Thousands of spectators were seen filling the Lima National Stadium on Wednesday. They came with the same intention, to support their country in overthrowing Brazil’s hegemony at the top of the 2026 World Cup qualifying standings in the Latin American zone as well as increasing La Blanquirroja’s hopes of entering the main round of the world’s big tournament.
However, Marquinhos’ last minute goal from a corner kick from Neymar left the home fans speechless. One additional number in front of your eyes disappears, even though full support has been given, including from local shamans. Before this match started, the shamans were recorded gathering in brightly colored clothes. Some of them wear chullo, a typical Peruvian wool hat, while the rest wear straw hats or headbands.
They surrounded a photo with a picture of Neymar as a base for a doll on top of which a knife had been cut. This rite is performed while chanting a spell. They scream instead of remaining in silence. One of these shamans is tasked with blowing a trumpet from a shell. This procession continued until the Brazilian jersey with Neymar’s back number 10 was displayed on the reverse. Just like before, the doll is an illustration of the star’s body being stabbed by shamans.
Throughout its journey, magic and spiritual skills have always been present in football. All of this is believed to be to achieve victory or injure opponents who are considered a threat to the team. Last year Paul Pogba reportedly sent black magic from Africa to his compatriot, Kylian Mbappe. The French midfielder denied the news that was first spread by his brother, but he did not deny contacting a shaman. However, this action was not taken to injure Mbappe.
The story of occultism in football doesn’t stop there. In the 1997/1998 Champions League qualification, PSG lost 0-3 to Steaua Bucharest. PSG President at that time, Michel Denisot, had to find a way to win the match in the second leg so that his team would qualify for the next round. Like light suddenly entering a dark room from a window, a staff member, Claude Le Roy, came to provide input. He, who knows African football well, offered the services of a shaman from Senegal named Sindy.
Denisot accepted the offer and called it “a mystical emergency”. Sindy started her work as a freelancer at PSG. This shaman predicts that PSG will win 5-0 over the Romanian representative. He even clearly explained the events in this match, one of which was that in the 42nd minute PSG’s number 18 player scored the 4th goal. The results were extraordinary, this match was won by the French representatives with an aggregate of 5-3!
Sindy’s prediction was almost right. Player number 18, Florian Maurice managed to score the fourth goal in the 41st minute. As written by The Green Soccer Journal, the relationship with Sindy did not end there. A PSG player, Leonardo de Araujo, who moved to AC Milan and became a coach, contacted Denisot to ask for Sindy’s number. According to Denisot, the collaboration between Leonardo and Sindy lasted several years. The connection between the mystical world and football also occurs in Indonesia. As recorded in the book Persib Undercover. In the 1994/1995 Indonesian League semifinals, Persib faced Barito Putera.
In this match, the Blue Prince was more favored. The prediction that Persib’s strength was superior to its opponent was visible in this match. The club from Bandung managed to lock up the Barito Putera players, but the ball had difficulty penetrating the net. Finally, a Persib player, Sutiono, found an egg behind the goal which he believed was a talisman to prevent Persib players from scoring goals. Finally he and other colleagues tried to solve it, and succeeded. After that, the Barito players swore at Sutiono. Finally, Persib managed to break through Barito’s goal through Kekey’s goal which took them to the final round against Petrokimia Gersik.
Spiritual or mystical products for modern humans are foreign expressions and feel taboo. For people today, especially in the West, who think based on common sense, mystical things are a setback because these ideas are formless and cannot be described physically. Most modern people, especially those from the West, do not believe in esoteric understanding like this. Their understanding grows from rationality that originates from the translation of a physical object, while spirituality cannot be defined in an empirical way like now.
However spiritual, mystical, or whatever you want to call it, it will not disappear from the beautiful story of a human being, including football. The history of the discovery of football is still confusing until now. However, previous people played this game to relieve boredom or stress. Saturation level and we cannot measure this stress with certainty so that it encourages them to carry out the action of cradling something that is now called a ball.
The wild imagination they carry could be what pushed them to discover this game. However, we don’t know for sure where imagination comes from and why people’s imaginations are different. Modern humans consider this discovery or thought to have come because of the intelligence built by that person. This intelligence is obtained from years of learning and observation combined with other experiences in their lives. This experience includes feelings that subconsciously can never be described or simply measured clearly through empirical evidence of modern humans.
