ARTICLERTICLE
BABA VANGA saint or seer? by T. Stokes
Real name Vangelia Gushterov was the psychic to Nikita Krushchev Leonid Breznev Boris Yeltzin and occasionally Alex Korzhakov and Eric Honeker and other soviet bigwigs, she was a blind Bulgarian mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist from Macedonia, who spent most of her life in the Bulgarian mountains. Millions of people around the world were convinced that she possessed paranor- mal abilities. Vanga was an intelligent child who always wanted to play at " heal- ing people " She was a premature baby born in poverty on Jan 31 1911 and suffered from health complications, her mother dying soon after. In accordance with local tradition, the baby was not given a name until it was deemed likely to survive. When baba Vanga first cried out, a midwife went into the street and asked a stranger for a name for her. Prominent Bulgarian psychiatrists Nicola Shipkovensky and Georgi Lozanov studied in depth the capabilities of Vanga for the authorities, reportedly some of the studies concluded that about 80% of predictions of Vanga turned out to be correct.
So important was this info that the USA also commissioned secret investigation through various multinationals into training and running psychics, these same people also commissioned disgraced quack James Randi to disprove their find- ings for public consumption. Her mothers death left Vanga dependent on the care and charity of neighbours and close family friends for much of her youth. It is alleged that a tornado lifted Vanga as a small child up and threw her in a nearby field She was found after a long search and witnesses described her as very frightened, with her eyes covered with sand and dust, she was unable to open them because of the pain, there was money only for a partial operation to heal the injuries and blindness she had sustained. Vanga claimed that her extraordinary abilities had something to do with the pres- ence of invisible creatures, but she could not clearly explain their origin. She said that these creatures gave her information about people, which she could not transmit to them, because distance and time didn't matter. According to Vanga, the life of everyone standing in front of her was like a film to her from birth until death. But changing "what was written on the generation" was beyond her power. In 1925 Vanga went to a school for the blind and after the death of her step- mother had to go back home to work all day and take care of her younger siblings. Her family was very poor. During World War II Vanga attracted believers in her ability to heal and soothsay and many people visited her, hoping to get info about their relatives. On 8 April 1942 the Bulgarian tzar Boris III visited her, as did agents for Winston Churchill who was obsessed with the occult. On 10 May 1942, Vanga married Dimitar Gushterov, a sick Bulgarian soldier he got another illness in 1947, fell into alcoholism, and he eventually died on 1 April 1962.
South West Connection - August / November 2017 29
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60
