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From: bhamilto@pcshs.com
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 97 11:22:16 -0700
Fwd Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 13:45:35 -0500
Subject: 40 Years of UFO Cults

	40 YEARS OF UFO CULTS

As a guest on End-of-the-Line show with Jeff Rense and Michael Lindemann
last night and during the CNN blanket coverage of the mass suicide in
San Diego, my mind drifted back over the years to my early visits to
Giant Rock in the California desert.  That is when I saw the beginnings
of the UFO cult syndrome.  I remember when UFO contactee Gloria Lee
took her life...and from there one Michael or another started up
some UFO cult-group based on channeling space brothers.  I think one or
two of the early contactees had some sort of real experience, but after
their stories came out...the religious message was cried out.  In the 50s
the space visitors were benevolent, loving folk that came to enlighten
us on the folly of our ways.  Not until the 80s did the pendulum swing
toward the dark side...those little grey aliens who came to haunt the
American bedrooms.

I remember the news back in the 70s about Bo and Peep, the "Two" who came
to liberate people from the material attachments (home and possessions)
so that ultimately they would undergo a "metamorphosis" like a caterpiller
leaving its cacoon (they actually used this symbology) and they held a
huge well-attended meeting in a Santa Monica Hotel by the shores of the
Pacific.  I was there to see the starry-glare in their eyes offering
so many an opportunity to escape the dreaded bonds of earth.  Then many
went traipsing off to Colorado, I believe, to await "lift-off".  Later
there was a movie made of the "Two", the music teacher and the nurse who
came from Texas.  You might still find it if you hunt it down in video
stores.  Then they were gone from public view and others came along
just as Sheldon Nidle did to preach the salvation offered by the comet
Hale-Bopp.  There are still many groups like this out there, living
their private lives as somehow grouping into tribes as humans did
in our not so ancient history when we felt less alienated from the
concourse we had with each other.  Now the machineries of civilization
have somehow made us feel oppressed by the weight of humanity and its
ultra high-speed life style.  As the millenium approaches, many are
seeking refuge in the heavens, if not in aliens, then in angels and
Marian visions.  Are we all feeling so uncertain about our future?

It is my belief that the 39 men and women who died to escape to a higher
plane were motivated by something that we all feel, but refrain or restrain
from taking action on from time to time...the feeling to escape to a better
place.  So while their decision based on their devotion and belief in their
leader's words is tragic, I think we must all become more aware of the
tremendous human forces at work in the world today.  While there are those
now using words such as "kook" to indicate persons with beliefs in
UFOs, aliens, angels, reincarnation, and other such sought-after
connections, or the belief that somehow Art Bell or Chuch Shramek or
Courtney Brown and Whitley Streiber were responsible for sowing seeds
of belief in a comet companion, we must do our best to indicate that
such misapprehensions of the true causes of this tragic event are in error.
These people were responsible for themselves and we are all responsible for
each other and we all have common roots in our prehistoric past.

Let us see to it that the media does not misguide the public or that certain
restrictive influences are aimed at censoring the Internet because of its
potential for luring followers into so-called questionable beliefs.  Are
we all so sure that we ourselves do not hold fast to some questionable belief?

I, for one, would not like to continue to answer for the act of these people
and get back to the business of research and investigation and search for
the truth.

Sincerely,

Bill Hamilton
(Author, Researcher, and Software Engineer)