{"id":997,"date":"2015-08-01T16:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T07:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=997"},"modified":"2015-08-01T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T07:43:18","slug":"i-heard-a-loud-drum-sound-when-the-spirit-of-smallpox-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"I heard a loud drum sound when the spirit of smallpox arrived."},"content":{"rendered":"

The following are first-hand accounts of those who have experienced the blessings of dynamic meditation during His Holiness the Jongdosanim\u2019s visits to Dojangs around the country. As Told by Gwon, Gyubo (M\/23)<\/strong><\/em>
\n(Translated by Yun Sukhyun, Son Gyeonhue, Stuart Smallwood)<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/span> had this spiritual experience the day before a college retreat. I was chanting the Taeeulju Mantra alone when I saw the blurred image of a person. As they came closer, I found out that it was a man wearing a pockmarked mask. He was wearing a headdress akin to those of the Pharaohs of Egypt and was also carrying a cane. Suddenly, the shivers ran through my whole body. I had never been so scared save for when I went through chemotherapy. As I chanted the Taeeulju and Oju mantras at a fast pace, he got out of my sight.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve had another such experience. While practicing dynamic meditation, I saw scenery of the four seasons in a clockwise direction. Then, I heard the sound of a drum beat, which got louder and louder. Surprisingly, it was me who was making the drum sound, beating the a drum on a big ship. A little later, I saw many battleships from many countries in every direction. I saw the flags of the United States, Japan, China and Russia. Soon, the ocean was filled with drum sounds from each and every battleship. It sounded like a signal for war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had this spiritual experience the day before a college retreat. I was chanting the Taeeulju Mantra alone when I saw the blurred image of a person. As they came closer, I found out that it was a man wearing a pockmarked mask. He was wearing a headdress akin to those of the Pharaohs of Egypt and was also carrying a cane. Suddenly, the shivers ran through my whole body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experience","category-spiritual-experience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p70zWc-g5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meditation.jeungsando.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}