The Wilderness Experience ... and Beyond

The Wilderness Experience ... and Beyond

By Scott Champion

Author and futurist Benjamin Creme predicted that one day the world would inevitably undergo a profound wilderness experience, wherein humanity of necessity would accept and embrace a much simpler lifestyle. Creme said that while this experience was underway governments would be forced to meet the true needs of their people. These needs for life’s essentials are the same for people everywhere, for housing, food, healthcare, and education. At the present moment humanity at all levels is lost – government, business, workers, and the elderly -- with no one having a clear solution to the unexpectedly difficult problem at hand.

The Covid-19 pandemic appears unsolvable in the very near-term, but this situation has created a window of opportunity to rethink our approach to life. Do we, in the collective, really want to spend all of our time and energy being a tiny wheel in a system in which most people are little more than an underpaid resource, while wealth flows into fewer and fewer hands with each passing year? Millions of people struggle to maintain a basic lifestyle. Students, at the outset of their productive lives, graduate under heavy debt loads, having mortgaged their adult life to pay for a simple university education. For many others, numbering in the tens of millions, they lack affordable health care, child care, adequate housing, and a living wage. Food insecurity is on the rise in the US and this unfortunate and unnecessary situation has increased markedly with the arrival of the pandemic. It is a challenging time under the weight and pressure of unforgiving market forces. Creme, speaking for Maitreya, the World Teacher, emphasized that market forces are blind and those who follow them are similarly blind, and that this will continue to be true until social consciousness rules over their destructive nature.

"...market forces are blind and those who follow them are similarly blind,

and that this will continue to be true until

social consciousness rules over their destructive nature."

Gaining momentum and influence during the Reagan and Thatcher era, today’s neoliberal economic approach, with its intense emphasis on commercialization - financializing all aspects of life - has come to dominate life on planet Earth. The word ‘liberal’ in neoliberal has nothing to do with a progressive, loving, evolutionary approach to life. ‘Neoliberalism’ is anything but. It is a death cult, worshipping excessive money accumulation beyond all reason or need, destroying the environment, undermining quality of life, spiritual growth, and self-realization. For its believers it is the new religion, but this devotion to extreme materiality extinguishes the spirit of life in billions of people around the world as they struggle to provide for themselves and their families. The incessant and ever-increasing demands placed upon global society by billionaire money masters and technology titans, who have come to dominate our lives today, has brought humanity and the planet to the edge. Commenting upon life under Thatcher, actress and UK politician Glenda Jackson said, “Thatcherism wreaked the most heinous, social, economic and spiritual damage upon this country. Everything I had been taught to regard as a vice – and I still regard them as vices – under Thatcherism was in fact a virtue: greed, selfishness, no care for the weaker, sharp elbows, sharp knees.” Over the past thirty years this sad state of affairs has resulted in the greatest inequality in wealth and living standards the world has ever seen.

The unique circumstances of today, including the viral pandemic, extreme economic inequality, and the many social injustices everywhere, create an opening into world affairs for the entrance of Maitreya and His group of Masters. The energies of Pisces are rapidly withdrawing, lessening their impact on humanity with each passing day, while the energies of Aquarius wax strong, gaining strength each day. The qualities of Aquarius are of synthesis, unity and brotherhood. Thus is set up much of today’s struggle, pitting the Piscean emphasis on individuality against the common good, the greater good. One can witness this playing out in the Covid-19 pandemic as those devoted to the past, to the old ways, refuse to take even simple steps that would help protect their brothers and sisters from sickness, placing the right of the individual above the well-being of the whole. Maitreya comes to illuminate many problems such as this, with His practical, common-sense insight into the multitude of things that bedevil us at present and seem beyond our capacity to solve. He will show the way forward. We only have to accept His wise counsel. As mankind’s free-will may not be infringed, it is up to us to choose to listen with both our hearts and minds and allow Him to guide us away from the abyss.

The following is taken from two Master’s Messages given to Benjamin Creme by his own Master and is offered to give heart to the current world situation. “Maitreya, Himself, stands in the wings, ready to emerge and to face the ignorance of the time. He has gathered around Him helpers from all continents, men and women of every race and creed. Together they are ready to do battle with ignorance and greed, selfishness and cruelty, and are certain of victory.” “Come quickly to His side when He emerges. Rally to His Banner of Peace, Justice and Freedom and aid Him in His mighty work. A new day in the lives of men is dawning, a day unlike ought known before.”

“Maitreya, Himself, stands in the wings, ready to emerge and to face the ignorance of the time. He has gathered around Him helpers from all continents, men and women of every race and creed. Together they are ready to do battle with ignorance and greed, selfishness and cruelty, and are certain of victory.”

“Come quickly to His side when He emerges. Rally to His Banner of Peace, Justice and Freedom and aid Him in His mighty work. A new day in the lives of men is dawning, a day unlike ought known before.”

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