Back to Java

By November 1992 I am back in Java and had started establishing our site office and recruiting project staffs to execute my assignment to help build the 2 x 400MW Power Station at Paiton, East Java. I rented a big house in a small town called Probolinggo, close to the project site and shared it with a few project staff. One of them is a Balinese, who became a close friend of mine. The project site is also only 150km from Banyuwangi, where we can catch a ferry to go across to Bali.

Working in East Java gave me the opportunity to visit many sacred sites and meet some interesting Mystics, commonly known as “Wise Elders.” I travelled around East Java almost every weekend, and now and then also went across to Bali. One day I travelled to the South Coast of Java and came to a beach town called Ngliyep, south of Malang. It is a sacred place about the legendary Queen of The Southern Ocean – Nyi Roro Kidul. And there I saw a temple on top of a cliff that attracted my interest. I went up there, and I saw the carer sweeping the garden. He invited me in and told me the story about the temple. The temple was built to worship the Queen of The Southern Ocean – Nyai Roro Kidul. Outside of the temple building on the ocean side, on the edge of the cliff, there is a big flat rock that has offerings all around it. The carer told me about the legend that The Queen used to meditate on that particular stone when she was in her incarnation. Given the permission by the carer, I meditated on the stone to pay my respect to the Queen. And as I meditated, I saw with my mind’s eye a ball of light coming down from the sky to greet me. I got goosebumps all over me and a beautiful feeling as if I just met a very old friend that I haven’t seen for a very long, long time. Suddenly I just knew that we’d been together in the Lemurian era, over a couple hundred thousand years ago. That was my first mystical experience since I came back to Java.

Back home that night, I watched TV as usual, but in the morning my housemaid asked me, who was the lady watching TV with me last night? She had long black hair and sat beside me. But she didn’t come alone; she also brought her little daughter and her babysitter who went to the kitchen and said hello to my housemaid. My housemaid is quite sensitive and semi-clairvoyant. Now and then she could perceive things or beings from the other dimensions. I said to her that I visited the temple of the Queen of the Southern Ocean at Ngliyep and met my old girlfriend. So, she might have followed me home to Probolinggo.[1] 

There are a lot of Myths and Legends as well as folklores about the Queen of The Southern Ocean. To my understanding, she is a 5^th Density being manifested herself as human at different places along the South Coast of Java and Bali in different eras leaving different stories/folktales about her. The Sundanese folktale tells of Dewi Kandita or Kadita, the beautiful daughter of the King of the Sunda Kingdom – Pajajaran (669 – 1579) in West Java.

In East Java, especially in South of Malang precisely at the Ngliyep Beach, Nyi Roro Kidul being called Kanjeng Ratu Kidul – The Honorable Queen of The South. In Central Java in the area of Yogyakarta story of Nyi Roro Kidul is always associated with the story of the Mataram Kingdom (1587 – 1755). She is believed to be the Queen of the first King Panembahan Senopati (1587 – 1601), and ever since she is considered the Queen of all the Kings of Java.

Four prominent leaders of Indonesia from Central Java believed to be related to her.

In 1962, from the Japanese war reparation fund President Soekarno initiated the construction of the first four international standard Hotels; Hotel Indonesia in Jakarta, Samudra Beach Hotel at Pelabuhan Ratu (Queen’s Harbour) in the Southern Coast of West Java, Ambarukmo Palace Hotel at the Sultan’s Residential Complex in Yogyakarta and Grand Bali Beach Hotel at Sanur, Bali.

Room 308 at the Samudra Beach Hotel and room 327 at the Grand Bali Beach hotel are both dedicated for The Queen and never rented out to hotel guests.

The story goes that President Soekarno used to meditate in room 308 at the Samudra Beach Hotel, instead of the Presidential Summer Palace nearby. After the 1965 Coup d’etat, a hotel employee, who happened to be psychic, had a dream of the Queen and was told to dedicate room 308 for her and never be rented out for hotel guests. Soekarno approved the proposal.

There is another story with room 327 at the Grand Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur. The hotel started operation in 1966 when Soekarno no longer President and had nothing more to say. On January 20th 1993, there was a big fire that lasted three days and three nights burning the whole hotel. All hotel rooms were burned, except room 327 which was still intact.

Some Psychics were called to investigate the miraculous happening. They reported that in 1962 President Soekarno promised the Queen to dedicate one room for her like in Samudra Beach Hotel. However, since Soekarno is no longer in power by the time the hotel started operation he could not fulfil his promise.

Since the big fire in 1993, room 327 has never been touched, nor rented out. With a special permit some guests may be allowed to visit and meditate in the room, but no longer than one hour.

Having met The Queen of The Southern Ocean reminded me that we are dealing with a very ancient civilisation here in Java. Unfortunately, it is eroding very fast. However, some of the cultural heritage from the Majapahit Kingdom in the 15^th Century still being practised in Bali, – the Hindu Balinese tradition.

