The Amen Vibration E-Book

Richie Quirino

• Herausgeber: WS
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 166

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This book is for seekers of truth beyond the teachings of parents, churches, schools, and communities. Forty years in the making, it includes the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of living, from the seemingly obvious to the occult, from the boundless diversity of paths toward Divine understanding and the unification of it all. The unity of the universe as functions of light and sound is explained and demonstrated in many examples. Light and sound are part of the same continuum of vibrations; they are simply different frequencies, as are things we see and hear, as well as microwaves, infrared light, and so on. At the heart of this continuum is the sound of the universe, the primordial Word: the Om of the Taoists, Aum of the Hindus and Buddhists, Amen of the Christians, Hu of the Ecks or the religion of Light and Sound and Hum of the Tibetans. These phenomena are explored by the author, who has experienced the discovery of one’s self and place in the universe.

Leseprobe

THE AMEN VIBRATION

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Volume II

Richie Quirino

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PRONOUN

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Dedication

Forewords: Carlos L. Quirino in 1977

Dr. George Sison

Emily Abrera – A Cultural Point of View

Dr. Roberto M. Bernardo – A View from a Rizalist-Humanist

Chapter I: And God Said: Let there be LIGHT!

The Sun Gods

My Journey

The Expanding Light Meditation

Birthers and Science

Good Vibrations

Light from Within Living Creatures

Colors and Music

Light and Sound and the Laws of the Universe

Feel the Sounds and Light All Around Us

Chapter II: The Universe

When Nature Speaks

The Sound and Music of the Spheres

More Voices along the Ages

Lord Let Me Sing to You until I Am Nothing but the Song - RUMI

Chapter III: Land of the Morning, Child of the Sun Returning

Healing and Society

Electromagnetic Healing and Other Forms

Poetry, Music, Creative Writing and Dance

Various Forms of Healing

Chapter IV: The Amen Vibration

In Music

Light

Sound and Light

Ether and the Soul

Through the Ages and Voices

Light, Music, Science and Art

Epilogue

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Reviews of the print copy of The Amen Vibrations

Copyright © 2017 by Richie Quirino

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Other books by the author:

The Amen Vibration – 1977 Unpublished

Pinoy Jazz Traditions – The American Era – 2004 Anvil Publishing

Mabuhay Jazz – Jazz in Post-War Philippines - 2008 Anvil Publishing

Contemporary Jazz in the Philippines – 2011 Anvil Publishing

Remembering Carlos and Liesel – 2012 Unpublished

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ECHAD is the spiritual name of Richie Quirino, in Hebrew meaning: “Oneness in Unity.”

PREFACE

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AS A CHILD OF ELEVEN years of age, I collected sea shells that I would find on the shores of numerous beaches that I would visit during summertime, during Holy Week in observance of Good Friday and Easter Sunday, and during the Christmas, New Years and Three Kings season holidays. I was not only fascinated by the various forms and colorful designs, but more so by the sound I would hear when I would put the sea shell against my ear and wondered to myself, where was this mysterious sound coming from?

A number of years later as a thirteen year old teenager in 1969, I was exposed to the hippie culture where wielding the victory sign and uttering “peace man” was the norm of the day. Jesus the Christ was my hero and so I grew my hair long as did the humble carpenter from Nazareth. One day, my father asked me to accompany him to the Manila Polo Club not too far from where we lived. As we entered the lobby it was only then that I realized we were headed for the barbershop. I made an immediate about face and ran for my dear life and dropped by a Jewish friend of mine by the name of Karen Sheff to borrow some money I would need to make the journey to San Carlos Heights in the Laguna de Bay lakeshore town of Binangonan. San Carlos Heights was highly elevated and upon reaching the top before sundown, I ventured into the naked forest. There I met up with a family and as a stranger introduced myself and shared my unusual predicament of running away from home. They provided shelter from a Nipa hut they called home and shared whatever food they had on the table. For twenty seven days I lived with them and communed with mother-nature. The warm sunny days and chilly nights were long and I was fascinated by the sound of the leaves rustling from the wind by day, and by night counting the light of the falling stars awed by the vastness of outer space. It dawned on me that God provided everything in the forest such as food, water, shelter, and medicinal plants to treat all kinds of ailments. This is where I attained a peaceful co-existence with nature and self-realization in oneness with God. Finally, I realized that it was time to go home to my parents who were most certainly terrified by the disappearance of their youngest child.

