Awakening people's sixth sense is mind over matter Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
First Posted at: The Jakarta Post Wednesday, May 3 2006 Page 19 Features. <http://www.thejakartapost.com/detailfeatures.asp?fileid=20060503.R02&irec=2> On a rainy Saturday, Vincent Liong, 19, held a one-day workshop on awaking your sixth sense for a dozen of beginners. Holding out fruit he bought from a wet market, Vincent told his pupils to choose a fruit to help them see intangible things. "Ask a question, slice the fruit, see the surface and feel it. The fruit can tell what you want to know," he said. "Ask a question," Vincent told a student. "Tell me about my sister's relationship with his boyfriend," said one participant. Vincent cut a cucumber and scrutinized the surface. "The boyfriend is ignoring her. But she's putting up with it. She's very patient," Vincent said with confidence. "Eventually, she will be tired of the situation. You don't have to tell her to leave him, she'll do it." A bit hesitant and bewildered, the students, from various ages and professions, approached Vincent's table to pick their choice of fruit or vegetable. "Feel it," said Vincent, a skinny precocious youth. Previously, he had convinced the whole room that anyone could have the sixth sense without necessarily being born with the ability. "I don't practice clairvoyance. I prefer teaching people how to feel and sense," he said. "I provoke people." In the same room, a professional tarot reader, Leonardo Rimba, had his own business. He was seriously reading a set of tarot cards for a client, who listened raptly to Leo. These clairvoyance classes were not located in a cave in a mystical mountain. They were held at a building in the heart of the capital, on Jl. Jendral Sudirman. There was no smell of incense or seven flowers in the room although the head of the class jokingly call himself a "dukun" (shaman). Two years ago, an aura check showing Vincent had a bluish color, indicating him to be an "indigo boy". Indigo people are known to possess special ability to see what others cannot. Before being declared an indigo Vincent was an ordinary, yet precocious boy. At age 15 he wrote essays relating his reflection on his social environment. The essays were printed by large publisher Grasindo, titled Berlindung di bawah payung (Sheltering under an umbrella). Born into a wealthy family that lives in upmarket Permata Hijau did not make him ignore social problems. In the book, he wrote about laborers, corrupt leaders, even a children's fashion show in which he once participated. Once he realized he had a potential for a sixth sense, he rarely wrote and concentrated instead on sharpening the sense. Hence, his friendship with other clairvoyants like Leo the tarot reader. His oddball network grows from day to day as he transfers his ability to other people through friendship. His parents' place is open house for his close friends, some of whom he knows through his mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] On a typical day, a guest can find a veterinarian that practices acupuncture for pets, who is learning numerology and tarot sitting in the backyard reading cards. Next to her, a university student who is a specialist on romance reading sits while recounting his condition to the veterinarian and the tarot reader. "It's easy to learn clairvoyance. I can teach you, it won't take long," Vincent offered generously. It's difficult to think they are a bunch of con artists because what they say about a client's condition or future is plausible and realistic. "Our readings are not fixed. We just explain future conditions based on the current situations. So, you can change your future if you want," Leo said. Conversations that take place in Vincent's house when his friends visit are unique. They sometimes talk about things they see, which most people don't see. "He's there at the corner, I think," Vincent said, "Yeah, I think so, too," Leo replied. "Are you guys talking about a ghost?" someone asked. Vincent and Leo looked at each other and both muttered: "Yeah, but he's harmless." It's not easy being different. However, he seems to be breezy about his sixth sense, he makes jokes about it. People who meet him for the first time will just see him as a very talkative teenager. Studying in the Psychology Department at Atmajaya University, Jakarta, he sometimes teases his lecturers. "I steal their knowledge. I can read their memory, so I can foretell the subject of the next class beforehand. Once I made a paper based on what I stole from the lecturer, so I'd written all that she was about to say when the class started," Vincent said, grinning. Talkative, different, breezy and funny: That's Vincent. And what is Vincent's ideal title for a psychology paper? Put a spell on a lecturer. 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