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Kejawen Overview

(Kejawen, a Javanese ancient spiritual teaching.)

“The purpose of this writings is to introduce some basic principles of the ancient Javanese belief system called KEJAWEN. Because of that, it is necessary as an introduction, to say a few words about it and the way the presence of the individual in the Universe is viewed by the KEJAWEN philosophy.

Despite appearing a very syncretic type of world view, KEJAWEN is a very homogeneous and consistent complex of beliefs, based on the main cosmological conviction of the absolute correspondence between microcosm, macrocosm and lightcosm, the TRIBAWANA Concept or The Trinity of Universe”