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Our story is about one of the most amazing women of the past
century, the Bulgarian seeress Vanga.
Her wonderful ability to cure physical and moral pain and
delve deep into the past and future have spawned a wealth of legends. For
more than a half century people kept coming from all around the world seeking
advice from the blind soothsayer whose face was amazingly shining from
within… To some she prescribed treatment and explained the cause of their
ill health, others she warned against taking wrong decisions, still others
she helped find their long-lost loved ones. Thousands of people, heads
of state, public leaders, writers, scholars and ordinary people came to
Vanga hoping to find cure and get answers to their questions.
Born in the village of Petric in Bulgaria in 1911, Vanga
lost her sight at age 12 in a windstorm. An ordinary child, she was blissfully
unaware of her amazing abilities. Her life reads like The Lives of Saints
for it’s hard to imagine all the hardship and suffering that befell this
poor Bulgarian clairvoyant. During World War I her father was drafted into
the army, and her mother died when Vanga was still a teenager. Looked
after by neighbors, the girl, just like her peers, spent most of
her time fooling around and inventing all kinds of new games to play.
When Vanga was 11, she played a strange game her father just could not
stand. Putting something on the street or inside the house, she would then
start looking for it, her eyes shut closely, as if she were blind… Despite
all her dad’s protestations, she kept playing the blind game.
One day the village she lived in was hit by a terrible hurricane.
The sky suddenly went dark, the wind started blowing like crazy uprooting
trees and hurling Vanga far away into the fields. They found her
hours later, scared to death, her eyes filled with sand. The girl was in
great pain, unable to open her eyes. All attempts to bring her eyesight
back to normal failed, the family had no money for an operation, and the
poor girl eventually went blind. In 1925 Vanga was sent to a blind people’s
home where she spent three years gradually waking up to her newfound supernatural
ability to see some unpleasant things happening in her dream that later
materialized in real life. Her talent came to a full flowering during World
War Two when almost every day thousands of desperate and heartbroken
people would line up outside Vanga’s house seeking consolation and information
about their loved ones.
Vanga explained her extraordinary clairvoyance by the presence
of some transparent creatures whose origin she could not explain, and who
sent her information about people, which she could not relate to the suffering.
Vanga watched one’s life as if it were a movie, from birth to death, but
she was powerless to change one’s karma. Besides clairvoyance and soothsaying,
Vanga also realized she could treat various diseases, not with drugs but
with herbs. She advised her patients to take herbal baths because the curative
broth better penetrates one’s system through the skin.
People say that women dealing with things occult and mystical
should not have a family. Vanga still got married and lived happily with
her husband for a whole 20 years. Unfortunately, her husband drank
a bottle too much during his ebbing years and ultimately succumbed to cirrhosis
of the liver. When he was already in agony, Vanga kneeled down by his bedside
tears rolling from her unseeing eyes… She was whispering something, and
the moment the man passed away she fell asleep. She slept until the
very funeral and then, waking up, she said: “I escorted him all the way
to his destination.” Vanga believed that one should always try to retain
his peace of mind and taught people to be kind and help one another.
She said that people had no right to be useless because everyone, good
or bad, comes to this world to preserve life in all its forms so that it
can develop to meet some supreme objectives we still know nothing about…
Vanga soothsaid about newborn and soon-to-be-born babies,
saw and conversed with people who had died a hundred, two hundred and more
years ago – something experts describe as the most mysterious reflection
of her clairvoyant talent. She also predicted the future even though she
didn’t like doing that. Vanga said that about 200 years from now
man would establish contact with his brethren from other worlds and once
even said that extraterrestrials had long been living on Earth…
Vangelia Gushterova died on August 11, 1996. Before passing
away, the great soothsayer who knew exactly when she was going to die,
said there was a 10-year-old blind girl living in France who had the same
abilities as she did and that the would learn about her soont…
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