Thursday, November 30, 2006
LIFE - Mind Of A Mankind - Chapter Seven
THE SPIRITS
OF
JAVA
"Papi, why is it Heru is err..err..err..here and Papi overthere?"
He has difficulty in asking me this question because he did
not know how to explain it to me. I understood his question.
"Well, if God were to make all of us live in the same world,
the world would be full and congested. That is why God
created two worlds for us," was my reply.
Heru questioned me (Bali, 1994)
Note: The word "Cak" or "Mas" means Brother and "Mbak" means Sister or Miss or Misses in English. "Mbah" means an elderly person or Grandparent.
They were Muslim family. Cak Pur and Mbak Rani were very kind towards us. They had a son name Iwan. Cak Pur's was in his late forties and Mbak Rani was in her mid-thirties when I met them. Iwan was around three years old. This couple was a close relative to Yani's landlord in Jakarta. So, at the end, we turned to them for their help. They helped us to get married somewhere late September 1992 and at the same time we had changed our identity.
While staying with them, I learned from Yani that Mbak Rani was a spiritual healer. In "Bahasa Indonesia" or Indonesian language, they are called "Dukun". In layman termed is called "Orang Pintar" or clever person in the art of supernatural healings and sometimes witchcrafts. She also rendered her special gift to people who were in need. I learned that her spirit followers or the "Djinns" were sort of different from what I had witnessed and seen in Singapore. They had identified themselves as Mbah Eton (female), Mas Noh (male), Mbak Seri (female), Mastro (male), Mbak Mary (female) and there was a Baby entity that I was not so sure whether it was a male or female because I did not asked Mbak Rani herself or Cak Pur. It never came to my mind.
Mbah Eton was the decease mother of Mbak Rani. Mas Noh and Mbak Seri were like the children of Mbah Eton. They were very obedient to Mbah Eton. Mastro was a mute entity who was jovial. Mbak Mary was an entity from Surabaya, who supposedly had committed suicide and came to live together with Mbah Eton and her family. And lastly, the Baby entity and the name was unknown to me. They were the souls of decease human beings. In Islamic teachings, there is no such things as a communication with the dead. That was something that I was taught in Islam, which was impossible. In the past when I was still a Muslim, I thought that those mediums who had communicated with the dead were all frauds. So did not pay much attention to it until I met Mbak Rani.
The spirit followers of Mbak Rani from the unseen realm had never asserted that they were the "Djinns", which were mentioned in the Islamic Teaching. They had never claimed that they were the "Djinns" from under the sea or the Fairies from the sky or the Malay "Pendekar" (martial art warriors) like those "Djinns" from Singapore. When we conversed with them, we talked to them as though they were normal human beings. We addressed them by their own 'human' names without the grand epithet titles of "Dewi" (Fairy) or "Pendekar" unlike with the spirit followers of the "Bomohs" in Singapore. Mbah Eton flatly told us who she was and had been to Mbak Rani and Mbak Mary told my wife Yani that she had committed suicide in Surabaya for reason which was unknown to me. Perhaps Yani knew about it but she did not disclose it to me and I did not even bother to query too at that time, which I am now regretting. Mas Noh, Mbak Seri and Mastro did not mention to Yani and I about themselves for reasons they alone could answer. They loved to joke to Yani in Javanese language and I would listen to their conversation. Then later, Yani would translate it to me. Once they came in the evening, then they immediately smelled Mbak Rani's clothing and body. They made unpleasant and funny expressions, complaint that it was very smelly and reminded us to informed Mbak Rani to take a bath first prior their coming to meet us. That day, Mbak Rani had not taken her bath and changed her clothing the whole day. We laughed when we saw their reactions and heard their funny remarks. And they had laughed too, together with us.
I wonder why those spirits or "Djinns" in the unseen realm in Singapore and in fact in Malaysia too, do not disclosed their true identities until they have to lie to us humans?
