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Not sure if you’ve been following this story but it’s a curious one. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/us/05sfmetro.html Quote:A native of London now living on Potrero Hill in San Francisco, Mr. Patel suddenly finds himself an unlikely object of worship, proclaimed the messiah Maitreya by followers of the New Age religious sect Share International.
He was raised as a Hindu and had never heard of the group. He has no desire for deification. But he may not have a choice.
Mr. Patel’s journey from ordinary person to unwilling lord is a case of having the wrong résumé at the wrong moment in history. For this is a time when human yearning to find a magical cure for the world’s woes can be harnessed to the digital age’s instant access to a vast treasure-trove of personal information.
I have heard of “The Maitreya” from discussions of end-times conspiracy theory. I always thought it was some shadowy figure who showed up to talk to government leaders and stuff. Brian Johnston wrote:I have heard of “The Maitreya” from discussions of end-times conspiracy theory. I always thought it was some shadowy figure who showed up to talk to government leaders and stuff.
Hi Brian, basically Maitreya is originally the Buddhist messiah. However, the idea was picked up by the Theosophy clique (Madame Blavatsky, Besant etc), and they tried to make out Krishnamurti was the one (Krishnamurti was groomed as a child, but rebelled against it later). The idea was then pinched from Theosophy by Share International, which is a group that centers around someone called Benjamin Creme. I have heard talks from Share International people, and was even given one of their magazines and they are certainly mind-bending (not for the right reasons, sadly). Every star/UFO etc is evidence of Maitreya. And so on…
I think the conspiracy theorists would probably have Maitreya down as some kind of anti-Christ figure in the New World Order. Muslims have a similar idea, al-Mahdi.
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