Tuesday, December 12, 2006
LIFE - Mind Of A Mankind - Chapter Thirteen
GOING BACK TO JAKARTA
"Mas Robi, how nice it is from above. I wish I've a binocular so that I can see those people below from above."
Natalia's Happiness (1993, flying home to Paradise)
"Mas Robi, how nice it is from above. I wish I've a binocular so that I can see those people below from above."
Natalia's Happiness (1993, flying home to Paradise)
In the early period of July 1993, we took a flight from Bali to Surabaya for a transit flight to Bandung, West Java. We wanted to have a sight-seeing. While on board a plane to depart for Bandung, Natalia came to meet me and she was crying. She said that she was nearly left behind because she went out of Surabaya airport for awhile to see some of the scenery nearby while we were waiting for the transit flight to Bandung. She told me that she had never seen Surabaya city before. When she came back to the airport, Yani and I were already missing. She cried but she had remembered about the plane that we were supposed to board for Bandung. She said that she had queried a guardian spirit at the airport about that plane and she had managed to board it just before its departure.
At Bandung, we took a train to Jakarta. We were not in the hurry and we had decided to take a leisurely excursion. It was a pleasant journey for Yani and I. And it was a good opportunity for me to see Indonesia and its people. It was my first train ride in Indonesia.
Upon reaching Jakarta train station, we took a taxi to Hotel Danau Toba. Natalia met me in the taxi and she put on her favourite blue beach hat that I had bought for her in Bali. The minute we reached the hotel, Natalia was the first person to rush out from the taxi. She rushed out quickly to the hotel lobby. She seemed excited, anxious and happy. We checked into the hotel and managed to accommodate the our old room again. Natalia wore her hat for quite sometime until Yani's personality returned. Yani like the hat too because it could be folded into a fan but as for Natalia it was a fabulous souvenir from Bali. Most of the hotel staffs and the food vendors outside the hotel that knew us were so pleased to see us again. This time we stayed until late July 1993.
That evening, Margarita met up with me. She said Natalia left Jakarta without informing anybody and they were looking all over Jakarta for her. Even her 'husband', Mas Anton, was worried about Natalia's disappearance. Margarita was not angry with me and she felt happy to see me again. Then she left and Natalia appeared. She said that Mas Anton wanted to meet me and would I mind. I agreed to meet him.
Mas Anton met me. He greeted me and I did likewise. His character and voice was manly, different from Yani, Margarita and Natalia. He always stroke backward the front fringe of his hair with his right hand and pulled it down to make a fringe in front of the forehead. He said, "Natalia didn't inform anyone where she was going. I was worried about her. I don't blame you, Mas Robi. I blame Natalia for being inconsiderate and I've scolded her for leaving me without saying anything. I saw her wearing that blue hat and I was so surprised. I'm happy to meet you, Mas Robi." I told Mas Anton what had happened and invited him to stay with us in Bali. "Natalia loves to stay in Bali and I've already regarded her like my own sister. Mas Anton, you're working in a hotel in Jakarta, why not work in Bali. There are many hotels you can work for over there." He looked at me momentarily and then slightly turn to his side. He was like thinking or perhaps communicating with Natalia but I would not know because I assumed he was. About a minute later, he told me that he could not make up his decision immediately because he had some commitments with his 'employer'. That was the reason he gave me. However, he said he would not mind Natalia to stay with me in Bali and he would go to Bali after he had settled his work duties in Jakarta. He asked me for my address in Bali and we parted.
Then Natalia came on. She said her friends and Mas Anton were very surprised to see her wearing the blue hat. She left after saying that her friends wanted to ask her about Bali. Margarita came to ask me about my planned. I told her that Natalia would stay in Bali with me and Mas Anton would join us later. I had invited Margarita to come along too and she said that she would be there later.
I have no idea about Mas Anton's and Bapak's exact nature of profession in the hotel industry in their world and I thought that probably they were working as guardian spirits for the hotels in their world. I did not ask them about it and they did not tell me exactly their nature of work too. I took for granted that they were guardian spirits.
