Pictures: The Statue of Jesus Christ on Corcovado Hill, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The SIAI-Marchetti SF-260 aircraft.

I got the picture of the white bird during my stay at a rehab center here in Davao City, Philippines in 2001-2007. It just suddenly appeared on the wall from nowhere. The bird is me: the black head represents my 1982 emotional disorder; the red beak represents my being talkative. Here in this publication, you will read about a most unusual happening in Cebu City in early-mid 1980s. I am the only one who can explain it to people.

Writings of Darvin Delgra (ME) with Documents, An Exhaustive Compilation [To be published in book form before 8/10/2018]
Also included: An Explanation to the Mystery Ritual of Engr. Rudy Maneja (CE) on August 10, 1985 at the Plaza Independencia in Cebu City, Philippines
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Foreword: by Senior Navigator Ministries Staff in Davao City, Mr. Jose Eseng V. [in book] TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface: Why I Wrote/ Compiled this Unusual Book? Introduction Documents on my 1 year Emotional Ordeal in June 1981-October 1982 at the Cebu Institute of Technology, Cebu City, Philippines, my first college, a non-aviation school. My Mini-Thesis: Is There Any Truth about the Extra-Sensory Perception (or ESP) Phenomena?, a special requirement in my Physics 311 Nuclear Physics class under Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela, BSME, M.S. Physics, who was then in a very severe, multifaceted Mid-Life Crisis. (After his course/ class, I stayed for 1 year at CIT, Cebu Institute of Technology, before transferring to the USC, University of San Carlos-Tech Center at the opposite northeast boundary of Cebu City where I studied for a further 3& years. I was already in 4 year, 1st semester BSME study when I decided to transfer to USC.) The Airplane: Flight, the Aerospace [Environment] and Religion. A short Term Paper Research Report done at the California State University, Long Beach in 1999-2000 (Special English class for Foreign Students) where this author pursued M.S. Aerospace Engineering BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan Studies (aborted 1 school-year stint at an average U.S. public university). 5-Page Statement of Facts Letter (April 11, 1997) addressed to the Consul General, U.S. Embassy for my Special Case as an F-1 Student Visa applicant (prepared but never submitted). [Original letter: 5 pages. This edition: 8 pages.] 4-Page Personal Statement Letter (May 29, 1998) to Dr. Frank Lu, Graduate

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Coordinator of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington (considered a Very Important Factor in the Admission Process to U.S. Graduate School). [Original letter: 4 pages. This edition: 5 pages.] Questions about my Christian Faith and the Catholic Religion, the Church of my birth, which I tried to answer myself. I am a long-time Navigator Ministries member since July 1980. The Navigators is an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization which has its roots as a movement in the U.S. Navy during World War II and founded by Dawson Trotman, an American. Related Questions and Issues about Religion, Science, Life, Meaning, Existence, etc. The Bridge to Life Witnessing Material of the Navigator Ministries. Certifications of my Intermittent Sub-Career Start Employment at 4 Davao schools in the early 1990s. Documents in my Membership in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA (Worlds largest professional society in aerospace): 1999-2000. Invitation from the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum for the placement of my name in their newly-constructed National Aviation and Space Exploration Wall of Honor at the Dulles International Airport, Washington, D.C. (an ordinary invitation for aerospace buffs such as members of the AIAA, i.e., student or professional). Documents on my MSAE Admission Application to U.S. Schools in the 1990s. Reports of my GRE, TOEFL, TWE & TSE scores and the GRE Score Report of a close boyhood friend, Engr. Manuel B. Abello, BSECE, M.Eng.Sc. EE (U. Queensland, Aust.). GRE General Test Score Information for the Twenty Foreign Countries with the Highest Annual Testing Volumes: 1987-1988. The Philippines is No. 11 in this data. Personal Reply Letter dated May 10, 1991 of Dr. Ing. Stelio Frati, owner of GENERAL AVIA S.R.L. COSTRUZIONI AERONAUTICHE Information on Stelio Frati from Stelio Frati: a Designers Portfolio. Personal Reply Letter of Nigel Moll, Executive Editor of FLYING Magazine dated December 17, 1985. Cover Picture of FLYING Magazine, October 1984 issue. Documents on the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universitys M.S. Aerospace Engineering much-extended Admission Offer to me: December 16, 1992-November 13, 1997.

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MSAE Admission Application Recommendation Letters: Required in my readmission application to ERAU, optional in my application to California State University, Long Beach. I was deemed a special case at ERAU and they extended their offer: 4 years. Admission Documents for the California State University, Long Beach AE Degree Program. AE-355 Stability and Control of Aerospace Vehicles (BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan) Class Project report at the CSULB under Mr. Eric R. Kendall, M.Sc. (Cranfield) Engr 370I Astronautics and Space class Term Paper, On Astronauts. Dedicated to The Future aerospace engineering Scientists of the Philippines among the dreamy young Filipino aviation/aerospace enthusiasts that may never have a chance at genuine, proper aeronautical education if abandon my lifes calling goals, plans, projects (etc.) in the field of aeronautics/space, etc., i.e., education and beyond. [Thick] Flyer: Master of Science in Engineering, Aerospace Engineering; at California State University, Long Beach. Reply Letters of Manila Government, Science/Education and Civil Aviation Authority People on my Goal of Establishing Modern Aeronautical Education in the Philippines. Reply Letter of Dr. Reynaldo B. Vea, Ph.D., former Dean, Eng. College at U.P.

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of the Philippines (CAAP): In reply to my inquiry on the old Davao Airport Terminal (abandoned and unused/unoccupied since December 1, 2003 when the airport operations transferred to the new, improved location across the runway. No new use has been found until now; at this books writing. My proposal is the only viable one.) Documents on my proposed Government Agency in Aeronautics, the PAGA&SA (Pag-asa, a Filipino-Tagalog word which means Hope in English). PAGA&SA stands for Philippine Aviation General Aeronautics and Space Agency. This agency will be originally named as the PARO (Philippine Aeronautics Research Organization) to reflect our current development or state-of-the-art. I proposed this first-world agency to be located at the former World War II Japanese Airfield in Hagonoy, Davao del Sur, in the middle of the very flat Padada Valley, 7 Km. south of Digos City and 60+ Km. south of Davao City, a port in eastern Mindanao, southernmost island of the Philippine archipelago. An airport construction there is proposed: the Digos National Airport. When we have already flown or launched our very first (small) experimental rocket, even if it did not reach outer space or orbital altitude, the agencys name change will take place: from PARO to PAGA&SA to reflect our successful growth or development or advancement. May God in Jesus bless us all Filipinos. Reply Letter of Former President Fidel V. Ramos. And the Detailed Proposal he requested me to write. Souvenir document (brief publication) from GOPLADA or GOPLADART: for Goals, Plans, Determination, Action, [Relationships, Teambuilding] for the Inspirational Seminar (in May 1990 at the Apo View Hotel, Davao City) by gifted speaker Mr. Teodulo Jong Ramirez, Jr., A.A., A.B., Ll.B., M.A. (History, U.P.). He was a former Dean of Notre Dame University (College), General Santos City and a former Director III of the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) in Davao City. We became friends at the Ateneo de Davao University college dormitory where I stayed when I was still teaching there in early 1990s. TODAY CAN BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE, by Dr. Harold J. Sala: Integrity: January 14, 1996; and Believe and Achieve: December 3, 1995.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Engr. Darvin Delgra, BSME, MS Aerospace Eng. grad student (1999-2000: on extended/expired leave from CSU, Long Beach) was the No. 2 weird person at the Cebu Institute of Technology in 1981-1982, after Engr. Rudy Maneja (CE) who led a burning-survival/ challenge-to-the Almighty God of-being-resurrected-from-the dead ritual on August 10, 1985 at the historic Plaza Independencia in Cebu City, Philippines: he failed supremely miserably in his challenge. He then transferred to the University of San Carlos in the same city in the middle of his extended 7-year college career. There he graduated on March 23, 1986 in his B.S. Mechanical Engineering degree program after a two-year extension of his college education. He was excluded for three semesters or 1 years due to his unusual irrational intense interest in aeronautics and aviation at CIT, a school not offering aeronautical engineering or having an AE Dept., but is only a general engineering school offering quality traditional engineering degree programs. He studied in this non-aeronautics school instead of PATTS College of Aeronautics or FEATI University in Manila (we have no relatives there) due to his fathers wish. CIT is also his fathers Alma Mater, BSCE 53. He hails from the former town of Digos City, Davao del Sur where he was born in 1962. Aeronautics and Aviation (and Space or Astronautics) has been his unusual passions since childhood. Because of his experiences, he is all the more determined to fulfil his dream of a U.S. aerospace engineering advanced degree and to pursue his quest to help our aerospacebackward country to make a dent on high technology in this fearsome field of aerospace engineering. May the good Lord God in Jesus bless his unselfish altruistic long-time efforts in helping to establish genuine aerospace engineering education here in our NIC 2011 country, Philippines as the germinal real first efforts at true aeronautical development, i.e., aircraft manufacturing, quality AE education, R&D, etc. He hopes that God willing he will be able to resume his US advanced study in 2017 when his two U.S.-based nephews will have then already graduated from college and law school. His sponsor is his elder brother, M.D., DABIM in NJ. It took the author a very long time to decide to publish this compilation (excerpt of his future book, his first; which he doesnt know will it will finally be finished and published in paper book form): The only explanation to the Mystery Ritual of Engr. Maneja in Cebu City in 1985. There were actually three of us who were weird at CIT at that time. The third one was this authors searching Nuclear Physics (3rd year course) teacher, Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela, BSME, M.S. (Physics) who was then in a very-severe extremely-multifaceted mid-life crisis. He had deep unanswered questions about life and religion, science, the meaning of existence, the Truth about the ESP or Extra-Sensory Perception, and Creation and Evolution: which is true?; etc. For he told the author once when he approached him in his daring, that he has had experiences with paranormal phenomena coupled with supernatural experiences, and that he does not understand if what is happening to him is real: His supernatural experiences followed him to school at CIT for three semesters during this authors emotional ordeal: June 1981-October 1982. Because simultaneous at the beginning of this authors being persecuted by him in class because of a trivial offense (you can read about this in the more detailed excerpt I will publish soon), near the start of that semester, Engr. Maneja began his unusual demon-possessed behaviour. (He heard from schoolmates that Engr. Maneja may have left CIT also in October 1982, at the time of his transfer to the USC.) (But the author soberly think he is not a demon-possessed person but a plain antichrist a major one, at the End Times.) During that semester under him, he gave us his class, for the first and only time, a special mini-research requirement about these to be submitted in a Term Paper at the end of the semester: Is There Any Truth About the ExtraSensory Perception? or ESP phenomena? This book-compilation (excerpt at this writing, 2012)

contained such work. He also gave us an alternative topic to research: What Is Man Searching For? (not included here because this author submitted to him only a short handwritten paper). It was the authors Adventure of a Lifetime, and the author has virtually no regrets why he studied there at CIT in ME. For B.S. Physics (at the University of San Carlos), his second course choice after AE (his father requested him to write his degree program options only three the night of his high school graduation in 1979), was far from his main interest (modern physics, etc.) as he discovered later. It was because of his learning experience in senior year high school physics class thats the reason for this. Had he graduated in AE here in the Philippines he would never had been accepted to U.S. graduate school (admission offer letters dated: ERAU: December 16, 1992; and CSULB: May 25, 1999). Because the status quo or state-of-the-art of Philippine aeronautical education is far from U.S.-par to date: Our government grossly neglected the aerospace sector by not providing our talented aeronautics youth quality aeronautical education. Because our government people and policy makers has yet to recognize the entity of the Filipino aerospace professional, i.e., engineers, professionals in allied fields they simply do not know we exist. His father told him that high school graduation night on March 28, 1979 that his 2nd choice of B.S. Physics will lead him to become just a (high school) physics teacher later on, and so its not his choice for him. (But in his last year in BSME, he discovered that B.S. graduates of ME, Physics, Math, Computer Science and other engineering can be accepted to aerospace graduate school: their education is considered adequate background for the aerospace graduate programstudy.) Now, he is a mechanical engineer and he has heard relayed comments from way back his college years that he is mechanical and not aero because people in our cultural group make issues on the slightest trivial matters about controversial people. As though this author has no right to have a keen authoritative serious intense interest in the aerospace field because of his undergraduate background. Most of his cultural groups members simply do not know the connection between mechanical engineering and aerospace engineering. That ME is the general field and AE a specialty field of ME (but the critical factor in aerospace undergraduate and graduate study is serious, even intense, interest in aeronautics and astronautics). Just like Computer Engineering as a specialty subfield of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. At CIT 30-29 years ago, non-aviation schoolmates, staff and other people in school simply found him, when he began to be excluded in school starting in Engr. Paradelas class and Engr. Maneja beginning his demon-possessed behaviour for 3 semesters, something of an aerospace-abnormal/ religious fanatic person because of the schools sub-societys unusual issues and spiritual warfare inside Engr. Paradelas class and outside (the CIT school environment). This author would like to tell that readers that in ancient times fascination with flight is suspected by ordinary people with superstition and in the late 19th Century when there were more experiments in manned/wingedcraft flight, before the Wright brothers first successful powered flight on December 17, 1903, the opinion of many sober people and the majority of learned scientists then was that those manned/ winged-craft aeronautical experiments was the height of foolishness and the peak of lunacy. For it is dreamy ancient peoples belief that if God meant man to fly, he would have given them wings. Did God do so? Look at the aerospace successes of the 20th Century and beyond. God really gave man wings to fly but it was reserved for us in modern times (man-made mechanical wings made by man himself but created with God-given human intelligence). This author is lucky to be born in the 2nd half of the 20th Century. But the status quo or state-of-the-art of aeronautical development here in the Philippines is still in the 19th Century (this author would like to restrict the meaning of aeronautics to the science, technology and engineering, etc. of atmospheric flight as opposed to aviation which he would like to restrict the meaning to the ope-

ration and use of aircraft (consult your dictionary): aviation, i.e. from Latin avis-actio literally bird-action, is just the whole range of activities, of, or for, finished aircraft). As of the present, August 2012, he found a serious partner in his local aeronautical development endeavours in a similar mindset aerospace eng. professional, an associate professor in ME (Ph.D., 2007, A&AE, Kyushu University, Japan), of a better university here in Mindanao, Philippines that be befriended thru the Internet. May God in Jesus bless his endeavours. Capt. Panfilo Villaruels voice has been heard. He did not die in vain. Remember him who held hostage NAIA control tower in 2003? It was a mystery to all except perhaps to me. I have discussions on this later. Everyone knows what happened to Engr. Maneja in 1985, but it was all a mystery. This authors teacher, Engr. Paradela, died in peace with his Creator on February 14, 1996. (He was instrumental in his salvation, and he may be the only one Engr. Paradela may consider credible in his sharing of the Bridge to life Illustration witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries because of their unusual one-semester acquaintance 15 years earlier he never forgotten him.) This book is also about what happened to the 2nd weird person of CIT in 1981-1982: The blessings of the Almighty God in Jesus, and his continuing quest to finish his graduate degree(s) in aerospace engineering in U.S., for he is only privately sponsored by his elder brother, an M.D., DABIM; in New Jersey since June 1989 (before, in his 1-year BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan in his MSAE degree program at CSULB in 1999-2000, it was his loving father who produced the funds by selling their old house in Digos, Davao del Sur; but his share was good only for one school-year at CSULB). He is a self-called herald to the coming of genuine aeronautical engineering education in the Philippines; again, which he envisions as our poor 3rd world countrys (actually, now NIC 2011) humble, serious first efforts at true aeronautical development. He has an 1195 GRE (verbal plus quantitative) and 617 TOEFL scores. With Gods blessings, he hopes to finish his studies very early in the next decade: In our backward cultural group, someone should lead the initiative to finally break the cynicism barrier in genuine aeronautical development that has been with us ever since. For man-made flight has been around for than a Century already: 1903 success of the Wright brothers; the first manned balloon flight of the French Montgolfier brothers was on November 21, 1783: What are we indifferent Filipinos doing in aeronautics? It is this unusual aerospace enthusiasts thesis that Religion and Flight are in fact linked (somewhat linked, even closely or clearly linked). Also enclosed among his writings is his mini-Term Paper in special English class for foreign students at the California State University, Long Beach in 1999-2000 entitled: The Airplane, Flight, the Aerospace [Environment] and Religion. He has knowledge in this area. If you are intrigued with his writings and would like to read more, avail more of his documents not included here in this voluminous excerpt, please contact him at his Email address: darvin.delgra@yahoo.com. He would be glad to share to you more of these. He is a member of the interdenominational Christian organization, The Navigator Ministries since July 1980. His spiritual father is Mr. Romeo Dilla, BSChE (CIT, early 1980s), senior Navigator Ministries member. This author has seen Almighty God bless our long-time members. The author wrote the draft of the Foreword below but Mr. Jose Eseng V. modified it and added his thought about this author as per this authors request. They were companions in the Navigator Ministries Training Apartment Noahs Ark near CIT in 1981-82 during this authors 1 year emotional ordeal. As a faithful Christian overseer, Eseng was assigned to the CIT campus that time. He is a Veterinary Medicine graduate of Araneta Univesity. He holds a Master in Counselling degree from Koinonia Theological Seminary in Davao City. This author as a psychological patient has him as his excellent Christian counsellor and confidant. He is also now a national Navigator Ministries staff in the Philippines. The author is lucky to have him as a friend.

FOREWORD There is no more time (now: 2:19 P.M., December 17, 2012; Monday). This work of mine must be published in the Internet on Saturday, December 22, 2012; the day before Sunday, December 23, 2012 for a most personal reason related to the December 21, 2012 End of the World Hype, but I have a separate source of concern. So my promised FOREWORD to be written (his edition of my composition) by Eseng will just be included in the printed book that I will publish in the future. For clearly many people are intrigued by my one-of-a kind unusual publication. It has been said that a Christians life is the fifth gospel. There of course many such fifth gospels and this is only one. I got saved on July 1, 1980 when I received the Lord Jesus as Lord and Savior with the witness of my spiritual father, Mr. Romeo Dilla, BSChE, senior Navigator Ministries member at the Cebu Institute of Technology in late 1970s and early 1980s. I have virtually no regrets about the experiences I have been through; rather I am justifiably proud of them. If people, half of them, my many very unkind stigmatizers, know only the truth about me, they will realize that they have much to be afraid about. But I dont hate them as this has already been settled in my mind by the act of my will, not to hate them that I may not share their fate. Rather I pray for them. In the Websters dictionary, forgiveness is defined as to cease to feel resentment against. And resentment defined as the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc. regarded as causing injury or insult. Since I dont hate my stigmatizers I have perfect peace in my heart, because I am a Christian; and the Holy Spirit living in every Christians hearts gives them power to forgive the wrongs done by others, and many other things not possible to be done by the natural, unsaved persons. But there wil be no perfect peace in my mind (and all other persons minds - people wronged by others), unless there is justice (my memory is permanent). Our Philippines President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino, III said in Tagalog during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in July this year, 2012, that: (translation) forgiveness can come, even if not easily; but to forget wrongs cannot come easily unless there is justice. For me this justice is only just for the people who know me and who heard about me to know the whole truth about my mysterious 1 year social exclusion in school, CIT, 30 years ago which caused my 4-month emotional disorder in the middle of my extended 7year college career (1979-1986), and my normal psychological disability (emotional illness relapses) that accompany me stubbornly and intermittently since that time thus the rationale for my printed books lengthy but incomplete Internet publications excerpt. I know that the Great Holy Judge judges perfectly. God has no favorites and if I act just like my stigmatizers I will be dealt with accordingly, without favoritism. Even with all the things I have been through for him. Because of my personal sacrifice of being willing to be persecuted for the sake of the Gospel, by the will and power of God in Jesus, Creation won in the enduring controversy of Creation and Evolution. And that the Christian Religion is the only one TRUE CHURCH, whether Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, etc. as long as ones Christian religion is mainline, which I define as a Christian church having the three (3) fundamental elements of 1.) Salvation by Faith; 2.) God-Man Jesus; and 3.) Trinity. All the rest of the attendant doctrines in a particular church, if a church has these fundamental three elements, does not make void the status of a church to a non-mainline status this is the stand of our interdenominational Christian group, Navigator Ministries, as I understand it. Philippians 3:15-16 says All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear

to you. (v.16) Only let us live up to what we have already attained. I got my Bible knowledge from the Navigator Ministries. The emphasis of our group is one-on-one evangelization or discipleship. I have a discussion on this after my research work at the California State University, Long Beach in an American Lang Advanced course for foreign graduate student who did not pass the institutional English language proficiency test, the EESL or Examination of English as a Second Language (this is found in Section 3-1). This is The Airplane: Flight, the Aerospace [environment] and Religion. Though this method (man-to-man evangelization or discipleship) seems slow, it is actually the fastest, highest quality ministry. Our group though evangelical is honoured by certain Catholic clergy who knew our group. Please go to Section 3-1 afterword of the minithesis to read this. We have also contact with other bona-fide Protestant Christian groups. Our group is interdenominational; even a non-denominational Christian group. In my research work, ESP, paranormal phenomena, Evolution, etc. are exposed as garbage knowledge from the Evil One, the god of this world, Satan, for the spiritual destruction of human beings who are infinitely important to God being their Creator. The evidence is here in my Internet publication. In the future I will publish a comprehensive printed book edition of the present work and I hope you will invest some amount in exchange for eternal value knowledge/learning you can glean from my large printed book. This work is not intended to supersede the Bible as Authority but rather to supplement it, especially with information about spiritual matters in the recent history, the last 30 years in the place of my college career, Cebu City, a historic city in central Philippines, where Ferdinand Magellan landed in 1521. I am now 50 years; still single. So read on and enjoy my printed books lengthy Internet excerpt of perhaps the most unusual information you can glean, from the large clutter of information in our times today, early 21st Century, which we can read readily/conveniently from the Internet. The most important section here in this lengthy excerpt is the the THE BRIDGE TO LIFE ILLUSTRATION-WITNESSING MATERIAL OF THE NAVIGATOR MINISTRIES. Please read on and be convinced of Gods (perhaps one of the most-effective) Modern Method(s) of reaching to the lost in the world with the gospel arranged in such a most logical/most convincing presentation of Gods Plan to save the Elect among mankind. If you are reading this publication, you may be one of the Elect; only God knows. The Elect is found in all classes of people in all cultural groups. Everyone is invited.

WHY I WROTE/COMPILED THIS UNUSUAL BOOK? [At present just an excerpt.] A Christian is an ambassador of Christ to the world. My Websters dictionary define it as an authorized messenger or representative. With the impossible experiences I have been through in college, I have much to tell to many people in the unsaved world. This is Gods proof of his existence and goodness and plan of salvation for all mankind (the Elect) of which I am only an instrument. Even scientists who visited CIT in December 1982, from the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (then Philippine Atomic Energy Commission) in Quezon City, Manila, were convinced that Almighy God really did in fact, actually does exist when they heard a first-hand tesmimony from my searching Physics teacher then (who was delivered from from his spiritual distress after our one-semester-course acquaintance in Phys 311 Nuclear Physics class in 1st Semester 1981-1982; June 1981-October 1981). My teachers name is Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela, BSME, M.S. Physics. And he died in the Lord on February 14, 1996 one month after

my visiting him at his residence and sharing to him the truths in the Bridge to Life witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries. I may be the only one he may believe in my sharing of the Bridge because of our unusual acquaintance 15 years earlier he has never forgotten me. My conflict with him in class was settled after that semester when he read my mini-thesis Is There Any Truth to the ESP (extra-sensory perception) phenomena? (which is included here in this lengthy excerpt for your benefit). And we became friends after that. Also, my teacher in history at the University of San Carlos whom God disciplined for his hubris (I am only an instrument of Gods discipline of him) he compared his knowledgeable status-in-history being regarded a local history scholar, to me, (whom he just assumed from widely-spread gossips that I am the only one in school with zero interest in history and acted accordingly, even attacking me three times, the last publicly and in the middle of the Christmas Disco 84 for being just fit for the garbage only as my interest is too narrow just airplanes only as he just supposed, but he discovered the truth in the coming months) this too is settled already, when I visited him 11 years later in the Christmas of 1995 at his office at the USC-Main. He acknowledged the wrong he has done by expressing he did not hold it against me, the appropriately painful public recompense in a Golden Rule (i.e., Silver Rule; see Internet) truism in class I did to him during the Summer Term 85. Then he said, Merry Christmas, and then we finally parted ways with peace in our hearts and minds; on Judgment Day, there will be surprises. If I had not done it then Matthew 7:1-2 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. (v.) For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (NIV) will be no longer true. And more than ten (10) weeks after that, Gods challenger Engr. Rudy Maneja, the messiah of Satan did his unusual challenge to Almighty God of duplicating Jesus Act of Ressurection, but by another power, by his almighty, he called Yawa Ellohen which can be translated as Devil god. For Yawa comes from vernacular Cebuano which means Devil. And Ellohem comes from the Hebrew word Elohim which means God. That was already history almost 30 years and it is still a mystery to all people until now. Here in this Internet publication, you will read about my comprehensive explanation about this most unusual (my) personal encounter and showdown with evil in early-mid 1980s in which I survived as the victor with Gods help and providence in Jesus. Engr. Paradela, told me once before, during the semester 1st 1981-1982, under him, when the most unusual spiritual issue in his life (linked with Engr. Manejas demon-possessed behaviour and my most painful emotion ordeal for 1 years), was not yet settled: dong, ang mag-daug-daug naku dong, mabu-ang, mamatay! (yang man, those who persecute me, will become insane, or will die (meet death)). I experienced an impossible emotional disorder (4 moths: 12/1982-4/1983) and my emotional breakdown (collapse of my emotional health) in December 1982 at the University of San Carlos-Technological Center at the far side of Cebu City. But I recovered (I recovered from my death of an emotional breakdown by the power of God in Jesus). And Engr. Maneja during his turn supremely failed in his challenge known to all people. But no one knowns the truth about it. Thus my mission to reveal the whole truth about it. This work is the only one that will satisfy your curiosity on its truth. This work is also intended to settle with my many very unkind stigmatizers the most sinister unfounded enduring gossips they heard about me. So they will have a chance to repent of their grievous sin when they know the whole truth about my most unusual person. I have a concern for them that they will not go to hell for they failed miserably Psalms 15:3s test does not listen to gossip (Living Bible Version) as among the traits of the character of the blameless person. If I will just let them be disqualified from entrance to heaven by failing this criteria, it will also be

my sin of omission, the greatest sin among the four sins recited always at the beginning of the Catholic Mass: sins in my thoughts, sins in my words, in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do which becomes greater from left to right. Thus the rationale for my publication. Finally, this work is intended for all people in the world in all cultures, even non-Christians and non-Jews who are searching for the Truth. I strived carefully hard to explain the Biblical truths on how to be saved through faith in Jesus Christ by receiving him as Lord and Saviour in Secion 8-1 The Bridge to Life Illustration Witnessing Material of the Navigator Ministries of which I am member since July 1980. (Again, if you are protestant, if this Gods gift has been received by you already, you are called a bon-again Christian. If you are a Catholic, you are called a renewed Christian having a new life.) We all know that as intelligence becomes higher in people the tendency is to question all religions. This work is to supplement the Scriptural evidence which is like the evidence in court. The evidence that will be found here will be like that of a scientist peering at his microscope or telescope to see things not visible to the unaided naked eye. For most peoples stand is to see (or read) is to believe. So here it is, maybe the worlds first document on a personal encounter and showdown with evil by the author 30 years ago, in which I emerged the victor only by my faith in the power of God in Jesus. My Christian interdenominal, evangelical group is the Navigator Ministries, International headquarters, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. Inquirers are welcome. Please visit our website at www.navigators.org.

INTRODUCTION I proposed to change Engr. Rudy Manejas name spelling to Engr. Rudy Manja for it is pronounced that way. The in n is prounounced i as in chin and not e as in egg. I have also a reason for my choice of the letter . This is the cap above the letter e. You know in geometry, going to the right is positive and going up is positive so going both in the right direction and the up direction is positive. Therefore going outward from the center or origin, in the 1st quadrant, is positive. The cap in goes up then goes down as it hit the top (the lower boundary of heaven where the cap bounced down). This may be exactly what Satan did when his heart became proud and wanted to be like God. This is found in Isaiah 14:12-20. The cap really is a fitting symbol for Satans ambition and defeat or loss; because going down to the right is negative (defeat). My idea is to single out Engr. Rudy Manja from all the Manejas of the world. But I am not sure what is Gods stand on this issue. However, let us call Engr. Rudy Manja that way. Even in the Bible, there are a number of people who are called Jesus; but not Jesus Christ. (I dont really know how many since I know only one, such as Jesus, who is called Justus in Colossians 4:11.) May God forgive me if I am wrong in my thesis; and if I sin regarding this I am confident God the Holy Spirit will protect me from that one unforgivable sin of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit since I am a Christian. However, in my discussions hereinafter, it would still be Engr. Rudy Maneja which will be the spelling of his name. I would just like to remind people of how his family name is pronounced. This is common knowledge in Cebu and around the region where people heard about the most unusual thing he did on August 10, 1985: gasoline-burning public ritual 27 years ago. Again, I am the only who can explain it.

