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The magazine has a non-paid staff only, carries no advertisements and is published by SHARE INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, a non-profit, non-governmental organization in association with the Department of Public Information at the UN. SHARE INTERNATIONAL is a monthly magazine, bringing together the two major directions of New Age thinking -- the political, and the spiritual. It covers news, events and comments bearing on Maitreya's priorities: an adequate supply of the right food; adequate housing and shelter for all; healthcare and education as a universal right; the maintenance of ecological balance in the world. Abridged hard-copy versions available in Dutch, French, German and Japanese. SHARE INTERNATIONAL has two general editors: Peter Liefhebber, a Dutch journalist concerned with the creation of a new world economic order; and Benjamin Creme, British artist, esotericist and author. His challenging message has evoked a world-wide response: Maitreya, the World Teacher, is now among us in full physical presence. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TABLE OF CONTENTS We Await the Call, by the Master -- Editorial Chaos and confusion: cause for hope A model of free health care: Interview with Dr Patch Adams by Dorothy Jones Music of the spheres?: Interview with Gerald S. Hawkins by Monte Leach Questions & Answers Background Information Hard-copy subscription information ------------------------------------------------------------------------ (Through these electronic files, the magazine Share International makes available a compilation of its contents. Permission is given to reproduce these articles in magazine, newspaper or newsletter format, provided that credit is given to Share International and clippings are sent to: PO Box 41877, 1009 DB Amsterdam, Holland. Copyright (c) 1992 Share International. All Rights Reserved.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WE AWAIT THE CALL by the Master --, through Benjamin Creme We watch, and wait. Despite all evidence to the contrary, We know that Our Plan works out. The time draws near for Our open manifestation, fulfilling the hopes and dreams of men everywhere for guidance and succour. Long have We awaited this hour. Long have We worked to train Ourselves for the tasks ahead, when men will know Us for what We are -- your Elder Brothers. It is Our aim that together we will build the new civilization, and in that endeavour make two Centres one. It is with hopes high that We re-enter your world, seeking to serve men in their hour of need. Allow Us to teach you the way to fulfil your destiny and join the ranks of the Perfected Ones. Make haste to greet Us and to welcome Us into your lives, for We need your willing co-operation to serve you well. Behind the scenes, as yet, We work, awaiting the day of Our emergence. New World Meanwhile, a new world is being fashioned, step by step. The birth-pangs of that new world are there for all to see but only the practised eye can discern the pattern which, slowly, gains coherence and form. What we are witnessing is the destruction of all that prevents the manifestation of men's divinity. Freedom and justice are divine; hence the new-found impulse, demonstrating throughout the world, to liberate millions from the thralldom of the past. Painful are these first, urgent steps, but men know in their hearts that the time for change is nigh. For too long have men exploited men. For too long have the rich increased their riches at the expense of those bereft of all. A new realism slowly permeates the thoughts of men as they contemplate the excesses and failures of the past decade. Witness to all of this, We assemble Our forces and prepare to do battle with poverty and greed. Our Banner spells Freedom, Justice and Love. On these three Principles We stake the future of this Earth. Regeneration When you see Us, you will know that your regeneration is at hand, for We bring Our experience and wisdom and lay them at your feet. These are yours to take and make your own. We shall aid you in their absorption and use. Many wonder at this time how conflict can so erupt and halt the smooth progress to change that they would wish. Many are the factors involved, but new, liberating energies force men to action, not always at a time of Our choosing. Action leads to action and builds a momentum oft-times naught can hinder. Our task is so to balance these energies and forces that minimal damage results. When the Call goes forth for Our emergence, men will seek Our advice and regulate the changes in the light of a higher wisdom. We await Our task with joy. (The Master -- is a senior member of the Hierarchy of the Masters of Wisdom; His name, well-known in esoteric circles, is not yet being revealed for various reasons. Benjamin Creme is in constant telepathic contact with this Master who dictates His articles to him.) EDITORIAL CHAOS AND CONFUSION: CAUSE FOR HOPE "The whole world is becoming bankrupt -- mentally and spiritually. The world is going through a huge crisis and all the medicines have been tried and failed. Maitreya says that the tumour has got to burst open before the healing can begin." This statement, made by Maitreya's associate (Share International July/August 1992), is endorsed almost daily by world events. Our mental and spiritual bankruptcy are already more than obvious in two fields: economically and politically the international community is in a crisis of such magnitude that it is impervious to traditional solutions. In recent years we have witnessed the collapse of communism, on the basis of which many commentators have predicted the undoubted supremacy and prospering of the capitalist-democratic system. Today's reality must be disillusioning for them since the traditional supports of this structure are crumbling visibly. The American economy, once the great power-house of the world, continues to flounder and the consequences are being felt not only by millions of poor Americans; throughout the United States the infrastructure is deteriorating, education is suffering, health care is failing, jobs are being lost, and workers must work longer hours to earn fewer dollars. At the same time, the US national debt is on the increase while its exports decline. In Britain, the situation is worse, comparatively speaking, as the population is now reaping the bitter harvest of more than a decade of Conservative policies. Perhaps the British are more phlegmatic and better able to endure scarcity, they