Untuk memenuhi permintaan para pembaca yamg tertarik dengan ilmu kepemimpinan, saya coba sharingkan sebuah tips tentang “Seni Kepemimpinan Yang Efektif dan Efisien”.

Ilmu Teori Kepemimpinan bisa dipelajari oleh semua orang yang mau belajar, karena tersedia banyak sekolah dan buku tentang itu yang bisa dibaca dan dipelajari…

Tapi Seni Kepemimpinan hanya bisa dikuasai kalau sudah betul betul pernah mengalami sendiri memimpin minimal sekelompok kecil orang yang dinamakan regu (sekitar 9 orang), dilapangan, dikampus atau diperusahaan…atau juga dalam memimpin sebuah keluarga sendiri…

Seni Kepemimpinan adalah Kemampuan mempraktekan ilmu Teori Kepemimpinan kepada orang yang dipimpinnya…yang kenyataannya tidak selalu sama dengan yang diajarkan dalam ilmu teory kepemimpinan yang diberikan di Akademi Militer, di Perguruan Tinggi dan diLembaga Pendidikan manapun…

Mengapa demikian?…karena setiap individu manusia yang dipimpin, memiliki karakter yang berbeda satu sama lainnya, memiliki persepsi yang berbeda satu sama lain, juga memiliki interest/kepentingan pribadi yang berbeda…

Perbedaan itu kalau diseragamkan sesuai keinginan kita sebagai pemimpin, akan menimbulkan resistensi baik secara terbuka ataupun tertutup, berbeda beda…

Aturan kepemimpinan militer yang otoriter, akan lebih memudahkan sesorang pemimpin militer untuk melakukan Seni kepemimpinannya, tapi dilingkungan orang sipil akan menjadi lebih complicated, lebih rumit….lebih sulit….

Salah satu yang mempersulit melakukan Seni Kepemimpinan dilingkungan sipil adalah karena tidak terbiasa ditegakkan  “Ketaatan Yang  Mutlak Terhadap Peraturan Disiplin Dilingkungan Sipil”…

Jadi kunci keberhasilan Seni Kepemimpinan sebenarnya adalah Kemampuan seseorang untuk mampu menumbuh kembangkan “Ketaatan Terhadap Disiplin”…

Disiplin artinya adalah “Bersedia melakukan semua aturan yang ditetapkan oleh lingkungan hidupnya secara tulus ikhlas, tanpa harus dipaksa dan diawasi terus menerus oleh pimpinan, dilakukan secara lahir dan batin…”

Kunci sukses seorang pemimpin adalah “Mampu menumbuh kembangkan rasa taat yang tulus dan ikhlas dihati dan fikiran anak buahnya..”

Kunci sukses untuk mampu menumbuh kembangkan ketaatan yang tulus dan ikhlas adalah sebagai berikut:

• Mampu memberikan suri Tauladan dalam Keimanan dan Ketaqwaan kepada Tuhan YME, serta ketaatan terhadap Peraturan Disiplin itu sendiri,
• Mampu menegakan hukum dan disiplin dilingkungan secara jujur, benar dan adil…
• Mampu bersikap dan berperan sebagai pengayom anak buahnya yang membutuhkan perhatian, bantuan, nasihat, petunjuk, secara tulus dan ikhlas…
• Mampu menjadi seorang guru, pembimbing, dalam setiap permasalahan baik masalah tugas maupun pribadi…
• Mampu berperan dan bersikap sebagai kawan yang baik, yang mau mendengarkan segala curhat dan keluhan anak buahnya, pada saat saat santai diluar jam pekerjaan kantornya…

Kelima kemampuan tersebut diatas inilah yang diajarkan dan dipraktekan oleh almarhum Jendral TNI M.Yusuf pada saat beliau menjadi Menhankam Pangab di Indonesia, sehingga beliau sangat sukses memimpin ABRI dan dicintai oleh masyarkat sipil di Indonesia pada masanya….

Dengan berpedoman kepada lima hal inilah saya relative sukses melakukan seni kepemimpinan memimpin pasukan dilingkungan Corps Polisi Militer dan menegakan Hukum Disiplin Dan Tata Tertib Dilingkungan ABRI dan Keluarganya, selama sekitar 32 tahun tanpa cacat….

Semoga sharing ini ada manfaatnya…

Para pembaca yang budiman, pada hari Senin tanggal 22 Juni 2009, ibunda isteri saya tercinta telah berpulang ke Rahmatullah pada usia 79 tahun, dirumah sakit di Bogor, karena penyakit degenerative atau menurunnya fungsi organ tubuh karena usia tua…yang didahului dengan menderita penyakit Diabetus Melitus selama 5 tahun…

“Sebelum ajal berpantang mati”, adalah motto kita umat beragama, karena makna kehidupan adalah suatu kesempatan yang diberikan Tuhan kepada manusia untuk berbuat amal kebajikan untuk modal masuk surga…setiap detik tarikan nafas harus betul betul disyukuri dan dipertahankan dalam rangka pengabdian kepada Allah SWT…

Tapi kalau kondisi kita diusia manula ( 60 tahun keatas), sudah tergeletak pingsan/Koma tak sadarkan diri dirumah sakit beberapa bulan, tak berdaya dan hanya menyusahkan semua pihak, terutama keluarga dekat, maka kita harus cepat melakukan evaluasi, mungkin sebenarnya Tuhan sudah memberikan pertanda kepada kita bahwa ajal kita sudah sangat dekat dan harus segera melakukan reevaluasi cepat atas semua amal kebajikan dan dosa yang telah kita buat, agar betul betul siap kembali kealam baqa, kembali kesisi Tuhan dalam keadaan suci seperti kita lahir kedunia….Kita diingatkan untuk mengingat dan menghitung semua dosa yang kita perbuat selama hidup dan bertobat kepada Tuhan dan minta maaf kepada yang pernah kita sakiti atau dzalimi/aniaya, atau semua kesalahan kita baik disadari maupun tidak disadari…

Banyak sekali kasus para manula yang sudah berbulan bulan tergeletak tak berdaya dirumah sakit, tapi masih belum menyadari pertanda dari Tuhan, lalu tetap meminta semua kerabat dekatnya untuk lebih memberikan perhatian selama 24 jam penuh, baik dari dokter, perawat, sanak saudara, terutana anak anaknya, bahkan sering dengan cara marah marah seperti anak kecil lagi…Pengobatan harus dilanjutkan bahkan harus sampai keluar negeri dan operasi yang penuh resiko tinggi…

Bagi keluarga yang memiliki biaya berlebihan, memang bukan menjadi permasalahan, tapi bagi yang sangat pas pasan, tentu saja bahkan harus menjual rumah, tanah bahkan alat rumah tangganya, demi pengabdiannya kepada orang tuanya…

Bilamana siorang tua yang menderita sakit degeneratif tersebut akhirnya pingsan atau Koma, semua anak anaknya menjadi trauma dan memaksakan diri terus mempertahankan kehidupan orang tuanya walaupun harus 100% tergantung kepada peralatan bantuan kehidupan secara medis…..Pertanyaannya kalau sudah dalam keadaan begini apakah boleh melepas semua peralatan bantuan kehidupan secara medis  menurut perspektif ke Tuhanan atau spiritual….banyak yang pro dan kontra…

Apakah secara spiritual siuasi kondisi seperti ini bisa dicari jalan keluar yang aman dan kondusif, tidak menimbulkan pertengkaran antara yang pro dan kontra dikeluarga dekat….

Menurut pengalaman pribadi saya menangani problema seperti ini, ternyata jawabnya: “ Bisa !!!”

Adapun langkah langkah pendahuluan yang harus dilakukan seperti ini:

1. Lakukan penelitian apakah pihak keluarga yang merawat sipenderita sakit sudah melakukan segala sesuatu sesuai dengan : Norma Agama, Hukum, Adat Istiadat, Kesopanan dan Kesusilaan, dalam konteks pengobatan dan perawatan seorang pasien.
2. Teliti usia si pasien, apakah tergolong sudah manula atau masih muda belia.
3. Teliti riwayat kesehatan dan penyakit pasien secara teiti, melalui pendekatan medis dan spiritual.
4. Teliti kwalitas keimanan dan ketaqwaan sipasien.
5. Teliti apakah pasien memasang sejenis susuk yang dimasukan kedalam badannya, atau memiliki jimat atau ilmu hitam tertentu yang belum dilepaskan dari jiwanya.
6. Teliti kondisi mental spiritual seluruh keluarga dekat, apakah semua sudah ikhlas bila sipenderita sakit untuk pulang kea lam baqa, dibebaskan dari siksa dunia berkepanjangan.