This work is aimed at primarily to people who are likely to scoff at religion and choose to become atheists and agnostics, etc. Many people recognize that as intelligence increases, the more one is likely to become an atheist or agnostic, freethinker, etc. This work is again aimed at convincing these class of people about the existence of a good, holy God and that his Messiah, Jesus Christ already arrived 2000 years ago; was victorious over sin and death, and is coming again, this time with a different mission. That is to gather all the saved Elect of the world to bring with him into eternal glory and everlasting happiness in heaven. Will the world end on Decemeber 21? I cannot tell because I am only a man. But watch out for the 3rd day after this December 23, 2012. I dont know also what will happen that day. Only that in my life I have a serious concern for this date; and my source of concern is other than the much-talked about End of the World Hype. The source of my concern is just the holy coincidences in my life that I discovered; this is secret. Now we are almost there. The only thing we know is that God is good and holy; and that He already has the victory in what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for all the Elect 2000 years ago in Calvary. Be on the safe side and be serious with your bona-fide Christian religion. And when the End does finally come you will be ready with the worthy life you lived. This excerpts arrangement does not follow the arrangement indicated in my written or published Table of Contents above: I have to make a shortened edition-version of my work. This work starts with my ESP-Truth? Mini-Thesis. Followed by my June 4, 1999 letter to Dr. Taiwhan David Kim, Graduate Advisor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering of EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. Then my PostSciprt follows: my April 11, 1997 State of Facts letter to the Consul General of the U.S. Embassy in Manila for my most unusual case in my F-1 Student Visa application. Then the August 11, 1985 NEWSPAPER CLIPPING in the Cebu City SunStar local daily newspaper about Engr. Rudy Manejas failed challenge to the Almighty God of being resurrected from the dead in a presumed duplication of Jesus Act of Resurrection from the dead 2000 years ago. But he failed miserably. I am the only one who can explain it to people thus the present work. But I will publish the complete edition in a printed book in the future. Again, I hope you will invest some amount in exchange for eternal value/learning you can glean from my work. For clearly my work is one of a kind. The the rest of my relevant documents in this Section follows. Then Section 3-1 follows: this is The Airplane, Flight, the Aerospace [Environment], and Religion. After this is my attack on Poch Suzaras Commentary in the September 18, 1997 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer entitled: Science and Religion, which I caricatured His Religion is Science. My letter to Dr. Frank Lu, graduate coordinator of the Department of Aerospace Engineering of the University of Texas at Arlington follows: this is my explanation of my personal statement in my purposes, career plans, background in my prospect of a U.S. advanced aerospace degree. Then after this is the Bridge to Life witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries and a June 17, 2006 newspaper clipping coming from Philippine Star World News Section: U.S. Bishops approve new Mass translation. After the U.S. Bishops I have detailed my explanation of the Bridge to Life. Then finally my lengthy afterword and the rest of my relevant documents. This is a one-ofa-kind publication. And, again, I intend to publish a printed book edition of the present work in the future. Maybe before August 10, 2018 for a personal confidential reason you may or may not know, as I may choose to let you know this confidential reason or refrain from doing so. I did not include the Sections 6 and 7 in my indicated Table of Contents above it will be for my printed book edition in the future; a long sample Table of Contents which will still be

refined. These sections are Section 6 (p. 6-1) Questions about my Christian faith and the Catholic religion which I tried to answer myself; and Section 7 (p. 7-1) Related Questions and Issues about Religion, Science, Life, Meaning, Existence, etc. This is because these topics are controversial. Like what I discovered in Isaiah 66:13 As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you. In the section Where to find it in the Old Testament, the King James Version of the Holy Bible calls it the Motherhood of God. And Isaiah 66 begins with This is what the Lord says: I agree that the Holy Spirit is neuter or having no gender: neither male nor female. But my stand is that it is not not male and/or not not female. Its like this: the combination of the colors green and red is yellow. And yellow (neuter) is neither green (male) nor red (female). But it comes from these two colors (attributes, etc.). It would be very different if the Holy Spirit has a (permanent) body and he is neuter. However, I believe God can take on bodily form such as the three visitors in Genesis 18: I think these three men are the three persons of the Godhood. But Mary the woman chosen by God to be the human mother of Jesus discussed in Luke 1:26-38 became the first Christian when she accepted the Lords Offer May it be to me as you have said to be the human mother of the Messiah. But Mary the woman is in her CPU or her mind there is another person who lives within her since that Act of Obedience the Holy Spirit in her heart (Catholics of which I am one, call it the Immaculate Heart of Mary). The Holy Spirit is the God-spirit person who is neither male nor female. In the account of Genesis 18, the three visitors there are the three persons of the Godhood and they are all male. Now when the Holy Spirit choose to appear to us in the New Testament times, I believe it will be the image of Mary, the chosen woman who is the human mother of Jesus, with which, again, God the Holy Spirit will choose to appear to us, even though Mary the human mother of Jesus is yet to be resurrected along with all the saved Elect in the End Time. My belief is justified by the fact that Mary the womans heart is the first home of the Holy Spirit. He will come to your heart to. And I go to great details to explain thoroughly how you can have a spiritual birth from heaven. The key to harmony in the varied forms of Christianity is respect with each other main Chistians church doctrines and beliefs and practices. The rest dont matter. I define mainline as in mainline Christian church as a Christian church having the three fundamental elements of 1.) Salvation by Faith; 2.) God-Man Jesus; 3.) Trinity. Again, for us Navigator Ministries members, all the rest of a church doctrines dont matter as long as these critical three elements are present. And I hope you agree with me. Did I make a convincing point? It comes from my amateur scholarship. I am reticent in including in my documents enclosed the Mensa Advertisement (of which I passed their minimum only unofficially; my actual score in the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) is 1190 (verbal + quantitative); and their passing is 1250 (V+Q) on the 400 zero to 1600 perfect scale: old scale). However, I thought about this for so long and I deem at last that for it to be included here is absolutely necessary. Because though this work is for all people; it is especially intended for the top 4%ile of the world who are more intelligent than me, for them to believe in the existence of the Christian God and the power of Jesus Christ, together with the Holy Spirit who lives and longs to live in every Elects (in the world) hearts. Anyway, you can find it here: my GRE Verbal score is only 500, 55%ile and Quantitative (Math) score is only 690/ 695, 77%ile. This is really just modest, but considerable already compared to all people in the world. My GRE-IQ equivalent of 126, 96%ile is my humble credential so that the top 4%ile more-intelligent-than-me people in the world will find me worthy to listen to (or my work worthy to be read). All the rest of the documents here are further proof to those people that I am credible. May the reader read thoroughly the one-of-a-kind information here. Thank you.

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IS THERE ANY TRUTH ABOUT THE EXTRA-SENSORY PERCEPTION (ESP) PHENOMENA? [A Special Research Requirement]

A Term Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in the Course: Physics 311, Nuclear Physics

[Revised with minor corrections and additions: April 9, 1997. Latest revision: April 30, 2012]

Cebu Institute of Technology October 19, 1981 [Darvin Anthony B. Delgra, BSME-3] [Note: My name is not indicated in the actual report but only my code number: - - - - above assigned by my teacher Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela: Deceased: February 14, 1996. He died in peace with his Creator. I was only an instrument in his discovery of the truth. ]

Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela Instructor: Physics 311 Nuclear Physics

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ABSTRACT I INTRODUCTION

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A. Statement of the Problem B. Definition of Terms II

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THE SIXTH SENSE PHENOMENA

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A. Reports on the Sixth Sense Phenomenon

B. Interpretations of the Sixth Sense Phenomena A Majority Claim False Perception Pseudomysteries

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The Nature of E.S.P.

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The Biblical Alternative . 9 Creation and Evolution Interpretation 2 III CONCLUSION Notes 9

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 18

ABSTRACT Many people of all ages and from all races have experiences or encounters from the extraphysical world. There is definitely and evidently something beyond and outside the physical universe, such as entities that exist there. Common activities such as spirit of the glass are done by people curious about the spirit world and knowing things in the future, etc. In response to my teachers, Engr. Feliciano V. Paradelas (BSME, M.S. Physics) searching about extra-physical questions such as: which is true, Creation or Evolution?; and specially his yearning to know, specifically, if there is any truth about the Extra-Sensory Perception (E.S.P.) phenomena(?), because he has had experiences in these things as he once confided to me personally, that he does not understand the truth about the existence of E.S.P., this research has been launched for his benefit. I have found out from reading a book on ESP whose author has a D.D. degree (Doctor of Divinity?), that the main activity in ESP is spirit contact for their assistance in helping us humans develop such inherent powers in man for our benefit. In short, the author of that book claimed that we all have such inherent power (ESP) waiting to be developed through the assistance of spirit teachers. Then he further claimed that these spirits are friendly without stating whether they are good or evil, and subtly suggesting that spirit teachers are from(?) God. Because the book on ESP, Helping Yourself with ESP by Dr. Al G. Manning contains both quasi-religious teachings and scientific facts (pseudo-scientific facts really), the analysis of this report is twofold: one scientific, and the other Biblical. Ultimately, the writer being a Biblereading Christian, believes the Bible as Gods Word is the final authority to which every question in life, in the whole universe, past, present and future, shall be reckoned with and judged upon. (This writer is born a Catholic and a member of the international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization Navigator Ministries since July 1980. I am still a Catholic as my group is not a church.) In summary, this writer believes the Bible contains all the answers to all of lifes questions, especially spiritual questions (the last two words not in italics). The writer conclusively found out that ESP is a most sinister sham brought straight from the spirit world for the spiritual destruction of people, human beings like you and me, who are infinitely important to God, being our Creator. And that we must be wary not only of ESP but in every activity that promises us to deny our own finiteness such as fortune telling, transcendental meditation, etc. I have a comment on the statement of a high school (girls department) schoolmate in Digos: that I have only refuted one book on ESP. I discovered in 1990s decade that this woman, now in her late 40s, has been involved in a group in Digos that delve deeply into paranormal phenomena. I would like to tell her and all of you, readers, that in mathematics study, a single refutation can prove the falsity of a math conjecture, & a complete proof is needed to prove otherwise. Rather than be swayed by the cheap talk of those in favor of ESP, advocates, etc., we should instead rely on God through his revelation in his unfailing Word, the Bible. And seek humbly His will in our lives, and to trust His promise to be with us always through our earthly journey.

[*Note: There will be changes and other subtle changes here from the original wordings in my research to suit my message to the general audience, rather for only the person, Engr. Paradela, which this research is originally intended for.]

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: This research is particularly intended for my searching Physics 311 Nuclear Physics teacher Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela, BSME, M.S. Physics originally, but now I have decided to make it public thanks to the information technology of the late 20th Century. I originally intended to write a complete book, but since it will be necessarily long, a thought entered my mind more than a year ago that I will do it through the Internet. I decided I will publish a voluminous excerpt on my work. Also, I realized that this action can also be an effective marketing strategy for my forthcoming book with the same title here. I really dont know when it will be published. However, the information you will read here will be substantial information on a most unusual happening in a school in Cebu City way back in 1981-1982 and in mid-1985. Because of my most unusual experience at the Cebu Institute of Technology about 30 years ago, I am no longer an ordinary individual here in my country (but I dont revel on this). Even if certain people have not seen a picture of me, they know me, maybe from descriptions heard about me. Some, even many people, evidently heard stories, both conflicting positive and negative issues in my life way back in college and beyond, and its relation to the happenings in my first school, CIT. Even in my second school, University of San Carlos in Cebu City, there are also unusual issues about my college life, but I will tell you here that only me, a few or one other single person, and the Almighty God who sees it all, knew everything about these issues. I have discussions on these in this books (excerpts) Afterword. This research has been launched to find out if there any truth about the ESP phenomena. There have been claims that these phenomena is of some help to those who possess it, like being protected from harm of any kind, faith healing (which I suspect has a holy type), knowing things in the future which they call precognition, out of body experiences the call astral travel, and many other forms of such phenomena. In the secular world, we often hear of stories about ESP. Many claim that it really exists and they really experienced it. Our objective in this report is to find out whether these things are natural physical phenomena and therefore can be explained by the laws of science or the scientific method. Or is it some form of religion or anything else? The following findings (in Chapter 2 of this report) will reveal its true nature when interpreted in light of the Scriptures. First of all, I must apologize for the ideas that may seem offensive to you Sir (Engr. Paradela). And all you dear readers who may have not suspected to date that ESP could come from the Evil One. I am not in favour of ESP (our ordinary experience) and I never will; though I suspect that there may be also might possibly be a holy-type of these phenomena, but rarer, even much rarer. In an analogy to the word pride which has a negative connotation and is one of the specific

condemn sins in the Bible (you can find references to this in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, especially in Psalms and Proverbs), there is really such thing as holy-pride. Like, as an example, one refuses to engage in activities that is damaging to the family honor because of pride of ones clans impeccable reputation. There are no invented, coined terms for these opposite words, as far as I know, and so just the ordinary word is used but used in a specified, and carefully-stated clear context. About ESP I used to believe such things before when I was young and had some experiences that I can ordinarily call coincidences, or whatever one may call it. Whatever these things are, they still have to be proven is there are any truth in them. And it also may be critical to make clear our definition of Truth in our study to really find out the real truth. I have found out in my research that ESP is not called the seventh sense but the sixth. The author on that book on ESP Helping Yourself With ESP, Al G. Manning himself stated this, that all ESP has been poetically called the sixth sense. 1 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM There have been reports about psychic phenomena. We often find in magazines of general interest, articles about ESP. In the February 1981 issue of the Readers Digest magazine, there is an article entitled The Woman Who Sees Through Psychic Eyes. The woman is Dorothy Allison. She has helped scores of police departments locate scores of missing persons through pictures that flash into her mind. The fact that Dorothy Allison has helped locate missing persons proved that ESP can exist according to the senses. But the reality of its general existence is questionable. I am not making any statement here whether Dorothy Allisons case is the ordinary unholy-type of the holy-type, in reference to my discussion above. You judge for yourself: the reference is stated above, but there are no details given here in my research. Our aim in this report, in particular, is to know whether there is any truth or Truth about the existence of ESP, and that depends on our definition of Truth which will be used in this report. This study deals only with the ordinary, common, usual ESP experience. The author did not make any attempt any research on the holytype of ESP. I hope you will be satisfied with the conclusions I have arrived at in this study. DEFINITIONS OF TERMS The following are terms used by the author of the book on ESP (Al G. Manning) to present his ideas. A word may have more than one meaning, so to be safe, all definitions in this section are denotative, that is, the dictionary definition of the word, except those definitions given the author, Al G. Manning (later in this research). Not all terms used in Helping Yourself With ESP are defined, for if it is, then the pages covered will exceed the 21 pages preferred for this report. Only those words which I think are the most important are defined. These definitions come from my old dictionary Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary of the English Language.

Clairvoyance 1. The ability to see things not visible to the normal human eye; second sight. 2. Intuitive sagacity or perception; mind reading. 2 Psychometry 1. The science of measurement of the psychophysical, especially of their accuracy or duration in time; mental testing; also psychometrics. 2. Divination by physical contact or the proximity of the properties of things being touched or approached. 3 Metaphysics 1. The systematic study or science of the first principles of being and of knowledge; the doctrine of the essential nature and fundamental relations of all that is real. 2. Speculative Philosophy in the widest sense. 3. The principles of philosophy as applied to the methodology of any particular science. 4. Mental science in general; psychology. 5. In popular use, abstruse and bewildering discussion. 4 Mystic 1. Pertaining to a mystery of the faith. 2. Spiritually symbolic. 3. Of or designating an occult or esoteric rite, practice, etc. 4. Of mysterious meaning or character; mysterious. 5 Occult 1. Of, pertaining to, or designating those mystic arts involving magic, divination, astrology, alchemy or the like. 2. Not divulged; secret. 3. Beyond human understanding; mysterious. 6 Precognition, Cognition 1. The act, power or the faculty of apprehending, knowing or perceiving. 2. Knowledge; a conception, perception or notion. 7 Psychophysics The science of the relations between physical and mental phenomena. 8 Clairsistence 1. Is the extension of (your) consciousness by the vehicle of feeling. 9

Chapter 2 THE SIXTH SENSE PHENOMENA There are, or have been, questions whether ESP is real or a falsity. There have been claims that such phenomena are natural that is the phenomenon taking place are governed by the laws of nature and science. To know whether this is true or not, it is essential to know the nature of ESP, the persons having such powers, the purposes of such activity, where do they (the psychics) got their powers, etc.? Are such powers inherent in man and could be developed by the techniques introduced by those who claim they are psychics? What is this activity for? Is it for the good of mankind or for its destruction? Does it exists or is it just a hoax? Finally, is there any truth or Truth about its existence(?) which will depend on our definition of truth or Truth we will use here in this study. I believe if these questions are answered, we will know what is really behind such phenomena. Let us examine a few reports about the ESP phenomena. I believe I dont need to write about every kind of ESP phenomenon but only a part of it is sufficient to reveal the nature of the whole thing. I would like to repeat here what I wrote in the Abstract of this study: I have a comment on the statement of a high school (girls department) schoolmate in Digos: that I have only refuted one book on ESP. I discovered in 1990s decade that this woman, now (2012) in her late 40s, has been involved in a group in Digos that delve deeply into paranormal phenomena. I would like to tell her and all of you, readers, that in mathematics study, a single refutation can prove the falsity of a math conjecture, and a complete proof is needed to prove otherwise. It should be noted that verses from the Bible are not interpreted but only presented as the authoritative basis for the interpretation of the ESP phenomena. A. Reports on the ESP Phenomena: All of these reports are taken from one source only that book on ESP authored by Al G. Manning (D.D.?), Helping Yourself With ESP? a female classmate in my Nuclear Physics class lent me near the end of the 1st Semester 1981-1982. I have noticed that the names of the persons who reported such experiences are not stated nor their personal backgrounds revealed. Actually, in all of the reports of psychic experiences in that book, not even one name of a psychic stated. Last year while I was still driving cross-country trucks, I had an excellent demonstration of spirit protection. Late at night I got very sleepy, so I pulled my rig off the road to take a short nap. It happed that I stopped at the top of a long grade, and I must have not set the brake properly. I woke up with a start to see that my truck was careering down the hill at terrific speed. But my fear quickly vanished as I noticed the shadowy form of a powerful Indian handling the steering wheel with a skill that was obviously out of this world. He kept the truck on the road around a couple of wild curves and finally brought it to a stop in a safe place on the shoulder. I had seen Tomahawk in my meditations before, but this was my first obvious demonstration of his physical protection.

I feel his presence now every time I get at the wheel of a motor vehicle. He is a constant source of physical protection. 10 One morning I had already risen for the day but something prompted me to flop across the foot of my bed and sort of wake up more fully. And a strange sight came in view like two diamond shaped frames in which were enclosed sparkling jewels (not lights) like the glitter of precious stones. Some blinked off, others on-off and on they went, all colors for a few seconds, beautiful beyond description. They dimmed out and I saw sky and stars like the whole universe moving to the right and gradually fading out. Something within me reasoned, I am seeing the whole Universe, but it neither excited me nor scared me. 11 A young man working at the very bottom in a furniture factory began to get an urge for a career in electronics. He took this feeling to his teachers in his quiet place and asked for guidance. In the peaceful atmosphere of the meditation, everything seemed to make sense, so he enrolled in an electronics assembly class at night. After twelve weeks of hard work he received a certificate and began his search for a suitable job. He was chosen over fourteen other applicants with similar backgrounds for his first job in electronics assembly. Next came the urge for an engineering degree, and again he sought guidance in his quiet place. This time help came in the form of his companys financing the costs of books and tuition in the evening section of a local college. It took eight years of hard work, but he regularly advanced on the job as the new educational degree in his work improved his qualifications. And his years in the shop contributed to his being one of the top electronic production engineers in the state. A middle-aged man was told that his wife need a very serious operation. They were both working, and it seemed to take all they could earn to keep the children in high school and make ends meet. In his quiet place he talked over his intense desire to find a way to finance the operation. After about ten minutes a voiced to say, Worry not, good brother, you will have help within three days. On the third day there was a check for $2,000 in the mailbox with a letter from an attorney in a distant state explaining that this was a bequest from the estate of a distant uncle. 12 B. Interpretations of the Sixth Sense Phenomena The interpretation of the psychic phenomena is two-fold. First scientific, and the second based on the Bible says. This is so because I have out that such an activity is associated with religious teachings and scientific facts. Actually such an activity attempts to bridge the gap between science and religion. An Excerpt from an article of the magazine Science Digest stated:

A Majority Claim Why then has the belief in the paranormal become so normal? Why do 58% of Americans claim that they have personally experienced ESP? Vivid anecdotes are more persuasive and memorable than dry facts. For example, one recent University of Michigan study found out that a single vivid case had more impact on opinions about welfare recipients than factual statistics. Peoples belief in ESP is similarly rooted in dramatic stories and experiences. At California State University at Long Beach, Barry Singer and Victor Benassi had someone demonstrate a set of tricks designed to simulate ESP. Even when they were forewarned that this was simply a magician who would merely pretend to read minds and demonstrate psychic abilities, most students were convinced that the performer was psychic. People fail to recognize chance events for what they are. People believed in ESP because they see ordinary events as highly improbable. Ask someone the chances that at least 2 people in a group of 30 will have the same birthday. Most underestimated the correct answer there will be 2 such people 70 percent of the time. Given billions of events in the world each day and innumerable possible pairings, some coincidences are bound to occur. We all have our favourite incredible coincidences. Heres mine: The King James version of the Bible was completed on William Shakespears forty sixth birthday. In Psalms 46, the forty sixth word is shake, and the forty sixth word from the end is spear. (It is perhaps more incredible that someone discovered this.) Given the hundreds of psychic visions of Atlantas child killer a few are bound to be close. Indeed many psychics offer scattered gun predictions, almost guaranteeing a few hits, which the media are only too happy to report. Preconceptions bias interpretation and memories. One of the most startling facts about the human mind is the extent to which preconceived notions bias the way information is interpreted and remembered. Sometimes our minds block something we could readily see in what we were only predisposed to perceive it. While reading this words for example, you have been probably unaware that you are looking at your nose. Our prejudgment can induce us to see and recall what we already believed. Even when observing purely random events, people become easily convinced that significant relationships are occurring when they see them. Conversely premonition that fail are usually forgotten. False Perception Our intuition can be distorted by chance events that sustain over existing ideas. Indeed, researchers have used these deficiencies in human intuition to manufacture false beliefs in ESP.

Fred Ayerodf and Robert Abelson of Yale asked 100 students to try to transmit mentally one of five symbols to another student, who would guess what was transmitted. The ESP rate proved to be neary identical to the chance rate of 20 percent. Nevertheless, students were confident that ESP was occurring more than 50% of the time. We yearn to believe. Finally, people may believe in ESP because they want to. In the Creation story, humanitys fall, to most people, are denied rather than accepted. Todays believers in ESP proclaim our potential for godlike omniscience reading minds, knowing the future, etc. They tempt each of us to deny our finiteness. Many are also motivated by yearning for mystery in an age when religious faith has waned and science may seem to demystify existence. Archbishop William Temple once commented that when people cease to believe God, they do not believe nothing; they believe anything. Pseudomysteries Fortunately, creation still contains mystery aplenty without our having to invent pseudomysteries. Physicists describe strange, non-substantive realities which are seemingly contradicttory theories. Psychologists are only beginning to fathom the awesome processes by which the human brain assembles neural impulses in visual image. Our mind cannot comprehend how the Universe began from nothing, or alternatively, how it could exist without a beginning. These grand mysteries reminds us of our minds limit. So also our vulnerability to paranormal beliefs, even in the face of repeated failures to confirm psychic phenomena. Indeed, the belief we can hold with greatest certainty is the humbling conviction that some of our beliefs contain error. Hence our need, at all times to check our beliefs against the facts as we could discern them and to discipline our undisciplined credulity. 13 THE NATURE OF ESP We will know the nature of ESP by the ideas presented by the author of the book Helping Yourself With ESP by Al G. Manning, D.D. (?). As I read the book I found out that such activties are associated with spirit contact. This author himself confirmed this: This is the idea there in that book that one must have the help of spirits in order to acquire powers like clairvoyance, automatic writing, etc. Consider the title in Chapter 2 and parts of other chapters in that book; they are: How to Contact Powers Greater Than Yourself and Get Real Help How to Summon Your Spirit Teachers to Assist you There are still lots of other How tos about spirits in that book, yet the author claimed that such phenomena are inherent in man and can be developed by the help of spirits. An investigation of these phenomena reveals that such activity is a spiritual matter, and the scientific facts presented in that book do not follow the methods of scientific research; which I mean that they cannot be investigated using the Scientific Method (see Internet). I dont have to expound much

on this but to simply state is here that ESP is outside the realm of science. I am not a scientist (or at least not a full-fledged one yet: I have two admission offers, in the 1990s, to the M.S. in Aerospace Engineering Degree Program from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida; and the California State University, Long Beach where I studied for one year in my BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan in my MSAE degree program in 1999-2000, then I went home to the Philippines due to lack of private family funds); but I can refute his (the author, Al G. Manning, of that ESP book) ideas scientifically. You know it very well, dear readers, that such phenomena are not natural. Here is an excerpt from the pamphlet Is Evolution Scientific? that gives light to the question of the validity of the Theory of Evolution and proves also the authority of the Bible as the basis which every question in life and in all creation, should be interpreted: THE BIBLICAL ALTERNATIVE It is the writers believe that the consistent and satisfying interpretation referred to above is found in the Christian Scriptures, which provide an account of Creation, nature, consciousness and being (both on the material and spiritual planes) as magnificent as it is complete. For centuries, the best of human intellects have found this Biblical worldview challenging, satisfying and stimulating, fusing as it does, the moral and spiritual dimensions of human existence into a single grand and purposeful design. One of the founders of modern science, Isaac Newton, declared as the mainspring of his researches the discovery of those facts that would most work with reasoning men to a belief in the Deity, and the unquestionable motive of most of the early natural philosophers was to reveal the hand of God in the natural universe. It is not the purpose of this booklet, however, to set out the Christian philosophy of being. Unfortunately, the ravages of evolutionary thinking are so advanced in our present society that many are yet unprepared to consider the Biblical alternative. It seems necessary, at least for some, to begin by removing some of the aura of infallibility that surrounds the Theory of Evolution. This is perhaps a destructive activity, but we can learn a great deal which is to our benefit as a result. Our purpose, therefore, is to examine critically the nature of genuine scientific theory and to apply the principles so established, to the Theory of Evolution, to see whether it does, in fact, pass muster as scientific in the best sense of the word. 14 CREATION AND EVOLUTION It is unavoidable that this topic be included in this report. This is because the teachings of that book on ESP favors the Theory of Evolution and not in Creation. Here is an article from the Christian publication, Our Daily Bread: Although we as Christians cannot scientifically prove that the Bible is true nor explain the mysteries of the universe, we have a far better ground for belief than an atheist had for his. What a tremendous faith he must marshal in order to hold to his position! He has to believe that everything in the world came into existence by pure

chance, even though the laws of probability are stacked against this assumption. A scientist who is not a Christian recently acknowledged that there are astronomical odds against the Theory of Naturalistic Evolution. He said too many things that are necessary for the origin of life had to happen in just the right way, under just the the right circumstances, and at just the right time. But he quickly added that he accepts this highly improbable concepts of beginnings because he hasnt found a a satisfying answer to the problem of evil. The fact is, every thinking person constructs some of belief system. This is necessary because many things are simply beyond the reach of the scientific method. The person who says he is an atheist makes a confession of faith, but its based on a blind leap into the dark. We also confess our faith when we acknowledge the Bible to be Gods Word and place our trust in the God it reveals. But this is a reasonable step, not a desperate plunge. And when we take it, we find freedom from guilt, victory over sin, and peace in the face of suffering and death. Accepting Christ is more logical and more rewarding that becoming an atheist. 15 INTERPRETATION 2 The following are the things the author of that book on ESP stated and claimed: A person could have anything he may desire. ESP is the answer to lifes problems. ESP has the source of personal strength. He said that much of Jesus Life story is involved with demonstration of ESP. It isnt necessary to give up any of lifes pleasures, but we should avoid overindulgence of all kinds. ESP has the answer to the question of being or existence. Each spirit lives in a world of his own mental creation; and this is formed at first from the very beliefs and quality of consciousness he brought with him for his earthly life. He said that God is the life and the very substance of your being. The only sin in the universe are the negative thought patterns and their manifestations. All of life especially in the business world, there is room for only one emotion: it is that manifestation of positive love which is enthusiasm. Life is an endless series of a game by which we strive to attain real spiritual advancement. He said that the angels referred to in the Bible in Psalms are the spirit teachers. All progress is the result of the psychic. He said that the love of money is a good emotion. Kill out all ambition for material advancement, then work as the one who has it. If an evangelical Christian (Bible reading and believing Christian) read my findings in my research: the claims of the author of that book on ESP, he or she will readily note that these teachings very, even supremely contradictory to what the Bible teaches. If we examine these teachings, we will find many internal contradictions in them. For example, the author said or stated: the love of money is a good emotion. then he said also kill out all ambition for material advancement What the Bible says about the love of money is this: For the love of

is the first step towards all kinds of sins. Some people have even turned away from God because of their love for it, and as a result have pierced themselves with many sorrows. (1 Timothy 6:10, Living Bible). We see that the teachings in ESP is not in harmony with the teachings in the Bible even in just the smallest degree, for if it is, then it should not have contradicted even a single correct teaching in the Bible. Here is an article in the Sidestreets magazine: If these spirits are from God then why are some of their instructions and messages different from those found in the Bible? I mean they have a semblance of truth but were not the whole truth. Jesus said, I am the Truth and everything you read in the Bible is consistent with that statement. Jesus never contradicts himself but Satan Does because as Jesus said he, Satan, is the Father of Lies. 16 I have found out that these inherent powers in man (according to the author on that book on ESP) could be developed through the aid of spirit teachers. He further said or stated in that book: there are many other things with which to consult the spirit teachers to assist a person. We know already that such activities are essentially linked with spirit contact, but we dont know who these spirits are, whether they are from God or not. The Bible teaches us this: Dearly loved friends, dont always believe everything you hear just because someone says it is a message from God: test is first to see if it really is. For there are many false teachers around, and the way to find out if their message is from the Holy Spirit is to ask: Does it really agree that Jesus Christ, Gods Son, actually became man with a human body? If so, then the message is from God. If not, the message is not from God but from the one who is against Christ, like the Antichrist you have heard about who is going to come, and his attitude of enmity against Christ is already abroad in the world. (1 John 4:1-3; Living Bible). In the Revised Standard Version of the Bible it says: Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit which confesses that Jesus Christ has come into the flesh is of God, and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you have heard that it was coming, and it was in the world already. (1 John 4: 1-3; RSV). That book on ESP also quoted this but with an addition: In modern language, treat any new spirit with the same friendly but cautious reserve you would use on a stranger who knocked on your front door. See that he qualifies himself to you by his words and actions before you place too much trust in him. 17 If the author on that book on ESP really believed the Bible as complete in itself, then he should not have added something to it. He gave us this instruction to test every spirit, but what he said is a plain denial of the authority of the Bible. Now here is the trickery or deception made by this author when he said: In modern language, treat every spirit with the same friendly but cautious reserve... He wants to implant in the minds of the readers that what the Bible teaches cannot be applied in todays secular world. He interpreted it in such a way to suit his purposes. But such a person will pay the penalty of every careless, offensive word he said. The Bible gives us this warning: And I tell you this, that you must give account on Judgment Day for every idle word you speak. (Matthew 12: 36; Living Bible). And I solemnly declare to everyone who read this book: if anyone adds anything to what is written here, God will add to him the plagues

described in this book. And if anyone subtracts any part of these prophecies, God will take away share in the Tree of Life, and in the Holy City just described. (Revelation 22:18-19; Living Bible). The author on that book on ESP said the only sin in the Universe are the negative thought patterns and their manifestations. Surely, this is not what the Bible says about sin. The following definition of sin is taken from the Bible Dictionary. Take note of the very big difference: Sin is failure, error, inquity, transgression, trespass, lawlessness, unrighteousness. It is an unmitigated evil. But the definition of sin is not to be derived simply from the terms used in the Scriptures to denote it. The most characteristic feature of sin in all of its aspects is that it is directed against God. David expressed this in his confession: Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. (Psalms 51:4), and Paul in his indictment, the carnal mind is enmity against God (Roman 8:7). This orientation must be kept in view when we consider the different terms. Any conception of sin which does not have in the forefront the contradiction which it offers to God is a deviation from the Biblical representation. The common notion that sin is selfishness betrays a false assessment of its nature and gravity. From the outset and throughout its development sin is directed against God; this analysis alone accounts for the diversity of its forms and activities. When the Scriptures says that sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4) it is to this same concept that our attention is drawn. Law is the transcript of Gods perfection; it is His Holiness coming to expression for the regulation of thought and action consonant with that perfection. Transgression is violation of that which Gods glory demands of us and is, therefore, in essence the contradiction of God. 18 The speaker in our symposium on Creation and Evolution aboard M.V. Logos Christian Bookship which made a port call in Cebu City that first semester 1981-1982 says that Sin is the attitude of the heart. That attitude which makes us choose our own way and not giving God first place in our lives. This is also in harmony with the teachings in the Bible. Sin is not merely a negative thought pattern. So what that on ESP teaches is definitely against the Bible, the Word of God. This conclusively proves that the teachings on ESP is not from God. I have observed that the main idea in that book on ESP is spirit contact. The gift or powers acquired by a person is the result of contacting spirits for their help in developing such inherent powers in man. I have observed or found out that demons, the Devil and Hell are never mentioned in that book. One of the greatest achievements of the Devil is that he was able to make the majority of people believe he doesnt exist.

CONCLUSION: There is no truth in ESP. ESP could exist according to the usual five senses but its existence is questionable. I mean it is like magic in that our senses agree that what comes out of magic is real because we see, hear and feel that it exist but there is no logical basis for such an existence. I believe half of magic is really evil power at work and not a trick. Consider a man floating in the air. It is too hard to believe that it is a trick. Or a man cut in half and still alive. I believe that the television program intended to convince people that all magic are a trick is also a deception of the evil one a double deception. First the magic, then a TV program to convince people that all those magic are just sorts of tricks. Let us be wary that the evil one is too deceptive. He is not to be trusted in all his tricky activities though he may be just masquerading to entertain us. The main activity in ESP is spirit contact and it is not stated or proved whether these spirits are from God. The author of that book on ESP claimed these spirits are from God, and if they really are then the spirits should acknowledge that Jesus has come in the flesh, or actually became man with a human body in agreement with the Biblical instruction or exhortation. In that book the warning from the Bible about spirits is quoted but something is added so that the spirits will not be tested, but only dealt with the same friendly but cautious reserve one would use on a stranger who knocks at the door Before the author of that book on ESP, Al G. Manning, D.D. (Doctor of Divinity?) said this, he stated this: In modern language By stating this he means that what the Bible teaches is not applicable to the present secular world. The author interpreted the Biblical instructions about testing spirits as equivalent to treating strangers, and here lies the deception: If these spirits really are from God then Dr. Al G. Manning should have agreed to what the Bible says about spirits. The Bible teaches us this: Jesus told him, I am the Way yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. (John 14:6 Living Bible). Jesus is the Truth. There is no truth in ESP because it is not in perfect harmony with the teachings in the Bible though that book on ESP teaches things that may have a semblance of truth, but not the whole truth really. Jesus never contradicts himself but Satan does, because as Jesus has said, Satan is the Father of Lies.

