Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Soothsayers' predictions grim for Mount Kelud

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“… 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, November 8, 2007

Soothsayers' predictions grim for Mount Kelud

Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Kediri

With volcanologists apparently unable to determine the exact day Mount Kelud will erupt, villagers in the area have turned to local mystics and soothsayers for their opinions.

While their predictions have been varied, they do all seem to agree on one thing: The mountain will erupt in the next seven days.

An elder of Sugihwaras village, Mbah (a Javanese honorific used to address a revered, older person) Mulyasih, 62, carefully prepared 12 cups of hot coffee on Wednesday afternoon.

The coffees (and a pack of cigarettes) were for the unseen spiritual guardian of the mountain. Once a week, she travels the 10 kilometers to the crater and offers them to it.

She says the ritual has enabled her to open a special communication channel with the spirit, which alerts her when something is about to happen. She addresses it as "Den Bagus", which translates into English as "handsome person".

"I still haven't received any sign from Den Bagus Kelud that the mountain will erupt. Previously, I have always received a sign -- an unseen spirit whispered it into my heart," she said.

"As long as the villagers still live in the shelters, as long as the police still guard the peak, then it won't erupt. It shall erupt the moment the villagers return to their homes and the police officers leave their posts," she said.

Another mystic, Eyang (another Javanese honorific) Kuswanto, presented a different version of events. Kuswanto said the mountain wouldn't erupt anytime soon as an important prerequisite event for such an eruption hadn't yet occurred yet.

"The eruption must be preceded by a pagebluk. The pagebluk hasn't occurred yet. It means that the time for the eruption hasn't arrived yet," he said.

In Javanese folklore, a pagebluk is the occurrence of a large number of deaths in a violent manner. Prior to the 1990 eruption, a large number of people were killed in Blitar during the nationwide "mysterious shooters" program, in which allegedly government-condoned death-squads targeted street thugs.

"And thousands of people were slaughtered in the aftermath of the failed coup attempt by the Indonesia Communist Party in 1965. One year later, Kelud erupted," he said.

He further referred to Kelud's mythology to explain the 1,000-meter high column of smoke towering above the mountain's crater and the lava dome that has emerged in the middle of the crater.

"The smoke and the dome are the soldiers of Lembu Suro. They are showing their forces to Dewi Kilisuci," he said.

Ancient legend has it that Kilisuci asked Lembusuro to dig a well inside the crater before marrying her.

Even the head of the Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Center Surono couldn't stop himself from giving a mystical explanation.

The mountain hasn't erupted yet because, Surono said, "The girl of Mount Kelud is still refusing my marriage proposal. I have repeatedly tried to comprehend her wishes to no avail. She only smiles at me."