complain less, but now even they have lost patience -- as the Tories discovered when the Government announced plans to close coal-mines and put thousands of miners out of work. Believers in the capitalist faith prefer to dismiss these signs of a flagging economy as temporary phenomena which will disappear by itself under the influence of free-market forces. The validity of this theory is daily undermined, as the economic successes of Germany and Japan find themselves in increasing difficulties. After years of explosive growth Japanese industrial production is suddenly falling off. Obviously, the slide on the Tokyo stock exchange is now being reflected in the field of economics. Stagnation has hit Germany too -- a country which has perhaps over-reached itself. Germany invested more in the disintegrating Russian economy than all other countries together, apart from spending billions of marks on the integration of the former East Germany. Even countries like Sweden, long considered a model state socially and economically, and well-heeled Switzerland increasingly are experiencing the freeze-effect of a bleak economic climate. Although the number of unemployed is lower in Switzerland than elsewhere in Europe it has not been so high since 1939 -- and that, too, is an ominous portent. Economic decline is paralleled by a worldwide growth of distrust in political structures. Never before have so many voters turned their backs on politicians who, it must be said, don't miss a chance to evoke that process. In America Ross Perot was ultimately a misfit but his early campaign successes in the presidential race were due to the great aversion of many US voters to the current political establishment. Wracked by corruption scandals, Japan sees the same spurning of politics by a disenchanted electorate expressed in a low turn-out at the polls. Only half the voters bothered to vote in elections for the Upper House last July. In Italy, where corruption and fraud appear to be the rule rather than the exception, the electorate is turning against the ruling parties en masse. Elsewhere in Europe extremist, neo-fascism is growing. These symptoms cannot be seen as disparate. Together they form a pattern and have developed out of a desire for change. The dismantling of dictatorships in South America, Africa and the former Eastern-bloc were early signs of global discontent, now discernible in America and Europe. It is the people who have realized quicker than their rulers that our present society is incapable of providing real solutions to the problems of our time. We will no longer tolerate that we are here for the politicians when the reverse should be the case. We have little sense of being in control of our own lives or that we matter. We feel useless and isolated, estranged and threatened. We want a good education for our children and work where we can use our talents. But education is deteriorating and employees -- like pawns -- find themselves more and more easily manipulated by mysterious production processes. We also want to be sure of a safe future for our children, yet we experience daily the pollution and destruction of our environment. On TV we stare at the incredible luxury of a small group of the world's lite and we also see children dying of starvation in Somalia and Ethiopia. We hear politicians making statements about agreements reached and steps to be taken but we discover that no one is really doing anything to halt the civil war in Yugoslavia or to defuse potential points of explosive conflict in the former Soviet Union. We hear endless promises about renewed economic growth but we see businesses closing and jobs lost. We hear politicians pay lip-service to their great responsibility to the citizen, and all too often we know they are in it for gain and self-aggrandizement. As a consequence, opposition to current practices is growing, more quickly and powerfully in some countries than in others. And many are beginning to realize that they themselves also participated in creating the present situation -- one of chaos and disintegration. We are realizing with growing clarity, too, what the powers-that-be are still trying to hide: that no one has any solutions. This climax of confusion and uncertainty is, from our perspective, not so much a reason for fear but rather a cause for hope -- a hopeful expectation that humanity will soon be ready to follow Maitreya's advice. If we really grasp "that all medicines have been tried and have failed", then, at last, His voice will find a willing ear. A MODEL OF FREE HEALTH CARE Interview with Dr Patch Adams by Dorothy Jones In the USA, Patch Adams, MD, is a nationally known speaker on wellness, laughter, humour and life as well as on the subjects of health care and health care systems. "He approaches the issues of personal, community, and global health with zestful exuberance." (Time Magazine). Dr Adams believes that "the most revolutionary act one can commit in our world is to be happy." Dr Adams is founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a free health facility in operation for more than two decades. Over 15,000 people have been provided with free medical care at the Institute. Through the success of this programme at the Arlington, Virginia location, a model health care facility is being built on 310 acres purchased in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The new facility will include a 40-bed hospital, a theatre, and arts and crafts shops. The Institute addresses by action four major issues in health care delivery: rising cost of care, dehumanization of medicine, malpractice suits, and abuses of the third-party insurance system. Dorothy Jones: Your approach to medicine attempts to eradicate the major issues which are at the centre of our crumbling health care delivery system. Please tell us about your work. Dr Patch Adams: We're into our 22nd year in a communal context living the medical model in an entirely new way. All the healing arts have worked together. We do not practise in fear and mistrust and have never carried malpractice insurance nor had complaints or law suits. The medical staff have maintained other employment which has allowed our patients to be treated free of cost, and we have not accepted third-party payments. It has been very liberating to our work. Community helps a person feel safe, both patient and physician. I've lived communally now all of these years and I would say that every one of my successes, every one of my happinesses -- my marriage, my professional dreams, my personal growth dreams -- all have been tremendously enhanced by community. What started out as a philosophical answer to problems has become a living ecstatic experience. It all feeds on itself and helps to move from theoretical discussion of solutions to a practical exploration of them using medicine as a context. We do all of the things other doctors do and possibly more. But more than that we offer patients the experience of joyful community -- not just as an observer but as a participant. We've had more than 15,000 people in our facility, and that experience is what most of them primarily have taken away from it. Since we're interested in wellness and a wellness lifestyle, we also offer an overall opportunity to explore the possibility of ecstatic living -- of celebrating life and life being a joy -- not just for a healthy 20-year-old with no problems, but as a dying person who may live only a week and that week can be fabulous. In offering a community that celebrates fun as well as the cerebral and the sublime, we can help people enrich their lives. DJ: All of these components will be a part of your new setting. Tell us about the 40-bed hospital you are now constructing in West Virginia. PA: We're on 310 acres, we have three waterfalls with caves, we have a four-acre lake, a mountain of hardwood trees, some rich bottom land that hasn't had a chemical in it for 12 years, we have six or seven springs on the land. That's the physical nature of the site. We are building a 40-bed hospital. The staff will live in the hospital area with their families. There will be 30 beds for guests such as medical and nursing students, visiting professionals, or for that matter wandering minstrels or plumbers. We hear from people all around the world who say they would like to come and work with us for a weekend or a month, to experience what we are doing and to help us. And they do come. There's nothing like new blood to inject vibrancy into a community. For the staff it's a chance always to have freshness around and for the labour and the work for the patients to have extra hands. We'll have 30,000 square feet in the hospital devoted to various arts so patients and staff will be surrounded by a multiplicity of healing stimuli: fine arts, a photography studio, a fully modern stage, a very large library with records, videos, and books. Rural medicine in America is collapsing. It's closing down at a rate that is frightening to many people. Many are without any care. We wanted to be a model for rural medicine. Our healing repertoire will range from general surgery to faith healing. We'll be the first interdisciplinary hospital of its nature that I'm aware of in the world where surgery, paediatrics, general practice, family practice, psychiatry, ophthalmology will work hand in hand with acupuncture, homoeopathy, herbal medicine, body work, and faith healing, as well as with artists and farmers as part of the staff. We know that staff don't like working in hospitals and patients don't like being in hospitals. So there must be something wrong with the atmosphere. We want a hospital where no one wants to leave, as ours has been for the last 20 years. The hospital will have a school attached to it, a school for our children, for sick children, children of sick parents, as well as some of the local community. One of the problems in attracting well-educated families to a rural area is the concern for the education of their children. We're trying to create a place to cover that aspect so that health professionals' families will be happy to move to the area. A 12-unit chronic-care facility is also in the plans. DJ: Will the medical care continue to be free of cost as it has been these last 20 years? PA: Absolutely! No malpractice insurance, no costs, no sense of barter or debt whatsoever. Medicine offered totally as a service, as a humanitarian act as we have been doing all these years. DJ: What aspect of your system would have the most immediately universal applicability in our current delivery system? PA: We haven't even talked about our most important emphasis yet, and that is being kind, loving, and friendly. This eliminates the dehumanization of medicine. It can be expressed in any current medical system and should be in all. We have eradicated the malpractice issues and abuses of third-party insurance payments. Those issues will require adaptation to be integrated into today's typical model. Thus the currently most applicable statement I am making is to care and love, to be kind to the people you are serving, genuinely from your heart. To carry a twinkle in your eye, a smile on your face and the willingness to reach out and offer yourself to another human being. Maintain your own sense of joy, of life and celebration, which again allows for today's change to start happening. The most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy. Let this joy and kindness eradicate the medical hierarchy and establish value and equality in appreciation for the orderly, maintenance workers, nurses, and doctors. In the long run, the care and kindness will affect the issue of rising health care costs. It is extremely difficult as a loving person to deny care or charge in excess. That's what happened to me. I saw, as a medical student, patients refused care or treated rudely because they didn't have money. I said: "I can't do this. I can't be part of this. I am a healer." The health professional has a great commitment to humanity and cannot concern herself or himself primarily with the ability to pay. Our obligation is to serve. Our kindness will also diminish malpractice risks; we do not sue our friends and those who have demonstrated their heartfelt care. DJ: Your new book, Good Health Is A Laughing Matter, is due in the bookstores very soon, is that correct? PA: Yes, that's what I am told. It will be one part history of our medical experiment at Gesundheit. It will be two parts Gesundheit philosophy -- why we are doing what we are doing. And finally, it will be my personal philosophy about life, about imagination, about following your dreams, about serving fellow man. It will be published by Inner Traditions, which is an international book publishing firm. If it is purchased through me, all of the proceeds go to our hospital project. If purchased through the publisher, half will go to the hospital. DJ: How else may the interested public support your efforts or contact you? PA: In a global way, the best support of our work is to be happy and loving, to follow your dreams and never give up. On the more practical aspects of our