Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Tributes Pour in for Gus Dur

"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, December 31, 2009

Tributes Pour in for Gus Dur

Jakarta Globe, April Aswadi & Nurfika Osman

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday ordered flags in the country to be flown at half-mast for the next week to mourn the death of former President Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid, who will be accorded a state funeral in his hometown in East Java.

Wahid, who was the country’s fourth president, serving from October 1999 to July 2001, died from health complications at Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital in Central Jakarta at 6:45 p.m., presidential doctor Aris Wibudi said. He was 69.

“I invite Indonesians nationwide to pay him their highest respects,” Yudhoyono said in a nationally televised address. “I say this with prayers and hope that he is accepted at the side of God for his enormous service to the public, the nation and our beloved state.”

Yudhoyono said he would personally lead the state funeral in Jombang, while the chairman of the People’s Consultative Assembly, Taufik Kiemas, would lead an official ceremony to see Wahid’s body off from Jakarta.

Aris said Wahid fell into critical condition at 6:15 p.m. and passed away 30 minutes later “due to health complications, including diabetes, kidney problems and stroke.”

Wahid’s sister, Lily Wahid, said the body would be transported to Jombang to be buried at the Tebu Ireng Islamic boarding school, which the former president founded. The body is scheduled to leave Jakarta at 8 a.m. today from Halim Perdanakusuma Air Force Base in East Jakarta.

More than 100 people gathered at Cipto Mangunkusumo upon hearing news of Wahid’s deteriorating condition, and a constant stream of officials, politicians and friends came seeking news of his health.

Across the country, prayers and vigils were held to mark Wahid’s death. His private residence in Ciganjur, South Jakarta, was filled with dignitaries and public figures wanting to pay their final respects, and although access to the residence was limited, hundreds of people waited and prayed outside in the street.

Hasyim Muzadi, chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama, the Muslim organization that Wahid chaired for 15 years until 1999, said “no other figure could have built the NU to what it is today.”

“His understanding and appreciation toward other religions was remarkable,” said the Rev. Nathan Setiabudi from the Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI). “He had a strong vision but was not too particularistic about Islam. … He has made great contributions, especially toward minority groups.”

Budi Santoso Tanuwijaya, secretary general of the High Council of Confucianism (Matakin), called Wahid “a person who genuinely defended marginalized ethnic groups.”

“For him, discrimination was the ultimate violation of human rights,” he said.

Sidney Jones, a Jakarta-based Southeast Asia analyst for the International Crisis Group, said Wahid promoted pluralism, and more important, “he was one of the biggest promoters of the [civil society] movement.”

Dharmawan Ronodipuro, one of Wahid’s former presidential spokesmen, remembered his former boss as being “very human.”