NOTES 1. A. G. Manning, Helping Yourself with ESP (West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Co., Inc., 1966), p. 39. 2. Funk and Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Co., Inc., 1973), p. 243. 3. Ibid., p. 1018. 4. Ibid., p. 800. 5. Ibid., p. 841. 6. Ibid., p. 874. 7. Ibid., p. 255. 8. Ibid., p. 1011. 9. Al G. Manning, Helping Yourself with ESP (West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Co., Inc., 1966), p. 37. 10. Ibid., p. 117. 11. Ibid., p. 160. 12. Ibid., pp. 148-149. 13. David G. Mayers, The Psychology of ESP. Science Digest (August 1981): 18-19. 14. E.H. Andrews, Is Evolution Scientific? Evangelical Press (1977): p. 4. 15. Faiths Logic, June-July, August 1981, p. August 24, 1981. 16. Confession of Former Satanist, Side Streets, October 1981, pp. 8-9. 17. Al G. Manning, Helping Yourself with ESP (West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Co., Inc., 1966), p. 54. 18. The New Bible Dictionary (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1962) pp. 1189-1190.

BIBLIOGRAPHY Andrews, E.H., Is Evolution Scientific? Evangelical Press (August 1977): 217-234. Confession of a Former Satanist. Sidestreets (October 1981): pp. 8-9. Faiths Logic, Our Daily Bread. (June-July-August, 1981): pp. August 24. Funk and Wagnall Standard Dictionary of the English Language. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Publishing Co., Inc., 1973. Manning, Al G., Helping Yourself with ESP. West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing Co., Inc., 1966. Myers, David G., The Psychology of ESP, Science Digest (August 1981): pp. 18-19. The Holy Bible (Revised Standard Version). Grand Rapids: Zondervan Bible Publishers, 1971. The Living Bible (Illustrated Catholic Edition). Wheaton, Illinois: Youth for Christ International, 1977. The New Bible Dictionary. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1962.

Embry-Riddle offered me my first graduate admission (M.S.A.E.): December 16, 1992. But I chose to study at another U.S. school and in California. D.A.D.

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June 4, 1999; [revised: March 22, 2001] Dr. Taiwhan David Kim, Ph.D., Graduate Advisor Department of Aerospace Engineering Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University 600 South Clyde Morris Boulevard Daytona Beach, Florida 32114 U.S..A. Dear Sir/ Maam: [ Copy for: FACTS STATEMENT on the Truth on my Psychological Condition and my persons most intriguing mystery. Mr. Edwin Magtabog at [street address], Digos City, high school classmate and college schoolmate at CIT can give more first-hand details. Date: ]

Please re-accept me to the MSAE degree program. I am a B/B+ (GPA) academic-performance student who did mediocre performance starting 3rd year in college. This letter is a short document about what happened in my college days: it was a most amazing thing, perhaps it will leave its mark in history (but please understand I am not having delusions). If you are not a Christian or atheist, this will be a chance for you to believe in the existence of the Christian God (Trinity) and the power of Jesus Christ, the Almighty Gods Son and the Messiah. My psychological condition was first caused by my personal encounter and showdown with evil in my college days for 1 & years (June 1981 to October 1982), after which I transferred to another school in Cebu City. This was the cause of my mediocre performance later in college and the roller patterns in my grades. SO PLEASE DO NOT GLOSS SO MUCH on my seemingly-average undergraduate academic performance. Please consider my unusual new resume as a strong basis for your evaluation of me. You may not believe this, but my psychiatric condition is unique in world history and even, perhaps, in par with King Nebuchadnezzars psychological illness we can read in the Bible as Gods temporary punishment. (But my case is different in that it is not a punishment.) I was excluded in my first schools sub-society at the Cebu Institute of Technology as an airplane-nut/religious fanatic starting 1st Semester 1981-1982 when my Nuclear Physics teacher, Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela, BSME, M.S. Physics, hits me verbally in class every meeting for the whole semester (since the sems beginning) in front of all my classmates after I committed a trivial offense (details below); I was already 3rd year BSME student then in Phys 311 Nuclear Physics. He was also in a deep-seated multifaceted very severe mid-life crisis with very many problems ranging from Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP), paranormal phenomena, etc., to life, science, religion, Creation, Evolution, etc., and was searching for solid, conclusive answers ever since young to his many problems. He was probably more than 50 years old then and he has not established a solid religious faith yet; also, as he confided to me when I approached him in my daring, he told me he has had supernatural experiences. At the same time, another teacher in Civil Engineering, Engr. Rudy Maneja, BSCE (I dont know if he holds a graduate degree) started to behave like a demon-possessed person: he claimed to be the Messiah and blasphemed God and Jesus. (But I believe this teacher is not demon-possessed but a plain antichrist; a major one at the End Times.) He died publicly by self-immolation by fire using gasoline in a public ritual at the historic Plaza Independencia in Cebu City he scheduled on August 10, 1985, Sunday (I have learned somewhere, probably from the news or an elementary

school friend-classmate/college schoolmate (BSCE) at CIT, that he postponed two schedules before this date). He challenged to duplicate Jesus Act of Resurrection, but by another power, by his almighty he called Yawa Ellohem (this is the original spelling in my Cebu SunStar newspaper clipping copy). Yawa is a misuse of the Tetragrammaton YHWH (one of four spelling versions) in which we have now Gods Name Yahweh (Jehovah). Yawa incidentally is the Cebuano (Visayan language, a Philippine dialect; Cebu is an island in the middle of the Visayan central-Philippine island group), term for Devil, so this teachers god was the Devil god. During the duration of his apparently demon-possessed behaviour at the CIT, also for 1 & years starting from June 1981, I was the No. 2 weird person there; and Engr. Paradela the No. 3. (I have researched from a schoolmate acquaintances later that he may have left CIT after 1st semester 1982-83, the same time as that of my transfer to the University of San Carlos at the opposite northeastern boundary of metropolitan Cebu City in November 1982, 2nd Semester, 1982-83.) For my non-aviation schoolmates, it was perhaps the first time that they knew of an adult college person who would look at an airplane flying overhead as with aviation people. Also, since I have no outlet for my very much-intense aviation/aerospace interests, as a rulebreaker, I would talk aviation to slightly interested friends who seemingly/ apparently understand me. But the gossipers who heard that I was excluded in the schools sub-society starting in my Nuclear Physics class, muddled the issue, as I can soberly surmise. To-date, I have heard all insane labels applied to me. But I have virtually no regrets: the Almighty God may have precisely called me to engage in such bloody (emotionally) spiritual warfare in my college days: A connected fact with this was my receiving a The Way Living Version Bible, Catholic Edition, during my high school graduation in 1979 as a Bronze Medalist 3rd Honor in Religion in our Catholic school, then Holy Cross College of Digos (now Cor Jesu College) run by the Sacred Heart Brothers. (The giving of Bibles as supplementary award during high school graduation, as far as I know, is not a usual practice of our school. And that the Bibles were brought from the Vatican in Rome, Italy by a Brother who returned from there in a tour, which I can vaguely remembered it a relayed information to my father Engr. Glicerio V. Delgra (BSCE, past Municipal Engineer of Digos) from one of my schools religious order member. I cherished this fact ever since in my life.) My stay at the CIT was for 7 semesters or 3& years; my stay at the USC where I transferred to was for exactly another 3& years in an extended 7-year college career. (The normal length of study in all engineering programs here is 5 years. In the recent years, I have discovered hundreds of curious coincidences in my life in this manner; and more are discovered as times passes.) My teachers (in Nuclear Physics, Engr. F. V. Paradela) questions were answered after he read my mini-thesis research he requested us to do: Is There Any Truth About the ESP? or Extra-Sensory Perception (given only to our batch). He also requested us to research/make a term paper on What is Man Searching For? as alternative topic. His definitive answer from my research: ESP is mostly evil, usually the work of demons. (This is because I do no rule out the possibility of the holy-type of the ESP phenomena to happen.) And consequently the God of the Bible really exists as a solid reality: The power of Jesus was demonstrated and the scientists from the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute in Manila, who visited CIT at the time of my transfer to the USC were convinced that God really does exists: the Devil exists, therefore Almighty God must also exist. This was the cause of my mediocre performance later in college*; but my first two (2) college years GPA (grade point average) was 4.00562 (B on the U.S. 4.0-point Letter Grade Scale) on the CIT 3.0 pass and 5.0 excellent scale (with 0.5 increments); no D grade equivalent in the Philippines. I hope that my health condition is not a cause for non-consideration as I get emotional residual-illness

relapses** at certain times of 1-week to 1-month duration. Please consider favorably my readmission application. Equal opportunity requested that I will be applied to me. Please write back. Thank you. P.S. GPA means grade point average; M.S., Master of Science. **My emotional disorder lasted only 4 months: December 1982 to April 1983. My Christian interdenominational group is the Navigator Ministries; international Headquarters, Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. My relapses are plain emotional illnesses: 19 instances to date. It was only in 1999 at the California State University, Long Beach that I met my first genuine psychiatrist. Now I am satisfied with the services of my local psychiatrists (since July 2001) because I considered them genuine with their real concern. *Since my college BSME GPA is only 2.25 (B-), I have to do a one-year non-degree M.S. Math study to improve impressions on my transcript before seriously searching for a college teaching job. I had my break when in the Summer of 1989 when I got a teaching job in Mathematics at the Ateneo de Davao University. But since my goal is a teaching career in genuine aeronautical engineering, I aspired and was accepted for admission to U.S aerospace engineering graduate school. I have two admission offers: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida (December 16, 1992), and the California State University, Long Beach (May 25, 1999). Tony POSTSCRIPT:
4-1 3335 W. Vinzons Street, Digos, Davao del Sur 8002; [Address until 1998. We are no] Philippines [longer staying in Digos. Tony] September 2, 2012 [Original letter dated: April 11, 1997] Consul General United States Embassy Roxas Boulevard, Manila, Philippines Dear Consul General: This letter serves as a Statement of Facts of my case in my application for a non-immigrant F-1 Student Visa because I answered yes to one of the items in Section 34 of Embassy Form OF-156, Supplement to U.S. Non-immigrant Visa Application. I have been accepted to the Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering degree program of the California State University, Long Beach; original Admission Letter (conditional): May 25, 1999. I have now definitely decided to change my admission status there to a 2nd Bachelors Degree when I will finally resume there in 2017 (my plan), my very expensive U.S. advanced study (I am only privately family-financed; no scholarship); hopefully, may the good Lord God in Jesus

Very truthfully and truly yours,

Darvin Anthony B. Delgra

bless me. Since my college education is in mechanical engineering, taking and earning at CSULB a BSAE degree first before tackling the MSAE is most desirable for me since my aspired career path is teaching in undergraduate aerospace engineering; a field that is grossly neglected by our government to date. This is in contrast to the original arrangement in my MSAE degree program before in 1999-2000 of taking just a few BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan courses, after finishing which the MSAE study begins. This letter is an advanced preparation document (together with related accompanying documents) for that tentative time (2017) when finally Ill be able to continue my cherished long-time U.S. education dream; hopefully, God willing in Jesus. I have seen God bless me in many unusual ways several times before. I did answer Item 1 as yes because I have had an emotional disorder which lasted 4 months which happened 30 years ago in December 1982 to April 1983 in the middle of my extended (by 2 years) 7-year college career: 1979-1986. And I firmly believe this is not exactly a mental disorder but a condition which can happen to anyone subjected to the circumstances I have been through. But nonetheless, I indicated yes under the category of mental disorder because my illness is somewhat related to this general category, although my condition can be more accurately be described as an illness of the emotion or emotional illness. (Are all nervous and emotional illnesses abnormal? The great historical scientist Isaac Newton had a nervous disorder. Maybe only mental disorder is abnormal. The first two may have a clear spiritual dimension. And I have read somewhere that mental illness is the result of an intractable system of hopelessly entangled lies. So that anyone has the potential of becoming insane/mentally disordered, especially the spiritually-unborn.) You can judge through my writings whether my thought processes are normal or not. I am a licensed mechanical engineer and one of the criteria for granting the license is a sound mind. I, however, only have a passed rating in the ME Board Examination I took in April 1986. My emotional breakdown (collapse of ones emotional health) in December 1982 (but my later relapses were all plain emotional illness relapses), was due to my being misplaced in an improper environment and my unusual irrational intense interest in aviation and aerospace (the Philippines has yet to have a debut in genuine aeronautical development, i.e., aircraft manufacturing, genuine AE education, R&D, etc.; aviation common to all countries of the world, is just the whole range of activities, of, or for, finished aircraft). I also have an unusual behaviour (which is very normal in aviation/aerospace environments) of being always attracted by the sound of a passing airplane overhead, and cannot let an aircraft pass by without my having glanced at it, even now that I have already grown up is this childish or abnormal? ( I have never outgrown this behaviour). This interest of mine had its beginnings from my earliest conscious age: I am literally born with my interest in flight. Really! I love to see birds and airplanes fly (even now) and was interested, from childhood, to know why they fly: Right when starting formal schooling at 6 years old, my father bought for the family a kiddie Grolier Young Peoples Science Encyclopedia, and I used this material for my childhood aeronautical research. As early as 13 years old or 1st year in high school, I have already firmly decided that the course that I will take or pursue in college is aeronautical engineering. But when I graduated in high school in March 1979 my father told me I will not be able to study AE in Manila, primarily because we have no relatives there, and because we are four his children studying then in college (two in Medicine); (we are five children in the family, I am fourth; the youngest later also took Medicine. By Gods grace we are all successful in our studies and are now professionals). Also, the expenses of studying in Manila is substantially higher than in Cebu City. We have many relatives in Cebu City and both my parents are from towns in Cebu Province. (But they met in the town of Lupon, here in the then-undivided Davao Province when they were already working in 1955 due to serendipitous happenings in their lives. My father, however, has already seen my mother 7 years earlier when they were in senior year in high school and staying in adjacent boarding houses in Cebu City; my fathers interest then was his studies. Please forgive this F-1 Visa Student Visa applicant for inserting this information that I deemed important; one that merits inclusion. A considerable number of people in my clan are talented. I have no illusions about this. And enclosed you will find documents on my father-side relatives. There are no crazy persons among my relatives. Also, there are no drug addicts, gays or tomboys, police characters, even obese persons, etc. among by first cousins and all known second cousins

except one second cousin I know who is gay. I dont know if he is a practicing gay. But I heard he is proud to be related to the Delgra clan. This information is true also to relatives in my mother side.) So I studied in B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at the Cebu Institute of Technology (my 3rd choice; my 2 choice was B.S. Physics at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City; but I was not allowed by my father to study in this course because he thought this course will lead me to become just a high school physics teacher later on). I enrolled in June 1979 at the CIT, my fathers Alma Mater (BSCE, March 1953). CIT is a non-aeronautical school or a school not offering aeronautical engineering and related degree programs. There at CIT, after 2 years, I got noticed by my schoolmates, because I always talk about airplanes, that I am a little different from them, and I was ridiculed, mostly subtly, for my unusual behaviour (there was then an extremely-complicating factor of a supernatural happening in the school campus). I believe the supernaturally-malicious subtle persecution I experienced from some (essentially half; the other half refrained), of all my schoolmates began in June 1981 when I was in 3rd year in college at CIT, when I had a conflict in class (the whole semester) with one of my teachers, the Physics Department Head then of CIT, Engr. Feliciano V. Paradela, BSME, M.S. (Physics), who was then clearly in a mid-life crisis (in fact, a very severe extremely-multifaceted mid-life crisis). (After that semester, this teacher became my personal friend. He was in fact one of my three recommenders in my initial applications (testing the waters) to 5 U.S. graduate schools in early 1990s (unsuccessful). He has not forgotten me through the years he responded enthusiastically to my letter to him in late 1990 requesting him to be one of my references. He died in the Lord on February 14, 1996; and I was instrumental in his salvation, being maybe the only one he may believe in my sharing to him the Bridge to Life witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries, on January 7, 1996; Sunday at his residence in Cebu City he was sick then and was half-blind again, he has not forgotten me through the years.) He has questions about life and religion, etc. and maybe from childhood in search for answers to such questions as: does God exists? etc. and that He created us (Creation), or we simply existed without a Creator (Evolution), for he is also a minor scientist. He did in fact at the beginning of the semester, gave us his students (only to our batch) these topics to resolve: What is Man Searching for? and Is There Any Truth about the ESP or Extra-Sensory Perception? (If you are interested about my ESP-truth? Mini-Thesis, it is included here in this voluminous excerpt. The first topic I submitted to him only a short hand-written paper and is not included here. I found out in my research that ESP is mostly evil as a spiritualism activity; and that the holy ESP version may simply be called Divine Revelation to the holy Gods prophets this is not detailed in my research.) As a special course requirement, the deadline of submission of our research was October 19, 1981 at the end of 1st semester 1981-1982. Near the start of that semester, at one time, he called me to his table in front of the class and asked me one unanswerable question based on my paper he held in his hand (I forgot what it was), but he was extremely-surprised and embarrassed at my answer which was: that is not what is essential Sir. (I got this answer from the book by Antoine dSaint-Exupery The Little Prince: What is essential is invisible to the eye.) He clearly thought he can corner me with his foolish question which is not answerable by yes or no, nor anything else (perhaps only I dont know Sir); (again I forgot what it was). He was the only one who heard my answer because I said it in a low voice, but he was so embarrassed that he shouted at the top of his voice and simultaneously violently swinging down his left arm: what do you mean by that is not what is essential! he was extremely furious. At this his face turned red and mine turned pale in my reaction of swinging fast my head to the right in my extreme shock, then I returned to my seat. From that time on, he hits out me in class every meeting for the rest of the semester and even attacked my Christian faith in front of all my classmates, for there was an instance near the beginning of that semester that my Christian identity was revealed; I also approached him in my daring to talk about the issue. (I was associated then and even now with the Navigator Ministries, an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization (not a church or religion) which has its headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A. and which began in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a ministry among sailors and officers. I am a Catholic from birth and both my parents are Catholics; and all my relatives are Catholics except for few known Protestant mainline Christians.) I have some good reasons to believe that during that time, my notoriety of being airplane-irrational (in a nonnd

aviation/aerospace environment) spread from my immediate classmates who were simply amused of my airplane-nut/ enthusiast behaviour, to the rest of my schoolmates who dont know me personally and who perhaps (apparently) just heard some stories or gossips about me and my weird behaviour (the gossips spread so fast as I can feel it happen). (I am interpreting a bit here, but I would like to assure you that the real and imagined persecution I experienced from some of my schoolmates at that time was really happening as I can feel it; and also I was told by a few of my trusted friends, who cling to me during my 3-semester emotional ordeal, the malicious gossips circulated by the school sub-societys gossipers. My loyal friends cling to me despite the schools unusual issues, me involved in the issue with Engr. Paradela and Engr. Rudy Maneja (see on page 1-1 my FACTS STATEMENT on the Truth on my Psychological Condition June 4, 1999 letter to Dr. Taiwhan David Kim, Graduate Advisor of the Aerospace Engineering Department of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida; original Admission Offer letter dated December 16, 1992. The rest of the people in the school are the 4th dimension of the issue and the rest of the people outside CIT the 5th.) Most of my friends I made in my lower years left me and will not even respond anymore to my friendly gestures when I met them but only take a puzzled-afraid (etc.) look at me, an individual singled out in the schools sub-society as crazy, etc. and one of the three weird persons in school in the schools spiritual warfare issues then. But I continued to attend regular classes and studied well so I passed my courses enrolled: I am also good in class performance, oral performancewise only. My academic performance in my first two college years at CIT was B/B+ GPA (or 4.00562 and 4.208 (highest semestral GPA)/5.0; 3.0 passing; no D grade equivalent in my country). When I go to school, when I arrived, suddenly a group of students will look at my direction in unison or simultaneously. The schools main building design is that of a rectangle, and since we are in a tropical country, our buildings are open with air outside going freely in and out of our buildings. The interior rectangle of our main building at CIT is also open with just a rail at the edge of the walkway. I once saw an architecture student when he saw me at a higher floor simulated in a malicious freak-out exclusion manner my aero-nut irrational behaviour of being alarmed, moving to a buildings outside boundary for a better view of an airplane flying overhead. Once when I was eating at an eatery one early evening near the school where many schoolmates from outside the city stayed in rented houses, I met there a female classmate. She was loyal to me and we conversed normally while eating. I noticed through my peripheral vision a group of male schoolmates also eating at a table not very far from us. I noticed one student point his finger at me while I and my female classmate talked. And the rest of them looked at us in unison, but I pretended not to have noticed them. In our conversation my female classmate said something that I have not heard of before (or related conversation scenario) and my reaction was I said in response mao ba? (so is it?). Those students most probably thought they heard a first-hand evidence of my disordered mind because they were already in a mindset (this incident probably happened in the middle or later in my 1 year emotional ordeal). They suddenly simultaneously rose up from sitting and eating on the table and laughed hard in an ultimately-cheered, freakish manner; with their heads going up and down alternately as they laughed at the top of their voice and their stomachs aching hard crying agay!, agay!, agay!... (ouch!, ouch!, ouch!...) as they laughed hard with their also legs moving up and down alternately as though they were possessed and that their laugh were the laugh of demons (I saw before a cartoon religious-story brief booklet material of a Protestant ministry with an illustration of spirit demons as they roamed the earth watching at unsuspecting people and laughing at some of their successes). My female friend looked at me in extremely perplexed bewilderment with her much-puzzled eyes asking me what was so wrong with what I said. My emotion took a deep plunge as our eyes talked non-verbally and then my eyes dropped slowly in my extremely-hurt feeling this incident was the most painful of my emotional hurts at CIT. I have many other similar experiences for 1 years every day when I go to school and when I met schoolmates outside the school, which increased my emotional stress in a piled-up manner. A schoolmate at CIT whos a high school classmate in Digos (1975-1979), told me much later, maybe in the 1990s, that he saw me once at CIT from a distance and he thought I was wearing sunglasses, but when he came near me he realized it was the area around my eyes thats darker than normal: the result of my very severe emotional stress for 1 years. I also heard feedbacks relayed by some of my loyal friends that some people in school thought I came from a pot

session when I arrive to attend classes. All these and more happened as Engr. Maneja was doing his demon-possessed behaviour, also for 1 years he was never terminated in his teaching job for 3 semesters during his weird behaviour, maybe he was already tenured then. But I soberly think he is not demon-possessed person but a plain antichrist a major one, at the End Times. I would like to point to you, Dear Sir, that in the immediate years before the Wright brothers first successful powered flight in 1903, it was the overwhelming majority of sober people and most of the learned scientists opinion then, that the aeronautical experiments at the turn of the 20th Century in manned/winged-craft flight, many, even most with weird configuration-designs made by many less-endowed people who joined the fray in the aviation frenzy then to get off the ground craft supposedly intended to fly but all known attempts failed these are regarded by incredulous people and most learned scientists then, as the height of foolishness or the peak of lunacy the legitimate aeronautical experiments have been discreted along with these unsuccessful aeronautical experiments. Imagine the schools sub-societys exclusion of me with these combined issues about me (airplane-nut/religious fanatic weirdo in a non-aviation/aerospace environment) and what my painful experience was in CIT with the spiritual warfare inside and outside my searching Nuclear Physics teachers Engr. Paradelas class. Even with the dnouement of my public classroom conflict with Engr. Paradela in which his judgment of my ESP-truth? Mini-Thesis was a resounding, much-impressively pronounced excellent!!!, still, essentially half of my schoolmates continue to persecute and exclude me. Engr. Paradela gave his judgment on my ESP-truth? Mini-Thesis after October 19, 1981, the deadline for our research. As CIT is a non-aviation environment, I heard relayed reaction/comments that I look up extendedly at airplanes flying overhead, and that I am very happy upon seeing them. As the days went by I can feel the subtle persecution intensifying, and after 1 years, in December 1982, I got sick with an emotional breakdown or collapse of my emotional health. My emotional disorder lasted only four months, until April 1983. And 2 months later in June I resumed my schooling at USC although with reduced course load as per my psychiatrists recommendation and graduated 3 years later in Mechanical Engineering. My experience could have been different had I studied B.S. Physics at USC. But it is clearly Gods will in Jesus that I should be a mechanical engineer here in our country, the closest field to AE. Most people here in the Philippines dont know that aerospace engineering is a branch or an offshoot of the general field of mechanical engineering, which grew so large, matured and since early 1920s offered as a separate field of aeronautical engineering, a discipline in its own right. My countrys government people neglected genuine aeronautical development and now our air force, the Philippine Air Force (PAF) is the weakest in Asia with no single operational fighter aircraft. It is among my lifes aims to change the poor status quo of Philippine aerospace education. And I prospected for a U.S. advanced aerospace degree to realize my goals. May the good Lord God in Jesus bless me. I have had several (9) relapses of my emotional illness (no longer an emotional breakdown/ disorder; breakdown being collapse of my emotional health caused by my very painful emotional ordeal in college at CIT: 1981-1982), since then that are triggered at very stressful times like taking the Mechanical Engineer Board Examinations (April 1986); falling in love and being brokenhearted (after a year of stressful overwork in my first real job as a college mathematics teacher; relapses were in dates June 1990 and July 1990, and October 1992 over the same girl); and taking the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE June 1991 and December 1991; twice in this year after each test as I took the test two times). These relapses were different every time and last only for 2 weeks to 1 month and can be as short as 1 week with medication, and then I well again once more; and after a few months (2 or 3 months) I am fit again to hold a job and engage in normal activities just like every well person. My unprecedented emotion of happiness over receiving my first laptop computer sent by my elder brother from New Jersey in early 1998 caused me an emotional illness relapse. Also, my happiness of being admitted to U.S. graduate school (CSULB) by receiving an admission offer letter caused me an emotional illness relapse in June 1999. Also, I must add as a last example my emotional illness relapse over a prospective job: When I passed the Management and Industrial Test (M&IT) for prospective management trainees at the PICOP (Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines, Bislig, Surigao) held in Cebu City at the Cebu Institute of Techno-

logy in late March 1987, that night I started to have a relapse. My thought in my mind of resolving how my career at PICOP will lead me to an aerospace career caused me severe headaches in the two months following late March 1987; and there were instances that I spent whole nights just thinking about the issue. When I was interviewed for the first time by a PICOP liaison office manager in Cebu City following the M&IT, I was still well that time. When I was interviewed for the second time by a PICOP head-management personnel-panel, I was already not well at that time, although I think I made a good interview, but I was made to write an essay afterwards and maybe that was the glitch. I did not make it to the number of successful interviewees; but it was charged to my experience as a job-application familiarity. I have different emotional illness relapses every time (but no longer an emotional disorder or emotional breakdown), caused by unpredictable situations, but I still can manage with my life with the loving support of my family; and most especially with Gods grace and blessing I always recover from my emotional illness relapses. There were only two 3-year periods in 1983-1986 and 1987-1990 that I did not get sick with an emotional relapse. Now (October 19, 2012), from October 21, 2009 will be perhaps my best candidate time period of exceeding 3 years without a relapse. May the good Lord God in Jesus bless me that I may no longer have relapses since I am past 49 years old (7x7 years) already; I was born in 1962 (and as you will soon see when you will read this excerpts AFTERWORD, p. 39-1; again, there are very many amazing (holy) coincidences in my life in this manner). Because I am very susceptible to a relapse, I am on constant medication (maintenance dose); (so many different medicines were applied to me already since 1982 that I cannot remember all of them but only my recent medications). But I think this is not the real remedy but a changed lifestyle that of having a caring, loving, suitable lifetime partner I am thoroughly satisfied with one who will monitor my every move and who will satisfy my every need in a married relationship this is what I aspired for especially when I will be then finally fulfilled already in my long-time aerospace career dreams; just like my excellent mother to my father. I heard from my mother, maybe in the 1970s in my high school years in Digos, Davao del Sur, Philippines, that there was once a story (not a legend) of an epileptic who was healed, apparently completely, from his illness upon becoming a married person. But I may not be the marriageable type since I never made a girlfriend ever since. I have also a high standard, beauty-wise only, since I believe (with no illusions) that I am a potentially-gifted aircraft designer-in-training with above-average artistic talent. I hope you see now, dear Sir, the many reasons of my having difficulties in adjustment here in my yet-to-have-a-debut in aeronautics country. Aviation is just the whole range of activities, of, or for, finished aircraft, especially operation and use. All countries in the world has aviation activities but not aeronautics in industry, academe, R&D, organizations, etc. In my experience, that conditions that lead to, or the factors that are the direct causes of, relapses, are very unpredictable and usually are not noticed then I get sick. In a relapse I still can reason correctly, but my brain is very tired and my behaviour a little irrational: bicycling slowly around the oval at noon because my route took me there; and walking several kilometres to the beach to stay there for hours to relax, but I am always be home for dinner. Also when I am sick, I liked to stay outside to be exposed to the heat of the noonday sun, just standing, when everybody else takes shade, but I am never violent. There are times in the 1990s when I am sick that I spend a whole night outside our house, sleepless, and just relaxing at a nearby Elementary School, etc. I would like to emphasize, in a relapse, I am never violent but sober. But there was a single extremely-freakish supernaturally-malicious instance on June 18, 1998 (June = 6th month; 18 = 6 + 6 + 6; 1998 = 3 x 666) in my hometown Digos, Davao del Sur, which was the Evils Ones most traitorous attack on my person to paint my person with a very bad image; I have also a similar experience then one or two weeks earlier during my 12th relapse. However, this is settled already as it was only a simulated offense not meant to be consummated as I was deceived then by the thought that I will never have to lie later on in a consequential court case that will follow, etc. It was arranged by my family and the other party that I will be exiled from my hometown. I came to the U.S. in 1999, studied there for one year in my BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan in my MSAE degree program, then I came back home due to lack of private family funds. And since December 2007 I regularly attended our Christmas Homecoming in our high school in my former hometown, now Digos

City, Davao del Sur. Actually, in two instances before this, on July 25, 2005 and November 8, 2007, I visited my hometown with my familys permission as the emotional hurts has apparently healed. I documented this incident, and if you are interested what is this, I will submit to you my notarized documents on this rare incident in my life that is not found in my impeccable immediate clans character. The Evil One attacked me from childhood but his attacks became public in my college years. In this compilation you can read about this as well as solid supporting documents that I collected through the years. I researched a lot about my case and finds I still am eligible for a visa because of provisions of Section 212 (g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which is on exceptions to Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas. I have recovered from my emotional disorder very quickly (just 4 months), became a licensed mechanical engineer, became a Faculty member of better universities and colleges (just part-time in early 1990s) here in my region. I have an admission offer to the MSAE degree program of EmbryRiddle Aeronautical University which is a result of an extensive evaluation of my person, academically and otherwise, including normality. I also finished one (1) year of my BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan in my MSAE degree program at the California State University, Long Beach in 1999-2000 (then I came home). In short, I am a functional, productive person with considerable potential which I must fulfil. Having a Masters Degree in AE is one of my lifes fondest dreams. And if and when successful in my graduate study, I plan to pursue a 5-year short stint career at an aerospace company in Los Angeles, California, where we have many mother-side relatives. It is The Boeing Co. at Long Beach that is my priority company to work with. My school, CSULB, also is a Boeing Focus School and the AE Department has this Boeing Technology Center. Why Boeing? Because the most painful insane label applied to me I heard many times here in my aerospace-backward cultural group is boang (crazy). I also passed Mensas minimum qualifying score unofficially in the GRE in an essentially-perfectly simulated official reviewer (actual past editions) published by the test maker, the ETS or Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey. When I will have then achieved my dreams; hopefully, God willing in Jesus, it will be the good Lords poetic justice in my life for all the bad things I have gone through, many for him. I would like to request that my father Glicerio V. Delgra (CE) be granted also a visa so that he can visit me at Long Beach, etc. if ever Ill be granted an F-1 Student Visa again and pursue graduate study there. (My mother died on March 1, 2002 in her hometown in Cebu after a yearlong battle with breast cancer.) I am pleased with your cultural groups much refined official policies; perhaps the best in the world. Thank you for your kind consideration I will be eternally grateful for your kind open-minded consideration. Very sincerely yours,

DARVIN ANTHONY B. DELGRA SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO before me this ___ day of ___ 1997 (2012). Engr. Darvin Anthony B. Delgra exhibited to me his Community Tax Certificate No. _______________ issued on ____________ at Digos, Province of Davao del Sur, Republic of the Philippines.