Cak Pur had told us that he had a wife before he got married to Mbak Rani. His first wife had died in childbirth at the padi fields alone during his absence. The child was supposed to be his first son but both the mother and child did not survive the ordeal. He and his first wife had lived in the same house that he and Mbak Rani had lived in. He told us that the house brought many memories to him about his decease first wife. Initially after his first wife death, he had thought about selling it but then Mbak Rani came into his life and he decided to stay. That house of his was built with the hands of his first wife too and they had slowly built it for their future life together and children. Both of them, grew up from the same village and they had known each other since they were children. Mbak Rani, his second wife, was from Surabaya and Cak Pur met her when Cak Pur was in Surabaya while shopping for his farming equipments and supplies.
Mbak Rani was able to call upon her decease mother at her own will. She would lie down on a bed to close her eyes. I was unsure whether she was unconscious or conscious for when she woke up, she seemed normal as usual but her behaviours and the way she spoke would be entirely different from her normal self. Then Mbah Eton and the rest of them would take control of Mbak Rani's physical body. When they had possessed Mbak Rani's physical body, these spirits could actually get up and walked to the toilet when nature's call for it, just like any ordinary living human beings. Perhaps, they could feel that Mbak Rani's physical body needed to go to the toilet and they were helping her to do just that. We could hear the water being splashed in the bathroom. I did not know exactly know why or how they could do that but that was something I (or maybe you) had never witnessed before because normally I had thought that possessed humans would be unable to do that. I had never seen that kind of action done by a possessed human being or by a spirit in Singapore or in Malaysia. I was really amazed by the spirits action.
We spoke to them in Javanese or 'Bahasa' Indonesia language and they would usually advised my second wife, Yani, and I to be happy with our new life. Mbah Eton had always advised Yani to be a good wife. Once, Mbah Eton had advised us that it was more important to seek happiness and wealth was not difficult to find because we could look for it. The spirit entity Mbak Mary and the rest had always conversed with Yani too. When the spirit entity of a Baby came, we left it alone. This infant entity acted like any human baby would behave. I had thought that maybe this spirit entity was the child of Mbak Seri. And this Mbak Seri might be the decease soul of Cak Pur's first wife. But I just let it be for I was ignorant of life after death knowledge back then.
Once Mbak Rani wanted to call Mbah Eton because she was sad. Prior to Mbah Eton's visits, Yani had sensed there were flower fragrance emanating within the house, wafting through the air.
Once Mbak Seri had demonstrated to us her ability of vanishing a Rp1000 Indonesian currency in front of Yani and I. We watched her every moved that she made very carefully and closely. To Yani and I, it was not a tricked or an illusion. Mastro too did the same thing with a Rp20000 Indonesian currency. I had never witnessed a spiritual healer performed that kind of ability in Singapore or Malaysia. I had only witnessed that kind of trick from the magicians. Mbak Rani was not a magician but an ordinary woman who could be possess by many spirit entities from the unseen realm.
Their method was simple. They had rolled the currencies with two hands, rubbing it until it became like a thin long scroll. The two ends of the currency that jagged out from their right hand would then be folded inside their right hands. Their left hand was over their right hand. Then they would blow it slowly about 3 to 4 inches in front of their mouth and then opened up both hands. They even opened their mouth. The currencies vanished. Probably we got ripped off by those two spirit entities or Mbak Rani herself by this tricked. Perhaps Mbak Rani needed some cash but I doubted it for Mbak Rani was not that kind of lady. Mastro did asked for money from us because he mentioned that he wished to go Irian Jaya Province and he said that usually walked to that far distance province. We did not asked him why he needed that Rp20000 and we had thought that the spirit world needed money too. Hence, he had shown us the similar vanishing money act similar to Mbak Seri.
Cak Pur told Yani and I that each time when his wife had treated someone with spiritual healing, money were offered and usually the money would be given to the spirits personally and they would make the money disappeared. Whenever Cak Pur or Mbak Rani were really in need of money, then the spirits would give them the money. They wanted both of them to work for a living like any ordinary human beings.
Mas Noh once had told Yani and I that he had plenty of cash and among them, Mbah Eton had the most. In fact Mbah Eton's cash had filled up a whole room. When I heard that, I asked him whether he would loan me some cash should I requested for it from him. He said he would. Then I persisted on about my questioned further about the loan, whether he would really loan me some cash. I saw there was anger in his face expression as though I had disbelieved him. He had stared at me and I did not asked him for the cash loan or to proof to me that he could do that. I let him go. We were guests and I did wish to offend our host.
