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ufos seem to be invading both

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our skies and our news outlets like

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never before

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and more people are starting to look up

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and are wondering who

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or what might be out there in 2016

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ryan sprague introduced the world to

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countless ufo encounters that had never

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been made public before

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and now in the second edition of his

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introduces brand new ufo cases

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in somewhere in the skies a human

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this is your chance i'm here i can take

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you out of here i can

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lead you into that kingdom level

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the human world that you're in and come

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and follow me

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this is somewhere in the skies with ryan

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so today i'm going to be talking about a

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topic that doesn't get covered in

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that often and that is ufo cults and ufo

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religions so i have a question right off

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the bat for you what is the

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first thing you think of when you hear

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the term ufo cult

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is it this it's the largest suicide in

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the united states history

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and it has all the components of just

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being so bizarre

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it's been 20 years since 39 members of

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the heavens gate cult were found dead

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their bodies discovered under purple

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shrouds inside a mansion in rancho santa

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yeah it was for me too i remember when i

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was 13 years old and i was in school

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i was so excited because i had a brand

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new pair of nike sneakers my first name

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brand sneakers i ever owned

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and i remember one of the kids coming up

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to me and pointing at the sneakers

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and i thought he was going to give me a

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compliment but instead he just pointed

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and he laughed at me and he said look

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ryan's part of one of those groups that

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killed themselves

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and i had absolutely no idea what he was

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talking about

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when i went home from school that day i

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saw on the news about

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the heavens gate cult and they just so

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happen

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to be wearing the same exact sneakers as

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i had and i just so happened to be

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into the topic of ufos starting that

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so it was purely coincidental but it

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really got me

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worried i was becoming obsessed with

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i was writing essays to myself about

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roswell rendlesham anything you can

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when it came to flying saucers and when

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group had done and that they believed

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a flying saucer was coming on the back

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of a comet

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to pick them up and take them away and

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39 people died that day

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i was worried i was worried about where

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my obsession

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would ultimately lead me and i hoped

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like what happened to these people but

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we will get to heaven's gate in just a

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so without going into a huge debate

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about what's a cult what's a religion

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we're just going to sort of paint

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everything as a movement a religious

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for today's purposes so my next question

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i'm going to ask it anyway

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what exactly is a ufo religion and how

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did these start well it actually starts

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people think it does

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it started with a modern ufo era

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and that era basically began in 1947

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when a pilot witnessed nine

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state kenneth arnold would report what

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he'd seen to several newspapers

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he described the movement of these

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objects like saucers skipping off of

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even though the objects weren't actually

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desert the military swooped in retrieved

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in roswell region so now flying saucers

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of everyone and this would lead into the

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with the contact e movement and this is

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who claim to have made contact with

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from other worlds this spawned a huge

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movement people from all over were now

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convening in large groups to discuss

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and the supposed messages these space

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brothers and sisters wanted to

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impart to humanity and from these early

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movements came specific belief systems

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and guidelines from whichever alien race

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had made contact

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and thus religious movements were born

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from flying

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from these beliefs spawned ufo movements

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and eventually cults and trust me there

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are dozens

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and dozens of these out there but today

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we're gonna focus on

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six of them and the first one we're

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going to talk about is the ashtar

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galactic command the ashtar galactic

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command actually refers to

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multiple religions as multiple different

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people and groups over the years

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named ashtar george van tassel

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was the first in the late 40s ventaso

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created an event

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known as the giant rock spacecraft

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convention

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which some of the photos you saw earlier

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during this event he and his followers

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would channel messages from ashtar

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now ashtar was a extraterrestrial being

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a group of beings that were part of a

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galactic law enforcement agency

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preparing an imminent rescue of humanity

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from destroying themselves with nuclear

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and the destruction of our planet george

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integrated the idea that the christian

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bible could be read

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as alien intervention on our planet

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and he even claimed that jesus was an

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alien

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the supposed channeling of ashtar with a

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backdrop of christianity

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influencing its messages followers

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divisive and the ventaso movement of the

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soon collapsed thereafter many other

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people claimed the ashtar command

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and recycled it into their own ways

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or sticking to the more spiritual side

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of ashdar's messages

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and that we needed to ascend into higher

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to solidify our place in the cosmic

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a woman named yvonne cole claimed to be

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multiple alien races would arrive on the

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earth and proceed to destroy human

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i don't think it happened but this

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who kept making bold predictions and

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failing

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at every corner in fact a really weird

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in 1977 when a british television

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broadcast was illegally

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interrupted with what adherents called

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a message from really on a

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so we're left wondering was this some

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the ashtar galactic command literally

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became the wild west

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of ufo cults with so many people

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to be a part of this or to be channeling

