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From: webster-shaw@telus.net (Raymond Shaw)
Subject: Share International magazine: June 2008 issue (long)
Date: 23 June 2008
Newsgroups: talk.religion.newage

Share International Web site>>> www.share-international.org

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JUNE 2008 issue                               Volume 27 Number 5
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This is an abridged, electronic version of SHARE INTERNATIONAL
magazine.

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
United Nations.

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,
Japanese, Romanian and Spanish.

SHARE INTERNATIONAL's chief editor is 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.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

As men look back
by the Master -, through Benjamin Creme, 23 April 2008

Questions and Answers

Letters to the Editor

Signs of the time

Forces of light

Tapping away the world's trauma
Interview with Caroline Sakai
by Michiko Ishikawa

Compilation: Health and healing

The Voice of the People

Benjamin Creme -- lectures and tours

Background Information:
The emergence of the World Teacher -- in brief

Hard-copy subscription information

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"Humanity stands now at the threshold of an entirely new
experience in which every global decision and act will be seen to
be for the better, as nourishing and sanctifying their lives, and
strengthening the bonds of Brotherhood which, up till then, they
had ignored and all but forgotten."

AS MEN LOOK BACK
by the Master -, through Benjamin Creme, 23 April 2008

A few years from now, looking back, men will wonder why they
hesitated so long in taking the obvious and most natural action:
sharing the resources of the world. Experiencing warmly the new
stability, the lack of tension, the ease of international
co-operation, men will wonder how they could have been so blind to
the self-evident, so wilful and destructive to their own best
interests for so long.

Humanity stands now at the threshold of an entirely new experience
in which every global decision and act will be seen to be for the
better, as nourishing and sanctifying their lives, and
strengthening the bonds of Brotherhood which, up till then, they
had ignored and all but forgotten. Gladly, men will now work
together for the Common Good, the hatred and distrust of the past
put firmly behind them. Thus will a new kinship emerge as Goodwill
and Respect, like vitalizing yeast, saturate their awakened lives.
Thus, too, in ever strengthening measure, will love and joy
embrace and lighten the hearts of men and women everywhere.

Alchemy

What subtle alchemy can it be that will work this magical
transformation in the lives of men? Not alchemy but the divinity
which dwells in the hearts of men themselves, evoked and brought
forth by the wonder of Maitreya's Love. "Sharing," He has said,
"is divine; the first step into sharing is the first step into
your divinity." In man himself lies the full measure of that
divinity. Sharing will demonstrate that man is a potential God and
is equipped to express the creative Will of his Source.

Slowly but surely, that creative Purpose will manifest through men
and so direct their actions and decisions. The old lawlessness
will wither away and disappear like a faded memory of a distant,
childish past. So will it be.

Brilliant future

We, your elder Brothers, see ever more clearly the outlines of a
brilliant future stretching ahead for men; We see the blueprints
of a science which would astonish the most fertile and
sophisticated minds of today; We see, too, an art whose beauty and
creative power has never, as yet, been seen by men.

Above all, We recognize that this creative outflow, unprecedented
in scope in human history, is the inevitable result of the great
inner change through which humanity is passing: learning to live
within the Laws of Life. When men see and understand this
consciously, as a fact of life, they will take, gladly, the steps
which lead directly to Peace and Justice, Freedom and Right
Relationship. That first step is called Sharing.

With Maitreya, the Lord of Love, and His group of Masters to help
and guide, how can men fail to see that Sharing and Right
Relationship are the same, have the same impulse: to demonstrate
the urge to Unity which underlies our apparent separation, and so
reveal the true nature of men as Gods.

QUESTIONS and ANSWERS -- a selection

Questions dealing with the activities of Maitreya and the
Hierarchy of the Masters of Wisdom, and about the Ageless Wisdom
Teachings, which have not been answered in his books, are
answered by Benjamin Creme in this section. Benjamin Creme does
not seek to set himself up as an arbiter of the authenticity of
other groups' activities and communications. Please refrain
from posing such questions.

Send your written questions to: Share International/Questions,
PO Box 3677, London NW5 1RU, UK.

Q. What is the best way to 'see' Maitreya?

A. Make yourself useful to Him by telling the world (or your small
bit of it) that He is here and ready to show humanity the way to
end its problems: principally, as a first step, by accepting the
principle of sharing.

Q. What should Tibetan exiles do -- protest, continue to draw
attention to the plight of their country or wait for China to
recognize the right of Tibet to be independent and free?

A. Protest and continue to draw attention to the plight of their
country.

Q. Should the Beijing Olympics be boycotted by (1) athletes? (2)
Heads of state? (3) The world's media who would normally cover the
Olympic Games?

A. (1) No. (2) No. (3) No. Excluding China in this way would not
change China's views. It would only isolate China and exacerbate
the present situation.

Q. Would contact and interchange with China, at the time of the
Olympic Games, be preferable to boycotting as a means to normalize
international relations?

A. Yes.

Q. Would you please be so kind as to ask your Master if there was
any help by the Masters or Maitreya during the Tibetan uprising
between 10 March and 31 March 2008 in Tibet and three more
provinces in China, to reduce more and longer violence (by Chinese
forces)?

A. Yes.

Q. I grew up middle class in America and though I now live below
the poverty line, I am used to the materiality of this country.
Benjamin Creme frequently says that the coming changes for us in
the developed world will be, in his words, "painful". In
Maitreya's Messages He says: "My Coming will mean the end of the
old order of things.... This will cause many to grieve but so it
must be." [Message No. 4] These words make me uneasy.

My question is: Will Maitreya help us deal with our grief? Will He
hold our hand through this process? I am afraid of the grief to
come. Please be kind in your response.

A. It is obvious, is it not, that if we are living as do
millionaires and billionaires, then the sacrifices we would have
to make to simplify our demands on the planet would be more
painful than for those already living more modestly. If you, as
you say, are now living below the poverty line -- even for America
-- then you will not feel simplification a problem. It is the
'waste' mentality which, I think, will be most difficult for the
developed nations to give up.

Q. (1) What is the distinction between Maitreya and the Master
Jesus referred to in the 'Letters to the Editor'? (2) Why is it
that in those letters it is always confirmed that one or both of
those beings is the source of a spiritual/metaphysical
manifestation? It just seems too biased to be credible in nearly
every letter! (3) For what it's worth, I enjoy getting the online
version and reading/reflecting on the issues in your publication.
It's a source of guidance and offers insight into the world issues
we confront daily.

Lastly, just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your artwork
which graces the covers of your books. As an abstract artist, your
works are especially engaging to me. Look forward to your reply.

