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Contemporary Spirituality in Glastonbury
Archangel Michael's Soul Therapy Centre
Archangel Michael's Soul Therapy Centre in Glastonbury is a centre dedicated to the promotion of the teachings of an American man born in 1951 who claims to be 'H.H.Tulku Buddha Maitreya, the reincarnation of Jesus the Christ the Buddha'; The Centre's literature also states that 'He is the Avatar Archangel Michael / Metatron who is the Lord of Shambala Sanat Kumara and is also known as Melchizedeck the Ancient of Days.'
In addition to a fusion of Tibetan Buddhist, Christian and Pythagorean ideas, practices and terminology, visitors to the Centre encounter the 'Metatronic Geometric Healing Tools' developed by Buddha Maitreya. Such tools can be purchased at the Centre, and people can go there for healing and meditation sessions. The Centre stresses that the income it generates is used for the New Group of World Servers Trust Fund, a charity which is claimed to support the relocation of Tibetan Buddhists to America and a number of projects in Nepal, Tiber, India and Bhutan.
The Centre's description of the Soul Therapy Music tapes prepared by Buddha Maitreya would typify for some the eclecticism and syncretism of contemporary spirituality:
Buddha Maitreya chooses what he will invoke just before he begins to record and usually after he plays the drum in a series of spontaneous American Indian rythms, then he plays the Tibetan singing bowls and sings with the music that he has created. The use of these Angelic Invocations in conjunction with the Angelic healing tools in meditation, has a powerful resonatory effect on the subtle bodies … This aligns the individual to the Planetary Soul, blocking receptivity to lower psychic projections abd impresses the ability to witness the highest possible reality of communion as an Angel of GOD.
Archangel Michael's Soul Therapy Centre was formerly in a more prominent position on the main street in Glastonbury, but now has moved to larger premises. The Centre has been somewhat controversial within Glastonbury.
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