Q. (1) Now that the US Congress has passed a financial bailout plan, how close is the US and the world to the worldwide stock market crash that Share International magazine has predicted? (2) Are we heading for a total economic collapse, or depression, worldwide as some have predicted, or (3) are the economic problems we are facing more limited in scope?
A. (1) This is the crash. We could not be closer. (2) Not total perhaps, but very far-reaching. (3) No. The entire economic system and thinking must be transformed. It will take the adoption of the principle of sharing to bring that about. Q. Will Maitreya's message of sharing be more difficult to accept for some people now, given that the economic situation of many millions in the US and other developed nations is increasingly precarious? A. On the contrary, it will show these nations that the old greedy and selfish ways do not work in a rational manner. Only sharing, in the end, will bring stability, justice and the peace we all desire. Q. Are we facing the end of hypercapitalism? A. Yes. According to the Masters the best ratio for successful, stable, fair government is: Socialism 70 per cent Capitalism 30 per cent. At the present time the ratio in the US is 95 per cent Capitalism 5 per cent Socialism. UK 85 per cent Capitalism 15 per cent Socialism. France and Germany much the same. Scandinavia about 40 per cent Capitalism 60 per cent Socialism. For this reason the Scandinavian countries, except for Iceland, are the most stable and fair. Q. A team of French scientists led by archaeologist Franck Goddio, announced that they have found a bowl dating to the first century AD, engraved with what they believe could be the world's first known reference to Christ: "DIA CHRSTOU O GOISTAIS." This has been interpreted by the archaeological team to mean either, "by Christ the magician" or, "the magician by Christ." (1) Do these words indeed refer to Jesus (overshadowed by Christ) during his time in Palestine, or (2) someone else? (3) Did the person who wrote the inscription know Jesus directly? (4) Did they mean "magician" in the derogatory way that it might be interpreted as today, which could mean a trickster etc? A. (1) Yes. (2) No. (3) No. (4) No. On the contrary, they were meant to praise Jesus. They were inscribed 25 years after the death of Jesus. Q. Famed Canadian neuroscientist Wilder Penfield thought that the mind may interface with the brain in part of the diencephalon. (1) Is that true? (2) If so, is there a specific part of the diencephalon that you can identify where the mind interfaces with the brain? A. (1) Yes. (2) It is not in a part of, but in the diencephalon. Q. (1) Should we have compassion for the Lords of Materiality? (2) Or should we pay them no attention at all? A. (1) No. (2) Yes. Q. How can one open the mind more become less rigid or set in one's beliefs? A. Become more tolerant of difference. Meet more people of opposing views and try to understand their point of view. Q. What is the quality of Piscean energy and how is it different from the quality of Aquarian energy? A. Idealism, devotion and individuality. As we have used them, however, they have demonstrated, through our marked individuality, as division, separation, fanaticism, fundamentalism. It has the ideals of unity, brotherhood, justice, freedom but if you look around the world there's little sign of that brotherhood, or justice. These positive qualities need a broader view of these ideals; not a simple, fanatical bigoted view which has been the norm throughout Pisces. We are living at the end of the age of Pisces and that's a problem. The energies began to be withdrawn in 1625. Our solar system has come into the same relationship as with Pisces, but now with the constellation of Aquarius; we are living in the early years of the Aquarian dispensation. Aquarius is totally different its qualities are those of synthesis; they will fuse and blend humanity together in a way which now seems impossible. It's difficult to imagine because of the influence of Pisces. The energies of Aquarius began to come into this solar system and to this planet in 1675 and they are gathering momentum with every day that passes. The energies are more or less equal neither one dominates. The energies of Pisces are still somewhat more prevalent about 58 per cent to 42 per cent. So not equal but relatively so. We are still living in a world with the old structures which we created political economic, scientific, religious, cultural and so on. All structures are the result of our response to the energies of Pisces. The governments of the world are struggling to cope with the situation of today and the future, with the tools of an age which has passed. All our concepts of international politics, of economic structures, of how humanity should live together are dominated by the concepts of Pisces. Yet here we are living in the early days of Aquarius. And we wonder why life is so difficult. It is difficult because we are trying to do what belongs to tomorrow with the knowledge, the concepts, the ways of thinking, the old ways of the past. The aim of Aquarius is to create unity and synthesis but how can you do that if you have only the technique of competition to bring that about. It cannot be done. You can only make unity with co-operation. It is the lack of co-operation, the emphasis on competition, which is the major obstacle to change for the better in every aspect of our lives. It is a contradiction in terms. http://tinyurl.com/5uqom8
