12 UFO Religions That Changed History (Heaven's Gate, Raëlism & Beyond)

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savings bank member fdic welcome to the shadow signal the frequency of the unknown i'm josh rutledge and i'm stephan gearhart together we dive deep into high strangeness ufos cryptids The paranormal, psychic phenomenon, and the hidden truths that echo just beneath the surface. Somewhere between reality and myth lies the signal. Can you hear it? Tune in. The Shadow Signal is live. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, and who or whatever else is listening and watching today.

Welcome to the Shadow Signal podcast. I am your host, Stephen Gearhart, joined as always by the furry Mr. Josh Rutledge. What's up, furball? Pretty good. I'm trying to be a scruffy-looking nerf herder. It's working.

It's working. I fully expected to see tons of nerfs behind you herding. Yeah. And do we think when it's a nerf herder, am I herding like the nerf foam bullets? Maybe. what if it's not herder it's herter h-u-r-t-e-r like he just hurts nerfs all the time he hates

them he just hates nerfs yeah because they're scruffier than he looks right he wasn't really upset about the idea of hurting them just being called scruffy yeah yeah he said hey who's scruffy looking yeah man anyways we got a cool show tonight we're going to be talking about ufo cults religions it's going to be super radical um but we've got to get into our starter gates as usual and get into the things that we like to do before the main topic so let's start off with psychic word of the week and psychic word of the week psychic word of the week is brought to you by

the encyclopedic psychic dictionary by june g blitzer phd rest in peace honey pear i love you but i never got to know you you are the doctor of my heart excuse me did you just did you just say honey pear i did say honey pear okay i was hoping you didn't notice thanks you're welcome everyone who's listening make sure to comment honey pear all right so i flipped through the pages and landed on page 301 the letter i which we don't get to very often because i don't have any stars very much in here anyways i thought this was pretty apt when i got to it it's called

the icebox effect excuse me the icebox effect which says destructive brainwashing cults interesting i thought that was very interesting that we were talking about cults and religions today um it says repression of normal developmental conflicts and resolutions that young adults have about their parents and themselves that are typical for their age group while in the cult organizations these conflicts need to be resolved and they are not when one goes into a cult it is like taking a block of ice and putting it in the ice box the conflicts are frozen the mind is now

indoctrinated 24 hours a day to center on the needs of the cult when the victim is deprogrammed comes out on his own or her own it is like taking the block of ice out to thaw the unresolved conflicts begin to thaw out or come to the surface and these conflicts must now be dealt with along with their new feelings regarding their cult experience i mean it's not it's not unlike i mean people all day every day uh throughout their development you know suppress um trauma that they go through uh and replace it with you know different forms of escapism whether it be work

or school or friends or whatever so um you know it's not in this case though it's kind of being forced like it's not a chosen uh escape from that trauma it is uh that you know it's being forced upon them and then like you say when they come back out of the cult hopefully they come out of the cult um they now have to process through all of the deprogramming of the cult and also all that trauma that they never really processed through before yeah and then just i think basic stuff of being a kid that you go through that they had to put on the back burner still comes out

you know that's why i'd imagine it you know for some of those cults you know if you're a child in the cult you don't really have a designated mother like it's you know all the women of the cult are your mother and so it can be very confusing then when you know if you want to leave on your own accord or whatever right um when somebody says you know tell me about your mother I don't know, I had 37 Yeah, which one?

Right Yeah, I totally get that So, that's very interesting It is very interesting Gotta love this psychic word of the week And it got a little deep

It did, it did get deep Alright, well that's that So let's go ahead and move on We actually have another little segment Because we found some Let's bust into a little bit of spooky news

Alright Josh You came across an article uh today i believe or yesterday and uh what tell us what's going on in the spooky realm so yeah um this is uh from july 13th so about a month ago uh took place in kentucky my neck of the hood yep um it says that um a reader of this website which is thunderbirdphoto.com that might give you an idea of the type of content it contains it's it's gonna be a sasquatch

um shares you know this kind of stunning big bird sighting that happened uh in december 20th 2023 on his property about 12 miles north of lexington okay um so it says that uh it says we had a huge population of canadian geese that would use our property as a layover since it had a big open field and a lake they loved it at one point we had probably close to 100 geese all hanging out in the field next to the house i went outside on my back deck to see what was going on when all of us all of them simultaneously started squawking and they all took off in an absolute