A. (1) Maitreya is the personal name of the Head and Leader of the
Spiritual Hierarchy: "The Teacher alike of Angels and of men." The
Master Jesus is one of His disciples, a very advanced Master. They
seem to work together much of the time.

In Palestine 2,000 years ago, Maitreya, Who embodies the Christ
Principle, manifested Himself through Jesus for the last three
years of Jesus' life. Maitreya is the Christ, Jesus was the
vehicle used in full consciousness. (2) Yes, these two Great Ones
work together nearly all the time. Maitreya having overshadowed
Jesus in Palestine, there is obviously a very special bond between
Them. We only publish letters which can be confirmed as authentic
appearances of the Masters. We do get many which cannot be so
confirmed. (3) I am glad you find our information interesting and
enlightening. I am also glad that you like my paintings. Thank
you.

Q. What is your opinion of plans in the UK to mix human and animal
genetic material for research purposes?

A. It has already been done illegally, behind closed doors, in
laboratories in several countries. If handled with great care it
can be useful, but in the wrong hands the procedure is fraught
with danger.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR -- a selection

When writing to the *Share International* letters page, please
indicate if you wish your name to be withheld.  In the absence of
any indication the editors will assume that your name may be
printed.  Due to an ever-increasing number of letters received, it
may take many months before your letter is published.  Please
refrain from sending your letter more than once -- as this can
cause delays and confusion.

>>>Full participation

Dear Editor,
On 24 March 2008 we participated in the peace march from Delft
Station to the centre of The Hague. The atmosphere was pleasant,
in spite of the very cold weather. A man full of wrinkles and no
teeth, in a black corduroy suit with a red scarf, was busy the
whole time talking to and encouraging bystanders to get involved
in the demonstration, and he kept agreeing enthusiastically with
the speakers. He seemed a little drunk and said that he was a
'Hagenees' (humorous term for an inhabitant of the Hague) and
later that he was a 'Rotterdammer' (inhabitant of Rotterdam). Was
he a Master?
From the Transmission Meditation group in Nijmegen, the
Netherlands.

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the man in the black
corduroy suit was Maitreya.)

>>>Quick change

Dear Editor,
(1) On 15 March 2008 we were at the Dam Square in Amsterdam for a
peace demonstration. Three of us were holding up a banner saying:
"Only sharing and justice will bring peace", in Dutch and English.
A small man approached us. He wore a black, high hat and a stripey
yellow and blue scarf. He had a bloodshot eye and a hearing aid in
his right ear. He looked lively and open. He pointed at the banner
and said: "There is always a Messiah in the world." To that we
said with one voice: "Yes, Maitreya". Then he said: "It is God."
He did not confirm that it was Maitreya, but did not deny it
either. It seemed as if we were slightly challenged. When someone
mentioned Maitreya Buddha he started to talk about Buddhists, that
they would not even kill an ant, or a spider. He asked if we were
afraid of spiders? He used to be afraid of them, but not any more.
He had even dared to hold a huge spider in his hands. He was
serious and funny at the same time and it felt like an invitation
to pass over your own fears. Then he talked for a while with a few
others, and told them that in Israel the Messiah is appearing to
very many people, and Joshua too. After that he was gone. Was he
Maitreya or the Master Jesus?

I would also like to ask you about a photographer: a tall, slender
man with thin hair and a friendly look, who showed up on a bicycle
and continued to circle around us and take pictures of our banner,
from all angles. When a homeless person came by and started to
grumble in English about the word 'Justice' on the banner, the
photographer immediately came to reassure us that this is just the
way people from Amsterdam may react.

He keeps coming to my mind. Was he someone special too?
M. B.-de L., the Netherlands.

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms the man who "wore a black, high
hat and a stripey yellow and blue scarf" was Maitreya. The
'photographer' was also Maitreya.)

>>>Connections

Dear Editor,
On 25 April 2008 I gave a lecture in Annecy, France, about the
patterns of light phenomenon. The lecture was split into three
parts: the patterns of light; the link with UFOs; and the link
with the Masters of Wisdom and Maitreya.

After an hour, while I was speaking about the Masters of Wisdom, a
man came into the lecture room. He was distinguished, with nice
white hair and a red pullover. He came and sat in the front row
and stayed until the end of the lecture, without saying anything.
As soon as I saw him, I thought he was Maitreya. His general
attitude was very quiet and his walk reminded me of another
(confirmed) meeting I had had with Maitreya at a book fair in
2006.

Can you confirm if this man was Maitreya?
J. R., Le Locle, Switzerland.

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the man was, indeed,
Maitreya.)

>>>Never too old...

Dear Editor,
It was close to midnight on an autumn night, a few months ago
[2007] in Barcelona. I was walking towards my car to go home after
Transmission Meditation.

As I went to cross a street at a zebra crossing, a motorbike
suddenly appeared on my right and I had to stop. It was an
old-style collector's type of motorbike. There were two old men
dressed in old-style biker's outfits with helmets, riding it. The
white hair of the driver came out from the sides and bottom of the
helmet and somehow he reminded me of Benjamin Creme. They were
animatedly talking with each other, totally at ease and
comfortable.

Amazingly, the motorbike was moving, but at the same time it
seemed to take ages till it finished passing the zebra crossing
and turned left at the corner, as if they were moving outside
time.

I walked another block to get my car and was still wondering about
these two old bikers. It was a bit weird to find anyone there at
that time of the night, unless they were lost. But they didn't
seem to be lost. Just driving around and enjoying life, not
seeming to be going anywhere specifically.

I started driving home and was at a roundabout where I take the
road to a nearby town where I live, waiting for the traffic light
to turn green. Suddenly I froze. From a small street entering the
roundabout the motorbike with the two old men appeared again. I
could not believe my eyes. I couldn't figure out how they had got
to that street from the first place I met them, as it is almost
impossible to do it.

I continued on my way home, still wondering about the whole
situation. Were the two old bikers just ordinary people or perhaps
someone special?
H. L., Barcelona, Spain.

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the two 'old bikers' were
Maitreya and the Master Jesus.)

>>>Animal magic

Dear Editor,
In January 2008 I was due to receive back a granite table that was
repaired after an accident. That day the lift was broken, and as I
live on the sixth floor, I tried to rearrange the delivery, but it
was too late, as it was on its way.

When they arrived, I explained the situation and suggested they
come another day. They made a phone call and told me that they had
to do it that day and that a crane with a lift was going to come,
if my neighbours would accept to have it passed through their
balcony as my flat is at the back of the building. My neighbour
agreed and all was arranged.

They positioned the crane and started lifting the table, with much
fuss in the street because of it. I was very nervous, as I was
worried that an accident could happen. But everything went well
and we arrived at the front door of my flat. The door was closed.
My two sons, who had been inside before, had gone out, leaving me
with a closed door, without keys or a mobile phone to call them.