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and the idealism of ashtar and its

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brand just continued from there on out

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and the same could be said for the idea

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of ascension which we'll get to

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in a little bit but let's move to our

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next movement

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and this is the aetherius society

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the aetherius society was founded in

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1954 by a man named george king

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the society is named after the cosmic

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aetherius who like in the case of

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ventasos claims

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was an alien being who represented a

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buddha and jesus in king's eyes were

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also alien beings from the planet

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venus and they invited king into their

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cosmic brotherhood of sorts

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to help heal and save the world

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which would practice yoga mixed

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to heal through astral projection so at

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of this belief system and the cosmic

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is to save the earth and uplift humans

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to a higher state of

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evolutionary consciousness ascension

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your name is i am noon

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venus his specific mission as a cosmic

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and launch what he called operation

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which allowed followers to wield their

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which contained materials like gold and

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quartz

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and he claimed this could be used to

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store and harness prayer energy

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with enough energy all members could

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begin to heal the world

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and bring us to cosmic enlightenment

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the aetherius society boasts thousands

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of members around the world

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but they presently still practice mostly

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in the uk and

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in california so without actually

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promoting

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this group or any of the others that

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you're gonna hear about today

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i will say this the aetherius society

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seems to be pretty uh innocuous in terms

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of ufo cults

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or religions they honestly just want to

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heal

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and help the world they don't charge to

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become a member

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everyone's invited and there's no

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commitments to make they just want to

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heal

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what has already been so broken in the

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world so

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they're still going and uh good on them

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for that

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and i guess the same could be said about

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our next group and

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as a personal theater nerd this one kind

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of spoke to me

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not enough to join but i found it pretty

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interesting

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and this was the unarius academy of

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science

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unarius is a spiritual non-profit

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educational foundation

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established in 1954 by ernest norman and

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his wife ruth

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unarius stands for universal articulate

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interdimensional understanding of

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science

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it's the study of four-dimensional

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science and the sacred transmissions

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by the space brothers who are an

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advanced intelligent

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race of aliens existing on a different

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frequency

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ernest and ruth set up shop in southern

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california

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and followers started to slowly trickle

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in they started teaching people about

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their

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sacred transmissions and through these

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transmissions

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ruth channeled news from the space

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brothers who said 33 giant spaceships

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would be landing on the earth soon

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but just as things seemed to be gearing

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up ernest died

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in 1971. ruth who now went by

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uriel became the organization's leader

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the academy started taking on a

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different set of goals

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and that was to promote the study of

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extraterrestrial intelligence

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reincarnation and free energy

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but its fundamental purpose remain

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channeling alien beings

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for creativity from churning out

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mind-blowing public access

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tv shows to a variety of ufo themed

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paintings

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music books you name it they were

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creating it

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what also distinguishes unarius from

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other cult-like movements

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was their emphasis on spiritual healing

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through

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past life therapy and reenactments on

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film

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in their time even stretching up to

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today the academy has produced three

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feature films

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80 television shows as well as scores of

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student paintings

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hundreds of handmade costumes thousands

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of photographs in over 200

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self-published books and while ruth

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or uriel might be a little wacky and

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eccentric

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and the fact that her prophecy about 33

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spaceships showing up never really

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panned out

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it seems like a pretty positive and

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creative atmosphere

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helping people who were lost find

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creativity

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and i mean if anything this could go

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down as the

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biggest performance piece in ufo history

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so

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looks like they are having a lot of fun

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going out trying to vector in ufos

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as long as no one's getting hurt and

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nobody's making a ton of money

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uh this sounds like a lot of fun and our

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next group

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also likes to have a lot of fun but in

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many

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very controversial ways this is the

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story

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thank you and keep looking up

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the core foundations of realism is the

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belief that a group of extraterrestrials

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called the elohim

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created the human race in a science

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experiment

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the elohim appeared to early humans as

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god-like beings

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and may be the cause for the mystifying

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cave drawings

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that many claim to be ancient astronauts

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once again as with other ufo religions

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buddha jesus and other

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historical figures start to arise as

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prophets

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in the raelian narrative founded by

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claude varelhan

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or rael in 1974 this dude was in close

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contact with

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elohim and they came to earth and told

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him their reasons for coming here and

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what claude should do the basic idea is

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that if humans could just

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get their act together and become

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peaceful and

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aware the elohim would contact us again

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this is sort of the raelians version of

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the apocalypse

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the elohim will come down and meet

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humans at an embassy they've asked the

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aliens

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to build for them this embassy

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will have a landing pad for the elohim

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spacecraft

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they will then tell the humans about

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their advanced science and technology

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and humans will be able to build a life

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on other planets

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as the elohim have done for us the