panic in unison. I'm like, what the hell scared them off? It wasn't me. That's when I saw what I thought was a man in a black outfit walking out into the field. My first thought was it was one of my neighbors, but then I realized it was a bird, a huge effing bird. I cannot tell you how crazy big it was as i'm sort of panicking and feeling wildly excited at the same time and considering whether i should try to run inside and grab my phone or just stay and watch it it took a short run spread its massive wings and with two huge flaps was airborne its tip feathers

brushed the grass and it sounded like the whomp of a slow speed helicopter blade one of my neighbors was actually a helicopter pilot and he landed his r22 in my field one time to give rides to our neighbors when the blade was slowing down once he cut the engine that's exactly what it sounded like i would later go out there and measure roughly the distance on the flat ground that i remember its wingtips touching and it was about 16 to 17 feet that's a huge wingspan yeah I never saw its face since its back was to me.

It was jet black and looked essentially like a freakishly huge vulture. I've seen an Andean condor up close and personal at a wildlife rehab facility in Peru. That was a huge bird for sure, but this was much bigger. It did not feel raptor to me at all. It felt vulture condor-ish. the wings were extremely thick deep and squarish like a condor the tip feathers were probably as

long as my arm and i'm around six foot four inches my life believed my wife believed me i just saw a large my wife believed excuse me i just saw a large vulture since we did have a population of five to six of them that hung out in the trees on our property i saw them all the time and they were typically size vultures nothing special this thing was three to four times the size of them i didn't feel it was paranormal either it looked and moved like a flesh and blood bird just beyond belief in size my neighbors all thought i saw one of the resident black

vultures and just misinterpreted the size nah i'm good with sizes and distances i was a plane spotter as a teenager in the Air Force Auxiliary. I'm also a huge aviation nerd and I know the wingspan of aircraft. This was like a piper cub taking off from my field. It gained altitude and flew over the tops of the trees at the edge of my property, clearing them by a few feet before I lost sight of it. Kurt elaborated in conversation with American Strangeness that the cryptid bird, as he views it, was built like a haunched over vulture or condor where the shoulders of the wing set up higher than

the head the wing structure more closely resembled that of a black vulture compared to a turkey vulture very broad and squared off shape with distinctive tip feathers overall cast Kurt estimated the bird stood about five feet tall or more and possessed a wingspan of about 16 to 17 feet. Uh, per Cornell lab, a typical black vulture averages two feet in height and a five foot wingspan. He did not obtain a view of the front yard or front of the bird, only its back. So, um, I'm going to take this as an opportunity to also remind everyone who's not probably heard me

say it a thousand times before, but the mothman sighting in West Virginia, the descriptions are that of a bird is you know bird-like individual instead of a moth-like individual when we did our omens and uh harbingers episode last year you know there were quite a few large bird sightings in that as well yeah um so you know i i don't you know i i have above the opinion that maybe just large birds like this are you know commonplace enough that they probably attribute to most of the large bird you know sightings birdman sightings that get reported um but not

so common that they you know they are constantly viewed or appear to multiple people yeah uh so jd whispered in my ear wanted me to tell you he had a thunderbird in the 80s yeah and he used it to pick up chicks yeah that's something jd would totally do i heard he had to take the front seat out though and sit in the back seat for his wings in order for them to spread out yeah yeah he had t-tops it was t-tops yeah so that he could stick his wings out yeah but yeah that's that's actually what the batmobile was designed after it was jd's car jd nice yeah so uh very interesting very cool

love that it happened in kentucky because we don't usually get large bird sightings in kentucky like that like thunderbird type sightings and stuff like that in coxacatl because that's usually a southwest type thing so pretty cool yep pretty cool i know they've been getting a lot of them up in chicago and stuff but yeah so i wonder how long before uh our good friend mr lawn stricker and uh you know they start talking about mothman of lexington right the mothman of lexington yeah Exactly.

But cool, man. Thank you for sharing that. Very, very interesting. If anybody else has any sightings like that, let us know. OnDeck is built to back small businesses like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team, or bridging cash flow gaps,

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yes so i stumbled across what i i did not know that ufo religions were a thing uh back during the contact you know kind of movement and so i'll stumble across one and that had you know that intrigued me so i looked into others and so i've got a list of 12 here today this may not be an extensive list also i'll say that this is only within the u.s i don't know if you know there were other ufo religions or cults outside of the u.s yeah i knew there were some in the 50s and stuff with um what's his name uh i can't think of his name george or whatever that main contact yeah

damski i know he he's helped kind of start that movement but the only one i really know about is heaven's gate so yeah that's in the list but it's number eight in our list as well so there's a few predated so i'm i'm very excited to hear what we got all right so number one on the list the i am activity um founded in 1930 by guy ballard in 1930 in 1930 wow okay yep i see you guy ballard uh by guy ballard who was a mining engineer alongside his wife edna ann wheeler ballard in Northern California.

