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MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION

UFO CONTACTS AND CULTS

DAILY GRAIL PUBLISHING

llur'won.l to the 2008 Edition

l'mln�uc • A Dream Wo rld Far Of

P1u·t One • The Contacts

I. -n1e Case Against the Spacecraft

l. The Bandwagon from Outer Space

.I.

The Deception

Why Do They Keep Staring at the Walls'

l111rt 'lwo • The Manipulations

The Political Overtones

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The Venusian Candidate

115

Seraphic Transports and Benevolent Programmers

133

The Puppets

!57

Part 'Three • The Stratagems

9. A Cow fo r Notad

181

10. Intelligence Reports

201

II. The Stratagem Theories

213

<:ondusion

249

Epilogue • A Sociologists Reaction

2 53

Appendix • Statement on the UFO Phenomenon

261

Endmatter • Notes, Bibliography, Index

267

FOREWORD TO THE 2008 EDITION

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first appeared in the U.S.* Since then, the controversial views

it expressed have been vindicated and thrown into sharp focus by

shocking events that were reported worldwide. In particular, the

stark warning I issued in connection with the HIM cult ("It only

costs your life!") appears as unfortunately prophetic in light of

the March 1997 collective suicide of Heaven's Gate, as the group

became known. The mass killings of the adepts of the Order of

the Solar Temple in Canada, France and Switzerland in 1994

illustrated the dangerous form of mind control and the simulation

of extraterrestrial contact I first described here in connection

with the "Adventures of a Grand Master." The cattle mutilations

phenomenon remains unsolved. As for the Raelians, the cult started

by Vorilhon whose early lectures in San Francisco are recalled in this

book, it has lourished internationally and burst into prominence

in recent years with claims of human cloning.

Not only have these issues continued to simmer under the

surface while UFO believers basked in their benign expectation of

aliens from the stars, but a veritable mass conversion has taken place

among the public and the media elite. The belief in extraterrestrial

visitation is practically taken for granted among wide sections

of the population, and especially among the young. While the

hypothesis of alien contact is an exciting one, justiied on the basis

(') Following the 1979 And/Or (Berkeley, California) edition there was

a mass paperback by Bantam (NY) in 1980, a French edition called La

Grande Manipulation from Edirions du Rocher (Paris) in 1983 and an

Italian edition entitled Messageri di Jllusioni from Sperling & Kupfer

(Milan) in 1984. The present text is the third American edition.

- ��J ..

N EARLYTHIRTYYEARS have elapsed since Messengers of Decepion

vz MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION

of continuing observations of unidentiied lying objects, it carries

the potential for exploitation and manipulation by deceptive groups

with their own hidden agenda.

I believe that UFOs are physically real. They represent a fantastic

technology controlled by an unknown form of consciousness. But

I also believe that it would be dangerous o jump o premature

conclusions about their origin and nature, because the phenomenon

serves as the vehicle for images that can be manipulated o promote

belief systems tending to the long-term transformation of human

society. I have tried to identify some of the manipulators and to

highlight their activities, which range from apparently harmless

hoaxes such as the false professor George Adamski's meetings with

Venusian spacemen to bloody expeditions that have littered the

American landscape with the carcasses of mutilated animals. I have

found disturbing evidence of dangerous sectarian activities linked

to totalitarian philosophies. he ease with which journalists and

even scientists can be seduced into indiscriminate promotion of

such deceptions is staggering. In the context of an academic attitude

that rejects any open investigation of paranormal phenomena, such

fanatical conversions must be expected. For me, that is only one

more reason for an independent thinker to remain vigilant against

false ideas and simplistic political notions planted by those I have

called the "Messengers of Deception."

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