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raelian church has a fully fleshed out

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clergy

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that practices sensual meditation

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and advocates strongly for political

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causes

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including pro-gmo crops the topless

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rights of women

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they are very pro-sex in fact the

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october 2004

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issue of playboy features rails girls

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a group of raelian x-strippers and call

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girls

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and the group is also anti-catholicism

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the anti-catholicism is no small issue

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in a stunt known as operation condom

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raelians handed out ten thousand condoms

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to catholic school children in another

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effort

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they incited catholic children to burn

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crosses

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now nah that's not cool if you've heard

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of the raelians you probably know them

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from the

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media frenzy they created in 2002

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when a quote-unquote aurelian bishop by

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the name of bridget

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bossilier announced that her biotech

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company

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clone aid had produced the first cloned

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human baby named eve the claim has

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never been 100 substantiated though it

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is worth noting wikileaks released a

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cable

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showing that the us government

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investigated the raelians claims

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it wouldn't be too surprising as the

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group has long supported the ideas of

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biotechnology and mind uploading

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technologies

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in attaining physical immortality

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one final point worth noting about the

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raelians before a pr

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move in 1991 one of the raelian symbols

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was a swastika over the star of david

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that didn't go over too well and it was

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eventually turned into the star of david

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with a swirling galaxy within it there

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is a lot to cover with the raelians and

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they

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are still very active today and

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recruiting

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i know from personal experience i've

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been contacted by

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several of them within the last few

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weeks

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or so but uh let's move on so this is

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where things start to sort of veer into

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very dangerous

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territory probably one of the most

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visible cults in the last

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what 10 to 20 years or so would have to

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be scientology

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and while there have been many exposes

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and tv shows

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books documentaries about the religion

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itself

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i thought let's cut to the actual core

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scripture and story behind this religion

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the most well-known story publicized and

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held up to ridicule by critics is that

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of

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confederacy

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who was said to have brought billions of

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frozen people to earth

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75 million years ago and placed them

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near a number of volcanoes

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and dropped in hydrogen bombs thus

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killing the entire population in an

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effort to solve overpopulation

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spirits of these people were then

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captured by xenu

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and mass implanted with numerous

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suggestions and then

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packaged into clusters of spirits

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from the early 1950s onward

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scientologists founder

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l ron hubbard published a number of

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books lectures and

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other works describing what he termed a

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space

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opera wait a minute i thought this was a

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space opera

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anyways scientology teaches that all

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humans have experienced

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innumerable past lives including lives

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in

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ancient advanced extraterrestrial

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societies

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traumatic memories from these past lives

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are said to be the

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cause of many present-day physical and

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mental ailments

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scientologists also believe that human

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beings possess

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superhuman powers which cannot be

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restored until they have been

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fully rehabilitated as spiritual beings

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through the practice of auditing using

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methods set out by l ron hubbard

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in his various works according to

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hubbard

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a thetan has a body this is their term

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for a soul

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when that body dies the thaiten goes to

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a landing station

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on the planet venus where they are

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re-implanted

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and are programmed to forget their

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previous lifetimes

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the venusians then capsule each satan

579
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and send them back to earth to be dumped

