Past Life Screams... And Pointers to Future Joy...
Uncovering a bloody history... difficult questions... and a path to Joy...
"Celia's deep-dive into the spiritual happened in the early 1990's. We had gone to Goa, and had done what many visitors and tourists do, we had visited The Bom Jesus Basilica in Old Goa.
Discovering a Bloody Past Life in The 1990's.
"It is a deeply resonant place. The way Cathedrals are supposed to be. The very chambers are like a hymn. It echoes of eternity. To the right is the silver casket containing the 'incorruptible' body of St Francis Xavier or should we say Intense Francis Xavier. He was a Jesuit priest who died in the 1500's. So what is his body doing, 5 centuries later in a non a/c box? Now usually bodies decay in weeks and months, especially in a warm-moist tropical Goa... And even the skeletal system loses integrity in 5-30 years, his body however remains relatively untouched, or rather exhibits a kind of mummification without any mummification rituals...That is indeed a mystery...
"Anyway, after soaking in the atmosphere, Celia decided we should trundle off to a lesser known, but no less impressive Se Cathedral about a kilometre away. Today most of you have got on to the net and checked out Se, Francis and Bom Jesus. But then, 30 years ago, information wasn't so easily available...
"Anyway we stepped into Se Cathedral, or rather first, the Francis Xavier Cathedral. It was then a spooky place with bats and a sinister atmosphere. sad, haunted, ugly, deep... It is the same today, minus the bats, and with more guards... We then pottered off to The Se Cathedral. The day we had gone was busy with tourists and faithful and Celia said "Let's not go there, let's go upstairs?" What upstairs? I had wondered, but since Celia's Father was the first Police Officer to have taken over from The Portugese after India invaded, or rather retook Goa in the 1960's... I had assumed she had gone there before as a kid... "No" as I later learned, it was the first time for her too. Anyway Celia took me up a set of stairs leading up to a very large, very non-descript room. It is probably in excess of 50 x 50 feet. Painted white and maybe yellow. Very high ceilings, 40 feet or more. Huge windows, just a puddle or two... empty really, and in the distance a few pieces of ratka-phatka furniture...
"It was broad daylight, 11.30 ish on a tropical morning. And that is when Celia started babbling... "That is where they kept the prisoners pointing to the left, there they tortured us... Tarun they are cutting my head... "
"The huge, sunny room turned into a place of dread. It felt darker than midnight and we were literally pushed out of it by an invisible force... chased down the stairs... We scurried out...
"Finding refreshments, I discovered that Celia had never visited the Se Cathedral before in this life, had never read anything about it...
"The crude guide-book we had bought, poorly-printed on raddi maplitho however was informative. it said that The Se Cathedral was the hotbed of The Spanish Inquisition in India. That the particular upstairs room we visited was the epicentre. That The Portugese built their Cathedrals on Battlefields.
"That night was strange, for as we went to our hotel room, the night saw a thunderstorm... What was eerie was that there were times when the wind outside would die down and the wind within the room, and the curtains billowed in frenzy... distant screams and shrieks lasted through the night... we left the light on through the whole night...
Beyond Religion Into The Light.
The Se experience was huge, disturbing, liberating... We discovered Celia had been some kind of Goan princess or Zamindar in a past life. The incident happened in the early 1700's. Or late 1600's.
Since Celia in this Life comes from a religeous tradition opposed to the idea of reincarnation, it marked a decisive point in her Spiritual Journey... She had to walk beyond Human Religion to the Divine Light...
Exorcise Ancient Terrors.
"By the early 1990's, I Tarun, had been exploring the spiritual since the late 70's, some 15 years ago. I had gone out-of-body, merged with a storm, seen the world is light, connected to the heart of existence, and collected a formidable set of psychic protections... But these had been challenged by the ferocity we experienced in the Cathedral and the night after. So it was with complete new set of terrible psychic tools we went to Goa a few years later. Ready to do battle. But the door was closed and we had to do battle from a distance. We located 6 out of 12 inquisitors connected to the building ripped them out, and bundled them and about 30 of the victims to psychic sanatoriums to heal troubled minds..."
