Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Good news in the gloom: Check out Malaysia

"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, December 14, 2008

Good news in the gloom: Check out Malaysia

The Jakarta Post, Sun, 12/14/2008 10:32 AM

Participants of the second conference of the Kartini Asia Network take a break at the venue in Bali. From left to right Zainah Anwar of Malaysia, Madu Mehra of India, Kamala Chandrakirana of Indonesia and Azra Talat Sayeed of Pakistan. (JP/Ati Nurbaiti)

Malaysia's ulema council issued a fatwa banning tomboys, then in December it banned yoga, despite protests. The prime minister stepped in and said yoga practice was fine as long as there were no attempts to convert people to Hinduism -- the council had feared Muslims would convert in droves if corrupted by the Hindu-influenced yoga.

In Indonesia, despite a huge public outcry, the President signed the controversial pornography law in late November, conveniently a few months ahead of next year's elections.

Earlier, Kamala Chandrakirana, the chairperson of the National Commission for Violence against Women, had said in disgust that the passing of the law was merely "political expediency", and not a victory for political Islam.

Whatever it was, for opponents of the law it is another sign of the growing conservatism in the country and elsewhere -- a creeping movement that seems to work for the political elite, who offer an appealing call to make morality part of state policy in return for votes.

Women's rights activists across Asia signed a petition against the passing of the new pornography law when they gathered in Bali last month.

Turkey's Pinar Ilkkaracan echoed the concerns of activists in various countries regarding the development of Islam here.

Indonesian Islam used to be a model, she said, of a moderate and humane Islam.

The moderate Muslims seem to be losing courage these days to the hard-liners, said Zainah Anwar of the Kuala Lumpur-based Sisters in Islam.

Amid this gloom, one must look to the light coming from Zainah Anwar's Malaysia -- despite the above fatwas that had its neighbors smirking.

If the government allowed the council to issue the fatwa banning yoga, Anwar had said earlier, "it would be shooting itself in the foot".

Anwar says that compared with a few decades ago, activists such as herself and her "sisters" are now no longer the lonely, stubborn voice opposing an elite that claims a monopoly over religious issues.

"Now we have many voices saying what is Islam and what is not," she said. Critics say that people like her overlook the good things about Malaysian Muslims.

Anwar says she's just happy that activists now only need to rally for public support in a Malaysia, which, she said, is far more dynamic, especially since the March elections dealt the ruling UMNO party an unprecedented blow.

"It signaled that people want change," one young Malaysian activist said.

"We've been seeing young people on the streets talking politics; that never happened before," said Ng Tze Yeng.

Her friend Vizla Kumaresan said, "Even my mother voted (in March); it was her first time."

The women, who look like teenagers even though they are in their late 20s and early 30s, said their parents were still traumatized by the raids of the late 1980s. Under the still-effective Internal Security Act (ISA), anyone suspected of wrongdoing was arrested without a warrant.

Ng Tze Yeng said her father demanded to know why she wasn't making money after studying in the UK: "you'll get the ISA," she said, quoting her father.

Ng Tze works for Malaysia's All Women's Action Society, AWAM; Kumaresan represents the Women's Aid Organization, which focuses on violence against women.

The women said their higher education, encouraged by former strongman Mahathir Mohamad, and especially their overseas education, enabled by their well-to-do parents, gave them greater exposure and helped remove the "wool over my eyes", in the words of one of the activists.

They said that, during their university days, they began to see how the ruling party let corruption and scandals fester, apart from nepotism, incompetence and rising crime rates.

"It was getting too much to not do something about it," said Abigail de Vries, also of AWAM.

Malaysian politicians hunting for votes may continue to issue their best-selling commodities, such as religious values and morals.

But the young people voice optimism about their nation and their generation, defying the classic image of Malaysia's compliant populace.

Like others who want to live in peace in the region, these young women hope they can live in communities, and in a nation, with freedom from fear of speaking one's thoughts, and of being different.

Is this possible in Malaysia?

With pride and conviction, the young women say, just check out that "amazing energy" in their country today.

-- Ati Nurbaiti