Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Forest volunteer teacher inspires city kids

"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. …”

Friday, November 2, 2007

Forest volunteer teacher inspires city kids

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

The recent visit from a prominent social worker, Butet Manurung, to a school in North Jakarta may have been brief, but it made a lasting impression, students said.

Lidya Lau, a 10th grader at the Mahatma Gading school, said she was amazed by Butet's stories of her experience as a volunteer, teaching forest children in Jambi province for eight years.

Butet, who was named one of 20 Asian Heroes by TIME magazine in 2004, earned international recognition for her commitment to education for indigenous children.

She was invited to the school to share her stories and to promote her newly published book titled Sokola Rimba (A Forest School).

"My sister and I had long planned to teach kids in a nearby slum, but hadn't followed through for various reasons ... Now after hearing Mbak Butet's stories, I am determined to go ahead," 12-year-old Lidya said.

"I think I will start by teaching English," she added.

During Butet's one-hour presentation, children listened attentively and raised many questions to the 35-year-old speaker.

"Is it difficult to live there?"

"Do the children also learn mathematics and everything like we do here?"

Sporting a striped shirt and blue jeans, Butet patiently answered the questions.

"What they learn is of course not the same as what you might have here. They need knowledge not to look for a job, but as a means of survival," she said.

She said education for the indigenous children was aimed at making them aware of their changing surroundings, and the increased demands placed on forests by people from nearby villages and cities.

"People are selling their plots of land cheaply because they have no idea how much it is worth ... they are easily tricked because they are not educated."

Butet said she hoped more children would be inspired to follow her, to use their time to do something for society.

"There are 26 volunteers now working together with me. They are spread across several other provinces where I have developed similar schools for indigenous tribes. They are all volunteers, and get no payment," she said.

A school committee board member, V. Ram, said the school hoped students would learn about life outside their schools and be inspired to make great contributions to society like Butet.

Gaurav, another 10th grader, said he was wanted to stay with Butet to help her with volunteer work.

"A one-week live-in program sounds great ... we would learn many things interacting with the children," he said, adding that he believed his parents would not mind.

Butet said opposition from parents was one of many hurdles a volunteer may face when deciding to immerse themselves.

"Initially my parents did not agree with what I am doing, but eventually they accepted it. They saw that I was serious about what I am doing and persevered with it," she said.

Butet, who holds degrees in anthropology and Indonesian literature from Padjadjaran University, Bandung, and is now applying for a master's degree scholarship in Australia, said studying was important but children should not forget to take time out for playing.

"Forest children are all very cheerful and happy, probably because they play so much. I think children here (in Jakarta) should spend more time playing... studying should be fun and not a burden."