11Prompt

Telepathy, mind-reading, psycho kinesis, metal bending, faith healing, out-of-the-body experience, poltergeist, and the likes of them-all these are paranormal phenomena. They were treated with scorn and disdain by the main-stream scientists. They were even believed to not occurring at all; rather it was believed that they were mostly falsely reported as occurring by some ignorant and superstitious people. Did I hope then that these paranormal phenomena would help me prove the existence of God? Yes, I did. This is because I myself possessed, and still posses, one paranormal ability.

The cause that makes space and time to be relative in our universe must lie outside our universe. Otherwise we will have to admit that there was a time when they were not relative, but absolute.

When I came to know that I would have to prove the existence of God, the first thought that came to my mind was this: How would I do it? At that time I had no idea in which way to proceed. However I started reading books on evolution of life on the earth, hoping that in the entire evolutionary chain of life on earth, starting from the first living cell up to the man, I would be able to find at least some gap somewhere that could in no way be explained by any established theory of evolution, which fact alone would make God relevant and necessary again.

In "My Encounter with God: Part I" I wrote that the thought that I would have to prove the existence of God came to my mind in the year 1970. But why was it that the year was 1970, and why was it not instead 1967 or 1968? In my brief biography I have mentioned that I had my first mystical experience either in 1965 or in 1966. Even if it was in the year 1966, still 1970 were too late. So the thought could have come to my mind much earlier.