Ballard claimed that while hiking on Mount Shasta in 1930, he encountered a stranger who revealed himself as the Count of St. Germain, an ascended master. St. Germain allegedly selected Ballard as an accredited messenger to bring ancient cosmic knowledge back to humanity

during the despair of the Great Depression. um kind of the the core belief system was that they blended theosophical teachings with esoteric mysticism and american patriotism uh coupled all of that with cosmic ascension they just were dabbling in every pond every pond um so they taught that the ascended masters guide human evolution from etheric realms and other planetary systems. They introduced the concept of the

Violet Flame, a spiritual visualization technique designed to consume negative karma and elevate individual consciousness. They set the structural blueprint for future UFO contactee movements through its emphasis on cosmic portals, Mount Shasta in this case, and interdimensional visitors um so it emerged during the severe economic hardship

of the great depression and it offered followers personal empowerment spiritual nobility and divine protection it grew exponentially claiming nearly 1 million followers by 1938 with major centers in chicago and la guy ballard maintained strict spiritual authority positioning himself and his family as the sole conduits for divine wisdom of course um ballard's unexpected death though in 1939 triggered a leadership crisis as followers believed that ascended masters would not undergo of physical death. Federal prosecutors indicted Edna Ballard and her son on 18 counts of mail

fraud for soliciting funds based on supernatural claims. This led to a historic Supreme Court decision, United States v. Ballard in 1944, establishing that courts cannot evaluate the truth or falsity of religious doctrines only the sincerity of the believer so interesting i'm just curious like why do you you know we'll get to this and others that we read through but i'm wondering why you why you might think that or why do you think that people look to these types of alternative alternative spirituality or religions during times of like national crisis

because what they've got isn't working for them you know and they're so desperate especially back then there was no it wasn't therapy you know mental health therapy and stuff going on that much you know that was for the rich the rich were the only ones that could afford sigmund freud yeah and do you think that there's like a legal or ethical boundary between you know genuine esoteric faith and financial exploitation i don't know that's tough i mean one could say kind of the mega churches of the you know 70s and 80s you know the sunday morning churches you

would tune in in these mega churches and all these guys driving around in their mercedes benzes and flying on their private jets you know um there's probably no difference between financial exploitation there you know just because it's esoteric doesn't mean that it's in any way shape or form above people being greedy sure yeah i mean i think every cult religion you know has greedy people that are exploiting folks i mean we you and i for a time went to a church uh in high school where you know we later found out that the pastor of that church during the

time that we were there was embezzling money from the church so you know and sleeping with his secretary yeah yeah that too so yeah there's uh uh corrupt people in every line of business i guess yep absolutely absolutely i do want to circle back real quick and just say love mount shasta always weird stuff going on yep for sure i mean we covered that back on the convergence enigma we did yeah and there's you know there's the the whole idea of telos it was always fascinating yeah fascinated me that the last lemurian city if you will deep within mount

chasta so i don't know all right next up we have the ethereus society and it's spelled a-e-t-h-e-r-i-u-s So it's like the old spelling of ether. So it was founded in London in 1955 by George King, who was a former taxi driver and dedicated yoga practitioner. OnDeck is built to back small businesses like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team, or bridging cash flow gaps, OnDeck's loans up to $400,000 help make it happen fast. Rated A-plus by the Better Business Bureau and earning thousands of five-star Trustpilot reviews,

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So whether you pay with card or cash, we make sure every dollar counts. USAA Bank, taking care of our own. limitations apply deposit products offered by usaa federal savings bank member fdic keem claimed that in 1954 while in a deep meditative trance a voice announced prepare yourself you are to become the voice of the interplanetary parliament relocated uh primarily to u.s operations in la and establish an international headquarters that bridges british

occultism and california contactee culture um it teaches that advanced et cosmic masters including including master jesus master buddha and master aetherius monitor earth from venus mars and jupiter it integrates raha yoga hindu metaphysics christian ethics and ufo contactee literature uh practices operation starlight and operation energy grid using radionic devices and collective prayer to charge spiritual energy batteries to heal the planet and mitigate natural disasters um it was formed during the height of the cold war nuclear terror appealing to

