Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Balinese in Stockholm celebrate Galungan

"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, November 12, 2009

Balinese in Stockholm celebrate Galungan

The Jakarta Post | Mon, 11/02/2009 11:01 AM

Balinese festival in Sweden: Balinese Hindus living in Stockholm participate in Kuningan prayers at the Indonesian Embassy in Stockholm recently. Kuningan is the last day of the 10-day Galungan festival. Some Swedes who have converted to Hinduism also joined the prayers. Balinese is one of 300 distinct ethnicities in Indonesia, home to the largest Muslim population in the world. Courtesy of Indonesian Embassy in Sweden

A group of Balinese Hindus and Swedish Hindu converts commemorated the last day of the 10-day-long Galungan festival (also known as Kuningan Day) at the Indonesian Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, recently.

“The end of the Galungan Festival was not only celebrated by the Balinese Hindus living on the island of the Gods and in other Indonesian regions, it was also celebrated by Balinese Hindus in Sweden,” the Indonesian Embassy there said in a statement.

Dozens of Hindu followers solemnly performed their prayers, presenting offerings comprising fruit, flowers and cakes. They also spontaneously performed a number of traditional Balinese songs and dances, to warm up the festivities.

Kuningan is known as the day of prayer and is a time when Balinese Hindus carry out special ceremonies for the spirits of their ancestors.

Bali is the only predominantly Hindu island in Indonesia, a country where about 90 percent of the population is Muslim. Balinese Hindus account for only 1.8 percent of the total population.

The number of Indonesians in Sweden, including those living there and just visiting, had continues to increase, the embassy said.