How to Develop Peace in the World explains:

1- Why is our world in chaos
2- The potential of the Subud spiritual training (Latihan)
3- Human beings need to work together to establish peace

How to Develop Peace in the World is the result of more than 40
years of practicing the spiritual exercise called LATIHAN. The
latihan is a spiritual exercise enabling human beings to
surrender completely to God’s power and will. This allows God’s
power to awaken the inner feelings of man, located in our chest,
in time, when the inner feelings are strong enough God’s power
will switch our operating center from our head to our inner
feelings.

The latihan exercise also results in developing love and
compassion for other human beings. It is possible to experience
an overwhelming feeling of compassion for others. Human beings
operated by their inner feelings will work at developing peace in
the world by spreading the latihan exercise so that others will
become able to receive an awakening of their inner feelings.

When human beings become operated and guided by their inner
feelings they will  experience some out-of-the ordinary
happenings. For example:

a- Actress Eva Bartok was cured of terminal cancer instantly when
she joined in the practice of this exercise. The story of her
miraculous cure made headlines in the world.

b- During the Indonesian uprising against the Dutch, an
Indonesian soldier, then practicing the latihan, was playing
cards in a barrack with his companions. All of a sudden, without
knowing why, he got up and ran outside away from the building.
His companions ran after him thinking he had gone mad; a few
seconds later a mortar shell hit the barrack and blew it to
pieces. Their lives were saved by the soldier who was moved by
his inner feelings to run away.

c- A member was walking along a trail in a wooded area when all
of a sudden his legs refused to move. He tried to move his legs
again, then he looked down, in front of him, on the ground, he
saw a venomous snake. If he had been able to take another step he
would have been bitten by the snake. His legs stopped working as
a result of an impulse from his inner feelings.

d- Here is something that happened to me after I had been
practicing the latihan for about eight or nine years. One night I
was sound asleep. Out of nowhere the voice that speaks within my
heart from time to time spoke again. The voice said, "Brake." My
mind answered, "I am sound asleep; why should I brake?" The voice within my heart impatiently said, "Brake just the same." So,
reluctantly, I moved my leg as if I were going to push on the
brake pedal of my car. To my horror, I felt a brake pedal under
my foot. Realizing that I was in deep trouble, I pulled together
all the strength I could muster and pushed on the brake pedal as
hard as I could. At the same time I made great and repeated
efforts to wake up as quickly as I could. I also called on God to
help me wake up and to protect me. As I was gradually waking up,
I became able to increase the pressure on the brake pedal.
Finally I opened my eyes and saw that I was at the wheel of my
car, and the car had stopped on the shoulder of an interstate
highway. The car was positioned to go off the road, and in front
of it was a field sloped steeply downward with many trees located
at the bottom of the hill. The voice that spoke within my heart
saved me from an accident; maybe it saved my life.

The book describes a spiritual training that enables human beings to develop a true human character, a state of permanent inner peace, and compassion for all human beings.

The book explains: what is Subud, what is the latihan, what is a Subud helper, what is testing, Subud procedures, spiritual experiences, Subud myths, crises, fads, diseases, blessings. What happened in forty years of Subud. Explanations and some excerpts of Pak Subuh's, Prio's talks. How to go to heaven. What human beings need to know to progress spiritually but were never told by anyone except Pak Subuh.

Part I of the book explores the spiritual aspect of Subud; Part II reflects on the material side; Part III takes a look at the history of the Subud movement and other general ideas concerning it.

In the 1960's, Pak Subuh, the founder of Subud, stated that human beings had developed their minds too far and that this situation will cause great problems to mankind. He went on to say that human beings have to let God Almighty awaken and develop their inner feelings to balance their over developed mind.

Schools, work places, and random shootings are due to the fact that human beings are still working at developing their minds rather than developing their inner feelings. The mind becomes too powerful and leads human beings to shoot and kill others because their inner feelings are not strong enough to stop human beings from acting in this manner.
 

The spiritual latihan exercise of Subud is the way to let God Almighty awaken, strengthen and develop our inner feelings. This will enable human beings to become able to love and have compassion for others. If human beings follow the spiritual training of Subud, shootings and other violent incidents will gradually stop.
 
 

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