individuals seeking technology and spiritual solutions to global extinction it positioned followers not as passive believers but as active co-workers assisting extraterrestrials in defending earth regarded by religious scholars as probably the first and most enduring ufo cult due to its highly organized hierarchy and formal liturgy liturgy liturgy liturgy liturgy yeah anyways um it remained largely non-violent and socially cooperative focusing heavily on altruism uh vegetarianism and planetary ecology i mean this is right up this is right up santosh's alley man

ufo claims and yoga yeah uh it outlasted its founder who died in 1997 through structured administrative leadership and established centers in la and london it continues active operations today holding annual pilgrimages to holy mountains and charged with cosmic energy um what do you think about you know reframing the ufo communication as a planetary service so like ufos come here as a planetary service like i don't know they're bellhops or something i don't know oh i'm a i automatically thought of like the mormon boys

so and then you know it's interesting that that you know the one we went through the first time you know it it pretty much fell apart when the founder died but this one you know after the founder's death i guess because they weren't wasn't built on no physical death it was able to continue right all right so next up we have the unarius academy of science founded in 1954 in el caon california by ernest l norman and his wife ruth e norman the couple identified themselves as reincarnations of archangels.

There we go. Ernest as Archangel Raphael and Ruth as Archangel Uriel. Ernest claimed to channel scientific treatise from advanced cosmic minds

living on higher dimensional planes. Now, they officially reject the term religion. They define their teachings as interdimensional wave mechanics. Okay.

Okay. I imagine, though, that when they filed their forms with the IRS, they put religion down on that form. I bet you they did, too. So they assert that human psychological suffering stems from unresolved past life traumas across multiple planetary civilizations. they predicted that 33 starships from the interplanetary confederation would land on a reserved property in jamul california to bring advanced technology to humanity

they capitalized in the 1960s to 70s in southern california new age subcultures and growing interest in reincarnation and psychical research. Utilize theatrical psychodrama, elaborate sci-fi costuming, and

low-budget television broadcasts on public access channels. Somebody find us one of these things. Oh, man. For sure. It's got to be on tape somewhere. You know, reel to reel or

something. Somebody listening, find us some of these public access channel broadcasts. I'm looking right now on YouTube. Unarius Academy of Science.

These have got to be fantastic. Oh, my bad. All right. Unarius Academy of Science. It popped up just as soon as I put UNA. Ruth Norman, also Uriel, embodied a flamboyant, regal persona wearing.

Are there some? Oh, there's a lot. And I've seen these before. I didn't realize that's what this was. there's a whole movie uh that i've seen called children of the stars and it's all about it i've seen it i didn't realize that's who this was okay so watch children of the stars watch

on youtube the stars uh yes it is on youtube children of the stars the unarius ufo call it was made in the 70s so there you go um so anyways she embodied a flamboyant regal persona wearing extravagant gowns decorated with cosmic symbols and carrying royal royal scepters it's amazing josh you have to watch it okay um when the it follows them as they're making one of their movies like it's a documentary it's like a documentary thing that's pretty cool so it was made in 2012 okay but it's like from footage and everything from that yeah um when the predicted 2001 starship

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Deposit products offered by USAA Federal Savings Bank, member FDIC. Following Ruth Norman's death in 1993, the group transitioned into an educational academy preserving their archive of films, art, and books. it remains active in el cayon famous uh locally for its colorful parades cars and retro futuristic video library god we gotta go to california it's like everything's in california yeah i mean that's like everything like this one guy you know started in london went to california i mean

yeah maybe just because california is just where like the new agey people are i don't know i know One thing, though, that I did work up was that St. Germain Foundation of the I Am movement is actually up in Chicago. It's in Schaumburg, where I used to do improv. There you go. Next time I go to Chicago, I'm going to the St. Germain Foundation. There you go.

