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When Rachman Mitchell was twenty-three years old, something happened that changed him forever and set him on a path of inner and outer adventure. He received an experience called the latihan, which gave a contact with his soul. Around the latihan grew an organization called Subud, which is spread across the world. Bapak was the bringer of the latihan. Rachman, Rohana, and their children went to live near him in Indonesia, and Rachman became his doctor. This book relates stories along the way to getting to Indonesia, being there with Bapak and facing challenges of adapting to the world again after returning to the West. Rachman provides an inside view of what life was like in the early days in Jakarta when very personal contact with Bapak was possible. His work as a doctor in Indonesia and elsewhere is an important theme and illustrates the development of a talent and a vocation over a long lifetime. These are stories about a man learning how to live, the mistakes he makes, and the joys and calamities that are visited upon him and how he learns to become more tolerant, more understanding, and more compassionate, less inclined to judgement. They are a blend of intimate reminiscence and fireside chat, being told with humility and humor.
'People have given themselves over to the worship of material things, and they have lost the will and power to worship God. God has always sent messengers to show the way out of such situations, and He has again done so in our present age. A messenger is already on earth and his identity known to many. The messenger will come to your country and even to your house.' This prophecy was made to John Bennett, a leading British scientist and teacher of Gurdjieff's system of Work, by Moslem Sheikh, Abdullah Dagestani, when Bennett was in Damascus in 1954. This book is one man's description of the extraordinary events that occurred when this prophecy was fulfilled some three years later, and Bapak Muhammad Subuh, the founder of the spiritual path of Susila Budhi Dharma (Subud) came to Coombe Springs, Bennett's Gurdjieff Centre near London. The author goes on to trace his life in the UK, USA, Australia and Indonesia, where he and his wife lived for 27 years in Bapak Subuh's compound south of Jakarta.
These evocative childhood memories are non-fiction narratives about growing up in Kampala, East Africa as well as in Dorset, England. Inspiring and thought provoking stories will touch upon and stir the collective heart and soul in many of us who reflect on our own childhood. Charmiene grew up with an unconventional mother who wrote extraordinary poetry and her great grandfather was a prolific writer and explorer.
Translated as part of a translation workshop at Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University in 1999 for the DSA programme.
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