The last time there was a full eruption was in the 1965 massacre of the communists and Chinese. Some five hundred thousand people were carried away in the lava of Javanese wrath and terror. It comes as no surprise that the culture-bound psychiatric disorder that Java is famous for is amok , a sudden murderous frenzy that the afflicted person turns indiscriminately on everyone in a crowd around him. Another aspect of this passivity is based on experience. Like other groups that practice maturation psychology, the Javanese find the operation of Natural Law so plain and apparent that there is no disputing it.
Feelings are pushes or pulls on the fabric of being.
At the same time, the more at one you are with existence, the less vulnerable you are to nature's wrath. A pulsing sense of being in the presence of Tuhan, and of witnessing the workings of Purba Wasesa . This holds much of the Javanese sense of themselves, as well as being the essence of their spirituality. In any case, one outgrowth of this is Javanese patience. The group I guided had a core of four people.