Alan Maisley, thank you for another great post about Javanese spirituality. I spent the past fall reading through Al-Qur'an for the first time and following I am very interested in learning about all the many different branches of Islam. I have also developed a recent fascination with the classical empires of the far east and I am superficially familiar with the Majapahit Empire and the wave of Hindu influence in SEA. I found your description in the above very enlightening.
Thank you also for the reminder that belief is not only an incredibly subjective concept, but also the very filter through which the mind perceives the world around it, leading to different people literally experiencing, (what we would objectively need to describe as) the same world, as vastly different realities. Something which, as I am sure you know, has been scientifically proven in many areas of research relating to the human mind.
I really enjoyed it - thank you again!
All the best, - Thor