Just don't take Hazel. They'll get her involved. Yeah, she'll be like, Daddy, can we go see the Space Brothers? All right. Next one on the list. the cosmic circle of fellowship the ccf um the founded in chicago so here's another chicago one

in 1954 by william r ferguson who was a former u.s postal worker turned metaphysical lecturer ferguson claimed that in 1937 he developed a technique for absolute relaxation that allowed his soul to leave his physical body. He asserted that during these out-of-body travels, he was physically teleported aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft visiting Mars and Venus. Ferguson claimed ongoing telepathic communication with cosmic beings primarily using automatic writing to scribe messages, taught that human beings possess pure etheric bodies capable of tuning

into radio-like vibrations transmitted by interplanetary craft emphasized universal peace spiritual healing and preparing humanity for integration into a galactic brotherhood man this sounds a lot like the current messaging of a lot of things today yep sure does um appeal to mid-century miss what midwesterners intrigued by the early flying saucer phenomena and metaphysical self-improvement. Combined traditional Christian terminology with popular science fiction themes of peaceful, highly evolved space neighbors. Relied on Ferguson's folksy charisma and claims

of personal physical contact to build a loyal local following. Ferguson's credibility though suffered a severe blow when he was arrested and convicted of fraud for selling a fake medical cure-all device called the resonator he served one year in prison in the mid-1950s which led to internal fracturing and public ridicule the group managed to persist quietly late into the 20th century before fading into obscurity following ferguson's death what's interesting is is uh i'm just looking up on you may have mentioned this or not but i didn't pay attention

but that ferguson was also an ex-taxi driver so that's two two taxi drivers that became ufo religion leaders this one said the the research i have says postal worker but maybe he did both yeah it does yeah it says here former postman an ex-taxi driver okay so weird i just thought that was weird yeah i mean i guess yeah so it must have shut down yeah because yeah i don't see anything leading to a website you know so it must have his arrest really must but i said in 2002 there were still 41 members so i wonder if they're taxi drivers

all right next up we have the cosmon research foundation that's c-o-s-m-o-n for anybody who wants to look it up founded in 1959 in torrance california again california by gloria lee a former airplane stewardess and model lee reported establishing contact in 1953 with a high vibrational entity from jupiter named jw jw allegedly communicated via automatic writing dictating detailed cosmic tree disease while Lee was in altered states of consciousness.

Published books containing channel teachings including Why We Are Here by J.W., taught that Earth was in danger of self-destruction due to atomic testing and spiritual ignorance, and advocated for total nuclear disarmament, planetary unity,

and establishing open diplomatic relations with Jupiterians and Venusians reflected the profound anxiety of the early Cold War nuclear escalation in the space race. Gloria Lee provided a distinct female voice in the male-dominated 1950s contactee movement, attracting significant media attention. Followers were drawn to her polished presentation and the urgency of her anti-nuclear message in late 1962 lee traveled to washington dc attempting to present her channeled space directives directly to government

officials claiming jw commanded her to go on a spiritual fast until the government accepted the extraterrestrial mandate she engaged in a 66-day hunger strike that's a long that's a long lee tragically died of starvation in a washington hotel in november 1962 at the age of 36 causing the foundation to dissolve shortly thereafter what an awful way to go so uh yeah i was gonna say like how can how can you go from like an underground spiritual channeling into light-threatening mental health emergence i mean like that's i don't know is that drinking your

own kool-aid to you know foreshadow a later later cult yeah well dude uh when i was looking her up i came across this website that i think everybody should probably check out this is pretty cool it's called uh iapsop.com and it's the international association for the preservation of spiritualist and occult periodicals and so it's got the old cosmon uh magazine here that they sent out like it's got a bunch of issues on pdf that you can look at um and so i'm willing to bet this got old ufo periodicals and stuff like that from the 50s and 60s and stuff this

is pretty cool so i'll uh i'll throw the link down in the description of everybody who's listening or watching and also uh flash it up on the screen here in a little bit in case you're watching on youtube you can check it out yeah i'm sending it to you right now josh cool all right next up we have the ministry of universal wisdom um count uh founded in 1962 by george van tassel an aviation technician and inspector who worked for howard hughes and douglas aircraft yeah uh in 1947 van tassel moved his family to giant rock in california's mojave desert

living beneath a massive boulder in 1953 he claimed a spacecraft landed nearby and space human named so gonda invited him aboard giving him instructions to build a revolutionary structure founded to perpetuate teachings received from extraterrestrial visitors regarding physics longevity and anti-gravity centered on constructing the integration a 30 foot 38 foot tall non-metallic domed structure i'm gonna call it the integratron oh that's what it is integratron sorry yeah um non-metallic dome structure built over a geomagnetic anomaly vantazo believed

the integrotron functioned as a high voltage electro uh electrostatic generator capable of cell rejuvenation time travel and anti-gravity propulsion that's awesome i mean that's not too far off from uh tesla's you know yeah how he how he imagined the great pyramid must have functioned in his building you know he's wanting to build his towers around the world to harness you know power uh from from the planet right um van tassel organized the annual giant rock spacecraft conventions starting in 1954, which drew up to 10,000 attendees annually at its peak.

