Autor: Hermaneli Torrevillas

I was born on the 19th of September 1937, the first son of ten children, to Corazon Danao Maristela and Gregorio Candidato Torrevillas, in Manila, Philippines. Although I may have been trained scientifically in the medical profession, I profess I have neither proficiency nor intellectual distinction. As to how I became a physician makes a fascinating story. I never thought I would become a Doctor of Medicine. I was far below the average during my primary and elementary grades as well as in my first two years in high school. At age 16, my third year in 1953, I started to pick up a jot in my studies, so I graduated in my senior year as “first honorable mention, ” the third in a class of 42 members. In medical school, I was an average student. I assumed there was nothing exceptional about me but I was the president of our medical class from first year to the fourth year. The world of the unknown or the fields of paranormal sciences are most often viewed with contempt, disdain or ridicule by some learned men, physical scientists and religious leaders who seemed to have lost their open-mindedness. Discussing matters of this kind is repugnant to some. Nevertheless, this is the field that stirs my imagination and interest. My experiences somehow were strange. Extra-ordinary incidents made me accept there is a lot more to be learned from the metaphysical world beyond our limited scientific investigations.