POZNAN, Poland—Do you believe in coincidences, meaningful simultaneous events that do not seem to have any causal connection?

I don’t, because everything has a cause, nothing happens by chance. Yet it is a fact that certain events do happen without apparent causal connection.

We were having dinner last Jan. 30 at the house of Anna, a Polish interior designer, where I was staying in Poznan. At the dinner table were the officers and staff of the Institute of Valeology who had invited me to conduct my seminars in Poznan and Warsaw, namely, Irena, Andre and Thomas.

With us were two other house guests of Anna: Gilbert Renaud of Canada and Marie-Jinette Rheault from southern France who conduct seminars on Total Biology.

We talked about the group of followers of the Bulgarian mystic, Mikhael Ivanhov, in Jeffrey, British Columbia in Canada. The place was called IDEAL Ranch led by Russian immigrant Natasha Kolesar. I stayed for a week in that ranch about five years ago upon the invitation of a Canadian named Mr. Couto. I didn’t know that Gilbert and Marie-Jinette had also stayed there for a much longer period, and so did Irena Galinska, head of the Institute of Valeology.

“I was told that there was a Filipino who stayed in the ranch,” said Gilbert to me. “I didn’t realize it was you!”

“What a coincidence, isn’t it?” I said. “Imagine all of us who had been to that ranch in Jeffrey meeting here in Poznan!”

The IDEAL Ranch was a community of around 40 to 60 people from different countries who were studying and applying the teachings of Mikhael Ivanhov.

I told the group at dinner what happened to me the first time I joined the members in an early morning ritual to greet the rising sun. The group would sit facing the East and wait for the sun to rise over the Rocky Mountains. As soon as the first rays of the sun appeared over the horizon, they would all stand up and raise their right hands in salute to the sun.

As I did the same gesture, I told the group that I had a distinct feeling that I had done this ritual before as a monk in ancient Egypt. I was shocked at the memory of it. It was as if I was transported back to Egypt.

When Gilbert heard that, he smiled at me and said that he had been told that the teachings of his master, Mikhael Ivanhov, are a restatement of the rituals and teachings of ancient Egypt told in modern language. I didn’t know that.

Egyptian monk

I was told in 1979 by an extraordinary Filipina psychic (now dead) and in 1984 by an entity from the upper 5th dimension that I had been an Egyptian monk and scribe, a keeper of esoteric wisdom 3,500 years ago during the time of Ramses II. This was told to me at a time when I didn’t believe in reincarnation.

I asked Gilbert and Marie-Jinette whether they heard from the people staying at the IDEAL Ranch what happened to me there. And they said no.

I told them that on the second day of my stay, something extraordinary happened to me. I was staying in a room formerly occupied by Marie Christine La Foret who had a newborn. When I arrived, they moved to a bigger room in the same house.

That early morning, as I was lying in bed on my side facing the wall, I distinctly “saw” with my mind’s eye a man wearing a brown leather jacket enter my room. He stood beside my bed, looking at me intently. I didn’t open my eyes and I thought I was dreaming, yet I knew I was awake. I thought the man was Mr. Couto because he had the same build and height, only slightly slimmer.
A few moments later, the man turned toward the door and went through it without opening it. It was then I realized it was not a living person.

Later that morning, I asked Mr. Couto if he came to my room earlier. And he said he did not. I asked if he had a brown leather jacket, he said no. When I described the person I “saw” in my vision, Marie Christine said, “That must be my husband Yves La Foret you saw.”

La Foret was the first Canadian who climbed Mt. Everest. He died in a freak river boat accident when his wife was pregnant. He never saw his child.

Gilbert and Marie-Jinette got very excited about my story because they knew Marie Christine and Yves La Foret very well.

“At the time of his death, he didn’t know his wife was pregnant.” Gilbert told us. “We were all shocked and very sad at what happened.”

I was amazed at the coincidence of meeting Gilbert and Marie-Jinette who come from different countries and who turned out to be good friends of the person whose ghost I had seen in Jeffrey, Canada. And here we were in Poznan, Poland in Eastern Europe.

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