Then I became very worried. When I told the two workers who were
waiting that there was only my cat, Chinin, at home, one of them
said: "Mom, you should have taught your cat to open the door." I
remembered that when my cat was young, he used to find a way to
open the door to go out. Instinctively, through the door, I tried
to speak with my cat, telling him: "Chinin, open the door, come
on, please." The two men looked at each other, probably thinking I
was a bit mad, but suddenly, in a fraction of a second, the door
opened and Chinin came out. One of the men, the one who had joked
about teaching the cat to open the door, babbled: "I thought I had
already seen it all." They assembled the table as quickly as they
could, and went, without saying a word, as if they were in a
hurry. Did Chinin, the cat, indeed open the door?
M.M., Barcelona, Spain.

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that Maitreya opened the door.)

>>>Missed opportunity

Dear Editor,
In August 2003-2004, between 8 and 9pm, a friend of mine who has a
guesthouse in West Clare, Ireland, was standing outside with one
of her guests. He saw a strange circular object lit up underneath,
coming very close to her chimney. It swooped down very close and
took off suddenly again.

They were both startled and decided to keep it a secret, as they
did not want to attract press attention.

What was the object and where did it come from? Did it have a
purpose or was it just to say hello?
J. C., Annagh, County Clare, Ireland.

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms the object was from Mars. It was
a device for gathering information and samples of air. It was
thought that the two people who saw it would make it known and
draw attention to it. Unfortunately, they did not.)

SIGNS OF THE TIME

In His Message of November 1977, Maitreya said: "Those who
search for signs will find them". Ever since, an increasing
number of miraculous phenomena have flooded the world:
appearances, crosses of light, healing wells, weeping icons and
statues.

In May 1988, an associate of Maitreya stated in *Share
International*: "The signs of Maitreya's presence in the world
will continue to increase. He is going to flood the world with
such happenings that the mind can never comprehend it."

>>>Transplant patient miracle

An Australian girl has become the first transplant patient to
change blood group and take on the immune system of her organ
donor, according to a report in *The New England Journal of
Medicine*. Demi-Lee Brennan, aged 15, received a donor liver when
she was nine years old because her own liver had failed. However,
she became ill while being given drugs to avoid her body's
rejection of the transplanted liver. Brennan's blood then
inexplicably changed from her own 'O negative' blood group to 'O
positive', the blood group of her donor. Her new liver's blood
stem cells entered her body's bone marrow to take over her entire
immune system. The result is that Brennan no longer needs
anti-rejection drugs.

Doctors from Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney, where the
operation took place, said they have no explanation for Brennan's
recovery, calling her a "one-in-six-billion miracle". Stuart
Dorney, former head of the hospital's transplant unit, said
Brennan's treatment could lead to breakthroughs in organ
transplant treatment, because normally the immune system of
recipients attacks the transplanted tissue. "We now need to go
back over everything and see why that happened to Demi-Lee, and if
it can be replicated," said Dorney. (Source: Reuters)

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the Master Jesus brought
about the change in Demi-Lee's blood group, to save her from the
effects of the anti-rejection drugs.)

>>>Easter sign

On 4 April 2008 Yorkshire newspaper *Wakefield Express*, in the
UK, featured a report titled "Face of Jesus?" It described how
five-year old William Glancy painted a mask for an Easter art
project at the Wakefield Independent school's holiday club. After
splashing paint over a white mask, and allowing it to dry, William
was surprised to discover that it revealed a face. When his mother
arrived at the club to collect him he was showing everyone the
mask saying: "Look, look, it's Jesus!" This happened the day
before Good Friday and has amazed all those who have seen it.

Teacher Amanda Parramore said: "When his mum showed it to me I
couldn't believe it. I've never seen anything like it, it's a one
in a million thing."
His shocked mother Wendy, 39, said: "When he showed it to me I
said: 'Oh my God'. It's just unbelievable. Everyone I've shown it
to has been floored. Some people have even had to sit down because
of the shock. I think it's even stranger that it's appeared at
Easter. We just can't believe it." (Source: *Wakefield Express*,
UK)

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the face was manifested by
the Master Jesus.)

>>>Image of Jesus in hospital window

In April 2008 visitors to the Florida Hospital Medical Complex in
Orlando, Florida, USA, crowded around a prayer garden window to
witness an image of Jesus, which had miraculously appeared there.
"There was just a whole bunch of people putting their cell phones
to the window, so I went over there and I saw a glow," said
hospital visitor Joel Cruzada. "When you are standing there and
there is a flurry of people talking about it, you are like: 'Wow,
I'm actually here!'" The unexplained image is now being
investigated but a hospital official said that as long as it made
people feel good, that was all that mattered.
(Source: www.local6.com/news)

(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms that the image of Jesus was
manifested by the Master Jesus.)

[To see a photo of the above sign, please visit:
http://share-international.org/magazine/SI_current.htm]

FORCES OF LIGHT

"Important events are taking place in many parts of the world.
People everywhere will be astonished by the reports. These will
include sightings, in unprecedented numbers, of spacecraft from
our neighbouring planets, Mars and Venus in particular."
(Benjamin Creme's Master, 'The gathering of the Forces of Light',
*SI* March 2007)

>>>Multiple UFO sightings in Argentina

*Cordoba* -- On 14 January 2008, between 9 and 10pm residents of
Bengolea, Adelia Maria, Rio Cuarto and Coronel Baigorria, among
many other towns, reported to Radio LV16 to have seen a round,
bright yellow light, flying at low altitude, reported the
newspaper *La Voz del Interior*. Carlos Oyola, a spokesman from
the civil and military air facility Area Material Rio Cuarto,
said: "We do not have any record of a night flight for official or
private aircrafts that night. What the controller saw, who is an
experienced operator, did not match any known object -- military
or civil." He said that the air force controller complied with all
the protocols, asking the object to identify itself, in aeronautic
code, but did not receive any answer.

*Rio Cuarto* -- On 29 December 2007 a similar sighting occurred.
Residents of Rio Cuarto took photographs of a very bright light
from 4am till sunrise at 7am. Many saw it come from the east, and
remain motionless at low altitude.

*El Chocon, Neuquen* -- Jorge Villarreal filmed a UFO in El Chocon
on 30 March 2008 while on holiday. He only discovered the unusual
sighting back home looking at the videos from his mobile phone.
Watching it in slow motion he saw what he thought was a 'flying
saucer'. He took the video to Radio y Television de Neuquen (RTN)
where technicians, looking at it frame-by-frame, verified that the
object was indeed visible. They also concluded that it was almost
impossible to tamper with the film on the particular mobile phone
Jorge owned. Jorge also remembers that when he was filming the
scene, both he and his girlfriend experienced a headache and
tiredness.

