10 years ago, Toaist medium Lou Ai Pang was approached by a frantic housewife, who told him her husband had disappeared after leaving Singapore to seek his fortune. Mr Lou's psychic powers revealed that the man was alive and in Thailand. Shortly later, he added this news," If you don't find him quickly, he may not be able to return home with you"
The women went to thailand and found her husband, finding him rail thin and begging on the streets. He had lost all his money in doomed business ventures and died soon after the couple reunited.
i read with interest in the The Straits Times on monday where they featured: The Police and the Paranormal. In it, the article introduces tapping into the spirit world to bust crimes. This topic of paranormal help was raised in a joint conference by Certis Cisco and Malaysia-based International Centre for Security Management.
Malaysian criminologist Justin Loh recounted on an incident when a missing business man was found with the help of a bomoh. Although the police suspected him being abducted by foreigners, his family turned to mediums to find him. Some of them said he was dead, others said he was alive. Yet one of them accurately predicted where he was held, where his body would be found, and the race and nationality of the ones responsible. Investigations then concluded with his body found, and that he was murdered by a group of youths, who had robbed hiim and used his ATM and credit cards.
In such scenarios, are the police more reliable than the mediums? Concrete investigations versus spiritual help, which would be reliable and safe? Justin Loh shared with the local security firms about the types of paranormal policing: -
1) Visions/Dreams: The psychic concentrates on the belongings of a victim and receives visions about how the crime happened.
2) Meditation: The psychic enters into a trance-like state and recounts details of the crime.
3) Psychic detectives: They operate in a manner similar to that of criminal detectives, sometimes working in pairs to solve a case.
The mediums in SIngapore were interviewed, and they mentioned that it was rare to receive request to look for loved ones. Most peopole ask for help in getting rich or improving relations with family members.
In a multi-cultural society like Singapore, where there are evidence of both individualism and collectivism, will the intrusion of mediums and bomoh help human relationships to get better? To my relief, the police in Singapore are still skeptical about this paranormal help.
"pychics never helped had successfully helped the Police solve a crime in Singapore, but there certainly have been instances when victims have parted with lots of money to these mediums with no results" - Retired senior detective Lim Beng Gee.
"These leads will never stand up in a court as evidence. It's just rubbish" - PI Lionel de Souza