Langkah berikutnya:

1. Bila sipenderita sakit telah dilakukan langkah pemeriksaan, pengobatan, perawatan oleh pihak yang ahli dibidangnya secara professional, tidak ada kekeliruan sama sekali (kekeliruan diagnose) dan tidak ada malpraktek, maka biarkan perawatan dilanjutkan sesuai apa yang sedang berjalan…
2. Bila usia sipasien masih usia produktif, segala upaya maksimal harus dilakukan, termasuk kemungkinan garus dilakukan tindakan bedah/operasi, kalau memang sangat diperlukan dan yakin hasilnya positif…Bila pasien sudah manula, diatas 60 tahun, hindari tindakan operasi dan penggunaan obat kimiawi  berlebihan, karena organ tubuhnya sudah tak mampu menetralisir efek samping obat kimiawi yang berubah menjadi racun dan membebani kerja lever dan ginjal…ganti dengan obat serba herbal, terutama supelmen yang mampu membangun kembali sel tubuh yang rusak dan mati, misalnya pil Salmon Omega 3, Bio C, Daily, dari Nutrilite…
3. Bila sipenderita sakit memiliki cara berfikir negative, maka tak akan ada yang bisa menyembuhkannya, karena penyakit itu sebenarnya ditarik oleh pikiran negatifnya sendiri….obat apapun tak akan mampu menyembuhkannya, akan dilawan oleh pikiran negatifnya sendiri secara tidak disadari…biasanya orang sakit ini sakitnya sudah kronis, menahun, keluar masuk rumah sakit, tapi gak pernah sembuh betul, terulang lagi  terus….cirinya orang ini selalu mengeluh tentang sakitnya dan selalu menyalahkan orang lain, egoismenya sangat tinggi…Kalau menemui pasien seperti ini, yang harus diobati adalah pikirannya, harus dirubah menjadi positif lebih dulu….kalau tetap tidak mau berfikir positif, jangan dilakukan tindakan pembedahan/operasi, percuma saja, tak akan bisa menolong, hanya menambah penderitaan…doakan saja agar Tuhan memaafkan segala dosanya…
4. Bila keimanannya tinggi, berarti pikirannya pasti positif, harapan sembuh total walaupun usia manula , tetap tinggi…tapi kalau tingkat keimanannya rendah, pasti pikirannya negative dan harapan sembuh seperti sediakala sangat rendah,…penyakitnya akan kronis berkepanjangan dan tak akan sembuh lagi…
5. Bila sipenderita sakit ternyata mengaku atau dipastikan memasang sesjenis susuk yang dipasang dalam tubuhnya oleh paranormal/dukun, minta agar segera dikhkaskan untuk dicabut, lalu mandikan dengan air rendaman daun kelor yang sudah diberi doa tertentu untuk membuang susuknya…demikian juga kalau masih menyimpan sejenis benda pusaka, jimat, isim dan sejenisnya yang ada khodamnya(jin ), harus dibersihkan denga cara yang sama…kalau dibiarkan maka walau sudah ajal, maka akan disiksa dulu oleh Tuhan sebelum diizinkan pulang kealam baqa, berupa sakaratul maut berkepanjangan…
6. Bila semua keluarga dekat sudah ikhlas melepas sipenderita sakit karena memang usianya sudah sangat tua, kondisinya sudah sangat parah dan kronis, dokterpun sudah angkat tangan, maka pandulah si penderita sakit untuk melakukan istigfar/tobat secara khusu dan serius, minta ampun kepada Allah dan minta maaf kepada semua pihak yang masih hidup, semua sanak saudara dekat maupun jauh….yakinkan kepada sipenderita bahwa kita harus ikhlas berpulang kealam baqa, jangan ada rasa takut sama sekali, yakinkan bahwa semua dosa sudah diampuni Tuhan dan semua pihak telah memaafkan dosanya…yakinkan bahwa surga menanti beliau….Begitu bulat tekad dan keberanian sipenderita untuk pulang kea lam baqa, begitu ikhlas meninggalkan dunia fana ini, dengan mengucap La Illaha Ilallah, Muhamad da Rasulallah…Allah…allah…Allahu Akbar….berpulanglah roch sipenderita sakit dengan tersenyum dan bahagia kea lam baqa menghadap Illahi…..Inalillahi wa ina ilaihi rojiun…!!!

Pembaca blog yang budiman, itulah yang saya lakukan dalam menolong memperlancar mereka yang ingin pulang kealam baqa tapi mendapat kesulitan serius, karena berbagai kendala yang tidak difahami oleh sanak saudaranya…..itu pula yang saya lakukan atas ibunda isteri saya tercinta…semoga arwahnya diterima ditempat yang layak disisiTuhan…amin.

Kita sering melihat, bahkan mungkin mengalami sendiri bahwa pasangan kekasih yang pada awalnya penuh kemesraan, penuh puja sanjung antara satu dengan yang lainnya, tapi setelah menikah, berubah menjadi pasangan yang penuh pertengkaran, saling menghujat dan saling menggugat cerai, walau mereka sudah dikaruniai keturunan yang manis manis….

Fenomena ini bukan hanya dikalangan artis, tapi sebenarnya merata diseluruh masyarakat luas, hanya dikalangan selebritis lebih terbuka karena dijadikan tayangan yang menarik dalam acara “Infotainment”

Apa sebenarnya yang menyebabkan fenomena pertengkaran diantara pasangan suami isteri yang pada mulanya kelihatan sangat saling “Mencintai…”, tapi sekonyong konyong dalam waktu yang relative sangat singkat, menjadi saling mebenci dan saling menghujat serta saling menggugat cerai???

Akar masalahnya sebenarnya sangat sederhana, yaitu karena pada saat masih berpacaran, masih sepasang  kekasih, mereka atau kita semua sering tidak bisa membedakan apakah kita sedang merasakan “Cinta berdasarkan Suara Hati”  ataukah hanya sekedar “Cinta yang berdasarkan Emosi”… saja…???

Lho…memang ada bedanya antara kedua cinta tersebut ???..

Jawabnya adalah: “ Sangat berbeda…..!!!” tapi sayangnya sangat sulit mendeteksi dan menyadarinya sejak awal….hampir semua yang sedang jatuh cinta mengira cintanya adalah cinta suci murni…karena  sesuai lirik lagu:    ” …Jatuh cinta sejuta rasanya…siang malam…terbayang bayang….!!!”

Cinta berdasarkan Suara Hati gambarannya adalah sebagai berikut:

• Ketertarikan kedua belah pihak sangat didasarkan oleh penghargaan mereka masing masing atas karakter masing masing yang secara nyata nyata betul betul mencintai Allah sebagai sembahannya, sebagai tempat memuja dan minta tolong secara spiritual….
• Ketertarikan kedua belah pihak bukan hanya semata mata didorong oleh kepentingan/motif  materi, jabatan/kekuasaan/martabat, kecantikan/kegantengan dan hasrat birahi yang bergejolak saja, tapi lebih didasarkan kepada keyakinan yang kuat, bahwa pasangannya akan membawanya hidup bersama mengabdi kepada Allah dengan cara yang lebih baik, lebih sesuai dengan ajaran agamanya…
• Kedua belah pihak sama sama rela berkorban apapun demi kepentingan pasangannya, rela berkorban waktu, tenaga, materi, bahkan nyawa sekalipun dengantulus dan ikhlas….
• Kedua belah pihak menikah bukan untuk memiliki sepenuhnya pasangannya, justru untuk memberi dukungan moril dan materil agar cita cita pasangannya terwujud…
• Kedua belah pihak melakukan pernikahan betul betul hanya karena ibadah dijalan Allah, bukan hanya untuk menghindari perjinahan atau berbuat maksiat…
• Kecintaannya, kasih sayangnya, tidak akan dikotori dan dirusak oleh nafsu cemburu dan sakit hati…
• Kecintaannya, kasih sayangnya, pengorbanannya tidak akan berubah karena waktu dan penderitaan hidup….berat sama dipikul, ringan sama dijinjing….sampai ajal memisahkan mereka….