specific project in West Virginia, there are two ways to help. The first is that anyone is invited to come there and help us build. We have people join us for varying amounts of time from all over the world. We feed and house people while they are with us. And secondly, what is true for all non-profit and idealistic communities is that we need financial support for our goals. Anyone may get in touch with us for further information on any aspect of our work by writing to me at 2630 Robert Walker Place, Arlington, Virginia 22207, USA. (Dorothy Jones, Ph.D., is a transpersonal psychologist in private practice, and professor of psychology at West Virginia Northern College in Wheeling, West Virginia, USA.) MUSIC OF THE SPHERES? Interview with Gerald S. Hawkins by Monte Leach Gerald S. Hawkins earned a Ph.D. in radio astronomy with Sir Bernard Lovell at Jodrell Bank, England, and a D.Sc. for astronomical research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Observatories. His undergraduate degrees were in physics and mathematics from London University. Hawkins' discovery that Stonehenge was built by neolithic people to mark the rising and setting of the sun and moon over an 18.6-year cycle stimulated the new field of archaeoastronomy. From 1957 to 1969 he was Professor of Astronomy and Chairman of the Department at Boston University, and Dean of the College at Dickinson College from 1969 to 1971. He is currently a commission member of the International Astronomical Union, and is engaged in research projects in archaeoastronomy and the crop circle phenomenon. Monte Leach: How did you get interested in the crop circle phenomenon? Gerald Hawkins: Many years ago, I had worked on the problem of Stonehenge, showing it was an astronomical observatory. My friends and colleagues mentioned that crop circles were occurring around Stonehenge, and suggested that I have a look at them. I began reading Colin Andrews' and Pat Delgado's book, Circular Evidence. I found that the only connection I could find between Stonehenge and the circles was geographic. But I got interested in crop circles for their own sake. ML: What interested you about them? GH: I was very impressed with Andrews' and Delgado's book. It provided all the information that a scientist would need to start an analysis. In fact, Colin Andrews has told me that that's exactly what they intended to happen. I began to analyse their measurements statistically. The major scale ML: What did you find? GH: The measurements of these patterns enabled me to find simple ratios. In one type of pattern, circles were separated from each other, like a big circle surrounded by a group of so-called satellites. In this case, the ratios were the ratios of diameters. A second type of pattern had concentric rings like a target. In this case, I took the ratios of areas. The ratios I found, such as 3/2, 5/4, 9/8, 'rang a bell' in my head because they are the numbers which musicologists call the 'perfect' intervals of the major scale. ML: How do the ratios correspond with, for instance, the notes on a piano that people might be familiar with? GH: If you take the note C on the piano, for instance, then go up to the note G, you've increased the frequency of the note (the number of vibrations per second), or its pitch, by 1 1/2 times. One and one-half is 3/2. Each of the notes in the perfect system has an exact ratio -- that is, one single number divided by another, like 5/3. ML: If we were going to go up the major scale from middle C, what ratios would we have? GH: The notes are C, D, E, F, G, A and B. The ratios are 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 5/3, 15/8, finishing with 2, which would be C octave. ML: How many formations did you analyse and how many turned out to have diatonic ratios relating to the major scale? GH: I took every pattern in their book, Circular Evidence. I found that some of them were listed as accurately measured and some were listed as roughly or approximately measured. I finished up with 18 patterns that were accurately measured. Of these, 11 of them turned out to follow the diatonic ratios. Colin Andrews has since given me accurate measurements for one of the circles in the book that had been discarded because it was inaccurate. That one turned out to be diatonic as well. We finished up with 19 accurately measured formations, of which 12 were major diatonic. The difficulty of hitting a diatonic ratio just by chance is enormous. The probability of hitting 12 out of 19 is only 1 part in 25,000. We're sure, 25,000 to 1, that this is a real result. ML: Could this in some way be a 'music of the spheres', so to speak? GH: I am just a conventional scientist analyzing this mathematically. One has to report that the ratios are the same as the ratios of our own Western invention -- the diatonic ratios of the (major) scale. We have only developed this diatonic major scale in Western music slowly through history. These are not the ratios that would be used in Japanese music, for instance. But I am not calling the crop circles 'musical'. They just follow the same mathematical relationships. Who done it? ML: You've established that there's a 25,000 to 1 chance that these ratios are random occurrences. What about natural science processes? GH: Natural science processes, left to their own devices, like whirlwinds, rutting hedgehogs, and bacteria have no relationship to the diatonic ratios. They (the diatonic ratios) are human-invented. They are the human response to sound. The only place I can find diatonic ratios in nature are bird calls and the song of the whale. I don't think the birds made the circles, nor did the whales. ML: So we've eliminated natural phenomena. What about Douglas Bower and David Chorley (Doug and Dave), the two Englishmen who claimed last year that they created the circles. Could they have formed these diatonic ratios? GH: They could have, if they knew about the diatonic scale, and wished to put it in the circles. But I think we have to quote their reason for making the circles. They said they "did it for a laugh." That's fine. If they did it for a laugh, then it doesn't fit with putting in such an esoteric piece of information. I did write to them. They never replied. ML: You wrote to them saying what? GH: "Why did you put diatonic ratios in?" ML: And they didn't reply. GH: No. I think we can eliminate them. It's so difficult to make a diatonic ratio. It has to be laid out accurately to within a few inches with a 50 foot circle, for example. ML: And many if not all of these circles were created at