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My Stairway to Subud Stairway to Subud 1 Stairway to Subud STAIRWAY TO SUBUD ANTHONY BRIGHT-PAUL A H u m m i n g b i r d B o o k 2 Stairway to Subud First published in the United States in 1965 by Dharma Book Company Inc. Corrected PDF Edition, February 16, 2006 by Undiscovered Worlds Press website: www.undiscoveredworldspress.com email: [email protected] Copyright © by Anthony Bright-Paul 2005 Anthony Bright-Paul 74 West Heath Road Farnborough Hants GU14 8QX [email protected] 3 Stairway to Subud TABLE OF CONTENTS Part 1 Introduction 7 Preface to Part One 9 Chapter 1 The Question of God 11 Chapter 2 Vedanta: God Within Man 17 Chapter 3 Gurdjieff: Man as a Machine 27 Chapter 4 J. G. Bennett: Life at Coombe Springs 44 Chapter 5 Further Studies with J.G.Bennett 75 Chapter 6 The Arrival of Subud 88 Chapter 7 Who am I? 135 Part 2 Introduction The Awakening of the Soul 142 Chapter 8 The Philosophy of Subud 145 Chapter 9 — Extracts 152 “Some things need to be rescued from oblivion.” Anthony Bright-Paul Extract 1, Mangoendjaja: My Inner Guidance — Extract 2, Varindra Vittachi: Corked Extract 3, From Ivan Vos: The Greatest Gift — Extract 4, Sudarto’s Experience Extract 5, From Ivan Vos’s book — Extract 6, Bapak on Jesus Extract 7, Icksan Ahmed by I. Gerson — Extract 8, letters of Rainier Gebers Extract 9, The first 400 by Ridwan (Bill) Aitken — Extract 10, Bennett’s Opening Extract 11, Varindra Vittachi’s Fate and Destiny — Extract 12, Email from H. Rofé Extract 13, Husein Rofé again — Extract 14, From Bob Prestie’s Autobiography Extract 15, Soeparto in Japan — Extract 16, Bapak in Paris — Extract 17, Water of Life by Hussein Rawlings — Extract 18 Into the Light by Lucius Perham 4 Stairway to Subud Part 3 Chapter 10 Forty-six Year On 18 Chapter 11 Pergi ke California! 194 Chapter 12 Return to England 207 Chapter 13 Family Matters 221 Chapter 14 Retirement: A New Beginning 232 Chapter 15 Wisma Subud Cilandak Indonesia 237 Chapter 16 Beyond the White Magician 244 List of Photos Cardinal Wolsey’s Spring House, Coombe Springs, page 47 Djamichoonatra, the nine-sided building at Coombe Springs. Now demolished, page 72 Icksan Ahmed, page 89 Pak Subuh & John Bennett, and others 1957, page 89 Anthony Bright-Paul, Harjono, Ismana and McLeods, page 113 Subud World Congress, Coombe Springs, 1959, page 127 Robert Prestie, page 179 The author and his wife on an anniversary jaunt to London, page 237 5 Stairway to Subud Stairway to Subud by Anthony Bright-Paul First published in 1965 by the Dharma Book Company, Inc. New York, New York Copyright Anthony Bright-Paul 1965 SUBUD is a way of living not a theory or teaching. Statements about SUBUD should be considered as reflecting the author’s own personal experience and understanding. They are not to be regarded as authoritative pronouncements nor are they intended to be a SUBUD doctrine. “Between ‘Life’ and the ‘Way’ there is the Stairway.” P. D. Ouspensky 6 Stairway to Subud Is there a purpose to life? And, if so, what is that purpose? What happens when we die? Is there Life after death? Or is death simply dust to dust and ashes to ashes? Is death different for Christians and Jews? For Buddhists, and Hindus and Muslims? Is immortality certain as some Christians believe? Or is immortality dependent upon a certain crystallisation? Is there One God? Or are there different Gods? Or is the One God called by many different names? Is there a Heaven and Hell in reality? Or, are they states of mind? Is the Universe dramatic? Or is the Universe simply random and chaotic? Is Man a machine, as Gurdjieff would have it? Has man got a soul? Or is that just an illusion? Is man subject to material forces? Is he ruled entirely by sub-human forces? Or is there a One Awake Will? That is a friend to the sleeping Will in Man? Is it possible for man to get free from the forces that dominate him? Is purification or purgation possible in this life? Is there truth in reincarnation? Is it desirable? Is man composed of Karmic bundles? Is the Realisation of the “Self” synonymous with Worship of God? Is it possible for man to have contact with the Power of God? If man has no real “I” is it possible to achieve one? If man is “asleep” can the soul of man awaken? Stairway to Subud (first published by the Dharma Book company of New York in 1964) is a book in which the author Anthony Bright-Paul seeks to find answers to these questions. It is a must for all those Seekers of the Truth who are drawn towards books on esoteric mysticism, Sufism, the works of 7 Stairway to