*Malargue, Mendoza* -- On 3 April 2008 Felix Fernandez, Omar
Gonzalez and Virgilio Moreno, three workers from the Provincial
Road Authority, were returning from La Junta to Malargue. While
they were photographing the scenery a strange object caught
Felix's attention when it began "moving in intricate movements".
"I started to take photos of it. It was moving from east to west.
Amazed, we followed it from the area of La Junta to the area of El
Chacal, always with the sun in the background, as the photos
showed. Then it remained motionless for a few seconds and
disappeared towards the west". Some local radio stations confirmed
that other people had also witnessed the event.

*Tupungat, Mendoza* -- On 6 April 2008, during a trip with friends
to Quebrada del Condor, Patricio Pereyra took photographs of the
scenery with his mobile phone. Later, downloading them onto his
computer, he spotted a UFO in the sky: "I took several photos but
didn't see anything in the sky at the time", he said. Although he
is sceptical about the existence of UFOs, he could not explain how
it appeared in the photo. When his friend Gaston Damia saw the
photo, he thought that Patricio must have put it there with the
computer programme Photoshop, but that was not the case.

*Arauco, La Rioja* -- Residents of Arauco reported seeing a UFO in
the sky around 6.30am on 11 and 13 April 2008. The event was
filmed by several witnesses and many called the media to report
it. They all reported seeing the object in exactly the same
location: around the junction of Road 40 and 9. (Source: mdz.com;
bolsonweb.com.ar; Radio LV16; RTN Neuquen; *La Voz del Interior*,
Argentina)
(Benjamin Creme's Master confirms all of these sightings to be
spacecraft from Mars.)

[To see a photo of the UFO sighting in Malargue, Mendoza,
Argentina please visit:
http://share-international.org/magazine/old_issues/2008/june_08_pi
ctures.htm]

From our own correspondents

Excerpts from articles and interviews

TAPPING AWAY THE WORLD'S TRAUMA
Interview with Caroline Sakai
by Michiko Ishikawa

The Association for Thought Field Therapy Foundation is a
non-profit membership organization whose volunteers provide
psychological help to people traumatized by wars, natural
disasters, genocide and poverty. The group's Trauma Relief Teams,
including psychologists, counsellors, doctors, and social workers,
are trained in the Callahan Technique of Thought Field Therapy
(TFT). They have assisted trauma victims in many parts of the
world, including New Orleans and Mississippi in the aftermath of
the Hurricane Katrina disaster; Tabasco and Chiapas, Mexico, after
major flooding there; and in Kosovo, the Congo, and Rwanda to
treat genocide survivors.

Caroline Sakai, PhD., a psychologist and TFT practitioner, based
in Hawaii, headed a team of therapists who worked with children in
an orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda. The children survived the Rwandan
genocide in 1994, in which 800,000 to 1 million people were
slaughtered during the course of 100 days. Dr Sakai was
interviewed by Michiko Ishikawa for *Share International*.

Share International: How did you come to work with the genocide
survivors in Rwanda?

Caroline Sakai: The idea came up when I was in New Orleans as part
of an ATFT Foundation Trauma Relief Team working with Hurricane
Katrina survivors and first responders -- doctors, nurses and
security people who were working with the survivors. One of the
team members, Paul Oas, a psychotherapist and minister, asked me
if I could work with the genocide survivors of Rwanda. His church
has been helping to support the El Shaddai orphanage in Kigali,
Rwanda, by providing necessities like food and shelter. He was
seeing the effects of the genocide trauma among the children in
terms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -- nightmares,
flashbacks, insomnia, bedwetting, depression, withdrawal and rage.
Reverend Oas wanted to take a TFT team there and work with the
genocide survivors. Since I had headed the clinical team in New
Orleans, he asked if I could do that in Rwanda.

SI: What is unique about your method of working with trauma?

CS: Thought Field Therapy is the most rapidly effective, and most
gentle, treatment of trauma I have come across. I have worked as a
clinical psychologist at Kaiser Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, for
31 years, and have used many other, more traditional treatments
for PTSD. They usually involve some amount of abreaction (a
re-living of the experience) as people work through the trauma, a
lot of intensification of the feelings. That may be frightening
for some people, who decide they don't want to continue with the
treatment.

TFT does not create a lot of abreaction and distress. It is also
empowering because it is actually a treatment that people use on
themselves. From a feeling of being victimized, they are able to
heal and help themselves. When results happen, when there is a
lowered automatic emotional reaction, when the flashbacks and
nightmares stop, when all the symptoms of PTSD remit, they realize
the power that they've had to heal themselves.

SI: Does Thought Field Therapy work quickly?

CS: Yes. In fact we were amazed with the rapidity of treatment in
Rwanda. We had only four therapists, and were faced with 400
orphans at El Shaddai orphanage. We found that 174 of them were
genocide survivors. With the kind of atrocities they had
experienced, we anticipated that it would take at least an hour
per child, working individually. We thought we would need three
consecutive days, working intensively. It actually turned out that
most of them were treated in 15 to 20 minutes. We followed up in
the next two days, checking to see if there were any more
nightmares, returning flashbacks or other traumas because many of
them had experienced multiple traumas during the genocide.

SI: What were some of the traumas they experienced?

CS: They may have witnessed the murder of their family, and
subsequently saw or heard of other murders. Having had first-hand
experiences, they re-experienced their own trauma vividly as they
heard reports of others. Some of them are among only a few
survivors of an entire village. They experienced the loss of many
members of their community.

The severity of the Rwandan genocide in terms of traumatic impact
was so intense because they were not distant killings with rifles
or gunshots. The killings were done in close proximity, mainly
with machetes. Many victims were neighbors, friends and relatives
of those who were the perpetrators.

SI: What were the ages of the children at the orphanage?

CS: The children ranged in age from 13 to 18, with most of them in
their mid-teens. We also treated some adults from the village,
whose ages varied.

SI: Who runs the orphanage?

CS: El Shaddai was created by Sylvestre Nzitukuze, a young teacher
and coach. He started bringing homeless street children into his
home. They were orphans surviving by doing drugs and prostitution,
really victims of genocide, AIDS and poverty. When there were too
many children for Sylvestre's home, he started El Shaddai in an
old abandoned warehouse and had the children congregate there.

Sylvestre got a church congregation in Rwanda involved and then
Reverend Oas' church in southern California. They work together to
help the orphanage with necessary expenses for food and water,
salary for the teachers, maintenance of the facility, and so on.