 

Sedangkan Cinta yang berdasarkan emosi cirinya sebagai berikut:

• Ketertarikan kedua belah pihak lebih bersifat fisik semata, tidak mempertimbangkan masalah keimanan dan ketaqwaan masing masing, bahkan tak peduli sama sekali apakah berbeda agama atau bahkan tidak memiliki agama/ tidak percaya Tuhan…
• Ketertarikan kedua belah pihak lebih didasarkan oleh dorongan/drive nafsu duniawi yaitu materi, martabat/pangkat/jabatan, kecantikan /kegantengan fisik semata…Tidak peduli apakah pasangannya akan membawanya kejalan Tuhan atau kejalan iblis…
• Sebelum menikah, kedua belah pihak akan masih tetap menyembunyikan egonya yang asli, masih memakai topengnya, sedangkan watak/egoismenya yang asli, atau topengnya  baru akan  terbuka setelah menikah yang akan memicu bahan pertengkara satu sama lain….karena masing masing tak ada yang mau mengalah, tak mau berkorban satu sama lain….
• Kedua belah pihak menikah hanya sekedar untuk melegalisir hubungan seks yang mereka dambakan dan kepuasan batin untuk merasa memiliki sepenuhnya/ memonopoli pasangannya bagi kepentingan pribadinya, sama sekali tak berniat utk mendorong keberhasilan pasangannya…
• Kecintaan dan kasih sayangnya akan dikotori dan dirusak oleh rasa cemburu buta yang membara, tidak percaya diri, berburuk sangka, amarah,  penuh dendam dan sakit hati…
• Kecintaan dan kasih sayangnya akan berubah menjadi perasaan saling membenci, mendendam bahkan banyak berujung di pengadilan agama, pengadilan perdata, bahkan pengadilan pidana…

 

Para pembaca blog yang budiman, terutama para generasi muda yang masih baru dewasa, terutama yang sudah akil balig, baca baik baik tulisan saya ini sebelum memutuskan mengikatkan diri kedalam suatu hubungan pernikahan yang sacral…sedia payung sebelum hujan..

Tahukah anda angka persentase pasangan yang gagal dalam membina keluarga?…lebih dai 75 %….belajarlah baik baik dan persiapkan mental spiritual anada agar anda berhasil lulus kedalam kelompok 25 % yang bisa menikmati madu kehidupan pernikahan dan membina keluarga bahagia !!!

 

Chapter 2

How To Generate Brain Power

The  power  to  create  a  new  life  for  yourself  lies  within your own brain. 

Your  brain  has  capacities  that  have  been  proven and  used—but used by few persons so far. 

Now the time has come for these capacities, these powers, these abilities, to be shown to you—for the simple purpose of illustrating to you how they may be used and how you may benefit by them. 

All these great and wondrous gifts of God are contained in the organ  that  is  absorbing  these  words  right  at  this  moment—your brain. 

Your brain is the one thing that has made man different from other of God’s creatures. Yet so new is the conception of man’s thinking organ that the Greeks didn’t even have a word for it.  Man had progressed through countless centuries and numberless generations to that first great golden age of Greek civilization. Yet these people, who are credited with having had a word for everything, called the brain merely “the thing in the head.”

 To the Greeks, the brain was completely negligible. In seeking the whereabouts of the mind, the learned men of ancient Greece chose the solar plexus. It seemed to them that the rhythmic movements of the midriff were closely linked with what went on in what was their concept of the mind. 

It took two thousand years for the brain to emerge from the darkness of man’s ignorance of himself. By the time the anatomists dis-  covered the brain, it was already believed to be the possible secret storehouse of man’s intelligence. By then thinkers had moved the habitation of the mind from the diaphragm to the head. Shakespeare, writing of the brain, called it that “which some suppose the soul’s frail dwelling-house.” 

But the anatomist could do little more than weigh the brain. He discovered  that  the  “gray  matter”  in  man  weighed  about  fifty ounces, in woman about forty-five ounces. He made sketches of the complicated series of nerves and cells that his knife revealed. 

It was not until the latter part of the nineteenth century that the dawn started to break over the knowledge of the brain. Two medical officers of the Prussian army, wandering among the stricken men on the Sedan battlefield in 1870, had the brilliant—if somewhat ghoulish—notion of testing the effect of electrical current on the exposed brains of some of the casualties. 

There began the first medical experiments that led to discovery of what the brain truly is. 

It seems strange that in the entire history of man and his miraculous development it has been only within the last eighty-odd years that  there  has  been  serious  realization  of  the  intricacies  of  that wonderful Golden Gift, the brain. 

In reality man has two brains. But these are not like the two brains of one species of dinosaur of millions of years ago. That enormous animal had one small brain in the head and a second at the base of the spine so that it could control its huge body without taxing its “higher” brain. 

Man’s two brains are together. The second is but a development of the first. As man has grown emotionally, as he has learned to reason and to think, so he has developed a newer section of the brain.

It is man’s brain, the wonderful “enchanted loom,” that has made him  rise  above  the  other  species.  This  “enchanted  loom”  which helps him spin his imagination has given man the ability to reason.

Without it, he would be no better off than the lion, the elephant or the monkey. Without it he could have progressed no farther than his simian “relative” the ape. 

Man’s imagination, the product of his newer brain, has enabled him to think out things before he does them. Therefore, if he is in error, he need not actually commit the error. He can discard that process before making the error and utilize his brain, his imagination, to try another means of solving the problem.

 While the animal’s power of thinking is limited to “I sense, therefore I am,” man can deduce. His reasoning makes him the master of his surroundings. He can expand thinking to “I know, therefore Iam.” Man “knows” because he has a brain to utilize. He is not dependent on his senses purely. He takes what his senses convey to him and weighs them with reason. The result is knowledge and, eventually, understanding. 

Like the animals around him, man has his original brain—the racially older instinctive and emotional brain. Man’s difference, his Golden Gift, is his newer thinking and reasoning brain. 

The basal ganglia make up the older forebrain. The cerebral cortex and the middle portion make up the newer forebrain. 

In the middle section of the basal ganglia is found the thalamus.

This  controls  the  involuntary  functions  of  the  body  through  the medium of the autonomic or sympathetic nervous system. 

The cerebral cortex controls the voluntary actions of the body by means of the frontal lobes and the motor, or cerebro-spinal, nervous system.

The process called thinking is one which involves both sections of the brain and both sets of nervous systems. But your thinking is divided into two sections. 

You are most familiar with “conscious” thought. This is the thinking you do in everyday life. This is the thinking you are utilizing now  as  you  read  this.  It  is  purely  surface  thought.  It  is  basic thought. 

You have, however, a power that is easily utilized in your thinking.

Yet it is one which few people know about and fewer bother to develop. This is thinking on the “Supraconscious” level. 

Supraconscious thinking is the key to the development of the Golden Gift of the brain. In the Supraconscious mind lie powers that will be unfolded for you as you read further in this book. They are powers which require no special learning to develop. They require no  special  key  to  use.  They  require  no  special  payment  for  the profits you will reap. 

The Supraconscious mind is your silent partner in achieving the greatest, and up-to-now only dreamed-of, successes in life. The average  man  has  little  concept  of  the  tremendous  power  that  lies beyond the level of the brain’s consciousness. 

By learning to use this potential correctly you can place at your disposal an abundance of energy you little realized existed in yourself.  You  can  give  yourself  great  new  mental  powers—the  real purpose of the Golden Gift. And you can bring about for yourself a completely new concept of living: a way of happier and longer life. 

To say that you do not use the Supraconscious now is not a fair statement. You do, but so lightly as to leave it lying much as a rich field that is not seeded for crops. All your conscious thoughts and actions are produced by the combined reactions of the dual mental apparatus and the double nervous system to those things that affect your senses. That is to say, you react to what you see, hear, smell, taste and touch.