Upon reaching home my parents were overjoyed by the very sight of me and I was allowed to keep my long wavy hair. Three days later, I noticed I started to develop red rashes on my stomach and within a number of days spread to the rest of my body. The attending physician informed my parents that I developed Scarlet fever and that it would be best for me to stay home under the watchful eye of my Spanish-Filipino grandmother, Anita Garcia. I had a constant high fever and the pain from head to toe felt like needles and pins pricking every part of my body including my tongue. I would be in and out of consciousness from the sheer ordeal that I was experiencing. Then about three weeks later one early morning, I opened my eyes looked at my body and discovered that the rashes had dissipated considerably. I was informed by my physician that I was out of the woods so to speak and that my condition would normalize. But as I wondered to myself why God had put me through such a painful ordeal, the answer to that would take a considerable amount of time and patience. From that day onwards, I decided that I would no longer worship Jesus and started a long and arduous journey in seeking for the truth elsewhere!

Not long after, a friend of mine by the name of Carol Otstott turned me on to Hatha Yoga. Shortly after, another friend introduced me to Transcendental Meditation wherein I was given a Sanskrit mantra to chant while meditating. Another friend, Gemma Suzara, introduced me to her Chilean boyfriend who she later married by the name of Julian Burgos. It was Julian the humanist who I apprenticed with for several months teaching me the ways of Siloism, an inner religion established in his homeland, Chile. One thing led to another, I became a member of the Theosophical Society and would often borrow books from the centers library based in Iba street in Quezon City. I would also often visit the Magus bookstore along Quezon Avenue and purchase books on the Rosicrucian’s, Masonry, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroaster’s precepts, Eckankar – the Science of Soul Travel, Aliester Crowley, the British national who is considered the greatest magician of the 20th century, Paramahansa Yogananda founder of the Self-Realization Center who brought Kriya Yoga to the West, Astrology, Astronomy, Geomancy, the Book of I-Ching, Astral Projection, Thought Forms and Auras, Tarot Cards, the Egyptian pyramids, and anything that captured my fancy in the study of Occultism and Esoteric Psychic sciences.

Then in 1976 my cousin, Louie Quirino, invited me to attend a lecture by the exoteric group called the Mystic Thirteen which was held in San Beda College in Manila. When I entered the lecture room I noticed there was a Bible on the table and I immediately made an about-face thinking that this meeting would be all about the teachings of Jesus. I was stopped at the doorway by Mel Josue who said that this lecture was about the secret life of Jesus the Christ, the Apocrypha, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes. So I gave it a listen and from then onwards I was hooked! After attending a few more sessions I was given a Judaic-Hebrew-Kabbalistic daily practice that consisted of an Aramaic mantra, visualizations, chanting, meditation and fasting. After several months of my rigorous daily practice, I was invited to meet the universal inner master, Brod Boy, who initiated me into the esoteric group he headed called, The Brotherhood of Christ Consciousness. A year later after apprenticing with Brod Boy, I wrote a book, The Amen Vibration, in 1977. I kept the manuscript for 40 years and never had the courage to publish it as I was 21 years young at the time. Now, 2017, I have finished a completely new second volume that includes my personal experiences gathered through time, a sequel that I have decided to publish and share with whoever is seeking the truth.

Richie Quirino

DEDICATION

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This book is humbly dedicated to the following gentlemen who took their time and patience in nurturing me with their vast knowledge and experience from their respective fields of endeavor.

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My biological father, Carlos, who shaped me up in the early years of my life.

My musical mentor, maestro Angel Matias Peña, who so generously shared with me his gift of music.

My spiritual guru, Brod Boy, who opened my 3rd eye and guided me to seek the truth.

I thank you from the center of my heart.

Portrait in oil of the author by Jaime de Guzman, Tiaong and Sariaya, Quezon, 2016.

