Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Villa madness and the Bali recovery

"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. …”

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Villa madness and the Bali recovery

Wednesday, October 10, 2007. 3:48pm AEST

By Samantha Stayner, ABC Melbourne

Balinese businessman Odeck runs a restaurant and small gallery in Ubud. He's seen great change in his community over recent years.

The terror attacks had a dramatic impact on tourism across all of Bali. Now he says, new challenges are arising from the economic recovery.

"After 9/11 it was a big change for us," Odeck says, "first of all losing 30 percent of our American market. Then in 2002 as we all know... losing most of our Australians. So it's been really hard for us."

Adding to the business woes, locals also faced a 150 percent rise in the cost of petrol on one day in 2005. It was October 1st, the same day bombs exploded at Kuta and Jimbaran.

Odeck is disappointed with the level of support from the Indonesian government, and says the banks showed little mercy.

"They didn't give us a break of restructuring our finances, our loans... and et cetera so some of our friends have to be forced to sell their land."

Financial recovery is a fine balance. On one hand, economic investment is much-needed. But Odeck says it also brings new challenges for locals.

"Now the business is coming back, but it's not actually done by the Balinese, because a lot of those assets are moved from Balinese owners," he says.

"While it's good the economy is going, it's not very good for some business people."

With overseas buyers paying more for land, there are also fears that locals will be priced out of the market and risk "becoming a guest in our own island".

"There is a lot of what they call 'villa madness' - a lot of Australian real estate companies building a lot of villas in Bali, and they are benefiting from this," Odeck explains.

"Bali's strength is the culture... culture coming from the sense of community. The people in Bali that produce the culture and art need land."

He agrees that tourists are returning to Bali in increasing numbers, especially over the past six months, but he also worries about the threat level reported for Indonesia on the Australian Government Smart Traveller website.

"Tourism has been good to us, we find a way to avoid conflict between tourism and our culture," he says. "But this event that's happening with terrorism and exiling the community in Bali from the rest of the world by form of travel warning is actually hurting."

"I don't think we need material support, we only need moral support, and a policy that is supporting us as a victim of terrorism... not exiling us from the rest of the world.