Once I had seek Mas Noh's assistance to inform my own mother in Singapore about my good health and well being. He agreed to it. Upon returning, he told us that he disliked Singapore environment because the spirits in the spiritual world there were snobbish and unfriendly. He disliked the water there too because to him it tasted funny. I think he was so used to well water instead of tap water from the reservoirs. He met a beautiful young spirit woman wearing orange attires at my parent's flat. She was unfriendly and she was a stuck-up. However, he had complimented about the large windows at my parent's flat. He claimed to have travelled there by a ship.
Two days later, I called my own mother in the middle of the night whether she had dreamt anything. She replied to me that she did. She saw a Javanese man wearing a black headdress or 'Songkok' and she woke up. Then she immediately told my father about her dream. Well, each time when Mas Noh came to meet us, he would request for the black headdress to wear on his head.
My mother had told me that she had consulted and seek the helped from her spirit followers from the unseen world and it was not easy for her to ask for their helped in protecting me in Indonesia. She had to fast for seven days before they relented to her request. She told me that Busu had agreed to help me in Indonesia. Later Busu came through Mbak Rani's physical body to meet Yani and I. He seemed angry at Yani for being involved with me even though she knew I was a married man. He sort of disliked Yani's attitude towards me, especially when she was being stubborn when I had tried to console and comfort her or when she was unhappy with the situations that we were facing together. He came to meet me many times through Mbak Rani. Once he had encouraged me to eat more and told me in his mute gesturings not be unhappy about my life.
Surprisingly, sometimes he spoke and sometimes he made himself like a mute. Maybe Mbak Rani heard Busu's whisperings and she had told me exactly what Busu wanted me to do. Maybe it was Busu himself and maybe it was Mastro. Both of them were mute spirit entities and they both had funny characteristics and behaviours. Which come to the question here. Whether Busu was Busu or Mastro or other spirit entities that could act like Busu's characteristics and behaviours? When my mother had informed me that Busu willingness to help me, I did not mention it to Yani or Mbak Rani or Cak Pur. A few days later when Mbak Rani was in the altered state of consciousness, Mbah Eton told me that my mother's spirit follower, Busu, was with her. Busu wanted to meet and conversed with me. True enough Busu came and met me and he was the usual Busu that I knew in the past with his familiar characters and behaviours. I had followed his mute gesturings and the stories he had told me about my mother in the past and also at that present time. He gestured to me about the things I did that only I had known. Yani was ignorant of my past for I did not tell so much about my past life. That I gathered was to show to me that he was really Busu and not some other spirit entities. I confirmed it and it was Busu. How did Mbak Rani could have known about Busu when I did not even mention to her or Yani or Cak Pur about Busu?
Mbak Rani had mentioned to us that some neighbours had thought that she was mad and she knew about it but she had ignored about their gossips. Most psychic practitioners would face this kind of humiliation. I had met her personally and observed her characters and behaviours while I was living with them for two months. She was normal and rational in dealing with her daily routines as a wife and a mother. She communicated with us general things like any normal and sane people would. She did not talk about her spirit followers from the unseen realm until we asked her. And she did not discussed about religion matters to us though she was pious. And she did not complaint to us about her hardship life as a farmer too. Cak Pur and Mbak Rani were very contented couple, who were happy with their life as farmers without so much wealth. They were a happy family.
Mbak Rani's was like my own mother and it was not because of their assistance that they had rendered to Yani and I that I made this assertion. I had observed her and saw her functioning like any woman would and she was a kind hearted woman that was willing to help anybody who genuinely needed her help. We did give them some cash for their assistance but it was not the main reason they were kind to us. The cash offer did not influence their daily lives. They were not 'money-face' human beings that many of you thought was inherent in every Indonesians. They were sincere and honest people.
I knew it was illogical for spirits to have money in their world but to some of us who believe in the unseen world seriously, they would believe it. Chinese with Taoism faith believes in burning hell banknotes for their decease ancestors or loved ones in Hereafter for their lives to be happy in the unseen world. So when Mas Noh told me that Mbah Eton and himself having so much money in their world, I just left that information as it was. As for the Muslims, they believes that in another world where Djinns live, they have all the things we have too in our world of mankind. If you asked me now whether I believed or disbelieved, I would say I disbelieved them now. Why they had lied to me back then? I would say that they used my Islamic Belief and they told me accordingly to what I had been taught in my Islamic Faith back then. And for your information, this included my own late mother's spirit followers from the spirits world. They used that kind of information to make you believed in your belief in them that were mentioned in my former faith or your religion. I believed them back then and I was so convinced with their stories maybe because the Djinns existence is stated in the Holy Qur'an.
