INNER AWARENESS A pyramid to rise in Pangasinan

A pyramid will soon rise in over 3 hectares of land in Manaoag,

Pangasinan, a place made famous by a miraculous statue of the

Blessed Virgin Mother. The project was made possible by the

unselfish cooperation of several nationalities to make the dream

of a well-known Filipino healer come true.

As a young faith healer, Alex Orbito of Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija,

dreamt of a pyramid structure that can heal people. He did not

know anything then about pyramids. All he knew was that the

dream directed him to build a pyramid in an ideal place which

will become an international mecca for healing people all over

the world.

For years that dream haunted Alex. He searched for a place

where that pyramid could be built in the Philippines. He asked

his foreign friends to design the right pyramid. Many designs

were submitted but none could fit the specifications he needed

for healing.

In 1986 he visited Cairo, Egypt and saw for the first time the

famous pyramids of Egypt. He entered one of them and was

impressed with the strong vibrations he experienced inside. He

knew he had to have one built in the Philippines.

Dream

He talked about his dream of building a pyramid of Asia to

people in many countries that he would visit in the succeeding

years. Many contributed money, including the famous

Hollywood actress Shirley Maclaine, whose daughter Alex had

healed. Ms Maclaine even devoted a whole chapter to Alex in

her latest best-selling book, ''Going Within.''

The pyramid in Egypt has captured the imagination of people all

over the world. It was told that when Napoleon laid eyes on the

pyramid, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, he

was struck by its massive size and quaint beauty. He must have

asked in his mind the same question that anybody who sees the

pyramid for the first time asks himself: who could have built this

massive structure in the middle of the desert, and for what

purpose?

That question has never been satisfactorily answered until now.

Napoleon stayed one night inside the pyramid and emerged

from it completely shaken by the experience. He never revealed

what took place inside the pyramid but it must have been so

awesome as to make the great Napoleon mum until his death.

I first heard Alex talk about his dream pyramid when he was still

doing healing in his old house in Maryland Street in Quezon

City. That was about 25 years ago.

When money started to come in, various sites were considered,

including Antipolo and Tagaytay City, but eventually it was

located in Manaoag in Pangasinan. Maybe it was because the

property was available and it is Orbito's adopted province which

was Pangasinan.

First step

The first step in having a pyramid built for healing purposes

came when Alex met a German architect and pyramidologist

named Dieter Loewer in Munich, Germany in 1993. The two men

talked about building the Pyramid of Asia and Dieter got

excited. He submitted a plan to Alex which was finally approved

after so much discussions and delays. Other plans and designs

were submitted by other foreign designers but all these merely

imitated the structures similar to the pyramid in Egypt, but did

not fulfill the one basic requirement of Alex, namely, that the

pyramid to be built should be used primarily for healing.

The energy to be tapped is the energy of healing rather than for

mummification, for initiation or for burial which were some of the

theories advanced by researchers and archeologists on why the

pyramids were built by the ancient Pharaohs. None of the

pyramids built outside of Egypt had healing as a primary

purpose, only small models built for experimental purposes in

various parts of the world.

Loewer was fascinated by the idea and designed a pyramid

primarily to harness the healing energies of the cosmos within

its walls. He enlisted the help of structural engineer Jurgen

Blodt to make it a reality. On June 11, the massive wooden

pillars of the pyramid in Manaoag were installed in place under

his supervision and witnessed by hundreds of people, including

members of the media and local government officials who were

invited to the occasion.

What are the characteristics of this Pyramid of Asia and how

does it differ from the great pyramid in Egypt?

First, the similarities. The Pyramid of Asia follows the same

proportion of the shape of the pyramid at Giza. Both are oriented

to the magnetic North.