Simon Prophet. Last of the line.

Birth certificate. Upper and lower case letters. Interesting.

Simon at 15 Whites Road, Bloemfontein, sitting in an empty box which must have hailed from the chemist shop.

Simon in front of the Christmas tree at home, 8 Peter Crescent, Bloemfontein.

Godmother Meryl, who monitored Simon's childhood and was indeed a dedicated friend to his mother. Simon never met her and she has long since passed on but her letter has always served to comfort him.

A family photograph at 8 Peter Crescent, Bloemfontein. From left to right, Simon's father, Leslie, Simon, Jonathan, Simon's brother, Ching, Joan's cat and Joan all sitting on the lounge sofa, the same sofa on which Simon was born on a bitterly cold winter night on the 16th July 1954.

What's life all about?

Simon returning home on his bicycle and being welcomed home by his pet crow, Joey.

Joey lived with the family for 3 years until Joey, one day, decided to return to the wild.

When she did fly away never to return then Simon, whenever he saw crows flying nearby, would call out for her and his habit of calling for her lasted for years until he thought she must, after so many years, have died; not realizing that crows can outlive human beings. Joey might still be alive somewhere.

In standard V Simon's family family doctor diagnosed Simon with a murmur in the heart and so for reasons of well being it was decided that Simon should attend a school that was situated at a lower altitude and that is how he ended up going to a school in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape.

Left: Simon outside Ingelside after returning from the end of year long walk at Hogsback.

Right: Simon inside Dad's 230S Mercedes Benz circa 1967.

After matriculating, Simon should have done the sensible thing and apply his creative streak into a practical subject like architecture but that didn't happen. Shortsightedly, Simon allowed his creative passions to get the better of him and he enrolled as an art student at Rhodes University.

Blinded by romance, a year later, he followed his girlfriend to Cape Town where he enrolled into the Michaelis School of Fine Art only to find out that modern art was not his thing and so three years later he was yet more disillusioned.

It became a fight against himself in a world not understood.

Simon bought a motorcycle and leaving Cape Town, he did not know to where.

Simon ended up in Johannesburg and took a job driving trucks.

That didn't work out and on returning to Cape Town he got a job as a tour guide. The days and months dragged on without apparent purpose.

Looking around and wondering how to remedy the emptiness of his life he determined health to be a priority and so, intending to build his physical wellbeing and strength, he enrolled into a school of martial arts. At the school headquarters in Stillbay, he attended a 2 week intensive training course and was so inspired by the master teacher that his study turned into full time with him becoming an uchi-deshi.

Along with his training he was inspired into an idea that one could attain super human strength and was made to believe that through a life dedicated to the spiritual path one could achieve freedom from limitations.

Material things no longer held meaning for him and mastering his spirit became the order of the day.

Unluckily for Simon, he stumbled across a book called the White Book which unfortunate to say the content of which resounded so strongly with him that within two months he was in America and signed up as a student in Ramtha's School of Enlightenment.

His mind was made up and he was hell bent on becoming an enlightened being.

Simon's car parked next to one of the lakes not far from the Ramtha School of Enlightenment in Washington State.

In retrospect, for Simon, it's now silly to think that a 35 thousand year old warrior could return to earth and manifest his teaching through a dentist's wife but depending on your commitment to find enlightenment then there's a lot that you might be prepared to do.

The people who attend this school are misguided but they are not stupid.

Simon's friend, Philippe, was a doctor who qualified in France. When first arriving in South Africa, Phillippe worked as a medical doctor in the Hillbrow General Hospital before moving to Cape Town where he and Simon first made contact.

Phillippe and his wife met a tragic end when they were both shot dead by the police on a farm near Sutherland.

A newspaper article about the incident stated that "The police would not confirm whether the bodies are those of the fugitive French couple Dr Phillippe Meniére, 60 and Agnes Jeanne Jardel, 55, but Lieutenant Colonel Hendrik Swart did say the search for the couple has been called off."

When you endeavor to learn something of which you know nothing then you can easily be led astray into doing outlandish and ridiculous things which is the sacrifice you must make to get you to where you are going even though you don't know where that is.

In 1989 Simon was in search of some way to conquer adversity. He believed that the universe was infinite with functioning solar systems billions of light years away and JZ Knight relied on tricking her students including Phillippe and Simon into a fear that the spinning globe on which we all are supposed to be living is a perilous thing and to survive the coming terrible times everyone was instructed to build underground bunkers and store food enough to sustain life for at least 4 years.

Simon and Phillippe were in the grip of a doomsday cult.

Philippe was appointed by the Ramtha School of Enlightenment to be the Cape Town coordinator and he arranged school meetings and participating events at his home and at the Theosophical Society in Rheede Street, Cape Town.

Philippe and Simon spent hours discussing the "end of times" and they pondered as to what would have the greatest value in a world that had collapsed with no more government, no more electricity, a desolate place with survivors trying to survive in a hostile environment.

This was much more than just an intellectual exercise.

From a family of chemists and after much deliberation Simon concluded for better or for worse that industrial chemicals would be of greater value than gold and so instead of accumulating tins of baked beans and bully beef, Simon started to collect chemicals that he considered would have the most value in the world that he and Phillippe had been contemplating.

This all may sound stupid but you would have to be under the spell of JZ Knight for any of this to make sense and that is why, for many people, it is such a mystery as to how gentle and peace loving people like Dr Phillippe Meniére and his wife could end up being killed by the police but for Simon, as an insider with a thinking pattern similar to Philippe at the time, it was never a mystery to him and so herein lies the answer to the million dollar question always being put to Simon.

Back in the 1900s, for anyone who signed up into the Ramtha School of Enlightenment it was a requirement for enrollment to sign non disclosure agreements which both Simon and Philleppe did sign.

The Ramtha School of Enlightenment is how it happened that unusual chemicals ended up in Simon's possession with the drug police smashing their way into his home to investigate the purchase of suspicious chemicals and that is why the drug police did not find the drugs that they came looking for and the rest is history:

https://www.simonprophet.com

Simon is just an ordinary fellow, who once upon a time was a little child who grew up into a battle to survive on the platform called life trying to unravel the big why, where and how of it all.

Believing that we live on a world that is round that spins on its own axis but it is going to spin out of its orbit and all is coming to an end is delusional but it is not a crime.

However, having delusions can bring one into hot water with the authorities and going too far in twisted thinking to the point of manifesting crazy contemplations can cost you your life as sadly to say it turned out for Simon's friend Philippe and his wife. Their death was tragic and avoidable. Simon's ordeals also were avoidable but lucky for Simon, he has survived after having been attacked by the state.

Simon has suffered greatly but thanks be to God he is still alive with a second chance to build his life on firmer foundations. 

Ecclesiastes 1:4 King James Version: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever."

"The earth abideth forever".

Simple though it may be, never more true a word was put down on paper for anyone who may have the misfortune to fall into the snare of a dooms day cult.