I feel at some time, in each of our lives, things happen to us which cannot be explained. We feel a hidden power was at work.

I think the first experience I can remember was as I was working for the TM movement out in Switzerland and had just been cleaning a corridor outside the Maharishi bedroom. As I was passing the door a pundit came out who wanted to use the vacuum cleaner to clean the room.

I gave him the machine and I waited out side, after a few minutes I noticed that he had finished using the machine and it was just inside the door. Not thinking, I stepped forward to remove the vacuum cleaner. As I stepped through the door an unseen energy field zapped me, like static electricity, which seem to short-circuit all my nervous system.

For the next twenty minutes or so, I had to sit on a chair in the corridor to re-centre my energies. For the next few hours afterwards, I kept having dizzy spells. To this day, I am not quite sure what zapped me but I know that something unexplained had happened to me.

A few weeks later I heard of the practice of building a protective kavach or shield to protect your property; I am not sure if it was one of these, I short-circuited or just a very strong presence from a highly developed being.

Another experience that I noticed, was that streetlights would often go out as I was walking past them. This had been happening for a few months and I had been mentioning it to some of my friends.

On this particular day I went to church in a car with two of my friends. On the way back we just came over a flyover and the driver said did you see that. So I asked him what? He said the streetlight just went off. I told him not to worry as this happens all the time to me. Anyway the next minute the driver stops the car. I asked why he is stopping and he said another one has just gone off. By this time he was sounding a bit anxious. As he starts off a third streetlight goes out as he drove under it. I must admit this was the first time I got three in a row.

About six months later I was visiting my family who live in Tenerife and had just told the story to a couple of people in the room. One of the girls said well make that streetlight go out over there, pointing. I told her it does not work like that; anyway a few minutes later I noticed it was getting dark in the room and walked over to tern the light on in the room.

The next minute there was a big flash and a bang and the lights fused. For months latter we could not get that light to work again!