LAST winter in Poland, I met a nice French-Canadian, Gilbert Renaud, and his partner Marie-Ginette Rheault. They taught a very interesting healing technique called Total Biology, which traces the cause of womb illness.

I told them what a Filipina psychic told me: former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos was the reincarnation of Pharaoh Ramses II of Egypt.

Recently, I received a letter from Gilbert saying he had met a lady from California. When he told her that Marcos could have been Ramses II in a past life, she was emphatic in denying it. She was sure Ramses II was Anwar Sadat and not Marcos. She even told him she had met his wife as Ramses? spouse, Nefertata.?

The following is my reply to Gilbert?s letter:

?Yes, I remember the story that Marcos could be Ramses II. But who in the end can prove if that psychic was right? The ?coincidences? that I found seemed to point to that. However, I cannot be absolutely sure.

On the other hand, that US lady could be right, too, but did she give you any proof or rationale why she thought that Anwar Sadat was the reincarnation of Ramses II and not Marcos?

Furthermore, the wife or favorite concubine of Ramses II was Nefertari and not Nefertata.

Nefertiti was the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton (formerly known as Amenhotep), the Sun God. Never heard of an Egyptian lady called Nefertata.

Parallels

?Here are some parallels between the lives of Ramses II and former Philippine President Marcos:

1. Ramses II was the longest-ruling pharaoh of Egypt, 67 years. Marcos was the longest-serving president the Philippines has ever had, 21 years.

2. Ramses II was the only pharaoh who signed a treaty with Egypt?s number one enemy at that time, the Hittites, by marrying one of the Hittite king?s daughters. Marcos was the first Philippine president to sign a treaty with the country's number one enemy at that time, the Moro National Liberation Front.

3. Ramses II extended the territories of Egypt beyond its borders. Marcos tried to annex Sabah by redrawing the territorial boundaries of the Philippines and including it, which got us into trouble with Malaysia.

4. Ramses II built large monuments of himself and huge infrastructure throughout Egypt during his long reign. Marcos built a stone statue of himself in Agoo and built massive infrastructures, buildings, roads, bridges and monuments.

Of course, none of the above coincidences prove that Marcos was the reincarnation of Ramses II, anymore than the more than 30 parallels or coincidences in the lives of President Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy prove that Kennedy was the reincarnation of Lincoln. But aren't all these, at the very least, interesting??

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