Benjamin Creme has seen the light.
What is this gobbley gook? This is just silliness, only Hollywood is dumb enough to listen to this and try to make sense of it...and the kookie liberals are afraid of Christianity???
Q. Besides voting for Kerry, how can we get rid of the evil men who run this country [the US] now?
A. Learn, and be ready, to SHARE. Influence the Congressmen and Senators of both parties to see the necessity of SHARING as the only answer to all the problems of today — economic, political, environmental, terrorism, war. Evil can only exist in its own likeness. America is rich, powerful and greedy, and most Americans must like it that way. Change that, and save America and the world.
Q. What do we tell people who are planning to vote for Ralph Nader? Sure, we would much rather have Nader for US President, but he will not win and may take votes from Kerry.
A. Absolutely. That is exactly what will happen if you vote for Nader. Personally I have a lot of respect for Nader’s ideas. He is a little bit fanatical for my taste. He does seem to have a certain, shall we say, megalomania and is running in a presidential race knowing that he has no possible chance to win. To vote for Nader is a complete loss of the vote for a Democratic President. He should, to my mind, follow Dennis Kucinich’s action and align himself behind Kerry and make sure of a Democratic win. This is too serious, too important, not only for America but for the whole world, to play a personal game such as Nader seems to be doing.
Q. Do you think Kerry will win?
A. My own personal feeling is that Kerry will win, but only if you vote. If you think Kerry will win and it does not matter because Mr Creme thinks so (which would be stupid), if you think that and therefore do not take the trouble to go down and vote, then he will not win. You have to vote for him. You have to get the young people out in the millions to vote for him.
I personally would prefer Kucinich above everybody, and it may be that in the next election in four years’ time Kucinich will be the one. But obviously he is too radical for the present America, and he would not win. But Kerry has every chance of winning. He is a decent man, a good man, has good intentions and is worth voting for.
Q. Spiritual teachers of the past that we know of were not associated with politics but focused on spiritual development. I am puzzled by your focus on politics. Please explain.
A. Because I am interested in love, in justice and freedom for everyone. Politics, economics, that is reality. That is spiritual. Where do you stop being spiritual? When do you stop being spiritual? How do you measure the degree of spirituality in a person? Everything in life is spiritual — we live in a spiritual universe. It could not be otherwise. The trouble is, we do not make it spiritual. We have the most corrupt politics that have ever been devised, the most corrupt economic structures ever devised by man. They are not spiritual but they should be, and must be, spiritual.
What I am talking about is spiritual politics, spiritual economics, and you will find that the Christ Himself, the Lord Maitreya Himself, the World Teacher, will concentrate in the beginning on politics and on economics. What I am saying comes from Him. These are His thoughts, His ideas. Politics, economics, should be the most spiritual things. Politics is about how people live together and economics is about how we distribute the world’s resources. If you are not spiritual, you do it badly, like today. Who is spiritual — these spiritual teachers you are talking about, or me, who is interested in how people live? You cannot talk about spiritual development to people who have to work 16 hours a day for a dollar a day, to keep their family from starving. The crisis today is a spiritual one, is focused in the political and economic fields, and can only be resolved in these fields.
Q. You said you heard not one mention of sharing at the US Democratic Party national convention in July 2004. How are the Democrats going to be any different than the Republicans? Sharing doesn’t seem to be a concept of either party.
A. And you will certainly hear even less mention of sharing during the Republican convention. It is true, sharing does not seem to be a concept of either party, which means sharing is not a concept in the minds and hearts of the American people. All the more reason, therefore, for those who do believe in sharing as the only way to go forward into the future to make it known and change the present attitude. It has to start somewhere, and, of course, despite appearances, there are many American people who recognize this truth.
Q. If the whole political institution is Piscean, and in my opinion, very corrupt, how will it make a difference who is elected US president in November?
A. This seems to me to be a very superficial view of the US political situation today. Seldom has it been so polarized as it is now, and, seldom has it been so important for the world that the American people make the right choice on 2 November.
Although there are Republicans who will vote Democrat out of disgust at the lies and corruption of the present administration, and Democrats (mainly Southern) who are very conservative (and Piscean) and who will vote for Bush, the differences in outlook of these two parties, I should have thought, have never been clearer. One seems hell-bent on confrontation and war at any cost, however illegal and unjustified; the other more stable, willing to work with the United Nations and with less grandiose plans for a Pax Americana and US domination of the world. I would say there is about 45 per cent difference in the approach of these parties. |