Giant Rock became the ultimate mecca for 1950s to 1970s UFO culture, bringing together contactees, scientists, fringe inventors, and curious tourists. It leveraged Van Tassel's legitimate aerospace credentials to lend technical credibility to extraordinary claims. Van Tassel died suddenly of a heart attack in 1978, just months before the Integratron was scheduled to become fully operational. Following his death, the building was sold, emptied of its experimental machinery, and saved from demolition by private buyers. today the integratron stands as a famous mojave desert historical landmark and sound bath venue

completely detached from its original ufo ministry now another reason to go to california you have to go to the integratron i know if you go to la you drive through the mojave mojave desert so from i'm sure the mojave desert is is vast i don't know exactly where you know but i'm sure you could find it yeah so um all right ready for the next one yes sir all right we've got the mark age medicenter uh this is not a um this is not a safe haven for mutants in case you're um founded in miami florida so not not california in 1962 by charles boyd ginsel

and pauline sharp who had channeled under the name nada yolanda sharp claimed to receive telepathic dictations from the hierarchical board a council of ascended masters and extraterrestrial commanders. Established a structured center dedicated to publishing channeled cosmic communications and preparing for planetary evolution. Taught that Earth was undergoing a 40-year cleansing cycle from 1960 to 2000 prior to the entry into the Age of Aquarius, the Golden Age. Claimed space fleets under the command of cosmic beings such as Sananda,

identified as the cosmic identity of jesus or orbiting earth promoted light body activation mental telepathy and spiritual purification techniques to survive upcoming geophysical transformations what was the name of the guy again uh this is the so the person who there was two people who found that it was charles boyd gensel and pauline sharp last name with an e so s-h-r-p-e the name of the place was the mark age centaur and the mark yeah hyphenated yeah um okay so they tapped into a growing east coast metaphysical publishing market during the 60s

and 70s operated with a disciplined bureaucratic structure maintaining meticulous archives and channeled transmissions and offered followers a sense of order and cosmic purpose amidst the rapid cultural and political changes of the era. Maintained a quiet, non-confrontational operational style, avoiding the radical escalation seen in apocalyptic cults. Relocated headquarters from Miami to Fort Lauderdale

and later to Missouri, continuing publications throughout the late 20th century. I wonder if they're on that site that you're perusing. Probably. Remained a small niche organization that steadily declined after the death of Nadia Yolanda in 2005.

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Oh, boy. This is our territory because we were both seniors in high school during all this. Yeah. Formed in 1974 by Marshall Applewhite, Doe, as he was known, and Bonnie Nettles, T, who met in a psychiatric hospital where Nettles worked as a nurse. believed they were the two witnesses mentioned in the book of revelation sent from a higher dimension to guide humanity spent two decades living as wandering ascetics adopting various

names such as bow and peep do and tea or maybe it's dough and tea while recruiting followers across north america taught that the human body is merely a physical vehicle container for an evolving soul believed earth was about to be recycled and that the only way to survive was to ascend to the next level above evolutionary level above human uh it's t-e-l-a-h so it's the evolutionary level above human interpreted comet hail bop in 1996 as carrying a hidden spacecraft sent to pick up their souls um they exercised total behavioral control members cut ties with

families surrendered personal assets adopted uniform clothing short haircuts and gender genderless i can't say that word genderless is alien gender less aliases man practiced strict celibacy several male members including applewhite underwent voluntary surgically surgical castration to eliminate sexual sexual distraction um financed operations during the late 1990s by running higher source a highly professional web design business in san diego on march 26 1997 law enforcement discovered 39 members dead in a rented mansion in rancho santa

fey california over three days members conducted a system system how my hand i can't talk now all members conducted a systemic mass suicide by ingesting phenobarbital mixed with applesauce and vodka securing plastic bags over their heads wearing matching nike decades black black sneakers and armbands readings heaven's gate away team it remains the largest mass suicide on u.s soil yep their website's still out there you can still go to it you know it's unfortunate that like so many so many of these that we've gone through so far like they have

at the at the core of their messaging you know it's i think something to to live by the idea that like we need to take care of our planet that we need to take care of ourselves that we need to you know be respectful that we need to be of service to you know to others and something at the core of their teachings it's it's um it's valid it's only when they expand beyond that and you know it'd be interesting to understand you know the psychological aspects of why they feel they need to grow beyond their core teachings to right to make it bigger and brighter and better

And it may have been simply because there were competing organizations and they felt like they had to draw members to them. It may be the same mentality that, you know, causes, and I don't mean to offend anybody, but it causes, you know, Christian churches across the U.S. to constantly try to figure out the better way to, you know, up their game to draw in new members and so on and so forth. So, I don't know. I don't know. All right. Number nine, the Nuwabian Nation. The longer name is the United Nuwabian Nation of Moors. Founded in the late 1960s in Brooklyn, New York, by Dwight York, also known as Malachi Z. York, York continually rebranded the organization across decades, transitioning from the black Muslims of Anusaru, Alaa community, and eventually the Nuwabian nation.

