Jaime Licauco
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Jaime T. Licauco, popularly known as Jimmy Licauco, is a renowned parapsychologist, author, and management practitioner in the Philippines
.
He is the Founder and President of the Inner Mind Development Institute, a training center for parapsychology
, philosophy
, psychic investigation, and metaphysics
.
, Philippines, on July 25, 1940. He is the great-great grandson of Damian Domingo, a eighteenth-century Filipino painter.
He completed his elementary and high school at San Beda College
, a Catholic school run by the Benedictine monks in Manila. He earned a Bachelor of Arts
in Philosophy and English degree, magna cum laude, in 1962 from the same institution. He took up graduate studies in Sociology from the Asian Social Institute
as a scholar in 1965. He obtained a Master of Business Management
degree from the Asian Institute of Management
in 1972.
; parapsychology at De La Salle University-Manila
; and Intuitive Decision Making, Creativity, Remote Viewing, and Telepathy at the Asian Institute of Management
. He is a frequent resource speaker and lecturer in local and international conferences, seminars, and workshops.
He established the Inner Mind Development Institute, a special training school devoted to the art and science of metaphysics
and parapsychology
. He regularly conducts seminars on Inner Mind Development, ESP
, and Higher Awareness at the Institute as well as in other venues upon request of different organizations.
His teaching employment is recorded as follows:
. Two of his books were published by De La Salle University
.
Among his published works include:
.
during the school's 100th foundation anniversary in 2001. He was also proclaimed the foremost proponent of the New Age Movement in the Philippines by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines in February 2003.
, Metro Manila
, Philippines
.
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2007, Licauco almost died, when he felt chest pain while watching a movie at Greenbelt Cinema in Makati. Having a near-fatal heart attack (Myocardial infarction
), he was rushed to the Makati Medical Center and finally transferred to the Philippine Chinese General Hospital. Licauco’s cardiologist, Dr. Dy Bun Yok found (angiogram
) that 70% of one of his arteries is blocked. Licauco stayed in the coronary care unit for 4 days, and thereafter, he underwent an angioplasty
. After 2 days, Licauco left the hospital (after almost 2 weeks stay thereat). Licauco’s daughter Sophia, who has been living in California for the last 21 years, flew back to Manila to be with him, and lost her job in the onset due to the length of stay in the Philippines. Sophia Licauco wanted to make sure that Mr. Licauco was out of harms way before she went back to the US. Sophia Licauco is Jimmy Licauco's only daughter who values the importance of family.
(born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic
best known as a challenger of paranormal
claims and pseudoscience
. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto
, Canada
, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
(JREF). The Magician Randi debunked claims in Licauco's Philippine Daily Inquirer column entitled "INNER AWARENESS" (October 24, 2006). Randi, inter alia, challenged Licauco to apply for the JREF $ 1 million dollar prize, since the latter claimed that "he has paranormal abilities". With point-by-point reply ("Setting the record straight", Inquiret.net, January 15, 2007), Licauco forthwith answered Randi's attacks. Licauco denied having supernatural powers by saying "That’s a lie. I have never claimed to have any paranormal or psychic ability. I don’t know where Randi got that idea". Although he teaches, among other things, ESP and how to do remote viewing, and even boasted in a show that more than 80% of his students develop the skill.
He claims that "I don’t have to prove to Randi that ESP (extra sensory perception) ability (such as telepathy, clairvoyance and telekinesis) exists. This has been proven scientifically long ago." He also claims that Randi "participated in the cover-up of a botched scientific investigation of Michel Gauquelin’s conclusion that there was a significant statistical correlation between birth dates of athletes and the position of Mars in the heavens". Licauco further said that "Randi’s group denounced Gauquelin’s finding only to eat their words later. To save face, they went so far as to manipulate scientific data to conform to their preconceived notion that astrology was pure hogwash".
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
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He is the Founder and President of the Inner Mind Development Institute, a training center for parapsychology
Parapsychology
The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...
, philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, psychic investigation, and metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
.
Early life and education
Licauco was born in San Juan, Metro ManilaMetro Manila
Metropolitan Manila , the National Capital Region , or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines...
, Philippines, on July 25, 1940. He is the great-great grandson of Damian Domingo, a eighteenth-century Filipino painter.
He completed his elementary and high school at San Beda College
San Beda College
San Beda College or Dalubhasaan ng San Beda in Filipino is a Private Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila...