But, as was pointed out before, this is just the same as what happens to an animal. It senses, and bases its “thinking” on the sensations. You have the power of discrimination and judgment. This constitutes your thinking to the point of knowing, and your knowing to the point of understanding. 

In man the responses to sensory perception are channeled to the thalamus. It is the thalamus that is the principal source of human feelings  and  emotions.  The  patterns  and  the  habits  of  so-called “emotional thinking” are channeled in this area of the brain by both the Supraconscious and the “collective unconscious.” 

In  his  recent  book,  Release  From  Nervous  Tension,  Dr.  Harold Fink makes it clear that the thalamus—which he terms the “interbrain”—is the seat of man’s deeper intellect, the Supraconscious. 

The function of the thalamus is to act as a sort of bridge between what takes place inside of you and outside of you. Thus you are able to register like or dislike upon having one of your five senses react  to  a  stimulus.  At  this  instinctive  “wish  level”  of  the  consciousness, the natural response of your “emotional thinking” is to seek pleasure (that is, security) and avoid pain (or insecurity). 

In people who think sanely and live wisely, the reactions of sensory perception of outside stimuli first pass through the thalamus. Then they, are “telegraphed” through the cortex, where feeling impulses are analyzed and modified in the light of reason. The conscious thoughts are then sent once again to the thalamus, where they are transmitted into physical action.

 Sometimes one’s “emotional thinking” is dominated by negative attitudes  of  feeling.  These  are  offshoots  of  man’s  primitive  impulses of greed, fear and anger. If these negative feelings dominate the thinking it is difficult, sometimes impossible, for the powerful emotional impulses to be adequately controlled by one’s ability to reason. Thus one is deprived of one of the great powers of the Golden Gift.

 How this negative thinking causes a malfunctioning of the autonomic nervous system and produces psychosomatic illness is discussed in a later chapter. You will also be shown how positive attitudes  of  feeling  are  responsible  for  producing  good  health  and peace of mind. This is accomplished by the harmonious functioning  of  the  human  organism.  Along  these  same  lines  it  will  be shown how meditation, and prayer, can produce what are commonly called “miracles of faith healing” through the simple means of extreme acceleration of the processes of organic repair.

 One of the greatest examples of the everyday use of the Supraconscious is in your judgment of people and things. You may be inclined to make snap judgments. More often than not, these judgments are correct. What is the basis of this perception within you? Are you consciously so perceptive? Obviously not, for if asked, or if you seek to determine for yourself what you based your opinion on, you seldom can say.

 “I just felt it, that’s all,” is a common answer to such a question. 

What does play a part in this system of judgment, however, is the Supraconscious level of the mind. You react consciously to a person upon meeting him. Similarly you react to a situation. These reactions are filed in the brain and from its deepest depths the pattern of opinion is formed, based on these conscious reactions. This pattern is flashed to the conscious mind and you have formed an opinion.

Few people suspect that the Supraconscious is the storehouse from which they draw these judgments. It has been the development of our “cultural reasoning,” as Frederick Pierce points out, that has hidden from us the fact we do use the Supraconscious in our thinking. 

The  quicker  you  are  to  realize  that  you  can  probe  beyond  the boundaries of the conscious, and allow yourself to do so, the sooner will you be starting to use fully the power that you have hidden within you. 

Biologists have pointed out that while reason—the power to think consciously—has been responsible for man’s attainment of mastery over his destiny, man is primarily not a rational being. 

Man “relies on reason only where its usefulness is forcibly and immediately brought home to him.” The rest of the time man relies on what is termed “instinct.” That is, he depends for his reactions upon  what  his  innate  self  knows.  What  the  Supraconscious  has learned over the countless years of man’s development determines the driving power that enables him to do what he does do, whether it is good or bad. 

Man’s innate nature is the end product of numberless years of collective  environmental  experience.  This  experience  is  as  much  a part of man’s heredity as his biological constitution. 

As far as can be determined, in using the processes of the Supraconscious, man is using the oldest part of his brain from the point of view of usage. The thalamus was the dominant part of the brain in the species for unknown generations before humans were obliged to reason in order to exist and progress.

 During the many centuries of uncivilized existence in which man’s principal business was to keep alive amid the dangers lurking all around him, the thalamus acquired all the “feeling” guidance , of wild animals. In other words, the thalamus acquired the traits of animal instincts, or just “plain instinct.” 

The daily association and competition with other humans and animals in a continual struggle for existence was responsible for the development of the instinct of survival in humans: self-preservation and sex. 

The things that early man needed, or desired, he took. This frequently involved mortal combat. Primitive life made man an instinctively predatory creature with strong human impulses to satisfy the inherent desires and appetites of his primitive nature by fair means or foul. 

When primitive instincts of self and sex cause negative emotions, such as anger, fear, lust and the like, to dominate the “reasoning” mind,  these  Supraconscious  attitudes  of  “feeling”  motivate  the human conduct called misbehavior. 

This is what C. Judson Herrick, the famed neurologist, called “thalamic dominance.” It is a state of mental disorder in which one’s “feelings” usurp one’s sense of reason. 

Human  aberrations  and  psychosomatic  ills—which,  it  will  be shown to you later, frequently culminate in some form of degenerative disease—usually are the end products of “thalamic dominance,” the cause of negative “emotional thinking.” 

But that is only one side of the story of human nature. Biologists see the picture in the perspective of man’s baser nature. They overlook  the  primary  reason  why  man’s  early  ancestors  gradually learned to walk on two feet when they descended from the trees, while  the  species  known  as  monkey  continued  to  use  all  four limbs. In this you see the guiding hand of a Great Creative Force—the evolution of spirituality. The potential good in man’s nature is vastly greater than most people suspect.

 There has been plenty of evidence of unsuspected power and wisdom. The life of Jesus Christ is the best example. But, because of man’s  basic  incredulity,  unusual  manifestations such  as  intuition and the extraordinary ability to be able to effect cures in oneself or others have generally been attributed to “power of soul” or “supernatural” sources. 

Yet the answer is an obvious one: man’s evolution is a threefold one. As well as a physical and intellectual growth, there is also a spiritual growth. The spirit manifests itself through man’s deeper consciousness—his Supraconscious, the power of the Golden Gift. 

There are countless cases that bear out the powers of the Supraconscious.  Within  the  covers  of  this  book  will  be  submitted  as many cases as space permits to convince, with actual evidence, the unbiased reader that the Supraconscious mind does possess ample powers to bring renewed health, longer life, greater happiness and new successes. 

You  have  already  been  shown  that  the  interaction  of  thalamic “feeling” attitudes and “reasoning” conclusions of the cortex produces finished thoughts, words and actions. The interaction of the dual  mentality  can  produce  three  conditions:  normal,  abnormal and extranormal. 

In the normal state, the human organism functions harmoniously and the individual enjoys peace of mind and a state of good health.

In  this  state  of  well-being  the  mastery  of  one’s  own  destiny  is achieved by the uses of reason only.

 The abnormal state disrupts harmonious functioning of the human organism  and  causes  imbalance  of  the  body’s  mechanism.  This state usually robs one of peace of mind and causes ill health, as I shall prove in later chapters. 

The extranormal state is produced by synchronous interaction of positive “feeling” attitudes and “reasoning” reactions of the cortex. 

This is a state of mental perfection. In it the individual has the benefit  of  all  the  reasoning  powers  of  his  conscious  mind.  This  is combined with the emotional force and the perfect memory of the Supraconscious  mind  added  to  the  marvelously  logical  arrangement of its psychic resources. 

In short, all the elements of intellectual power are in a state of intense and harmonious activity during the extranormal state of the mind. 

It is this state of mind which produces real genius. It is this state of mind in which the inventiveness of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Guglielmo  Marconi,  George  Westinghouse,  Albert  Einstein  and Charles Kettering blossomed. It is this state of mind which has delivered the insight and know-how for almost every great achievement in science, industry and the arts. 

It is into this area of thinking that you are going to delve. For by correctly using this potential, you can gain the benefits of health, wealth and happiness without striving. These benefits are reachable without your having to travel laborious routes. They are yours by simply recognizing the Supraconscious level of the mind and permitting it to function under the proper conditions. 

