we returned to the SF Bay area with him and his translator if I was an Oracle and he said that Very spiritual people like myself didn't become Tibetan Oracles or they would die. He said it takes a very ordinary type of person to be a Tibetan Oracle or they would die when this happened to them. So, at this point I realized just how ignorant I was about all of this kind of stuff regarding Tibetan Buddhism after I returned to the U.S. Mainland by summer of 1986
end later note 2026
returning to 1986 journal entry
I've had many strange experiences but peace is coming too. Dharmsala is definitely connected to the heaven realms. If one is sensitive like myself the feeling is both unmistakable and amazing! Magic, dharma and reality cannot really be separated here. The consciousness of the dharma minds and hearts of the Lamas and the people here create a whole new kind of space time continuum than I've ever experienced before anywhere or anytime in this lifetime. Thubten and Deshek have been invaluable in assisting Geshela and us as translators.
January 21 1986
Yesterday I went to a Heruka Tsok Puja with Tara and Thubten. such peaceful wrathfulness. Tara and I were the only westerners. All the rest were monks and lamas and one Geshe.
Today we went to visit a Yogi Geshe who is an accomplished Siddha. He has been meditating most of the last 30 years. His last stint walled away meditating was 17 years. He went to New Delhi last month to Give kalachakra teaching for the first time in 17 years. His place reminds us of Yoda's in Star Wars. He may have been one of the inspirations for Yoda as some of Jim Henson's puppet makers had visited Dharmsala. When I took Geshela to see Return of the Jedi later in New Delhi he laughed very hard at the Ewoks as they were speaking primitive Tibetan in the film.
Note added Wednesday February 11th 2026:
The above Yogi Geshe's name is or was Lamrim Geshe and the Jim Henson people created Yoda from meeting him in person at one point. However, Lamrim Geshe was or is about 6 feet tall in person but his face looks a little like Yoda in Star Wars. So, Yoda is based upon a real person who is 6 feet tall who has meditated alone in the dark for up to 17 years at a time and is one of those "Glow in the dark" people that are basically "Out of this world' to actually meet. When you meet someone like this you know you have met a real Master.
end note from 2026.
Thursday January 30th 1986
Thubten was a monk until 25 when he gave his robes to a Lama to hold for him so he could care for his parents when they passed. Since Social Security doesn't exist here this is a common practice. Thubten came to get me and my family today. He said he had gotten permission to share something very special with us. He was beaming. We followed him one or two miles on foot to a remote cabin. Several monks met us at the door and greeted us Tibetan style. They were very warm to us and put us immediately at peace. They showed us into the living room.
In the center of the room was a very accomplished lama sitting in the center of the room on waist high table. We were told he had been meditating here like this without food or water for almost two years.It was as if he was in suspended animation. He was sitting in full lotus in the Amogasiddhi mudra. The energy in the room was indescribable. I was so moved I went outside and sat down and cried in amazement and joy for 20 minutes. In most of the world we are born, we live, we die. A+B=C. But this was something else. This was something that has forever changed the way I perceive life and death. Windy and I both felt forever changed by the experience. The children were shocked once again and they said it made them question life in america in a new way.
Tuesday 4 am. We left for Rewalsar(Tsopema)by bus as Geshela, Thuben and Lama A. had all directed us to on separate occassions. We arrived a 1 pm. We rented 3 rooms a the Nyingma Gonpo(Temple) for a total of 30 Indian rupees or $2.50 a day.
We saw Padmasambhavas footprint in a rock. It was my size foot with my size 14 Vasques Cascade hiking boots on. Also we saw the cave where Padmasambhava attained enlightenment and taught Mandharava, Princess the dharma. We then met the Lama in charge of the Gonpo next to the footprint and the 50 meditators or so who were meditating in the Padma caves. The sky had turned violet when we saw the footprint in the rock. As we started tea and food with the Lama a violet lightning storm began and then rain. Very auspicious connection. Very good. God help all beings in the universe to enlightenment quickly so all suffering ends.
January 31st 1986
There are two blue dragons carved into the Temple near where we are staying.
Febuary 1st 1986
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