When Mbah Eton told us that she was the decease mother of her own living daughter, Mbak Rani, I did not ponder about it so much but I had just thought about it as a passing statement that maybe acclaimed by a Muslim Djinn or a Spirit. Anyway, back then, I was too ignorant about the higher learning pertaining to the soul existence and the world of spirits.
I would compare it something like when a Christian that experiencing the anointment of the Holy Spirit and he or she begins to speak in tongue, in a state of rapture with God's Grace upon them. Then the Holy Spirit would speak in foreign languages and it would advise to the audiences around them and the listeners would believe the Holy Spirit's words as God's messages to them.
The Taoists believed in their temple mediums who could be possess by their gods or deities and they believed in the predictions or the remedies for illnesses offered by the temple mediums without any doubts. It was something like that for me back then.
Whether we should see those people who spoke in tongue or as a medium or as a messenger of god, as a possession or as in an altered state of consciousness or as a split personality, it is up to each individual of you to find out for yourself. We have to do our own research work on these mysterious matters which I strongly believe that everyone of us wish to know more, like a 'scientist'. It would help us to understand more about the mysterious things about the souls, ghosts, evil spirits, good spirits, devils, angels and God. After you have gathered all your supposedly aspect of facts finding, you probably would be unafraid of them in your life anymore. In many cases too it would help you to have a stronger faith within your religion and God. Probably it would help you to erase the blind faith elements that you have had within yourself in the past. Then that experience would change you into a new person. To become a new person, it requires you to challenge your own fear and only after you have surmounted your own fear, then you would be prepare to change your perception about your own life and perhaps on others too. You would change and come out from your own circled-barrier world and see things with a wider scope as though you have seen the world for the first time, just like when you were born to the physical world for the first time.
OF
JAVA
"Papi, why is it Heru is err..err..err..here and Papi overthere?"
He has difficulty in asking me this question because he did
not know how to explain it to me. I understood his question.
"Well, if God were to make all of us live in the same world,
the world would be full and congested. That is why God
created two worlds for us," was my reply.
Heru questioned me (Bali, 1994)
Note: The word "Cak" or "Mas" means Brother and "Mbak" means Sister or Miss or Misses in English. "Mbah" means an elderly person or Grandparent.
They were Muslim family. Cak Pur and Mbak Rani were very kind towards us. They had a son name Iwan. Cak Pur's was in his late forties and Mbak Rani was in her mid-thirties when I met them. Iwan was around three years old. This couple was a close relative to Yani's landlord in Jakarta. So, at the end, we turned to them for their help. They helped us to get married somewhere late September 1992 and at the same time we had changed our identity.
While staying with them, I learned from Yani that Mbak Rani was a spiritual healer. In "Bahasa Indonesia" or Indonesian language, they are called "Dukun". In layman termed is called "Orang Pintar" or clever person in the art of supernatural healings and sometimes witchcrafts. She also rendered her special gift to people who were in need. I learned that her spirit followers or the "Djinns" were sort of different from what I had witnessed and seen in Singapore. They had identified themselves as Mbah Eton (female), Mas Noh (male), Mbak Seri (female), Mastro (male), Mbak Mary (female) and there was a Baby entity that I was not so sure whether it was a male or female because I did not asked Mbak Rani herself or Cak Pur. It never came to my mind.
Mbah Eton was the decease mother of Mbak Rani. Mas Noh and Mbak Seri were like the children of Mbah Eton. They were very obedient to Mbah Eton. Mastro was a mute entity who was jovial. Mbak Mary was an entity from Surabaya, who supposedly had committed suicide and came to live together with Mbah Eton and her family. And lastly, the Baby entity and the name was unknown to me. They were the souls of decease human beings. In Islamic teachings, there is no such things as a communication with the dead. That was something that I was taught in Islam, which was impossible. In the past when I was still a Muslim, I thought that those mediums who had communicated with the dead were all frauds. So did not pay much attention to it until I met Mbak Rani.