SI: What is Thought Field Therapy, the treatment that you used
with the children?

CS: Thought Field Therapy is a self-treatment that involves the
meridians used in acupuncture and acupressure. The treatment
includes tapping on the meridian points, eye movement and other
activities that activate different parts of the brain. The
technique was developed by Dr Roger Callahan, a clinical
psychologist in California. He made the discovery in the 1980s and
has continued to develop and improve it.

SI: How did you begin working with the children at the orphanage?

CS: First we did some PTSD assessments. We had the assessment
forms translated into Kinyarwanda, which is their language. The
teachers, as guardians for the children, did the assessments. The
students themselves also did their own subjective assessments. We
compared, ranked and ordered them according to their assessments.
The most severely traumatized children were seen individually and
intensively. Because we were only there for three weeks and had
only four therapists, we saw most of the children in small groups
and then in larger groups, and saw the rest in class. We went
through the treatment protocols with them.

There are different treatments for different problems. If they are
dealing with PTSD, there is a trauma treatment involving tapping
several meridian points. There were also a lot of people dealing
with anger or guilt, so we would do those particular protocols
which involve different meridian points. The tapping is done
firmly but gently, about 5 to 10 taps, depending on the protocol.

SI: Did the children do the tapping themselves?

CS: We showed them the taps, and our interpreters would show how
and where to tap. The children were very quick learners.

Let me give you an example. There was a 15-year-old girl who was
three years old at the time of the genocide. Her family had taken
refuge inside a church when the perpetrators started coming in and
killing people. The girl related how her father had told her to
run and not look back no matter what happened. She started to run
as fast as she could and then heard her father yelling and
screaming. He sounded like a crazy man, which was uncharacteristic
of him. Even though she remembered that he had said not to look
back, because she kept hearing him scream she turned to see why. A
group of people with machetes were attacking her father.

Every day following the attack 12 years before, the girl had
flashbacks of that scene; she called it a day-mare. She would have
this day-mare of seeing her father being killed, and would have
nightmares about it every night. As we were working it through and
she was tapping the different meridians, she suddenly stopped and
started to smile. She said she could remember her father playing
with her, and that she had had no childhood memories before. The
genocide was so much in the forefront of her memory that it
blocked out everything else.

Then I asked her what she was feeling when she thought again about
what had happened in the church. The interpreter, who was a
pastor, looked at me hesitantly, as if to ask: "Why are you are
bringing it back up again when she was doing fine?" But we need a
complete treatment. The girl started crying and remembered seeing
other people being killed. She recalled how she and another child
who survived had escaped, and realized that her father had saved
their lives by what he had done to distract the perpetrators'
attention. She was crying as she remembered different scenes.

We continued to work through each of the traumatic events, and
after about 15 or 20 minutes, she started laughing. We asked her
what was coming up for her now, and she talked about her father.
Her mother didn't want them eating very sweet fruits because they
were not good for the children's teeth. But her father would sneak
them home in his pockets and when her mother wasn't looking he
would give them to the children. She was laughing wholeheartedly,
and we laughed with her. Then I asked, now when you think about
what happened in the church, what comes up? She paused and said
without tears: "I can still remember it, but now it seems like a
distant memory, like 12 years ago." She started to talk about
other fond memories. Shortly thereafter, we ended her session for
that day and made arrangements to see her the next day. She came
in the next day looking much more cheerful. She told us that for
the first time she had no nightmares and was able to sleep well.
She started recounting many more happy memories.

SI: That story still moves you when you talk about it.

CS: Yes, it was very moving. We were very moved by the people in
Rwanda and their wanting to be able to give back and show
appreciation. They had a tremendous resilience, a tremendous
capacity for forgiveness, an ability to experience and express
their joy and appreciation of life.

One example was an elderly gentleman from the village. He was
watching us work and asked if we could also work on him. He had
been made to watch the slaughter of his wife and children and
other villagers. Then the perpetrators started hitting him with
machetes. Twelve years later we could still see the huge wounds on
his neck and head. It was a miracle that he managed to survive.
The wounds were healed but there were huge scars. He said he had
constant flashbacks and nightmares.

We worked with him using TFT. The next day he came back and said
he slept well for the first time in 12 years with no nightmares.
He asked if we could help him with his dizziness, which caused him
to fall frequently. We thought that he might need some medical or
neurological help, but obviously the villagers don't have much
access to, nor the money to pay for, medical services. So we
thought we would try the diagnostic level of TFT, which provides
an individualized treatment. Most of the treatments we provided in
Rwanda were the standard practices found in Roger Callahan's book,
*Tapping the Healer Within*.

COMPILATION
Health and healing

We present a selection of quotations on the theme of 'Health and
healing' from Maitreya (*Messages from Maitreya the Christ*, and
*Maitreya's Teachings -- The Laws of Life*), Benjamin Creme's
Master (*A Master Speaks*), and Benjamin Creme's writings.

My Heart embraces all who know Me, who come to Me for help. Thus
shall it always be. My brothers and sisters, My help is yours to
command, you have only to ask. Take My Hand, My friends, and let
Me take you with Me into your Glory. (Maitreya, from Message No.
49)

Disease is ultimately the result of wrong relationship: to our
higher self, the soul; to our brothers and sisters throughout the
world; and to the Whole of which we are a part. By the misuse of
soul energy we set in motion the causation. By wrong relationship
to our fellows we bring about disequilibrium and disharmony, and
illness of all kinds. Through our sense of separation we cut
ourselves off from the healing potencies which everywhere surround
us. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'Health and healing, part 2')

The stress which exists in the world today is a result of
competition and fear -- the fear of failure, disease, death, war,
calamity, and economic disruption. The pressure that these fears
put on humanity inevitably results in psychosomatic diseases. The
cure lies in a re-establishing of equilibrium. When we establish
equilibrium in our lives through a restructuring of our political,
economic and social institutions, we will find that the health of
humanity will improve dramatically. We will not have to spend
enormous sums of money maintaining health. In fact, illness
prevention will become the norm. Disease can generally be
prevented more easily than it can be cured. (Benjamin Creme,
*Maitreya's Mission Volume Three*)

Market forces have created social and natural havoc. People have
been condemned to death, literally, in the name of profit and
loss. Hospitals have been shut because they are not profitable,
schools have difficulty in staying open. These institutions are
essential for the health and well-being of society.

Spiritually and mentally, many people are bankrupt. They know only
how to get up in the morning and go to work. They come home and go
to bed. They have been conditioned by politics and religion and
condemned to spiritual and mental imprisonment. Everything around
us has been created by nature, but disasters, destruction,
depression and disease are man-made. The people you must demand an
answer from are your leaders, those who have conditioned you and
prevented you from enjoying a life of bliss and peace.