Subud G. I. Gurdjieff and P. D. Ouspensky, or who read about the Vedanta philosophy and Sri Ramakrishna. Students of Anthroposophy and Theosophy and Krishnamurti and all those who seek some form of Self-development will find a companion to their journeys. Likewise those who worked with J. G. Bennett, the author of Concerning Subud, Witness and The Dramatic Universe, and who have at- tempted to “work on themselves” or to “remember themselves” will find a detailed account of life under that Teacher. Finally the book comes to the opening in Subud and the author’s experiences with Pak Subuh and the Subud “Latihan Kejiwaan.” This is the final step on the Stairway, where everything studied before is reconciled. The author has subsequently added another large section, entitled “The Awakening of the Soul,” which brings the story up to the present day. The author seeks to republish this book with an agreed price of 22 euros with Semar Publisher, “http:/ /www.semar.org”, www.semar.org and will be pleased to receive advance orders for hard copy. This price corresponds to roughly $29 or £15.95 sterling. The book will likely be available in 3 to 6 months, but publication is entirely dependent on receiving 500 orders in advance. No money is required until the magic figure of 500 is reached, and publication is certain. The price includes postage and packing to anybody in that first 500. Please send your orders and mail to: “[email protected]” where they will be logged until such time as a final decision is taken on producing the book in printed form. In the meantime, people may browse the book on “http://www.undiscoveredworldspress.com/” where they will also find books by Mas Prio Hartono. The royalties for the book have been agreed at 7% of the retail price, and the author has decided that all such royalties should accrue to the Subud Brotherhood. Since the book is being placed online with “http://www.undiscoveredworldspress.com/” there is the risk that no-one will want to order the hard copy. This is a risk the author is prepared to take. If the book lacks interest, then no one will order. If, however, the opposite is the case, then I believe that this book can be of interest not only to members of the Subud Brotherhood, but also to the Society of Friends, to the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society, to all existing branches of the Work, whether derived from P. D. Ouspensky or from G. I. Gurdjieff himself. It is surely of interest to all those who worked with J. G. Bennett, and who have subsequently worked with his son, George Bennett. Indeed it is hoped that it will interest all those who one might call Seekers after the Truth, all those who cry out for a meaning to Life. Anthony Bright-Paul 74 West Heath Road Farnborough Hants GU14 8QX January 11, 2005 8 Stairway to Subud Preface to Part One Anyone who has the temerity to write a book must inevitably expect his own weaknesses and limita- tions to be exposed. This is doubtless true of my own book Stairway to Subud. It is particularly true because the subject of the book is the conundrum of life itself. Why am I alive? What purpose does my life serve? What is the Truth? What are the means by which Truth can be apprehended more fully? These are questions over which man has pondered for centuries, and it would seem that all the answers that can be given have already been given and that the boundaries of the unknowable and the inscru- table have long been demarcated. If all that can be said about Truth has already been uttered, and if the great truths stand immutable and eternal, nevertheless, the drama of life consists in the fact that man’s apprehension of these truths is something that can grow, can flare into a momentary brilliance—and also alas!—can diminish, subside and die away altogether. Stairway to Subud then is not so much a search for the Truth as a search for the means by which Truth can be apprehended more fully. But what are the right means? What is the legitimate route to greater consciousness? What indeed is the ‘royal path’ of understanding? In seeking to understand, I have inevitably portrayed the paucity of my own understanding. If this search had been entirely in the void, so to speak, I doubt whether I would be culpable in any way. But in fact my search lead me to question certain tenets of the Christian religion, to discover the Vedanta philosophy, to plunge headlong into the psychological exercises of Gurdjieff, and finally to become a practising member of the Brotherhood Subud.
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