580
00:21:38,789 --> 00:21:35,679
into the gulf

581
00:21:41,830 --> 00:21:38,799
of california whereupon each they in

582
00:21:43,870 --> 00:21:41,840
searches for a new body to inhabit

583
00:21:45,029 --> 00:21:43,880
and only through auditing can

584
00:21:47,990 --> 00:21:45,039
scientologists

585
00:21:49,909 --> 00:21:48,000
go clear and become the greatest self

586
00:21:53,430 --> 00:21:49,919
they can possibly be

587
00:21:55,510 --> 00:21:53,440
with superpowers of course

588
00:21:57,510 --> 00:21:55,520
so from here we all kind of know the

589
00:22:01,029 --> 00:21:57,520
story scientologists

590
00:22:03,270 --> 00:22:01,039
are extremely litigious they will

591
00:22:05,110 --> 00:22:03,280
stalk members who leave the church they

592
00:22:07,590 --> 00:22:05,120
will bribe them with all the

593
00:22:08,870 --> 00:22:07,600
confessions they've made during auditing

594
00:22:12,149 --> 00:22:08,880
and they will literally

595
00:22:13,029 --> 00:22:12,159
rip families apart they are extremely

596
00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:13,039
dangerous

597
00:22:16,149 --> 00:22:15,760
and we did not learn that any more clear

598
00:22:17,830 --> 00:22:16,159
than

599
00:22:19,510 --> 00:22:17,840
with the television shows that came out

600
00:22:21,350 --> 00:22:19,520
about it and also from

601
00:22:23,190 --> 00:22:21,360
ex-members coming forward to talk about

602
00:22:25,990 --> 00:22:23,200
it and one of those individuals

603
00:22:27,510 --> 00:22:26,000
joey chate is an ex-member and i had him

604
00:22:28,390 --> 00:22:27,520
on the somewhere in the skies podcast to

605
00:22:30,630 --> 00:22:28,400
talk all about

606
00:22:32,630 --> 00:22:30,640
how he got into it how he climbed the

607
00:22:34,789 --> 00:22:32,640
ranks and how he was eventually able

608
00:22:36,870 --> 00:22:34,799
to get out of scientology but without

609
00:22:43,990 --> 00:22:36,880
going into that i'm gonna let joey talk

610
00:22:48,950 --> 00:22:46,789
well i was born into it i'm a what they

611
00:22:50,710 --> 00:22:48,960
call a second generation scientologist

612
00:22:51,350 --> 00:22:50,720
so my parents got into it back in the

613
00:22:55,669 --> 00:22:51,360
70s

614
00:22:57,750 --> 00:22:55,679
they got suckered into it

615
00:22:59,270 --> 00:22:57,760
and then by the time i was born and by

616
00:23:00,789 --> 00:22:59,280
the time my two younger brothers were

617
00:23:02,630 --> 00:23:00,799
born they were already fully

618
00:23:05,990 --> 00:23:02,640
indoctrinated into scientology

619
00:23:07,830 --> 00:23:06,000
so i i it was basically the religion

620
00:23:09,430 --> 00:23:07,840
that i was raised with i didn't really

621
00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:09,440
have a choice in the matter

622
00:23:14,870 --> 00:23:12,640
they they did which was stupid so i

623
00:23:16,310 --> 00:23:14,880
i ended up suffering for their mistakes

624
00:23:22,549 --> 00:23:16,320
which most kids do especially when it

625
00:23:24,870 --> 00:23:22,559
comes to religions or cults

626
00:23:26,710 --> 00:23:24,880
are not allowed to talk to or be in any

627
00:23:28,789 --> 00:23:26,720
sort of relationship with anybody who's

628
00:23:32,149 --> 00:23:28,799
labeled a suppressive person

629
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:32,159
so my entire family is in scientology so

630
00:23:35,990 --> 00:23:34,840
all of my friends that are still in

631
00:23:39,110 --> 00:23:36,000
scientology

632
00:23:40,710 --> 00:23:39,120
they stopped talking to me they blocked

633
00:23:45,269 --> 00:23:40,720
me on facebook and blocked me on social

634
00:23:48,870 --> 00:23:47,510
if the fbi or some government agency

635
00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:48,880
decided to do a raid

