MOM, PSYCHIC AND SON JASON IVLER: KARMIC TIES THAT BIND
 

[PHOTO AT LEFT - Marlene Aguilar-Pollard with psychic Paulie Caoili How much can a mother love her child? The answer to that is immeasurably.]

MANILA, FEBRUARY 11, 2010 (STAR) STAR BYTES By Butch Francisco - A mother’s love knows no limits, no bounds.

But public opinion is divided over the way Marlene Aguilar-Pollard had supposedly been protecting her son, Jason Ivler, who is the suspect behind the killing of Renato Victor Ebarle Jr. during a traffic altercation in Quezon City last Nov. 18, 2009.

While the majority feels that Marlene should have surrendered Jason a long time ago (although she had always maintained that she didn’t know his whereabouts either), there are also those who understand her plight as a mother who will do everything to protect her son.

What I find odd is the fact that in spite of what happened, Jason is starting to have his own legion of fans! I don’t know how to click it, but on the Internet he is starting to grow quite a following who call themselves Jason’s Army. That is so strange.

[PHOTO AT LEFT - JASON IVLER, far left in blue T-Shirt with POLLARD family]

Since this case had been baffling me for more than two months now and I had been so curious to find out how the minds of both Jason and Marlene work (and it’s also the Chinese New Year — the season when people try to see what’s in store for them in the next 12 months), I asked life coach and psychic Paulie Caoili to help me try and dig into the very depths and soul of mother and son if possible. A certified gemologist, who is into diamond trading, Paulie is sought after by some of the high and mighty in society to try and look into their very core — their past lives and the future of their present existence on this earth.

Marlene is one of Paulie’s clients and friends and once a week they sit down for a session. He recalls that the week before the shooting incident that claimed the life of the young Ebarle, Paulie told Marlene that “there will be a shoot-out.” Marlene actually thought that somebody was going to shoot her. “But she didn’t panic,” remembers Paulie, “because Marlene is the type who works best under pressure.” And she went home that evening — a Tuesday — prepared for that “something big and tragic” that would overturn their lives. Little did she know that it was going to be Jason who would be in the eye of this still raging storm.

But what are the karmic ties that bind mother and son because the public — ever curious and speculative — have been coming up with their own deductions? Some even maliciously hint either Oedipus or Electra complex. Paulie, who is naturally clairvoyant, laughs this off. According to Paulie, in their past lives, Marlene and Jason could have been blood brothers, comrades or mentor and apprentice, “but as lovers, they never were.” Their love for each other, however, will always be pure and unconditional — “the purest I’ve ever seen,” states Paulie.

The two are actually very old souls, says Paulie — with Marlene older by four cycles.

Incredibly enough, Jason, so says Paulie, had always been a warrior in his past lives. “He will live by the sword and die by the sword.” Although Paulie didn’t specify in which lifetime, “Jason will eventually evolve into another cycle where he will finally be happy and enlightened.” But before that happens, Paulie volunteers that “tragedy and death will always follow him — like in his other past lives.” And despite Jason’s string of romantic affairs, Marlene always had this inkling that “he would live a solitary life and never marry.” Also, she had always known that he would be a military man.

Between mother and son, it is Marlene who had more colorful lives — and I can say that she still lives one at present. She had been born male only once. She was female in all her previous lives.

In really ancient times, she was an Egyptian god’s wife and was more powerful than the pharaoh. At another point, she was a warrior and this was when she came into this world as a man. Most likely, she and Jason fought side by side with each other and had such great bonding between them.

Nothing beats, however, the phase when she lived as a noble woman in a past life — somewhere in Asia. She had two protectors (today’s equivalent of bodyguards): The first one she named Caesar in her book, Warriors in Heaven, and the other one, Gabriel, who protected her, but for some reason later killed her.

Although Paulie admits that regression (looking into somebody’s past lives) is not his field of specialization, as per his count, Marlene already had nine lives in the past (maybe she could also have been born a cat and this could be likely since she loves feline creatures).

Now, if you believe in reincarnation — about people having past lives and being born again after this lifetime, this is an interesting find: Paulie swears that Marlene brought the characters of all the lives she went through into the present — and they sometimes interplay at the same time. Maybe this is the reason why we have difficulty understanding her — basically everything she does and says.

Paulie also reveals that at a dinner gathering one time, a lady psychic (a former society figure who survived death and was later given the ability to look into past and future lives of people) told them that this is going to be Marlene’s last life cycle on earth. Morbid as this may sound, when she dies, that’s it.

As a Roman Catholic who was raised in the belief of heaven and hell, I wonder where she would go: Up or down?

Paulie claims that she’s headed for nirvana, the concept of which I don’t understand. But to quote him: “This is the point of enlightened happiness where you become in oneness with the universe.”

The dictionary actually defines nirvana as “a release from the cycle of reincarnation as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred and delusion.” It is also “a state of freedom from pain and worry.”

Although that seems to be a good place to be in, I will not even attempt to understand this Buddhist belief — even if I respect it and believe in it to some extent. I can’t even make clear decisions at this point in my life where I am caught in the crossroads of a career path.

But going back to Marlene and Jason, given all the cases they are currently facing, we all know that the coming days will be most difficult for them and their loved ones.

That takes little guessing.