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The passing of Murray Clapham Murray (Steven) Hallen Clapham passed away in Jakarta on Monday the 4th of April 2011. at 12:45 pm. Steven is a Subud name that Murray took not long before his death. Murray was a greatly loved and highly respected Subud member who served Subud in many capacities in the organisation, in enterprises and in social welfare. He also pursued successful careers as a diplomat and businessman. His generosity was legendary. Our sympathy goes out to his wife, Youry, and daughters Vera, Grace and Kartini, and to all others who knew and loved him. May our prayers help him in his journey and may Almighty God give him a good and rightful place in the hereafter. We publish this tribute from his daughter Kartini and many other tributes will be found in the Subud Voice Extra section on our home page... Kartini writes... We would like to thank everyone for all their love and thoughts during this difficult time. Dad was someone very special. He led an amazing life and touched so many. Dad taught many to open their hearts and love. He accepted all as equals and treat all like family from business partners to maids and drivers. We will miss him dearly and miss his incredibly unique humour and stories. Mum, Vera, Grace and I were so grateful to have spent so much time with Dad these past few months and we were able to tell Dad everything we needed to. We all know Dad chose his path. Many may have not agreed on his health choices but it was right choice for dad and we thank everyone for all the support. Dad's healing process was not one to stay with us: he was trying to purify himself for something else. We only realised his subtle hints after his passing. Vera, Grace and I were with Dad at the time of his death and he was peaceful. It was only the last couple of days before when Dad was bed-ridden, but these days there was some sort of energy going on in his room, some sort of spiritual process was happening which we could not exactly pinpoint. The night before Dad's death, Grace and I were with him. He was dreaming all night and continued to talk in his sleep. Repetitive words were said which showed us a sign. Dad said in his sleep, "I think this is a new paradigm," and then said, "Remember tomorrow" not knowing what this meant until the next day at the time of his death. We all lay beside Dad's body to be as a family one last time. He was ready but we were not. We don't see Dad's passing as as a failure to beat his cancer, but as a victory to finally love himself and care for himself as his whole life was dedicated to others. Dad's body stayed at home with us until yesterday. Yesterday we had Dad's service and cremation. The service was held at home. It was a service which incorporated all religions, languages and status. Dad's songs were played and very personal speeches were said. It was relaxed allowing everyone to express and feel what they wanted. There were plenty of laughs and I have never seen so many grown men cry. Adri stood up and sang. Bobby who spent a lot of time treating Dad spoke for the Balur clinic. There were visions of Dad during his service, and many signs that Dad was around us during his cremation. It was a day of shocking, surprising, spiritual experiences, which many have not experienced before. Everyone has asked about a service in Australia. This will most definitely happen. Dad was just as Indonesian as he was Australian, if not more, and because Dad passed away in Jakarta, we are following the Javanese tradition. This belief is that Dad's spirit is still around here for 40 days. This means that Mum is unable to leave Indonesia up until the 40th day. An Australian service will be held in May after the 40th day. Our minds are unable to make many decisions at the moment so we ask for your patience until we make an exact date for his service. The Jalan Junaedi House is full of friends, family, godsons from around the globe all camping on the floor. It’s been a while since we all gathered together. We are all now collecting our thoughts and telling Dad's stories. Dad had many great stories, jokes, experiences with so many and we are asking everybody if they could share something they found special. This could be a story he told, an experience you had with him, a description of Dad, a joke he told. Please write as openly as possible, we know some things may be quite ‘out there’, but this was Dad. This will be collected and made into a book for all to remember as there were many aspects to his life which would be wonderful to share. Throughout Dad's life so many have asked him to write a book and in the last year Dad was collecting his information to finally do one. So this is our gift to him and all those who knew him. Please could you forward this to all who know Dad. With Love Youry, Vera, Grace and Kartini Contact Kartini Clapham katclapham@gmail.com Murray Clapham Other tributes to Murray can be found on our web page inside Subud Voice Extra ◆ SUBUD VOICE PAGE 22 MAY 2011
Changes at Subud Voice Harris Smart and Marcus Bolt write... You'll notice that there are a number of changes in the format of this issue of Subud Voice. We are extremely responsive to consumer feedback and so a number of these changes have been made in response to suggestions that people have made to us. They also reflect out transition from a magazine that was originally in print to a magazine that is now online only. We are learning all the time and doing our best to make Subud Voice as good as we can. 1. LESS COLOR. Some people have said to us that there is too much colour in Subud Voice and that when they print it out, it chews up too much of a colour cartridge. Therefore, with the exception of the front page, we have decided to make all pages, in black-and-white. Except of course for the colour photos which people like. But we are no longer printing text in colour. In this way we are responding to consumer feedback and also following the almost universal practice of e-zines on the Internet. 2. ONE COLUMN. We are no longer doing a magazine in two columns. Several people quite rightly said that it is extremely difficult to read two columns on the Internet. Again, we are following the almost universal practice of e-zines. 3. LINKS. As we go along we are increasingly endeavouring to exploit the resources of the Internet for interconnectivity and so on. So now, if you click on the list of stories on the front page, you will go directly to that particular story. Web and e-mail addresses are now also LIVE, so that if you click on them you will go directly to that web page or e-mail address. 4. CLEARER STRUCTURE. Some people have said that they do not like the way stories are not always contained with pages. They would like a clearer structure and demarcation between stories. So now we are always going to make sure that major stories begin on a new page. This also makes it clearer to find stories by clicking on the story LINKS mentioned above. 5. PRINTING OUT A PARTICULAR STORY. Some people have said that often they do not want to print out the whole magazine but just a particular story. We are not yet quite ready to build this feature into the magazine, but you can easily do it yourself, using the standard capacity which is in your printer instructions. Every printer gives you the opportunity to just indicate that you only want to print out certain pages in a document rather than the whole thing. As we go on we will be continually endeavouring to improve the magazine, in response to your feedback and also implementing our vision of everything that an e-zine can be. Here is some further information for people who have complained about the "chewing up the colour cartridge" problem. Printing Subud Voice on a home printer 1. The Subud Voice Online team envisaged the new magazine as being eventually an e-Zine for the public as well as our members – and in particular, our younger members – and would contain more stories about Subud members out there, 'in the world', with more interviews, more photos, more graphics etc., and to be read ‘online’. 2. We do not have the resources to prepare and post a black and white version of the magazine. 3. However, for those of us who cannot make the shift to on-screen reading, and have to print out, all is not lost! There are more economic options as follows: a) Most printers have a 'mono' print facility. If you go into your on-screen control panel, it should give you a list of adjustable options on print quality, print speed, print size, paper quality and print colour (either full colour or RGB, or mono or greyscale). If you choose 'mono', the printer will then interpret the colour values into black/grey and only bring the black cartridge into play. b) If your printer doesn't have this flexibility, your computer might, particularly if you have Adobe Reader or a similar 'pdf' opening program. If you download the pdf document as normal, then open it in Adobe Reader, or similar program, you should be able to re-save it as a 'greyscale' pdf, which again translates the colour values SUBUD VOICE PAGE 23 MAY 2011
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