, a Catholic school run by the Benedictine monks in Manila. He earned a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
in Philosophy and English degree, magna cum laude, in 1962 from the same institution. He took up graduate studies in Sociology from the Asian Social Institute
Asian Social Institute
The Asian Social Institute is a graduate school in Manila, Philippines. It is one of the few graduate institutes specializing in economics, sociology, social work and social services and development in the country....
as a scholar in 1965. He obtained a Master of Business Management
Master of Business Administration
The Master of Business Administration is a :master's degree in business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines. The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th century as the country industrialized and companies sought out...
degree from the Asian Institute of Management
Asian Institute of Management
The Asian Institute of Management, or simply AIM, is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses...
in 1972.
Management experience
Licauco has worked, over a span of twenty-five years, in middle and upper business management levels in ten different corporations, mostly in the lines of human resource, management training and development, and consultancy.Paranormal work
Licauco gradually transformed from a corporate executive to a paranormal expert:- 1977. He wrote his first pamphlet, Healing Without Medicine.
- 1978. He wrote his first book, Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man.
- 1982. He taught Parapsychology for one semester at the De La Salle University-ManilaDe La Salle University-ManilaDe La Salle University is a private Lasallian university in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director...
under the Behavioral Sciences Department. - 1986. He founded the Philippine Paranormal Research Society, Inc., a non-profit, non-stock corporation engaged in the systematic investigation and documentation of paranormal phenomena. The society published the Philippine Psychic Journal and conducted regular forums on psychic phenomena. It also provided funds for studies in the field.
- 1986 to the present. He is a resource person for the Young Presidents Organization, a business club based in TexasTexasTexas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
, United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. - 1987 to present. He is a columnist in The Philippine Daily Inquirer (Inner Awareness).
- 1988. He developed and conducted the first Creative and Intuitive Management module for graduate students taking up Master in Development Management at the Asian Institute of ManagementAsian Institute of ManagementThe Asian Institute of Management, or simply AIM, is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses...
. - 1988. He established and became President of Silva Mind Control Philippines, Inc., a firm engaged primarily in conducting the Silva Mind Method of Control Seminar in the Philippines. In May 1991, he resigned as president and lecturer of the Silva Method to devote time to other activities.
- 1988. He formally left the corporate world and embarked on full time activities in the fields of parapsychology and education.
- 1988. He established the Inner Mind Development Institute which conducts seminars on mind development, whole brain management, ESPExtra-sensory perceptionExtrasensory perception involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was coined by Frederic Myers, and adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and...
, creative thinking and related subjects which are not covered by the Silva Method of Mind Control seminars. During this year, he conducted the ESP course in Buenos AiresBuenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, ArgentinaArgentinaArgentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
. - 1989. He founded the New Age Breakfast Club which met every Friday morning to discuss various topics of a metaphysical, paranormal and spiritual nature. It was a loose aggrupation of professionals interested in human development in all aspects: non- religious, non-sectarian and non-political. It was open to the public. The forum lasted for four years.
- 1992 to the present. He is a radio anchor man in DZMMDZMMABS-CBN DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 is the flagship AM station of ABS–CBN Corporation in the Philippines. The station's studio is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Sgt. Esguerra Ave., cor. Mo. Ignacia St., Diliman, Quezon City, while the transmitter is located at F. Navarette St., Obando, Bulacan...
(630 kHz), "Inner Mind on Radio." - 2001. He was named one of the "Bedans of the Century" for Literature during the 100th Anniversary of San Beda College.
Academe
Licauco has taught English, Philosophy, Christian Ethics, and Sociology at San Beda CollegeSan Beda College
San Beda College or Dalubhasaan ng San Beda in Filipino is a Private Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila...
; parapsychology at De La Salle University-Manila
De La Salle University-Manila
De La Salle University is a private Lasallian university in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director...
; and Intuitive Decision Making, Creativity, Remote Viewing, and Telepathy at the Asian Institute of Management
Asian Institute of Management
The Asian Institute of Management, or simply AIM, is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses...
. He is a frequent resource speaker and lecturer in local and international conferences, seminars, and workshops.
He established the Inner Mind Development Institute, a special training school devoted to the art and science of metaphysics
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...
and parapsychology
Parapsychology
The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...
. He regularly conducts seminars on Inner Mind Development, ESP
Extra-sensory perception
Extrasensory perception involves reception of information not gained through the recognized physical senses but sensed with the mind. The term was coined by Frederic Myers, and adopted by Duke University psychologist J. B. Rhine to denote psychic abilities such as telepathy, clairaudience, and...