"After we wrote about the experience some religious apologists argued that there was no proof that the Inquisition had killed anyone in India. Well, that was decades ago. Today, the Wikipedia reveals at least 16,000 Indians were 'questioned' by the Spanish Inquisition, if not 18,000. In this questioning mutilation, amputation was common. The numbers killed are unknown. Wikipedia puts a figure of 100. But consider this: there were 71 autodafes in Goa {Each Autodafe had roughly 200 prisoners, women extra}. The figures of those crippled by the torture is probably 10,000. The figures of those who died of horrific tortures in Prison, or garrotted, or burned alive runs into 100's if not 1000's. And even this guesstimate is greatly underestimated, for with the abolition of The Inquistion, many records were destroyed. {The only direct record one has of The Goan inquistion is from a French Physician, Charles Dellon who was arrested on 24 August 1673 and released on 12 January 1676. He was not physically tortured, but spoke of hearing the screams of victims, men & women, on such torture instruments like the strappado.}
"Thankfully we had more direct sources of Portugese ideas of Justice. When Celia's Father took over from The Portugese he discovered that prisoners were thrown in there for 20-30 years, for as trivial a crime as stealing a loaf of bread or a chicken. The Portugese system was direct, bloody, kept few records. And it was efficient. There was literally no crime in Goa then. They believed in the amputative school of policing.
The Persistence of Horror.
"But dealing with the torments of thousands, cannot always be accomplished in one session, or a decade... When people talk of Past Life Therapy many frankly have a glib attitude as if One Recall can erase a lifetime of horror... Sometimes it can...
"It was in 2008, that Celia went back to Old Goa, to The Se Cathedral, by herself. This time the door leading up was open. as she walked up, the stairs a voice told her "This time if you go up you will not return". She was picked up effortlessly by an invisible hand, lifted up about a foot and thumped down.
"In 2021 December we returned to Se Cathedral, now with far, far greater power, our connection to the place was almost completely erased. And the worst 'demons' removed. To say it is completely gone, is silly. By our reckoning, the haunting of old horrors is probably 20-30% of what it once was...
"Anyhow, this time we spent more time examining Francis Xavier's energies through his body, and the role of St Francis...
Francis: Lit & Blinded, Healer & Vandal
If you are a dedicated Catholic or Anglican, Francis is presented as a shining beacon. He cared for the poor, was deeply devout, and was a miracle worker having miraculously healed many. And in the process, he helped The Church in India grow. Established the Church in Japan.
In fact, Francis Xavier came from an extremely influential Spanish Family. His Father was The President of The Council of Castille, think of it like being home minister of Spain. reporting and assisting The King.
But if you open your eyes, we see he also cast an ugly shadow. A letter by Francis Xavier requested The Portugese King to send The Inquistion to India. This is not just an unknown priest asking. Francis was by the end of his life a Papal Nuncio, and as mentioned before part of a highly respected Spanish political family, celebrated for his great conversions in India and Japan. But one may say, he had no idea of what The Inquisition was capable of. Untrue. He was well, aware of the excesses of The Inquistion. Having himself deputed priests to ease the sufferings of those caught by its wheels. But if he requested the Inquisition, well, that's one thing...
But he did more... and worse...
He spat vituperation and rage, at non-christian religions. "I want to free the poor Hindus from the stranglehold of the Brahmins and destroy the places where evil spirits are worshipped." Francis Xavier quoted by Michael Kerrigan. And then the utterly damning "I know not how to describe the joy I feel before the spectacle of pulling down and destroying the idols by the very people who formerly worshipped them." (Letter by Francis Xavier, dated 8 February 1545. Life and Letters of Francis Xavier, H. J. Colridge, London, 1861, Vol. I, p. 10 . )
"Between 1566 and 1567, a campaign by Franciscan missionaries destroyed another 300 Hindu temples in Bardez {North Goa}. In Salecete (South Goa), approximately another 300 Hindu temples were destroyed by the Christian officials of the Inquisition." Source Wikipedia.
"After going to The Bom & Se Cathedrals we had visited Ashok C, married to one of Celia's cousins. A Hindu-Catholic wedding that has lasted 3 decades. He asked a simple pertinent question: How can Francis be considered a saint as his hands are bloody, and he vandalised temples... how indeed?"
Let us transpose the words of Francis, and see how horrific they are. If someone were to say: 'I want to free the poor Christians {Just as Frances Xavier said Hindus} from the stranglehold of the Catholic Priests and Anglican Bishops and destroy the churches {Just as Frances Xavier said Temples}where evil spirits, are worshipped.' Would you not be horrified? And if someone were to lead a group of converts and tear down St Peter's Cathedral, smash the crucifixes, would there not be an outcry? The Taliban destroyed The Bamiyan Buddhist Statues. The world was horrified. Francis Xavier destroyed temples desecrated idols. So how can the church venerate him? It cannot. It should not. For doing so praises those who tore Bamiyan Buddhas down, it glorifies those who hijacked Hagia Sophia, it justifies the mob that tore the Babri Masjid down... Venerating Francis venerates every degenerate who has attacked a priest, a nun, a believer...