The energy which is wreaking havoc in the world now through
storms, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have been unleashed
because man thinks he can do what he likes. He believes that if he
has a healthy bank balance he has a healthy life. But greed drives
him to destruction. Spiritually and mentally he is bankrupt. We
are seeing the end of the old age and the beginning of a new era.
(Maitreya, *Maitreya's Teachings -- The Laws of Life*)

Pollution

Toxicity, pollutions, of all kinds, and in all fields, is now the
greatest danger to men, animals and the Earth itself. All are
poisoned and sick in their own way. Unknown to men but evident to
Us, the greatest harm sustained by men and planet in this sorry
tale is caused by nuclear radiation. Men have gone far astray in
the development of this most dangerous energetic source. (Benjamin
Creme's Master, from 'Invisible peril')

Our air, water, soil, the food we eat, all are polluted by many
substances and poisons. The worst of all is the nuclear radiation
that spills out from the nuclear power-stations and the nuclear
experimentation which is still going on. That is the greatest
danger; it breaks down the immune system, and the allergies are
the result of this breakdown. These allergic reactions are
appearing worldwide. The Masters say pollution, particularly
radioactive pollution, is the number-one killer in the world. The
sooner we close down our nuclear power stations and all nuclear
experimentation of the fission kind, the better for humanity.
(Benjamin Creme, *The Great Approach*)

One of the outstanding happenings of the present time has been the
rise into prominence of so-called spiritual or faith healers of
various kinds. There has been a marked shift in public acceptance
of their role and gifts and this on a worldwide scale. A new
interest in the ancient healing methods of the East has widened
the technical resources and understanding of Western
practitioners, while prevention of disease -- the creation of
conditions of health and vitality -- is gradually gaining a major
role.

All of this portends well for the future, a future in which we
shall see the gradual conquering of the ills which so beset
mankind. The first step will be to eradicate the *fear* of disease
and, from an understanding of its cause, inculcate a more correct
approach to its control.

The transformation of social structures will do much to improve
the health of humanity, removing much of the chronic stress and
anxiety which is the experience of millions today. Greater leisure
and recreation will play their part while sounder agricultural
methods will ensure the production of food whose vitality is
adequate to man's needs.

When mankind realizes the true nature of its constitution -- as a
soul reflecting itself through mental, emotional and twofold
physical (etheric and dense) bodies, the first step in the
conquering of disease will be taken. Until now, man's attention
has been focused on the dense-physical plane while the causes of
disease are to be found in the misappropriation of the energies
flowing through the subtler bodies.

Man is on the verge of a great discovery: that disease is the
result of imbalance; that correct balance is maintained by correct
thought and action and that such correct thought and action
involves his brothers and sisters everywhere. If man would end
disease he must first end separation. (Benjamin Creme's Master,
from 'Health and Healing, part 1')

The Self

Experience the Self within -- If you follow others instead of
being yourself, you lose your sparkle; you cannot reflect the
light of individuality. Without that light, there is no progress
in life. Similarly, when you experience the Self within and come
to know you are an immortal entity, completely separate from mind,
spirit and body, you learn to use these temples of the Lord
creatively, with awareness. Processes of healing follow
automatically.

This is why Maitreya has said that even people with AIDS will be
healed through prayer and through the practice of honesty of mind,
sincerity of spirit and detachment.

Without detachment there is no salvation. The Prayer for the New
Age, given by Maitreya, can lead people to experience that Self
within who is detached from mind, spirit and body. (Maitreya,
*Maitreya's Teachings -- The Laws of Life*)

Etheric planes

The etheric planes of matter await man's exploration and study.
Therein will be found the origin of that disequilibrium of forces
which manifests itself as the body's ills. The treatment of
disease will take on a new dimension when the function of the
force centres (chakras) as receivers and dispensers of energy is
understood and when their connection with the major glands of the
endocrine system is known. Already, of course, there are those few
practitioners who know this and who do valuable work, but not
until this knowledge is general shall we see much advance in the
understanding of the mechanism of disease.

It will not be long until this research into the etheric fields
begins in earnest. When it does it will transform the therapeutic
situation. The new psychology, the coming science of the soul,
will throw much light on the nature and cause of disease and point
the way to its prevention. In time, man will learn to approach and
work with the deva (or angelic) evolution, many aspects of which
are deeply engaged in the healing process. (Benjamin Creme's
Master, from 'Health and healing, part 2')

In the etheric body -- the body of finer-than-solid but still
physical matter -- there is a group of chakras or energy centres,
including seven major ones in the spine, through which our
energies flow. The energy that we receive comes from cosmos, the
solar system, our own planet and our soul, entering the system we
call 'ourselves'. If the chakras are working in a balanced way we
get equilibrium in the energetic system. If from wrong use of soul
energy (the major factor in dis-ease) we have produced a stasis,
or dislocation of the flow, some of the chakras will not be
functioning as they should. This results in an imbalance in the
energy streaming through the body.

Related to the chakras is our endocrine system, the glands in the
physical body. The health of the glands depends entirely on the
correct flow of energy in the etheric body through the chakras,
while the health of the physical body depends on the correct
functioning relationship between the glands.

We are souls in incarnation. The energy which galvanizes our life
is coming from the soul. As we evolve we can come more and more
into touch with the soul, but if we do not use the energy in the
correct way we produce dis-ease, disequilibrium. Healing brings to
bear a degree of higher or stronger energy, to create a balance.
That might be total and permanent, or in many cases temporary.

The best way to produce correct health is (a) to treat the body
with respect and (b) to use the energy of the soul *in service*.
The soul knows only service, it wants only to serve; that is why
it comes into incarnation. If a person meditates, for example, and
brings in energy from the soul but does not use it in service,
then one may get the problems of disease, neurosis, emotional
imbalance and so on. (Benjamin Creme, *Maitreya's Mission Volume
Three*)

Children need to be taught "the three Rs" (reading, writing and
arithmetic). But this is not enough. They need to be taught who
they really are. The children of today will understand the
relationship between the Self and mind, spirit and body with
greater ease than adults imagine. Even a child who is bullied and
has no one to turn to, a child who has been abused, can be healed
through this understanding. He will be able to know and experience
that what has been abused, whether in mind, spirit or body, is not
his true Self. (Maitreya, *Maitreya's Teachings -- The Laws of
Life*)

If you would maintain the health of the body, you must maintain
the correct balance of the endocrine system which needs the
correct, uninhibited flow of energy in and out of the chakras, in
a balanced, co-ordinated way. Because of our wrong living
conditions, of our badly-constructed and maintained environment,
and because of all sorts of inhibiting factors in our education,
our upbringing and so on, no one lives in a perfect state of total
equilibrium. No one has perfect health. Everyone is inhibited
because of the social norms within which we live, especially in
our cities. Each of us suffers from the results of inhibition of
one kind or another.