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A RESEARCH REPORT

The Airplane: Flight, [the Aerospace Environment] and Religion

Submitted: May 1, 2000; Monday [Revised with minor corrections: August 10, 2012; Friday]

Darvin Anthony B. Delgra, MSAE-5 (conditional) SSN: 990-09-6029 [ALI-150 is a special English class (2nd) for foreign students.]

Instructor: ALI-150 American Language Advanced Mrs. Carla Nyssen

This writer, who is a very religious man has in the long past years, suspected there is a clear connection between religion and flight. Almost all of the gods of ancient pagan civilizations are winged gods. I have read somewhere that the attribute of flight or flying is attributed to the gods because the ability to move in the region above our heads is tantamount to the aspects of omnipotence and omnipresence deemed as qualities of deity or godhood. I sincerely believe that flight, which happens above our heads, and religion, which concerns about the things above the earthly things including the literal earthly things, are connected somewhat. And you will in a little while realize in the following things I discovered: flight and religion are not only somewhat connected but even more, as there are strong links you will soon see (or read). The heavenly bodies, i.e., stars, the sun, clouds, rainbows and comets, etc.: whatever can be seen above the horizontal view seem to suggest the existence of a literal heaven and of angels. The wings of birds for example is the archetype of angels wings in art work. (Also, demons and their leader, Satan, is pictured by many artists since the time of the Renaissance in the Middle Ages, as having wings of bats creatures of the night or darkness. The above of evil angels, for example, as revealed in the Bible, is the region of the atmosphere, meaning they have no home, wandering and jittery in their apprehension of their future judgment, and also always on errand from the commands of their leader to seek more souls to perdition.) A man who looks up to the heaven at night and to the beautiful sky during the day, will no doubt perceives much of the grandeur of the literal heaven we all hear about. Heaven is conveyed to people as more beautiful than anything we can conceive about here on earth. The Christian religion and many other religions suggest explicitly that Heaven will be the eternal dwelling or home of the saved good people, and also the saved formerly bad people who repented and turned away from their sins. When we speak about heaven and earth, we speak about the literal earth and a conceptual heaven this is only my thesis. This conceptual heaven can be likened to have the grandeur of the day sky and the night sky or heavens. However, in Revelation, the last book of the Bible, Heaven is pictured as a city with many facets similar to earthly cities we have now. And except for one thing Evil and its many works is similar to earthly cities in perhaps a considerable respect: complete with details of streets, mansions, a river, i.e., river of the water of life: Rev. 22:1; and inhabitants with God the Trinity as King. I will not discuss further whether Jesus will be King and God the Father and God the Holy Spirit will assume passive roles there in eternity in Heaven I dont have a theoretical theology about this. We will live forever there. The Bible assures us there will be no more pain and crying there, etc. All evil things and falsehood will be no more in eternity. The Bible speaks about the Rapture in which we will be transported to Heaven in the last days. This is the kind of flying with no effort from us but solely a divine work for the chosen. But I will now discuss with the aspect of flying itself. I suspect that I am not alone in this perception. In the Bibliography are found three books that discussed on this topic. Have you ever wondered that the archetype of the airplane is the cross? Airplanes are crosses when seen from below, especially the single engine conventional small airplane. When a skydiver or parachutist initially falls to the ground, he will spread his hands outward and becomes a living cross, though imperfect in shape because the legs are not straight but also spread a bit outward. [I have seen on TV not too long ago about a skydiver suit with added surface areaappropriately-strong-(perhaps) nylon cloth designed to supplement aerodynamic lift to such wellequipped skydiver, with a considerable glide angle achieved as a result.] Have you realized that

Jesus died on the cross with his hands spread outward on the cross, and that he also claimed to have come from Heaven which is above. (I asked Gods forgiveness for this statement but I have no malice and just searching a hypothesis.) In the past months, I discovered a book at the CSULB library entitled The Winged Gospel. I finally found at least one book which deals with my research, the topic of which I have been thinking about for a long time already. I have scanned the book, and read about people at the time in the infancy of aviation early in the 20 th Century as perceiving the airplane as a symbol, perhaps, that heralds the Second Coming of Christ. And I know I must add now to my proposition opinions from writers who can be deemed authorities on my usual topic. The book I discovered in the CSULB library has a chapter entitle: A New Sign in the Heavens, The Prophetic Creed of Flight. I have several documented accounts regarding flight and religion. Regarding the social and moral realms of the implications of the airplane it is printed: In this regard, listen to Mary M. Parker, writing in 1910 of the first airplane to fly over Chicago. Toward what we were gazing, she rhetorically asked, alluding to the vast throng which had gathered to witness the historic occasion. Was there a new sign in the heavens that told of a future scarcely dreamed of? Yes, she answered, asserting that: Not a man but felt that this was a beginning of such a mighty era that tongue could tell its import, and those who gazed felt awestruck, as though they had torn aside the veil of the future and looked into the very Holy of Holies We bowed our head before the mystery of it and then lifted our eyes with a new feeling in our souls that seemed to link us with the great dome of heaven, stretching above and over all, and hope sprang eternal for the great new future of the world. 1 In the library while searching for another reference book I stumbled upon a touching book I have read before, in the mid-late 1980s, the Song of the Sky. The author, Guy Murchie, a sensitive artistically-inclined writer-pilot, connected mans earthly existence to religion or simply the notion of God. He wrote: Since it seems unlikely, in the nature of mans finite existence on a physical earth, that we will here be able technically to define matter except in terms of itself, probably a non-technical metaphysical explanation is the best to hope for. After all it would be hard to prove that matter is more than a palpable symbol of the inscrutability that God intends for a primary world. Could it be that matter really exists solely to clothe our toddling thoughts, to define space and time, to educate us in finite things as preparation for the infinite? Should we look upon the Milky Way (or the Atom) as just a visible piece of Gods imagination a kind of divine handwriting upon the blackboard of space like that which some favourite teacher once wrote for us in chalk to symbolize a world of maturity we had yet to imagine.2 Penultimately, I will end my short research report by explicit propositions made by people in the past regarding the connection between flight and religion. In his Mathematical Magick, John Wilkins [this book was dated 1648, London, pp. 200-209] distinguishes four principal means whereby flight hath beene or may be attempted:

1. 2. 3. 4.

By spirits or angels. By the help of fowls. By wings fastened immediately to the body. By a flying chariot. 3

Finally, Men with bat wings are occasionally seen in illuminated manuscripts [which I understood as Scripture copies done manually by monks]. But it is significant that while bird wings commonly adorn angels, bat wings are usually reserved for devils.4 In conclusion, I believe I have presented solid evidence to my proposition that flight and religion are clearly linked. And this link is not only found in the Christian Scriptures but (most probably, even evidently) also found in other religions as well.

636 Chestnut Avenue, Apt. #302 Long Beach, CA 90802 6:46 P.M., May 1, 2000 [revised: 12-06-2012] Dear Mrs. Carla Nyssen, Please do not be afraid of the accompanying documents. The Almighty Gods Archenemy, Satan, was defeated already and judged by the Savior Jesus Christ on the Cross 2000 years ago. These documents are additional evidence to my thesis and proposition that religion and flight (or flight and religion, since I am an aerospace engineering graduate student) are linked somehow; even closely or clearly linked. And the evidence is from my own lifes Experience. Due to my experience, I am no longer an ordinary individual here in my country, Philippines, among those who heard the positive factual side of my life as perceived by sober, broadminded and not easilyjudgmental based-on-hearsay people. But I do not revel in my being well-known. I intend to use my credibility to point to God the glory and honor as I share my Experience to people my faith in the God of the Bible Him, the Alpha and Omega and the Trinity, who became very real to me since that time. I am a born-again/renewed unconventional Catholic Christian affiliated since July 1980 with The Navigator Ministries, an international, interdenominational, evangelical Christian organization (not a church or religion) which has its headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. I learned my Bible knowledge from them and I only have one year of bonafide Scripture learning before my Test of Faith beginning June 1981 or 1st Semester, 1981-1982. The Navigators traces its roots as a Christian ministry among U.S. Navy sailors in 1933 before World War II and founded by Dawson Trotman, a Californian from Los Angeles (maybe from Long Beach: I have yet to read thoroughly his biography/ autobiography). We are mainly Catholic and mainline Protestant Christians, and we even have an outreach ministry/program to members of other religions as well: we share our faith to Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, etc. Our group considers any Christian church mainline if ones Christian church has the Three Fundamental Elements of: 1.) Salvation by Faith; 2.) God-Man Jesus and 3.) Trinity. If this minimum is met its okay for us and our converts will not be required to transfer to another Christian religion (mainline). If a Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist, etc. is converted, he will be required to choose any one mainline Christian church to attend and grow with while preferably still be affiliated with us, especially to learn and grow with us using our excellent, standard

Scripture learning materials such as the brief 7-volume Design for Discipleship and 9-volume Studies in Christian Living (etc.) booklet series as our emphasis is man-to-man evangelization or discipleship. I dont know the arrangement for their case: maybe they will be encouraged to pursue a guerrilla Christian development and growth program as the emphasis of our group/organization is man-to-man evangelization or discipleship; thus they can still grow as bona-fide evangelical Christian converts in spite of their cultural and religious background. The principle is found in 2nd Timothy 2:2: And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others (NIV Bible). This may seem slow but is actually the fastest, highest quality ministry. Imagine from Apostle Paul discipling just 10 faithful disciples in 10 years, who in turn will be doing faithfully their discipling just 10 faithful disciples in another 10 years; and so forth and so on. In our time today, there would be 10 or 10 Billion disciples in another 100 years from Pauls initial ministry, several Billions more than the current population of the world at the time of this excerpts writing, 2012. And all that with the highest quality dissemination of the Word of God and the Savior, Messiah Jesus. There is however the problem of travel and logistics and the establishment of ones residence in another land or place, etc. But the 20th Century and 21st Century revolutionized communication and travel (etc.) with our modern marvels of technology: There are no excuses any more for every serious bona-fide Christian not to share his part of the Christian Spiritual Warfare, Struggles, Victorious Well-lived Lifestyles, etc. to the world. Thus this books excerpt. I hope you will buy the first book that I will write: the full edition of this excerpt. But I dont know when it will be completed; maybe in the next decade. I dont know also if I will just publish an exhaustive compilation of my work for free to all people through the Internet. However, the information you will read here is enough evidence, reason, etc. to believe in the Christian religion, the authority of the Bible and the life-changing experience of becoming born again/ having a new life (renewed Christian for Catholics), Gods most trustworthy promises in the Scriptures, etc.; especially Gods promise to all the saved people to reward them with Eternal Life in the End Time if they persevere in their Christian life (lives) to the end. Yours, very sincerely, Darvin Tony Delgra

NOTES 1. Joseph J. Corn (1983). The Winged Gospel, New York: Oxford University Press. (p. 30). 2. Guy Murchie (1954). Song of the Sky. Kingsport, Tennessee: Kingsport Press (p. 413). 3. Cliver Hart (1972). The Dream of Flight. London: The Trinity Press (p. 104). 4. Ibid. (p. 25)

REFERENCES Corn, Joseph J. (1983). The Winged Gospel. New York: Oxford University Press. Hart, Cliver (1972). The Dream of Flight. London: The Trinity Press. Murchie, Guy (1954). Song of the Sky. Kingsport, Tennessee: Kingsport Press.

HIS RELIGION IS SCIENCE: This man Poch Suzara is an atheist. It is clear he doesnt believe in God. He said there are no
absolute truths and no sacred truths, no sacred books and all assumptions must be critically examined and argument from authority is worthless. These are the class of people this publication is aimed at primarily, but my work is intended for all people in the world for them to believe in the existence of the Christian God, Trinity and the Messiah Jesus Christ. Show them a scientifically/historically-verifiable demon or antichrist and they will believe in a good holy God. For evil and evil spirits clearly exist; therefore Almighty God must also exist. Even if demon-possession is commonplace, these classes of people, atheists and agnostics, etc. fail to recognize there is something beyond the physical. Scientists have no trouble theorizing about and confirming the existence of the atom and other subatomic particles which cannot be seen by the naked eye. But they failed to believe in an unseen good holy Supreme Being. 1 Corinthians 1:20-21 says Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Ive read an Internet publication entitled: Is Jesus really God? from the Scriptural evidence. And I determined it is supremely true: Jesus is really God; with my God-given amateur scholarship, modesty aside. But it is most peoples opinion and stand, to see (or read) is to believe. So here it is: what you wanted to see or read in order to believe in God, a scientifically/historically-verifiable existence of a demon/demon-possessed person or antichrist; and my defense of the Gospel. I overcame my impossible situation then only by the power of God in Jesus. That was in early-mid 1980s. This work is not intended to supersede the Bible as Authority, but rather to supplement. It has been said that a Christians life is the fifth gospel. There of course many such fifth gospels and this is only one. I hope you dont find me weird for including my special interest topics in aerospace. DAD

3335 W. Vinzons Street Digos, Davao del Sur 8002 Philippines May 29, 1998 [Updated: 10/21/2012] Dr. Frank Lu, Graduate Coordinator Department of Aerospace Engineering University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas, U.S.A. Dear Sir: Please find enclosed my documents on my adequately-managed psychological condition. Here you will read facts (NOT a personal analysis) on my very painful emotional experiences I have gone through in my college days at the Cebu Institute of Technology, Cebu City, Philippines (June 1981October 1982) because of my unusualness (relative here in my aerospace technologically-backward country) as a very passionate aviation/aerospace enthusiast and as a faithful Christian subjected to a Test of Faith (there was really something spiritually-big supernatural happening at CIT at that time, and I was involved, me choosing to side with the Truth). Since my most desired career path is teaching in undergraduate aerospace engineering, my goal now is the complete BSAE from UTA. [NOTE TO THE READER: My aspiration is to be a Ph.D. ever since 1977 when I saw that Airport 77 movie in which a main character has a Ph.D. in Physics and I fantasized ever since to be a Ph.D. someday. But now, I have this realistic goal of a U.S. MSAE degree. But who knows if I turned out successful in my masters program in the U.S., I may still pursue the doctorate. But my aspiration now is the applications-oriented Doctor of Engineering degree (D.Eng.) in Mechanical Engineering at the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City, Philippines. The MSU-IIT is a reputable local school, and they have several faculty members in the ME Department who hold advanced degrees from reputable institutions abroad.] OLD INFORMATION: My present goal for post-M.S. study is the Cal State U., Long Beach [fantasized] Ph.D. in Engineering and Industrial Applied Mathematics joint program of CSULB and the Claremont Graduate School because of my wide scope of science-fields interests. My simulated GRE score is 1250 (verbal + quantitative) in ETS reviewer, equivalent to IQ 130, 98%ile Ive read in a Mensa advertisement. I deem it necessary to write this letter which is my Personal Statement so that you will know how serious I am in my prospect of pursuing my Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering in the U.S. I will submit soon my new TOEFL/TWE and GRE Engineering Test scores. I have this avid interest in airplanes and aerodynamics since boyhood but did not take the B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering (local program) as first course (degree program) because this course is offered only at non-PAASCU-accredited (PAASCU Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities) low-standard technical colleges in my country. I did, however, took later the BSAE course as a post-baccalaureate study in at least two of these schools after I graduated in my B.S. in Mechanical Engineering course from the University of San Carlos on March 23, 1986 in Cebu City (Philippines). The USC in my country is considered a high-standard school and run by the Roman Catholic Order, the SVD or Society of Divine Word priests. USC is PAASCU-accredited and is located in Cebu City where we have many relatives, father-side and mother-side. The two local aero schools that I have attended in my aborted post-baccalaureate study are the PATTS College of Aeronautics (2nd year, 1988) in Manila, and MATS College of Technology here in Davao City (3rd year, 1989-1990). I studied up to 3rd year at MATSCoT after which I stopped because my expectations were not fulfilled. Also in March 1990, I received so many favourable replies to my inquiries from aerospace schools in the U.S. My sponsor is my elder brother Dr. Alexander B. Delgra, M.D. An uncle Dr. Cecilio V. Delgra, M.D., younger brother of my father who has been in the U.S. since 1965, expressed willingness for some support in a reply letter in early 1990s. Also now, my younger sister M.D. has been in Las Vegas, Nevada since 2003 and working as a nurse and taking the

MSN degree. With Gods help and blessing, in Jesus, I know I can make it in my challenging U.S. aerospace grad study. Again, my goal and plan is the establishment of genuine aero education in my country. I learned from my inquiry to Cranfield Institute of Technology in 1985 while in senior year BSME, that graduates of mechanical engineering, mathematics and physics (and later I learned also, other engineering and computer science) can be considered for admission to aerospace engineering graduate school as their background are considered adequate, and I became hopeful I still can become an aircraft designer or an R&D engineer employed in the aircraft/aerospace industry in the U.S. which is my ultimate career ambition. I turned 36 years old last May 10 (this letter was originally dated May 29, 1998; and updated October 21, 2012, so I am 50 years old now: still the fire of my ambition is burning inside undiminished). I was employed as a part-time mathematics teaching calculus at the Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) while pursuing at the same time the BSAE at the MATSCoT, only in April 1999. This was my real career start. I did not seek employment to practice my mechanical engineering profession in the basic industries, i.e., electric power plant, cement plant, etc., because I realized that if I did my BSME degree would become a terminal degree, and I have this boyhood aspiration or dream to fulfil. What I did after graduating in BSME was to enrol in M.S. Mathematics as a non-degree graduate student at the University of San Carlos, my Alma Mater, as a preparation for my advanced study in aerospace engineering in the U.S. But after a year of schooling (November 1986 October 1987), I realized I was not being realistic and getting farther away from my main goal and so I stopped schooling. I was in a career crisis then. It was at our close neighbors house in Digos whose sibling Johnny Magallanes I usually frequented as a close friend/ confidant, that I decided one evening it was never too late for my dreams of an aeronautical engineering degree, even just the local AE degree with which I dont know yet the status quo of their instruction/facilities, etc. this was in early 1988 for my U.S. study sponsor my elder brother, has yet to emigrate to the U.S. in June 1989. In April that year 1988, I was in Manila studying BSAE at the PATTS College of Aeronautics as a curious case engineering graduate (I passed the ME Board Exam in August 1986), who began again as a sophomore aero student because I realized months earlier (that night at Johnny Magallanes house) that for my dream, again, Its never too late and at least I will have some fulfilment in my ambitions even if it will be only sublimational that of having a local PRC (Professional Regulation Commission Philippines) Aeronautical Engineers license. There at PATTS in Manila I realized the sad state of aerospace in my country for PATTS is regarded as the premier aeronautical school here. I studied at PATTS (2nd year, BSAE) only for one summer term and one semester term (April 1988 October 1988), still without (part-time) employment. My plan then was to teach parttime in that school because I was then already a licensed mechanical engineers (for two years already). I submitted an employment application but was not entertained and did not get a teaching job at PATTS. I in fact have a feeling I am an oddity in that school being already a licensed mechanical engineer and still studying BSAE instead of working in the basic industries. People here in my country apparently do not have an inkling that aeronautical engineering is a specialty branch or an offshoot of mechanical engineering. Even many aero students in Philippine aero schools do not know that aerospace is a modern term for aeronautics and astronautics (since 1957); and so many think that aerospace engineering is a lot more advanced and different from aeronautical engineering. Why is this so? Because the status quo of Philippine aero eng. education is not the genuine one to date in my first-hand acquaintance. I went home to Davao in November 1988 and got employed in my first job in April 1989 the next year as a mathematics teacher at the Ateneo de Davao University. The AdDU is considered a high-standard school here in my country and run by the Roman Catholic Order, the Society of Jesus or Jesuit priests/ brothers. That June 1999 I enrolled 3rd year BSAE at the MATS College of Technology (1989-1990) while teaching part-time at the Ateneo de Davao University. But in December 1989 I decided to apply to U.S. graduate school and stopped my study at MATSCoT since my elder brother emigrated to the U.S. on June 12, 1989. I got two admission offers (Embry-Riddle Aero U.: Dec. 16, 1992) and CSULB: May 25, 1999. My primary sponsors are my elder brother, Dr. Alexander B. Delgra, who is a medical doctor, and his Filipina wife, Susan P. Avila-Delgra, a registered nurse. They are both working in Newark, New Jersey.

My elder brother emigrated to the U.S. in June 1989; his wife arrived there 4 years earlier or in 1985. My elder brother passed the State qualifying examination for foreign medical graduates in early 1993, and for three years engaged in his medical residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) university hospital located in Newark, NJ. He finished his training on June 30, 1996. This is the primary reason why I will be delayed in my advanced study in the U.S. (my goal changed to a complete BSAE). I have to wait until my sponsor my elder brother gets financially capable of sustaining my graduate study. And that will be in 1998 finally, after so many years of waiting 30 years after 1968 when I was 6 years old, my age when I began to develop a serious interest in airplanes and aerodynamics all flight sciences in kiddie form thats consistent with my age as I grew up I used our kiddie Grolier Young Peoples Science Encyclopedia that father bought for the family, for my kiddie aeronautical researches and experimentation. (I never did serious classroom study during grade school and high school; only in 4th year high school that I studied well. This was because during the summer before 4th year high school, I had a personal challenge during the awarding, in a party held for our high school Citizen Army Training (CAT) Officership-Training culmination, of our ranks, which training I participated, and our upperclassmen conspired together to give me the last slot, me no longer an officer. But during the first day of CAT field activities, our commandant searched for me to give me the color officer position (2nd Lt.) but I already transferred to the Band, me being a trainee in the band in the freshman and sophomore high school years as a trumpeter (but on awarding the BBID (Best Band in Digos in fact the only one then), full-fledged band member position at the end of 2nd year, by a new band master who has been just for one year in our school, he did not choose me among the new BBID members for that school-year in 1977-1978). This new bandmaster was in our school only for 2 years; our old well-loved band master Daddy Cansancio having furlough for two years. He accepted me, when he returned to our high school, to be a BBID member during my senior high school year. Can you appreciate now my controversial nature? Please forgive me for inserting this information; one that I deem merits inclusion.) Now in the year 2012, it is clear that my elder brother cannot afford to finance my graduate study while his two sons are still studying; they are now both 3rd year in college. I heard the elder son will pursue the law degree. I plan to resume my aborted MSAE study at CSU, Long Beach (1999-2000: one year BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan study), in 2017 after earning my local Master of Engineering degree (M.Eng. Program-Mech. Eng.) at the University of Southeastern Philippines, Barrio Obrero, Davao City; hopefully, may the good Lord God in Jesus bless me. Before in 1999-2000, it was my loving father Glicerio (Civil Engr.), now 82 years old, who financed my U.S. advanced study by selling our old house in my former hometown, now Digos City, Davao del Sur (Philippines), but my share was good only for one year at CSULB. I came back home as I am serious with my covenant with the U.S. Embassy I could be an illegal immigrant there if I dont continue my study. In about a decade from now I can look forward to being finally fulfilled in my dreams. I will be then around 60 years old already. I have this avid interest in airplanes and the flight sciences since very young I cannot remember just exactly when it started. But since my earliest conscious age, I have already been observing everything above my level sight. I remember myself always look up at every airplane passing overhead, and took a lot of time observing the flight of birds in grade school. I took fancy in flying toys and actually made different kinds of kites of original design. At age 13 I started to build rubber-powered, simple-but-flyable model airplanes made of just any material I can find in our house that I deemed suitable: plastics of alcohol containers and scoop for powdered milk for propeller blade and spinner, respectively; styrofoam used in packages for wing ribs, etc. There are no model shops here in this Davao Province of southeastern Philippines (I dont know of any to the present time, 2012), and so I was forced to resort to use my ingenuity at an early age. My model airplane experiments could have been earlier, even in grade school. But my problem was the propeller, which I finally made some myself. But it took me until 13 years old to decide I will design one myself. Early in grade school, I saw plastic toy propellers for sale at the local public market that could be suitable for my aero experiments; and these were sold as simple toy helicopters with the addition of a bamboo stick snugly fastened from below. Maybe those propellers were surplus material for model airplanes. I never found again those propellers for sale no matter how I searched. Then in 1975

at 13 years old, I decided I will use my ingenuity to solve my problem (discussed above). As I progressed with my aeronautical experimentation, I started with a lot of failures, but I kept steadily at it and took a lot of time observing my magazine clippings of pictures of airplanes and helicopters until I achieved flyable models with features such as a reasonable airfoil section and aspect ratio and good aerodynamic area proportions. I also made hand-launched free-flight models and a delta-wing rubber-launched glider and even a functioning boomerang. I also tried once the free-flight testing of a canard/delta hand-launched model. According to my elder brother my interest was kindled when he gave me a British kiddie aeroplane book, my first, the Ladybird Book of Aircraft, when I was about 6 years old. But I believe it is even earlier than that because I remember that at an age younger than that I used to observe during every dusk the flight of giant bats flying in definite direction (but not in formation), the Mt. Apo National Park area, apparently to feed for the night. Mount Apo is the highest peak in the Philippines at 10,000 feet above sea level. Due to perhaps to ecological destruction, I have not observed the same phenomena again since about 27 years ago or in 1970. When I started being aware of the outside world in my earliest conscious age, it is flying objects that I observed even now. I learned in my readings that I am not alone in this behaviour. But people like me are not found just anywhere else but in aviation/aerospace environments. My elder brother (6 years older than me) continued sending me books on the subject because he was then a high-schooler seminarian at the Saint Aphonsus Seminary in Cebu City, a more progressive and historic city in central Philippines. The books sent were appropriate with my age. When I was already studying in college in Cebu City, I myself started collecting aviation books and magazines. I especially enjoyed the book A Gift of Wings, by Richard Bach, though I have yet to read the few other titles authored by him in my book collection. An uncle, the late Atty. Martin V. Delgra, Jr., former Assistant Provincial Fiscal of the then-undivided Davao Province in southeastern Philippines, was given by the United States Information Service, a four-volume encyclopedia of aviation and space sciences, the Above and Beyond. I discovered the books during a visit to his law office when I was an early-teener and was always reading the books since then when I have the opportunity. (Now it is placed among my book collection, but it was never given to me. My cousin Atty. Martin Chuckbong B. Delgra, III, lent the books to me and he has forgotten these books I borrowed because of his busyness in his law practice.) What I am doing now is collecting aerospace engineering and related books so that at least I can familiarize myself with the advanced terminologies in the field and to have a view of the scope of the aero sciences. I also do a lot of self-study, but I believe I really needed a teacher to shorten the learning processes, be guided, and to avoid misconceptions about the theories in the field. And the Masters degree in aerospace engineering is among my lifes fondest dreams (my beyond M.S. degree prospect now, again, is the D.Eng. in ME at the Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Tech.; they have faculty there with degrees from abroad). These are precisely the reasons why I considered a very expensive advanced education in the U.S. I have my parents and relatives full support. They thoroughly believed in my talents and capabilities and are willing to sacrifice just to realize the dream of a Delgra, my legacy of family/clan pride or character. My undergraduate (BSME) grade point average (GPA) is 2.25 (on the Philippine system of 1.0 excellent and 3.0 passing; no D grade equivalent in my country). But my first two college years GPA at the Cebu Institute of Technology is B, with B+ GPA in two different semesters. I could have done better since I have proven myself a superior student with my having placed No. 5 in the semestral Honor Roll list/mention by Department in 2nd year, 2nd semester with a GPA of 4.208/5.0 (5.0 excellent and 3.0 passing; CIT grading system). The Joseph Silny & Associates, Inc., International Education Consultants (credential evaluator), Coral Gables, Florida, of which their evaluation is required by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in my re-admission application to their MSAE degree program (for Fall 1997) after a 4 year lapse from their initial admission offer (December 16, 1992; to Spring 1997), has only a 2.5/4.0 GPA evaluation of my college transcript, the minimum viable to any graduate program in the U.S., whether engineering or other degree programs. I however took M.S. Mathematics non-degree graduate study in my Alma Mater, University of San Carlos in Cebu City, for 1 year, after graduating in

BSME, to improve impressions on my transcript before seriously seeking employment as a college teacher. (I had my luck in 1989 at the Ateneo de Davao University in Davao City being accepted for employment as a college teacher in Calculus); (I also did other post-baccalaureate studies with better academic performance than in college.) I have higher grades in college in mathematics, and in the lower years, in physics and chemistry. I also got higher grades in some favourite mechanical engineering courses. I scored highly in intelligence tests such as the Differential Aptitude Test (DAT): I took a lower DAT in senior high school in Digos my hometown in which I was the highest scorer with an over-all percentile rank of 79%ile; and in my last year in college during a cross-enrollment at the University of San JoseRecoletos in Cebu for a single course, I scored high 90s percentile in most sections in a higher DAT required by the admissions office. I scored 120 in the Otis-Lennon IQ Test in November 1986 in my application for admission for admission to the M.S. in Mathematics program of the University of San Carlos, my Alma Mater. In the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) I scored Verbal: 500, 55%ile; Quantitative: 690/695, 77%ile/78%ile; and Analytical: 380 (460 in an earlier General Test). (Later, around 2000s decade, I discovered from an Internet resource that my 1190/1195 GRE (V+Q) score is equivalent to an IQ 126, 96%ile.) I am actually capable of attaining scores of 550 Verbal; 700/705 Quantitative and 540 Analytical as my highest scores in the ETS (Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ) official reviewer, the Practicing to take the GRE General Test No. 8 taken under essentially-perfectly simulated conditions. My GRE Engineering Advanced Test score is 640, 57%ile (63%ile in last reported scores rankings). I scored 730, 82%ile in the ETS official GRE Engineering Test reviewer, but in this test I answered the numbers or questions at leisure rather time or simulate the test just once. My TOEFL score is 617, 92%ile with section III subscore 65, 98%ile; and my TWE score is 6.0, 99%ile. My TSE score is 220 (200-240: 2nd category; 250-300: first category; 0-300 scale); grammar: 2.5 (like a native speaker of English: borderline, 2.5-3.0: first category). Enclosed are photocopies of my tests scores. Because my undergraduate academic performance is not what one can call excellent or very good, I will include in my application a certification of my work experience at the Ateneo de Davao University and at three other Davao schools (just part-time teaching employment). I believe a relevant work experience has some value in an application for admission to graduate school. Please pardon me for writing my letter this very long. I deem it necessary to write it this way to express or explain my case clearly and completely and to give a Personal Statement. Thank you so much for your kind understanding. Note: Some of the Admission Tests scores above are expired. Very sincerely yours,

DARVIN ANTHONY B. DELGRA

THE BRIDGE TO LIFE WITNESSING MATERIAL OF THE NAVIGATOR MINISTRIES

THE BRIDGE TO LIFE WITNESSING MATERIAL OF THE NAVIGATOR MINISTRIES Let me tell you the secret to have a spiritual birth from heaven. The emphasis of our Christian organization is man-to-man evangelization or discipleship with extensive follow-up, but this is all the beginning of it. Gods gift of salvation is free for all mankind (the elect, the elect is found in all classes of people). You will find that becoming saved is simple with just saying a short prayer after understanding Gods terms that are found in the Bible. I am happy about the recent developments in the church of my birth, the Catholic Church (I am still a Catholic even though I am a Navigator Ministries member; for our group is only an interdenominational Christian organization). These are the recent changes about the key prayers spoken in the English mass. Especially, the prayer before communion Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed. In the newspaper clipping above it is stated in the last paragraph: Some bishops said the changes would deepen lay peoples understanding of Catholicism and Scripture. They said priests could use the changes to spark a discussion of the liturgical reasoning behind them, including citing biblical stories and the Latin version. I saw recently a reference to and with your spirit in my New International Version (NIV) Bible but I failed to note and highlight it. Anyway, I will just discuss on the first sentence. I noted also a third change in my church, the it is right and just, but I am not sure if this is the same as the old one spoken and I have only mistakenly recognized this. These are the only three I noted as changes in the mass. I hope you will agree to my discussions below. I am already well versed in the witnessing stories with new insights every time I witness, for the last 30 years. But I am deficient in Scripture memorization, although I read the Bible every night with few lapses. When I will be back teaching, I look forward to following-up the spiritual growth of my first disciple. I have only 3 years of part-time college teaching experience at better schools in here in Davao in early 1990s. Again, my normal psychological disability interfered with my career. I think this most important change in the mass came from Luke 7:1-10 which is about the faith of the Centurion when he said to Jesus: v: 6-8 Lord dont trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you (for he only sent his friends some elders of the Jews). But say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, Go, and he goes; and that one, Come, and he comes. I say to my servant, Do this, and he does it. V. 9: When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel. V.10: Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well. NIV. The following discussions is taken from the Bridge to Life witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries. It is a short 8-page small leaflet with Bible references and illustrations. Since my old full-page (back-to-back) 4-sequence witnessing material version I got from our group around 30 years ago was damaged, and since I cannot find any replacement, I used the one (two pages before this page) above from our magazine publication Breakthrough, A Prayer Journey Through The Pacific I got also around 30 years ago from our group. In my experience, most Catholics readily understand the truths in this tract. The message in the Bridge to Life is neutral which can be accepted by Protestants, and inquiring nonChristians in other cultural groups, i.e., Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., who searched to know the truth, and longed to be saved by the all-powerful God though Jesus Christ (our God is a Trinity: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit). (And for agnostics and atheists that wanted proof in order to believe proof that can be verified in a manner like a researcher looking at his microscope or telescope (or other instrument) you can read the featured article in this publication Man Burns Self to Death at Park: Ritual Seen by Big Crowd; He failed to Resurrect which appeared in the August 11, 1985, Sunday issue of the SUNSTAR DAILY, Cebu City, Philippines. In the Christian religion is found the only solution to the deepest problem of the human soul delivery from the power and consequences of sin. I would like to exhort the reader to please read on my unusual publication; my writings and documents.

