Friday 16 August 2024

The Messiah is a HP!

 
When I was on my recent tour of Dorset, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/08/dorset-tour.html, somebody gave me a copy of Fortean Times, a magazine that I regularly read which specializes in the paranormal, cryptozoology, UFO's and other strange phenomena. It is issue number 349, for January 2017. On page 24 is the "Necrolog", their obituary column, and this time the tribute was to Benjamin Creme, the Scottish artist and esoteric author who had just died at the ripe old age of ninety-three. Creme became interested in the occult as a teenager and reports that in 1945 he was summoned to a meeting in a parked car near Tower Bridge in London where some strangers told him that the Maitreya had just been born. In Buddhism the Maitreya is a future Buddha. By "the Buddha" most people generally refer to Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince who lived in about the 6th or 5th century BC and became "enlightened" after a long ordeal of meditation and ascetic discipline. However he is not the only one. According to legend, there are many others; in fact ten thousand Buddhas appear every kalpa. That sounds like a lot. Buddhas should be falling like raindrops. That is until you find out that a kalpa is a very long period of time, roughly 8.2 trillion years; far longer than scientists think the universe has existed. If you do the maths you'll realize that even ten thousand means they're still very occasional visitors and you'll be lucky to be alive at the same time one appears. The concept of the Maitreya was closely copied by Theosophy, a modern occult belief, in more recent times. It is not unlike the Jewish ideas about the messiah or the Christian Second Coming. Creme was told that the next Buddha was going to grow up in the Himalayas with his parents, but would emerge publicly when the world was ready. Creme became a modern John the Baptist like figure. He began writing and lecturing about the Maitreya, something he did almost continuously for the rest of his life. In 1982 he escalated his activities by taking out full page newspaper ads and speaking at press conferences, some of which were televised. He announced that in 1977 the Maitreya had left his home in the mountains and travelled to London. He was now living in the Asian community around Brick Lane in the East End. Very soon the time would be right for the Maitreya to go public and he would emerge onto a world stage to usher in an apocalyptic new era of happiness and harmony. Here's Benjamin Creme's website: http://www.share-international.org/. The reason I bring this up is that many people are curious about who this Maitreya is. Creme refused to give many details, but he did reveal that he was of the subcontinental persuasion, which is hardly unusual in London; but also he was very tall, about seven feet. This should make him stand out quite significantly and fairly easy to identify. However, the most important detail is that he was working as a porter at a London hospital... Yes, the messiah is a HP! This should make him easy to spot. If you are one of my EP&DBorSP's in London and you serve alongside an EP&DBP who looks Asian and it seven feet tall, could you please let me know? According to the article, in the early 80's he did permanent nightshift, but he may have been redeployed since. He must be pretty old by now, about seventy-nine, but he may not age as fast as mortal men. I'd love to meet him. I'm not religious, but I would naturally accept him as my lord and master, simply and solely because he is a HP. Interestingly, I've found out that there is a hospital called "Maitreya", but it is not in London or even the UK; it is in India, see: https://www.maitreyahospitals.com.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2020/08/apocalypse-soon.html.
And: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/01/ben-emlyn-jones-live-at-truth-seekers.html.

Friday 9 August 2024

Non-Humane Service

 
"CABAL" has written another essay. This is one MEP&DBP wrote some years ago and so, like we all do, he has changed his perspective a bit since. This is a snapshot of his feelings in the summer of 2012. (2012 was my last portering year. And even in that year I only enjoyed six days as a HP.) This piece is written in CABAL's usual poetic style and expresses his feelings of frustration and demoralization as he goes about his duties in an environment that neither supports his honest attitude nor protects and cares for his welfare. The issues he raises I have covered myself; an incompetent bureaucracy, untrained and overworked civilian staff, pointless rules invented to achieve nothing and just tick boxes. It matches a lot of my own thoughts and feelings at the time. I still sometimes find myself slipping back down into such "red pill rage". There's nothing wrong with that in small amounts. You'd have to lose your humanity not to experience it sometimes. CABAL himself calls them "a few bitter memories". The problem comes when that is all you feel, every day and every week. If you find yourself in that situation then you need help. That is not an insult or criticism, just a fact. Don't be ashamed to ask for it from anybody you can trust. The world is not all misery and evil, even in the NHS. It can just look like that sometimes because misery and evil have a habit of jumping to the front of the stage drawing attention and making themselves very conspicuous, thus covering up everything else. Source: https://dreamingspireart.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/non-humane-service/.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-hpwa.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-work-by-cabal.html.