Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Hundreds of kimonos, wartime batik coming to town

"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. …”

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Hundreds of kimonos, wartime batik coming to town

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 12/12/2009 1:01 PM

City residents who love historical and traditional textiles can expect a treat at the newly renovated Textile Museum in Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta, this weekend as hundreds of Japanese kimonos and various traditional Indonesian textiles will be on display.

The city administration, the Indonesia-Japan Friendship Association and several other cultural groups are organizing the Indonesia-Japan Textile Exhibition, which ends Dec. 13.

The entrance fee to see the collection is only Rp 2,000.

Visitors to the museum will be greeted by the sight of two shibori (tie-dyed cloth) created by artisans from Kyoto, the cultural capital of Japan. Each 19.5-square-meter shibori depicts a vista of Kyoto by night, dominated by black and purple.

The works on display include textiles that are not only beautiful but also hold great historical value.

Visitors can see rare Java hokokai batik which were made during the Japanese occupation in 1945. The word hokokai is derived from the name of a Javanese social group established by the Japanese military during the occupation.

Due to the limited cotton supply at the time, the cloth would have two sections with two different patterns, so the wearer could use the same cloth twice in a day.

Triesna Jero Wacik, the wife of Tourism Minister Jero Wacik, said the textiles underlined the friendship between Indonesia and Japan.

"Traditional textiles make up a significant part of our trade with Japan," she said at the exhibition Friday.

Ika Wahyudi from Nurani Budaya, a cultural group involved in the exhibition, said Indonesian batik had been popular in Japan since the colonial era.

Ika showed a 200 years old obi (traditional sash which is tied at the back of a kimono) made from batik.

"This obi was made from Indonesian batik cloth that was exported to Japan by a Japanese-owned batik shop during the colonial era," Ika said. She added that kimonos which were made from batik were very popular in Japan.

Ika added the bulk of the exhibition consisted of kimonos and batik as both had been recognized as intangible cultural heritages by Unesco. (mrs)

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