636
00:23:53,590 --> 00:23:51,039
on any on any church of scientology

637
00:23:56,230 --> 00:23:53,600
where people are being held under watch

638
00:23:57,510 --> 00:23:56,240
99 of the people would be oh i'm not

639
00:23:59,990 --> 00:23:57,520
being held against my will

640
00:24:00,710 --> 00:24:00,000
i'm i'm here on my own volition you know

641
00:24:01,990 --> 00:24:00,720
this is my

642
00:24:04,630 --> 00:24:02,000
religion because that's what you're

643
00:24:06,549 --> 00:24:04,640
trained to do the the brainwashing

644
00:24:09,269 --> 00:24:06,559
and the mental conditioning that you go

645
00:24:12,310 --> 00:24:09,279
through you protect the church

646
00:24:12,950 --> 00:24:12,320
at above and beyond all costs church

647
00:24:18,549 --> 00:24:12,960
first

648
00:24:20,870 --> 00:24:18,559
individual second

649
00:24:22,310 --> 00:24:20,880
i would say run as far away as you

650
00:24:24,230 --> 00:24:22,320
possibly can

651
00:24:26,230 --> 00:24:24,240
especially with scientology because it's

652
00:24:28,230 --> 00:24:26,240
like you're gonna spend so much money

653
00:24:31,190 --> 00:24:28,240
you're gonna get sucked into this cult

654
00:24:32,870 --> 00:24:31,200
it's just it's just not worth it i get

655
00:24:35,269 --> 00:24:32,880
that everybody in life

656
00:24:36,710 --> 00:24:35,279
is always looking for something

657
00:24:39,350 --> 00:24:36,720
everybody wants the answers

658
00:24:41,269 --> 00:24:39,360
and that's something that i think that

659
00:24:43,190 --> 00:24:41,279
people can just figure it out on their

660
00:24:44,310 --> 00:24:43,200
own if you want to study something about

661
00:24:46,310 --> 00:24:44,320
scientology

662
00:24:47,830 --> 00:24:46,320
do it for free on the internet that's my

663
00:24:49,430 --> 00:24:47,840
biggest thing with scientology if you

664
00:24:51,990 --> 00:24:49,440
wanted to become a catholic

665
00:24:53,269 --> 00:24:52,000
you go into any catholic church or

666
00:24:54,230 --> 00:24:53,279
protestant church or whatever you want

667
00:24:56,070 --> 00:24:54,240
to study

668
00:24:58,070 --> 00:24:56,080
the materials are there the bible is

669
00:25:00,230 --> 00:24:58,080
free you don't have to pay money to them

670
00:25:01,990 --> 00:25:00,240
if you wanted to study about judaism

671
00:25:03,990 --> 00:25:02,000
go to it go to a temple or go to a

672
00:25:07,750 --> 00:25:04,000
synagogue and read the torah

673
00:25:10,230 --> 00:25:07,760
it's free scientology charges people

674
00:25:11,430 --> 00:25:10,240
for salvation that's the biggest thing

675
00:25:13,269 --> 00:25:11,440
that drives me crazy

676
00:25:15,590 --> 00:25:13,279
i mean you know outside of the physical

677
00:25:17,350 --> 00:25:15,600
abuse and the sexual abuse and the men

678
00:25:19,430 --> 00:25:17,360
and the medical malpractice and all that

679
00:25:21,590 --> 00:25:19,440
stuff the fact that they charge for it

680
00:25:23,029 --> 00:25:21,600
that should be that should be the thing

681
00:25:23,029 --> 00:25:24,950
that makes you go okay no this is

682
00:25:28,149 --> 00:25:27,269
so while scientology seems to be

683
00:25:30,710 --> 00:25:28,159
fizzling

684
00:25:32,310 --> 00:25:30,720
these days there's no doubt that people

685
00:25:33,190 --> 00:25:32,320
are still falling for it and still

686
00:25:36,230 --> 00:25:33,200
joining

687
00:25:37,909 --> 00:25:36,240
um and that's just sad and tragic so i'm

688
00:25:38,950 --> 00:25:37,919
glad there's people like joey out there

689
00:25:42,070 --> 00:25:38,960
being vocal

690
00:25:43,510 --> 00:25:42,080
and taking the risks to try to get to

691
00:25:46,230 --> 00:25:43,520
people before they join

692
00:25:48,710 --> 00:25:46,240
or try to get people out of it and while

693
00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:48,720
scientology is extremely

694
00:25:54,230 --> 00:25:51,760
uh contentious and dangerous

695
00:25:57,190 --> 00:25:54,240
the next cult we're going to talk about

696
00:26:01,110 --> 00:25:57,200
is actually just tragic

697
00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:01,120
and that is the heavens gate cult

698
00:26:04,549 --> 00:26:03,440
founders marshall h applewhite and

699
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:04,559
bonnie nettles

700
00:26:08,470 --> 00:26:07,200
met in 1972 and soon became convinced

701
00:26:11,190 --> 00:26:08,480
that they were the two

702
00:26:12,230 --> 00:26:11,200
end time witnesses mentioned in the book

703
00:26:15,350 --> 00:26:12,240
of revelations

704
00:26:17,269 --> 00:26:15,360
in the christian bible in 1975 they held

705
00:26:19,990 --> 00:26:17,279
gatherings in california

706
00:26:21,190 --> 00:26:20,000
and oregon that attracted their initial

707
00:26:24,390 --> 00:26:21,200
followers

708
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:24,400
those who attached themselves to the two

709
00:26:27,830 --> 00:26:26,720
dropped out of society and prepared for

710
00:26:30,870 --> 00:26:27,840
the transition

711
00:26:32,310 --> 00:26:30,880
to a new life on a spaceship when the

712
00:26:35,350 --> 00:26:32,320
expected transition

713
00:26:37,909 --> 00:26:35,360
did not occur the group settled in texas

714
00:26:38,789 --> 00:26:37,919
and lived a quiet communal existence

715
00:26:40,950 --> 00:26:38,799
practicing

716
00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:40,960
disciplines that they believed would