night. GH: Yes. Mostly they seem to be created at night. Intellectual profile ML: That eliminates natural processes and Doug and Dave. What's left? GH: Lord Zuckerman [former science adviser to the British Government] wrote a review of Colin Andrews' and Pat Delgado's book. He said that before we start building theories we should first investigate what would be perhaps the most pleasant solution for scientists, which is that the formations were made by human hoaxers. In a way, he's not stating that that is his notion. He thinks it would be the simplest explanation. In fact, I am not supporting the theory that they are made by hoaxers. I am only investigating it. ML: You're investigating the theory that it's done by hoaxers to see if that makes sense? GH: Yes, but now I've upgraded the investigation, because I've found an intellectual profile. This means I've eliminated all natural science processes, so I don't have to consider any of those any more. The intellectual profile narrows it down. ML: What have you found in terms of this intellectual profile? GH: My mathematical friends have commented on my findings. The suspected hoaxers are very erudite and knowledgeable in mathematics. We have equated the intellectual profile, at least at the mathematics level, as senior high school, first year college math major. That's pushing it to a narrow slot. But there's more to this than just the diatonic ratios. Undiscovered theorems ML: How so? GH: The year 1988 was a watershed because that was when the first geometry appeared. It is in Circular Evidence. These geometrical patterns were quite a surprise to me. There are only a few of them. ML: These are in addition to the circles you investigated in terms of the diatonic ratios? GH: The geometry is really 'the dog', and the diatonic ratios of the circles are 'the tail.' That is, there is much more involved in the geometry than in those simple diatonic ratios in the circles, although, interestingly, the diatonic ratios are also found in the geometry, without the need for measurement. The ratio is given by logic -- mind over matter. ML: What did you find from these more complex patterns? GH: Very interesting examples of pure geometry, or Euclidean geometry. ML: You found Euclidean theorems demonstrated in these other patterns? GH: These are plane geometry, Euclidean theorems, but they are not in Euclid's 13 books. Everybody agrees that they are, by definition, theorems. But there's a big debate now between people who say that Euclid missed them, and those that say he didn't care about them -- in other words, that the theorems are not important. I believe that Euclid missed them, the reason being that I can show you a point in his long treatise where they should be. They should be in Book 13, after proposition 12. There he had a very complicated theorem. These would just naturally follow. Another reason why he missed them was that we are pretty sure that he didn't know the full set of perfect diatonic ratios in 300 BC. ML: These are theorems based on Euclid's work, but ones that Euclid did not write down himself. But they are widely accepted as fulfilling his theorems on geometry? GH: Only widely accepted after I published them. They were unknown. ML: Based on your analysis of these crop circles, you discovered the theorems yourself? GH: Yes. A theorem, if you look it up in the dictionary, is a fact that can be proved. The trouble is, first of all, seeing the fact, and then being able to prove it. But there's no way out once you've done that. The intellectual profile of the hoaxer has moved up one notch. It has the capability of creating theorems not in the books of Euclid. It does seem that senior high school students can prove these theorems, but the question is, could they have conceived of them to put them in a wheat field? In this regard, we've got a very touchy situation in that there is a general theorem from which all of the others can be derived. I stumbled upon it by luck and accident and colleagues advised me to not publish it. None of the readers of Science News [which published an article on this subject] could conceive of that theorem. In a way, it does indicate the difficulty of conceiving these theorems. They may be easy to prove when you're told them, but difficult to conceive. ML: And I would assume that the readers of Science News,would be pretty well versed in these areas. GH: It's a pretty good cross-section. The circulation is 267,000. We found from the letters that came in that Euclidean geometry is not part of the intellectual profile of our present-day culture. But it is part of the culture of the crop circle makers. ML: What about the more recent formations? GH: Now we enter the other types of patterns -- the pictograms, the insectograms. Exit Gerald S. Hawkins. I don't know what to do about those. ML: Your investigations leave off at the geometric patterns. GH: The investigations are continuing, but I haven't gotten anywhere. I see no recognizable mathematical features. I'm approaching it entirely mathematically, because there is the strength of numbers. There's the unchallengeability of a geometric proof of a theorem, for example. The other patterns involve other types of investigation, such as artistry and images. But everything I've told you here shows that we've got a developing phenomenon, starting from the very simple arrangement of diatonic ratios, to a very intricate way of showing diatonic ratios in the geometries, and now to something which I think hardly anybody would claim to understand -- the pictograms, insectograms, and so forth. ML: So the major focus of your work right now is looking into these? GH: Yes. It's totally absorbing. It's not a joke. It's not a laugh. It's not something that can be just brushed aside. ML: Is there anybody else who is investigating it seriously in terms of your scientist colleagues? GH: No. It boils down to two factors. You wouldn't get a grant to study this sort of thing. And, two, it might endanger your tenure. It is as serious as that. There are whole areas in the scientific community that are not informed about the crop circle phenomenon, and have come to the conclusion that it is ridiculous, a hoax, a joke, and a waste of time. It's a difficult topic because it tends to raise a knee-jerk solution in people's minds. Then they are stuck. Their minds are closed. One can't do much about it. But if they can keep an open mind, I think they'll find they've got a very interesting phenomenon. (Monte Leach, based in San Francisco, USA, is a freelance radio journalist and the