“If I were to tell people everything I saw and knew, they would want to leave this world at once.”
The avoidable and the inevitable
For more than half a century, the big Bulgarian Prophetess lived with the destinies of people, with their everyday moments of joy or sadness, with their pain and worries.
Seeing the life of man in its entirety – past, present and future – this is the great power of the phenomenon that Baba Vanga is. The prophetess does not deal so much with the fate of mankind as a whole – with the plight of nations, the pathways of different political governments, or the future development of the world (this is not her mission), but rather with the individual destinies – with the life of ordinary people, going through great hardship, personal crises and ordeals. Baba Vanga opens up her heart and will to ordinary people. And every person is a vast universe of emotions, thoughts, intentions, actions… We could only imagine what goes on inside her own personality, marked by extra sensory abilities and super memory, when “on the screen” of her internal vision, a person appears and she needs to list the events of their destiny. In her mind, the life of the living is often fused with presence of the dead; from one side she receives images and direction, to the other side she passes on advice, warnings for future events, and relief for their current pains.
Baba Vanga’s mission here on earth is a difficult one. Who knows what karma she is redeeming with this kind of life. It is her destiny to bear and suffer the grief of tens of thousands of human lives. But not only that. Her gift often puts Baba Vanga in a delicate position – on a crossroad between the “good” truth she can foresee (especially in order to give a boost of positive energy, so things can turn out in a favorable way) and the “bad” truth (the truth she often refrains from telling, because it refers to something bad, but inevitable, impossible to change). It is Baba Vanga’s duty to prophesy without changing the karmic flow of events, to help, but still preserve one’s destiny intact, as intended by God.
Life is a sacred mystery. We are not meant to know what awaits us in the future, in order not to lose the great opportunity given to us to choose our own way through life, making it a result of our free will and intention. On the other hand, philosophers, mystics, fortune tellers and even scientists claim, that a person’s life is strictly predefined and following preset principles and schemes.
Baba Vanga herself emphasizes: “What I see and tell, no matter how bad it is, cannot be changed. The destiny of man is strictly predefined and no one is able to change it.”
The great teacher Dunov notes: “Our individual paths in life are drawn in advance, mathematically defined. Everyone is destined to become the person he needs to be in life, their life’s events and circumstances predefined. This is the law of constant causes and effects. “
And so – between what’s written and what’s not, between the possible and the impossible, the avoidable and unavoidable that’s set to happen in a person’s life – Baba Vanga goes on with her messages of goodwill to people faced with problems they can’t solve or crossroads they can’t make their minds about. Probably the most precise definition of her mission is giving solace. Bringing consolation to the souls of people in the most critical of moments, when they are confused, frightened and desperate. It is not accidental, that most of the people who come to her say that their first visit with her happened in an extremely difficult moment, when there was no other alternative anymore, when Baba Vanga was the last hope left. They, as if intuitively, feel the she, the Solace-giver, could bring hope from another dimension, unseen and denied, argued about and never proven, but a dimension, that especially through her, became so real and palpable. The meeting with Baba Vanga is a meeting with hope – hope that there is an answer to all those questions that have been startling mankind in its sleep for ages: can we defy death, is there life after death, can life be stronger than death…
Nobody can say with certainty, even if there were strict statistics, how many personal destinies has the open third eye of Baba Vanga set its gaze upon throughout the long years she used to practice. Because Baba Vanga could not only see the fate of the person standing in front of her, but she received pictures from the lives of that person’s relatives, acquaintances, colleagues, and friends… The person in front of her is like a carrier of information for their entire social circle (including for those of their close people, who are already deceased) and Baba Vanga could read the code of this hidden network of information, drawing at a single moment, and in a manner incomprehensible for us, data for tens of destinies, capturing images from the past and future actions of the people. Some of them she transmits, others she doesn’t manage (because her thought and visions flow much faster than one could manage to convey with words), yet others she is not allowed to or chooses not to tell.
Brought to her by despair, rather than happiness, people stand in front of her. Exhausted from the suffering of others, because she could feel it inside her, the Prophetess often cries out:” My soul is tired from pain” “If you could only know what’s inside my head. You are blessed not to see or hear anything…”
The thousands life paths the fate of the prophetess crosses for more than a century are full of “sharp turns”: hardship, catastrophes, sickness, death, thefts, murders, intrigues, lies… Her soul has witnessed so much.
A horrible vision brings a miserable mother to her. How could she tell her the truth, which is impossible to bear, even for the strongest ones.
Zheni Kostadinova graduated Philosophy at the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. She has worked as an editor at the student TV show “Ku-Ku”, and as a reporter at the National Radio “Horizon”. For over 15 years she is a columnist at “Weekly Trud” newspaper writing about esoteric and psychology. In the same newspaper she is maintaining a page on literature. Zheni Kostadinova is the author of some of the most popular books written on Baba Vanga including “Baba Vanga The Prophetess”, “Baba Vanga Predictions”, “The Secret of Baba Vanga”. Her first book was translated into Russian, Polish, Latvian, Serbian, and Albanian. Zheni is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers. She had published three books of poetry: “Fire Sticks (2002), “17 love colors” (2007), and “Fig Jam” (2008). In 2012 Zheni has founded the art-house “Kuklite”. It is a doll gallery and a mini-museum located in the old downtown of Sofia. The gallery exhibits different dolls placed in specific categories. Besides the exhibitions, the art-house “Kuklite” also have the priority to work with children from the local schools, so they learn more about the traditions and customs of the different nations. The main idea is to transform the art-house “Kuklite” into a centre for cultural exchange, creative collaboration between representatives of different fields of art, science and philosophy. The art-house will hold meetings with interesting personalities, and will be a place of exhibitions, seminars, workshops, premieres of books and documentary movies, puppetry, and many other great events. The art-house “Kuklite” will also be a place where collectors can display their favourite artefacts and can share the history associated with them.