717
00:26:46,230 --> 00:26:43,360
prepare them for the eventual movement

718
00:26:48,430 --> 00:26:46,240
to a higher level of existence they had

719
00:26:51,430 --> 00:26:48,440
few contacts with outsiders until

720
00:26:52,710 --> 00:26:51,440
1994 when their expectation of the

721
00:26:55,029 --> 00:26:52,720
imminent transition

722
00:26:56,230 --> 00:26:55,039
was again heightened and they began a

723
00:26:59,269 --> 00:26:56,240
new round

724
00:27:01,350 --> 00:26:59,279
of recruitment they also divested

725
00:27:01,750 --> 00:27:01,360
themselves of most of their possessions

726
00:27:03,750 --> 00:27:01,760
and

727
00:27:05,269 --> 00:27:03,760
began a pilgrimage that led them to

728
00:27:08,310 --> 00:27:05,279
california

729
00:27:10,149 --> 00:27:08,320
settling in the san diego area in 1996

730
00:27:12,310 --> 00:27:10,159
they supported themselves by creating

731
00:27:13,430 --> 00:27:12,320
websites in the early days of the

732
00:27:16,710 --> 00:27:13,440
internet

733
00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:16,720
early in 1997 a rumor circulated among

734
00:27:19,510 --> 00:27:17,039
the

735
00:27:20,149 --> 00:27:19,520
new age community that an artificial

736
00:27:22,950 --> 00:27:20,159
object

737
00:27:24,070 --> 00:27:22,960
or a spaceship was following the

738
00:27:27,269 --> 00:27:24,080
recently discovered

739
00:27:28,789 --> 00:27:27,279
comet halbap which would approach close

740
00:27:31,669 --> 00:27:28,799
to earth around the time

741
00:27:32,389 --> 00:27:31,679
of the spring equinox as the comet

742
00:27:34,870 --> 00:27:32,399
approached

743
00:27:36,070 --> 00:27:34,880
they would board the spaceship and head

744
00:27:38,870 --> 00:27:36,080
to their next journey

745
00:27:40,549 --> 00:27:38,880
this is your chance i'm here i can take

746
00:27:43,990 --> 00:27:40,559
you out of here i can

747
00:27:44,470 --> 00:27:44,000
lead you into that kingdom level above

748
00:27:47,350 --> 00:27:44,480
human

749
00:27:48,950 --> 00:27:47,360
that can't happen unless you leave the

750
00:27:52,950 --> 00:27:48,960
human world that you're in

751
00:27:56,230 --> 00:27:52,960
and come and follow me time is short

752
00:27:57,269 --> 00:27:56,240
last chance the heavens gate group which

753
00:28:00,310 --> 00:27:57,279
had shrunk to

754
00:28:03,750 --> 00:28:00,320
only 39 members at this point took

755
00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:03,760
poison in three waves

756
00:28:10,070 --> 00:28:07,279
on march 26 1997 following

757
00:28:11,510 --> 00:28:10,080
an anonymous tip police found the bodies

758
00:28:14,389 --> 00:28:11,520
of the members

759
00:28:14,950 --> 00:28:14,399
neatly lined up in bunk beds wearing

760
00:28:18,389 --> 00:28:14,960
matching

761
00:28:20,470 --> 00:28:18,399
outfits and identical nike sneakers

762
00:28:21,990 --> 00:28:20,480
they donned patches on their sleeves

763
00:28:25,110 --> 00:28:22,000
that simply read

764
00:28:25,909 --> 00:28:25,120
away team during the recruitments across

765
00:28:27,750 --> 00:28:25,919
the country

766
00:28:29,350 --> 00:28:27,760
heaven's gate members were forced to

767
00:28:31,990 --> 00:28:29,360
sever relationships with

768
00:28:34,470 --> 00:28:32,000
all outside friends and family members

769
00:28:34,950 --> 00:28:34,480
as their entire world became consumed by

770
00:28:41,669 --> 00:28:34,960
this

771
00:28:44,470 --> 00:28:41,679
one of the heaven's gate members lyford

772
00:28:47,750 --> 00:28:44,480
defected from the cult in 1993

773
00:28:50,430 --> 00:28:47,760
but his girlfriend erica ernst remained

774
00:28:52,149 --> 00:28:50,440
and died in the cult's mass suicide in

775
00:28:54,310 --> 00:28:52,159
1997.

776
00:28:55,830 --> 00:28:54,320
in an interview with people magazine

777
00:28:58,950 --> 00:28:55,840
frank said it was one of the most

778
00:29:01,909 --> 00:28:58,960
painful experiences he ever endured

779
00:29:04,230 --> 00:29:01,919
and the impact lasted a lifetime now i

780
00:29:06,950 --> 00:29:04,240
was actually able to catch up with frank

781
00:29:07,350 --> 00:29:06,960
and talk to him about what life was like

782
00:29:09,909 --> 00:29:07,360
post

783
00:29:10,470 --> 00:29:09,919
cult and he was so gracious to give his

784
00:29:13,190 --> 00:29:10,480
time

785
00:29:15,029 --> 00:29:13,200
to give us these quotes frank said we

786
00:29:16,230 --> 00:29:15,039
all have a connection to the divine

787
00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:16,240
within us to tell