Now one can say that was ancient History, he after all lived in a time, where few were tolerant of another's religion... Hmmm... but the veneration of Francis is current...
Who is Francis? Saint or Vandal?
One of the things we at Creator's Child do is to see for ourselves. Make up our own minds. There are many ways to do that.
Conventional ways include reading, listening to contemporaries. Looking at his actions.
Or we can feel his aura, his energies. Er how? He is dead and gone.
One we can study the aura of paintings that depict him. {Images exist on the net}.
Or we can feel the energy connected to the casket that contains his bones. {Images exist freely}.
Or we can locate his spirit and trace him back to Francis.
So shall we do this exercise? Examine Francis...
Scroll down to discover our opinion of him, energy-wise.
Can you be Lit by God and your actions be Demonic?
We look at Francis Xavier in 3 ways.
First through a painting. We see a lit crown and darkish abdomen. Connected to the divine but his impulses could be vehement...
Second, through feeling the energy of the casket. At first, when we feel the casket we sense a deep resonant glow. As we go deeper we sense an inky blue structure, crystalline and thorned. The overall structure balanced, yet with strong conflicts. Then as we touch his bones we feel a frantic fury. Someone with tremendous joys and rages.
Last we touch his core soul. And it is as of he is at a high level. But it is heavily protected.
But there are questions, are we sensing the painter's force or Francis'? Are the bones of someone the same as the mind? Is the soul on high plane same as man on earth? Are 21st Century values applicable to 15th C lives?
Difficult Questions... Need for Reparation...
Now relooking at Francis Xavier leaves us with an issue. Can a man of God be both luminous and distorted? And the answer is yes.
And the far deeper question, what do religions based on bloody histories do? How should they demonstrate their regret, how soothe wounds that are only centuries old? Now these are not easy questions... But they need answers...
Beyond Missionary Madness... The Mama Glow.
"The Past Life opened my eyes. This I can say with certainty absolute... "Death is a comma not a full stop." Says Celia.
"I have been lifted up with invisible hands. I have levitated... for a second. And so to Gravity I say, I have seen chinks in your armour... God is above matter." Celia continues...
"The Past Life opened my eyes... I could hate Francis and the Inquisitors that came after. I could hate The Jesuit Priests. I have more of a right than any. But I instead know The Goodness of the Divine. And so too did Francis Xavier." Celia asserts.
"Francis is a Saint in the religion of my ancestors, but he is also the misguided Zealot who stood behind my tormentors. But I do not hate him, or The God he thought he was serving. I know The God of Gods, and he is good..."
"I have seen God who has a thousand faces... The God that Rejoices in Life... The God that Heals... The Deathless God... But mostly, I know The God that creates... And so I can choose to create a world of Hate or Love... I know with God we can rise above the madness that Life drives us to, and the hatred that the zeal of God can inspire...
"I have the absolute certainty the divine is real. But I do not have a Zealot' s wish to stuff my version down someone's throat... I have healed... I have pulled people back from Death, I have walked beyond Death... But, I doubt if any will build a cathedral in my wake... But if they plant one tree... feed one dog... brush one cow... speak to one sparrow... I will have exceeded my task...
"... I believe God is a seed... Here she is... ! .... at the very centre of your being..." -- Celia
-- Celia & Tarun Cherian
New Great Mother to Great Lights Series: The Prostitute, Priest, Sage & World Saviourby Tarun & Celia Cherian: speaking for Sheralle*published: 2021.
DNA: Past Perfect. As co-founders of Devadhara Healing , Tarun and Celia Cherian's Devadhara perspective on past lives is central to an article on Past Lives titled Past Perfect by PK Surendra, in DNA, Sunday, Bangalore, 19 Sep, 2010.
Deccan Herald: Unfinished business or unending saga? Perin Ilavia on reincarnation in the Deccan Herald, Bangalore.3 April., 2005.
Telegraph INDIA: Total Recall. A three-decade-old Indo-American research project suggests reincarnation might actually be a scientific fact. Varuna Verma reports in Telegraph India.
Life before death (Sunday Herald)
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