would rather summarize it in this manner.
Perhaps they were religious people who may at some instance did some prayer and that had the what I think is, at the right place the right time the right person, kind of stuffs and suddenly this guy was rumored to be able to be a faith healer and it started the ball running I guess.
Whatever it is, it doesn’t seemed logically that it would happened as supernatural as they think it may be.
Like the one in Sukabumi, it seemed there were so many people everyday lining to be hit with a nail, press of gold flake into their face, have a diamond implanted invisible in their butts.
Most important to what i feel is that one should be more willing to fight for something in life, go for it than dependant on some kind of holy smoke to light their days.
Anyway there are as many running their luck from Banten to jember
There is this Chinese kind of spiritual healer, do everything kind of guy I knew and he is dead. He in fact calculated that he won’t live past his 33 birthday and that happened.
When young about 6-7 years old, he was jumping of their 3 storey building in Pematang Siantar and he didn’t break a bone. His mother is in the rongsok business, so as his behaviour they thought he had gone nuts that his mother brought him for psychiatric treatment that squandered most of their savings. One day his mother had a dream being approached by three very old man. This is true and they said they wanted the kid otherwise the kid will die at a young age. So his mother brought him to a temple and when they arrive the monk was waiting for him and opened the door and tell him to go in. He was to be locked inside for the 3 times 108 days, almost a year. While inside he asked his mother for some money and she said I have only 5,000 rupiahs. And he told his mother to place a bet on certain numbers in SBSD and that was a winner. The mother began picking her business up again from those money. When the time was up he was release and the monk told him to kneel down and shouted “XXX’ the name of the diety. and went into a trance and wrote something on a mirror. When he woke the monk told him this is the deity that will follow you for life. He was much sought after by business people including the boss of Hotel Polonia. One day he asked 25 million from his mother and said he wanted to buy the scrap from PLN and the mother said nobody wants that stuff, those scrpas were there for many years. He insisted and got the money and bought the scrap. Much to everyone’s surprise, buried under the huge heap of scrap were all new copper cables that was worth billions in the early 80’s. They became rich but soon squandered all his money on drinks, gambling and womanizing.
He approached me in Jakarta for a place to saty and I let him use one of my house. Not long he move out and started the vinegar business.
This was one of the restrictions. He is not suppose to gamble, womanize and touch any vinegar but he did. One day he had this thought of ‘kawin lari’ and had rented a minibus near Sumur Bor, Cengkareng. Before that he told his wife to prepare a set of white clothing, a pair of white shoes and socks and said if he die, his wife should not be his widow and asked me to prepare a white car to lead the hearse. I wasn’t around and he left with his prospective father in law, wife fiance, her brother and a family friend and himself. While en route to Jember he came head on with a truck and his minibus was smashed into 1/3 the size and blown apart. His charred body and three others remained in the wreck. The family friend escape with little injury and vanished after hospitalized.
This tells me that if someone violate an oath/promise/vow with a certain supernatural source, they will return to where they were suppose to be. This is real and happened somewhere around 94/95 in Jember.