General meeting and election of officers after latihan Sunday, January 14th.
We ask all Subud Seattle members to consider serving on the next committee in preparation for our selection process on Sunday, January 14th after latihan. Please open yourselves to the possibility of serving our community
Positions to be tested are chair and vice chair.
The current committee will be available for mentoring and guidance should the new committee want that.
We’ll have many documents pertaining to our rich Subud Seattle Culture which came from David Freeman via Salamah O’Brien.
If you can help identify them and the people in the photos, with dates, etc., your help would be greatly appreciated.
Holiday Party and 50th anniversary of the purchase of the Seattle Subud house!
We are having a party after Latihan December 10th to celebrate the holidays and the 50th Anniversary of our purchasing our Seattle Center.
All ages; members and non-members welcome! It’s a potluck!
Your Help Is Needed
In order for us to celebrate we need to collaborate on:
– Decorating and Setup
– Tear Down & Cleanup
We can potentially setup Saturday night!
To volunteer, email our chair Jim O’Halloran
Rayma’s Experience at the Kejiwaan Retreat
Gathering at Menucha Retreat Center this past weekend with 85 Subud members left me with a
feeling of gratitude that I carried home and remains with me as I write. There was enough of
everything. Enough together time, enough apart time, enough time for latihan and testing,
enough support from fellow travelers on this path.
As is the tradition, we sat in a large circle at the beginning of our time together there. Each of
us introduced ourselves and said a few words about why we had come and what we hoped for.
At the end, again in a circle, we each shared a bit of what we were taking away. This year, the
take-away for many was a feeling of deepened experiences in the latihans, and more connection with others present and within our greater Subud community. Love, really. I pray that feeling travels with each of us into our daily lives in the aftermath of our time together.
It was great to connect again with lots of long-time Subud members, and with some of their adult children, and also to meet Jennifer, who had come after being opened just 4 days earlier
in Palo Alto. Not only that, but seven members from Subud Canada made the trip, too!
My take-away was a sense of reawakening and reconnection. A sense of possibilities. Thank you to everyone who put in a lot of hard work to help make this past weekend a reality.
-Rayma Norton
Rasjad with Bapak and Sharif in Marin County, California.
Rasjad Hopkins on the way to a Subud meeting, circa 1968.
Rasjad Hopkins, a long time Subud member and one of the founding members of Subud Seattle has passed over to the next world. Below is a link to a Zoom interview I did with him in July of 2022. It gives some history of the beginning of our group, his very interesting life happenings and some of his Subud experiences. It is quite powerful and well worth watching till the end! The video is 34 minutes long.
Click the link below to see the YouTube video.
https://youtu.be/lVpoM3_FGmo?si=WEJh4OQvfziVpRdm