Posted on 08/04/2004 10:40:15 PM PDT by Veto!
Recap of last year's appearance (from coasttocoast.com)
The Coming of Maitreya
"Benjamin Crème of shareintl.org, made an eloquent appearance on Tuesday night's show, speaking of the "incredibly evolved master" known as Maitreya. He described him as a being who is literally millions of years old, and who has for the first time in history come himself to our physical world. Crème, who is 80 years old, says that in the past Maitreya "overshadowed" the consciousness of such great figures as Jesus and Buddha.
"They are ignorant, misinformed, and afraid," Crème said of those who claim that Maitreya is the Antichrist. "They have never experienced his love and his humanity," he continued. According to Crème, Maitreya is waiting to make himself known at the proper time, which he believes may be when the developed world has a major economic collapse. It's "the only thing that will bring humanity face to face with reality…a burst in their economic security," Crème said. It is the giant gap between the haves and have nots that urgently needs to be redressed in our world, Crème pointed out. This total lack of balance he states causes the "inability to see the world as one."
"I was filled with the love of all the world, tears rolled down my cheek," Crème said of his first telepathic encounter with Maitreya. He described being "inside a great sphere of white light," where on the right side was an amalgamation of past events, the left side the future. And he heard Maitreya's voice saying, "I myself am coming, and you'll have a role to play if you accept it."
"Benjamin Crème, tonight's guest, first began presenting messages from Maitreya, the "World Teacher," in public forums in 1977. He says that Maitreya had spent the last 2,000 years in a "body of light" at a retreat in the Himalayas, but has now resurrected in a physical form that he "self-created" and that he lives and works in London. Many of Maitreya's messages are based around the idea of sharing and global cooperation.
"According to Crème, Maitreya has the ability to appear and disappear at will, and has in fact materialized in gatherings around the world, where he takes on the form of a Messianic figure recognizable to that culture. Most notable was his appearance in Nairobi, Kenya in 1988 where he was said to be identified as "the Christ" in front of 6,000 people. There has been speculation, particularly among certain guests on Coast that Maitreya is actually the Antichrist. In fact, Kathleen Keating said he appeared suddenly in her backyard wearing a pony tail and an Armani suit. Crème believes the Antichrist is an energy rather than a person, and that it has already come and gone in the form of Hitler and his associates.
One of the most startling claims about Maitreya concerns what has been called "The Day of Declaration." According to Crème's affiliated website, shareintl.org,"Maitreya will be invited to speak to the entire world via the linked television satellite networks…We will see his face on television, but he will not actually speak. Instead, each of us will hear his words telepathically in our own language as he simultaneously impresses the minds of all humanity. Even those who are not watching Maitreya on television will have this experience. His energy of love will enter the hearts of all, galvanizing humanity to save the world."
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A bunch of shysters making money on a weird ideas. Still, there are nutcases around who'll believe anything. I'm annoyed that coast-to-coast broadcasts all over the country on Clear Channel, an allegedly fairly conservative radio company. The show frequently features guests who delve into "arcane" topics and end their speils with major Bush bashing, sometimes as messages from the beyond....
This guy sounding off again? What, did he just wake up from a 20-year nap, or has it taken this long for him to decide we'd finally cultivated enough screwballs to give him a real following?
I always pegged Ed McMahon as the anti christ...
Oh, he's a lawyer.
Still, sNorry is too forced. On the bright side, I don't immediately turn off the radio whenever he hawks that
After Dark newsletter.
They must have trained him to be not so offensive.
Now, if they could only get him to keep his liberal comments to himself, I could almost tolerate his phoniness.
Jayna Davis is one of the good guys. Tomorrow night comes the Antichrist. Interesting programming.
Thanks for finding the Keating info, BW. I think she's been a guest on coast-to-coast too.
Grifter, more likely.
The biggest nutjob has got to be the woman that left her family to preach about the approach of Planet-X last year.
Impossible. Everyone knows that I am the Anti-Christ. There will be some smiting tonight...
Good one.
Promise?
He will go on TV, but he won't speak? Huh?
What was his freepername, and how long did it take him get ZOTted? ;-)
Will you guys settle this once and for all?
Yes she has been on a few times, but not since Art left I don't think. She's been sick recently, I think with West Nile. I have a couple of her books. Not sure how much stock I place in some what she says, but this M guy is certainly not worth a chance.
I went to his site once, before I heard her talk about him, and I could not get him off my mind for a week or so. The website isn't even particularly interesting, so I'm not sure why it stuck with me that long.
Creme is a Communist too. That should tell you something ...
The rapture comes before the Antichrist is revealed. Freepers will never get to see the Antichrist anyway, so who cares?. :-)
Speak for yourself, boychik. Some of us have to hang around to clean up the mess, nu? :-)
I remember 1981 or 82 when this guy put full page ads in all the major papers (I saw it in the Los Angeles Times) saying "he was coming". I was a young Christian and this freaked me out. The next night church was standing room only.
These days I think there are actually so many more of these kinds of nutjobs out there that I have to just roll my eyes. One of the best things acquired with age is perspective.
He's red, and scaley, has a bifurcated tail, and carries a hayfork.
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