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...Maitreya World Foundation. Inside are purple soft carpets, pillows for meditation, incense, and pictures and statutes of Buddhas and Jesuses and elephant-faced Indian gods. The foundation used to be called the Ashram of the World Mother but "that looked too culty, so we adopted a broader name," Mata Maitreya, the ashram's teacher, explains. "I shouldn't be the only world mother. This is a symbol. I'll be happy if every woman in the world called herself that and did some of the work...
...Mata was a psychotherapist before she left the U.S. in 1969 for India, to pursue her spiritual evolution more intensively. She spent seven years there, studying under many teachers and traveling extensively until she discovered her role in the world...
...catalog puts its, "Mata Maitreya and specially trained students who reside at the ashram are co-workers and messengers of the Great White Brotherhood, thus called because it is dedicated to the pure White Light of Truth and Perfection." The Brotherhood, also called the Ascended Masters or the Spiritual Hierarchy, are the highly evolved souls who guide Earth's destiny, or so the theory goes. From time to time they enter the world as the great prophets and religious teachers, and sometime in the future one of these souls will return as Maitreya, the Buddha of salvation, sometimes equated with...
...stopped using the words Great White Brotherhood because of the racist and sexist implications," Mata, clad in simple white cloth pants and shirt with a crystal cross around her neck and sandals on her feet, explains. "Then people began to freak on the word hierarchy. But that's how everything run, it is the world government. There are students and teachers, lower and higher teachers, the high masters, the gods...
Vanderbilt said the original idea came from a story about Mata Hari. Consequently, it will feature "a lot of female spies. Of course, there will also be some male spies," he said...