In the first scene of this tract (the short 8-page small leaflet) is found: The Bible teaches that God loves all men and wants them to know him. But man is separated from God and his love. (Some of the following verses are taken from the Living Bible version for emphasis.) In the first scene in the 8-page leaflet (just imagine the scenario from the illustration above, 3 pages before this page), there was no bridge yet and there was only the deep impassable chasm between the Land of man and the Land of God on the other side, right side. The Bible verse for this is 1 Timothy 2:5 God is on one side and all the people on the other side. This is the first illustration in this 8-page leaflet, and this is the situation of all people before their redemption or salvation. This particular rendering of 1 Timothy 2:5 first half of the verse is taken from the Living Bible version: That God is on one side and all the people on the other side, and Christ Jesus, himself man, is between them to bring them together, (v.6) by giving his life for all mankind (My first Bible is the The Way, An Illustrated Edition of the Living Bible, Catholic Edition (with blue cover) published by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois, U.S.A., that I won as bronze medalist 3rd Honor in Religion supplementary award in addition to my medal during high school graduation in 1979 in our Catholic school, the Holy Cross College of Digos, which is now the Cor Jesu College.) Compare the living words of the Living Bible to the simple, straightforward rendering of the New International Version (NIV) Bible of 1 Timothy 2:5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Now although Jesus is portrayed as man in this verse, he is not simply just man for it is stated in this verse that Jesus is also the Christ or Messiah or Savior or Redeemer, which is attested to in all parts of the Bible. Now, it is logical that Jesus is the Bridge to Life for he is between God and man to bring them together by giving his life for all mankind. He is also the only God-Man being in all eternity: it is only logical that the bridge between God and man is the God-Man Jesus. We will arrive in this truth, that Jesus is the Bridge to Life in the 4 th scene of the 8-page small tract/leaflet Bridge to Life of the Navigator Ministries, later. But the disturbing question is: Why is man separated from God and his love? This is the subject of so many different religious, social, moral, intellectual (etc.) inquiries of all groups of people in all cultures throughout history. The next discussion follows (most verses in this tract are taken from the NIV Bible version for simple, straightforward explanations): Because man sinned against God. Isaiah 59:2 says Your sins have cut you off from God, and Romans 3:23 says All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Where does this separation lead? But before I will discuss further, let me present to you the Scriptures view of sin. Sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4). The following passage is from my ESP-truth? Thesis above. This definition of Sin is taken from The New Bible Dictionary (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1962) pp. 1189-1190: Sin is failure, error, inquity, transgression, trespass, lawlessness, unrighteousness. It is an unmitigated evil. But the definition of sin is not to be derived simply from the terms used in the Scriptures to denote it. The most characteristic feature of sin in all of its aspects is that it is directed against God. David expressed this in his confession: Against thee, thee only, have I sinned. (Psalms 51:4), and Paul in his indictment, the carnal mind is enmity against God (Roman 8:7). This orientation must be kept in view when we consider the different terms. Any conception of sin which does not have in the forefront the contradiction which it offers to God is a deviation from the Biblical representation. The common notion that sin is selfishness betrays a false assessment of its nature and gravity. From the outset and throughout its development sin is directed against God; this analysis alone accounts for the diversity of its forms and activities. When the Scriptures says that sin is the transgression of the law (1 John 3:4) it is to this same concept that our attention is drawn. Law is the transcript of Gods perfection; it is His Holiness coming to expression for the regulation of thought and action consonant with that perfection. Transgression is violation of that which Gods glory demands of us and is, therefore, in essence the contradiction of God.

Where does the separation between God and man due to sin lead? This separation leads only to death and certain judgment. Hebrews 9:27 says Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment. And 2nd Thessalonians 1:8-9 says Those who do not know God will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord. But there is a solution. Jesus our Redeemer and Savior is the solution. Now you will ask: how about those people who lived before the coming of the Savior? And how about those who have never heard the gospel especially those people who lived before the modern times with its many developments in communication and travel, etc.? This is the subject of many scholarly writings in many Christian churches and now we have the Internet to research on this topic. But I would simply like to state that the basis for the people in the past to be considered righteous, before Jesus came, is the promise of a Savior or Messiah to come in the future (of the people before Jesus time) which is implied in Genesis 3:5 (enmity between the offspring of the woman Eve and the offspring of the serpent) and Isaiah 7:14 The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel (which means God with us) which explicitly describes how the Messiah will come to the world. The promise of a Savior had been given right after The Fall of Man (Genesis 3). And maybe the righteousness of people before Jesus time is based on them looking forward to God fulfilling his promise. We know from the Bible that many people in the Old Testament times are considered righteous by God; many are favoured by God even in those times before the Messiah arrived. Like Abraham, especially when he passed Gods test found in Genesis 22 of offering his only son Isaac as a burnt offering (after killing him ceremonially see Genesis 22:9-10). The original discovery of the Bridge to Life by the Navigator Ministries happened only in the early 1950s (see or read again the illustration above). Now another question you may ask: how about Christians who lived before the discovery of the Bridge to Life. I believe there are also saved people in the New Testament times; for God is ultimately good and that there may be an accommodation of salvation by receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in essence for those people not witnessed to before the coming of this development. The Bridge to Life is a Navigator Ministries original, and I suspect the witnessing materials of many born-again groups are only variations of the Bridge to Life (again, I am born-again/ renewed unconventional Bible-reading Catholic Christian affiliated with our group since mid-1980; and I must emphasize renewed since I am Catholic; for us Navigator Ministries members these two terms have exactly the same explicit meaning). The Bridge to Life and its many variations may only apply to people in the post-modern age. Now I must continue my discussions. Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for our sins, is the way to God. He is the solution for all the elect becoming saved. My Websters dictionary defines election as 4. Theol. the choice by God of individuals, as for a particular work or for favour or salvation. Not all people are elect and this is the most frightening doctrine in the Christian Religion. But if you are reading this Internet publication, you are probably one of the elect only God knows. If you have read this far, it may be clear to you that among Gods calling for me is to tell the world my story for the elects salvation especially those of high intelligence (IQ) but also of all other people in the world who are likely to scoff at religion and choose to be agnostics or atheists. Because most peoples stand is to see (or read) is to believe. Now I have the Internet to do it thanks to the modern technology of the late 20th Century and early 21st Century. Thank you also for reading this far. I cannot only say that Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for our sins, is the way to God without citing Bible verses. I would like to repeat again the living words of the Living Bible version in its rendering of 1 Timothy 2:5-6, God is on one side and all the people on the other side, and Christ Jesus, Himself man, is between them to bring them together, by giving His life for all mankind. 1 Peter 3:18 says Christ died for sins once for all to bring you to God. Does this include everyone? But before I will answer this I would like to tell you about the scenes in the Bridge to Life witnessing material: This scene is in the 4th page and suddenly the Cross appeared as bridge between the Land of man and Land of God. The Cross is white with light red boundary color and the background sky is very light pink; the Land of Man and Land of God has a little darker pink color. And in the horizontal part of the Cross, in the

middle, is written Jesus Christ. Before in the first 3 scenes there was no bridge yet. And in the 2 nd scene man came near the edge of the cliff opposite the Land of God, almost falling. In the middle of the illustration were these words written SIN separates man from God. In the 3rd scene, man in his frustration went back, to the left, saddened by his inability to go to the other side, the Land of God, through his own effort. In the 4th scene the Cross appeared and the man turned to the right seeing the Cross. In the illustration 4 pages from this page, there is no Cross but only a flat bridge. Now you may ask: is the head of the Cross an obstruction which may cause the man to fall off from the bridge? Now this is only an illustration to emphasize that the Cross of Christ is the bridge between God and man. Man certainly can now cross the bridge (the Cross) without the danger of falling in the middle of the bridge (Cross) due to the obstruction (head of the Cross). Returning back to 1 Peter 3:18: Christ died for sins once for all to bring you to God. Does this include everyone? Yes. But only those who personally receive Jesus Christ into their lives, trusting Him to forgive their sins, can cross the bridge. (But God calls only the elect. See the Internet on Election. Again, if you are reading this Internet publication, you are probably one of the elect only God knows.) John 1:12 says To all who receive Him, to those who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God. The fifth (5th) scene of the Bridge to Life small tract is that the man received Gods free offer of access to the other side, the Land of God, through the bridge which is Jesus Christ, and is now on the other side having crossed the bridge. And now man is already in the Land of God. Revelation 3:20: Jesus says, Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will go in and eat with him, and he with Me. How does a person receive Jesus Christ? In the (6th) page (no scene anymore) are these words written: Everyone must decide individually whether to receive Christ. Before I will go to the seventh page, I will discuss on my ideas on the truths that can be gleaned from Revelation 3:20, for there are many. Jesus is standing at the door of our life, body (heart), soul and spirit and he is comparing our life, body (heart), soul and spirit to a house for many good reasons. Now what does he mean that if we hear his voice and open the door, he will come into our house and eat with us and we with him? Now, this verse is most relevant to the most recent changes in the English mass of the Catholic Church especially the: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed. We know that this most important recent change in the key spoken prayers in the English mass (the other two are: and with your spirit and it is right and just), came from Luke 7:1-10 which is about the faith of the Centurion. Although the prayer before communion says and my soul shall be healed, it is very clear that this came from Luke 7:7 But say the word and my servant will be healed. Now the prayer is not an exact picture of Luke 7:1-10 because the Centurion asked that his servant be healed by Christ and not himself (his own illness or his soul); and this recent prayer in the English mass is only an adaption of the exact scene of Luke 7:110. But this is very relevant for all of us Christians and all the Elect called by God yet to have a spiritual birth, who are or will be, servants of Christ. If you are reading this book excerpt of mine, my first, you have already opened the door and seeing him from inside, Jesus standing there at the door and bringing with him a bag filled with something. You recognized him, especially for us Catholics, because we have a picture of Jesus with beard and long hair. (I have a discussion on this in the section Questions about my Christian Faith and Catholic Religion which I tried to answer myself: why Jesus has beard and long hair? This Section will appear in my more complete excerpt I will publish in a few years from now.) You opened the door after hearing someone knocking which turned out to be Jesus whom you recognized, and now you are most intrigued about what is his purpose. He is coming to visit you with a most serious purpose and you noticed the bag he is carrying. Now Jesus wont force his way to the inside of your house but will let you invite him first before he enters. Since of all strangers Jesus is the most recognizable, you choose to invite him to the sala of your house and you start conversing. What possibly is his purpose in visiting you, bringing with him a bag, maybe inside are documents or something? You are ever most intrigued. If you are not from Christian countries or a Jew, maybe a Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist, even agnostic or atheist, you are one of the Gentiles who are non-Jews. Christians come from both the Jew fold and the Gentile fold; and all of the Elect in the world are invited. At California State University, Long Beach in 1999-2000 I saw a group with their name Jews for Jesus. Again, if you are

reading this publication, you are probably one of the Elect only God knows. I would like to cite Acts 13:46-48 below: Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: We had to speak the word of God to you (Jews) first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. For this is what the Lord has commanded us: I have made you a light for the Gentiles, that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth. (Isaiah 49:6) When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honoured the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed. I hope that now you are convinced that if you are one of the Elect since you are reading this publication, even though you are a Gentile (non-Jews), you can believe and be saved and have eternal life. But how does people receive Jesus Christ? I dont know if what the apostle Paul knew about the gospel is organized and arranged to read something like the Bridge to Life, or variations of this leaflet thats used by many other born-again groups (Catholics also readily understand the truths in this tract; and they are called renewed Christians). But he is able to lead many people to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Going back to the Bridge to Life witnessing story, Jesus is now sitting on a seat in your sala and with him his document bag. What could be his purpose in visiting you? I would like you to guess. Meanwhile I would like to go back again to the 6th page of the Bridge to Life tract: there is no scene anymore but only these words Everyone must decide individually whether to receive Christ. If he comes and enters your house, it is you who invited him. It is impossible that he can enter your house through your neighbors door of his house. I think this is clear now: Jesus will enter the house he intends to. The Bible also says in Hebrews 3:6 that we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast (see Hebrews 3:1-6). So we will go back to the scene at the sala with Jesus, you sitting in front of him. I would like to suggest that what he carried in his bag is a laptop computer (before the advent of the Internet, this story would be just paper documents). Jesus will show you on his heavenly computer the record of all your past sins and offer you his remedy to cover your sins and erase of all of them so you will not go to hell and be damned forever there, even in the Lake of Fire, the destiny of Satan and all evil angels and all the unsaved people; even death and hades (hell). I will go back to Revelation 3:20: what does Jesus mean that if we hear his voice and open the door, he will come inside our house and eat with us and we with him? Now, Jesus purpose in coming is not (just) eating with you and you with him, but rather this is a picture of fellowship between friends, for he wants to be our friend and not just Saviour and Lord; but he is our God (God the Son) and Creator, together with God the Father and the God the Holy Spirit. If you have a visitor in your house that stays there long enough, perhaps for at least one hour, you will serve him something to eat; and this is the scene of the third phrase in Revelation 3:20. Jesus is offering you a way out from your sure path to hell without him; in fact salvation assures us not only of entry to heaven after our death, after the Judgment Day, but also of many things we dont yet know or can imagine; we know only that these are all good. I have to digress for a while. Please bear with me. I deem it very necessary to include this topic: some scene in eternity I picture in my mind. But the things found in the new heaven will be not all new; consider Revelation 21:26 The glory and honor of the nations will be brought into it (heaven). Ive read a book whose author I forgot but I remember vaguely the books title; maybe it is The Jesus Hope. I lost the book, maybe it is among the things I left in Los Angeles in 2000 when I came back home due to lack of private funds in my aerospace graduate study at the CSU, Long Beach. Now I remember the author wrote that everything in this world that has value in Gods sight will be brought there; perhaps just a few samples of each. About animals, I think that there are also elect and non-elect animals as well as plants. I dont know if some elect animals will go to the new heaven; but we are given a hint about plants in Revelation 22:1-6 for there is at least

one plant there, the tree of life, but its origin may be not from this world but from heaven and God made it there; it may also be the same tree of life in the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve were created. We are also given a hint about the fate of elect animals in Revelation 21:1, about the new earth for this verse says for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. It is not specified in this verse if this also applies to the new earth, that there is no longer any sea in the new earth; maybe this passage points only to the new heaven I dont know. For in Revelation 21:15-17 heaven is a perfect cube with a side of about 1,400 miles this is the New Jerusalem or heaven with a definite thickness of about 200 feet. The new earth could still be spherical I dont know, but most likely. (There are many other questions asked by scientists and some intelligent people. But this publication is for all people.) Now about elect animals and plants, maybe the new earth will be for the elect animals and plants; again, maybe just a few or voluminous sample of each and not all the animals and plants (in history), also resurrected. They will no longer die and eat to survive because if you consider Isaiah 11:6 which says The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling (lion will feed: a footnote), together; and a little child will lead them, this seems like animals resting and having no interest at eating each other. Although the footnote on yearling is lion will feed, I dont know if animals then will need to eat to survive or for pleasure; and its optional. Because Jesus showed his disciples after his resurrection that he is not a ghost but a resurrected glorified being (GodMan) who can eat optionally (See Internet on Jesus Resurrection: Wikipedia). About the non-elect animals and plants they may be annihilated I dont know, this is just my surmising they came from nothing, they will go to nothing (see Internet on this topic - Annihilation). Before I proceed further, I would like to say something about Gods judgment. There are two judgments of God: (1.) the Great White Throne Judgment in which those people to the right hand of God are the saved ones, while those to the left hand of God are the unsaved, damned people, destined to hell and the Lake of Fire. After that, the (2.) Judgment Seat of Christ of the saved people; Christians who came from both the Jew fold (the remnant 144,000 in Revelation 14:1-5 and the saved Jews in the Old Testament) and the Gentile fold. But salvation is not the issue in the Judgment Seat of Christ. Rather, it is the forgivable defects in your Christian life and person that are scrutinized, examined and judged before entry to heaven; again, salvation is not the issue here. I have read also in the Internet that the Judgment Seat of Christ is an awards type of judgment; but my understanding of the Judgment Seat of Christ has more features. (See Internet for: Great White Throne Judgment, and Judgment Seat of Christ; Wikipedia. The Great White Throne Judgment is in Revelation 20:11-15 and the Judgment seat of Christ is in 2nd Corinthians 5:10.) There is also mention in 1st Corinthians 6:2 that the saints will judge the world: Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?... Thank you for bearing with me in reading this digression. One that I deem most important to the classes of people that are the main target of this publication. Now I will go back to the Bridge to Life. How does a person receive Jesus Christ in order to have a spiritual birth and be citizens of heaven, even while here in this world just waiting for his coming? Jesus said in John 14:14 You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it. All of my witnessees, when I ask them this question, they always have different answers. But Mrs. Fernandez of our former hometown, Digos, answered love, a most elementary aspect of Jesus offer of salvation. I told her that if you asked Jesus to give his love to you, will he let you go to hell? She answered no. So I told her that what she ultimately asked for starting with the love of God, is salvation. Different people have different answers. But the one I am most impressed with together with Mrs. Fernandez almost childlike answer was the answer given by Mr. Escarcha. I cannot remember the exact words he said but it goes like this: that Jesus will equip him with resources, strengthen him (etc.) in order to further his kingdom for his greater glory! (with his emphasis since he a Citizen Army Training (CAT) Commandant/high school teacher; his answer may be the only one I remember that is unselfish its for God (Trinity) and the Lord Jesus). I told him that if that is what you will ask of him, will he not give you a reward? He said, yes, surely he will give me a reward. I asked him, what would that reward be? He answered salvation. I would like you to give your answer think of all of them, but it will ultimately be salvation. Please contact me at darvin.delgra@yahoo.com to share

to me your answer that first comes to your mind; anything good from the Lord it will ultimately be salvation. Therefore, if you pray sincerely asking him this: Lord Jesus, please come into my life and be my Saviour and Lord, Please forgive my sins, and give me the gift of eternal life. He will do it now. This is the best thing in the world, Jesus coming into your life which is pictured as Jesus entering your house and coming into the sala of your house where you entertained him. I would like to quote Hebrews 3:1-6: Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all Gods house. Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Moses was faithful as a servant in all Gods house, testifying to what would be said in the future. But Christ is faithful as a son over Gods house. And we are his house, if we hold on to our courage and the hope of which we boast. Now, you are there in the sala with Jesus, which is tantamount to receiving him as visitor. But he wants to be the Love of your life, for he is also pictured as a lover all over the Bible, in the Old and New Testaments (see Internet); even the husband of the church (the bride, the wife of the Lamb; the Holy City, Jerusalem). Now receiving him as visitor in the sala of your house is not equivalent to receiving him as Saviour and Lord, or making him the Love of your life. But if you prayed the prayer of salvation in italics and bold letters above, he already became the Love of your life and you now have salvation, a citizen of heaven, even while here on earth. What happened? I would like to expound and explain it to you. In the sala where you received him as visitor you only understand Gods terms for the salvation of mankind (the elect; the elect are found in all classes of people, in the Christian fold and Jew fold and even among non-Christians and non-Jews, or all the Gentile elect). There is one more thing that Jesus wants to do: Jesus wanted to be the brides (church) spouse or husband; and all the members of the church, whether male or female, Jesus wanted to be his beloved. Ephesians 5:22-33 is the Bibles section on Wives and Husbands. In chapter 5 verse 31-32 it says: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. (v.32) This is a profound mystery but I am talking about Christ and the church. Above, I mentioned that the Scriptures portrays as a house our life, body (heart), soul and spirit. Now with our body, we have the heart, the mind, the mouth and all parts of the body. These three are the key organs of a persons body that are essential in salvation. But before I will proceed, would like to cite a passage from The Daily Gospel, a publication of the Claretian Communications Foundation, Inc. in the July 25, 2012 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper (the passage for this days reading is 2nd Corinthians 4:7-15 and Matthew 20:20-28): Reflection I saw the God that rejoices that he is our Father. God rejoices that he is our Mother, and God rejoices that he is our true Spouse and that our soul is his beloved wife. And Christ rejoices that is our Brother, and Jesus rejoices that he is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand in which he wishes that we rejoice, praising him, thanking him, loving him, eternally blessing him. This fair lovely word mother; is so sweet and so kind in itself that it cannot truly be said of anyone, not to anyone except of him [Jesus] and to him who is true Mother of life and of all. Thus wrote

Julian of Norwich, the 14th century English anchoress. What is the soul and where it is? What is the spirit and where it is? In my study of the Bible I arrived at my conclusion that the spirit is in the mind (inside the mind) or the mind itself. And that the soul is in the heart or the heart itself. I got this idea from 1st John 4:1-6 about the Scriptures instructions on the Testing of spirits. If we test the spirits, it is our own spirits that test these outside spirits, whether they are good or evil. Our minds, our CPU or central processing unit (all the rest in the body are peripherals except the heart), test and determine the spirits, whether they are good or evil, if we follow the Bibles instructions. Since it is our own spirits that test the outside spirits, I concluded that our mind is the spirit, or our minds contain the spirit. However, recently, I found this verse 1 Corinthians 14:15 I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray also with my mind which clearly expressed the mind and spirit as distinct entities. A possibility could still be that the spirit is inside the mind, for it is able to pray. Now, for the soul, my opinion is that there is only one possibility: the soul is in the heart (inside the heart) or the heart itself. In the 1980s, a Navigator Ministries Staff American missionary from Iowa, U.S.A., Mr. Mike Merritt told me that inside the heart is a God-created vacuum which only Christ can fill. This is the main difference between Christians who have received Christ as Saviour and Lord (also people who received him in essence before the modern times; and those who have the Holy Spirit in the their life and heart, throughout history, even in the Old Testament times), this is the main difference between Christians and those who are spiritually unborn: the spiritually unborn has only a vacuum inside their hearts thats full of evil desires and passions, while the Christians have the Holy Spirit in their hearts. The Christians and Gods people throughout history are all two-person entities (that which exists; something that has a real existence, even human persons): there is another person that resides in them, but which does not conflict with their minds (or CPU) will and desires (etc.), and this is the Holy Spirit in their hearts. God is the original person, he is from heaven an infinite being. While we are finite beings/human persons made from the dust of the ground. Although we all have human parents, both father and mother whom we inherited our genes from, it is God who is our ultimate father: the father of our spirits (Hebrews 12:9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers (and mothers) who disciplined us and we respected them for it. How much more should we submit to the Father of our spirits and live!). The truth is that three infinite beings created us; and those three beings are one (the three-in-one God, Trinity or three persons in one God) since they are infinite this could not be possible otherwise (consider: 3 1). I have a discussion on this in the Section Questions about my Christian Faith and the Catholic Religion, the church of my birth, which I tried to Answer myself: you will find this in my more complete edition of this excerpt that I will publish in a few years. Now, going back to the Bridge to Life. We will go back to the scene at the sala with Jesus. Since he wants to be the husband of the church of which all the already-saved elect, and the yet called-to-be saved elect, are or will be members; and since the church is the bride, the wife of the Lamb (Jesus) which is found in Revelation 21:9-10, Jesus wants to have full access to the masters bedroom of your house (your life, body (heart), soul and spirit) which is your heart. I will cite Ephesians 5:31-32 again: For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. (v.32) This is a profound mystery but I am talking about Christ and the church. Jesus wants to enter your heart (the location of your soul) and establish his throne there. But I asked before in less than ten years ago my excellent Christian counsellor, Mr. Jose Eseng V. about this and he said that it is actually God the Holy Spirit who will sit there at the throne in the middle of your heart. And middle means that in the ideal condition, all the Christians lifes priorities and concerns are balanced and in accordance with Gods will. I also agree with Eseng especially after learning that the Holy Spirit is neuter, or neither male nor female, in my research in the Internet and I believe this is so because the Holy Spirit is the one who will inhabit both male and female hearts. About Jesus, although he is the one who knocked at the door to visit or enter your house (your life, body (heart), soul and spirit) with his proposal (Revelation 3:20), Eseng said, he is back there in heaven after visiting your house. So I developed my own theology about this that although God the Trinity are all omniscient (all-knowing), omnipotent (all-powerful) and omnipresent (present everywhere), I thought in

my mind that God the Father specializes on omniscience (because he is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; the source of everything including knowledge); God the Son specializes on omnipotence (because he conquered death) and that God the Holy Spirit specializes on omnipresence (especially because it is He who inhabits all the saved peoples Christians and godly people in the Old Testament hearts). Jesus wanting to enter your heart in the person of the Holy Spirit to make you a part of the bride, the wife of the Lamb (Jesus); (this is the church, Holy City, Jerusalem found in Revelation 21:9-20), is the next step he proposes after your receiving him at the sala of your house (life, body (heart), soul and spirit), and after your understanding of Gods terms for the salvation of mankind. In my readings of the Bible, I discovered two verses which are very essential but which are not included in the 8-page Bridge to Life tract; these are Ephesians 2:8-9 and Romans 10:9-10. Ephesians 2:8-9 says For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith (in Jesus Christ in what he did for us on the Cross 2000 years ago) and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. And Romans 10:9-10 says That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. But before I will proceed further, I will give the denotative dictionary definitions of the key words in the verses above (all definitions are taken from the Websters dictionary): Grace 8. Theology a. the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God. Saved 9. Theology. to deliver from the power and consequences of sin. Faith 8. Christian Theology. the trust in God and in His promises as made through Christ and the Scriptures by which humans are justified and saved. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and (being) certain of what we do not see. Gift 1. Something given voluntarily without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone 3. something bestowed or acquired without any particular effort by the recipient or without its being earned. Works work noun 1. Exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. Confess verb transitive 3. To declare or acknowledge (ones sins) especially to God in order to obtain absolution. Jesus noun 1. Also called Jesus Christ, Christ Jesus, Jesus of Nazareth. Born 4? B.C., crucified A.D. 29?, the source of the Christian religion. Lord 9. (capital) the Savior Jesus Christ. lord noun 1. A person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler. And I also would like to add: Jesus is the gentle, loving ruler of the universe. Believe verb intransitive 1. To have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something Heart 3. The center of the total personality, especially with reference to intuition, feeling, or emotion. 4. The center of emotion, especially as contrasted to the head as the center of the intellect. Jeremiah 17:9 The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? (New Living Translation. 2007.) Justified verb transitive 3. Theology. To declare innocent or guiltless; absolve; acquit. Now, I would like to point out to you that salvation is the result of Gods grace or the Lords unmerited love and favour on the Elect (Christians from both Jew and Gentile folds, even the non-Christian Gentile elect). God wants to save us, or to deliver us from the power and consequences of sin. Even though Gods offer of salvation is totally by grace, we still have a part. And this is the next phrase in Ephesians 2:8-9 through faith (in Jesus Christ in what he did for us on the Cross 2000 years ago) and this is not from

yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. What is faith? Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain (being) of what we do not see. (Hebrews 11:1). Also in Hebrews 11:6 without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. It is clear that this very faith that we have it is not from ourselves it is the gift of God. This faith may be the result of believing that God exists and seeking him earnestly (Hebrews 11:6): this faith also may be Gods reward for all the believers, for there are also believers outside the Christian and Jew fold. I cannot find it as of the present this phrase in a verse wherein God says: stay here (in this place), for many people here belong to me (maybe this is in the Book of Acts not sure, but most likely). That place which God is referring to is a yet-to-be converted place, but evidently there are many godly people there. So take heart even if you are not a Christian or Jew: God calls the Elect of the world throughout history, ever patiently waiting for all of us to respond to his call. (In my next publication of a more complete edition of this excerpt, I will make sure I will find the reference to the verse wherein God says: stay here (in this place), for many people here belong to me. Now we will go to our next discussion on this most important picture of Gods salvation for all the Elect as a gift. Now a gift is given by the giver without the giver expecting something in return it is totally free. But a gift that is not received by the one whom the gift is intended to be given to, does not belong to him it is only a loving, unselfish intention of the giver. For the gift to officially belong to the intended receiver with this illustration: especially imagine a formal gift in a box with wrapper, ribbon and card with the name of the receiver the intended receiver must receive the gift, open it, and if for example it is a wristwatch, the receiver must use it and care for it so it will last. I think these are the same things as illustration of what God wants of us what we will do with his gift of salvation for all the Elect in a clear parallelism. If for any reason, the receiver decided that he did not need the gift and declined the offer, the giver may resent the refusal and place another name on the gifts name card in order to be able to give it to someone other than the one the gift is originally intended to be given; if this happens and if the gift is just a one-time offer, the originally-intended receiver may never know the great loss that he made. And salvation is the ultimate best thing in all the world throughout history that we can ask from God. Salvation is not by works. It is defined as: Works work noun 1. Exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil. Because of the Lord Jesus ultimate sacrifice on the Cross 2000 years ago, Gods infinite goodness and power has been revealed. If salvation can be earned by works, it would take an infinite number of good works for one to be saved, but this is clearly impossible. So God in his infinite goodness, mercy and knowledge provided the Elect of the world a way to be saved through the victorious sacrifice of Jesus Christ 2-Millenia ago. Salvation can never come from our own efforts our good works are just filthy rags in the sight of the Lord. If salvation can result by good works then there would still be chaos in Eternity, with each saved person boasting about his meritorious good words; and pride would still be there, with each saved person in such a case comparing his good works to others. So because of this and of other things I have yet to imagine in such a case, salvation can come only to the elect by faith in what the Lord Jesus Christ did on the Cross 2000 years ago. And for people in the Old Testament before his coming, again, their justification is based on their looking forward to God fulfilling his promise of a Savior or Messiah coming to the world in the future (in the Old Testaments time); and this we can read in the Old Testament in books of Genesis and Isaiah. Next we will digest Romans 10:9-10. Romans 10:9-10 says That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. I have stated above that the key organs in a persons body for his salvation is his mind, mouth and heart; but there are at least two other organs that are also critical: the ears and the eyes. Consider Romans 10:17 Consequently faith comes from hearing the message (or reading the written message; such as my humble first religious publication), and the message is heard through the word of Christ. Our CPU (central processing unit) or mind digests

the message, and through Gods love, grace, mercy and providence we are able to fight out our way from the worlds clutter and we hear (or read) and understand Gods message. The next step is to confess Jesus as our lifes Lord and Savior and to start living a holy, godly, Christian life, leaving our past behind. This is what you did when you prayed above this prayer: Lord Jesus, please come into my life, and be my Saviour and Lord, Please forgive my sins, and give me the gift of eternal life. ( He will do it now). This prayer is just a one-time prayer unlike the new prayer before communion: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed. But the new prayer before communion is a lot better than the old prayer: Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be healed. Please insert house into life in the prayer of salvation: Lord Jesus, please come into my (house) life and the Lords perspective will come into view in your minds. In the prayer before communion, you never really received him; you only said that you are unworthy to do so. But the Lord wants to enter your house (life, body (heart), soul and spirit). Now that you understand the Lords perspective and you prayed the prayer of salvation, you are now a brand new Christian, even if you come from the non-Christian or non-Jew fold; even if you are a very-recently former atheist or agnostic. And I would like to invite you to keep in touch with us through the Internet: Please visit our website The Navigator Ministries at www.navigators.org. The emphasis of our group is man-to-man evangelization or discipleship, and the biblical basis for this is 2 nd Timothy 2:2 And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. This may seem slow but is actually the fastest, highest