There is a lot of difference between the Balinese Hindu and the Indian Hindu. Although both are influenced by Buddhism, the Balinese Hindu is also influenced by the ancient Javanese Mysticism known as “Kejawen” or in West Java is known as “Sunda Wiwitan”. No one knows for sure how old this tradition is before any names were even given to identify them.

To our current standard, we consider it as ‘animism,’ a primitive belief, but in not too distant future we might review and recognise the profound wisdom in their beliefs. They believe in the Harmonious Unity of Everything, The Microcosm and The Macrocosm, expressed as “Manunggaling Kawula Lan Gusti” – The One-ness of (humble) me and Your Highest. Hence they respect everything from rocks, vegetation, animals and fellow humans as well as beings living above our plane of existence, – our ancestors and the devas, as well as those living below our plane of existence, – the bhuta.

To keep these three levels of existence in harmony, every day we can see the Balinese put out some offerings in certain places like in their temples or shrines, in their homes or shops, on the street close to the entrance of their home or shops, on street crossings or even in their vehicles.

The few but important Java-Balinese philosophies/way-of-life teach us to be humble, i.e.:

• To behave like “rice”; young rice will stand tall empty-headed and arrogant. But as they grow more mature and content, they start to bow. The more content they are, the deeper the bow.
• “To be like water”– very flexible in adapting to any form and always going down to occupy the lowest spot while nourishing everything around.
• “To remember Tepa Selira” – to be empathetic and respect other’s feeling in whatever we do.
• “Gotong Royong” (carrying/doing big things/tasks together) – to be cooperative in helping each other.
• “Nrimo” – to be accepting and not being greedy.

They also have a lot of reasons or occasions to have ceremonies or celebrations at the temple, where all the community members ought to participate and practice all the above teachings as their way of life to keep harmony within their community life.

When I came back from Europe, I considered “Nrimo” (accepting), as laziness and a basic stumbling block against any progress. However, when I started to reflect on what all that progress brought, I realised that instead of making people happy, the non-acceptance of what we already had created greed, the source of all the problems we are facing today.

In West Java, there is a certain ancient tribe called the Badui people who live in isolation. The Outer Badui can have occasional contact with the outside world, but the Inner Badui has no contact with the outside world at all. The Inner Badui are limited to 40 families and live very modestly as farmers and ascetics who mainly spend their time in meditation for the harmony of the world following their ancestral instructions.

As I wrote the above sentence, I got goosebumps all over me. It reminds me of my past life in 1932[2] as an old farmer in a remote village and feeling sad for the suffering of the world. I may have lived there as one of the Inner Badui people. The goosebumps usually indicate that what I think at that particular moment is true.

Recently I found on the internet a website announcing a special (once a lifetime) ceremony of the Inner Badui people to be held on top of the Tangkuban Prahu Mountain in West Java. Although I was late by nearly a decade, – the ceremony was held in July 26^th 2009, I still find it very interesting.

The ceremony is called “Kuwera Bakti Darma Wisundarah.” (no English translation). It aims to prepare and set up a new platform for a very new life that is coming from the enormous cosmic changes that will happen soon and to strengthen the brotherhood of the world. The core of the ceremony is to express gratitude, accepting all love and spreading love amongst fellow creatures.”

We know that the ancient Java-Balinese tradition is very old. But how old is it? The tradition itself may be as old as The Megalithic site Gunung Padang in West Java with the recent discovery that the human-made underground structures date between 9,000 to 20,000 years ago.

The deeper they dig, the older the structure they found. It is 10,000 years older than Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, which used to be considered the world oldest.

In 1998 Stephen Oppenheimer’s groundbreaking book “Eden in the EAST”, reveals how evidence from oceanography, archaeology, linguistics, genetics and folklore overwhelmingly suggests that the lost “Eden – The cradle of  civilization”– was not in the Middle East as commonly believed, but in the drowned continent of Southeast Asia – the Sundaland.

Unfortunately, not many artefacts have been found proving the existence of an old (pre-diluvian) civilisation in Sundaland since almost all the area is now under water.

However, just North from Sundaland, there is a massive underwater stone structure like a pyramid recently discovered at Yonaguni near Okinawa, East of Taiwan. Six such structures have been found. The largest is 200 meters long by 150 meters wide by 30 meters high, and 25 metres below sea level. It is estimated that they may be between 8,000 to 12,000 years old, or even more.

My next question is; “Is the ancient tradition of Kejawen & Sunda Wiwitan a remnant of the lost civilisation of the legendary Lemuria”?[3]

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[1] Living in Java, we grew up knowing that there are other beings sharing our space without us noticing them. Such a phenomenon is quite common.

[2] Please refer to Chapter 14 – From Beyond the Veil about my Life Between Lives Hypnotic Regression.

[3] The Legend of Lemuria is one of an ancient lost civilisations which existed prior to and during the time of Atlantis. Physically, it is believed that it existed largely in the Southern Pacific, between North America and Asia/Australia. Lemuria is also sometimes referred to as Mu, or the Motherland (of Mu). At the peak of its civilization, the Lemurian people were both highly evolved and very spiritual. While concrete physical evidence of this ancient continent may be difficult to find, many people “know” that they have a strong connection to Lemuria.

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