788
00:29:21,110 --> 00:29:18,880
what our best path should be we all have

789
00:29:23,669 --> 00:29:21,120
that radio transmitter built in

790
00:29:24,630 --> 00:29:23,679
we don't need anyone to translate that

791
00:29:26,549 --> 00:29:24,640
for us

792
00:29:28,149 --> 00:29:26,559
that was the big mistake that we all

793
00:29:30,470 --> 00:29:28,159
made in my mind

794
00:29:31,190 --> 00:29:30,480
it was believing we needed someone else

795
00:29:34,470 --> 00:29:31,200
to tell us

796
00:29:34,789 --> 00:29:34,480
what our best path should be frank also

797
00:29:37,029 --> 00:29:34,799
said

798
00:29:39,029 --> 00:29:37,039
i've made peace with my choices i've

799
00:29:41,590 --> 00:29:39,039
taken full responsibility for them

800
00:29:44,549 --> 00:29:41,600
also realizing that my experiences have

801
00:29:46,870 --> 00:29:44,559
served an amazing cornucopia of learning

802
00:29:48,230 --> 00:29:46,880
and wisdom that i likely would not have

803
00:29:51,110 --> 00:29:48,240
gained through a more

804
00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:51,120
normal life to me the more important

805
00:29:54,310 --> 00:29:52,000
part of my life

806
00:29:55,110 --> 00:29:54,320
is the time following being in heaven's

807
00:29:57,909 --> 00:29:55,120
gate

808
00:29:59,590 --> 00:29:57,919
and that is my journey post cult back to

809
00:30:01,750 --> 00:29:59,600
myself

810
00:30:03,350 --> 00:30:01,760
frank explained the end goal of the

811
00:30:06,710 --> 00:30:03,360
heavens gate cult

812
00:30:09,350 --> 00:30:06,720
saying that it was in effect ascension

813
00:30:10,230 --> 00:30:09,360
to a higher level of existence

814
00:30:11,909 --> 00:30:10,240
applewhite led

815
00:30:16,389 --> 00:30:11,919
classes designed to help the cult

816
00:30:18,389 --> 00:30:16,399
members transform into a different world

817
00:30:19,990 --> 00:30:18,399
now i'm sure you've noticed the running

818
00:30:21,750 --> 00:30:20,000
theme throughout this entire

819
00:30:22,549 --> 00:30:21,760
presentation and that is the use of the

820
00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:22,559
word

821
00:30:28,950 --> 00:30:25,840
almost

822
00:30:30,149 --> 00:30:28,960
every single movement or cult that we

823
00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:30,159
cover today

824
00:30:33,590 --> 00:30:32,799
and honestly that goes up even till

825
00:30:36,310 --> 00:30:33,600
today

826
00:30:36,830 --> 00:30:36,320
there are so many classes being offered

827
00:30:39,830 --> 00:30:36,840
and

828
00:30:42,470 --> 00:30:39,840
ufo-centric speakers who are offering

829
00:30:43,430 --> 00:30:42,480
this ascension to raise to a higher

830
00:30:46,549 --> 00:30:43,440
level

831
00:30:48,070 --> 00:30:46,559
for a price in a recent article

832
00:30:49,990 --> 00:30:48,080
published by vice news

833
00:30:51,190 --> 00:30:50,000
and written by one of our speakers today

834
00:30:53,269 --> 00:30:51,200
mj banayas

835
00:30:56,710 --> 00:30:53,279
we've learned that ascension seems to be

836
00:30:59,909 --> 00:30:56,720
the key word for those who offer this

837
00:31:03,110 --> 00:30:59,919
the stories of alien saviors continue to

838
00:31:05,830 --> 00:31:03,120
integrate themselves into past movements

839
00:31:06,950 --> 00:31:05,840
recycled and morphed into different

840
00:31:09,750 --> 00:31:06,960
figures different

841
00:31:11,590 --> 00:31:09,760
alien races different teachings from

842
00:31:14,710 --> 00:31:11,600
established religions turned

843
00:31:15,909 --> 00:31:14,720
upside down in promises of cosmic

844
00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:15,919
disclosure

845
00:31:19,990 --> 00:31:19,120
energy healing q anon like conspiracy

846
00:31:22,630 --> 00:31:20,000
theories that are

847
00:31:23,590 --> 00:31:22,640
based on absolutely unsubstantiated

848
00:31:26,230 --> 00:31:23,600
claims

849
00:31:27,590 --> 00:31:26,240
and questionable motives by those who

850
00:31:29,669 --> 00:31:27,600
pronounce them

851
00:31:30,789 --> 00:31:29,679
