[1] Muhammad Subuh said he received as a young man a series of intense experiences that he believed gave him contact with a spiritual energy from a higher power.

By the 1930s, he believed that it was his task to transmit this energy—which he called latihan kejiwaan (Indonesian for "spiritual exercise")—to others, but that he was not to seek people out but simply to wait for those who asked for it.

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

He even tarried a little over the rooftop of his own house trying to lift up some roof tiles with his fingers but instead found himself inside his own room.

In his description Muhammad Subuh implied the seventh cone of light represents the highest heaven.