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    A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity
    A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity
    A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity
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    A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity

    By Rozak Tatebe

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    In this book, Rozak Tatebe reviews the conflict between science and religion through history, recognizing that notions of God and the soul were devalued with the rise of scientific materialism in the 19th century. Tatebe offers an alternate vision of a future where the soul in each of us recognizes its rightful place as our life guide, and shows us how be free from the domination of greed and self-interest. One way to this new path is through the spiritual transformation offered by the Latihan – a simple yet profound spiritual exercise accessible to all of humanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press AU
    Release dateFeb 28, 2021
    ISBN9781504324670
    A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity
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    Rozak Tatebe

    Rozak Tatebe has the great hope that everyone who reads Latihan—A Path to the Great Life and a New Way to Purify the Soul may have the chance to share this new experience of self-development, and gain access to the immense power of the Great Life Force.

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      A Spiritual Blueprint for Humanity - Rozak Tatebe

      Copyright © 2021 Rozak Tatebe.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means,

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      except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Balboa Press

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      expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the

      views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use

      of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical

      problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The

      intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you

      in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any

      of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right,

      the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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      ISBN: 978-1-5043-2466-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-5043-2467-0 (e)

      Balboa Press rev. date:  02/24/2021

      CONTENTS

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter 1    The History Of Earth And Life

      The Birth of the Universe and Earth

      The Human Principle and the Multiverse Theory

      The Anthropic Principle

      Our Human Ancestry

      The Food Chain and Its Mysteries

      The Unknown Being of Man

      Examples of Scientific Beliefs Upended

      Chapter 2    Muhammad Subuh’s New Insight

      The Function of the Mind and the Latihan

      The Evolution of the Mind

      The Nature of the Mind

      The Engine of Desire That Drives Thought

      Humans and Angels

      Bapak’s View of Our Place in the Spiritual Universe

      The Soul and the Life Forces

      The Desires of the Life Forces and How They Are Manifest

      The Great Life Force and the Effects of the Latihan

      Science and Faith

      Chapter 3    This World, The Next World, And The Barrier Of Death

      New Laws for Living

      Bapak’s View of Heaven

      What Are Miracles?

      Bapak’s Ascension Experience

      What Kind of World Is the Afterlife?

      The View of the Spiritualists

      Testing in Subud

      The Jupiter Test

      My Experience of the Passageway to Heaven

      My Mother’s Death and the Latihan

      Chapter 4    In Search Of A Grand Design

      Key Preoccupations of Our Age

      The Solace of Religion

      The Longing for Freedom

      A Conversation between God and the Angels on Human Creation

      Free Will and Religion

      Ancient Civilizations and Religion

      The Meaning of Bapak’s Cosmic Design

      The Grand Design as a Blueprint for the Future

      Epilogue

      Copyright

      References

      FOREWORD

      In 1925, a young Indonesian was out walking one night when a brilliant ball of light descended from the sky and entered his body, a light that lit up the whole countryside and was witnessed by many others in the locality. The light initiated a strong vibration within his being, a manifestation of the Great Life Force, which, years later, he was to speak of as This power … is the vibration that exists within all things. It is the basis or the beginning of the whole universe.

      The young man, now known around the world as Bapak, was just twenty-four years old, and when this power arose within him, his first thought was that he must be suffering a heart attack. He returned home and lay down, expecting to die. Instead, he was moved to stand up and pray, and this altered state was to arise within him every night thereafter for the next three years. Throughout this time, he hardly slept, while continuing to maintain a job and all other normal responsibilities of family and daily life.

      During these years, Bapak encountered an infinite variety of inner and outer experiences as an extraordinary process of spiritual transformation and realization unfolded within him. Eight years later, after a spiritual ascension that took him through all the heavens, he was given a key and guided to understand that it was his mission to transmit this inner contact to all who asked for it.

      So began the spread of the movement that came to be known as Subud, an acronym for Susila, Budhi, Dharma, which can be summarized to mean right living from within according to the will of God. In due course, the very same contact with the Great Life Force that Bapak himself had first received spread to more than eighty countries, and in 1954, Rozak Tatebe was among the first to receive it outside Indonesia. In addition to steeping himself in the wisdom and guidance to which Bapak gave voice during his lifetime, the author went on to spend time with him, both in Japan and in Indonesia. Now aged ninety-two, he is therefore uniquely placed to offer this elucidation of what Bapak channeled to humankind and of its significance for the future of the human race.

      Bapak himself described the Latihan as the spiritual reality that lies at the heart of all the great religions: the inner truth for which seekers in every age have yearned. He often reminded people that the Latihan is a gift beyond price, a timely intervention from On High that has come about in our era because the increasingly powerful influence of the material life force now seriously threatens the peace and very survival of the world.

      The author takes something of an erudite look at the development of science over the centuries, recognizing that the notion of God and the soul still has not fully recovered from the prosecution of Galileo in the seventeenth century. He sees this ongoing conflict between science and religion as being epitomized in the life of the French medical scientist Alexis Carrel (1873–1944). Carrel won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, but his scientific worldview was severely challenged when he witnessed the miraculous healing at the Marian Shrine at Lourdes of a patient he had believed would die within days.

      But need there be such a conflict? Could there not instead be a partnership, a collaboration between the mind and the inner spiritual reality of the true human being? While in no way denigrating the mind and its role in our lives and in the growth of science, Rozak Tatebe explains how the Latihan of Subud brings to life the often-dormant inner self and works to reestablish its rightful relationship both with the Creator and with His creation. With the true self in the driving seat, the human being is no longer at the mercy of greed, anger, and self-interest, which in turn threaten the very peace of the world.

      Enriched by accounts of his own experiences, Rozak covers a great deal of ground in this absorbing read, looking at the afterlife, the nature of beings on other planets, and so much more. Above all, he reveals how Bapak’s new cosmology constitutes a grand design for the future of the human race.

      —Emmanuel Elliott, author of The Dawning

      INTRODUCTION

      The Three Questions

      Paul Gauguin, a leading French painter of the nineteenth century, inscribed three questions on a painting he regarded as one of his masterpieces. The painting is simply titled Where Do We Come From? and the three enduring questions he asked are:

      Where did we come from?

      What are we?

      Where are we going?

      Gauguin was disillusioned with the inhumanity of modern civilization and urban culture, and he later moved to Tahiti in search of a primitive society. However, there too, he witnessed the ravage of Tahiti by modern civilization and, despairing, vowed to commit suicide. Fortunately, he failed in this attempt, and the Where Do We Come From? painting that he executed around the same time is preserved at the Boston Museum of Art. The three questions he poses in this painting continue to be unanswered more than one hundred years later.

      Now the world is in a state of rapid transformation. The revolution in data and communications technology has brought the world together, and this wave of civilization has reached around the globe, with no society left untouched. While civilization brought us many benefits, communities everywhere are being distorted in ways we can no longer ignore.

      Today, human beings are surrounded by human-made structures rather than living with or within nature. It is little wonder that we, who are born from nature, are more and more subject to invisible stresses. These manifest as physical anomalies such as allergies, near-sightedness, or depression. Even the way we think is being altered. As we absorb more and more materialism, our

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