Questions and Answers a selection December 2012
Q. Would it be accurate to say that the world has entered a new phase? A. Yes the world has entered a new phase. The dark age of Kali Yuga is over. Our solar system is now beginning the Aquarian experience (lasting approximately 2,500 years). Aquarius's energy is the energy of synthesis. This will bring humanity together into a unity completely different from the situation of today. Q. Four years ago violence flared up yet again between Israel and Palestine. It was just before elections were due to take place in Israel. Obviously there is fault on both sides; perhaps this is cynical - but could it be that the violence has been provoked deliberately, with an eye on the forthcoming elections? A. Yes. There is a growing sentiment among the ordinary people of Israel for an agreed two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian problem. The Israeli government seems to turn automatically to aggression against the Palestinians when an election which might change the course of Israeli politics is due. Q. The US election results had not all been counted when videos were circulated on the internet showing how one voter trying to vote for President Obama had his repeated attempts corrupted into a vote for Romney. How many states had instances of vote rigging? A. Five. Q. (1) Did vote tampering take place in the recent US presidential election? (2) If so, what would the real results have been without vote tampering and other tricks, such as attempts by some Republican state leaders to suppress the number of people trying to vote? A. (1) 6 per cent on the Republican side and 3 per cent on the Democrat side. (2) The difference in votes between Obama and Romney would have been still more in favour of President Obama. President Obama won anyway, but it would have been by a larger margin. Q. Given the huge amounts of money spent on the US election by outside interest groups, mainly on the Republican side, could the generally positive election results for Democrat candidates be considered a victory of people power over the power of money? A. Yes. Q. What does the US election say, if anything, about the general state of consciousness of America and its receptivity to Maitreya's priorities? A. America as a whole, and that means all the black, Hispanic, etc, voters are fundamentally on the right side the side that is more closely aligned with Maitreya's priorities and it is that side which will save America. Q. On 29 October 2012 Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the east coast of the United States, causing death and much destruction. (1) Was this storm the result of (a) global warming (b) man's destructive thought patterns and/or (c) karma? (2) If karma played a part, may I ask for what exactly? A. (1) Yes, all three. (2) The USA is responsible for a quarter of the world's pollution. Q. The wealthiest 400 people in America now own more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. (1) Is this accurate? (2) What is your response to this? A. (1) More or less. (2) It is of course outrageous it is similar throughout the world and is crying out for change. It is the source of greatest unhappiness and social discord in the world. Q. British Prime Minister David Cameron has been in the Middle East selling arms; he was wearing a poppy the annual symbol of remembrance for all British war dead. He justified the arms trade saying that all countries have a right to self-defence. Your comment, please? A. The selling of fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with self-defence. The selling of arms is one of the greatest upholders of war. Q. What is the ideal number of hours people should work in a week? How soon in the future will work be reduced to a more reasonable number of hours per week? How many workdays a week would the ideal be? I recently read an article in Share International about the importance of leisure; we don't have any leisure now. A. The future evolution of humanity depends on greater and yet greater leisure. We are moving towards the time in which the artefacts used in everyday life will be created by robot technology (eventually created by the human mind). This will gradually free humanity for the exploration of his/her divine nature. Of course this lies ahead but not so very far ahead. Under the influence of Maitreya and the Masters leisure will quickly be seen as essential and working hours throughout the world will shrink in relation to these advances. Q. Could you please comment on feelings. What is the purpose of them and what are we supposed to do with them? What do we do with feelings from our past that still affect our present? Where do feelings come from? A. Feelings arise out of our astral/emotional feeling body which we share with the animal kingdom. Through feeling we experience pain and anger, disappointment (and learn to avoid it). We also feel and demonstrate affection and love and respond to emotions conjured by these feelings. The evolutionary aim is the gaining of control over the tiny devas which make up the astral plane. This is the reality of sublimation. The astral body should eventually be seen as a limpid `pool' through which the love of the Soul can demonstrate with perfection. Q. I've just read your Master's article `The coming transformation' (SI, April 2012). It sounds wonderful, too good to hope for, although I am curious about one thing. Does the Master know if this transformation will include women (the other half of humanity, the universe, etc) Or will it just be a transformation that will occur specifically with men? Or is it just an oversight in wording due to the fact that the female role in our species is mostly regarded as so insignificant in and of itself, that it's not really necessary to be dialectically inclusive in treatises such as this? Or do their lofty visions of "common divinity" really mean that we are, of course, all divine, some are just more divine than others? A. From the Master's point of view, every man, woman and child is divine. Moreover, the Masters have initiated the Women's Liberation Movement. Q. It seems incredible that the 15-year-old schoolgirl activist, Malala Yousafzai, who was shot at point-blank range on 9 October 2012 while travelling home from school in northwest Pakistan, has survived such a horrific injury. Was this a miracle? A. Yes, it was a miracle by the Master Jesus. Q. There are many positive initiatives being launched around 21 December 2012. Some groups talk about the beginning of a new time and the coming in of the Christ consciousness. Do you think this is because people know intuitively what Maitreya and the Master Jesus have indicated in recent experiences reported in the `Letters to the Editor' pages of Share International i.e. that far from being the end, this a great new beginning for humanity? A. The date 21 December 2012 is not so important in respect of change, but certain great changes are already taking place. Firstly, this is the end time of Kali Yuga, the Dark Age, and the beginning of Kalki, the Age of Light, and the coming of Kalki Avatar Who is Maitreya. Thousands of people in Tahrir Square, in Cairo, in the last weeks of the revolution against Hosni Mubarak, experienced Maitreya Who appeared among the people as Kalki Avatar, the rider on the white horse. This was filmed by independent media and was seen by millions on YouTube. Kalki Avatar on the white horse travelled through the crowds fast and unhindered; He was probably unseen by the vast majority in the square, but was seen by millions of people who watched the film on the internet. Since 1675 the energies of Aquarius have entered our solar system, while the energies of Pisces receded. Today this solar system is firmly in the Age of Aquarius and we are beginning our triumphal journey towards synthesis; the Age of Synthesis has begun. This will reflect though all our institutions as a growing unity, brotherhood, right relationship and peace.
