Topic: Lord Maitreya
I heard some so-called prophet on Coast to Coast the other night, and he mentioned Maitreya as the Antichrist. Which reminded me, I'd like to have a discussion on here about that character.
I first heard of Maitreya ("The World Teacher") a couple of years ago when his charismatic prophet, Benjamen Creme came through my city. For weeks before his lecture there were posters everywhere. I don't think I've seen anything promoted so heavily. He had an appearance on Coast to Coast around this time, but I missed it.
Anyway, it certainly looked interesting so I went to the lecture. Basically Maitreya is supposed to be THE CHRIST and is in fact a different entity than Jesus. Maitreya 'overshadowed' Jesus, who was at the time not yet a master. Anyway, Maitreya is back this time with his own body, which he made up in the Himalayas 30 years ago. He lives in London now, and at any time he's gonna come out and teach the world how to solve all its problems.
Benjamen Creme, the emissary for this Maitreya character spoke for about two hours. He was extremely entertaining and pleasant. He was the perfect ideal of a kindly, intelligent old man that one might look up to and was very clever. I was very moved by the presentation, and a little excited about it. At the end he was 'overshadowed' first by Sai Baba (who Creme said is from another place in the galaxy, and is here just to observe and help out a bit) and then by Maitreya himself. During these overshadowings he stood and did a very slow motion butoh-ish dance posture thing. It was really cool to see because it is a skill that I myself have and never have seen anyone else do. It was also very powerful, and I could feel and see the energy although I was less sensitive to these things back then. Sai Baba did indeed seem like an alien, though he was very obscured, i could only see his outline, like a solar eclipse.
A few days later Creme was to host a 'transmission meditation.' This is the cult's spiritual practice. Basically they sit together and meditate, calling upon the 'Masters' to use their energy for what are said to be benevolent purposes. There were almost a hundred people in this room, arranged in rows of chairs with the women and men on opposite sides of the room. I didn't like to be split from my companion who was female, but I went alone with it. There was a strange looking pyramid in a glass box in the room, connected to two wires that went to the last person on each side of the room. We were to hold hands to complete the circuit and conduct the energy. It started off with a charming speech by our friend Creme, then he took his central spot between the male and female sections where he was to be overshadowed by the Lord Maitreya who would conduct the evenings meditations himself!
I had been optimistically curious about this whole thing since I saw the lecture, but right when Lord Maitreya entered I knew the game was off for me. I didn't really feel much, except a tingling sort of danger. Like a gut feeling on the surface of my skin. The room was darkened and I could 'see' this Maitreya hovering where Creme sat. He was very dark and serious looking, not at all what would think of as Christlike. He looked a bit like the Darth Vader character in "Space Balls", but just a silhouette. Yesterday I saw some bits of the film 'Brazil' and he actually looked very much like the demon the knight fights. Reminds me of what Abraman looks like. Not good.
I didn't want to disturb everybody, so I sat there trying as hard as I could to be unmeditative and f*ck up the energy work without drawing attention to myself. Eventually I just got bored of it and grabbed my creeped-out friend and got the hell out of there!
Well, there is more to discuss, but I guess I'll leave that up to you guys. This may turn out to be very intresting topic over the next years... or this Creme could just be another charismatic cult leader.
Mencius