FOREWORDS

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CARLOS L. QUIRINO IN 1977

THE AUTHOR OF THIS TREATISE was a teen-age student in La Salle Green Hills in Mandaluyong, when he became interested in philosophical, metaphysical and religious subjects not usually taught in schools. He did a lot of reading on these topics and gradually acquired a view on life rarely found in Filipino boys of his age. Because he did not like to continue with a combined Liberal Arts and Commerce course, he transferred to the University of the Philippines as a student at the Conservatory of Music. I was surprised by his choice to major in music because there had never been a musician in our family, until I learned that a great grandfather on my mother’s side had been brought from Spain to the islands by Governor General Crespo in 1850 to head the Banda Militar. Could the desire to be a musician be a throwback to that ancestor of a century ago? I did not know then, that my son wanted to know more about music to justify the findings he had made when he was still a teenager.

Before finishing his course at the state university he transferred to the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he got a bachelor’s degree, double major in professional music and audio recording. And because he had studied a course that he liked, he graduated cum laude. Several years have passed since then, and my son kept reviewing what he had written, changing a word here, a phrase there, until finally, he believed that it was time to make public the views that he had held.

Frankly, although I am a historian and a biographer of things Philippine, I do not know anything about the theme he has chosen. Let the readers be the best judge of the validity of his thesis.

DR. GEORGE SISON

The road to enlightenment is a unique journey for one who is on that particular path. This is not to say that others are not evolving towards the same end. However, a seeker like Richie Quirino and others who have sought the truth beyond what has been taught to them by their parents, churches, schools, and communities is a distinct exploration that tries to bring together an infinite number of possibilities covering the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of living — from the mundane to the esoteric to the sublime, from the seemingly obvious to the occult, from the incredible boundless diversities to Divine understanding and the unification of it all… and, the bottom-line is, the comprehension of the first line of the Lord’s Prayer, translated directly from Aramaic to English, “O Cosmic Birther of all radiance (Light) and vibration (Sound)” — the only prayer that Jesus of Nazareth reputedly wrote and taught which, by the way, summarizes what scientists believe today, that energy makes up the Universe, both known and unknown. The author relates many of his adventures into different belief systems and practices and credits his guru and mentor, Brod Boy for bringing him to the Path.

Mr. Quirino is a musician and, therefore, deals with varied harmonies starting from sounds heard in nature, one syllable human chants to songs and symphonies. This book is entitled, “The Amen Vibration, Volume II” which explains the similarity of the Om of the Taoists, Aum of the Hindus and Buddhists, Amen of the Christians, Hu of the Ecks or the religion of Light and Sound and Hum of the Tibetans. In IAMISM, which I teach, I use the “I AM” sound and when chanted sounds like “AYM” so one is reminded that the way we use our “I AM” determines the quality of our lives — and so each affirmation or mantra can end with I AM, I AM, I AM, which are all vibrations that the author speaks of.

I do not know why Richie Quirino has not published “The Amen Vibration, Volume I” because I intuit that it could lead to a greater and deeper appreciation of his Volume II, which has given a lot of information and insights of how life is really made-up of Light and Sound. This is underscored in the Holy Book which says that the very first words of God were, “Let there be Light...” and in the New Testament, it states, “In the beginning was the Word…” — and surely, it is clear that a word is definitely a Sound.

Let Mr. Quirino guide you through his distinctive sojourn to enlightenment as revealed to him through his experiences of the Light and the “Music of the Spheres.” AMEN!

EMILY ABRERA – A CULTURAL POINT OF VIEW

To the purely scientifically inclined, this book will hold specific points of interest, for the author has taken pains to compile a riveting array of facts. Here and there, he has faithfully quoted from well-known authors, gurus, poets and novelists, and related his own spiritual encounters and paranormal experiences. These, liberally sprinkled with Biblical passages, Quirino offers like a potpourri of fact and fiction, science and esoterica, leaving the reader to decide what she will keep or discard.

The treatment is light, personal, and knowing the author to be a jazz musician, it almost feels like a jamming session. He tosses around a few notes, tries out several combinations, hits one or two unexpected riffs that totally surprise, and then steps back, leaving you, the reader, to rearrange sequences as the spirit moves you.

There is only the vaguest hint of preachiness, and no imposed rhythms beyond a barely perceptible hum. Once you catch it, you are in tune, so to speak, with the Universe, and in harmony with all else. If you miss it, then you miss the central idea.

