Back to Jakarta
By Christmas 1994 I signed a new employment contract to start at the New Year. I was going to move to Sydney and work at the head office in the first few months for a familiarisation period. Then I will take my new posting in Jakarta. All accommodation and transportation will be provided by the company including storage for my furniture while I am overseas.
My first assignment was as Business Development Manager and designated Project Manager while we are in negotiation for a new 150kV power line project in South Kalimantan. For the project, we will be delivering thousands of tonnes of galvanised iron from BHP, which is almost double in price compared to Indian steel. To be successful, we need to come up with a financing offer from the Australian Government in the form of Australian soft loan, which will eliminate the competition from other countries. Since local contractors will undertake the erection of the towers and stringing of the conductors under our supervision, this local cost will be excluded from the loan and will be the local financing by the Indonesian Government.
Everything was quite difficult at the beginning, and probably it is why the company hired me due to my local knowledge and experience with the client – the Indonesian Electricity Board – PLN.
Once we signed the contract, we have a project, and I took my assignment as the Project Manager. We selected our 3 (three) local partners and set up the ‘rule of the game’ between all the stakeholders. With little adjustments here and there finally, everything is moving smoothly like clockwork.
I developed an automated reporting system that collects weekly activities from our local partners, and at the end of each month, we could generate our around 50-page monthly progress report including the amount of progress payment to be approved for invoicing with virtually one stroke. Nowadays it is a ‘piece of cake’, but in 1995 it was something exciting and challenging to work on.
With the establishment of HTML 2.0 in November 1995, I took the interest to try it out and created my first website “Scientific Spirituality” by entering the HTML codes manually. I published it on Geocities, and as the responses were quite overwhelming, I also created a few mailing lists and discussion forums.
Meanwhile, the project is running very smoothly, and everything ran as a routine. I believe The Cosmos had given me a golden opportunity to practice what I suggested in the Conference paper about synchronising our bodily circuits[1]. The theory might sound complicated, but the practice is quite simple.
The first important thing is our intention. I firmly intended to try this theory out if it will bring any benefit. At every opportunity when I am alone undisturbed, I repeat mentally my intention to synchronise my physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies and bring them in total harmony. Then I closed my eyes and focused firstly on my physical body from head to toes that all is relaxed and comfortable.
Then I focused on my emotions if anything is disturbing my serenity and calmness. If yes, I traced where it comes from or what caused it and sought to neutralise it. Throughout our life, we experience a lot of emotional ups and downs, which we memorise in our subconscious. Every new experience we perceive through our senses triggered a similar situation in our subconscious memory. We then compare and subconsciously decide how to feel about what we perceive.
It is how we are programmed. What is in our subconscious memory will drive us to act or react a certain way when given a certain stimulus. It is like an automaton unless we stop and evaluate before responding. By being aware of this process, we will be able to see things as they are and not clouded by our filtering/bias.
Our emotion will not run unchecked. However, it doesn’t mean that I will not get angry. But if I am angry, I am consciously angry knowing exactly why I am angry. Sometimes I even get angry for a certain purpose (usually educative).
Once we overcome all the hurdle in ‘clearing’ the unfavourable programming in our emotional memory, the next step is to synchronise our mental, emotional and physical bodies with our spiritual body (causal body or soul), where the blueprint of our life resides.
The simple way to do it is first to express our intention to synchronise or align our whole being, and then sit in silence and set our mind in a receptive mode. I could do it sitting in the back seat of my car while my driver is trying to get me to wherever I need to be through the typical Jakarta’s traffic jams.
We, humans, are spiritual beings having a human experience. So, life as a human is an expression of what our soul/spirit/higher Self wants. Without being aware of this, we mostly think that our life is the result of what we set our mind to achieve. We might think that we ought to be successful, rich and powerful, but when we accomplished all that, we may still feel unhappy and unfulfilled. Only when our mind is in alignment with our spiritual body, our spirit can express what it wants, we will have a fulfilled life.
Recently people are talking about The Law of Attractions, which is nonetheless The Principle of Resonance. Some are disappointed when what they are trying to attract does not materialise. The main reason is that what their mind wants may contradict what their spirit/soul wants. It is as if the tail is trying to wag the dog, so it simply didn’t happen.
But once our mental, emotional and physical bodies are in alignment with our spirit, the whole Cosmos seems to conspire to provide what we need; everything will fall in place without us wanting it. And we will start having a lot of synchronicities in our life. This is my understanding of the Taoist practice of “Wu Wei”, – Action of no action.
In 1997 I created my second website “Metascience”. But before I completed the new website, I had the mystical experience, merging into a huge ball of light that is ALL THERE IS, – the realisation of Oneness, which every mystic dreams to experience.
[1] See Chapter 4 – about the Superimpose Human Energy Circuits.
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