quality ministry. Imagine from Apostle Paul discipling just 10 faithful disciples in 10 years, who in turn will be doing faithfully their discipling just 10 faithful disciples in another 10 years; and so forth and so on. In our time today, there would be 10 or 10 Billion disciples in another 100 years from Pauls initial ministry, several Billions more than the current population of the world at the time of this excerpts writing, 2012. And all that with the highest quality dissemination of the Word of God and the Savior, Messiah Jesus Christ. There is however the problem of travel and logistics and the establishment of ones residence in another land or place, etc. But the 20th Century and 21st Century revolutionized communication and travel (etc.) with our modern marvels of technology: There are no excuses any more for every serious bona-fide Christian not to share his part of the Christian Spiritual Warfare, Struggles, Victorious Well-lived Lifestyles, etc. to the world. Thus this books excerpt. Please contact us through the internet and you will be directed to your discipler-teacher who would gladly and faithfully lead you to bona-fide Christian knowledge or learning. We are a worldwide interdenominational movement (not a church), an evangelical organization which has its international headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.A. Our group seeks to witness to all the elect of the world, whether Christian or Jew, even Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, etc., even atheists or agnostics (seeking for scientifically-verifiable proof). With the social media of today we can exchange much meaningful spiritual discourse. I hope you will be keenly interested in the Lords invitation of which we are only humble facilitators. I would like to point out regarding the prayer of salvation above, that compared to the prayer before communion, this is really Jesus coming to your life (and the Holy Spirit making your heart his residence, ever wanting to stay and sit in the throne at the center of your heart and this is only an illustration which means that in such a case, all your lifes priorities and concerns are balanced and in accordance with Gods will). But the prayer before communion which is repeated always every Sunday Mass is like the animal-lamb sacrifices in the Old Testament done by the Old Testament Jew priests: These can never take away sins (see Internet on this topic) but were only a constant reminder of the Final Sacrifice on the Cross of the Son of God to happen in the future (in the Old Testaments time). The Navigators seeks the Elect of the

world to witness to (for them to have also a spiritual birth) and lead them to a sound, bona-fide knowledge and learning of the Scriptures through man-to-man evangelization or discipleship for them to grow up; for this is what the Lord wants of all his children: to become mature and full persons in Christ (I cannot find now the reference to this message; but I am sure this is in the Bible, especially in the Gospels or New Testament). I would like to point out to you further that the prayer of salvation is just one-time, never to happen again. The new convert must understand his or her most serious responsibility that he (or she) should cling to his new found salvation like a man (or woman) tossed in a storm in the open sea and clinging real hard and fast to a life raft. The Christians lifes struggles, I have read somewhere, is compared to a wrestling match as one writer would put it. Here in this publication, you will read about my own personal encounter and showdown with evil 31-30 years ago. It is only by the Almighty Gods power through the Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit that I overcame such impossible experience. I would like to cite again Romans 10:9-10: That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. I hope that it is now clear to you that Jesus is Lord in That if you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord is the shortest possible reduction of the prayer of salvation: Lord Jesus, please come into my life and be my savior and Lord. Please forgive my sins, and give me the gift of eternal life. ( He will do it now.). This is not the case with the prayer before communion, the new and the old; again, you only told Jesus that you are unworthy to receive him. But Jesus wants to enter your house (your life, body (heart), soul, spirit). He can come only to your house after you fully understand Gods terms of salvation, but receiving him to the sala of your house where you entertained him is the first step (please review my discussions above). Next we will digest and believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved I dont need to expound about heart, heartily, with all your heart, even cross my heart, etc. This only means the greatest amount or degree of sincerity possible to happen in the whole world. Now if you believe God raised Jesus from the dead, he will raise you also or you will be saved. In Genesis, it is stated there that Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness (and only the righteous will be saved). If you believe with your heart, God will justify you from the past life you lived (Justified verb transitive 3. Theology. To declare innocent or guiltless; absolve; acquit.). Finally, we will digest and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. Now, if you can speak you must pray the prayer of salvation: You must invite Jesus to enter the sala of your house, and you must agree to be a member of the bride, the wife of the Lamb, the Holy City, Jerusalem or the Church. To do so would be done only in a marriage-ceremony-like fashion in which you will say your part in an equivalent of the exchange of vows. This is exactly the picture in the prayer of salvation. Again, Confess verb transitive 3. To declare or acknowledge (ones sins) especially to God in order to obtain absolution. Now that you prayed the prayer of salvation after you fully understand Gods terms, you can be perfectly sure you are now saved. Definition: Saved 9. Theology. to deliver from the power and consequences of sin. If you have invited Jesus Christ into your life, the Bible says you now have eternal life. 1 John 5:11-12 says God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. This is a white and black picture of eternity. But take heart even if you are non-Christians and non-Jews; God calls all the Elect of

the world to come to him in repentance and receive his free offer of the gift of salvation through the sacrifice of his Son Jesus Christ. We are very lucky to be inhabitants and citizens of the New Testament times. Finally I must add this end note: Jesus will not enter your life, and the Holy Spirit will not establish his home and sit in the throne at the center of your heart, if you prayed a non-bonafide prayer of salvation; that is if you dont fully understand Gods terms for people to be saved by his free gift of salvation through the sacrice of his Son on the Cross 2000 years ago. This is just my opinion. But again, there may be an accommodation of salvation by faith by receiving Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior in essence since clearly there were saved people in the Old Testament times and also saved people in the New Testament times not witnessed to in the manner of the Bridge to Life, Gods Modern Method. This is what I strived for here in this lengthy elaboration, my most complete explanation of the Bridge to Life witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries, for your benefit. These are the only 3 illustrations in the Bridge to Life to receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour in order to be saved and have Eternal Life: 1.) Crossing the bridge from the Land of man to the Land of God; 2.) Receiving him first as visitor in the house of your life and afterwards inviting him to become a spouse-like partner (whether you are male or female for the next is only an appropriate picture), so you will become a member of the Church, the bride, the wife of the Lamb, Holy City or Jerusalem (found in Revelation 21:9-10); (but it is actually the Holy Spirit who will inhabit your heart, where the soul is clearly found the Holy Spirit will enable you to live a new life (being born again, or renewed Christian for Catholics) and guide you to be always victorious in your Christian life until the end); and 3.) Receiving the free gift of Gods salvation through faith in what the Lord Jesus Christ did for all the Elect in the world 2000 years ago (Ephesians 2:8-9). Again, if you are reading this Internet publication you may be one of the Elect; only God knows. The Elect are found in all classes of people in all cultural groups. I hope you are satisfied with my discussions and explanations. Thank you for reading my work. For more information, please contact me at my e-mail address: darvin.delgra@yahoo.com. Please also visit The Navigator Ministries website at www.navigators.org in the Internet. Thank you.

AFTERWORD I have virtually no regrets about what I have been through. But if my father allowed me to take my 2 nd course (degree program) choice of B.S. Physics at the University of San Carlos in 1979 (after B.S. Aeronautical Engineering at PATTS College of Aeronautics in Manila; or FEATI University), I would never have gone through what I have been through. (And Engr. Feliciano Paradela would never have been delivered from his most severe spiritual distress by the power of God in Jesus, of which I am only an instrument.) My father did not allow me to take B.S. Physics as college degree program because he thought this course will lead me to become just a high school physics teacher later on. It was on the night of my high school graduation on March 28, 1979 that he asked me to list the courses (degree programs) that I would like to pursue in college; I have only three (3). His choice for me is B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (my 3rd choice) at the Cebu Institute of Technology in Cebu City, his Alma Mater, BSCE 53. B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering in Manila is out of the question because we dont have relatives there; both my parents are from towns in Cebu province and we have many relatives in Cebu City. If I had graduated in B.S. Physics instead of B.S. Mechanical Engineering at the USC or Cebu Institute of Technology (CIT), I still would have made the right choice because I discovered later in senior year (really super senior year) in mechanical engineering in 1985 (my college career was extended 2 years to 7 years; engineering B.S. programs in the Philippines are all 5-year programs), in a reply to my inquiry from Cranfield Institute of Technology, U.K. (I got their address in a magazine from the USC-Technological Center Science Library), that graduates of mechanical engineering, physics, math (and much later, also computer science and other engineering), B.S. programs can be considered for admission to aerospace graduate school as their backgrounds are deemed adequate preparation; and that those students who are deficient in preparation will only be required to take bridging courses in order to start the aerospace graduate study. My second degree program choice of B.S. Physics resulted from my enjoyment as favourite courses together with Math, my senior high school Physics course at the Cor Jesu College High School in Digos City in 1978-1979 (then Holy Cross College of Digos (HCCD) High School exclusive for Boys). I am the unofficial Best in Math and Physics in my high school batch; unofficial because my school did not have this award for high-performing students during high school graduation. (I was ranked No. 7 in my High School batch; and I am a 3rd Honor Bronze Medalist in Religion in my Catholic school ran by the Sacred Heart Brothers, with a The Way Living Bible Catholic Edition Supplementary Award during high school graduation on March 28, 1979 the Bibles were brought by a Brother who came from the Vatican, who went to Rome, Italy on a tour.) I have known aerospace professionals whose B.S. degrees are in Math, Physics, Civil Engineering, etc. but most non-aero entrants have B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering just like me. In fact the whole field of AE is a branch of the general field of ME; AE branched-out as a mature field and offered as a separate discipline in its own right; but the critical factor in aerospace undergraduate and graduate study is serious, even intense interest in aerospace: airplanes and flight, even rockets and space flight. (There are also late bloomers in enthusiasts interest and all qualified persons are invited to apply to aerospace graduate school). In aerospace engineering we study only aircraft and spacecraft, but in the ME curriculum we study all machines and energy systems; however, much of our learning here can be applied to aeronautics/space. To date AE education in my country, Philippines, is far from U.S.-par. And those curious substandard BSAE programs at low-quality schools all over the country offer graduates only the prospect of practicing their profession in the maintenance industry and no further. If I have graduated in a local B.S. Aeronautical Engineering degree program, then I would never had been offered admission by two well-known quality U.S. aerospace graduate schools, the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (admission offer letter: December 16, 1992) located at Daytona Beach, Florida (50 miles north of Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, FL), and California State University, Long Beach (admission offer letter: May 25, 1999). When I thought of transferring to the University of San Carlos while at CIT during my 1 year emotional ordeal in June 1981-October 1982, I also prospected of changing majors to B.S. Mathematics. And this decision also would prove to be still okay as I really wanted to pursue aerospace further study later on; and B.S. Math undergraduate study is deemed adequate preparation for AE graduate study. Also

if this prospect plan decision happened, I will have already the background of a Junior (3 rd year) Mechanical Engineering student. I was already in 4th year, 2nd semester when I finally decided to transfer to USC at the opposite end of Cebu City. I cannot find it now and my Bible search Internet reference also cannot find it as of this moment (3:21 P.M., December 10, 2012; Monday), but the verse message in my The Way Living Bible that finally made me decide to transfer was stay always within the boundaries where Gods love can reach and bless you (in the NIV, may be just keep yourself within Gods love always). Compare the living words of the Living Bible to other versions: it is really living. Maybe in all other versions, it is not clear what keep yourself within Gods love always means. But since my original Bible is the Living Bible version it was very clear to me one night in my room at our Navigator Ministries Training Apartment christened Noahs Ark near CIT, maybe near the very end of my emotional ordeal there (6/81-10/82), about what I will do to my most serious problem of being excluded in the schools sub-society of being widely known school-wide (the gossips/ legends also overflowed outside the school as I can feel it, even now), as an airplane nut/ religious fanatic weirdo. Not long after that, I talked to my Christian counsellor Mr. Mike Merritt, a Navigator staff from Iowa assigned to the Cebu Ministry, about my problem. I told him while my hand also drew a square on the table: if this is the boundary where Gods love can reach and bless me, (with my finger pointing to one extreme end), I will transfer from here to here (with my hand pointing to the other extreme end). Mike told me, you go ahead, this may be Gods will for you. It was at the USC-TC in December 1982 that I got sick with an emotional breakdown (collapse of my emotional health) after about six weeks of attending classes. All my courses enrolled were filed withdrawn (Ws) by my younger sister Eunice who was then a B.S. Biology student at USC-TC campus. My emotional disorder lasted only 4 months from December 1982 to April 1983. In June 1983 I resumed my BSME study, albeit with a low course load as per my original psychiatrists recommendation. The rest was history. It is recorded for you here. But I will publish in the Internet in the future a more complete excerpt and maybe not a book anymore; likely, all for free. This is my service to the world and to all who know me here in my country. This excerpt is especially for those people who are likely to scoff at religion and choose to be atheists and agnostics, because they want proof that can be scientifically verified in order to believe. For me, the recorded evidence in the Bible is enough proof. But most peoples philosophy and stand is to see (or read) is to believe. Please find here my newspaper clipping of a Cebu City local daily SunStar (August 11, 1985) which featured a much-compelling evidence that the Devil exists (his messiah Engr. Maneja arrived already and failed), therefore Almighty God must also exists. When I look back at my life, I can see that God prepared me well for my mission in life. Because of my experience in college, I have only a B- (2.25/1.0) grade point average (GPA) in BSME degree program (CIT and USC with the different scales-equivalent determined). But my highest semestral GPA is B+ (4.208/5.0 on the CIT grading scale) in my 2 nd year, 2nd semester at CIT. At the time of my having started to be known in school, I was 5th in the Honor Roll/List by Department. This was during my initial emotional ordeal in Engr. Paradelas class, while Engr. Maneja also began his unusual behaviour. Even then, still half of all my schoolmates, faculty and staff (in a less severe manner) continue to exclude me. They find it really out-of-the ordinary that an excluded person in school be passionate about airplanes with his weird aviation enthusiasts behaviour. They dont know that there are many people like me but they are not found just anywhere else: these are all sorts of pilots, aircraft mechanics and avionics technicians, aerospace engineers and scientists, and professionals and semi-professionals in aerospace-related degree programs; even workers in the aircraft construction industry; and people who are plain aviation/aerospace enthusiasts and frustrated aerospace people who did not achieve their dreams. But we dont have genuine aeronautical development in the Philippines to date. Philippine high government officials have yet to recognize the entity of the Filipino aerospace professional: engineers and professionals in allied fields. It is my lifes sober mission to change this status quo starting with genuine aeronautical education so I can multiply my persons type of professional among the dreamy Filipino youth, many of whom could be talented like me, whose rare talents may go to waste because our countrys cultural group and leadership continually forgotten them. As of the middle of this year, 2012, I have found through the Internet a similarly-oriented aerospace professional, a Ph.D. in Aeronautical and

Astronautical Engineering. His degree is from a Japanese university. His career goals in life also parallels mine. And he is a dedicated professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department of a local university. Thanks to God for this development. I am seeking more local aerospace professionals to join my cause. Aeronautics is really a fascinating field, and most viable AE graduate school applicants are gifted or highly gifted (I am only borderline gifted at the top 4%ile of the total population, or having an IQ of 126, 96 %ile). My country, Philippines, has yet to have a debut in genuine aeronautical development in industry (e.g., aircraft manufacture, etc.), academe, R&D, etc. My cultural group lagged the wests development in aerospace by more than 100 years! If you are familiar with the social implications of aeronautical development in advanced countries at the turn of the 20 th Century, you will know that it is man-made flight that is impossible of all things for most people, ordinary people and most learned scientists alike. There were also less-endowed individuals who joined the fray that invented weird mechanical contraptions supposedly intended to fly, but with little or no science applied at the time when powered mechanical flight very nearly achieved success around the 1900s or earlier. I dont know if the sign of crazy to relay to people nearby by unkind persons by a rotational motion of the forefinger on the heads temple is related to the advent of man-made mechanical flight, since those weird mechanical contraptions supposedly intended to fly at the turn of the 20th Century which all failed (perhaps without exception) all featured circular rotating motion of a part of the inventions configuration. I dont know the history of this sign but my thesis above is likely. People call persons known to have a fascination with flight in a backward cultural group will all sorts of labels. And my experience combined with a supernatural dimension is especially widely known or gossiped about. There were also legends about me from my college years. These legends are positive and the gossips are negative as I can soberly surmise. I am compelled to publish my writings and documents before December 23, 2012 for a personal reason, a holy superstition related to the End of the World Hype on December 21, 2012, but I have a separate source of concern; however, this is secret. In my cultural group in the Philippines are found many people that are very much like the incredulous-to-aeronautical-development people at the turn of the 20th Century in advanced countries. Although we have aviation activities (for already-manufactured, finished aircraft made in advanced countries), most people here recognize that aeronautics or the science, technology and engineering of flight, i.e., aircraft manufacture; academe, R&D, etc., is different and not for us. Even most people in high government positions in the Philippines, again, have yet to recognize the entity of the Filipino aerospace professional, engineers & professionals in allied field, etc. See advertisement of the DAEDALUS: DAVAO AERONAUTICAL CITY COLLEGE (or Daedalus, The Davao Aeronautical Institute of Technology) I proposed to the Davao City Council and Philippine Senate (as an aeronautics specialty state college of the University of Southeastern Philippines, Barrio Obrero, Davao City where I used to teach before as a former faculty member in early 1990s), as the only viable proposal/next occupant of the Old Davao Airport, Sasa, Davao City; abandoned and unused/unoccupied since December 1, 2003 when the airport operations transferred to the new location across the runway. I hope you will wish me luck in my endeavors and pursuits. The time is late for our debut in genuine aerospace development. I am really reticent to publish my writings and documents because I am a controversial person. As I have mentioned above, not only students maliciously exclude me in school at both the CIT and USC (because it was there that I got sick with an emotional breakdown (collapse of my emotional health) beginning of my 4-month emotional disorder in 12/1982-4/1983). (But my later relapses are all plain emotional illnesses/relapses caused by my emotional excitement/agitation for a variety of reasons. The happiness of receiving my admission offer letter from California State University, Long Beach in mid1999 caused me a short relapse. In my more complete excerpt I will publish in the future, you will know or read about more of these. I have counted my relapses at 36 in mid-2001 after which I lost track of them.) Certain school staff and teachers also exclude me in school. And there was one instance of my recompensing publicly in front of the class a teacher (History) for attacking me three times, the last also publicly, and in the middle of the Christmas Disco 84 at the USC-Technological Center hallway. My recompense happened in the Summer Term 85 five months later when I was his student for the second

history course under him which was History of Western Civilization; the first was History through the Arts (2nd Semester 1984-1985: November 1984-March 1985). For me my teacher has to be recompensed because he behaved and acted like Satan in his pride (hubris) and conceit because he knew everything about everything in history, or so it seemed as he just assumed. All of us know there are specialized facets of history. He evidently was convinced about the gossips of the students school-wide that all I know are just airplanes in the second clear innuendo he said in class (I am sure he meant me). He said later in the six weeks of classes before Christmas 85: if your interest is too narrow, youre just fit for the garbage! At the beginning of classes, he said: this course (history) is very important, you must buy a book; if you cant buy a book, you borrow; if you dont want to borrow, you steal! which I dont like very much because he seemed seriously to mean something with those proud words. The final attack in which he confirmed my sober suspicion was, again, during the Christmas Disco of 1984 at USC-TC. We happened to be near in the middle of the Christmas Disco, and he said something to Miss Evelyn S. nearby (I still remember her name; you may imagine us to be in a near triangle position), which caused her to laugh and dart away immediately after his saying his words while at the same time thrusting his right thumb finger in my near direction; not realizing that all his other fingers (4 of them) pointed at him. (All the other people around us did not notice us in their busyness/enjoyment of their dances. Only the three of us are involved in the incident.) I will not tell you what this most unkind word in a public attack my teacher said because its too much for a born-again/renewed (since I am a Catholic) Christian, like me. I will just let you imagine what it was. But I said and promised in my mind right there and then that: youll regret it for the rest of your life! And I know how to recompense him. I know because he is a history teacher that he will surely say and the first flight when referring to the Wright brothers first successful powered flight of a manned, controlled aircraft on December 17, 1903. And my next course under him was History of Western Civilization which for any general audience/class will mention at least one achievement in man-made flight, that of the Wright brothers. (Mans first flight was made in a balloon by the Montgolfier brothers in Paris, France 120 years earlier on November 21, 1783. There were also glider manned flights such as those of German aviation pioneer, Otto Lilienthal who died in a glider crash on August 6, 1896; Lilienthal was considered the greatest of pre-Wright aviators. Also toy/rubber-powered model airplane flights such as the Planophore of Alphonse Pnaud who demonstrated his flying model to the Socit Aronautique de France on August 18, 1871; his model having flown 181 feet after staying in the air for 11 seconds.) The Golden Rule really has to be applied. My teacher still attacked me even after my attending 6 weeks of classes under him (early November-December 1984) in the first history course with him, History through the Arts, in which I was one of the better students having excellently participated orally in class; with me seemingly always to be the one to give the correct practical answers to his many questions. In the History of Western Civilization, I turned out to be his best student (perhaps ever since), oral performance-wise only as I got only a B+ (1.7/1.0; 1.0 excellent and 3.0 passing; no D grade equivalent in my country) grade in this course thats essential for a person to be cultured. Now, this publication is not a justification of the grievous thing that I did to my teacher in a retaliation as there are more at stake you will read below that is something very serious. If I had not done it, what would happen to the Golden Rule? (i.e., the Silver Rule, the negative, prohibitive form; see Internet). What would happen to the version of the Golden Rule (i.e., Silver Rule) in the Bible in the case of judging other people only? Matthew 7:1-2 says Do not judge, or you too will be judged. (v.2) For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. (NIV). If I had not done it then Gods word would no longer be true(?). But He promised in Isaiah 40:8 the word of our God stands forever. (NIV); so always Gods words would prove true. Even if at the cost for the Christian to lose his life (i.e., social life, lovelife, etc.). If, imagine, Gods word would ever fail, and Gods challenger, the messiah of Satan Engr. Rudy Maneja, did his challenged public ritual of resurrecting from the dead through his gods (Yawa Ellohem, the original spelling in my newspaper clipping which means Devil god), power, would he resurrect? I doubt it. One thing I am sure is that Gods word would no longer be true since at least one explicit, succinct verse, Matthew 7:1-2, would no longer be true. (There are also other related verses in the Bible, Gods word, that are at stake.) It is as

though during that fateful night at the USC-TC Christmas Disco 84, Satan thought of his new cheap scheme and challenged God that if ever my teacher will not be recompensed, then he will have the upper hand since Matthew 7:1-2 did not proved true or have failed(?). But will this thing ever happen(?), which is unthinkable? Maybe the challenge is given only to a nephew of Atty. Martin V. Delgra, Jr., Ll.B. (cum laude; USP, Cebu), M.A. in International Law (UP-Diliman, Manila, Phils.). We all know that inherited genes from predecessors or relatives shared similar traits. What I did to my proud teacher was what my well-known uncle (in his time) once did to a proud new judge here in Davao City in September 1965. Papa Dodong as we would call him is a half-brother of my father Glicerio. But their mothers are sisters; my father is the eldest son of my Lolos (grandpas) 2nd wife. (There are 5 children from the first union, and another 5 children from the second union. My Lolo remarried after the first wife died. But my Lolo is not the True Love of my Lola (grandma). My Lola has another boyfriend but it was the old folks who decided on their behalf so the filialness of the siblings will not be far off. I remember I talked with my Lola in 1977 before she died: she told me about her boyfriend before 1930 and what the elders did to her. Because of her obedience: here we are. My paternal grandpas name is Martin S. Delgra, Sr. My paternal grandmothers name is Rosario de la Victoria Delgra.) It is among our moralist clans trait to stand for the truth whatever the cost. Below you will read an example on this which is verifiable in the Internet. The reference to my discussion below is Republic of the Philippines, SUPREME COURT, Manila, EN BANC DECISION, January 30, 1970, G.R. No. L-24981 (see Internet): MARTIN V. DELGRA, JR., petitioner vs. HON. ALFREDO I. GONZALES, Presiding Judge, Branch II, Court of First Instance of Davao, and THE CHIEF OF POLICE, Davao City, respondents. The scenario of the lawsuit here happens only in the movies, but its true. You can search it in the Internet, the court reference above. It is published for all interested people to read. We have in our successful clan, especially father side, a modest family pride of our immediate lineage. You can read also here in this publication documents on a few of my relatives and a list of all my father-side relatives in a 99 Town Fiesta souvenir magazine (Minglanilla, Cebu, Philippines; my fathers homeplace) done by my Family Researcher/Historian uncle, Maj. Gen. Florencio Jesus V. Delgra (Ret.) of the Bureau of Fire Protection. In 1985 during Engr. Manejas ritual, it was my uncle who was the Chief of the Cebu City Fire Department. You can appreciate the unusual coincidences in my one-of-a kind writings/documents. You will read also more about the unusual coincidences below that have a bearing to the holy patterns in the Bible such as the number 7; 40 as in 40 years of the disobedient Jews in the desert, 40 days after the resurrection before Jesus ascension to Heaven, etc. There are so many of these and more are discovered as time passes that they are no longer coincidences to me. They now only become ordinary to me; and I have no illusions about my identity and calling from the Lord. I must fulfil Gods purpose for me. And one of those is to publish my work before December 23, 2012 for a personal holy superstition related to the End of the World Hype on December 21, 2012; however, again, I have a separate source of concern; this is secret. My Assistant Provincial Fiscal (then-undivided Davao Province; before 1967) uncle just wanted to clarify something thoroughly in a court proceeding before moving to the next steps. But the Judge who happened to be from Zambales doesnt have a working knowledge of the Cebuano dialect in which the witness was testifying. My uncle respectfully pleaded the Judge to listen to his requested reconsideration because of his concern that in a certain sworn witness statement the court procedure may be misleading. The Fiscal (my uncle) underscored the need for [an] immediate correction. He (my uncle) strongly felt that if uncorrected, the next question would be on a false premise; worse, it could be misleading [to wrong conclusions]. The Judge wanted the witness to continue answering, while my uncle hold on to his position of a legal procedure of a court delay in order for my uncle to correct, his perceived error in the Cebuano dialects nuances of the witness statement. This lead to a heated professional legal argument between Judge and Fiscal (my uncle) inside the Judges courtroom which caused the Judge to issue his order of contempt of court and to order the bailiff to imprison my uncle until further notice. But the bailiff did not follow the Judges orders. That afternoon, September 13, 1965, my uncle flew to Manila and filed a lawsuit against the Judge at the Supreme Court. The decision was served on January 30, 1970 and the

verdict: the Judge is in the wrong or in error of his court proceedings. My uncle was known as a first class lawyer. His two sons also followed him in law profession. One of my nicknames Dodong is from him. The Philippine Supreme Court EN BANC DECISION (January 30, 1970) on my uncles lawsuit G.R. No. L-24981 against the Judge starts with: , J.: The question the herein petition for certiorari presents is whether or not, upon the facts hereinafter recited, respondent judge committed a grave abuse of discretion in issuing his order of September 13, 1965 declaring petitioner (an assistant provincial fiscal of Davao) in contempt of court and committing him to prison for 24 hours until such further order or notice from this Court ordering his release. The setting is the courtroom of Branch II of the Court of First Instance of Davao. The date is September 13, 1965. Being tried is Criminal Case 8666, entitled People of the Philippines, Plaintiff, versus Florencio Suarez, et. al., Accused, for attempted robbery with physical injuries. On the witness chair is one Pascuala Kudera, an offended party in the case. She is being cross-examined by defense counsel Amado Ceniza. The transcript records the incident that day as follows: [SEE INTERNET.] Notice the Criminal Case No. of 8666. The difference between this number and the ZIP Code of Davao City (8000) is 666. My uncle died on February 7, 1977 at the age of 55 years old. February 7, 1977 is exactly 7 months from July 7, 1976 (7-07-76); and 7 days to February 14, 1977; Valentines Day 77. This is also 19 years (6+6+7) before Engr. Paradela died in the Lord on February 14, 1996. I witnessed to him when I visited his residence in Cebu City one month earlier on January 7, 1996. He was sick then and was half-blind. During my witness he listened carefully to my sharing, weighed carefully the Scriptural evidence in the Bridge to Life witnessing material of the Navigator Ministries; nodded his head slowly in agreement after hearing my trained point in each stage of the Bridge, and finally he received the Lord Jesus as Lord and Savior in the Prayer of Salvation. But only after about 15 minutes of deciding whether he will take the step of faith of crossing the Bridge as I waited patiently. The longest in my experience of people I have witnessed to who received the Lord. The fastest is my father Glicerio just immediately after I finished my witnessing. My father said guapo (its beautiful). My father is a devote Catholic. He attends some of the activities of the Navigator Ministries here in Davao City. We strive to live godly Christian lives. I thank God that the church of my birth (Catholic), has the three fundamental elements of 1.) Salvation by faity; 2.) God-Man Jesus; 3.) Trinity. I remained a Catholic and I read religious history. The Philippine Supreme Court officially chided Judge Alfredo I. Gonzales with these words that Judges should be temperate and patient, courteous to counsel. They should avoid interrupting advocates in their arguments, and shy away from a controversial tone in addressing them. In conversations between judge and counsel, the judge should be studious to avoid controversies. Well it is to recall that: Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an over-speaking judge is no well tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge to show quickness of conceit in cutting off counsel too short. We have said and we repeat that we prefer to think that restraint still is a trait desirable in those who dispense justice. Was it Gods will that my teacher will be recompensed by me? The party concerned? Or God himself will recompense my teacher, but later on Judgment Day? Or in any timing and manner that God wants but not involving me? I will reveal it to you here: I think it will be too late if God will wait until Judgment Day to recompense my teacher. And I asked God to forgive this seemingly audacious statement of mine. But I soberly think and sincerely firmly believe that it is Gods will that my teacher will be recompensed that way. And I hope you will agree as I discovered holy coincidences regarding this matter. When I

recompensed my teacher that was one or two weeks before May 25, 1985 late in the Summer Term 85 because man-made mechanical flight happened much later in a general History of Western Civilization course and that was among the last topics. This date, May 25, 1985 is exactly 77 days to August 10, 1985, Saturday, the date of Engr. Manejas ritual/challenge to the Almighty God of duplicating Jesus Act of Resurrection (he failed); but by another power by his almighty he called Yawa Ellohem (Devil god). Yawa is the Cebuano dialects term for Devil, while Ellohem is from the Hebrew Elohim which means God; as I understand it Elohim is a Hebrew language name for God and not the name of God. There is also a curious coincidence with the Tetragrammaton YHWH, YHVH, JHWH, JHVH. Christmas 85, December 25, 1985 is exactly 7 months from May 25, 1985. The last Christmas with the 19-- number was December 25, 1999; and this was exactly 7 months and 14 years (7 years + 7 years) from May 25, 1985; and 7 days to January 1, 2000, the day of the Millenium Bug phenomenon. May 25, 1999, the date of my admission offer letter for the Degree Program of Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (conditional) at the California State University, Long Beach is also exactly 14 years (7 years + 7 years) from May 25, 1985. (My GRE or Graduate Record Examinations General Test Quantitative (Math) score is 77%ile; and my GRE Engineering Advanced Test score is 57%ile, 7%ile above the mean of 50%ile. My GRE General Test Math score of 77%ile is average among Engineering test takers. In the GRE General Test as well as the GRE Engineering Advanced Test, the average for all test takers is 50 %ile. You can find my scores I have published here. I hope you dont find me boastful because this achievement is really just modest considering them in a world class-wise perspective. But I am unassumingly proud of my scores and achievements. Because of my daring I have now this identity of being borderline gifted; again with a normal ability of an IQ of 126.25, 96%ile (Wechsler Adult IQ Scale: S.D. 15); (IQ 142 on the Cattel Childrens IQ Scale which corresponds with the old ratio IQ (MA/CA) variation characteristics: deemed to have a standard deviation (S.D.) of 24). My Cattel IQ score equivalent of 142 has the sum of digits equal to 7. Mensas minimum requirement for membership (the only requirement) is IQ 130, 98%ile. While the International High IQ Societys (IHIQS) minimum required is IQ 124 (sum of digits 7), 95%ile (the only requirement). I did not push through with my application for membership in the IHIQS (the lowest level high IQ society headquartered in New York, which was originally named as the New York High IQ Society and founded in April 2000 by Nathan Hasselbauer) because of my perceived malice in their website: there is in the Trivia section a white spacy cartoon icon or mascot that has a light red-yellow-brown color horn which shape I dont like (there are also animal horns that doesnt look evil such those of the ram-sheep). I have also an objection to the other high IQ Societies (I qualify only to about 6 lowest level high IQ societies with a requirement of IQ 125, 95%ile). Because of this, I am thinking of establishing my own high IQ society, the PAGASSA or Philippine Aviation, General Aeronautics and Space Sciences Association (the Filipino word Pag-asa means Hope in English). This is not a pure high IQ society because our aim and main goal/activity is pursuit of Philippine aerospace development. Only the highest level grade members scientists are of high IQ (IQ 124 and above). There will be five (5) levels of member grades in my proposed society: Scientists: IQ 124 & above; Engineers: IQ 110-IQ 123; Technologists: IQ 100-109; Technicians: IQ 90-99; Craftsworkers: IQ 84/85-89. Even if members are not scientists or engineers, etc., they will have member grade status of honorary scientists and engineers, etc. if they fall within certain IQ level bracket. So much for my deemed necessary, related digression and I will now return to my main topic. If I had not done to my teacher what I did then I would commit the sin of omission. In my Catholic church we recite always at the beginning of the mass a prayer which mentions four types of sins: sins in my thoughts, in my words, in what I have done, and in what I failed to do. I think the gravity of these sins is getting greater from left to right: the sin of omission is the greatest sin. And if I failed to discipline my teacher by not teaching him a lesson of humility, then I would fail the Criteria of the Character of the Blameless Person as specified and clearly stated in Psalms 15 (Living Bible Version): LORD, WHO MAY go and find refuge and shelter in your tabernacle up on your holy hill? Anyone who leads a blameless life and is truly sincere. Anyone who refuses

