Dr George King, the Aetherius Society,

RE: Dr George King, the Aetherius Society,

I have respect for other peoples' beliefs and so I respect these people too - though IMHO they are loony. 😀

George King reckoned he was taken on board a flying saucer to Mars (or something like that. Venus?). It grew out of the saucer cults of the 1950s, pretty old hat in 2005. But they'd evolved by the 80s to fairly simple rituals for which they may dress up, in which they all chant the OM and "gather the energy" of that in some receptacle.

So just IMHO it's all rather irrational - e.g. the flying saucer angle - but hey, people differ, what? I'm sure a good google search would bring up the real info - though some might be sanitised by the movement and other sites would be "anti-cult" Christians. But I'm not aware of any people claiming negative effects from belonging such as financial rip-offs or 'brainwashing'. Though I may have missed it. If you found a nice bunch of people and they appealed to you ...

(But good to keep looking, don't settle necessarily for the early things you find if you are seeking a movement to join, I'd say. Get to know a good spread of them all.)

Edit to add: I just had a quick search. It's based on channelling and such organisations are a dime a dozen, frankly. Though if it appeals, all well and good. The problem with channelling is that it's often not what it appears to be. I personally reject the notion that these messages are from the named Masters, for example. More likely the unconscious of Gearge King. Quote: "In 1954, King was researching the field of radionics (a form of distant healing) while practicing an intense regimen of yoga, when he claims to have received a message during a meditative trance. This was a summons from a Yoga Master, later identified as the Master Aetherius, who instructed him: "Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament." Oh, of course! LOL.

The UFO connection is another common thing in such groups - be aware that in these movements there are no actual UFOs 😀 - only talk about them in the channelled messages. In other words, it all comes from one man, but then people start to believe in the complete reality of "interplanetary federations" from that one man. It could be a test of one's sanity?

Venetian

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Crikey Charlie,

You made it sound fantastic, right up my street, im going to settle down with a cup of tea maybe ring an estate agent sell the house andmove to the middle of a sacred mountain,

Cheers!! you should be the pa man for King cos im sold!;)

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I wish you all well in your searches, but I am posting this as I'm rather puzzled as to why this thread has been left here, when it so obviously belongs in the Paranormal Pages. After all, a thread that I posted on a question by the atheist scientist Richard Dawkins in Philosophy was moved to the religion and faith pages! [&:]

Judy

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Hi Judy,

I'd say Aetherius is definitely what the academics call a NRM - New Religious Movement. Now, to many of us if we don't belong to any particular movement, they do seem wacky from the outside. 😀 But it's been around a long time and is certainly more to do with faith and spiritual practice than concerning UFOs.

That then makes it a question of whether NRMs belong under 'faith - general' or if that category is preserved for the Big Six, or whatever number. Personally I'd call it a faith, and if the members call it a religion (I don't know) then out of respect I'd accept that too.

(Just being academically picky here... 😉 )

Venetian

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David,

I have heard of this movement as well. I could be wrong, but it came about more-or-less at the same time as the George Adamski sensation, also borne out of the 'UFO cult' of the 1950's. I think that the George King group had the 'edge' on the Adamski one.

Judy - yes, it's 'religion' as far as this website is concerned because its adherents consider it to be a belief system.

Love,
Patsy.
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ORIGINAL: songstress

I have heard of this movement as well. I could be wrong, but it came about more-or-less at the same time as the George Adamski sensation, also borne out of the 'UFO cult' of the 1950's. I think that the George King group had the 'edge' on the Adamski one.

Yes, even for the sceptic it's an interesting social phenomenon. "Saucer cults" of various kinds had a hey-day in the 1950s. But then there's been a resurgence of the same through what are now called 'channels' in the 80s and 90s. People believe in the associated UFOs even though none may be seen and it's actually based upon words emanating from one person, such as a channel.

I really forget the details but they are probably searchable - I used to be a 'UFO buff' myself, and around the time I somewhat lost interest there was a twist emerging to the Adamski story. While his tales of visits with aliens seemed to be so wacky as to discredit serious Ufology, I seem to remember that it was becoming clearer in the 70s/80s that there really might have been evidence for real encounters between Adamski and flying craft. (Possibly his photos were found to be seemingly authentic, but I forget.) But then how to take his stories about journeys with them is another matter - whether they were his elaborations, or something was 'done to him', or whether in fact it was all unreal.

I try to keep an open-mind. Try!

I've met the Aetherius people and it's in practice an unusual combination of channelled Ufology and para-Hinduism. They are quite devoted to giving the OM-Mane-Padme-Hum mantra in group rituals.

Venetian

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Hello David,

That's interesting. I knew of the Aetherius people quite some time ago (about 12 years ago) but I never really got involved with them. What you said about them being a pseudo (sic) Hinduism group married together with Ufology, paraphrases the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' in the Bhagavad (sp) Gitas. If my memory serves me correctly, didn't Gilgamesh have a ride on a UFO/spaceship and told the tale?

That 'Om' chant is awful. The very vibration of it makes me heave...! I have lost count of the times I have had to discharge myself from meditation groups because of it.

Love,
Patsy.
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Hi Patsy,

Well that take on Gilgamesh comes from writers like Sitchin and Daniken. I don't agree for a moment actually. It's myth, whatever that is.

The Aetherius style of doing the chant is, I agree, not peaceful or relaxed. A bit frenzied in my limited exposre to it. Not as an actual Hindu - Buddhist more like - would give it.

V xxx

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Hello David,

Yes, it could be Daniken - he was extremely far-fetched in his writing. His take on 'Gilgamesh' almost paraphrased his equally sensational story about the prophet Enoch being taken for a ride on a spaceship. I once wrote to one of Daniken's 'informants' in Bolivia regarding his claims that spacemen landed there and imparted knowledge to the 'heathen.' The 'informant' told me that he had told Daniken nothing of the sort - it was Daniken's own imagination getting the better of him. I haven't been able to take him seriously as a writer ever since.

Love,
Patsy.
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Way off-subject, but to comment on Erick von D. I think he did a good job in opening peoples' minds during a closed-minded era in the mid-60s, but his imagination was too 'fertile'. 😀 I gave up on him with his third or fourth book in which he claimed there were vast tunnels constructed in ancient times from S. America and going right out under the Atlantic. Apparently they were just smaller natural caves!

V

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Hi David,

Not quite off topic, since we are discussing the Aetherians, who believe in alien spacecraft. 😀

There was a group of Aetherians who used to meet in London at one stage. I don't know if they still do, but I never got to visit any of their meetings.

Love,
Patsy.
🙂