Grandma and Thai Wicha

My initial fascination with Thai Wicha starts almost the same time when I first started my cultivation journey more than 25years ago. My first amulet was given to me by my late dad, the one he requested from a travelling monk he met at airport where he used to work. 

After receiving the amulet, that evening itself, while drinking water I somehow carelessly bit into the glass. The shattered glass pieces in the mouth didn’t cause any injury. This is the first experience of Thai amulets when I was about 10 years old.

My fascination with Thai amulets and Wicha are the main reasons it has drawn me to know so many good and capable practitioners in the Thai Lineage. Due to language barrier, I did not pursue into Thai Wicha as oppose to Tao Fa. 

Nevertheless my interest in Thai Wicha didn’t stop, I pursued to interview and find out from many different Teachers and Masters on how their spells and rituals are done. Also at the same time finding out the difference between Thai Wicha and Tao Fa.

About 10 years ago, my dad one day told me that my late grandma actually have taught him a mantra@spell. The spell is related to weather control. He shared with me how my grandma would chant this spell if she saw impending big storm approaching their home in the paddy fields when he young , and how the storm would calm into normal rain. 

At that time, I didn’t know whether anyone in my grandma’s family was practicing Thai Wicha or not, I knew for a fact she was half Thai half Chinese. Looking back, when I started cultivating and doing rituals outdoors, clear skies are the norms for 90% of the case. I never thought much about it as our own lineage of Yang Fa 阳法 requires sunlight during most important rituals.

Of course throughout the years, I have also had an Indonesian Bomoh good friend that passed me his so called ‘weather altering’ tasbih@chant beads that he told me has khodam in it to help in this effect. Did I try it? Yes. Did it worked? You bet. But the chanting to upkeep the item was too much of a tedious for me. 

There are also other techniques of altering clouds and techniques with Tao Fa, however those method is overused will be harmful to the body. I once had a serious bout of pheumonia after  experimenting with it too many times. That is another blog write up.

One of the senior knowledgeable Master once told me,” if Heaven wanted to rain, let it rain la” Why do you need to disturb the cycle of the Tao? 

A Matter of the Heart

On 14 June received a whatsapp message from V a temple member. Asking me whether I will be going to the temple in the evening. 

V told me that she went to clean up her old apartment, that she has not stayed in for the past 10 years. During the cleaning as she hired 2 temporary cleaner, 1 of the cleaner fainted after she clean a room inside the apartment. That afternoon itself she also feel unwell and decided to go for check up.

As it was someone other than herself that fainted, I did not think she was experiencing anything serious. She told me she felt dizzy and we suspect it might be high blood pressure. Durian season is in and also glutinous dumpling festival period.

Later that evening she told me she will be staying the night in hospital for further check up due to irregular ECG reading found by the doctor. I thought she was already in good hands as she was in the hospital due to medical reason. That evening itself, I was also preparing talismans for various different reasons. Due to some feeling was not right, I decided to enquire with the Deities on whether should issue her some talisman. The answer I received was to issue her 2 different talisman.

As I became more curious about what actually happened, I decided to go into meditative stabilisation. It became evident to me that her old apartment for 10 years have 2 spiritual inhabitants inside. An old uncle and also a small child about 6 to 7 years old from the way they appeared. They were most likely attached to the room her cleaner was cleaning that afternoon.

After she has ingested the talisman in the hospital for consecutively 2 days (3days in total), she informed me she dreamt of someone chasing her and woke up with high bp of 180. I have also asked her to wear the Lighting Strike wood talisman that her sister have requested some years back.

About 5 days later in the hospital, she was scheduled for her angiogram and if needed would be installing a stent as doctor suspect she might be having heart blockage. I have also advised her to buy some paper made items to be burn a the entrance of her old apartment. Her angiogram test showed she only have 20% blockage and do not require stent installation and was allowed to go home.

Sometimes those whom luck is down, when they are admitted in the hospital, one complication might lead to another and some very few will have even more spiritual disturbance that render them unable to be discharge.

When she arrived home, she burnt another talisman that I have given her, that was for separating any spirits that might have followed her from either the old apartment or from the hospital. She took a photo of her apartment floor where she burned the talisman. If you have Yin Yang Eyes then you would be able to see the image of the old man and also the face of the child in this photo.

The following day she snap another photo on her floor after the rain. As I have adviced her to to notice anything different after she was back home.

After noticing the above watermark, only she realized that she had accidentally put the talisman I have given sometime after Chinese New Year into the washing machine that morning.

How she got this talisman was also another arrangement by the Kam Dong San Deities. Every year those who are members of the temple, their name, date of birth and address would be presented to the Main Deities of our temple to check for whether anyone need to come back personally to the temple to ask for special blessings or procedure.

She and few others' name were shortlisted after receiving 3 consecutive oracle 圣杯 confirming that they need to come back for special advice. Deities advice was to issue her a Hua Sha 化煞 talisman to carry for the year. I have then issue her a 保命符 Talisman for Life Protection  (pic above). When she forward me the photo, only then I remembered issuing her such a talisman.

Our temple Deities have already foreseen that she might be in danger, hence she was call back to temple and being issued such talisman. Coincidence? Not likely.

When I saw her last week during our Fish Liberation, her facial color was back to normal and hopefully she recovers soon.

Amulet Craze coming to an end

My cousin from up north in Perlis rang me up about 6 months ago, asking whether I have heard about this thai amulet named Jatukham. About a year before that I was soaking up a lot of information about Thai White and Black Magic and happen to came upon this particular amulet.

He was quite excited as he said he paid RM350 to rent/purchase one from a famous temple in ChiangMai. I was thinking at the back of my mind that the craze is going to be over soon, because even my cousin from remote up north now has a Jatukham amulet in his altar!

Everybody has it, from the chicken rice seller, the parking attendant and even the caretaker of a famous Guan Yin temple in Penang.

I am not saying that the amulet does not have spiritual power. From a Taoist perspective, it takes quite a lot of energy and work to pass on spiritual energy onto an object, whether an amulet or otherwise. And the rate they are churning out these amulets is as fast as electronic component mass production factories. High spiritual power monks who can blessed alot of amulet in a day would also be tired. Even Wall Street Journal has a full story on the impending end of the trend http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120752929363393833-BX1FHatUh_BkmAZSi6fZ5akqlAU_20090407.html

When I met up with him about 2 weeks ago during Ching Ming (All Souls Day), he said someone once offered him RM450 for it. But now most likely worth about RM100.

Much on the market currently are fakes which sells from USD5 - USD10. And those that command a high price, also runs a risk of acquiring fakes as well. The main question then is does thai amulets has any power? Of course yes, provided it is properly blessed by monks who have attained certain spiritual milestones. Similar to Taoist talisman, does those little piece of paper works when you burn it? It depends on who drew it and under what condition and the issuing deity.

Coming back to amulets, if you are interested in acquiring thai amulets, the best is to visit the temple in Thailand personally, get to know the monks and abbots then decide whether you wish to rent/purchase an amulet from that temple. Even in Malaysia and in Penang, we have some local Thai temples that issue amulets for devotees and usually it is free and you will give a donation as a good gesture in return. If you cannot visit a temple, then you would need to do some homework on reputable online stores for those amulets. Usually they have different classification for its purpose such as

1. Protection


2. Relationship


3. Wealth

And when you acquire any amulet usually it has a Katha or incantations that you need to recite everyday. Nothing in the spiritual world is a free ride, you need to do your part as well.

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