When, through the practice of self-discipline and self-control, you have attained the state of self-mastery, you will then enjoy the benefits of your intellectual and spiritual heritage.

Once  the  biological  effects  of  your  physical  evolution—that  is, your  animal  nature—have  been  uprooted  by  sane  thinking  and wise living, you will reflect in your thoughts and actions the true way of life—that exemplified by the Infinite Mind. Keeping “in tune with the Infinite” will lead you to living a life that is useful, purposeful and rewarding. 

The Supraconscious is a veritable “genie” of the brain that can either be a good servant or a bad one.

 The Supraconscious is wise and powerful beyond all the comprehension of the human. It is for this reason that people often refer to this hidden power of the Golden Gift as soul power. 

Call it what you will. It is, regardless of what you call it, WISDOM and POWER far beyond the reason of man to comprehend fully except in the light of Divine heritage and as an instrument through which the intelligence of the Infinite operates. 

The purpose of the writer is to provide you with sufficient knowledge of the basic mechanism of the great power of the Golden Gift so that you can use your Supraconscious as a good servant instead of a bad one. 

To this end it is essential to establish a working hypothesis. Without such a hypothesis you cannot begin an exact study of the Supraconscious. In the field of psychological investigation, and more especially in the field of parapsychology, a satisfactory scientific working hypothesis has not yet been formulated that embraces all the psychological phenomena known to mankind these many centuries. 

It was for this reason that the late Dr. Alexis Carrel, famed for his thirty-three years of brilliant biological research at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, commented:

“The importance of intuition in mental life requires an investigation  of  metaphysic  phenomena,  and  the  application  of  scientific method to the study of telepathy and clairvoyance.” 

For our working hypothesis, then, I will use the findings of the late scientist Dr. Thomson Jay Hudson as he outlined it in his book A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life. Dr. Hudson compiled a great deal of data concerning the mind and its Supraconscious aspects. 

In Dr. Hudson’s time, however, it was believed that man’s apparent dual nature was that of body and soul. And he, naturally, attributed the powers of the Supraconscious to the soul. It is only the advances of psychiatry in the field of medicine which have shown us the truth that the “hidden power” of man emanates from his mind, not his soul.

 While  psychiatry  has,  however,  drawn  its  conclusions  from  the studies of abnormal psychology, thus presenting the negative side of  human  nature,  my  theory  is  built  on  human  nature’s  positive side. 

The positive, or constructive, side is based on the contention that man is essentially good, due to the Godliness of his spiritual evolution as manifested in positive “emotional thinking.” 

The  conclusions  of  our  working  hypothesis  concerning  the  extraordinary  powers  of  the  Supraconscious  are  based  on  three things. 

First I have utilized the information pertaining to mental phenomena as disclosed by the science of hypnosis. Secondly, I have used the results of Dr. Carrel’s study of the so-called “miracles” of faith-healing. Finally, the conclusions are based on my own analysis of personal experiences in telepathy, clairvoyance and clairaudience.  These various experiences can be definitely classified in the category of the parapsychological science of Extrasensory Perception, so designated by Professor J. B. Rhine of Duke University. 

The seven propositions of the working hypothesis upon which this study of the Supraconscious is to be based are: 

1. The Supraconscious is constantly amenable to control by the power of suggestion. 

2. The Supraconscious is incapable of independent reasoning by the processes of induction. 

3.  The  power  of  the  Supraconscious  to  reason  deductively  from given premises to correct conclusions is practically perfect. 

4. The Supraconscious is endowed with a perfect memory. 

5. The Supraconscious has absolute control of the functions and conditions of the body. 

6. The Supraconscious has the power to communicate by means other than the recognized channels of the five senses. 

7. The Supraconscious is capable of intuition and perception of the laws of nature. 

These seven propositions will be embellished upon and discussed fully in the chapters to come. How you can recognize these powers of the mind and how they can be put to use for your advantage will be discussed and studied.

By understanding and appreciating the seven points of this working hypothesis, you can set about creating a new life for yourself. 

These are the seven major facts that science has discovered and that you will learn in the following chapters. 

These are the seven planks of the platform that forms the basis of the teachings you are to absorb in the ensuing pages. 

These are the powers of the mind that have been recognized. They are powers that you can and will recognize. They are powers that you will quickly put to use for your own advantage. 

These are the propositions that you will learn to understand. 

These are the means by which you are going to set about NOW to create a new life for yourself. 

A PLAN TO GENERATE THE POWER IN YOUR BRAIN

Now  that  you  have  learned  the  secret  of  relaxation  and calm sleep and have opened the channels to your Supraconscious, the seven-point hypothesis of this study must be implanted into your mind so that you can begin to use the  powers  of  your  Golden  Gift  immediately  and  with success.

  Clip from the last section of this book the page on which the seven propositions of the working hypothesis are printed. Each night after you have achieved muscular relaxation and freed your conscious mind of the day’s petty cares, read the seven-point lesson.

 At first it will be best to read it aloud. Later you will find that silent reading will accomplish just as much, for by that time you will have acquired the gift of concentration and absorption.

Chapter 1

The Magic In Your Mind

Man is the most miraculous of all the living things on this earth! 

Yet despite this undeniable fact, you have powers within you that you have not utilized. 

You have within you the power to do anything you desire. You have the power to change your life so that you can accomplish all the things you want of it. You are the owner of a power that, when you begin to use it, will open up the road to happiness and health, to wealth and long life. 

Yes, you as a member of the human race are a part of that Godgiven miracle: man. 

While all other living creatures have risen to heights of “adaptation to environment” in order to survive, your ancestors outstripped this mode of living. 

Man  has  conquered  his  environment.  More  than  that—man  has continued to seek conquests as he discovers and utilizes the mysteries of life. 

You can make these discoveries and utilize these powers. These are powers which are vast—far vaster than you realize at this moment. And before you are through reading these pages you will see how great they are and how easily they are to be tapped for your advantage.

 So miraculous is this thing called man that—despite his great development as we have been able to trace it in history—he has hardly scratched the surface of his own abilities. 

Were we to draw a picture of comparison, it might be fair to say that man has penetrated no deeper into himself than the depth of his  own  skin.  Beneath,  and  yet  to  come,  lie  many  things:  the “flesh,” the “bones” and, finally the “heart” of the matter. 

The miracle that is man is no less a miracle than that of the mysterious  setting  in  which  he  is  found—the  universe.  The  resources that man possesses are as untapped as the unknown resources of the universe. 

Don’t let the picture get out of hand. When you think of the resources  of  the  universe,  you  conjure  up  a  picture  of  things  far beyond the ability of man’s powers so far.  

But the resources of man are near at hand. They are within himself. That self is YOU. 

Your resources are yours alone to utilize. Yet you probably have done nothing even to investigate what potential you possess. And this potential is so great that once you start to use it, there are no limits to what you can do. 

You have a Golden Gift.  You use it every day—but you do nothing with it. Does that sound impossible? Well, take, for example, a child with a pencil. Each day the child takes up his pencil and scribbles. He cannot write, he cannot  compute,  he  cannot  draw.  So,  while  he  uses  the  pencil every day, he actually does nothing with it.

What, then, is your Golden Gift whose powers you use so casually? 

Your Golden Gift is your brain. 

In your brain lies the power to make use of all your untapped resources. 

And your Golden Gift is more “Golden” and more of a “Gift” than that. Your brain not only supplies the power to use your potentialities—it also holds all the resources you possess. 

Your Golden Gift, your brain, your mind, is the most vital of all your possessions. It is your greatest asset. 

What the chapters that follow will show you is how to use this Golden Gift. You can use your mind and you can bring forth great powers from it. 

Your Golden Gift can bring you longer life, better health, greater wealth,  increased  happiness,  more  vitality.  In  short,  your  brain gives you the power to control all the essential aspects of a full life and full living. 

Before you jump into learning the secrets of using the Golden Gift, let us look back a great many centuries in a few short moments.

You have to understand the meaning of this power. You have to study just what man is and what his mind is. You have to discover where man comes from, and why he has a mind.  

There are many theories regarding man’s beginning. But to realize that man, of all the living things on earth, has the Power of Mind makes it plain that man is the work of some great creative force.

