The Subud Greater Seattle/Spring Street Center open house happens Saturday, July 27. It will feature flute (Jim O’Halloran) piano (Elisha Gullixson) snacks (Debbie Machado-Santos) guitar (David Lynch) and poetry (guess who). It has been several years since there have been discussions about such an event and years before that when the last open house happened. Your humble narrator talks about Subud here:
https://www.paulenelson.com/2019/07/24/subud-house-spring-street-center-open-house/
How should we talk about Subud? Is the writing at the above link appropriate? Effective? How does word get out about Subud? What are your community’s strategies? Thoughts welcome below in the comment section.
IN re: “The Subud Greater Seattle/Spring Street Center open house happens Saturday, July 27. It will feature flute (Jim O’Halloran) piano (Elisha Gullixson) snacks (Debbie Machado-Santos) guitar (David Lynch) and poetry (guess who).” – Wishing you all well
for today! WISH I WAS WITH YOU – Love, Michael
Well I love to talk…way to much. It is my nature and was fathers and mother’s to a great degree. So what I say here may not be worth what someone who dislikes to talk often might share. I try to put this nafsu to some decent use however when unable to reign it in. (most of the time )
Paul I read your invitation and it is authentically you. That is a very important thing.
Also there is the offer of much, much more than talk, a sharing of gifts, talents. That is the difference. In the past only talk had not been verified as productive,,as far as I have been able see. May The One Almighty bless the effort regardless of any out comes we may see with ordinary faculties. HYour brother
David Mc
David, I am grateful for your reading of this post and for your kind words. I hope you’re well and happy!
Paul
I think this is a great idea to share your talents with the general public, but I also think that you may have some booklets out for information about Subud and the purpose of the latihan or training. I was born in Colombia and we used to do that in Bogota. These concerts or open houses were a very successful way to attract anyone who might be interested in Subud.
Well, after some 50 years as a Subud member I can only share my own, personal experience. This is that if I use my thinking or brain to try to introduce someone to Subud I usually fail. However, from time too time someone asks me a question. They have seen something within me, and they just want to know who I am and find out what it is that attracts them to me! Then I can, somehow, easily talk to them in an appropriate way. It just happens. And every time is different. So, this experience leads me to suggest that we need to do far more to interface with non-Subud members but, very specifically, not to “promote” Subud in any way, just to say “Here I am”……. and take it from there! So, events such as you describe at Subud Greater Seattle are great, but I would not even mention or have anything about Subud lying around, just wait for someone to suspect that you have something they need to know about, and seem genuine in asking you what that might be!