Relocated operations in 1993 to a 476-acre property in Putnam County, Georgia, building an Egyptian-themed compound called Tama Ray. blended black nationalism ancient egyptian religion pseudo-islamic teachings sovereign citizen ideology and ufo theology taught that nuwabians were descended from extraterrestrial beings from the star system rizik i'm probably pronouncing it wrong r-i-z-q who built ancient monuments on earth preach that spacecraft the mothership would return to rescue 144 000 chosen

individuals before global global cataclysm you know so many of these things all stem from people misinterpreting the book of revelation yeah i wish more theologians would speak out about how the book of revelation is meant to be interpreted yep anyways um it was classified by the southern poverty law center as a hate group advocating black supremacy established absolute control over members living within the guarded tama ray compound enforcing strict isolation from outside society york exercised absolute authority styling himself as an incarnate

deity and living in luxury while followers lived in Spartan conditions. In 2002, joint state and federal law enforcement raided Tamaray, arresting York on massive charges of child sexual abuse, racketeering, and financial fraud. Prosecutors proved York sexually abused dozens of children within the compound over many years. York was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to 135 years in federal prison. The Tomaray compound was seized and demolished

by federal authorities. Yeah, I went to their website and it is all just them trying to defend him. I mean, the opening line says that he was

kidnapped May 8, 2002 by the U.S. government. Well, that's the hard side of being in a cult. You know, not realizing when something is

when you're being shown the truth yeah interesting the picture though of that tamaray is really interesting it is it's got pyramids and all kinds of stuff it's interesting all right next up is the order of the solar temple ots ost ost is it ost yeah if it's the solar temple i know but what if it's order what if the ots is order of the temple of solaris or something like that uh okay yeah because i do see yeah it is order it's french for ordre du temple solare so ots there you go i wasn't wrong no you weren't all right uh founded in 1984 in geneva switzerland

by Luc Jauré, a Belgian homeopathic doctor, and Joseph de Mambrou, a French occultist. While primarily operating in Switzerland, France, and Canada, the Order maintained active finances, property, and satellite chapters in the United States. De Mambrou acted as the secret puppet

master and financial controller, while Jauré served as the charismatic public speaker and recruiter they combined neo-templar chivalry rosicrucianism ceremonial magic and apocalyptic ufo theology theology claimed earth was heading towards an inevitable environmental and nuclear collapse taught that ritual death was not destruction but a transit via flying saucer to a higher spiritual life on a planet orbiting the star Sirius.

See, I thought it was pretty cool because I like all that stuff that they had mentioned, but then you get into that and I'm like, nope, sorry. I'm going to say this again. I've said it numerous times. Any system that's built around fear is not a sound system.

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Victims included infants executed as antichrists, as well as members murdered with poison or gunshots before structures were set ablaze with timed incendiary devices. Remains one of the most violent international cult tragedies in modern history, severely impacting global public perception of esoteric groups. That took a turn. Yeah.

All right. Next up on the list, we have the Extraterrestrial Earth Mission, the EEM or EEM, I guess you could. Founded in 1986 in Bellevue, Washington. by a couple operating under the spiritual names of Savasar and Salera, claimed the movement originated when an extraterrestrial soul named Avanish performed a walk-in into a human body in the mid-1980s.