His  beginnings  were  purposive.  And  the  greatest  challenge  that faces man—the challenge you will take up as you progress from chapter to chapter in this book—is to discover what that purpose is and utilize the power of that discovery. 

The theory of man’s beginnings varies according to who tells it. Scientists trace this planet to its earliest days, each arriving at his own theory of how the universe we know came about. When it comes to the beginnings of life on our planet, however, most are agreed that the first faint stirring of life was a somewhat jellylike organic mass which floated on the waters of the sea. 

Those who take the Bible literally are faced with less of an enigma than the scientists. For them the issue is final: the opening words of the Old Testament relieve them of any uncertainty. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”  Thereby was God’s thought transmuted into fact.  The fundamentalist belief may not help us to understand ourselves as well as the scientific theory of the evolvement of man. But, in any case, man’s evolution is part of an Infinite Plan in which man either progresses or regresses by his own efforts, both individually and collectively. 

What matter if we believe that man’s start was millions of years ago in the development of a single organic cell in the ocean or that he sprang full-grown from the mind of the Creator in some Garden

of Eden? Each theory recognizes the prime cause—a Creator. Each theory hinges on the fact that some power brought to this earth the first germ of life. The creation of this miracle is no less wonderful

regardless of the belief: whether it started in some lowly form of plant  life  and  developed  through  countless  ages  to  the  highest product of today’s civilization, or if the whole were created within

six days.

To understand better why we behave as we do, let us look at earliest man as we have been able to trace him. 

Our ancestors showed intellectual superiority over other animals that  roamed  the  earth.  The  early  man’s  ability  to  stand  upright made him better able to do many things. Primarily he was able to

put his forelimbs to uses no other animal could. Too, the height he thus achieved made it possible for him to see farther and over a wider area. He therefore was able to protect himself far more easily. 

Using his eyes rather than his more limited sense of smell to see dangers far away, he also was able to use his arms and hands to ward off and fight these dangers when they were close at hand.

Best of all, however, was the fact that his intelligence permitted him to make even greater use of his arms and hands. They became creative weapons and aided man in his fight for survival. 

Kill or be killed was the law of the primeval world. Man’s brain was in those early days necessarily motivated by greed, fear and anger. It was these things that made the instinct of self-preservation the first law of nature. Survival of the fittest became the primary driving force of human life. 

Why have I started out to show you the beginnings of mankind?

Simply because by looking at these beginnings you can see how primitive greed, fear and anger have left their mark on man. It is quite obvious that most of the mental and physical afflictions of modern man stem from these earliest conflicts. 

It is important to understand that these primary urges of survival are buried deep in our biological background. Note that I use the word “understand.” “Knowing” these things and “understanding” them are entirely different. We must understand and recognize certain basic facts if we are to utilize the power we possess.

  Learned men in the past, discovering that the human mind is capable of amazing potentialities, did not recognize them as coming from the brain. These powers were attributed to the soul. Man’s soul, according to the ancients, was in his solar plexus. We still have  in  our  everyday  language  the  reminder  of  this  belief.  The Greek word for diaphragm, the muscular section of the body that

separates the abdomen from the chest cavity (in front of which is the  nerve  center  we  call  the  solar  plexus),  is  phren.  Its  current usage  as  part  of  such  words  as  frenzy,  frantic,  the  no-longer

credited “science” of phrenology, and even schizophrenia, is evidence of this original meaning. 

We  know  today  that  the  inner  power  of  man—his  wisdom— emanates from the mind. 

Biologist Michael F. Guyer has stated that “man is an animal; but an animal with an analytical directing consciousness.” Man, however,  also  possesses  a  deeper  consciousness.  This  deeper  consciousness—the Supraconcious—has resources so astounding that they have often in the past—and even in this very age—been attributed to soul power or to so-called supernatural sources. 

Herein you will have shown to you, backed up with concrete evidence, that the power and wisdom that are man’s stem from his Supraconscious. The Supraconscious, the root of your mind’s power,

is a vast storehouse of memory from which you can tap uncalculated amounts of wisdom. It is the storehouse of what psychiatrist Carl Jung calls the “collective unconscious”—the sum total of all

man’s  knowledge,  wisdom  and  power  since  his  creation.  It  is  a storehouse you can easily enter; it is a storehouse of treasures you have the ability to use; it is a storehouse whose contents will give

you the power to do. 

Psychology, the science of mind, deals chiefly with the conscious mind, the so-called objective or analytical mind. But psychology sheds little light on the complexity of human impulses. It tells little

about the perplexities that are the impulses, the emotions and the feelings of the human. 

Psychology—or, as it should be called now, the old psychology— is an abstract consideration of human thoughts and behavior. For

your purposes, it is entirely too academic to be of real help. It cannot help you solve the practical problems you are called on to face every day in the complex situations of modern society. 

Man has a multiple nature. Most of his mental processes do not take place in the realm of the mind known as the conscious. Therefore any interpretation of human thoughts and conduct that deals only with the conscious perception and the reasoning processes of mind is entirely too limited in scope of understanding to be of use to you in comprehending yourself. 

As the majority of your mental processes take place in the Supraconscious, the process of conscious reasoning alone will not enable you to understand fully the true motives of what you think and do. Much less will the processes of conscious reasoning help you to understand the effects that the “emotional” thinking of the Supraconscious has on your very health and well-being. 

Consciousness is only the end result of the hidden processes of the human organism. The true nature of these hidden processes usually remains unknown to you, or at least obscure in the mental realm of the Supraconscious. 

The idea that man is endowed with a brain that functions as if he were fashioned with a dual mentality is not new. This dualism of the mind has been a matter for speculation by philosophers through many ages.

The ancient Greek philosophers believed that the dual character of man’s mental apparatus represented a division of body and soul. Thus all mental phenomena were interpreted in terms of the so called supernatural, the powers of gods or devils. 

Victor Hugo seemed to grasp the real truth when he wrote: “I sense two  natures  within  me.”  Certainly  Robert  Louis  Stevenson,  the great literary genius, had a clear understanding of human nature when he conceived his famous novel The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 

In the seventh chapter of his Epistle to the Romans, Saint Paul confessed that he seemed to possess a double nature. He wrote: 

“For  the  good  that  I  would  I  do  not:  but  the  evil which I would not, that I do.

“Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

“I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

“For  I  delight  in  the  law  of  God  after  the  inward man: “But  I  see  another  law  in  my  members,  warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. “. . . So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.” 

Several centuries before Saint Paul recorded his illuminating introspections,  Plato  likened  man  to  a  charioteer  driving  a  white horse and a black horse, one noble and the other ignoble. 

Man, then, does have a double nature. One part of it is emotional, or animalistic. The other part is spiritual, or intellectual. But while this has been accepted fact for centuries, it has only been recently

that scientists have started to discover the psychological and neurological significance of this multiple nature. 

As wonderful as has been man’s physical evolution, it has been surpassed by the growth of his mental faculties. 

Most  people  are  inclined  to  believe  that  man’s  conscious  mind represents his greatest mental advancement. There is no doubt as to the greatness of this. But in comparison to the vast development of man’s Supraconscious, the growth of the conscious is infinitesimal. 

For in man’s Supraconscious lie outstanding powers. Therein lies vast wisdom. And all these powers and this wisdom are there to be used. They need only to be tapped. You need only to realize that they are there and that they can be used. You will then find that these powers and this wisdom are yours to do greater things with, yours to achieve things you have dreamed of but you never believed possible. 

In your Supraconscious lies the key to success, the clue to happiness, the formula to health. 

Your Supraconscious mind contains a vast storehouse of “how to do it”—how to do anything you want to do. 

Your  Supraconscious  mind  is  even  more  than  a  storehouse  of knowledge, of wisdom and of power. It also is a transmitter and receiver of ideas from the Supraconscious minds of others. 

By opening the channels of your Supraconscious, you stand on the threshold of life as it should be lived. 

Living will take on new meaning, new wonder, new power, new belief, new health.

Your Supraconscious holds the secret of your new life. 

A DAILY EXERCISE TO GET TO KNOW THE MAGIC IN YOUR MIND

Every night before you fall asleep there are simple exercises which you can perform to help you open the channels to your own Supra-conscious:

  1.  Lie flat on your back and  relax every muscle in your body. Start with the ends of your toes and little by little work your way upward until you are completely untensed.

