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"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, March 14, 2009

Island hopping

After a century, the Náprstek Museum takes an anthropological tour of the Indonesian archipelago 

By Shariffa Abdulrehman, The Prague PostMarch 12, 2009

 

Dr. Pavel Durdík visited the island of Nias in the 1880s; after decades out of view, his artifact collection shows at the Náprstek Musuem of Asian, African and American Cultures. (Michael Heitmann)
 

A Czech physician wandering the Indonesian island of Nias would be unusual under any circumstances, but more interesting is that Dr. Pavel Durdík took his trip back in 1880. 

His wanderings on a small archipelago just west of Sumatra are documented by artifacts now displayed at the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures. 

The exhibition "Of Ancestors and Myths" attempts to anthropologically recreate late-19th century Niasan life. The 40,000 euro ($50,000/1.1 million Kč) joint venture between the Culture Ministry and the Indonesian Embassy will run for three years. 

Durdík's travels began with his service as a medical doctor in the Netherlands Colonial Army and lasted until 1882. At the time, he was regularly corresponding with Vojta Náprstek, the founder of the Náprstek Museum, laying the groundwork for this cultural collection.  

"We found in Vojta Náprstek's correspondence notes that he would have liked to present the Nias items, but they were never shown and have been in storage for 120 years," said Dagmar Pospíšilová, head of the Asian arts department at the Náprstek Museum. 

Durdík's collection of items from Nias, now owned by the museum, contains more than 1,100 objects, 250 of which are displayed in this exhibition. 

"As a doctor, he gained the trust of the Niasans and entered their houses, and thus had immediate contact with their everyday material and spiritual culture," said Anna Jezberová, co-author of the exhibit. "He took an active interest in all areas of their life, including their work, religious beliefs, the position of men and women in society, their architecture, jewelry and rituals." 

The Náprstek Museum possesses one of the world's largest collections of Nias items, which has been made more precious in recent years as the Niasans have lost some of their own historic treasures in recent years. 

"We had the tsunami disaster at the end of 2004," said Azis Nurwahyudi, head of chancery at the Indonesian Embassy. Many Niasan artifacts were destroyed, he added, though a collection remains at a museum in the capital of Jakarta. 

The decision to move forward on this exhibit also came, in part, because of floods. A previous Asian cultures exhibition at the Liběchov Castle was damaged during the devastating floods of 2002. This, combined with reading the letters between Náprstek and Durdík, spurred action. 

Niasans call their country Tano Niha, "the land of the people," and themselves Ono Niha, "children of the people." An ethnic group that speaks its own Niasan language, Niasans have a culture in many respects unique from the rest of Indonesia. Many of the old traditions have faded in the face of global modernity and globalization. 

"It's important for us that he [Durdík] collected all the artifacts from the people there, and now, a century later, it has a very high historical value," said Nurwahyudi. 

The Czech and Indonesian governments have a 1958 agreement to cooperate on cultural matters. Another exhibition is to be unveiled in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, to celebrate Indonesian and Czech connections. It is sponsored by the Czech Pacific Company, and, while details are yet to be confirmed, Nurwahyudi says, "It's actually the idea of Mayor Pavel Bém."
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Nias - The Islands of Ancestors and Myths

Location: Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures Betlémské nám. 1, Prague 1
Opening hours: Tues.-Sun. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Admission: 80 Kč (basic), 40 Kč (reduced), 120 Kč (family), free admission on the first Friday of the month 

Shariffa Abdulrehman can be reached at features@praguepost.com

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