Savasar and Salera presented themselves as co-creators, facilitating a global transformation for soul entities embodied on Earth. they popularized the walk-in concept the belief that an extraterrestrial soul can voluntarily exchange places with a human soul during times of trauma focused on light body activation energetic attunements meant to upgrade human dna for a higher vibrational frequency taught that earth was undergoing a dimensional shift and that followers were cosmic ambassadors

sent to assist in planetary ascension what was this one called again this is the extraterrestrial earth mission eem oh yeah eem yeah emerged from the pacific northwest new age movement during the late 1980s appealing to seekers interested in personal empowerment and energy work operated without physical isolation or military style control relying instead on seminar tours books, and audiotapes. Framed spiritual growth as an active corporate-style mission rather than traditional religious worship. Maintained a non-violent workshop-driven structure throughout

the late 1980s and early 1990s. Expanded internationally with Seattle study groups across North America and Europe. Faded in prominence during the 2000s as the core leaders reduced public appearances through though their walk-in concepts remain influential in new age subcultures and last one on the list number 12 um the international railion movement railion railion it's spelled r-a-e with a little uh two little dots above the e uh l-i-s-m Founded in France in 1973 by Claude Vorillon, a former sports car journalist and race car driver who adopted the name Rael.

Vorillon claimed that while walking near a volcanic crater in Clermont-Ferrand, he encountered a four-foot extraterrestrial emerging from a flying saucer. The visitor informed Rael that humanity was created scientifically in a laboratory by an advanced extraterrestrial race called the Elohim. Described by scholars as the most thoroughly secular UFO religion, rejecting all concepts of God, soul, or spiritual magic, teaches that the Elohim created all life on Earth through genetic engineering 25,000 years ago, and that ancient religious prophets, Moses, Jesus, Buddha, were space ambassadors. Promotes scientific advancement, sensual meditation, sexual liberation,

and human cloning as the path to physical immortality. Uses media-savvy provocative public relation campaigns and secular scientific language to attract members worldwide, claiming over 30,000 members with major centers in LA, Vegas, and Miami. advocated for building an official $20 million

extraterrestrial embassy with landing pad facilities requesting land from various world governments. I think

this is, like I've read about this recently. This might be still happening, this whole extraterrestrial embassy thing. I think I've even heard Greer talk about it. Ha!

Probably. appeals to secular atheists and science-minded individuals who desire a technological origin story without traditional religious dogma. It reached peak media notoriety in 2002 when its affiliated company, Clonaid, claimed to have produced Eve, the world's first cloned human baby.

Ah, okay. That I've heard of. Though scientists dismissed the claim as an unverified PR stunt, It led to international debates and congressional hearings regarding human cloning laws. It continues active global operations today, staging colorful public demonstrations for sexual rights, free speech, and diplomatic status for extraterrestrials. Interesting. The international railing movement.

Yep. Rail.org. You can go R-A-E-L.org. A whole bunch of stuff. and then you can go to the et embassy uh et embassy.org as well and they have a ton of information so yeah they're still very active these are really well done websites interesting

i mean they you know of all the ones that we reviewed here today this one seems to be the most like uh i guess pure in its intentions you know advocating for you know free speech and sexual rights yep gotopolis.org is one of their websites about the free the free the breast movement yep so that is my list of 12 to cover today like i said in the beginning this is not an exhaustive list but it's a good representation of where things started all the way back in 1930 yeah today wild and that that's only the tip of the iceberg yep so to speak we didn't even like

i said we didn't even touch on adamski or any of those other there's so much out there and it's just a wild man um you know one could argue that um you know ce5 and greer's movement is some sort 100 percent heading that way at least so i think we've talked about that quite a bit here and on astral stew so yeah i mean there's probably others that um you know i wasn't able to find information about or enough detail to cover on the show but um yeah you know if you anybody who's listening if you know one that we didn't cover drop a comment you know if we get enough uh you

know another 10 or 12 together we'll do another episode on it yep or if you'd like us to do a deep dive into one of these try to interview some members or anybody we'd you know be willing to put that together too so just let us know what you'd like to see or hear yeah very cool man yeah thank you josh for putting all that together um there's quite a bit that's out there some of it's dangerous some of it is you know looks like it could be a little helpful i mean if that's what you're looking for um but boy a lot of them are dangerous that's yeah that's what sucks that's the hard part

regular religions how do you recognize the danger you know sometimes you're so close to things you know on the outside looking in we look at like oh my goodness i can't believe that but yeah you know when you're when you're in it you don't realize it you know i mean i i will admit that i you know i did things that were cult-ish when i was you know in youth group and oh yeah and you know when i was going to baptist church and that that's considered you know regular run-of-the-mill you know yeah every day yeah so yeah very very interesting yep well um there is help out there

If you're feeling iceboxed, there are people that help, you know, as well as getting therapy or anything like that that you may need. Seek it out if you need it. Other than that, Josh, got anything else before we rock and roll? Nope, that's it. All right, guys. Well, thank you guys so much for tuning in to another episode of the Shadow Signal podcast.

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