The spirit followers of Mbak Rani from the unseen realm had never asserted that they were the "Djinns", which were mentioned in the Islamic Teaching. They had never claimed that they were the "Djinns" from under the sea or the Fairies from the sky or the Malay "Pendekar" (martial art warriors) like those "Djinns" from Singapore. When we conversed with them, we talked to them as though they were normal human beings. We addressed them by their own 'human' names without the grand epithet titles of "Dewi" (Fairy) or "Pendekar" unlike with the spirit followers of the "Bomohs" in Singapore. Mbah Eton flatly told us who she was and had been to Mbak Rani and Mbak Mary told my wife Yani that she had committed suicide in Surabaya for reason which was unknown to me. Perhaps Yani knew about it but she did not disclose it to me and I did not even bother to query too at that time, which I am now regretting. Mas Noh, Mbak Seri and Mastro did not mention to Yani and I about themselves for reasons they alone could answer. They loved to joke to Yani in Javanese language and I would listen to their conversation. Then later, Yani would translate it to me. Once they came in the evening, then they immediately smelled Mbak Rani's clothing and body. They made unpleasant and funny expressions, complaint that it was very smelly and reminded us to informed Mbak Rani to take a bath first prior their coming to meet us. That day, Mbak Rani had not taken her bath and changed her clothing the whole day. We laughed when we saw their reactions and heard their funny remarks. And they had laughed too, together with us.
I wonder why those spirits or "Djinns" in the unseen realm in Singapore and in fact in Malaysia too, do not disclosed their true identities until they have to lie to us humans?
Cak Pur had told us that he had a wife before he got married to Mbak Rani. His first wife had died in childbirth at the padi fields alone during his absence. The child was supposed to be his first son but both the mother and child did not survive the ordeal. He and his first wife had lived in the same house that he and Mbak Rani had lived in. He told us that the house brought many memories to him about his decease first wife. Initially after his first wife death, he had thought about selling it but then Mbak Rani came into his life and he decided to stay. That house of his was built with the hands of his first wife too and they had slowly built it for their future life together and children. Both of them, grew up from the same village and they had known each other since they were children. Mbak Rani, his second wife, was from Surabaya and Cak Pur met her when Cak Pur was in Surabaya while shopping for his farming equipments and supplies.
Mbak Rani was able to call upon her decease mother at her own will. She would lie down on a bed to close her eyes. I was unsure whether she was unconscious or conscious for when she woke up, she seemed normal as usual but her behaviours and the way she spoke would be entirely different from her normal self. Then Mbah Eton and the rest of them would take control of Mbak Rani's physical body. When they had possessed Mbak Rani's physical body, these spirits could actually get up and walked to the toilet when nature's call for it, just like any ordinary living human beings. Perhaps, they could feel that Mbak Rani's physical body needed to go to the toilet and they were helping her to do just that. We could hear the water being splashed in the bathroom. I did not know exactly know why or how they could do that but that was something I (or maybe you) had never witnessed before because normally I had thought that possessed humans would be unable to do that. I had never seen that kind of action done by a possessed human being or by a spirit in Singapore or in Malaysia. I was really amazed by the spirits action.
We spoke to them in Javanese or 'Bahasa' Indonesia language and they would usually advised my second wife, Yani, and I to be happy with our new life. Mbah Eton had always advised Yani to be a good wife. Once, Mbah Eton had advised us that it was more important to seek happiness and wealth was not difficult to find because we could look for it. The spirit entity Mbak Mary and the rest had always conversed with Yani too. When the spirit entity of a Baby came, we left it alone. This infant entity acted like any human baby would behave. I had thought that maybe this spirit entity was the child of Mbak Seri. And this Mbak Seri might be the decease soul of Cak Pur's first wife. But I just let it be for I was ignorant of life after death knowledge back then.
Once Mbak Rani wanted to call Mbah Eton because she was sad. Prior to Mbah Eton's visits, Yani had sensed there were flower fragrance emanating within the house, wafting through the air.
