Rather, Subud practitioners feel that they receive regular contact with God or some divine reality, from whom or which a kind of inner wisdom may be received directly.

Interestingly, Subud sometimes finds itself on the other end of this dynamic -- for example, when it warns practitioners against " mixing " Subud with other practices such as yoga or meditation.

Since yoga and meditation are major elements of Hinduism and Buddhism, some members complain this conflicts with the encouragement given to Subud practitioners to continue practicing the religion of their choice.

Following his visit to Britain in 1957, Muhammad Subuh is estimated to have travelled 594, 320 miles outside Indonesia, visiting Subud groups which were formed around the world over the following 30 years until his death in 1987.

Most Subud groups have helpers, who are responsible for assisting other members in various ways, as well as simply timing the latihan.

They have the responsibility to explain what Subud is to any interested person, to facilitate a person's first receiving ( opening ), and to serve members in deepening their receiving and applying it in their lives.

This was to demonstrate that Subud has practical advantages, and so that more Subud members would have the means to support Subud financially and have a work-life balance that would allow travel on behalf of Subud.

) The basis of Subud is a spiritual exercise commonly referred to as the latihan kejiwaan, which was said by Muhammad Subuh to represent guidance from " the Power of God " or " the Great Life Force ".

The original word for testing used by Muhammad Subud was " terimah " which is Indonesian for " receiving ".

In 1958, monks from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Wandrille, interested in Subud, contacted Bennett who, the following year, made the first of many visits which brought him into close contact with the Catholic Church.

In 1962, Bennett gave a seminar on spiritual psychology in which the various elements he had received ( particularly from Gurdjieff, Subud and the Shivapuri Baba ) were integrated into a coherent psycho-cosmology.

Arquette was born in a Subud commune, which had no electricity, no bathrooms, and no running water, in Winchester, Virginia.

When he died in 1987 he left many talks on tape, video and in print, which Subud uses to guide the organization he founded.

Subud is sometimes described as " non-denominational ," a curious term which usually refers to religious denominations within Christianity.

“ Non-sectarian ” would probably be most accurate, as within Subud the mixing of religious groups goes hand in hand with the mingling of different ethnic groups from around the world.

Over the following years, Erhard continued to investigate a wide range of other new religious and therapeutic movements, including Encounter, Transactional Analysis, Enlightenment Intensive, Subud and Scientology.

Subud is treated as a religious organisation in some countries, such as the UK, where it is registered as religious charity, but in other places, such as Indonesia, it is viewed by the government as an education organisation.

Although he maintained to the end of his life that he had derived great benefit from Subud, it was now the turn of Subud members to be dismayed, and many turned against him.

* Why Bahá ' ís can't practice Subud

For the Subud figure " Ibu ", see Siti Rahayu Wiryohudoyo.

McGuinn left the Subud spiritual association in 1977, the same year that he met his wife Camilla ( they married the next year ).

Another reason often given is that Subud welcomes members from " all " religions ( theoretically including atheists ).

If we have five problems whose solution we seek in relatively united fashion, then there are twice as many issues which, I judge, sharply divide us, intergroup relations practitioners and lay people.

Those who wish to become " Journal-listed " ( accredited ) practitioners, devoting themselves full-time to the public practice of healing, must first have Primary class instruction.

When they have a proven record of healing, they may submit their names for publication in the directory of practitioners and teachers in the Christian Science Journal.

Public forums have been created where mail practitioners can show and discuss techniques and weaves and display their creations.

The convergence of these two distinct healing traditions and their common practitioners ' own inventiveness have led to an ever-changing and expanding array of concepts in the western world.

In the House of Commons of the United Kingdom on January 19, 1996, health minister Gerald Malone noted that the title doctor had never been restricted to either medical practitioners or those with doctoral degrees in the UK, commenting that the word was defined by common usage but that the titles " physician, doctor of medicine, licentiate in medicine and surgery, bachelor of medicine, surgeon, general practitioner and apothecary " did have special protection in law.

The textbooks of D. Montgomery and R. Myers have reached generations of students and practitioners.

The Falkland Islands does not have its own Bar or Law Society, and there is no differentiation between being a barrister or a solicitor ; the private practitioners being called legal practitioners.

They are experienced industry practitioners, who have usually worked previously for a number of years in any one of a variety of roles, such as producer, writer, director or script editor.

Many of its practitioners have added various further factors of production ( see below ).

For example, one of the issues that keeps FGM going in some communities is that the practitioners have no other way to earn a living.

In science fiction, a large number of the practitioners and other professionals in the field, not only writers but editors and publishers, traditionally have themselves come from and participate in science fiction fandom, from Ray Bradbury to Harlan Ellison to Patrick Neilsen Hayden to Toni Weisskopf ; and the " fan " vs. " pro " dualism does not exist in the way it does in the media entertainment industry.

Contemporary practitioners, accordingly, have varied and often conflicting practices.

Similarly, nurses and physician's practitioners have their own guilds.

Many artifacts of decorative hammers have been found, leading modern practitioners of this religion to often wear reproductions as a sign of their faith.

In England and Wales, approved mental health professionals have a lead role in coordinating Mental Health Act assessments, which they conduct in cooperation with usually two medical practitioners.

Muslim culture and philosophy have heavily influenced practitioners of Judaism in the Islamic world.

One consequence of the Act is that solicitors, accountants, tax advisers and insolvency practitioners who suspect ( as a consequence of information received in the course of their work ) that their clients ( or others ) have engaged in tax evasion or other criminal conduct from which a benefit has been obtained, are now required to report their suspicions to the authorities ( since these entail suspicions of money laundering ).

As a result, western practitioners have incorporated much more powerful hand striking techniques from boxing although some Thai purists accuse them of diluting the art.

The Louisiana Academy of Medical Psychology ( LAMP ), currently the largest organization of psychologists with prescriptive authority in the world and the only organization representing practitioners of medical psychology in Louisiana as defined by Louisiana statute within any jurisdiction in the United States, no longer recognizes the Academy of Medical Psychology as an adequate certifying body for its practitioners, and its members have resigned from the Academy of Medical Psychology en masse.

Different nations within the EU have different regulations, and in some nations general practitioners have the legal right to maintain addicts with whatever they deem to be most efficacious in maintaining their health and well being.

While much Native American spiritualism exists in a tribal-cultural continuum, and as such cannot be easily separated from tribal identity itself, certain other more clearly defined movements have arisen among " traditional " Native American practitioners, these being identifiable as " religions " in the clinical sense.