Maitreya and the Struggle Against Global Poverty
By Jack Schauer
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Maitreya and the Struggle Against Global Poverty - Jack Schauer
Copyright © 2018 by Jack Schauer.
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ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-9845-3734-8
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Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Chapter I Maitreya and World Poverty
Chapter II U.S. and European Marshall Plan
Chapter III Problem of Third World Poverty
Chapter IV Lodge and Wilson
Chapter V Maitreya’s Vision for the Future
Chapter VI The United Nations, the United States, and the European Union
Chapter VII The United Nations Millennium Development Goals
Chapter VIII Global Measurements of Poverty
Chapter IX Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter X The Case of the European Union
Chapter XI Innovation in Organization and Leadership
Chapter XII Investment in Human and Social Capital
Chapter XIII An International Code of Ethics
Chapter XIV Social Business
Chapter XV Capitalist versus Democratic Socialist Economy
Chapter XVI Political Ethics and the International Order
Chapter XVII Conclusion
References
Endnotes
Foreword
As a doctoral student in international relations at Argosy University, Sarasota campus, I began to focus upon the ability of MNCs (multinational corporations) in providing aid to lesser developed nations and/or populations mostly located within the Third World. I began this journey or quest, if you wish, some eight or nine years earlier when a friend suggested I read a book about the spiritual teacher Maitreya, and it made a great impact upon me personally. The philosophical notion I adhere to as indicated by Maitreya is ultimate liberty or autonomy
for the individual, and thus, free will or free choice is the ethos that is demanded in recognition of these ideas.
In a sense, it was to be an in-depth analysis of corporate America in terms of addressing the need for investments in social awareness and social welfare. This was also a notion that emphasized the huge importance and need for right relationships
among all members of humanity but particularly among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), MNCs, international aid agencies, local governments subsisting in poverty, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the United Nations (UN), and, as Lodge and Wilson portray, the creation of a World Development Corporation. (More of what this all implies will be focused upon later.) In addition, it implies what Fr. Richard Rohr calls collective consciousness, which exemplifies the third eye
and is powerful, much more powerful, than individual consciousness as this in turn exemplifies the totality of thoughts and beliefs of a group and/or team of people.
As I was raised as a Roman Catholic, the church’s social justice teachings influenced me a great deal (e.g., compassion for the poor and sick) in terms of how this eventually led me to grasp the teachings of Maitreya since his basic philosophy on life mirrors almost exactly the social gospel and teachings of the Catholic Church, although there were parts of Catholic ideology that this author still questioned (Fr. Richard Rohr’s criticism of New Age ideology in terms of its lack of accountability). On the other hand, the beliefs and predictions of Maitreya (considered a world teacher) made a great deal of sense in terms of working toward a spiritual level of perfection here on Earth. This in turn enhanced my solid beliefs that reincarnation (i.e., a series of past lifetimes) was a valid and more meaningful religious philosophy than the belief in just one lifetime. The notion of just a single lifetime ran counter to my intuitive beliefs, and reincarnation gave me a greater sense of self-worth and self-esteem than that of any Western religious philosophy. It gave me a greater perspective on the need for justice in terms of integral humanity. Although the notion of reincarnation runs contrary to the teachings or philosophy of the Catholic Church, I nevertheless believe that the Catholic Church and the world teacher Maitreya have a great deal more in common than the doctrinal issues that might divide them, perhaps even more so the ideas and teaching of theosophy that symbolize the teachings of Maitreya to a much greater extent than Catholicism, particularly the notion or theosophical doctrine of individual service.
However, service is an important component of Catholicism as well as its social justice message.
According to Crème, in paraphrasing the teacher Maitreya, one of the main issues that holds human beings from advancing to a higher spiritual state or, more precisely, initiation is the notion of glamour. This can also remain a problem for successful CEOs of global MNCs. Glamour is a focus upon the emotional state of ego and thus, in turn, living within a sense of illusion, which is similar to idealism, and also an emphasis upon fulfilling what one’s ego focuses upon. Glamour itself feeds upon those things that feed the ego and makes us feel better about ourselves, even if it be only a sense of illusion, advancing or emphasizing upon one’s career and accompanying sense of rationalism focused upon success, success, and even more success and overall concern only for one’s personal sense of happiness and fulfillment, disregarding others’ happiness as not worthy of one’s own personal ends or ego. It really fuels the sense of narcissism of the baby-boomer generation, especially, such as the me generation
of the 1970s. Glamour is perhaps the most important reason keeping humanity from reaching the initiation process or holding us back from a sense of spiritual satisfaction. This also appears to Richard Rohr’s emphasis upon descent rather than ascent.
One main influence regarding the doctrine or religion of Catholicism was the writings of Thomas Merton. Paraphrasing Fr. Richard Rohr, who was also heavily influenced by Merton, in Merton’s book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, he writes of a mystical experience one day while standing on a busy street corner in Louisville, Kentucky. Merton suddenly realized in watching the various crowds of individuals walking to and fro and across the street how deeply he loved all these people and that he felt a sense of oneness with all humanity. Thus, he was able to transcend his false egotistic self and come to the full realization concerning God’s love connection with all humanity as well as all humanity’s innate love connections with one another. These statements underscore what Maitreya is attempting to bring about in terms of his notion that the wealthiest of people should share their resources with the poorest of people within this world and that that kind of compassionate love is what is truly needed to overcome the sense of evil and global displacement that rules most of our world today (and has always ruled humanity, unfortunately). It is spiritual ideals such as these that, this author believes, are necessary to promote the type of mutual understanding that most of humanity has not yet achieved. Whenever it is achieved, I think the reappearance
phenomenon concerning Maitreya will take place. The reappearance of Maitreya will occur when he feels that humanity is sufficiently open to a doctrine that I labeled the Doctrine of Spiritual Inevitability
but that really implies such beliefs of feeding the starving masses, particularly, which Maitreya feels will go a long way toward healing the problems inherent in the twenty-first century.
Thus, by the time that I began my doctoral program in business administration at Argosy University, I had already immersed myself in the writings and/or beliefs of Maitreya and thus, in turn, what the implications of those very same writings were for the global population. In addition, I began focusing upon the belief of the sharing of resources in terms of the MNC as well as those global institutions that were set up after World War II to try and help lesser developed nations, particularly in the Third World, institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, the global NPOs, (nonprofit organizations) as well as the UN and its