US editor of SHARE INTERNATIONAL.) QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Any questions dealing with the activities of Maitreya and the Hierarchy of the Masters of the Wisdom, and about the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, which have not been answered in the book "The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom" or in "Maitreya's Mission" are answered in this section by Benjamin Creme. Send your written questions to: Share International/Questions, 59 Dartmouth Park Road, London, NW5 1SL, UK. Q. Has Maitreya made any more appearances to groups or gatherings? A. As I reported in the November issue of Share International, He appeared before 800-900 Russian Orthodox Christians on 27 September. The town was St Petersburg. On 18 October He appeared before some 500-600 Orthodox Christians in a town in South Georgia (former Soviet Union). He spoke for about 15 minutes. No photographs were taken. Water in the area was charged. Meanwhile, His appearances in the Middle East, North Africa and India continued. Q. When Maitreya appears to religious conventions in various cities, does He travel by ordinary (public) transport or by thought? A. By thought. Q. Is there any relation between Maitreya and the crop circles? A. The crop circles are created by the phenomenon we call UFOs, and there is a relation between Maitreya and the UFOs. These UFOs come, in the main, from the planets Mars and Venus. Our Hierarchy is in contact with the Hierarchies of Mars and Venus; all the Hierarchies in our system are in contact with each other. All the planets of our system are inhabited, without exception, but if you went to Mars or Venus, of course, you would see no one; they are all in higher etheric matter. If you have the higher etheric vision you see them as perfectly normal, slightly different, but not all that different, from ourselves. They are not little green people with protuberances coming out of their heads! Q. Why does Maitreya apparently require conditional entry into planetary affairs? A. In order not to infringe human free will. As a result of the wrong teaching given by the Churches, people imagine that Christ will come down on a cloud at the end of the world, and that we will look up and see this great omnipotent figure, with a Rod of Power, and we will know that God has entered the world. This is a completely mistaken idea. Apart from the fact that He is not God, if He were to do so that would be the greatest infringement of our free will. Human free will, as far as the Hierarchy is concerned, is sacrosanct. Even if it would be of benefit to us, as we would see it, Hierarchy will never infringe our free will. Free will is the means by which we advance to become what we are, as souls, which is divine. Maitreya says: "Do not let anyone take away your free will. It is your divine inheritance." So if He were to emerge in any other way than by invitation, He would see that as an infringement of free will. He must know that humanity is ready to respond gladly, willingly, to His advice, and not just because He is the Christ. He says: Do not worship Me. If you worship Me you are putting Me above you. I am not above you -- I am the same divinity. We are all the same divinity -- there is only one divinity. He will never, therefore, infringe our free will; that is why I am sent out ahead to prepare the way somewhat, to tell you that He is here and to open your minds. My job is to create hope and expectancy so that He can enter our lives without infringing our free will. However, if we were to change tomorrow, if we were to address the problem of hunger and rid this world for ever of starvation in the midst of plenty, for example, He could take a huge step forward. The media could not miss Him. They think He is being reticent, aloof and difficult to get at; He is not. He is simply waiting, within the Law, for them to take certain steps. They do not see or understand their role or responsibility. They represent humanity, the media are the means by which humanity communicates to itself. But they do not see this; they say: "We can only react to events". This is an event they do not know how to react to because they have never met it before. The Christ has never been in the world before when there was media around! They know He is here, they are only waiting for His head to rise above the horizon and then they will act. Many major journalists know that Maitreya is in the world. The heads of newspapers, governments, media services and the diplomatic services know that everything I have said is true. Many know Him, He has met hundreds of diplomats, journalists, members of parliament -- you can hear His words in their speeches time after time. Q. Can you please give the ray structure and point in evolution of Willy Brandt, the ex Chancellor of Germany, who died very recently (1913-1992)? A. Soul 2; personality 1, sub-ray 4; mental body 5, sub-ray 7; astral body 2, sub-ray 4; physical body 1, sub-ray 3. He was 2.97 degrees initiate. With his rare combination of pragmatism and vision Willy Brandt made a major contribution to the world. His policy of "Oest politik" led to the unification of Germany and speeded the end of the "cold war". Maitreya's first political/economic effort, after coming to London in July 1977, was to inspire the Brandt Commission in November of that year. Under the chairmanship of Willy Brandt, that Commission, representing all shades of political and economic thought, eventually, in 1979, produced their consensus Report: North-South, a Programme for Survival. With an eloquent introduction by Willy Brandt himself, this Report outlines and recommends the various practical measures which, if implemented, would go a long way to solving the present economic problems of rich and poor countries alike. At the Cancun Conference (1981) these measures met with the implacable opposition of the US, UK and other Western Governments, and were rejected, despite their overwhelming acceptance by the Third World delegations who, incidently, were in great majority. Reagan and Thatcher economic dogma prevailed and the world, in recession, now suffers the consequences. A decade has thus been wasted in the search for justice and reason. We have just witnessed the passing of one of the Great Men of recent history. Q. Can you please give the rays and point in evolution of Petra Kelly, founder of the German Green Party who died tragically recently? A. Soul 2; personality 4, sub-ray 6; mental body 3, sub-ray 7; Astral body 4, sub-ray 6; physical body 7, sub-ray 3. She