Archive for January 17th, 2009

Biblical Iconography of Our Lady of Guadalupe

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I. My New Age Background
II. My Encounter with Our Lady: “Somewhere I have never travelled” by e. e. cummings
III. Book Review: A Handbook on Guadalupe
Since that time Mama taught me how to read.  She taught me how to read the bible and its imagery.  And I learned that she is the Lady [...]

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Book Review: Handbook on Guadalupe

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I. My New Age Background
II. My Encounter with Our Lady of Guadalupe: “Somewhere I have never travelled” by e. e. cummings.
I read the Handbook on Guadalupe.
I learned that the picture of Our Lady is actually a message in the form of picture-writing, an Aztec hieroglyphics.  And the message says that Our Lady is [...]

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My Encounter With Our Lady of Guadalupe: “Somewhere I have never travelled” by e. e. cummings

Previous: I.  My New Age Background
But I saw no book by Lobsang Rampa, Sitchin, Licauco, or Casteneda.  I saw something else: a picture of a lovely lady on a book’s front cover.  I did not hear angels telling me, “Tolle lege,” or “Take and read,” as what happened to St. Augustine; but I took the [...]

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My New Age Background Before My Encounter With Our Lady of Guadalupe

When I was in college, I once visited the National Bookstore in Katipunan hoping to find some bargains on books by Tuesday Lobsang Rampa, Zechariah Sitchin, Jaime Licauco, and Carlos Castaneda.  I have read their books and I hunger for more.
Lobsang Rampa’s “Cave of the Ancients” tells of relics of an advanced civilization hidden in [...]

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Health Minister Juan Flavier: How to Distribute Contraceptives in the Philippines Using CARE and NGO’s

At the U.N. ICDP in Cairo held in September 1994, Juan Flavier outlined his efforts to spread contraceptives in all Philippine villages (c.f. Juan Flavier, Viede-Privilege Talk, NGO Forum, Cairo, September, 1994):
I found out that I was very vulnerable because I was in government.  All the senators and all the congressmen in one snap of [...]

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