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Meeting with Benjamin Creme

By on April 29, 2009
Benjamin Creme is an artist, author and chief editor of Share International, a monthly magazine which has subscribers in over 75 countries and translated into many languages including Japanese. He has been preparing the world for over 30 years for the most extraordinary event in human history – the emergence of the great Teacher also known as the Christ, Maitreya Buddha, Krishna, Imam Mahdi, Messiah, World Teacher. He has appeared on television and radio worldwide and lectures throughout Europe, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Mexico; authored 9 books. For all of those works, he never receives any monetary compensation.

1. What inspired you to travel to many countries  and campaign for  a better world?
Benjamin Creme: The most inspiring thing was the contact with my Master, a master of wisdom who lives in the Himalayas. He had given me much information and told me to tell it to the world. He said: “Be prepared to travel far and wide because the invitations will soon flood in,” and so it was. I simply went where I was invited to go. I became committed to service and happy to go wherever it took me.

2. What do you think the world lacks and how should we people address this?
The greatest need is for world peace and justice. There is only one way to ensure these two: by sharing the world’s resources. Sharing creates trust. With trust between nations all differences can be resolved.

3. How do you reach out to some parts of the globe that do not have the available resources to alleviate themselves from the effects of poverty?
People everywhere need to realize that the world is One; we are brothers and sisters of the one humanity – a family – and like any family, should share together the resources of the world. Sharing has never been tried, but every other system has been tried and has failed. Today a major war would be nuclear and would destroy all life, human and sub-human alike. We really have no alternative but to share.

4. What do you make of what’s happening to the world now in terms of widespread unemployment, irresponsibility of the powerful and the effects on the powerless?
The energies and ideas of the last two thousand years, which have created the present civilisation, are waning fast, and as a result the structures, political, economic, and social, no longer work and need to be discarded. New energies are galvanising millions to seek different methods and attitudes; hence the present crisis. This is not a recession but a complete collapse of the old outworn order.

5. Tell us what we can look forward to on your upcoming event this month?
I will try to analyse the present crisis and show how it came about, and the necessary steps to take to right the wrongs of the past. I would hope to give the latest information about Maitreya and the Masters of Wisdom in the externalisation of their work. Maitreya the World Teacher gives blessings to the audience through me at the beginning and end of each lecture, and it is this spiritual energy of love that touches people deep in their hearts. I will also lead a Transmission Meditation (a form of potent service to the world) in which Maitreya sends His energies through me to the group taking part. (The Transmission Meditation takes place on the day after each lecture.)

6. If you were to live another life, what would it be?
If this question refers to this present life, then my personal ambition is to be a painter, which I have always been. If it refers to a future life, then I hope I shall still paint, whatever service I am called upon to do.

7. What is your idea of a family?
The family is the basic building unit of humanity. I believe humanity itself is in reality a family – a unity in diversity – and should foster and support all life in its journey of evolution.

Benjamin Creme will speak in Tokyo, on Saturday, May 23 at 2 p.m. at JCB Hall (JR “Suidobashi” station, East exit; one minute walk). Also in Osaka (May 16) and Nagoya (May 26). Admission free for all venues.
Inquiries in English: 042-799-2915 (Share Japan)

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