Once Mbak Seri had demonstrated to us her ability of vanishing a Rp1000 Indonesian currency in front of Yani and I. We watched her every moved that she made very carefully and closely. To Yani and I, it was not a tricked or an illusion. Mastro too did the same thing with a Rp20000 Indonesian currency. I had never witnessed a spiritual healer performed that kind of ability in Singapore or Malaysia. I had only witnessed that kind of trick from the magicians. Mbak Rani was not a magician but an ordinary woman who could be possess by many spirit entities from the unseen realm.
Their method was simple. They had rolled the currencies with two hands, rubbing it until it became like a thin long scroll. The two ends of the currency that jagged out from their right hand would then be folded inside their right hands. Their left hand was over their right hand. Then they would blow it slowly about 3 to 4 inches in front of their mouth and then opened up both hands. They even opened their mouth. The currencies vanished. Probably we got ripped off by those two spirit entities or Mbak Rani herself by this tricked. Perhaps Mbak Rani needed some cash but I doubted it for Mbak Rani was not that kind of lady. Mastro did asked for money from us because he mentioned that he wished to go Irian Jaya Province and he said that usually walked to that far distance province. We did not asked him why he needed that Rp20000 and we had thought that the spirit world needed money too. Hence, he had shown us the similar vanishing money act similar to Mbak Seri.
Cak Pur told Yani and I that each time when his wife had treated someone with spiritual healing, money were offered and usually the money would be given to the spirits personally and they would make the money disappeared. Whenever Cak Pur or Mbak Rani were really in need of money, then the spirits would give them the money. They wanted both of them to work for a living like any ordinary human beings.
Mas Noh once had told Yani and I that he had plenty of cash and among them, Mbah Eton had the most. In fact Mbah Eton's cash had filled up a whole room. When I heard that, I asked him whether he would loan me some cash should I requested for it from him. He said he would. Then I persisted on about my questioned further about the loan, whether he would really loan me some cash. I saw there was anger in his face expression as though I had disbelieved him. He had stared at me and I did not asked him for the cash loan or to proof to me that he could do that. I let him go. We were guests and I did wish to offend our host.
Once I had seek Mas Noh's assistance to inform my own mother in Singapore about my good health and well being. He agreed to it. Upon returning, he told us that he disliked Singapore environment because the spirits in the spiritual world there were snobbish and unfriendly. He disliked the water there too because to him it tasted funny. I think he was so used to well water instead of tap water from the reservoirs. He met a beautiful young spirit woman wearing orange attires at my parent's flat. She was unfriendly and she was a stuck-up. However, he had complimented about the large windows at my parent's flat. He claimed to have travelled there by a ship.
Two days later, I called my own mother in the middle of the night whether she had dreamt anything. She replied to me that she did. She saw a Javanese man wearing a black headdress or 'Songkok' and she woke up. Then she immediately told my father about her dream. Well, each time when Mas Noh came to meet us, he would request for the black headdress to wear on his head.
My mother had told me that she had consulted and seek the helped from her spirit followers from the unseen world and it was not easy for her to ask for their helped in protecting me in Indonesia. She had to fast for seven days before they relented to her request. She told me that Busu had agreed to help me in Indonesia. Later Busu came through Mbak Rani's physical body to meet Yani and I. He seemed angry at Yani for being involved with me even though she knew I was a married man. He sort of disliked Yani's attitude towards me, especially when she was being stubborn when I had tried to console and comfort her or when she was unhappy with the situations that we were facing together. He came to meet me many times through Mbak Rani. Once he had encouraged me to eat more and told me in his mute gesturings not be unhappy about my life.
Surprisingly, sometimes he spoke and sometimes he made himself like a mute. Maybe Mbak Rani heard Busu's whisperings and she had told me exactly what Busu wanted me to do. Maybe it was Busu himself and maybe it was Mastro. Both of them were mute spirit entities and they both had funny characteristics and behaviours. Which come to the question here. Whether Busu was Busu or Mastro or other spirit entities that could act like Busu's characteristics and behaviours? When my mother had informed me that Busu willingness to help me, I did not mention it to Yani or Mbak Rani or Cak Pur. A few days later when Mbak Rani was in the altered state of consciousness, Mbah Eton told me that my mother's spirit follower, Busu, was with her. Busu wanted to meet and conversed with me. True enough Busu came and met me and he was the usual Busu that I knew in the past with his familiar characters and behaviours. I had followed his mute gesturings and the stories he had told me about my mother in the past and also at that present time. He gestured to me about the things I did that only I had known. Yani was ignorant of my past for I did not tell so much about my past life. That I gathered was to show to me that he was really Busu and not some other spirit entities. I confirmed it and it was Busu. How did Mbak Rani could have known about Busu when I did not even mention to her or Yani or Cak Pur about Busu?
