Subud as it was envisaged by Bapak.
Subud is not a religion, nor a sect of any religion.
My artistic training enabled me to design and present a printed pamphlet for the Subud movement early in 1952.
Our respective affinities for the Indonesian psyche helped us both a great deal to absorb the message behind Subud.
In late 1954, the first letters from Hong Kong began to reach me,
on notepaper which indicated where the seven existing Subud groups were.
He had soon elicited an interest in the question of Subud among his new acquaintances in the British colony,
where there gathered around him a new nucleus.
At the end of 1952, he left Djogjakarta for Palembang in South Sumatra,
where he was later to establish a Subud branch,
and where he subsequently accepted a teaching post for STANVAC at nearby Sungei Gerong.
I must honestly say that, for me, the digestion of the Subud fare was no easy matter,
since what I was enabled to observe of such meetings was not always attractive, but this was a personal and subjective reaction.
Nevertheless, I should have preferred to conceal it, since I was aware that he
would certainly reiterate his suggestion that I undergo the Subud training, and I was anxious to avoid that,
since I felt little inclination for it, and was quite convinced that it would have no effect on me whatever!