We repeat this on the emotional and on the mental level. The
inhibitions on the mental level are very severe indeed; they lead
us to become fundamentalist Christian, fundamentalist Jew, Muslim,
Hindu, Buddhist, etc. These are mental straightjackets. They
inhibit the free, thinking process of the mind. We cannot think
creatively because it has all been thought for us. We are given a
set of ideas, of beliefs, to believe in.

The same is true of the emotional body. We are taught not to show
all these negative emotions. We know that they are not nice, and
we are brought up to be nice; every little boy and girl has to be
nice. So we learn a mechanism to keep all our bad, naughty
thoughts in place. We do it by tensing the muscles. First of all,
we tense the muscles of the solar plexus. Once we have got them
really tight and hard, the rest take care of themselves. There is
a group of muscles in the chest which inhibits our breathing,
because we find that, if we breathe freely and easily, our ideas
and gestures and feelings also come freely and easily, and we
become dangerously spontaneous, a very dangerous thing to be, we
have found, in the normal world among our parents and their
friends. Psychoses and neuroses are the result of inhibition of
the life functions.  (Benjamin Creme, *Maitreya's Mission Volume
Two*)

Man's illnesses result from man's imperfect use of the energies of
his soul which, inhibited or squandered, find a deviant path for
their expression and create dis-ease. A new and clearer
understanding of how man functions is needed and is on its way.
This will reveal the intricacies of his energetic network and the
inter-relatedness of all the parts. The roles played by man's
different bodies, as vehicles of the soul, will become known and
understood, and lifestyles will be adapted to ensure their proper
use. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'Health and Healing, part 3')

Waters of Life

The Waters of Life created by Maitreya all over the planet (777
eventually) -- sources of practically inexhaustible water charged
by the energy of Aquarius -- will vastly increase the health of
humanity. They strengthen the cellular structure of the body and
act as a general tonic. It almost does not matter what the disease
is: if your karma allows it the cure or amelioration will take
place and on a wider margin of karma than would normally be the
case ... the [water sources] will increase tremendously the
quality of physical, emotional and mental health. This will
inevitably give people longer lives but just the lessening of
stress in the world will allow people to live longer. (Benjamin
Creme, *Maitreya's Mission Volume Three*)

Soon, the many miracles [Maitreya] has wrought will endear Him to
the hearts of men and women everywhere. The healing waters will be
discovered, one by one, and a great cleansing of men's temples
will begin. (Benjamin Creme's Master, from 'The One who knocks')

Take My hand, My friends, and I shall take you to a New Country in
which your true nature as gods shall flourish, in which all men
together, as brothers, shall work out their dream of life. Many
await My coming with some fear. Nothing but good shall grow where
I tread. My promise stands: I shall reveal to you the nature of
yourselves and God. I shall show you that for all men life is
blessed. I shall create among you a pool of Love from whose waters
all may quench their thirst. My heart shall speak for your heart,
My tongue for yours. The leaders and the people will respond, and
all shall be made anew. Take heart, My friends, I am here among
you. I come to serve you, to live with you and love you, to lead
you and guide you. Look no more to the dark. (Maitreya, from
Message No. 123)

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

In this section *Share International* focuses on the rising tide
of people power which will continue until, under Maitreya's wise
guidance, the people will lead their leaders into the creation of
a just society in which the rights and needs of all are recognized
and met.

>>>Worldwide May Day marches

May Day, or Labour Day, has traditionally belonged to the workers
but on 1 May 2008 they were joined by thousands of people affected
by poverty, rallying across the world. Issues and demands included
workers' and immigrants' rights; food costs, living standards and
pension reforms; and the Iraq war.

In *Russia* there were large demonstrations in several cities
against the growing gap between rich and poor and soaring food
prices. Around 30,000 took part in demonstrations in Moscow. At a
rally in Saint Petersburg, former chess champion Garry Kasparov
said: "The party of power is not ashamed that its members are
millionaires. These are the millionaires who robbed the country."

In *France* around 120,000 people marched in cities across the
country, demanding higher wages and pensions, and calling on
President Sarkozy to deal with rising living costs. In Paris two
major trade unions held a large joint rally for the first time in
four years. In Marseilles, unions claimed that 30,000 took to the
streets. Many of the marchers were immigrants, calling for the
legalization of undocumented workers. "There are no foreigners in
this land. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. Justice!!!" said one
banner.

In *Germany* protesters called for the introduction of a national
minimum wage and drew attention to the growing divide between rich
and poor.

In *Serbia*, around 10,000 people protested against privatization
and called for better living standards.

In *Greece* transport and public services were brought to a
standstill by a 24-hour May Day strike against the government's
privatization and pension reforms. Marches took place in Athens
and other major cities.

Around 25,000 took part in a demonstration in Madrid, *Spain*,
making known their concerns about wage cuts and rising
unemployment. Spanish General Workers Union general secretary
Candido Mendez said: "The government should tell the big
executives of big multinationals that they, and only they, should
tighten their belts."

Thousands marched in Istanbul, *Turkey*, in a demonstration which
turned violent when protesters tried to defy a government ban on
May Day rallies being held in the central square. One of the
grievances was government plans to raise the retirement age and
cut social security provision.

Around 70,000 workers marched in *Mexico* demanding that the
government end food shortages and unemployment.

In *Ecuador* over 15,000 protested against subcontracting and
labour conditions. There were also large demonstrations in, among
other Latin American countries, *Guatemala*, *Nicaragua* and
*Chile* with thousands taking part. In *Bolivia*, President Evo
Morales attended a May Day event in La Paz and called on the US to
withdraw troops from Iraq and in *Paraguay* the President-elect
Fernando Lugo was the first incoming president to be invited to
attend May Day rallies. In *Venezuela* marches were held both in
favour of and against the government of President Hugo Chavez.

Women in *Lima, Peru* took to the streets, banging pots and pans
to demand government action to halt the rise in food prices.
Estimated as 42 per cent of the population, the poor in Peru, just
as elsewhere in the world, are finding it increasingly difficult
to feed their families. Now President Alan Garcia is sending the
army to hand out free bags of food in the poorest neighbourhoods
but the women say this is too little too late: "The pot is empty,
Garcia!"

Asian cities saw large demonstrations against rocketing prices for
staples such as rice. In Bangkok, *Thailand*, people held banners
bearing slogans such as: "Expensive rice prices, cheap labour
wages. How can labourers live?"

