Translated from a 2004 article in Bulgarian daily newspaper ‘Standart’ (StandartNews.com)
They say that a phenomenon like Vera Kochovska occurs once in 50,000 people. It is diffcult to say what she is at the same time – psychic, clairvoyant, fortune teller, a healer. Some compare her to Vanga. But that is like comparing Newton and Napoleon, says Prof. Andrey Bryukhovetsky from the Neuro Vita clinic in Moscow, who was the first to study the unique abilities of the Bulgarian woman. She did not receive her abilities at birth, but acquired them after severe trauma. Today she does not move much after an illness. She prefers to talk in a semi-recumbent position.
Vera was born on July 27, 1945 in Pernik, but lives in Pleven.
When one encounters the supernatural, it always seems too natural to him. Faith and emotions are not subject to logic. I have heard a lot about Vera Kochovska but know little. At first she refused me a meeting. When I enter the hotel room, my first impression is of a woman whose age is difficult to determine. Her manner of communication is quite direct, but you don’t feel uncomfortable. I ask if I can record our conversation.
Vera: And will you be able to? – she asks me and takes the tape recorder in her hand. Then it really couldn’t record. I ask her about my loved ones. She unerringly names situations, people.
Q: Can fate be influenced?
Vera: The only place a person cannot return to is where they came out of. With the first cry out of the mother’s womb, rebirth begins. A person enters life with its predetermination. He can change things, but not much, because he moves as if in a labyrinth. He can shorten or lengthen the path, but he cannot influence his fate.
Human life is a scaffold, says Kochovska. Goodness is not stupidity and naivety is not a vice, she repeats several times. Each person is a separate world, a separate universe. In the darkness, he can become a stranger to himself.
We talk about politics, about the situation in our country, about Russia. Our roots, our spiritual ties are here, Vera notes. Putin is between Lenin and Stalin, she says. Kochovska is against the military operation in Iraq. This is the site of ancient Babylon, one of the oldest human civilizations, and therefore one should not step there with weapons, with force.
Vera received her gift of healing and prediction after a serious accident at the age of 12, when a truck ran over her body. What does a person feel under [her] influence? How does Kochovska influence – with her hands, from a distance, at what distances?
Vera: Stand in the corner with your back to me. Close your eyes, she orders. I stand with my back to her. I begin to feel enormous tension along the silhouette of my entire body. It’s as if someone is shaking me, and I’m trying with all my might to stay in place. Look at your hands, she says. I see what everyone around us sees – they are very red, like boiled crab, as they would be from high blood pressure. Vera shows me the location of the pain in my own hand, even mentions the car’s hinge, which is out of order, and warns me to be careful of accidents. That same day it turns out we forgot to turn off the gas on the stove at home. Coincidence, premonition?… I ask her about my father, who is sick. She names the illness, the exact location where his leg is broken, and hurries to call an experienced trauma surgeon in Pleven. She gives a prescription for the illness. Then she tells me that my eyes hurt and gives a recommendation for me too.
How does she see the images – color, black and white, how does she hear voices, can she do things, and can she see images at great distances? I see the living in color, and the dead as silhouettes, I talk to them. The distance doesn’t matter. Baba Vanga is alive, says Vera Kochovska. Vanga was blind, but she saw everything. Vera has seen a lot with her own eyes, she has visited dozens of countries. She shows me photos taken in Japan. The aura above her head, the glow above the patient’s head, are clearly visible. The outline of the mysterious third eye is clearly visible in the MRI images. The fontanelles on the crown and back of the Vera’s head are soft. Do you want to touch them? Yes, I answer almost mechanically. – You are very curious, she notes immediately. The fontanelles and the skull at the back are really open, like a hump.
The five-pointed star is not a socialist symbol, she says. These are the five continents. The Jews invented the sixth ray, the Star of David, and angered God. That is why he scattered them. They betrayed him.
I get the impression that she doesn’t like to be alone. She also doesn’t like it when you insist on an answer. She’ll get back to the question, but when she decides. God forbid, she always ends her conversation with that phrase. She says she sees God as a radiance and only his sandals can be distinguished. She sees the internal organs of a person in color and volume.
Vera Kochovska went to Russia to work together with the Russian neurologist Prof. Andrey Bryukhovetsky. In his center for restorative neurology and therapy “Neuro Vita”, a person’s own stem cells are transplanted. They restore functions and rejuvenate the body. It was Bryukhovetsky who discovered Kochovska’s third eye in the time with the pictures of the nuclear magnetic tomograph. Vera shows the pictures in which her spine is also visible – like a dolphin’s.
Our conversation went on for a long time, at least that’s what it seemed to me. I’m trying to restore it, but it’s impossible to remember everything. Write whatever you decide, she tells me. I’m trying to be as economical as possible. People sometimes like to argue about what they don’t know or can’t explain. Maybe Vera Kochovska is right. We are sighted blind people. Maybe it’s convenient. Why learn things that won’t give you peace of mind?