Many characters mentioned were familiar to me, many references were from some of my favourite books, many “unexplainable” phenomena felt as natural to me as did all the rational material. To be honest, some of the text held no appeal for me at all, but no key arguments rested solely on them, and therefore it still left much for me to mull over.

Read the parts you can relate to, but more importantly, listen too. If you like jazz, you will find something you can resonate with- in Quirino’s The Amen Vibration. It has been a 40-year journey for the author, so not surprisingly, the improvisations are endless.

DR. ROBERTO M. BERNARDO – A VIEW FROM A RIZALIST-HUMANIST

HOW I (and “JPR") GOT HERE

Who am I to comment here? And to invite you curious readers to consider picking up wisdom-seeker Richie Quirino’s (RQ) deeply esoteric “The AMEN Vibration Volume II“? I feel strange doing this here because I am the same science-minded Enlightenment seeker, even now in twilight years as memory fades. I believe, though, in open-minded lifelong learning to keep one’s Mind growing and thus preventing its premature death. I remain a rational sceptic trusting advancing astro-biophysics, especially medical neurology and neuroscience, to explain the likes of RQ’s phenomenal paranormal experiences, mystic’s visions, and experiences and discoveries reported in his book. How then did I get invited to make these remarks here? Be yourself, free to comment, RQ said when he asked for my reactions.

Maybe my brain-in-its-body got wired differently from most Filipinos who are quite at home with stories of Earth-inhabiting Spirits and one’s Soul surviving death. Or even able, under special circumstances, to travel out of and return to its brain-and- body. Yet I still can’t see my Self’s Consciousness, my Soul or Spirit able to do this. Does my background perhaps account for this? I remember being an infant surviving to grow up during the Second World War amid its cruelties and dislocations; I passed through Catholic schooling’s heavy religious indoctrination (like RQ). There the knowledge of the heretical martyred hero Rizal (JPR) was kept away from us students. I found myself raising questions, and it led to a Philosophy degree from the State University. This converted me towards science-minded scepticism, which was further nurtured by scientifically oriented studies in academic Economics at Stanford and Berkeley, the latter giving me a Ph.D. long ago in 1967. Mounting attacks since from growing numbers of critics, on the self-proclaimed Queen of the Social Sciences, the most successful by the Nobel-winning “anti-economist” Daniel Kahneman and his troops, encouraged me towards early retirement from academia to pursue investing and other interests. This gave me time to read up on what I discovered was shockingly a rampantly misrepresented, a “Pinoy-darkened” Rizal. I got so interested in what was clearly an anomalous situation that I wrote a few counter-cultural slim books on it with titles such as “Opus Dei Book’s Darkened Rizal and Why“. This and other related research I posted too in the website cnx.org and all this helped in developing an unexpected friendship with RQ. I met him by chance just recently in late 2016.

I asked him if he was related to the famous pre-War Rizal biographer and author of “The Great Malayan“. “My late father”, he replied to my great interest. It caused me to reread his father’s book after going through it some two decades earlier. Wow, what a huge difference in depth and breath of understanding I experienced this time compared to when I first did some twenty years earlier! It confirmed the Christian philosopher Mortimer Adler’s education principle that youth presented a barrier to deeper wiser understanding of things, that such education in fact starts after college (and graduate school) in continuing lifetime self-learning. Thus I found Carlos Quirino’s book to be much better (although neutral on the “Retraction Issue") than the highly rated ones of Nick Joaquin and Leon Guerrero (who didn’t even know for sure why their martyred heroic subject was the PH National Hero). I quickly wrote an iambic-pentameter poem reflecting my epiphany above, which I titled “Don’t Forget on JPR-Holidays”. I shared it online, and with RQ, and here is its concluding third stanza:

Blacked out too: Knowledge of Why He’s Greatest

Malayan, Enlightenment’s front in truth’s quest

Martyr to Human Rights above all else!

Martyr to Improved Self’s Prime-hood as well!

Of depths of unread Quirino classic’s

Findings pre-War and its serious basics.

Think Well PH, he’d rage: Ask Whom To Trust

To learn What’s True from your Dark Past.