was 1.5 degrees initiate. Q. Can you give the ray structure and point in evolution of King Srong-tsan-gam-po, who introduced Buddhism into Tibet in the 7th century AD, and also that of his two wives? A. King Srong-tsan-gam-po (623-689AD) not only introduced Buddhism to Tibet but was the first king of all Tibet. He consolidated his kingdom by marriages, first with the Chinese Princess Wen Ch'eng (630-656AD), niece of the Emperor T'ai Tsung of the T'ang Dynasty, deified as the White Tara; and then with the Nepalese Princess Bhrikuti (640-678AD), deified as the Green Tara. King Srong-tsan-gam-po: Soul 2; Personality 6, sub-ray 6; mental body 4, sub-ray 6; astral body 2, sub-ray 2; physical body 7, sub-ray 3. He was 2.0 degrees initiate. The White Tara, Princess Wen Ch'eng: Soul 2; Personality 2, sub-ray 4; mental body 3, sub-ray 7; astral body 4, sub-ray 6; physical body 3, sub-ray 7. She was 1.4 degrees initiate. The Green Tara, Princess Bhrikuti: Soul 2; Personality 4, sub-ray 6; mental body 2, sub-ray 6; astral body 4, sub-ray 6; physical body 3, sub-ray 3. She was 1.4 degrees initiate. It might interest readers to know that all three are in incarnation at the present time. Q. What does Maitreya advise us to do in practice? A. The number one priority is the saving of the starving millions. The fact of millions of people starving to death is a blasphemy -- Maitreya calls it a crime. It is a cancer in our midst. We do not accept responsibility, and if we do not accept responsibility our governments will not accept responsibility. Our governments know that ending hunger is not a vote-winner; we have to make it a vote-winner. We have to say: "Unless you address the question of hunger in the Third World I am not going to vote for you. If you want my vote, advocate the principle of sharing in the world." They will do it because they want your vote. If you live in a so-called democracy, you have to make that democracy a fact by participation. Participation also entails making your needs known. If your needs are to end hunger then you have to act through your representatives and force your government to act. The governments of the world have known of this particular famine situation in Somalia for well over a year. They were warned by the aid agencies that it was coming and they have done nothing -- because there is no oil there. If oil for the West had been threatened, the Americans would have been in with aid, the French and the English and every one else. The next priority is making known, if you believe it, that Maitreya is in the world. That helps create the climate of hope, of expectancy, so that He can enter our lives and begin His open mission in a smooth way. The world is in chaos at the moment, tremendous upheavals are going on, and His re-entry on to the world stage is dependent on a climate of expectancy, otherwise it would be an infringement of free will. The major priority, once the Day of Declaration is over, once we have addressed the problem of hunger, and sharing is a reality, is the saving of planet Earth. The environment will become the number one priority. Q. I disagree with you profoundly when you say that when people meditate on a certain situation it doesn't bring change. I actually think it does change the consciousness of the world. A. I did not say that meditation does not bring change. What I do not believe is that meditating on starving people and seeing their stomachs growing large with food is going to do them any good. Many people believe that if you meditate on something as specifically as that it will happen -- rather than acting to bring about the changes in the political-economic structures which will end starvation in this world for ever. I believe that the only way starvation will end is through the principle of sharing being accepted and a mass programme of aid for the Third World being activated by the nations as a whole. As Maitreya put it: "Nothing happens by itself. Man must act and implement his will." (Message No.31) Q. What happened 95,000 years ago which caused the Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy to withdraw from the world? A. There was a great war in ancient Atlantis between the Spiritual Hierarchy -- the forces of light -- and the forces of evil, the forces of materiality, as the Masters call them. That destroyed the last of the Atlantean civilizations, which had lasted for about 12 million years, and also the Atlantean continent, of which the Americas, North and South, are the remnants. That war ended in a stalemate, neither side really won. The Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy retreated from the physical plane into the mountains and deserts, where Their successors are (except for 15 of them) to this day. A few of Them have come out into the world from time to time -- one very well known case is the Comte de St Germain who was known throughout the 18th century at all the courts of Europe. We owe a great many of the inventions of modern times to His inspiration, including the railroads, gas, and electricity. He is now the Master Racoczi, in a Hungarian body, and lives in the Carpathians. He is the "Regent of Europe" and is one of the Masters Whom you will see working openly in the world, among the first group to come out with Maitreya. During the Atlantean period, early, mid and late, there were times when the Masters of the Spiritual Hierarchy retreated, more or less, but there were long periods when They lived openly in the world. They were the Priest-Kings, the Godlike beings, Who created and gave as a gift to Atlantean humanity a series of civilizations where the technology was far more advanced than ours is today. They had silent, aerial flight -- not inter-planetary or inter-stellar, but flight from one part of the earth to another -- and this without obvious propellents. They had the means of reversing gravity, a technology which our science fiction writers write about and which we would envy today. But it was not created by Atlantean man, who could not even think. Atlantean man's evolutionary aim was to develop and perfect the emotional body. So well did he do it, and so long did he take to do it, that it is still the most powerfully developed body of humanity. BACKGROUND INFORMATION All the great religions posit the idea of a further revelation to be given by a future Teacher. Christians hope for the return of the Christ, the Buddhists look for the coming of another Buddha (the Lord Maitreya), while Muslims await the Imam Mahdi, the Hindus a reincarnation of Krishna, and the Jews