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UFOs, Innocence and Movies UFOs, Innocence and Movies 1 11 1 How UFOs Lost Their had been declared by many as the largest story-high, 16-sided dome of wood and How UFOs Lost Their Innocence boulder in the world. concrete, which was supposed to rejuvenate Innocence Van Tassel theorized that the huge human cells by utilizing the natural energy at the Movies boulder's piezo-electric composition could found in the dry desert atmosphere of Giant at the Movies Continued from Page 9 Continued from Page 9 intensify meditation and the power of the Rock. Thousands of believers came to pass through the Integratron and to receive anti- human mind to establish communication with alien intelligences. When he began holding aging electrostatic charges. The unsettling implication made by Van Tassel founded the Ministry of Klaatu before he leaves in his space craft is that weekly meditations under the rock, he was soon Universal Wisdom in 1953, basing its precepts joined by others who felt drawn to the rock and it really doesn't matter that much to the aliens the desert. In 1951, Van Tassel went into trance on revelations from the Space Brothers. The what Earthlings decide. His mission is and said later that he had been taken out of his ministry taught the universal law which completed. Earth has been warned. body to meet with a group of discarnate beings operates on humankind in seven states: gender Some have made comparisons to who inhabited a spaceship orbiting Earth. (male and female); the Creator as Cause; Klaatu's mission to Earth and the messages and polarity of negative and positive; vibration; ministry of Jesus. Both came from "above;" In August of 1952, Van Tassel stated that aliens rhythm; relativity; and mentality. Jesus was a carpenter, Klaatu chose the alias of from Venus had landed near Giant Rock and Van Tassel maintained his headquarters Carpenter; both were killed and resurrected by a invited him to enter their spacecraft. When word at Giant Rock, California, for many years, power beyond Earth's knowledge; both returned spread of his dramatic encounter, the first Space making it a gathering place for both the curious to the "heavens" when their message that Convention was held at Giant Rock in the and the true believers. He was the author of I humans must repent and change their ways had spring of 1953. In the years to come, thousands Rode a Flying Saucer (1952) and The Council been delivered. would attend these conventions, drawn to the of Seven Lights (1958). The admonitions of Klaatu have been rock, the desert, Van Tassel, and the promise of In the character of Roy Neary (Richard subsequently repeated in the channelings of the experiencing personal alien contact. In 1959, Dreyfus), Director Steven Spielberg's Close UFO contactees for decades now. Regardless of over 11,000 followers of the charismatic Encounters of the Third Kind expresses the whether or not this film will ever be contactee came from all over the world to hear dilemma faced by an ordinary man who acknowledged as the source of numerous him channel messages from the Space Brothers experiences a close encounter with a UFO and contactees' messages from outer space, it seems and to take advantage of the opportunity to is given a mental summons to meet with the likely that at least on the subconscious level, the share stories of their own alien encounters with aliens at a future time. The film explores the stately, silver-suited figure of Klaatu (Michael the media. range of emotions and inner stresses faced by a Rennie) and his warning to Earthlings to cease Van Tassel introduced the world to UFO contactee, including the confusion of his their aggressive behavior and live in peace has Ashtar, commandant of station Schare. "Schare" family, the reluctance of the authorities to been echoed in countless sermonettes that I was one of several space stations in "Blaau," the recognize his experience as genuine, and the have heard from alleged Space Intelligences and fourth sector of "Bela," in which our solar obsession of the contactee to respond to the have recorded in my books Aquarian system is moving. "Shan" was the name that "invitation" that the aliens have somehow Revelations (1971) and The Fellowship (1988). Ashtar gave for Earth, and he said that the impressed in his psyche. Any student of the UFO phenomenon universe was ruled by the Council of Seven Continued on Page 12 can name several candidates among the Lights, which had divided the Cosmos into contactees as a successor to Klaatu, but we shall seven sectors and systems. Ashtar proclaimed select George Van Tassel for a brief that the Space Intelligence's main purpose was examination. to save humankind from itself. Once that great Van Tassel established a reputation as an obstacle had been met, then the minor problem accomplished flight test engineer for both of how to deal with nuclear fission would right Lockheed International and Douglas Aircraft in itself through the harmony that would then be the 1930s, and spent World War II flying for extant on Earth. business magnate/aviator Howard Hughes. In Ashtar and his fellow Space 1947, Van Tassel moved with his wife and three Intelligences also gave Van Tassel instructions daughters to the land around Giant Rock, for the construction of the "Integratron," a four- California, and reopened the airfield near what