Mbak Rani had mentioned to us that some neighbours had thought that she was mad and she knew about it but she had ignored about their gossips. Most psychic practitioners would face this kind of humiliation. I had met her personally and observed her characters and behaviours while I was living with them for two months. She was normal and rational in dealing with her daily routines as a wife and a mother. She communicated with us general things like any normal and sane people would. She did not talk about her spirit followers from the unseen realm until we asked her. And she did not discussed about religion matters to us though she was pious. And she did not complaint to us about her hardship life as a farmer too. Cak Pur and Mbak Rani were very contented couple, who were happy with their life as farmers without so much wealth. They were a happy family.
Mbak Rani's was like my own mother and it was not because of their assistance that they had rendered to Yani and I that I made this assertion. I had observed her and saw her functioning like any woman would and she was a kind hearted woman that was willing to help anybody who genuinely needed her help. We did give them some cash for their assistance but it was not the main reason they were kind to us. The cash offer did not influence their daily lives. They were not 'money-face' human beings that many of you thought was inherent in every Indonesians. They were sincere and honest people.
I knew it was illogical for spirits to have money in their world but to some of us who believe in the unseen world seriously, they would believe it. Chinese with Taoism faith believes in burning hell banknotes for their decease ancestors or loved ones in Hereafter for their lives to be happy in the unseen world. So when Mas Noh told me that Mbah Eton and himself having so much money in their world, I just left that information as it was. As for the Muslims, they believes that in another world where Djinns live, they have all the things we have too in our world of mankind. If you asked me now whether I believed or disbelieved, I would say I disbelieved them now. Why they had lied to me back then? I would say that they used my Islamic Belief and they told me accordingly to what I had been taught in my Islamic Faith back then. And for your information, this included my own late mother's spirit followers from the spirits world. They used that kind of information to make you believed in your belief in them that were mentioned in my former faith or your religion. I believed them back then and I was so convinced with their stories maybe because the Djinns existence is stated in the Holy Qur'an.
When Mbah Eton told us that she was the decease mother of her own living daughter, Mbak Rani, I did not ponder about it so much but I had just thought about it as a passing statement that maybe acclaimed by a Muslim Djinn or a Spirit. Anyway, back then, I was too ignorant about the higher learning pertaining to the soul existence and the world of spirits.
I would compare it something like when a Christian that experiencing the anointment of the Holy Spirit and he or she begins to speak in tongue, in a state of rapture with God's Grace upon them. Then the Holy Spirit would speak in foreign languages and it would advise to the audiences around them and the listeners would believe the Holy Spirit's words as God's messages to them.
The Taoists believed in their temple mediums who could be possess by their gods or deities and they believed in the predictions or the remedies for illnesses offered by the temple mediums without any doubts. It was something like that for me back then.
Whether we should see those people who spoke in tongue or as a medium or as a messenger of god, as a possession or as in an altered state of consciousness or as a split personality, it is up to each individual of you to find out for yourself. We have to do our own research work on these mysterious matters which I strongly believe that everyone of us wish to know more, like a 'scientist'. It would help us to understand more about the mysterious things about the souls, ghosts, evil spirits, good spirits, devils, angels and God. After you have gathered all your supposedly aspect of facts finding, you probably would be unafraid of them in your life anymore. In many cases too it would help you to have a stronger faith within your religion and God. Probably it would help you to erase the blind faith elements that you have had within yourself in the past. Then that experience would change you into a new person. To become a new person, it requires you to challenge your own fear and only after you have surmounted your own fear, then you would be prepare to change your perception about your own life and perhaps on others too. You would change and come out from your own circled-barrier world and see things with a wider scope as though you have seen the world for the first time, just like when you were born to the physical world for the first time.
# posted by Zulkifli @ 11:03 PM 