the Messiah. Students of the esoteric tradition know all these as different names for the same individual -- the Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher, the head of the Spiritual Hierarchy of Masters, and they look for His imminent return now. In July 1977, Maitreya emerged from His centre in the Himalayas, when least expected, "like a thief in the night". Since then, He has lived in London as an ordinary man concerned with modern problems -- political, economic and social. Since March 1978, He has been emerging as a spokesman in the Pakistani-Indian community. He is not a religious leader, but an educator in the broadest sense -- pointing the way out of the present world crisis. According to esoteric teaching, Maitreya manifested Himself 2,000 years ago in Palestine by overshadowing His disciple Jesus -- now the Master Jesus. This time Maitreya has come Himself. Maitreya's spiritual teaching: Maitreya does not intend to build a new religion around Himself, nor to create followers, but to teach humanity "the art of Self-realization". The first steps are "honesty of mind, sincerity of spirit and detachment." Maitreya's social concern is reflected in His list of priorities: an adequate supply of the right food, adequate housing and shelter for all, healthcare and education as a universal right. His social message can be summarized in a few words: "Share and save the world." Maitreya knows we will accept His advice and that we are on the threshold of an era of peace and goodwill. The preparations for His public emergence have now been completed. Maitreya is planning a series of appearances like the one in Nairobi, Kenya. There, on 11 June 1988, He appeared miraculously, "out of the blue", at an open-air prayer/healing meeting. He was photographed addressing (in their own language) thousands of people who instantly recognized Him as the Christ. He now intends to show Himself again to large numbers in different countries. In this way, more and more people will have proof of His presence and demand media response. Maitreya expects this approach to lead to the Day of Declaration, when He will leave no doubt that He is the World Teacher. Maitreya will mentally 'overshadow' all of humanity simultaneously. Each of us will hear His words inwardly, telepathically, in our own language, and all will know that the World Teacher is now among us. The information about Maitreya's emergence has been presented to the public since 1974 by Benjamin Creme, one of the chief editors of the magazine Share International. His training for this work, under a Master of Wisdom, began in 1959. To summarize the historical perspective: 1982, 14 May: Creme reveals during a press conference in Los Angeles that Maitreya lives in the Asian community in London, and challenges the media to invite Maitreya to come forward. Unfortunately, the media do not react. 1985, 31 July: Twenty-two journalists representing the media of East and West gather in the East End of London, hoping for contact with Maitreya or His representative. This belated interest from the media makes it possible, at last, for Maitreya to take the steps that will finally culminate in His Declaration. 1987, August: Benjamin Creme announces: "In the coming three or four months, Maitreya will be working intensively to bring about a breakthrough in international relationships in the world." Less than a month later, in September, the breakthrough comes, in the meetings between the Americans and the Soviets, followed by the armaments agreement in December that no one had thought possible. 1988: Maitreya appears, both in person and in dreams, to well-known leaders in various countries, and to many ordinary citizens. World detente and the release of tension which ensues allows more open signs of His presence. Manifestations of crosses of light are reported in the US media and are seen by many thousands. 1990, 21 and 22 April: In London, Maitreya initiates a large conference of dignitaries from around the world. They include diplomats, royalty, church leaders and journalists. Maitreya appeared (and disappeared) several times, and spoke of His mission, teachings and plans. 1991, 29 September: Maitreya appears 'out of the blue' before 500 to 600 people in Mexico city. 1992, January-August: Maitreya appears miraculously before large groups of people in Mexico, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Middle East, North Africa, India and Pakistan. Since April 1988, through one of Maitreya's closest associates in the Asian community of London, Share International has received a series of articles. These outline Maitreya's teachings and draw attention to developments and happenings which He expects to take place in the world, both in the short and the long term. Outer events have demonstrated Maitreya's insight. As early as 1988, He foresaw the release of Nelson Mandela and the process of detente in South Africa. Again in 1988, when Mrs Thatcher stood at the very peak of herpowers, Maitreya said that "her wheel of fortune" had turned against her and that she would resign. In the same year He stated that governments everywhere would have to give way to the "voice of the people", a statement which found its most impressive proof in Eastern Europe. Furthermore, weeks or months ahead of time, Maitreya forecast the cease-fire between Iran and Iraq; the withdrawal of foreign troops from Angola; the global rapprochement between guerrilla forces and national governments; the Armenian earthquake in 1988, and those in California and China in 1989; the internal problems of the Soviet Union; the establishment of peace in the Lebanon; the worldwide trend towards disarmament and reduction of tension; the increasing impact of ecological issues. Some major developments which, Maitreya says, we may expect to see in the near future: the Palestinians will have their homeland; the Israelis will greet Palestinians as brothers; the Syrians will leave Lebanon. Also, there will be an international stock market crash, beginning in Japan, announced by Maitreya as early as 1988. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Annual subscriptions (10 issues per year): US & Canada: 27.50 US dollars. UK residents: 17.50 pounds. Australia: 30 US dollars. All others: Dfl 60 (Dutch guilders). Developing countries: 20 US dollars or Dfl.45 Order from: For North/South America: Share International, PO Box 971, North Hollywood, CA 91603, USA. For UK: Share International, 59 Dartmouth Park Road, NW5 1SL, London, UK. 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