, and Higher Awareness at the Institute as well as in other venues upon request of different organizations.
His teaching employment is recorded as follows:
- San Beda CollegeSan Beda CollegeSan Beda College or Dalubhasaan ng San Beda in Filipino is a Private Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila...
, Mendiola, Manila (1962–65) - Philosophy and Sociology - Trinity College (now Trinity University of AsiaTrinity University of AsiaTrinity University of Asia , also known as TUA or simply Trinity, is a non-sectarian private university located in Quezon City, Philippines. Originally established in 1963 as an elementary, high school and collegiate educational institution, Trinity eventually university status on July 18, 2006...
), Magsaysay Blvd., Quezon City (1965–66) - Sociology and English - De La Salle University-ManilaDe La Salle University-ManilaDe La Salle University is a private Lasallian university in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director...
, Taft Avenue, Manila (1982) - Parapsychology - Asian Institute of ManagementAsian Institute of ManagementThe Asian Institute of Management, or simply AIM, is a graduate school of business and a center of business and management research. It is one of the few business schools in Asia to be internationally accredited with the AACSB. It was established in partnership with Harvard Business School and uses...
, Makati City (1984–94) - Creative and Intuitive Management, MBM Program - De La Salle University-DasmariñasDe La Salle University-DasmariñasDe La Salle University - Dasmariñas ' is a member institution of De La Salle Philippines located in Dasmariñas City, Cavite. It was established on July 18, 1977 as a private nonsectarian tertiary school named General Emilio Aguinaldo College-Cavite and managed by the Yaman Lahi Foundation...
College of Medicine, Dasmarinas, Cavite (1995–96) - Visiting Faculty Member, Holistic Medicine and Alternative Healing - Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology, Concord, California USA (1995 to present) - Visiting Faculty Member
- Inner Mind Development Institute, Makati City (1988 to present) - Intuition and ESP, Inner Mind Development, Strees Control, the Psychology of Peak Performance, Parapsychology and Paranormal Healing
- San Beda CollegeSan Beda CollegeSan Beda College or Dalubhasaan ng San Beda in Filipino is a Private Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila...
, Mendiola, Manila (2005–2007)- New Age philosophy and Parapsychology, Department of Philosophy and Human Resource Development
Publications
Licauco has authored twelve books, three pamphlets, and a book on intuition published in San Francisco, CaliforniaCalifornia
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Two of his books were published by De La Salle University
De La Salle University
De La Salle University is a private Lasallian university in Malate, Manila, Philippines. It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco, Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director...
.
Among his published works include:
- Understanding the Psychic Powers of Man. National Book Store Inc., 1978.
- The Truth Behind Faith Healing in the Philippines. National Book Store Inc., 1980.
- The Magicians of God: The Amazing Stories of Philippine Faith Healers. National Book Store, Inc., 1980, 1999.
- The Psychic World and You. JMC Press Inc., 1982. 2nd edition, 1999.
- Jun Labo: A Philippine Healing Phenomenon. 1985.
- True Encounters with the Unknown: The Psychic, the Mystical and the Strange. National Book Store Inc., 1986, 2000.
- Beyond Ordinary Reality: Exploring the Powers of your Inner Mind. Solar Publishing Corporation, 1987.
- Beyond Ordinary Reality Volume 2. 1999.
- Exploring the Powers of Your Inner Mind. Inner Mind Development Institute, 1992.
- Intuition at Work: Pathways to Unlimited Possibilities. Co-author. New Leaders Press/Sterling & Stone, Inc., San Francisco, California, 1996.
- Soul Mates, Karma and Reincarnation. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1996.
- More Encounters with the Unknown. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 1997.
- When the Impossible Happens: Confessions of a Reluctant Psychic. 1999.
- On Christianity, New Age & Reincarnation: New Perspectives on Old Religious Issues. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2004.
- Dwarves and Other Nature Spirits: Their Importance to Man. Rex Book Store, Quezon City, 2005.
- Ghosts In Photos. Anvil Publishing, Inc., 2005.
Media
Licauco runs a weekly column entitled Inner Awareness at The Philippine Daily Inquirer. He also anchors a weekly radio program over DZMMDZMM
ABS-CBN DZMM Radyo Patrol 630 is the flagship AM station of ABS–CBN Corporation in the Philippines. The station's studio is located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, Sgt. Esguerra Ave., cor. Mo. Ignacia St., Diliman, Quezon City, while the transmitter is located at F. Navarette St., Obando, Bulacan...