  2. Concentrate mentally on having a full night’s relaxed and peaceful sleep.

  3. When you have reached the depth of conscious relaxation and well implanted the idea of fear-free sleep, gently  move  into  the  position  in  which  you  normally sleep. 

If you have performed these exercises perfectly, you will find yourself falling into a restful, calm sleep almost immediately and discover that the next morning will present itself to you in a brightness you have never before known.

Kamis, 04 Juni 2009 | 11:34 WIB

 

TEMPO Interaktif, Tangerang: Rahmawati, jaksa dari Kejaksaan Tinggi Banten yang merupakan jaksa penuntut Prita Mulyasari, bungkam ketika ditanya soal pemeriksaan oleh Kejaksaan Agung terkait penanganan kasus Prita.

“Tidak tahu,” ujarnya singkat saat Tempo mencegatnya usai sidang perkara pidana Prita, di Pengadilan Negeri Tangerang, Kamis (4/6).

Kejaksaan Agung melakukan eksaminasi terhadap jaksa yang menangani kasus Prita Mulyasari. Rahmawati juga bungkam ketika ditanya apakah ia ikut diperiksa dalam masalah ini. “Silahkan tanya dengan atasan saya,” katanya.

Ketika ditanya soal indikasi permainan uang dalam perkara pidana Prita dan perubahan pasal yang menjerat Prita setelah di Kejaksaan, lagi-lagi Rahmawati diam sambil berlalu meninggalkan ruang sidang.

Sebelumnya diberitakan, Tim Jaksa Agung Muda Pengawas kemarin telah memeriksa sejumlah jaksa yang menangani perkara Prita Mulaysari. Ada dugaan perilaku aparat yang menyimpang sehingga ibu dua anak itu ditahan di Penjara Wanita Tangerang. “Pemeriksaan sudah dilakukan,” kata Jaksa Agung Muda Tindak Pidana Umum Abdul Hakim Ritonga kemarin.

Menurut Ritonga, pengiriman nota pemeriksaan (eksaminasi) ini dilakukan untuk mengusut apakah proses penanganan perkara Prita sudah sesuai prosedur atau ada pelanggaran. “Pemeriksaan dilakukan pada semua pihak yang terkait penanganan kasus hingga level kepala kejaksaan,” kata dia.

Bila dalam penanganan kasus ada indikasi uang, kata dia, maka tergolong pelanggaran. “Nantinya akan masuk pengawasan fungsional dan diselesaikannya bisa dengan pidana atau internal.” Jaksa Agung Hendarman Supandji meminta proses eksaminasi itu sudah kelar. Hari ini laporannya sudah harus di tangan Hendarman.

Herdarman Supandji telah memerintahkan Jaksa Agung Muda Pengawasan Hamzah Tadja menindak tegas jaksa yang terlibat penambahan Pasal 27 Undang-undang tentang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik dalam kasus Prita Mulyasari.

 

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Kamis, 04 Juni 2009 | 20:17 WIB

TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Ketua Perhimpunan Bantuan Hukum dan HAM Indonesia (PBHI) Syamsudin Rajab mengatakan Prita Mulyasari, 32 tahun, tersangka dalam kasus pencemaran nama baik Rumah Sakit Omni Internasional Alam Sutra, Serpong, Tangerang Selatan, Banten memiliki peluang mengugat balik rumah sakit maupun jaksa penuntut. “Sangat terbuka peluang menuntut balik melalui pidana maupun perdata,” katanya saat dihubungi, Kamis (4/6).

Sebelumnya, Prita ditahan di Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Wanita Tangerang sejak 13 Mei, karena digugat pihak rumah sakit secara perdata dan pidana. Gugatan tersebut dilayangkan pihak rumah sakit setelah Prita berkeluh kesah tentang layanan rumah sakit tempat ia dirawat saat itu melalui email pribadinya pada 15 Agustus. Prita dijerat dengan Pasal 27 junto 45 Undang-undang nomor 11 tahun 2008 tentang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik. Pada Rabu, Prita dikeluarkan dari tahanan dan berstatus tahanan kota, setelah ada tekanan dari publik.

Syamsudin menjelaskan, dalam proses dakwaan oleh jaksa penuntut tidak sesuai dengan Berita Acara Pemeriksaan. Bahkan, Kepala Kepolisian RI, Jenderal Bambang Hendarso Danuri pun mengakuinya. Jaksa Agung melalui keputusannya, kata dia, juga menyatakan jaksa penuntut bertindak tidak profesional dalam dakwaan. Masuknya pasal 27 junto 45 Undang-undang nomor 11 tahun 2008 tentang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik dalam dakwaan juga harus dibuktikan. “kami menduga ada hubungan jaksa memasukannya dengan kepentingan rumah sakit,” ujarnya.

Apalagi, dia melanjutkan penggunaan delik pencemaran nama baik dalam kasus ini yang digunakan Rumah Sakit Omni Internasional juga tidak tepat. Dalam Undang Undang nomor 8 tahun 1981 tentang KUHAP Pidana berkaitan pencemaran nama baik unsurnya, seseorang dan merendahkan martabat. “Ini tidak tepat memaknai, pencemaran nama baik tidak bisa digunakan untuk institusi dan badan hukum,” ujarnya.

Seharusnya, kata dia, Rumah Sakit Omni Internasional dengan status Internasional itu menekankan profesionalisme. Dengan menerima kritik dari pasien untuk perbaikan internal dalam pelayanan. “Bukan dengan kriminalisasi atas kritik,” katanya. Padahal, kata dia, hal yang wajar ketika konsumen atau pasien itu berkeluh kesah atas setiap pelayanan publik yang tidak baik.

Gugatan baik itu, menurut Syamsudin, akan diperkuat dengan pelanggaran Rumah Sakit Omni Internasional atas Undang Undang nomor 8 tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen. “Prita sebagai konsumen berhak mendapatkan haknya atas hasil medical record,” katanya. Sebelumnya, Rumah Sakit menutupi hasil medical record setelah melakukan check up. “Ini menjadi dasar gugatan ke Rumah Sakit,” katanya.

Ketua Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia (YLBHI), Patra M Zen mengatakan, Rumah Sakit bisa digugat atas pelanggaran Undang Undang nomor 8 tahun 1999 tentang Perlindungan Konsumen dan Undang Undang nomor 29 tahun 2004 tentang Praktek Kedokteran. Hak pasien tidak diberikan rumah sakit dan ada dugaan perbuatan mal praktek. “Seharusnya dalam kasus ini diselidiki dulu dugaan pelanggaran mal praktik, baru gugatan pencemaran nama baik,” katanya. Karena, kata dia, jika terbukti melakukan mal praktik, dokter yang bersan sangkutan harus disidang oleh majelis etik.

PBHI, kata Syamsudin, akan meminta pertanggungjawaban Menteri Kesehatan dan Ikatan Dokter Indonesia atas pelanggaran hak pasien oleh rumah sakit. “Kami akan minta ijin rumah sakit dievaluasi,” katanya. Selain itu, PBHI juga akan menggalang dukungan kriminalisasi pasien oleh pihak rumah sakit.

Ketua Setara Institut, Hendardi menilai penggunaan Undang Undang nomor 11 tahun 2008 tentang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik telah mengancam kebebasan berpendapat dan bisa menjadi tameng penutup bagi dugaan koropsi, mal administrasi, keburukan layanan publik dan mal praktik dalam kedokteran. “justru aturan seperti ini mengingkari jaminan kepastian hukum, dan jaminan HAM,” katanya.

