Prophet teaches followers
to contact own ‘inner lights’
By LORRAINE NELSON
Of the Emerald
In the beginning, they all sat
solemn-faced, attentive to the
chants and prayers being sung in
ancient Sanskrit. They remained
silent at the end of every song,
some with eyes closed, meditat
ing on the restful, relaxing vibra
tions in the room.
And when Elizabeth Claire
Prophet completed her mes
sage, she called to her audience
and they went forth, all 300 of
them, each bearing a smile, to be
touched and blessed by the “Guru
Ma.”
Prophet, who has about 25
proclaimed followers in Lane
County, was in Eugene Friday
night “stumping for the coming re
volution in higher conscious
ness.”
The revolution is a realization of
our own true self and of our own
destiny. It is a going within, con
tacting the light of the inner self.
Prophet teaches people to find
their own inner lights through
prayers, mantras, chants and
meditations.
She is the leader of the Church
Universal and Triumphant,
founded by her late husband,
Mark, in 1958 as the Summit
Lighthouse in Washington, D.C.
The international headquarters
for the church is now on the
Pasadena campus of Summit
University.
Prophet brings a message that
each person, as the son or daugh
ter of God, possesses the poten
tial of being a Christ.
Jesus Christ, Buddha, Con
fucius, Moses and others are the
“ascended masters," people who
have mastered time and space
and have ascended into the pres
ence of God. Prophet says she is
the messenger for the ascended
masters and she teaches that
Jesus is the archetype of what
people on Earth are intended to
be.
God is energy and evil—“e“
veil—is an energy veil, she said
Friday. The seven Chakras, the
cepters of awareness within us,
contain this energy, When they
accelerate and turn they increase
our consciousness, sne said, ad
ding the seven Chakras were
given to us to experience God.
Graphic by Tom Enel
Hunger Project fast
scheduled Tuesday
The second annual Hunger
Project Fast Day is Tuesday and
members say they need participa
tion.
The project was established
in the fall of 1977 by est, an educa
tional corporation founded by
Werner Erhard. Since then, the
project has enlisted nearly
200,000 members worldwide.
Erhard, who spoke for the
Hunger Project during its found
ing. says there is no absence of
solutions to the problem of starva
tion. He says hunger is a function
of the forces in the world, not a
funtion of scarcity or of no solu
tions.
The Hunger Project, however,
is not about solutions, Erhard
says. The project is about creating
a context-creating the end of
hunger by 1997 as an idea whose
time has come.
The Hunger Project does not
spend money to provide food for
starving people, but instead uses
its money to inform people about
the project and to get them enrol
led.
Oregon Dally Emerald
There are no meetings to at
tend and no rules to follow, indi
viduals are free to make of the
project what they will. Its members
believe that the context of the pro
ject creates a process through
which the question "What can I
do?" can be answered.
To find out more about the
project or to pledge your support,
cal! Jack Condliffe at 687-9080, or
stop by the Hunger Project table in
the EMU on Tuesday.
Rock music encompasses a
death beat, or voodoo
beat—so-named for the black
magic and witchcraft reflected in
African voodoo rhythms — that
causes much of the energy in the
inner self to descend to the lower
Chakras, she said.
She labeled marijuana the
‘‘death drug" and denounced
drinking and excessive sex be
cause they hamper the realization
of a higher consciousness.
In the almost chant-like
monotone she used most of the
evening to address her audience,
she recounted her search for her
own destiny, which began at
about age 2.
She told of her first meeting with
her late husband in 1961, and how
he took her upward to an inner
plane of being from where she
could see the world and see that
the souls of humans had the
flames of awareness in them, but
that those flames had been forgot
ten.
A public lecture in Eugene Fri
day will attempt to organize those
people who wish to learn more
about Prophet’s teachings. The
meeting will be held at the Wil
lamette Christian Center, 1330
Madison St. at 7:30 p.m.
Photo by Steve Dykes
Elizabeth Claire Prophet
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