Here’s where it gets good: British Raj Patel, well-known economist and author of The Value of Nothing, was on The Colbert Report in January. Eventually, I guess Creme thought he had to shit or get off the pot, because in 1988 Maitreya was spotted and was supposed to be this guy, a supposed miracle worker seen in Kenya, (see picture above) but his arrival on the, um, world stage fizzled out apparently.

From what I could tell, that seems to have been the message for nearly 30 years: HE is coming. They’d send me short books and newsletters about Maitreya’s imminent arrival on the world stage. Their letters and books were fairly well-designed and printed. Share International’s mission is to herald the arrival of the world messiah Maitreya, variously described as a reincarnation of Christ, the Messiah, the fifth Buddha, Krishna, or the Imam Mahdi.Īt one point Creme said that Maitreya was the representative of a group of beings from Venus called the Space Brothers. Like an organization called Share International, started in the 1950s by a Scot named Benjamin Creme, now 87, a guest from time to time on the George Noory radio show. Some were more professional and upscale than most. I’m not so sure that the people sending in their donations got much out of Popoff’s and pere’s prayers for the gelt, but the reverse is certainly not true, I’d wager.

00009 lowest percentile of idiots in this country WAS the target. Someone with even a tiny portion of a brain would take one look at something like that and toss it, instantly.

It was so fucking blatant-almost a joke-that only an absolute moron would believe it in. The reader was told that Popoff and his father would also pray for monetary bounty to rain on their new friend. I also got stuff from various televangelists, the best being a ‘prayer mat’ from Peter Popoff that instructed the user to kneel within the dotted circle, take out their wallet, place that in the circle, too and pray for money. The best were from these total hillbilly crackpot UFO freaks asking for donations to build out a “UFO watching porch” addition on to their mobile home They would also send me insane cassette tapes of channeling sessions where the aliens would speak through them and say racist and anti-Democrat shit! I got some kind of goofy letter or package in the post nearly every single day for a year. Some were returned as undeliverable, but most made their mark. I wonder how many of his readers did that? I did, using a form letter. I mean to say that I wrote to every single address in that book. Ivan Stang’s wonderful book, High Weirdness by Mail. In the early 90s I wrote to every single one of the crazed loners and weirdo organizations listed in Rev.

Tales of a reluctant messiah