Many Malays, Indonesians, Chinese, Indians and others that believed in spirits have been told in their folklore and religion that spirits guarded sacred worshipping places and things or buildings and homes of humans. This was my belief in the past too when I was ignorant about the spirit's nature. There were many stories told by young and old Muslims in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and perhaps other parts of South-East Asia countries, whereby humans who slept in a Mosque at night and then the next morning they found themselves sleeping outside the Mosque. Majority of them believed in that story. They were told that the Muslim Djinns would carry those people sleeping inside the Mosque to the exterior premises because the sleeping humans were obstructing the praying areas for the Muslim Djinns. So the Muslim Djinns carried their body and put them outside the Mosque.
In my own opinion, if the stories were true, I would say that they were sleep walking (Somnambulism) or they were possessed by the Muslim Djinns while they were asleep, the Djinns then walked outside the Mosque and left the body there. Whether they were 'Guardian Spirits'? I would say that they were in a sense that they needed to do something and learned more about the question of Life and God for themselves in order to grow and develop further for their soul development. They were not Djinns but souls of decease human beings. Most of them probably were wandering souls and some were permanent occupants in that buildings or homes, that would become their heavens or hells.
Margarita and Natalia could behave like Yani too. Sometimes when the hotel staffs came to see us about some matters unexpectedly, while Margarita or Natalia was talking to me, they could suddenly behaved like Yani and they spoke in Yani's voice toned too.
There was one occasion whereby Yani had received a phone call at the front reception. After she had hung-up the telephone, Natalia grinned and gave me a little laughed. She said that the caller did not know that she had coversed with her instead of Yani. I saw it with my own eyes and I heard the way she spoke over the phone. It was exactly the idiosyncrasy of Yani. I did not question their ability to impersonate Yani's characters because I knew they could make Yani talked or behaved to anybody as and when they wished to or when it was necessary. I knew they could make Yani become herself again very quickly and later they could possess Yani again without difficulties because they had became experts in their possession skills. I guessed they did that to protect Yani and even avoid her from being seen by other people as strange. If they wanted to trick me or they had tricked me, they could and I would not even know the difference.
The day came for us to check out from the hotel. It was already late afternoon and we had already finalised the house sale transaction. Yani wanted to do some shopping in Jakarta before we left for Bali. She did not tell me exactly what she wanted to buy. So we checked into another small good hotel, which the ambience was better and their services were efficient. I could not remember the hotel name but it was not so far from Hotel Danau Toba. The hotel exteriror was tinted with many dark glasses.
I stayed behind in the hotel room while Yani went out to do her shopping. When she returned, Natalia came to meet me saying that Yani had coincidentally met her ex-boyfriend, Erick. Then Natalia left Yani's body. She had gone to a jewellery shop in one of the exclusive shopping centre to purchase some jewellery for herself. I guessed it was meant to replace all those jewelleries that we had pawned.
Natalia had informed me this before Yani told me about it herself. When Yani woke up from her 'slumbering', she told me what I had already heard from Natalia about her coincidental meeting with her ex-boyfriend while shopping for some jewelleries. I was not angry with her or felt jealous about it. I just listened to her and queried some questions as though I had heard it for the first time.
Later Yani went to sleep because she felt very tired. While watching television and while Yani was sleeping, I felt hungry and so I ordered some food for us through the room service. Yani was really sleeping like a log and she did not know that I had ordered some food. I thought that I would wake her when the food had arrived to our room. I must tell you that I was also thinking that Natalia had not eaten her meal too. I was thinking whether she would turn up and eat together with me. When the food had arrived, Yani was still sleeping soundly and I had carried our meals to the small dining table quietly. Thinking that I would wake Yani up to eat when everything was ready then suddenly, Natalia woke up from the bed behind me and said, "Ah! Mas Robi, I want to sleep but you always call me to eat." She woke up and ate together with me and then left some food for Yani. When Yani personality came back on, while she was eating quietly, she suddenly stopped and she made a remarked to me that she remembered that she was sleeping, "When did you wake me up?" I told her that she had awaken herself and I kept silent. I could see that Yani was really puzzled but she just put the matter aside and ate her meal. I could see that she was still confused after the her meal.
How did Natalia know about my thought for her to eat together with me? Could she read my mind or was Natalia inside my mind? Was I possessed by her without my own knowledge because she too could possess me?
The next day we checked out from the hotel and proceeded to Mohammad Hatta International Airport in Jakarta. We bought air tickets to Bali. Natalia came to meet me during the flight and said to me, "Mas Robi, how nice it is from above. I wish I've a binocular so that I can see those people below from above." After saying that, she informed me that she would sit in an empty seat next to the window in front of me and left Yani's body.
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