Meanwhile, people who we consider ancient and backward because they are attached to spiritual understanding consider it a form of help from foreign beings and cannot be seen with the naked eye. Ancient humans saw the mind as a living creature that continues to develop and cannot be translated with dead letters as modern humans understand. Like the invention of football. The person who discovered it may have initially had the urge to dribble a human skull or animal skin compressed into a ball. Now we enjoy it as a football game. Did the first person know the origin of the thought that just came? It could be that there is a substance that makes him do this.
Spiritual proof can only be obtained with a person’s experience and skills in developing that knowledge. This is what makes mystical things difficult for everyone to explain, because they have their own interpretation and cannot be blamed. Then modern humans consider people who are close to esoteric knowledge as crazy and hopeless. The distortion of the meaning of spirituality as a negative thing that continues to develop is the cause.
Nowadays we always perceive physical objects as reality. He is more important than thoughts and ideas themselves, even though Plato called ideas real things. This is what the mystical world teaches its adherents. The objects captured by the mind’s eye are something real and can be believed. Meanwhile, physical objects that we can easily see and feel are limited to the surface.
This difference in thinking sets us hundreds of years apart in terms of viewing rationality. Those of us who consider them backward people need to rethink the words just now. To this day, accepted or not, we are still looking for the most correct theory about how the pyramids were built in Egypt. Meanwhile, those who lived in the midst of ancient civilizations built these magnificent buildings, we can still enjoy their beauty today.
The Ancient Egyptians also discovered the constellations which we translate as the zodiac. They were also the ones who succeeded in understanding Sirius as a three star system that was only discovered by modern civilization in 1995 under the name Sirius C. The ability of ancient people who succeeded in combining their five senses and spiritual abilities succeeded in using their brains more optimally. They know 7 chakras to connect with life.
One of these chakras is between the eyebrows. The Egyptians called it Ru, which symbolized the portal of birth. In esoteric science, this chakra is called the third eye to communicate with other substances that cannot be seen by the two eyeballs. In esoteric science, the pineal gland, which is in the brain at the top of the spinal cord, will vibrate when someone has a premonition. If this vibration is combined with other spiritual disciplines, it will enable someone to open their third eye.
Meanwhile, modern science can only see the pineal gland as an enlarged gland when humans are still children. When they reach puberty, these glands will shrink and harden like chalk because a person’s imaginative power is reduced. Modern science has only recently discovered the hormone melatonin which is produced mostly by the pineal gland. This hormone has an important function in the rhythm of waking and sleeping, and plays a big role in maintaining the body’s immune system.
One of the world’s most influential scientific figures, Albert Einstein, even did things that were not empirical at all to find his theory. He once said “In principle, if you try to build a theory relying only on observations of visible objects, that is completely wrong.”
He proved this by discovering the theory of relativity which broke empiricism. He relied on paper and pen to formulate his postulates and theoretical constructions. He succeeded in assembling his imagination as a new knowledge that could be utilized by other humans living in the era after he died.
Through the theory of relativity he discovered, Einstein once predicted the existence of gravity due to shock waves resulting from the activity of two masses of active objects in the universe and will not be recognized by humans on earth. He also estimates that there are invisible stars with super massive masses or what are usually called black holes. There is a time track that has a difference in speed. In 2015, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s death, LIGO detected gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes. Four years later, NASA managed to get the first image of this black hole. Then we now enjoy a technology called GPS which takes advantage of the momentary time differences that Einstein previously predicted.
It can be concluded that spirituality is not always about black magic or occultism, cruel acts of harm or alliances with invisible beings. Spirituality is a science that is contrary to modern empiricism. The effort to construct spirituality in this article concludes with the process of creating a human being. Some religions even clearly state that this creature is known as Adam.
Some religions tell how this creation process was carried out. Can this process be proven empirically with the knowledge we currently have? Can anyone empirically prove a substance that could create humans for the first time? Like it or not, humans are creatures created in illogical ways and fall into the spiritual understanding we know today. So we are spiritual beings ourselves who are learning to understand the nature of humanity, so why are we still ‘anti’ to spirituality or something mystical?
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