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THE AUTHOR AND HIS BOOK , WALTER MONTGOMERY GERMAIN, was born in Saginaw, Michigan,  on  February  22,  1890,  a  member  of  a  pioneer family which had built a large part of early Saginaw. He has lived there all his life, engaging in business until 1929. In 1931, he was appointed Clerk of the Saginaw Police Department and, in 1934, Police Inspector. He served with the Police Department for twenty years,  establishing  in  1938  the  first  program  of  its  kind  in  this country, in the Crime Prevention Division of the Saginaw Police Department,  of  which  he  became  superintendent.  This  program worked with children and adolescents in the prevention of juvenile delinquency. As a result of his work with young people, the American Legion Magazine called him “the cop who cared.” He left the

Police Department to carry on further study in the prevention of crime; this led him into the study of psychology from which this book results. Dr. Germain served in World War I as a first lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers. He is married and has three sons.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This book is the outgrowth of extensive research study made during my association with the Saginaw (Mich.) Police Department as Inspector in charge of juvenile crime prevention. I wish to express my thanks to Jacques Romano of New York City for his special counsel on various phases of psychic phenomena. To Joseph Sadony, Valley of the Pines, Montague, Mich., I offer my gratitude for his encouragement. Above all, I want to thank Fred Kerner of New York City for his invaluable editorial assistance.

 

How To Remake Your Life: An Introduction

“If only I had my life to live over again!” 

Have you ever thought that? Have you ever found yourself dissatisfied with what you have made of your life? Have you ever wondered if anything could be done about it? 

You are certainly not alone in your wondering. The desire to try to make a life over again is universal. Most people, however, think that the question “Can a life be made over?” is purely a rhetorical one. 

Actually it is not. 

You can remake your life. The secret is the magic power of your mind. 

Within the pages that follow you will find just what that magic is. You will discover your brain and learn how to use it. You will discover the power of suggestion. 

You will have your eyes opened at the wonders of your Supraconscious and your Supersense. 

There is a great storehouse of memory in your brain. You have to draw upon it in remaking your life. You will be shown how to do this. And you will learn the truth of the theory of “mind over matter.” 

Your mind controls all the  matter of your body. And you, with complete  control  over  your  mind,  have  within  your  very  grasp complete control over your body. The ramifications of this are obvious.

An entirely new life is open to you.

 And, best of all, you will learn the secret of living longer so that you can attain the fullest enjoyment out of your new life. 

You will learn of the great powers that prayer and faith hold for you. You will acquire the ability to be happy, to make happiness and to use happiness for your own advantage.  

All these “hidden powers” of the brain are a magic key to helping you live your life over again. This magic is the source of health, of happiness, of longevity, of success, of anything you want out of life. 

This magic power of your brain is within the grasp of your understanding and the reach of your powers. It is no abracadabra; it is no mumbo jumbo. It is pure, solid, scientific fact. It is proven knowledge which man has had available for generations but, more often than not, has failed to use. 

The magic power of your mind lies within that portion called the Supraconscious. The Supraconscious level of the mind is the greatest wonder of nature. It is a vast memory machine; it is a powerful

controlling unit; it is the segment of man’s brain that automatically “runs” the human engine. 

In comparison with the conscious level of the mind—that portion of your brain with which you think and consciously control your actions—it is massive, for it embodies the thinking processes of all time and of all men.

 It  is  a  powerful,  superior,  “upper  level”  thinking  machine.  It  is “above” and “beyond” anything that man has realized heretofore. It is truly the Supraconscious.

The  Supraconscious,  the  communicator  with  the  “collective  unconscious,” as psychologist Carl Jung termed it, is the possessor of man’s “hidden power.” It is the means by which you can become consciously creative through employing the heretofore unused faculties of your mind. It is the means through which you can reach the solution to individual problems ordinarily unattainable by conventional mental processes. 

The  wise  Greek  philosopher  Socrates  admonished:  “Know  thyself!” 

When you know as much about your own human organism as you do about the car you drive, you will discover the truth of what people have termed “miracles.” These “miracles” are nothing more than a natural product of natural law. 

Natural law is yours to use, and its natural products are yours to create. The power of miracles is within YOU. 

Your emotions, not your intelligence, rule your behavior. 

This is the magic of using your Supraconscious. 

“Habit, not reason, governs the lives of most people,” wrote Dr. Walter Coutu in The Criminal ersonality. Knowing this, you will understand better how the human organism works. You will understand why human conduct is the response to varied stimuli. 

“If you would care to understand human behavior,” Dr. Coutu said, “investigate the stimuli which produce it.” 

You would not have an idea, a hope, a fear or a desire without the stimulus to bring such a reaction. You would not get hungry or thirsty or angry; you would not want to go fishing; you would not   get  an  impulse  to  steal;  nothing  is  possible  unless  there  is  the “push”—the stimulus. 

And emotions play the leading role in offering you these stimuli.

Writing in How to Live 365 Days a Year, Dr. John A. Schindler says that “your emotions affect a group of organs in your body called the endocrine glands even more than they affect your nervous system. These glands govern and regulate body functions. 

“When the glands are activated by such depressing emotions as defeat, futility and discouragement, their production of hormones is changed and this can cause a great many ailments.” 

These depressing emotions which you experience are negativisms. Their natural enemies are your positive thoughts. 

The positive thinking done by one eighty-year-old man shows distinctly that you do have your life to live over again—if you truly desire it. 

This man died under the wheels of a truck which struck him down as he was crossing a street. When an autopsy was performed, pathologists found that the man’s lungs were scarred with healed tuberculosis  lesions.  His  stomach  showed  signs  of  long-forgotten ulcers. His arteries were hardened. His kidneys were damaged. 

Yet his widow said he’d always believed be would feel better the next day. This man had not fretted about aches and pains that would have made invalids out of others. 

“Unpleasant emotions get you down,” Dr. Schindler writes. “They often can make you sick.   “Pleasant emotions often can make you well—and keep you well.” 

You must fight fire with fire. You must fight “bad” emotion with “good” emotion. 

Learn the emotion of love. Learn to love God and your fellow man. And above all, know thyself! 

The means to this knowledge is yours to discover, yours to use, yours to benefit by. It is all in the following pages. 

Go, then, and learn! 

Learn of happiness, learn of health, learn of wisdom, learn of power. A POSITIVE PROGRAM TO REMAKE  YOUR LIFE 

Your life is governed by habit. Your habits are governed by you.

Read every page of this book with the greatest care.Don’t skip a word. Don’t fail to absorb an idea.

Make your first habit that of reading some portion of  this  volume  every  day  until  you  form  positive  habits that will work for you.

Rabu, 03 Juni 2009 | 18:14 WIB

 TEMPO Interaktif, Jakarta: Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ikut mengomentari kasus Prita Mulyasari. Presiden meminta penegakkan hukum harus dibarengi rasa keadilan. Sementara, Prita sudah menjadi tahanan Kejaksaan di Lapas Wanita Tangerang. “Presiden meminta Jaksa Agung, Kapolri, dan pengadilan, dalam rangka menegakkan hukum juga menggunakan hati dan rasa keadilan,” kata Juru Bicara Kepresidenan Andi Mallarangeng, di kantor Presiden, Rabu (3/6).

Presiden, kata Andi, sudah meminta penjelasan Kapolri dan Jaksa Agung soal kasus Prita ini. Presiden meminta agar penegakkan hukum mempertimbangkan berbagai macam segi selain hukum, yaitu rasa keadilan. Andi membantah anjuran Presiden ini adalah bentuk intervensi kepada lembaga peradilan.

“Lihatlah semua dari segi-segi lain dari rasa keadilan atau rasa utuh. Itu bukan intervensi, tetapi sebagai pribadi dan kepala negara, dimana ada kasus yang menjadi isu publik maka wajar jika presiden menanyakan kepada pembantu-pembantunya yang terkait dengan kasus ini,” katanya.

Prita dijerat Jaksa dengan Undang-Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik dengan ancaman hukuman di atas lima tahun penjara. Prita dituding telah mencemarkan nama baik rumah sakit melalui dunia maya. Walhasil, kini keluarga Prita hanya bisa menangis lantaran kedua anak Prita, yakni Ranarya Puandida Nugroho (2), dan Khairan Ananta Nugroho (3) yang tinggal bersama ayahnya Andri Nugroho ditinggal Prita yang telah ditahan sejak 13 Mei lalu.

Prita Mulyasari hari ini Rabu (3/6) telah dibebaskan dari tahanan Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Wanita Tangerang, setelah kasus yang dialami menjadi isu publik di Jakarta, yang mendapat perhatian dari banyak kalangan. Kini statusnya sebagi tahanan kota, dan telah kembali ke rumah bersama keluarganya.

NININ DAMAYANTI