look i'm not going to name names but

852
00:31:32,870 --> 00:31:30,799
these individuals

853
00:31:35,190 --> 00:31:32,880
who are doing this today they are a

854
00:31:35,750 --> 00:31:35,200
litigious bunch and that's not a can of

855
00:31:37,509 --> 00:31:35,760
worms

856
00:31:39,029 --> 00:31:37,519
i want to open up here but if you want

857
00:31:41,750 --> 00:31:39,039
to learn more about

858
00:31:42,789 --> 00:31:41,760
ascension and those offering it today

859
00:31:46,070 --> 00:31:42,799
definitely go check out

860
00:31:48,549 --> 00:31:46,080
mj banaya's article over at vice news

861
00:31:50,310 --> 00:31:48,559
the title of the article is ufo

862
00:31:54,110 --> 00:31:50,320
conspiracy theorists

863
00:31:56,549 --> 00:31:54,120
offer ascension from our hell world for

864
00:31:58,789 --> 00:31:56,559
333 dollars

865
00:31:59,590 --> 00:31:58,799
that seems pretty cheap to me there are

866
00:32:02,230 --> 00:31:59,600
so

867
00:32:02,789 --> 00:32:02,240
many cults and movements within the ufo

868
00:32:05,509 --> 00:32:02,799
field

869
00:32:06,870 --> 00:32:05,519
to even cover today so i highly suggest

870
00:32:07,590 --> 00:32:06,880
if you really want to know how many are

871
00:32:10,230 --> 00:32:07,600
out there

872
00:32:11,029 --> 00:32:10,240
go online and go down the rabbit hole

873
00:32:13,509 --> 00:32:11,039
like i did

874
00:32:14,070 --> 00:32:13,519
it's pretty concerning and look at the

875
00:32:16,070 --> 00:32:14,080
end of the day

876
00:32:17,350 --> 00:32:16,080
we all just have to make up our own

877
00:32:19,509 --> 00:32:17,360
minds you know these

878
00:32:20,870 --> 00:32:19,519
existential questions we have in life

879
00:32:24,470 --> 00:32:20,880
why are we here

880
00:32:27,190 --> 00:32:24,480
are we alone what comes next you can

881
00:32:27,990 --> 00:32:27,200
pay someone to give you those answers

882
00:32:30,950 --> 00:32:28,000
according to their

883
00:32:32,950 --> 00:32:30,960
own belief systems their own concocted

884
00:32:35,830 --> 00:32:32,960
stories of alien saviors

885
00:32:37,430 --> 00:32:35,840
or ufos coming on the back of a comet

886
00:32:40,950 --> 00:32:37,440
but at the end of the day

887
00:32:43,110 --> 00:32:40,960
i always refer to the x-files poster

888
00:32:45,029 --> 00:32:43,120
that moulder had in his office the one

889
00:32:48,070 --> 00:32:45,039
that said i want to believe

890
00:32:51,590 --> 00:32:48,080
by the way the ufo in that poster

891
00:32:52,310 --> 00:32:51,600
definitely taken by a possible ufo cult

892
00:32:54,789 --> 00:32:52,320
leader

893
00:32:57,029 --> 00:32:54,799
but that is a presentation in itself and

894
00:32:59,509 --> 00:32:57,039
we do not have time to cover that here

895
00:33:00,389 --> 00:32:59,519
maybe next time but the words on that

896
00:33:03,430 --> 00:33:00,399
poster

897
00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:03,440
they really do speak volumes i want

898
00:33:07,350 --> 00:33:06,720
to believe not need to believe not must

899
00:33:10,630 --> 00:33:07,360
believe

900
00:33:12,950 --> 00:33:10,640
but want that's a curiosity

901
00:33:15,669 --> 00:33:12,960
that we're all seeking in this life and

902
00:33:18,310 --> 00:33:15,679
while some of us use that curiosity to

903
00:33:19,909 --> 00:33:18,320
look for ufos somewhere in the skies

904
00:33:22,630 --> 00:33:19,919
others use it to

905
00:33:24,070 --> 00:33:22,640
find their savior somewhere in the skies

906
00:33:26,710 --> 00:33:24,080
and you know what

907
00:33:27,590 --> 00:33:26,720
maybe they are one in the same who's to

908
00:33:30,310 --> 00:33:27,600
really say

909
00:33:31,669 --> 00:33:30,320
but all i'm going to tell you is this

910
00:33:35,029 --> 00:33:31,679
keep looking

911
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:35,039
keep searching just keep your feet on

912
00:33:44,630 --> 00:33:38,610
the ground

913
00:33:47,830 --> 00:33:46,549
somewhere in the skies is produced by

914
00:33:49,669 --> 00:33:47,840
third kind productions