to slander others, does not listen to gossip, never harms his neighbour, speaks out against sin, criticizes those committing it, commends the faithful followers of the Lord, keeps a promise even if it ruins him, does not crush his debtors with high interest rates, and refuses to testify against the innocent despite the bribes offered him such a man shall stand firm forever. (The Living Bible is really living as you can see (read). I recommend you buy one and compare it to the other versions.) Of course, there are more to the character of the blameless person not explicitly specified and stated here. And the first of these is sexual purity, so that a great many people are already disqualified as so many people are immoral. I am not one of them. The translation of keeps a promise even if it ruins him in the New International Version Bible is just who keeps his oath even when it hurts. Maybe the translation of speaks out against sin in the NIV is who despises a vile man. However I cannot find the translation for criticizes those committing it, in the negative sense. Maybe the opposite, positive translation is used in the NIV: but honor those who fear the Lord. I am not perfect but already four (4) people once told me that I have no sin; I know of course I have sins and I am a sinner. This is just the impressions of these four people: three are members of the Magallanes family, our neighbour, two brothers and their mother who told me at different times that I have no sin; this was in late 1990s when I visited their residence in Digos next to our house. I was not able to explain to them that certain people are really blameless but all are sinners; it never occurred to me to explain to them what I know about Scriptural truths; but I did not accept what they said that I have no sin, for I know that I am a sinner too. And that only Jesus Christ, the only perfect Man, the God-Man Messiah, Savior of the world is the only one among mankind who never sinned. Perhaps the most blameless person in the world in all history is Job you can read in the Book of Job in the Bible. But I know of a few people who have excellent characters, even blameless. The fourth person who told me that I have no sin is Honeyline D. Braceros who was my recent acquaintance during the Election Day, maybe January 18, 1988 at Digos, Davao del Sur, my old hometown. She was 18 years old then; her birthday is January 7, 1970; and was a college student then and a volunteer watcher of the election manual ballot/votes counting activities at a certain election precinct/room in the elementary school where I spent my grade school years where I graduated in 1975, this is the Ramon Magsaysay Elementary School just 300 meters from our residence. My father Glicerio (Engr., Civil; former Municipal Engineer of Digos: 1969-1978) was a candidate for the first and only time (independent party) for Councilor of our town. (He was a well-known, respected person in our hometown and during the manual counting of votes, at first when the votes counted are from the locality, my father was, maybe, 2nd (I cannot remember it clearly now) among the tentatively-incompletely ranked candidates. But when the votes from the hinterlands arrived and all votes are tallied up, my father did not make it to the list of successful, winner candidates very far.) I visited many precincts during that day after voting in my own precinct, to see the tentative, incomplete results of the election. When I happened to visit the precinct where Honeyline was, I initiated the conversation with her and found her friendly. After a while, I went out from her precinct to visit other precincts again to see the tallied election results, then back to her precinct again for I enjoyed her friendliness and conversation with her, a member of the opposite sex, for I never had a girlfriend ever since. This was repeated alternatingly the whole day up to the evening from about 8:30 A.M. or a little later. And during this opportunity of intimate one-day acquaintance with her, we developed or established instant lasting friendship; but her beauty is not the type with which I will decide to pursue a sweetheart relationship with. But she is reasonably beautiful being a 1st or 2nd Runner Up of a local beauty contest; maybe in an activity in school. (Later, I photocopied her picture in her college yearbook at Cor Jesu College library, my high school, to keep permanently among my documents because she turned out to be the most broadminded person I met ever since. Details you can read below.) We have time for intimate conversation inside the precinct because her volunteer works nature allows her to do so. Then after 7:00 P.M. I went to the precincts at the Davao del Sur National High School in Digos about half a kilometer away with my bicycle to see the more complete tallied results there; then after a while I went back to my elementary school again. Since, maybe, it was cold that night I wore a sweater while bicycling. When I arrived at her precinct, she was

outside sitting on a concrete bench with someone. I was outside near the room when I arrived from National and placed my bicycle in an inoperative, resting position. I took my sweater off and since my back is exposed to the cool night air, I placed my sweater on my back for warmth; the front of my bodys exposure to the cool air is a bearable condition. I saw Honeyline with her friend in the faintly-lighted dark area nearby. And at the moment of my placing my sweater at my back, she reached out to her male friend to signify non-verbally something; as though what I did with my sweater was an abnormal behaviour. And instantly when she recognized that her action was noticed by me she suddenly retracted her hand; but I saw this with my peripheral vision. I then realized that she may have already heard some negative stories (gossips) about me. For it was there in Digos in December 1982 to April 1983 during my fourmonth emotional disorder, that I did very unusual behaviour like erratic and unconventional bicycling (for I have a pilots nature; even the military type but I lacked physical prowess and stamina), and walking, even during the night, alone and seemingly to nowhere, but I always come back home for dinner. I dont remember I ever became famished in my purposeless, aimless short walking trips within my hometown 30 years ago! I also recognized people and still be able to converse with them relatively normally with my emotional disorder state of 4 months. But people have unexplainable aversion, even hatred without reason, towards psychological patients in their temporary psychological disorders. (I must include this: my father in his busyness and serious, strenuous efforts in his civil engineering practice to produce finances in order to send us to school, has forgotten that his fourth child is a male and neglected my physical development. He never bought me a bicycle because of his concern that I will meet an accident. He does not allow me to swim alone in the shallow shore 3 Km. from our residence for safety reasons (I am a loneranger but not a loner). And he did not buy me a tennis racket because tennis is for rich people (actually, he bought me once a fake-model plastic tennis racket with no brand name perhaps when I was about 14 years old or 2nd year high school. The racket quickly was damaged after a few strokes. I did not ask for another racket again. At that time in mid-1970s plastic, fiberglass-reinforced rackets are not yet in the vogue. Our towns tennis court is just 100 meters away). These are my only three exercises. I dont know how to play basketball, though I tried to learn the sport unsuccessfully before and around my teenage years. We are five children in the family. The eldest, Alexander, 6 years older than me, now my sponsor of my U.S. advanced study, studied at the Saint Aphonsus Seminary High School in Cebu City in 1968-1972 (closed by the Redemptorists Order not long after his batch); college and medical school: 1972-1980. All my other siblings are girls and we all studied in grade school and high school in Digos. I was 6 years old when my elder, only brother left for Cebu City to study in high school. So I grew up a weakling with little physical development. But now I have a regular body though people will not see my flabby body flesh beneath my dress.) Honeyline still approached me not long after that incident and conversed normally with me. She asked me if I will not get angry or be offended if she will ask me about something (she was really very curious about me because of our one-day conversational acquaintance which was very normal until she heard a controverting feedback late in the evening). I told her no for I know already what it was (these things are ordinary to me). During the whole day at her precinct the elementary school teacher who was in charged there listened very intently to our conversation; maybe if she will hear an off-tangent word or something, but she did not hear one until evening. I also noticed this but pretended not to have noticed it or being offended. Then Honeyline asked me if I get sick before? (I know she meant a psychological illness.) (This was in January 1988 and my emotional disorder happened in 12/1982-4/1983: she never heard anything about me before; her house is also at the edge of the townsite one km. from our house.) I said yes to her inquiry, that I got sick before and that it was my psychological illness of 1982-1983. Since we already have the background of a whole day of very normal conversational acquaintance, our conversation went on until mid-night and beyond: the election results are carefully guarded by people until the morning (watchers and other people guard the sanctity of the ballot until the true results arrive at the government centers Municipal Hall in my former hometown Digos). Honeyline told me about what the teacher inside the precinct told her which caused her eyes to lit very bright in her extreme shock, ha?!!! (what?!!!). She told me that the teacher said (in vernacular) ma-ayo natu siya nu?, ma-ayo natu siya nu? (hes now okay (or normal now), right?, hes now okay (or normal now), right?). Nganu man di-ay? Honeyline asked; (what about him?

Honeyline asked). (The next information I cannot remember it if it really was the exact words spoken by Honeyline or surmised by me.) Nabu-ang tu sa una! (he became insane before!); which caused Honeylines eyes to lit very bright in her extreme shock! But because of our very normal one-day conversational acquaintance that day, I can remember vaguely as January 18, 1988 (I was 25 years old then), our friendly conversation carried on until late in the evening and during the dawn. (People stay in the public schools where the election voting and manual counting of ballots are held, through the night until the next morning. That was the first time I was out of our house for the whole night. And I can remember it vaguely that my father said to my mother not to worry even if Dodong (me) is outside for the whole night because he (me) is mature already; they know of course that it is election day and what people do during election.) Honeyline told me the friend (male) she reached out to (and retracted her hand from upon her instantly realizing I noticed here), told her (again, this information I cannot remember it if it really was the exact words spoken by Honeyline or surmised by me): Nganu mudoul man ka atu niya? flip yun a! (mixed Cebuano and Tagalog words: Philippine major dialects); (why do you come near him (or talk to him)? hes flip (crazy)! Honeyline told him (she said to me) sino? si Engineer? (who? the Engineer?). No, hes not! Honeyline answered him in English. Honeyline told her friend that he is stigmatizing (putting down, all imaginable words) a person who has no sin (walang kasalanan in Tagalog). But I know I am a sinner too. Again, just as with our neighbour, the Magallaneses, I was not able to share to her my Scriptural knowledge about the reality of certain persons throughout history being blameless (still not perfect as all are sinners), as it never occurred to me that night. She recovered from her shock in perhaps about under 30 minutes upon hearing the gossip revelation from that unkind teacher. She is the most broadminded person I have ever met since: I call her this worlds supreme genius in broadmindedness which is fitting and perhaps unchallengedly true. That morning while I and Honeyline walked along the road back from the Municipal Hall (where we examined the latest votes developments), to the school, we met that teacher going in the opposite direction and towards us. And the expression of her face is that of one who was extremely intrigued as though seeing a person who was just risen from the dead (really! this is my most sober impression and unbiased assessment); (but only Jesus was resurrected physically from the dead); (do you reader not realize that an emotional breakdown or collapse of ones emotional health results to a death of an emotional disorder?); (there is also a record of King Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament of the Bible who got sick with a psychological disorder; I think it was a nervous (due to fear) breakdown like Isaac Newtons). I said in my mind upon seeing that teacher: the triumph of good over evil! as we passed by; me not minding her or expressing anything negative to her. I also recognized Honeylines friend as our far neighbour when I was a young boy. At about 1:30 A.M. the sky is clear as I can remember it and there were stars above in the night sky. I said to her, pointing to a star system in the sky, thats Pleiades (but I am not sure as no one taught me this; and I also dont have any authoritative reference then; father bought for the family a Readers Digest Atlas when I was young and I saw there information about the night sky. I am thinking of buying an astronomical telescope in the future (my brother-in-law Fred Nadela, a computer expert, has a new Celestron telescope), and buying a popular astronomy book; there are many books for sale, some new all cheap, even printed in the U.S. hardbound books, at the BOOKSALE bargain books at the NCCC Mall, 4 km. from my new residence in Davao City; since 1998). Another friend (male) of Honeyline nearby who evidently/ apparently knew something about me was intrigued-amused of my knowledge in astronomy. Honeyline said about a mystery word whose meaning I dont know. It is amos. And I said Amos was a minor prophet in the old Testament. And she laughed in an intrigued/impressed amusement and said to her another friend nearby nakadungog na gyud ka ha! (you really now hear first-hand evidence of my legendary (amateur) scholarship; modesty aside). Around 2:00 A.M. we were alone sitting on a bench outside her precinct. And she gave her reason why she still returned to talk with me despite the most sinister gossip she ever heard in an impossible case of recovery from a psychological illness: crush man gud ku nimo Darvs, (one of my many nicknames); (cause I have a crush on you Darvs). Then she placed her head on my right shoulder in a friendly-loving manner but without malice or a subtle invitation for intimate physical relation. I just let her at it and did not place my right hand at her shoulder. Then we paused for a while in our conversation. I will never forget her. She will remain in my heart as a

cherished faithful friend forever. Ive read in a dating topic issue in a certain publication that its broadmindedness that is highly sought for in a prospective partner, as per statistics information record of a survey. But because of Honeylines affectionate friendliness she is gossiped by men as an easy girl. Even detailed gossips about how her father (security guard at the Davao del Sur National Hospital), treat her at home I have heard; and two from my far neighbour who is now a lawyer; another from a high school schoolmate. I heard that her father prohibited her from engaging in a sweetheart relationship and that her father will slap at her face any solid object he can hold at the moment in the house if she offended him. I also heard from this lawyer that one of his friends testified that he has touched her, and he believed, relaying the gossip to me to intrigue me to believe his 2nd degree testimony. But since I am a blameless person (God knows I am; my conscience is clear), I did not believe the gossip. Psalms 15:3 does not listen to gossip is one of the criteria for the character of the blameless person. My stand on the issue is that my friends friend who testified about his gossip has to talk with me and I will challenge him that if what he said is not true, he will swear to die tonight (the night of his testifying to me) to certify his testimony, before I believe (for I have been acquainted well though briefly with the super-broadmindedness genius Honeyline). One time after this, I got sick with a relapse, maybe a moderately-severe emotional illness relapse, and I went to her house. We were alone when I arrived and I simulated myself in an amorous behaviour to test her and found she is clean and a good girl. I said to her sorry, amigo gihapun ta ha? (were still friends (huh)?; or can we still be friends?). She said yes or can still be. I told her puwede ku mobalik? (can I come back? or can I visit you again?). She said depende, (it depends). But I did not go to her house again. However, we meet again unplanned afterwardss in the town and she requited my friendly gestures when we met or she passes by; such as her passing by while riding a pedicab (motorized tricycle). She is now married and I heard her new homeplace is Kidapawan City, North Cotabato, 1 hour by bus from my former hometown. I have passed Psalms 15:3s test splendidly. This test of Psalms 15:3 is perhaps the Achilles heel of most people. It is as though because I am blameless that God allowed me to experience my first almost-grave sin on June 18, 1998 (June = 6th month; 18 = 6+6+6; 1998 = 3x666) in a simulated offense (candidate court case lawsuit offense; but the lawsuit did not materialize it was just settled in an amicable settlement by my family (parents) and the other party, me being exiled from my hometown). My unplanned/unmeditated simulated offense was not meant to be consummated; that was during my 12th emotional illness relapse which started on June 2, 1998, the Ir--- family incident in my life in Digos, my old hometown. I got sick with a relapse starting on June 2, 1998 when I received the BSAE admission letter of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, FL which was very mild at first. (I have been offered admission before to this schools MSAE degree program (conditional) in December 1992 which lapsed after a 4 year extension of my admission offer as I was deemed a special case. I reapplied but since my new tests scores dropped, I was not offered MSAE admission again, so I applied to their BS program.) And I believe this is so, so that I will experience first-hand what or how it feels to be like a full-fledged sinner for the first time with Gods permission, to Satans cheap challenge of an experience of a semi-sin or a very dubious sin for me (but without the guilt of a full-fledged offense-sin), again as per the Evil Ones, Satans challenge, just like in the experience of Job. But our experiences are different: compared to Job I am very far away in the line of blameless persons (from the least blameless, to the most blameless who is apparently/ evidently Job: his experience is recorded in the Bible for all people to read and learn from; all are sinners however). Before this happened I heard from one daughter of the Magallanes family, our neighbour, that 1998 is the year of the 666, for 1998 is 666x3. The Ir--- familys 2nd eldest daughter, RMNI, is my 6th love; and 17 years old when I first saw her and I was 29 then (Trivia for you: from ERAU, Daytona Beach, Florida; what is her name? ERAU is also the 6th school I applied to in the MSAE Degree Program). RMNIs birthday is May 14, 1974 (5/7+7/1974 = sum 21 = 7+7+7) exactly 14 months (7+7) to July 14, 1975 (7/7 +7/1975 = sum 22 = 7+7+8) and 14 months (7+7) after Albert Einsteins 94th birthday anniversary, March 14, 1973; born 1879. I persevered regarding her because of my friends exhortation; that of Mr. Teodulo Jong Ramirez, Jr., as I consider him an authority on love as he is a writer and a gifted inspirational speaker. He was also a former high position government executive and a former Dean of a college in

General Santos City. His degrees are A.A., A.B., Ll.B., M.A. (History, University of the Philippines). I consider my lifes most important loves these: 3rd love, 6th love, 7th love, 14th love and now finally my 15th love who lives just in my locality; shes very young, our gap is 35 years. My 4th love and 5th love are just buffer-interface and my 8th to 13th loves are just buffer-filler because I am not totally satisfied with their attributes, but I fell in love with them in different ways. My 1st love in college is 3 years younger; my 2nd love (my student in Calculus at Ateneo de Davao University), is about 7 years younger; my 3rd, 8 years; my 4th and 5th maybe also around this age; my 6th love, 12 years; my 7th love, 18 years; my 14th love, 23 years; and finally my 15th love, again, 35 years younger I am 50 years old now, 2012. (Before my first love I have a love, B.S., that did not bloom in full. So I considered her my zeroth love.) I will wait for her till she gets around 25 years old or older because of my quest for an aerospace degree in the U.S. It will be in 2017 when my elder brother (M.D., DABIM) sponsor in Nutley, New Jersey finally gets ready to finance privately my very expensive U.S. advanced study. At present my two nephews are in college and I heard that the elder son will pursue the law degree. My program if it is direct MSAE with a further 1-year BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan (I finished before in 1999-2000 one year of this), will be 3 years at the shortest. And if I take the indirect route of taking the BSAE first, since my plan/desire is college teaching in AE, it will be 5 years at the shortest, or 5 years or 6 years (BSAE and MSAE degrees). So it will be in 2020, 2022 or 2023 when I will graduate at CSULB; hopefully, God willing in Jesus, may he bless my plan and dream. It was in 2000 that I stopped schooling at CSULB. I am a very patient person as you can see. I am also lovingly and unselfishly supported by my married eldest sister, M.D., OB-Gyne, 2nd eldest in the family, since I am unemployed for a very long time because of my frequent relapses then. I hope and pray to God in Jesus that I will no longer have relapses anymore, if this is possible so that my lifes plans, career and dreams will be continuously uninterrupted from now on; may he bless me. (My sponsor in the U.S. is the eldest in the family he is 56 years old now.) I and my eldest sister are neighbors here in our village as my father bought a small house in late 1990s when he sold our house in Digos to raise funds for my U.S. study: good only for one year at CSULB. I am alone in my house and I am just sharing the household of my eldest sister, 7 houses away, during the day. My father also built a new house in Digos on a lot thats 3 times as big as our old lot; one that was given as bequest by our (now deceased) childless relative-uncle of my father (his wife is my fathers auntie-cousin of my grandpa). It is only now that I reached a little over 3 years that I did not get sick with a relapse. There were only 2 three-year periods before I did not get sick for 3 years, the longest in my experience; these were: 1983-1986 and 1987-1990. But despite my handicap, I am an ever hopeful person with a very positive view of my future. My dream of an aeropace degree had its beginnings right when I started to be conscious of the outside world in my earliest conscious age; I dont know exactly how old I was then; maybe 3 years old. At that very early age I was already keenly observing everything around me that flies; even heavenly bodies during the day and night. My interest developed as I grew up and I read and researched everything about aerospace. Now I am a graduate student in Long Beach, California and I have proven myself to be a viable graduate school candidate with my two admission offers and aborted one year of MSAE study there in 1999-2000. I thanked the Lord that I am born into a very supportive family. Realistically daring ambition is one of the traits I inherited from my biological pedigree. Many members in my clan are high achievers, especially in my father side; modesty aside. I will carry on my legacy of modest family pride from them in my endeavors. It will be around one or two years of work after graduation at CSULB that I will be ready for marriage; the U.S. having no age limit for job applicants. But I may just elect to pursue a Practical Training after graduation, preferably at The Boeing Co., Long Beach, for one year then I will come back to teach at the University of Southeastern Philippines located at Barrio Obrero, Davao City where I was a former faculty member (ME) in early 1990s. But I may not be the marriageable type since I never made a girlfriend since. I will just wait for the Lords timing. Who knows what is his plan for me since I am strongly attracted to the beauty and allure of the opposite sex. I just know that Gods will is best and that God is only good, always good, all the time, all the way. Though he may seem strange to me at times because he is not a man like me (but we have a link: the victorious saviour God-Man Jesus Christ). I thanked the Lord that I got my Bible knowledge from the Navigator Ministries. Now I will return to my discussions on my freak experience of a supernaturally-

induced dubious sin on June 18, 1998 in Digos. It happened 14 years ago and I sent explanatory letters to my many friends there about it. Now I am living a normal life here in my village, my new home in Davao City, and I am popular among the young children in my locality who always greet me when we meet. My life now is very different than before. I hope this favourable emotional status quo in my new home in Davao City will be maintained. May the good Lord God in Jesus bless me that the rest of my life will be happy and and that I live positively. Again, I have virtually no regrets about what I have been through. Instead, I am justifiably proud of it. On Judgment Day there will be very many surpises for my many very unkind stigmatizers. But I dont hate them in my heart, this I have settled already in my mind, by the act of my will since I am a born again/renewed (since I am Catholic) Christian. Rather I pray for them that God will forgive their sins of being uninformedly judgmental who can blame them this world is a fallen world. I checked the meaning of forgiveness in my Websters dictionary and it is to cease to feel resentment against. And resentment: the feeling of displeasure or indignation at some act, remark, person, etc. regarded as causing injury or insult. But my memory is permanent. However, I dont let this memory of my past interfere in my present activities and career I know life must go on and I know that the key is active forgetting by engaging in worthwhile activities. But I know very well that there will be no perfect peace in my mind if there is no justice to the most painful experiences I have been through in college 30 years ago. Our Philipppines President Benigno Simion C. Aquino, III said on his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in July this year, 2012, that forgiveness can come, even if not easily; but to forget wrongs cannot come easily unless there is justice. For my case this justice is just for the people in my country those people who know me and and who heard issues about me for them to know the whole truth about my unusual person and what I have been through 30 years ago; which is thus the perfect rationale for this Internet publication. For my Experience at CIT and USC which is linked to Engr. Manejas unusual behaviour has been widely disseminated among the local people, people in my region in central and southern Philippines as a as an enduring gossip(s)/positive legends. What happened to me 30 years ago in 1981-1982 in Cebu City is now a part of local history. And perhaps also of world history; but I have no illusions. However, I eschew publicity always. I dont like it. Its not in our blood. Because of Jong Ramirez exhortation to persevere in which I heard him speak to me three times 7 years(!) of waiting, twice on the bus when we met and once when I called him by phone, my waiting became that long. Actually, when Jong gave me this exhortation, it was my 3rd love that is the issue. She is ALAJ from Cotabato, nearly 100 miles away; she is my girl-of-my heartbeat love and I became brokenhearted with her. We met one year (or 14 months) earlier (April 17, 1990) than when I first saw RMNI (6/28/1991; exactly 77 years from the start of World War I: June 28, 1914). I thought and just assumed she would be as broadminded as Honeyline Braceros, that very broadminded girl I met two years earlier, but sadly they turned out to be exact opposites it took her 5 years to recover from her shock on my revelation of my psychological condition; she is a nurse. (In my experience, I think the average time to recover from such extreme shock is 2 years.) We met at the Ateneo de Davao University dormitory during the Summer Term 90 when they had a Nursing senior year practicum in Davao City. I experienced my 7-year lifes deepest brokenheart starting on December 17, 1990 (87 years after the Wright brothers first successful powered flight) over her, again my third (3rd) love, ALAJ, when I received her basted (busted up) letter that day (she turned out to be of zero broadmindedness later as I discovered/realized very late: again, it took her around 5 years to recover from her shock on my revelation of my psychological condition; again, shes a nurse and when she finally recovered she was already married to another man for a couple of years). Since I saw RMNI 6 months after this (12/17/ 1990), my attention turned to RMNI as a lesser love prospect as really ALAJ is the girl-of-my-heartbeat love then (I will tell you below what happened to my endless love for her). RMNI served for me a critical buffer lesser love for 7 years which enabled me to bear or endure that very long span of time of heartbreak, my lifes deepest brokenheart, a girl-of-my-heartbeat love brokenheart, over ALAJ. She was almost 20 years old when we first met and I was 28 years old then. Again, I met ALAJ during their Summer Term 90 Nursing senior year practicum in Davao City. They are from the Notre Dame University in Cotabato City. And they stayed at the Ateneo de Davao University dormitory during that fateful summer

where I also stayed, along with two other single male faculty members in a certain room in the 2 nd floor; ALAJs room was also at the 2nd floor. (I also met Jong Ramirez at the dorm where he stayed temporarily in our room because he is a friend of then AdDU President, Fr. Antonio Samson, S.J., Ph.D., Chemistry, Brandeis University.) But ALAJ and me first met at the ground floor near the entrance of the dorm at about 8:00 P.M. on April 17, 1990 (8 months to December 17, 1990). We were then sitting, me and my law graduate/soon-to-take-the-Bar Exam reviewee companion, on the metal lounging open seating facility outside the dorm (three seats with the middle a circular metal low table); and briefly our conversation subsided and we became silent and I turned down my head in temporary rest. Then after a short while I turned my head up and saw ALAJ sitting there on the heretofore vacant third seat in front of us me and my law graduate male friend-(also) dorm occupant. She was writing something on the metal circular low table and her student nurses companions were nearby in the area, assembling in their activity that night. Because ALAJ had something to write she left temporarily her group and found our place to do her thing. When I saw her I looked at her face very intently, the lights of the dorms entrance being at her back. And I have to do a drawn-out frontal study of her semi-lighted face from our viewpoint. It was a love-at-firstsight attraction; at least my love for her beauty (I of course dont know anything about her character, whether desirable or not, at that first meeting, or any of her persons traits), was in its embryonic stage, you may imagine it a zygote love, the very beginning of it. Then I asked her Miss, what is your name? She answered ALAJ. I was impressed with her open-mindedness and non-maliciousness: first, she came near to us, both male persons, sitting on the outside seating facility; then when I asked her about her name, she gave her name right away. In the three weeks that they were in the dorm, I then initiated my friendly relationship intention with her. Her room where she stayed with her classmates and her other classmates room were just across the hallway or corridor in the 2nd floor from our room. Within those three weeks of initial acquaintance in the dorm in which I was known as one of the good, even excellent, teachers at Ateneo (modesty aside) and she can trust the favourable stories in the school she heard about me I was able to obtain her address in Cotabato. Later during that summer when they went back to their homeplace, I wrote her with a most inspired letter sending with it my best picture with dedication in the envelope. I wrote her in my letter: during our acquaintance at Ateneo I was impressed with your openheartedness, your quick nice replies pleases me, your serene and beautiful face endears me. I would like to know you more. Please write back. And she did write back: with her reply letter dated June 6, 1990 (6-06-1990) together with an enclosed picture with dedication. I visited her on June 12, 1990 (92 nd anniversary of the Philippine Independence Day in 1898; (77+7+8) years) at her barrio near a Plywood Plant in Cotabato about 15 km. north of Cotabato City. She was there at her residence when I arrived and she welcomed me warmly. We conversed for 5 hours (12:00 noon to 5:00 P.M.) with eye contact, sitting nearby on a sofa at the sala of her house for it was a holiday and her mother and sister-in-law and nephew were there nearby. Earlier when I arrived, I also had a short conversation with her father whos interested to be acquainted with me; the family also had preliminary information about me from their daughter and from the letter and picture I sent, maybe received by her on June 6, 1990 six days earlier. I said in my mind this girl really, maybe is mine. (My friend Dr. Rosello Lyndon, Ph.D., Dr.Tech., Dean of the Engineering College of the University of Southeastern Philippines at Barrio Obrero, Davao City where I was a former part-time teacher (ME), told me that a conversation acquaintance of two hours or more with a love prospect is a big something already he is also a married man. But I turned out brokenhearted with her 6 months later when I receive her basted (busted up) letter on December 17, 1990 with my lifes deepest brokenheart which lasted 7 years; this was my 3rd brokenheart. (My first brokenheart was over my 1st love, BERB, a junior schoolmate at the University of San Carlos-Technological Center, which lasted about 3 years: 1985-1988. My second brokenheart was over my 2nd love, CAI, my student in Calculus at Ateneo in 1989, this lasted only one week or 7 days: she has good character but I am not the man she wants to marry or shes not ready for a relationship then.) When I returned home to Digos and to Davao City where I still have a part-time college teaching job items at Ateneo and the University of Immaculate Conception, also in Davao City, I got sick with my 3rd emotional illness relapse precipitated by that (emotionally very-happy-over-a-love prospect) meeting with ALAJ; the predisposing factor was my stressful overwork of even just one year of college teaching (part-time) together with pursuing at the

same time one-year of post-baccalaureate B.S. Aeronautical Engineering study (3rd year, 15 units course load, 1989-1990) at the MATS College of Technology in Agdao, Davao City. (I started my postbaccalaureate BSAE study at PATTS College of Aeronautics at the Domestic Airport in Manila; 2nd year; Summer 1988-1st Semester 1988-1989: 7 months. Then I transferred to MATS in Davao the next year. I got my break of a first real job, a teaching job, at the Ateneo de Davao University teaching Calculus to 2 nd year Engineering students in April 1989, Summer Term 89.) My father told my mother that this girl, ALAJ, really, maybe is the one after I told him that in my conversation with ALAJs father, ALAJs father was surprised/impressed/intrigued/(all imaginable words) upon seeing my letter from the University of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Department (reply letter of Dr. Jan Roskam who invited me to start as an easily-admitted undergrad aerospace student). This was my response to her father who told me that mag-abroad yan si ALAJ (ALAJ is going abroad to work as a nurse), and I answered mag-abroad din ako Sir! (I am also going abroad Sir.) then after a few while her father left me with ALAJ at the sala. It was the happiest moment in my life. And I have recorded my experiences that time as I wrote diaries from 1988 to 1992 or 5 years; this was because my elder brother government physician then in Digos gave me at the beginning of that period a diary compliment by a drug agent. My relapse lasted for about one month with medication and I got well again. But my original psychiatrists services were all just insincere standard medicine-based practice. I met my first genuine psychiatrist in school, 1999-2000, at the CSU, Long Beach where I am a (conditionally admitted) MSAE student (finished 1 year of BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan at that time then I came back home here due to lack of private family funds). He is Dr. David Scarpino, M.D. (University of Houston). I have also a psychologist Dr. Richard E. Cantey, Ph.D. (University of Southern California) who was my initial point of contact. And I have a physician there, Dr. Rebecca E. Wills, M.D. (University of Southern California), Chief Staff Physician of the University Student Health Center. Now, I am satisfied with the services of my local psychiatrists as I consider them genuine with their sincere concern. I have three since 2001 and I maintained contact with one continuously since that time. My original psychiatrist just experimented drugs with me continuously for 15 years. In my life, there are so many supernaturally-malicious happenings/experiences as though Satans challenge to God that I should go through it. But I only know that God is sovereign and only good. I visited ALAJ again on July 27, 1990 at her boarding house in Cotabato City near her school, NDU. I gave her three roses that late afternoon, the first and only time that I did so. When I arrived her boardmates went upstairs to give us privacy. I really knew that there was just one major block/issue to overcome, settle or resolve before our courtship can proceed normally and (hopefully, favourably) well. This is my normal psychological disability that is much misunderstood by a great many people. I hoped that she will understand that because of her knowledge in nursing, she knew that not all psychological patients are abrnormal; she has first-hand evidence of this surely in her practicum at local rehabilitation centers in Davao City (but I was rehabilitated only once on-and-off in a 6 year, 3 month period, 2001-2007 at a local rehabilitation here). I just assumed that because we already had a 3-week intimate acquaintance at Ateneo de Davao University, a very credible place, she may be as broadminded as Honeyline Braceros, again, that very broadminded girl I met two years earlier. (But I was wrong as they turned out later as exact opposites as I discovered very late, near the 7th anniversary, April 17, 1997, of our first meeting at Ateneo in 1990. As I have mentioned above regarding RMNI, I persevered in my critical buffer lesser love prospect for her for 7 years. It was Jong Ramirez who first told me to persevere regarding a love prospect when I showed him the basted (busted up) letter of ALAJ. He told me when we meet in the bus along the route from General Santos City to Davao City, regarding ALAJs 2nd letter: binata (its childish). He told me that the sure key is perseverance. He told me that a girl will realize that a man really loves her if he persevered. But she already made her decision about me as a suitor when I told her on July 27, 1997, my second visit, that I have psychological condition an emotional breakdown in 1982, for she is impulsive. She was very shocked but still entertained me normally that our meeting lasted 6 hours from 5:00 P.M. to 11:00 P.M. in the evening. Our supper meal is just lumen (Chinese souped large noodles) in two large enough bowls. When I came back home, I got sick with an emotional illness relapse again. And my father changed his mind and told himself this girl is not the one. My father

