>I met Swami Abe Kenji, a japanese scientist turned Indian spiritual guru when he was our guest speaker in the IMAP Monthly General Membership Meeting last May 9, 2006.

IMAP members including Prof. Jimmy Licauco were fascinated with the extraordinary ability of Swami Kenji when he performed his materialization/dematerialization feats during the meeting.

Kenji earned his title as swami after studying under several gurus in India. As a scientist, he admitted not believing GOD but when he started his spiritual studies and training in India, he realized that “man can’t live without GOD”.

Swami Kenji shared his insights about life and told us that the only secret he knows to materialize/dematerialize things is to act, think and believe oneself as GOD. Jesus Christ, according to Kenji, performed miracles like materialization (the feeding of hungry crowd as written in the Bible – John 6:1-15 & Mark 6:35-44) during his time because Jesus himself knows He is God. “We can all make things possible with the help of GOD and realizing ourselves as Gods.”

In his weekly column Inner Awareness with Philippine Daily Inquirer, Professor Licauco admitted he was struck by Swami Kenji as the most unusual participant for several reasons in the recent one-week seminar on Philippine spiritualism and mediumship held in Baguio City.

“Not only was he the first Japanese swami I ever met, but he also could materialize objects, like the well-known Indian spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba and Swami Premananda. Kenji’s background is also unusual. He holds a graduate degree in the physical sciences, worked as a Formula 3 race driver and test driver for Mazda. He was a singer, guitar player and composer. He gave up a promising career to pursue spirituality,” Licauco said.

Swami Kenji fascinated Licauco and the two German participants, Mathias and Martina, when he materialized in Licauco’s palm a 1.25-carat diamond stone.

“It was brilliant and certainly beautiful. He chanted while swirling his arm and then put his open palm on top of my palm. I felt something drop to my palm. When he removed his hand, a diamond ring was on my palm,” Licauco added.

During the meeting, Swami Kenji performed his feats by materializing a miniature figure made up of I think jade stone and gave it to a girl, who needs lucky charm for prosperity when she complained of hardship in life.

Another girl approached Kenji and told him about her problems in life and the swami again used his ability this time is dematerialization of objects. He placed two square pieces of hindu golden paper in the palms of the girl, chanted Indian prayer, and the pieces of paper vanished without any trace.

I would conclude that though stage magicians could do materialization/dematerialization tricks to entertain people, but Kenji could do it not with the sleight of hands but thru the power of his higher spirituality that might be closer to the Christhood level where Jesus achieved during His life on Earth.