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Awards
Licauco was hailed as one of the Bedans of the Century awardees by San Beda CollegeSan Beda College
San Beda College or Dalubhasaan ng San Beda in Filipino is a Private Benedictine college run by the Benedictine monks in the Philippines. It is located on Mendiola Street in San Miguel, Manila...
during the school's 100th foundation anniversary in 2001. He was also proclaimed the foremost proponent of the New Age Movement in the Philippines by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines in February 2003.
Private life
Licauco is married to Yolanda Campos. The couple has three children. The family resides in Parañaque CityParañaque City
The City of Parañaque , or simply Parañaque , is one of the cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila in the Philippines....
, Metro Manila
Metro Manila
Metropolitan Manila , the National Capital Region , or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines...
, Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
.
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2007, Licauco almost died, when he felt chest pain while watching a movie at Greenbelt Cinema in Makati. Having a near-fatal heart attack (Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction
Myocardial infarction or acute myocardial infarction , commonly known as a heart attack, results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the heart, causing heart cells to die...
), he was rushed to the Makati Medical Center and finally transferred to the Philippine Chinese General Hospital. Licauco’s cardiologist, Dr. Dy Bun Yok found (angiogram
Angiogram
Angiography or arteriography is a medical imaging technique used to visualize the inside, or lumen, of blood vessels and organs of the body, with particular interest in the arteries, veins and the heart chambers...
) that 70% of one of his arteries is blocked. Licauco stayed in the coronary care unit for 4 days, and thereafter, he underwent an angioplasty
Angioplasty
Angioplasty is the technique of mechanically widening a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel, the latter typically being a result of atherosclerosis. An empty and collapsed balloon on a guide wire, known as a balloon catheter, is passed into the narrowed locations and then inflated to a fixed size...
. After 2 days, Licauco left the hospital (after almost 2 weeks stay thereat). Licauco’s daughter Sophia, who has been living in California for the last 21 years, flew back to Manila to be with him, and lost her job in the onset due to the length of stay in the Philippines. Sophia Licauco wanted to make sure that Mr. Licauco was out of harms way before she went back to the US. Sophia Licauco is Jimmy Licauco's only daughter who values the importance of family.
Licauco and James Randi Controversy
Licauco met his nemesis. James RandiJames Randi
James Randi is a Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation...
(born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic
Scientific skepticism
Scientific skepticism is the practice of questioning the veracity of claims lacking empirical evidence or reproducibility, as part of a methodological norm pursuing "the extension of certified knowledge". For example, Robert K...
best known as a challenger of paranormal
Paranormal
Paranormal is a general term that designates experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or scientific explanation" or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure...
claims and pseudoscience
Pseudoscience
Pseudoscience is a claim, belief, or practice which is presented as scientific, but which does not adhere to a valid scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, cannot be reliably tested, or otherwise lacks scientific status...
. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation
James Randi Educational Foundation
The James Randi Educational Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1996 by magician and skeptic James Randi. The JREF's mission includes educating the public and the media on the dangers of accepting unproven claims, and to support research into paranormal claims in controlled...
(JREF). The Magician Randi debunked claims in Licauco's Philippine Daily Inquirer column entitled "INNER AWARENESS" (October 24, 2006). Randi, inter alia, challenged Licauco to apply for the JREF $ 1 million dollar prize, since the latter claimed that "he has paranormal abilities". With point-by-point reply ("Setting the record straight", Inquiret.net, January 15, 2007), Licauco forthwith answered Randi's attacks. Licauco denied having supernatural powers by saying "That’s a lie. I have never claimed to have any paranormal or psychic ability. I don’t know where Randi got that idea". Although he teaches, among other things, ESP and how to do remote viewing, and even boasted in a show that more than 80% of his students develop the skill.
He claims that "I don’t have to prove to Randi that ESP (extra sensory perception) ability (such as telepathy, clairvoyance and telekinesis) exists. This has been proven scientifically long ago." He also claims that Randi "participated in the cover-up of a botched scientific investigation of Michel Gauquelin’s conclusion that there was a significant statistical correlation between birth dates of athletes and the position of Mars in the heavens". Licauco further said that "Randi’s group denounced Gauquelin’s finding only to eat their words later. To save face, they went so far as to manipulate scientific data to conform to their preconceived notion that astrology was pure hogwash".