Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Dynamic cultural show kicks off Bali Arts Festival

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, June 18, 2007

Dynamic cultural show kicks off Bali Arts Festival

I Wayan Juniartha, The Jakarta Post, Denpasar, Bali

A vibrant cultural parade showcasing more than 1,500 performers on Saturday afternoon saw the beginning of the 29th month-long Arts Festival (PKB), the biggest and most influential annual cultural gathering on the resort island.

Highlighting the rich diversity of the island's cultural heritage, the parade featured each of the island's nine regencies performing their own unique dances, musical compositions and performing arts.

Thousands of spectators including groups of Western visitors lined up along the wide Puputan street in Renon to see the procession.

The parade's main performing area was next to the Puputan Margarana square where the bell-shaped Bajra Sandhi monument provided a backdrop for artists as they performed before an elevated wooden stage that hosted President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and scores of VIPs.

The parade was started after President Susilo officially opened the PKB by sounding a traditional wooden bell or kul-kul.

Earlier in his opening speech, Yudhoyono praised the island and its people as the guardian of a large number of precious and unique cultural treasures.

"Lets show the world that Bali is indeed the Island of the Gods as well as the most beautiful island of all," Yudhoyono said.

"We can achieve that by preserving the strength and uniqueness of the island, such as its arts and cultural treasures, its natural beauty and its living spirituality."

He also asked the Balinese to maintain the security of the island as well as the Balinese people's well-known hospitality.

Those things were critical in the effort to rehabilitate the island's tourism industry, he said.

Toward the end of his speech, Yudhoyono reminded the Balinese the country needed to develop a environmental-based tourism trade and a heritage-based economy.

"We must be able to develop and transform the God-given gifts -- rich cultural and historical heritage, diverse local traditions and natural beauty -- into a productive ecotourism and heritage economy," he stressed.

Students from the Denpasar's Indonesia Arts Institute (ISI) started the parade by performing the PKB's official dance of Siwa Nataraja.

The dance was a homage to Lord Siwa, who in Hindu mythology created the universe through his cosmic dance.

The dance was soon followed by various colorful performances from every regency in Bali.

Yudhoyono and first lady Kristiani Herawati were seen laughing as the Gianyar regency's Rina troupe performed a humorous take on the well-known kecak dance.

Spectators gave rousing applause to the parade's visiting participants, including troupes from China, Japan and several other provinces in Indonesia.

The warmest response was received by the East Java troupe, which performed a vivacious folkdance from Sumenep regency.

The PKB is set to run until July 14 at the Taman Budaya Bali in Denpasar.

The program is due to feature 187 events, including 110 performances, six parades and eight competitions and will involve more than 13,000 performers.