In the *Philippines* thousands of workers marched, protesting
against President Arroyo's refusal to raise the minimum wage in
the face of rising food and fuel prices. They carried banners
reading "Jobs, Justice, Food" and "Lower food prices now."

In *Indonesia* thousands of people marched from central Jakarta to
the presidential palace, protesting against the outsourcing of
work, and high food prices. Indonesian domestic workers took part
in a march through the streets of *Hong Kong*, joined by workers
from the territory and other overseas workers to demand higher
wages as the city battles against a weak currency and high
inflation.

A May Day rally in Tokyo, *Japan*, attracted around 44,000 people,
with concern over fuel prices a major issue.

The price of food and low wages were again the concern of those in
*Lebanon*, where around 10,000 marched through the centre of
Beirut.

In *South Africa*, rallies were organized throughout the country
by the Federation of Trade Unions. People are tightening their
belts as the price of staple commodities like rice, bread, maize
and dairy products increase. A trade Union spokesman said: "People
are getting more and more angry. We felt we had to give expression
to that anger in the form of mass action."

The *United States*, which traditionally celebrates Labour Day in
September, has begun to mark 1 May along with the rest of the
world, due to the large numbers of immigrant workers -- they make
up nearly half of the country's workforce. Thousands marched in
major cities calling for a change in immigration laws.  In Los
Angeles about 8,500 took part in a march through the centre of the
city, urging an end to work-site immigration raids. "A lot of
people feel that nothing is being done," said Ochil Pacheco, a
20-year-old Mexican American whose father is an illegal immigrant.
She wore a dress bearing the slogans "We are workers, not
criminals" and "Legalise me". Marchers included legal and illegal
immigrants, one being Andres Rivas, 68, a former El Salvador city
mayor, now a naturalized US citizen, having received amnesty in
the 1980s. He said he marched to support those who are still
fighting for legal status: "We have to stand up for those that
don't have it today." There were also large demonstrations in New
York, Chicago, Seattle and Washington, where the war in Iraq was a
major grievance. (Sources: AFP; *LA Times*, US;
www.deutsche-welle.net; BBC News; *International Herald Tribune*,
USA; Reuters; AFP; *Daily News*, South Africa)

>>>Rally in London for a Free Palestine

A crowd estimated by the organizers to be 15,000-strong marched in
London  to a rally in Trafalgar Square on 10 May 2008 calling for
the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and the
lifting of the siege of Gaza. The rally was organized by the
British Muslim Initiative, Palestine Solidarity Campaign,
Palestinian Forum in Britain and supported by many Trade Unions.

Many protestors wore black to commemorate Nab, the 60th
anniversary of the founding of Israel. Trafalgar Square soon
filled up with waves of chanting marchers and a forest of placards
and flags.

Speaker after speaker described the dire condition of life in
Gaza: untreated sewage from failing sewage treatment works, barely
functioning hospitals the lack of safe clean drinking water, fuel,
food or medical aid. They condemned checkpoints in the West Bank,
the separatist wall, the policy of apartheid and collective
punishment and called on supporters to boycott Israeli goods.
British Politicians Tony Benn and George Galloway were among the
speakers.

Prominent among the protestors were Jews for Justice for
Palestinians, who call for an end to the siege of Gaza and the
occupation of the West Bank, withdrawal of Jewish settlements and
dismantling of the separation wall within Palestinian territory.
They support the Palestinians' right to a viable state in the West
Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, and want to redress the wrongs of
the Nab. Signatories include many eminent Jews who look to a
future of peace and mutual co-operation between the Palestinian
and Israeli peoples. (Source: palestinecampaign.org; jfjfp.org;
nkusa.org; *The Observer*, UK)

BENJAMIN CREME -- LECTURES AND TOURS

*UK* -- Benjamin Creme lectures at Friends House, 173 Euston Road,
London NW1 (opposite Euston station): 12 June, 10 July, 11
September, 7 October, 13 November, 2 December 2008. 7-9.30pm;
doors open 6.30pm. Admission free. Enquiries: Share International,
PO Box 3677, London NW5 1RU. Tel. 020-7482-1113. Fax.
020-7267-2881.

*USA* -- New York: Lecture 26 July; Transmission Meditation 27
July. Enquiries: Tel. (001) 212-665-9959 or (001) 718-951-7295.
Los Angeles: Lecture 2 August; Transmission Meditation 4 August.
Enquiries: Tel. (001) 818-785-6300. San Francisco: Lecture 10
August; Transmission Meditation 12 August. Enquiries: Tel. (001)
510-841-3738. Transmission Meditation Conference 15-17 August.
Enquiries: Tel. (001) 510-841-3738.

*THE NETHERLANDS* -- Amsterdam: Lecture 17 September. 21st Share
International Transmission Meditation Conference: Kerkrade, 19-21
September. Enquiries: Tel. (31) 20-665-7610 or (31) 20-694-6262.

*GERMANY* -- Munich: Lecture 25 October; Transmission Meditation
26 October. Enquiries: Tel. (49) 89 123 252.

THE EMERGENCE OF THE WORLD TEACHER -- IN BRIEF

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.

Since late 1991, Maitreya has been carrying out 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.  Similar events have now been
witnessed by large numbers in different countries.  In this way,
more and more people will receive proof of His presence and,
hopefully, in due course will 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, chief editor 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.

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, the breakthrough comes, in the
political 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.  Manifestations of crosses of light are reported in
the US media and are seen by many thousands.

1989/2001:  Crosses of Light are seen and filmed, from Canada to
Japan and from the Philippines to Slovenia.

1995, Sept/Oct:  Peope world-wide witness the miraculous
disappearance of milk offered to statues of Hindu gods.

1991/2002:  Maitreya appears miraculously before large groups of
people all over the world.  In Tlacote (Mexico), Nordenau
(Germany) and Nadana (India) healing wells charged by Maitreya
attract growing numbers of visitors.  By means of these
'miracles', Maitreya seeks to create a climate of hope and
expectancy in which He can emerge as the Teacher for all
humanity.

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 which He expects to
take place in the world.

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 was
at the very peak of her powers, Maitreya said 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, 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.  In 1988 He promised:
"Many people will be healed from AIDS through the practice of
prayer".  Dutch television announced in October 1995 that more
that 400 people have been cured of AIDS through prayer in Uganda.

Maitreya also forecast the election of a Democrat as President of
the United States and the positive developments in the relation
between Israel and the Palestinians.  (Statement made in 1988:
"The Israeli army, against all expectations, will withdraw from
the West Bank and Gaza and return to its homeland.")

*A major event* which, Maitreya says, we may expect to see in the
near future and which he announced as early as 1988: *an
international stock market crash, beginning in Japan*.

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