prohibited me to go back to Cotabato City again. He told me that a caring, thoughtful letter is just as effective as my actual presence in visiting her. This is also what Jong Ramirez later said when we met after I received ALAJs busted up letter. So I sent her letters specially the 7 very beautiful cards my elder brother in the U.S. gave me/sent to me here. After my 5th letter with with this card series, I received her busted up letter (the last two of these 7 cards I have kept among my documents permanently these last two are cards expressed replies to a love-prospect positive response and engagement-prospect positive response from a girl the extremely beautiful 7-series courtship cards (I have never seen any other of those ever since) was cut short at letter No. 5). Again the date of my receipt of her busted up letter was December 17, 1990. My mother upon seeing me brokenhearted reminded me that I am a Delgra. And a Delgra I really am as I proved to be. I was able to bear and survive my long-drawn-out heartbreak with Gods grace and holy providence in Jesus. And God in Jesus is very good in providing me a critical buffer lesser love prospect in RMNI 6 months later (6/28/1991). Also on July 1, 1996 God also provided me another (critical) buffer lesser love prospect, SSS, that I met at the Digos Town Park one night doing their Citizen Army Training (CAT); (4th year high school) formal military functions in a ceremony in our town governments social/public activity that night. I realized when I first saw her that I recognized/noticed her unconsciously one time before in the Mary Mediatrix Church in Digos when she was speaking in front of the congregation as a lector, and I was sitting in front. She was 15, almost 16 years old when we first meet (7/01/1996) and I am 34 years old. That time I did not fall in love with RMNI and SSS yet with a full-fledged love(s) but only in the manner of critical buffer lesser loves I am in love with two lesser loves while also being broken-hearted with my lifes deepest brokenheart over my 3rd love, ALAJ, from December 17, 1990, the date of the receipt of her busted up letter. In two or three years (in 1992 or 1993) after my meeting/(aborted) intimate acquaintance with ALAJ, she married another man. I have a theme song in my heartbreak with her Lumayo ka man (Even if you leave me) which gave me some very appropriate comfort in the rivers of tears which flowed from my eyes for an extended period. I also had another instrumental theme music during that time, the Concierto No. 2, in C Minor Opera 18, by Sergei Rachmanninoff. This music was composed by him during the height of the persecution of the Communist Regime in the former Russian Soviet Union, perhaps not long after its establishment on November 7, 1917, the time of the success of the Bolshevik Revolution. And the depth of feeling I can imagine when listening to it is the most beautiful. It has an out-of-this-worldish most comforting depth of feeling in-a-deep-suffering theme though not a pitiful, sad theme. I called this music, this worlds most beautiful music it may be one of the music in heaven. Now that I passed and survived my lifes deepest heartbreak, I have thought about a comprehensible title of Concierto No. 2, in C Minor Opera 18: it is No More Tears, which may be appropriate. The music though appropriate for people or cultural group in deep suffering to give them an out-of-this-worldish depth of feeling for a most soothing emotional comfort, when these people or cultural group (such as people in the early days of the Communist Regime in Soviet Russia or people who had gone through a very deep brokenheart such as my experience 22 years ago), when they already had passed through it (the very deep suffering/emotional suffering) and it becomes a thing of the past never to come back again, the unusual depth-of-feeling theme of the music becomes that of a most profound appreciation of real happiness. That is why I have thought about a comprehensible title of Concierto No. 2, in C Minor Opera 18 which is again No More Tears, and this may be appropriate. Real enduring happiness can only be appreciated if there is contrast with an experience of deep unhappiness, the person concerned hopefully will be able to pass through it. This may be the very reason why God allowed evil to exist, for it to be the tempter of mankind in order to test all people. And when evil will finally be disposed of in the End Time and it becomes a thing of the past, with the victorious work of Jesus Christ on the cross a supreme, perfect safeguard that evil will not come again, real happiness then and only then will be perfectly appreciated. Now back to my many loves. In 1994, I met a girl, JVW, who may be 8 to 10 years younger than me. She was a vocational school general education teacher and a daughter of a lawyer whose office is just at a parallel road to the back of our old house road in Digos. I first met her there in an eatery at the front of her fathers office. And I fell in love with her with my 4th love though she is not beautiful; but she is not ugly either. She has good

character but she has two kids from her single lovelife experience. Her father who became my friend and he knew my father also told me that it was her daughters luck or lot in life to have children out of wedlock. I thought she was pure and when I heard that she has kids I cannot believe it because she was slim and looks like a maiden. She has good character and we became friends and she gave me a picture with a dedication on it. Once when I was in the house of my cousin in Davao City, the song Macarena was played by the radio. It was one of the few songs in the world that made the world dance. When I realized I was in love with my 4th love for JVW, it was the song Macarena that I heard, and it became the theme song of my love for her. Now I know that with respect to my storied lovelife Macarena means Im in love again. You may also want to determine the accuracy of my claim regarding this music yourself in a careful review/appreciation of the song. Again, as with my 2 nd love, CAI, I am not the man she wants to marry and did not requite my love for her. We parted ways in good terms. Later she married a man from our town. I used to visit Sunga Hospital in Digos and befriended the staff there for they have time for visitors and are friendly. I fell in love with one of the nurses at Sunga Hospital, CAS whose nickname is Emma and she was my fifth love; that was in 1995-1996. But our love attraction is not mutual though she may find me attractive for many people also find me attractive; modesty aside. My attraction for her is also that of a lover whose beauty tastes in a love prospect is not fully satisfied. Again, my 5th love came to pass and we parted ways, also in good terms. In 1995 I had a chance meeting with a person in my hometown who knew me but that was our first conversation. He is an employee/half-brother of the owner of a photocopying business in Digos that also has a branch in Cotabato City with the same name and he was the manager there. When I visited their photocopying business in Digos one time (on weekend he comes back to Digos) for my documents, he remembered his experience in Cotabato earlier (I dont know how much earlier); he told me (remembering the words of a person who turned out to be ALAJ): uy! minyu na man tung uyab nimo! (huh! (Ive learned) your girlfriend is now married!). Then he said: regards, nangumusta minyu naba siya?... minyu na man ko uyab man gud mi sa una (regards, how is he? is he married already? (referring to me) I am already married cause were sweethearts before). (She may have seen their business location and name in Digos during a bus trip. And she may also have recognized the same business name in Cotabato City and took her chance of an acquaintance connection with me.) She considered me a sweetheart before even if she did not really requited my love for her because of her impulsiveness in making an instant decision that night (our second meeting in Cotabato City, this time at her boarding house on July 27, 1990), after being shocked in knowing about my normal psychological disability the term I said emotional breakdown really hit her hard like a bomb. All the controverting evidence to the contrary of her temporary impression, and all the positive things she heard about me in school at Ateneo de Davao University has no value as counterbalancing evidence that even then, even if I have a psycholotical condition, I am still a very normal person. (I have read about a drug company publication about schizophrenia which describes the illness as a normal thinking disorder. But I have a spiritual insight on this mysterious illness.) I did not understand my feeling then when I heard such news from ALAJ, whether to become happy or get angry or both. But my girl-of-my heartbeat love feeling for ALAJ started to become stale from that time on. I also had another news from her from my high school classmate who went to Kidapawan City, North Cotabato where they met. For it was there that ALAJ and her husband met and likely made their home and career there; just one hour by bus to the northwest from my hometown. My high school classmate is a civil engineer and he went to Kidapawan City to buy lumber as he told me later, and they met in a certain store where he recognized her face, because my friend high school classmate saw the picture ALAJ gave me. In response to his initiating the conversation in a surprise recognition of her, she told my classmates that were not sweethearts but close friends and that we could have been sweethearts had I continued the courtship where is he now? To which my high school classmate answered he is just there in Digos. All those years while being brokenhearted with ALAJ I persevered regarding RMNI, but she never entertained me. There was only one instance at her school, Cor Jesus College, in Digos that I cornered her and she was forced to entertain me. I also did intrusive, unwelcomed visitations at her house for 7 years hoping assumingly that if someday she will know the facts of my psychological condition, she may have

a change of heart. But just like ALAJ, she has an unusual unfactual prejudiced fear and apprehensions on the unknowns of my mysterious person, which I discovered very late. Near the 7 anniversary, April 17, 1997, of the first time I saw ALAJ in 1990 I realized that I should make a decision. I prayed to God that if ALAJ is not widowed by that time, for I realized that certain women are widowed early like Ruth in the Old Testament, God will cancel my love for ALAJ in my heart. Also during in 1996-1998, I felt in my heart I am in love with two lesser loves, RMNI and SSS, while my heart was still heartbroken over ALAJ. And I have a theme song for the two of them, RMNI and SSS, which sounded to me before as corny: sana dalawa and puso ko (I wish I have two hearts for then I will not have to choose among you). Also since my love for ALAJ in a brokenheart becomes more and more stale, there were at least two songs which were appropriate to me that time. These are McArthur Park and I will survive. McArthur Parks lyrics goes there will be another song for me for I will sing it, there will be another dream for me and I will seek it I will have the things that I desire as my passions flow like rivers through the sky I will win the worship in your eyes and I will lose it and after all the loves of my life, after all the loves of my life, youll still be the one Ill be thinking of you. But this is not true anymore after the 7 th anniversary of the first time I saw her (1990) on April 17, 1997: God cancelled my love for her as per my request as all it did to me was a deluge of tears for 7 years and impossible deepest feelings of brokenheart surmountable only by the power of God in Jesus as I am a Christian. McArthur Parks song further goes I dont think if I can take it, for it took so long to bake it and Ill never have that recipe again oh no! oh no! (operatic ending). I that felt morning of April 17, 1997 that my critical buffer lesser loves for RMNI and SSS graduated to a full-fledged love(s). First, I felt I am already in love with RMNI with a full-fledged love. Then when I said in my mind I may be able to marry at last, my mind turned to SSS. Fourtheen (14) months later (June 18, 1998; Thursday) during my 12th relapse the incident at the Ir--family residence happened. My 12th relapse started on June 2, 1998 when I received Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universitys admission letter. It was an unplanned/ unmedidated happening caused my longdrawn-out feeling of being insulted by the Ir--- family (her mother will never tell me where she is in my drawn-out one-sided courtship). In my intrusive, unwelcomed visitations in my hopeless unrequited love for RMNI, I persevered but she turned out also having the equivalent of zero broadmindedness. One or two weeks after June 2, 1998 one night at about 9:00 P.M., I also had a similar experience with a far neighbour who had been in a parental conflict with his father and turned to us with my companions across the road, sitting at a bench on the public parks outside boundary. In terror, I simulated confronting him with a karate defense stance to buy time then I hurriedly ran away. I will not give anymore details, except what happened to me afterwards: on June 18, 1998 (6/6+6+6/666x3); my experience I also did to RMNIs mother in a simulated offense which was settled in an amicable settlement since clearly I am not guilty because of my condition. These are my frequent relapses I have counted to 36 in 2001 from 1986. When this happens to me I am no longer behaving normally, or I am not in my right mind, but rather in my left mind (I have a thesis on this in my future book about the role of the two geniuses, one good the other evil, that accompany a person throughout life). I guess many, even all, of the theory in psychiatry has no spiritual dimension which is lamentable. For clearly people are spiritual beings, not just biological beings. There is a need to overhaul psychiatry to revolutionize it to include a spiritual dimension. In my experience, that conditions that lead to, or the factors that are the direct causes of, relapses, are very unpredictable and usually are not noticed then I get sick. In a relapse I still can reason correctly, but my brain is very tired and my behaviour a little irrational: bicycling slowly around the oval at noon because my route took me there; and walking several kilometres to the beach to stay there for hours to relax, but I am always be home for dinner. Also when I am sick, I liked to stay outside to be exposed to the heat of the noonday sun, just standing, when everybody else takes shade, but I am never violent. There are times in the 1990s when I am sick that I spend a whole night outside our house, sleepless, and just relaxing at a nearby Elementary School, etc. I would like to emphasize, in a relapse, I am never violent but sober. But, again, there was a single extremely-freakish supernaturallymalicious instance on June 18, 1998 (June = 6th month; 18 = 6 + 6 + 6; 1998 = 3 x 666) in my hometown Digos, Davao del Sur, which was the Evils Ones most traitorous attack on my person to paint my person

with a very bad image; I have also a similar experience then one or two weeks earlier; during my 12th relapse. However, this is settled already as it was only a simulated offense not meant to be consummated as I was deceived then by the thought that I will never have to lie later on in a consequential court case that will follow, etc. It was arranged by my family and the other party that I will be exiled from my hometown. I came to the U.S. in 1999, studied there for one year in my BSAE Deficiency-removal Plan in my MSAE degree program, then I came back home due to lack of private family funds. And since December 2007 I regularly attended our Christmas Homecoming in our high school in my former hometown, now Digos City, Davao del Sur. Actually, in two instances before this, on July 25, 2005 and November 8, 2007, I visited my hometown with my familys permission as the emotional hurts has apparently healed. I documented this incident, and if you are interested what is this, I will submit to you my notarized documents on this extremely rare incident in my life that is not found in my impeccable immediate clans character. The Evil One attacked me from childhood but his attacks became public in my college years. In this compilation you can read about this as well as solid supporting documents that I collected through the years. I consider RMNI my 6th love and SSS my 7th love. My seventh loves name means (another name for beach)-lyn and the vernacular for luck or lucky. Again, she was my 7th love. I lost my 7th love. She seemed attracted to me also even with our age gap of 18 years. However, in our hometown where I experienced my 4th month emotional disorder (12/1982-4/1983), she surely heard many stories about me, but there are many counterbalancing evidence. We never get to know each other very well and her mother told me to wait till she gets 25 years old before we will have serious courtship. So during her 25th birthday on July 25, 2005 (7/25(sum=7)/2005(sum=7) I went to her residence in Digos writing earlier for her to tie a yellow ribbon at her gate if she still wanted me. No yellow ribbon when I arrived there. I retraced my steps then came forward again, then looked to heaven telling God thy will be done on me. I passed this test of the Lord and more as you will see. There are many tests in my life as though Satans challenges to God that I should go through all those things. God I know is sovereign and good. I hope you can glean something from my writings about the goodness and sovereignity of God. When I went back to Davao City, I got sick again with an emotional illness relapse (I stopped counting my relapses in 2001 at 36). And I has rehabilitated again. 10 days later VCL came to my life. She was my love No. 14 as there are 6 buffer-filler loves from SSS (7th love) to VCL (14th love). This was on August 4, 2005. But we met only once and never again. The place of our only one meeting was at the Babista New Day Recovery (Rehabilitation) Center in Lanang, Davao City where she was a student nurse on practicum. She may have heard very negative (but unfounded) gossips about me that on December 17, 2007 (Wright brothers flights 104th anniversary), she told me over the phone theres no VCL here, bye. I knew I was busted up again. But VCL is my most beautiful love, but I never have a picture of her. Just as with Jong Ramirez exhortation, I waited 7 years to what happens regarding my love for her. Seven years passed and we never met again. Then after 19 days from the 7th anniversary of my first meeting (with VCL) August 4, 2012 I saw a very young girl on August 13(Monday)-17(Friday), 2012 as I failed to note the day. But we were acquainted in the pedicab (motorized tricycle) on a route to our village on August 23, 2012 and she gave me her name: her name is VTP, and other information about her. However for our 3 meetings so far, she did not know my name yet or many things about me. She has the same given name as VCL and our names can be artistically combined together. She is my 15 th love. VTP can replace VCL totally. I never thought I would meet another most beautiful love prospect in her, and she is residing just in my locality. And if she turned out to have the broadmindedness of Honeyline Braceros, that broadmindedness-genius girl I met on January 18, 1988 Election Day in Digos, then God will have then proved his perfect, holy providence. Since we are just from one village and I am living normally here, there are good prospects for favourable intimate acquaintance with her. She will turn freshman in college next year. Her prospective course is B.S. Chemical Engineering. She has a faint glimpse on my unusual person when on our August 23, 2012 meeting in the pedicab (motorized tricycle) I showed her two of the five books I bought: these are Space Invaders: How Robotic Spacecraft Explore the Solar System by Michel van Pelt; and Grade Inflation: A Crisis in College Education by Valen E. Johnson.

Now I will go back to my topic about what I did to my history teacher at the University of San Carlos in the Summer Term 85 with my formal message: a letter to my elder brother in 2009: Street Name, Village Name Suburb Name, Davao City 8000 Philippines E-mail: darvin_delgra555@yahoo.com May 4, 2009; [Edited: February 4, 2010; Thursday] [Latest Edition: December 19, 2012; Wednesday] Dear Manoy, Please dont believe those stories about me in my college days in Cebu City at the University of San Carlos. In our study in Mathematics, for the truth to really truth, it has to be entirely true. If there is just one detail wrong or missing, then it is not the truth anymore. There is not one gossip thats true. One writer, Oscar Wilde said: the truth is never simple, rarely simple. Do you not think that such grave offense is a serious cause for the disqualification of my eligibility to graduate from college? There is the Office of the Dean of Men and appropriate school offices concerned about student behaviour. Why did such widely-heard incident not reach school high officials? But I will tell you here the truth about it. Youve heard that ma-ngorek daw ko sa maestro (I used to correct teachers in school). The truth is that I corrected one teacher (History) only once for a reason. What the gossipers are propagating is that it is my habit, I did it for no reason, and I did it many times. But they dont know the truth about it: the teacher initiated the scenario for it by attacking me three times before the incident and what I did was a just recompense. He attacked me because of his presuppositions on my much-maligned person-student in the schools sub-society, based on the many tsismis (gossips) he heard about me, I soberly believed, because I am an unusual person in school, both at CIT and at San Carlos. Youve heard that manginsulto daw ko sa maestro, (I used to insult teachers). The truth is that it was the teacher who insulted me beforehand, not once but three times and the last was in the middle of the Christmas Disco 84 and my teacher only received his just recompense. Youve heard that wala daw ko mo-respeto sa maestro, kausa, (Youve heard that I did not respect a teacher/I dont respect teachers, at one time). The truth is that it was the teacher who did not respect me because I am excluded and gossiped in school as a psychiatric case, but still an acknowledged good student. He thought that all I know and being interested in is only about airplanes (in a non-aviation environment) as was propagated by the gossipers. But I was his student for two courses in History (History through the Arts and History of Western Civilization) and I turned out, perhaps, to be his best History student (oral performance-wise only) so far as I was able to answer in class essentially all his practical questions in history in my brilliant oral participation in his class. He discovered the truth about the gossips first-hand they are very wrong and he realized his serious error of judgment of me. He attacked me twice in class in the six weeks before Christmas 1984 by interjecting two clear innuendoes in his lectures that point to my worthlessness as a narrow-interest person, as he initially supposed (but he discovered the truth in the coming months). Then in the Christmas Disco 84 he attacked me publicly by humiliating me in the middle of the Christmas Disco, although there is only one other person who noticed it as the object of his spiteful intent and right there I promised in my mind: youll regret it for the rest of your life.* In the Summer of 85 in his History of Western Civilization class I corrected him when he said: and the first flight But before he finished saying, I said in anticipatory ambush: correction Sir! its the first successful powered flight! He was humiliated in just recompense, but quickly recovered by turning to another topic (ok!...), and it happened in only about 2-3 seconds. That is why there are no detail(s) on it in the gossip stories that is circulated.

*Which means essentially, I will teach you a lesson on humility: I am a teacher and an academician too! For me a real teacher is one who has the ability, interest, talents and nature of a teacher, although I was still a student then. My first real job is being a math teacher at the Ateneo de Davao University in April 1989. Now I am proposing to the Philippine government the creation of an aeronautics specialty state college here at the abandoned Old Davao Airport (since December 2003). I dont want to happen to other serious aerospace enthusiasts among the dreamy youth in our country to experience what I have gone through in college. By Gods will in Jesus, I made progresses in my proposal and unselfish efforts. The name of the school I proposed is the (Daedalus) DAEDALVS, The Davao Aeronautical Institute of Technology after a Greek Mythology. That of Daedalus and Icarus with Daedalus meaning success, skillful, ingenious, cleverly intricate and diversified: from dictionary daedal.

What happened is the application of the Golden Rule (i.e., Silver Rule; see Internet) and the version of the Golden Rule (i.e., Silver Rule) in the Bible in the case of judging other people only (Matthew 7:1-2 says Do not judge, or you too will be judged. (v.2) For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. But the Golden Rule (i.e., Silver Rule) Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you, is not found in the Bible. Rather it is do to others what you have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 7:12); (the Golden Rule: the injunction in a positive form). The (Chinese) Confucian Silver Rule Do not do unto others what you do not want others do unto you, is only about getting even and stopping there. The Bibles version points to more. What youve heard from San Carlos is just Part One of the Issue. In December 1995 I visited him at his office at the USC Main and asked for apology for the incident ten (or 10) years earlier and he accepted my apology because he initiated the issue. At first he did not recognize my face, after that long time, but he readily remembered our Family name. He said in essence: he did not hold it against me then, Merry Christmas. Then we finally parted ways with peace in our hearts and minds. But the gossipers continue to spread false issues/stories on the incident. On Judgment Day there will be surprises in favour of me. This you can read in this lengthy excerpt of my soon to be published full book. I hope you will be interested to secure one of my no-holds-barred full-edition book. Signature [Nickname] Darvin Anthony B. Delgra As I have mentioned above, it was around one or two weeks before May 25, 1985 that this incident happened. And you can read also the many coincidences with history about this date. There are more. Nine (9) months from May 25, 1985 is February 25, 1986, the day of the success of the EDSA People Power Revolution in Manila. The revolution took 4 days (number of days) and 3 days-time from February 22, 1986. Seven (7) months from February 22, 1986 is September 21, 1986 which is exactly, again, 7 months (considering no. of days and not days-time). This day is the 14-year anniversary of the declaration of President Ferdinand E. Marcos Martial Law on September 21, 1972. About the number 9 months to February 25, 1986 from May 25, 1985, we all know that a child is carried in the mothers womb for 9 months until birth at the end of it. Thus the revealing coincidence. The EDSA People Power Revolution is the second such people power revolution in History. The first is the birth and growth of the Church in the first 2 Centuries A.D. which brought the downfall of the Roman Empire. However the EDSA is for the modern times. It paved the way for the release of persecuted people from repressive regimes around the world though not perfectly or thoroughly. This Revolution will surely be included in history books from now on. There is nothing like it in the modern times. We Filipinos are proud to be the originators of it. August 10, 1985 is exactly one day after the 40-year anniversary of the end of World War II, August 9, 1945, the Atomic Bombing of the City of Nagasaki, Japan. If you remember above, this is the date of Engr. Rudy Manejas ritual. The number 40 is significant in the Bible. It may mean a time of testing or probation such that of the 40 years of the disobedient Jews in the Desert before entrance to the Holy Land; or the the 40-day walking trip of Elijah to Mount Horeb in 1st Kings 19:8 in the Old Testament. Or a time of waiting, such as Jesus stay on earth 40 days after the Resurrection before Ascension to Heaven. Going back to August 10, 1985 above, concerning the day after the 40-year anniversary of the end of

World War II, there was a movie in mid-1980s with the title The Day After. It was about the Nuclear War of the future and what will happen the day after and the rest of the days after that. We can realize that Engr. Rudy Maneja did his gasoline-burning ritual challenge to God of being-resurrected from the dead through his (other) gods power Devil god (he failed miserably). I heard in the radio (and this is not propagated among the people) that all people who will join his/their true religion will survive the Nuclear War; thus his ritual as solid proof to all people. My course under Engr. Feliciano Paradela was Phys 311 Nuclear Physics. And one year later, in December 1982, the scientists from the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (then Philippine Atomic Energy Commission) who visited CIT (and USC) from Manila were convinced that God (Trinity) exist and that the Name of his Son is Jesus Christ. By Gods grace and providence, I was successful in my mission. The information in this Internet publication is large enough for you to make a serious study on it. God called me for this very purpose. And I have fulfilled it. But there will be published a printed book edition on the same topic in the future. It will be a real no-holds-barred book. Theres nothing like it. I must add this information. My elder brothers (Alexander; the eldest in the family) birthday is September 15, 1956; one day after exact 7 months from Valentines Day 56, February 14, 1956; (56 = 8x7); 1956 (sum = 21 = 7+7+7). My eldest sisters, Belinda, birthday, November 21, 1958 is exactly 175 years from the first manned balloon flight of the Montgolfier brothers in Paris , France on the same day in 1783; (175 = 25x7). September 9, 2009 (9/09/2009) is my immediate elder sisters, Claribel, 49th birthday (7x7). My birthday, May 10, 1962, is the 130th/131st (leap year) day of the year; my IQ equivalent in the essentially-perfectly simulated GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) General Test score of 1250 (verbal + quantitative); my actual score is 1190/1195 GRE (V+Q) IQ 126, 96%ile. My younger sisters (Maria Eunice; the youngest in the family) 15th birthday (7+8) on October 27, 1979 is 7 months from March 28, 1979 (no. of days and not days-time); my high school graduation: the start of my 7-year Tribulation in college, 3 years at the Cebu Institute of Technology and 3 years at the University of San Carlos. My admission offer letter from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida dated February 3, 1993 is my mothers, Carolina, 64th birthday. Finally, I must add this information which is not so amazing: My fathers birthday, May 13, 1930 is just 3 days from my birthday. My ultimate obtainable IQ is really up to 135 with my IQ range of 126 9 IQ points; from my GRE General Test score range of 1190/1195 110/115; or from 1080 to 1300/1310 (theoretical ultimate). Amazing? It really is. The million-dollar question is: was I loving in correcting my teacher in front of his class? I would like to point out to the reader that what I did is not simply a retaliation but that I was only Gods instrument in carrying out His recompense to my proud teacher in his sinful hubris. Again, it was as though Satan made his cheap challenge to God that fateful Christmas 84 Disco at the University of San Carlos-Technological Center hallway that if my teacher will not be recompensed, because of the reticence of a sociallyconcerned (what will people say?) irresolute Christian, Satan will get the upper-hand because in such a case Matthew 7:1-2 Do not judge, or you too will be judged did not prove true. But will this happen? Again, maybe the challenge was given only to a nephew of Atty. Martin Delgra, Jr., my well-known (in his time) uncle in Davao City (deceased: February 7, 1977). I have already discussed above many things about him and his Supreme Court case lawsuit with a Judge of the Court of First Instance in Davao City in 1965. The cases scenario happens only in the movies and my uncle won in the Supreme Court. My uncles controversial action action of defying the Judge court procedures was justified by the SC. And I am confident that I too would be justified by the Lord in my socially-offensive/controversial action on Judgment Day. For people of the present age just have this philosophy: be nice to people even if you compromise your principles and all will go well with you. Satan in his chagrin of being defeated in his cheap challenge to God (Matthew 7:1-2 Do not judge, or you too will be judge at stake), continually uses gossipingly-sinful people to make continually darker and darker issues about the matter about me. But God is a perfect judge. I am publishing this Internet revelation to let broadminded people know the whole truth about what happened. It was in early-mid 1980s that the issue happened and still the gossips lived on. Because it is linked to Engr. Rudy Manejas most unusual, unexplained-to-people behaviour.

Now here is the complete explanation. But there is more to this in my unabridged printed book soon to be published in a few years. Again, I hope you will be interested to secure one for thorough information. Was Jesus loving in his act of overturning the stalls of sellers who made the Temple of God a den of thieves? (Matthew 21:12-17). Was Phinehas loving in killing the Israelite man Zimri who indulged with sexual immorality with a Midianite woman Cozbi found in Number 25:7-8, because Israel greatly sinned by yielding to immorality? (Verse 6) Then an Israelite man (Zimri) brought to his family a Midianite woman (Cozbi) right before the eyes of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of the Meeting. In Numbers 25:10-13, the Lord approved of Phinehas action because he has turned away my anger from the Israelites; for he was as zealous as I am for my honor among them (Numbers 25:11). Do you know what Phinehas did? He killed both of them, Zimri and Cozbi, while they were in a very sinful physical relation by driving a spear through both of them. And Gods anger subsided and commended Phinehas and made a covenant of peace with him (Phinehas); (Numbers 21:12-13). In the same way, God also will commend what I did to my teacher for the reasons you already know now. Was Jesus loving in his act at the temple driving out the sellers and overturning the stalls? The definite though strange answer is Yes! Because being zealous for the Lords honor is among the highest kinds of love found anywhere. This is difficult for us to believe but this is the Truth! I would like to end my excerpt with the lyrics of a song: Fill The World With Love: Artist Petula Clark and Album Goodbye Mr. Chips. (God found me early. I became a born again/renewed (since I am Catholic) Christian at the age of 18 years old. Since then God protected me to be safe from the many sins committed by many adults. I have grown in my Christian life and would like to make/follow-up my first disciple when I will be back teaching, for this activity is connected intimately with a source of funds.) In the morning of my life I shall look to the sunrise. At a moment in my life when the world is new. And the blessing I shall ask is that God will grant me, To be brave and strong and true, And to fill the world with love my whole life through. (Chorus) And to fill the world with love And to fill the world with love And to fill the world with love my whole life through. In the noontime of my life I shall look to the sunshine. At a moment in my life when the sky is blue. And the blessing I shall ask remain unchanging, To be brave and strong and true, And to fill the world with love my whole life through. (Chorus) In the evening of my life I shall look to the sunset. At a moment in my life when the night is due. And the question I shall ask only I can answer, Was I brave and strong and true? Did I fill the world with love my whole life through? (Chorus)

FROM AN INTERNET RESOURCE: Aerospaceweb.org

If I graduate college with a degree in B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, can I attend graduate school in aeronautical engineering?
-question from Eroz

Can a mechanical engineering graduate work in the aircraft industry?

-question from name withheld

Aerospace engineering is essentially a specialization of mechanical engineering. In particular, aerodynamics and propulsion are a specialization of the fluid dynamics option available in many mechanical engineering programs. As a result, mechanical engineers usually have little trouble transitioning to course work in the aerospace field. It is therefore quite common for someone with a bachelors degree in mechanical engineering to pursue an advanced degree in aerospace. Likewise, mechanical engineers are quite common in the aircraft industry. While aeronautical engineers tend to be experts in designing the overall layout of an aircraft, it is mechanical engineers who most often do the detailed design work to put those concepts into practice. For example, an aerospace engineer may design a shape for a wing to achieve aerodynamic efficiency, but a mechanical engineer would determine where the various structural components need to be in order to build that wing and connect it to the fuselage. MEs also typically complete official drawings used on the assembly line telling the workers how to put the aircraft together.

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