Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Carnival of artists lights up Yogyakarta in anniversary

"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. …”

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Carnival of artists lights up Yogyakarta in anniversary

The Jakarta Post | Sat, 10/25/2008 11:00 PM

Yogyakarta lit up on Saturday night with 1.3 kilometers long carnival of artists and musicians parading on the streets to commemorate the city's 252nd anniversary.

State news agency Antara reported that thousands of people, which made up of local citizens and tourists, had been gathering at Malioboro since after dark, waiting for the carnival to start at 8 p.m.

The carnival, which was the first of its kind, heralded the theme "Street Performance".

The carnival began with a local dance act performing the famous dance composition of Rama Tambak, which depicted events from the epic Hindu tale of Ramayana. The dancers staged their act on a big carriage pulled by horned horses.

Tagging along the dancer's carriage was a set of contemporary gamelan music that combined the sounds of traditional gamelan music instruments with those of a modern five piece band.

Besides local artists, there were also foreign talents performing at the carnival. South Korea sent traditional dancers of Gang Buk Gu while Japanese ballet dancers seen teaming up with ballet dancers from Surabaya, showing off their skills.

A delegation from Lebanon also participated in the carnival, presenting a traditional dance from Baalbeck city that described the daily life of people in the Middle East. Dancers from China attracted a lot of attention with the famous Phoenix dance.

The carnival was officially inaugurated by the king of the Ngayogyakarta Sultanate, Sultan Hamengku Buwono X.

The sultan said that at its age of 252 Yogyakarta had become more charming with its cultural values and its endless construction of a symbiotic relation between modernity and local traditions.

"This carnival is a meeting between contemporary arts and traditional arts as popular culture cannot be separated from the traditional," he said.

The sultan hoped that the carnival would be an annual event in Yogyakarta. (and)