Jaime T. Licauco, popularly known as Jimmy Licauco, is a renowned parapsychologist, author, and management practitioner in the Philippines.
He is the Founder and President of the Inner Mind Development Institute, a training center for parapsychology, philosophy, psychic investigation, and metaphysics.
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Licauco was born in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines, on July 25, 1940. He is the great-great grandson of Damian Domingo, a eighteenth-century Filipino painter.[1]
He completed his elementary and high school at San Beda College, a Catholic school run by the Benedictine monks in Manila. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and English degree, magna cum laude, in 1962 from the same institution. He took up graduate studies in Sociology from the Asian Social Institute as a scholar in 1965. He obtained a Master of Business Management degree from the Asian Institute of Management in 1972.[1]
Licauco has worked, over a span of twenty-five years, in middle and upper business management levels in ten different corporations, mostly in the lines of human resource, management training and development, and consultancy.[1]
Licauco gradually transformed from a corporate executive to a paranormal expert:[1]
Licauco has taught English, Philosophy, Christian Ethics, and Sociology at San Beda College; parapsychology at De La Salle University-Manila; and Intuitive Decision Making, Creativity, Remote Viewing, and Telepathy at the Asian Institute of Management. He is a frequent resource speaker and lecturer in local and international conferences, seminars, and workshops.[1]
He established the Inner Mind Development Institute, a special training school devoted to the art and science of metaphysics and parapsychology. He regularly conducts seminars on Inner Mind Development, ESP, and Higher Awareness at the Institute as well as in other venues upon request of different organizations.[1]
His teaching employment is recorded as follows:[1]
Licauco has authored twelve books, three pamphlets, and a book on intuition published in San Francisco, California. Two of his books were published by De La Salle University.[1]
Among his published works include:[1]
Licauco runs a weekly column entitled Inner Awareness at The Philippine Daily Inquirer. He also anchors a weekly radio program over DZMM.[1]
Licauco was hailed as one of the Bedans of the Century awardees by San Beda College during the school's 100th foundation anniversary in 2001. He was also proclaimed the foremost proponent of the New Age Movement in the Philippines by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines in February 2003.[1]
Licauco is married to Yolanda Campos. The couple has three children. The family resides in Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines.[1]
On the evening of Jan. 26, 2007, Licauco almost died, when he felt chest pain while watching a movie at Greenbelt Cinema in Makati. Having a near-fatal heart attack (Myocardial infarction), he was rushed to the Makati Medical Center and finally transferred to the Philippine Chinese General Hospital. Licauco’s cardiologist, Dr. Dy Bun Yok found (angiogram) that 70% of one of his arteries is blocked. Licauco stayed in the coronary care unit for 4 days, and thereafter, he underwent an angioplasty. After 2 days, Licauco left the hospital (after almost 2 weeks stay thereat). Licauco’s daughter Sophia, who has been living in California for the last 21 years, flew back to Manila to be with him, and lost her job in the onset due to the length of stay in the Philippines. Sophia Licauco wanted to make sure that Mr. Licauco was out of harms way before she went back to the US. Sophia Licauco is Jimmy Licauco's only daughter who values the importance of family.[2][3]
Licauco met his nemesis. James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). The Magician Randi debunked claims in Licauco's Philippine Daily Inquirer column entitled "INNER AWARENESS" (October 24, 2006). Randi, inter alia, challenged Licauco to apply for the JREF $ 1 million dollar prize, since the latter claimed that "he has paranormal abilities". With point-by-point reply ("Setting the record straight", Inquiret.net, January 15, 2007), Licauco forthwith answered Randi's attacks. Licauco denied having supernatural powers by saying "That’s a lie. I have never claimed to have any paranormal or psychic ability. I don’t know where Randi got that idea". Although he teaches, among other things, ESP and how to do remote viewing, and even boasted in a show that more than 80% of his students develop the skill.
He claims that "I don’t have to prove to Randi that ESP (extra sensory perception) ability (such as telepathy, clairvoyance and telekinesis) exists. This has been proven scientifically long ago." He also claims that Randi "participated in the cover-up of a botched scientific investigation of Michel Gauquelin’s conclusion that there was a significant statistical correlation between birth dates of athletes and the position of Mars in the heavens". Licauco further said that "Randi’s group denounced Gauquelin’s finding only to eat their words later. To save face, they went so far as to manipulate scientific data to conform to their preconceived notion that astrology was pure hogwash".[4][5]