The moot with no name: science fiction and the occult

As a child, my parents terrified me with stories of Aleister Crowley, "the wickedest man in the world". As an adult, I challenge myself to confront that of which I am terrified, so I have joined OTO (Ordo Templi Orientis). The first meeting or moot, in the parlance, was at Devereux court in London at the meeting of the Strand and the Fleet. Steve Wilson of OTO Albion gave the talk entitled 'Ufo's and the Occult - the forgotten link' in the top room of the Devereux pub. These meetings take place every other week. People were dotted around the room, seemingly unconnected with each other. One man with a beard was eating apple pie and drinking beer, while scattered lone women knitted (spinsters?) strange web-like garments, amidst leather clad chunky boys with long hair and eye patches.
Forgive me if my notes are patchy, I was rather stoned, having mistakenly been given an after-work toke at the end of my chefs stint at Pogos cafe.
Steve begins: "UFOs and the occult are very separate now.
The history of interest in occult and UFO's briefly: 
Salem, Massachussets: Increase Mather was involved, and he was the father of Cotton Mather. All the witches that had been hung were posthumously pardoned.
Air was the property of Satan, he was prince of the air. Joseph Addison began a fight in this very pub(1) which led to prosecution and the witchcraft act. In 1951 it was repealed.
Rosicrucianism began early in the 16th century. There was a spread of freemasonry during the Enlightenment.

Blakes room

Angels are a form of alien life form and William Blake was the most famous follower of angels.
In the 18th century freemasonry has strict observance and was populated by Jacobites. In 1745 James II was defeated by William of Orange, supported by Scottish freemasons.
In the 19th century there were 'instructions' from more interesting characters...dead people...via Theosophy.

Blavatsky and Henry Steele Olcott

Hegel was involved with Rosicrucians. He had mystical visions while still a student. He said that human spirits go through different stages. Hegel was the philosophy behind Stalin and Hitler.
Madame Blavatsky was into racism but this time the race was Lemurian. She said that a new race was being born in California. At this point, still no one was looking into the skies.
Crowley with his Book of the Law wanted the overthrow of Christian thinking.
There were hidden masters in Tibet (Alexander David Neal writes about the astral travelling Tibetan lamas).
However in the 20th century, people actually started to visit Tibet in greater numbers and examine those claims.
In the 1920's, the first World War, Guy Ballard received messages from other planets and channelled St Germain.
HP Lovecraft started to write a new form of horror. He loved New England. He relocated 'Air' in which demons moved, into outer space.
Arthur C Clarke says any creature distinguishable from a human being is a demon.
Then there was Orson Welles War of the Worlds, a spoof in which people in the States genuinely thought that they were being invaded from outer space.
Roswell incident...people ignored it until it had a revival of interest in the 1980's.
George Adamski in the 1950's claimed contact with a Venusian called Orthon. There were the 4 Georges at this time. Another, George King, a London taxi driver, who formed the Aetherius society, said that Jesus was a Venusian.
In the Aetherius society journal 'Cosmic voice' there was correspondence from so-called scientists agreeing with the evidence, however their names suggest another motivation altogether: Dr Eggnspoonrace, Artie Ficial.
Patrick Moore, the astronomer, treated Ufologists with respect, gently questioning them on TV.
Claude Vorilhon/Raël- who created the Raelian movement was another example of a UFO believing cult.
Louis Farrakhan was taken "up" by a black liberation spaceship.
1979 Steven Spielberg took the whole movement backwards with his film Close encounters of the Third Kind.
Then aliens started abducting us, inserting things into our bottoms.
There were also suicide cults such as Heavens Gate and the Order of the Solar Temple.
Wilhem Reich developed his theory of primordial cosmic energy, regularly saw UFO's in the United States and even claimed to do battle with them. Trevor James, a scientist and engineer who invented rain control technology, also claimed knowledge of 4th dimensional beings, "critters" and investigated UFO's at Giant Rock.
Andy Collins suggests that aliens are living beings and 'self-transforming machine elves'.
In the 60's people took hallucinogenics which derived from Ergot. This fungus which you find on rye causes mutations in the DNA. LSD causes migraines and schizophrenia. There was a famous Ergot poisoning incident in France, a bakery had infected rye loaves and the whole village started tripping. Some villagers ended up in asylums.
It was misreported that Jung believed in flying saucers.
In the 1970's there was the successful channelled book by Jane Roberts "Seth speaks".
Unarius group in California.Unarius is an acronym which stands for UNiversal ARticulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science. Their founder, Ernest Norman, believed for instance that the Chinese originated from Mars, that some Chinese have returned to Mars and live underground."


There was a break for a raffle. Nobody wanted the book 'The Crystal skull' preferring the alcoholic prizes.
The women continued to knit and give piercing looks to each other.
Afterwards there were questions from the audience. One man talked of needing participants for the 'Beyond belief' Radio 4 programme.
Someone else mentioned Klaatu, an alien believing rock band.
The Carpenters turned the event, created in the 50's "World contact day" into a hit..."Calling occupants of interplanetary craft" was written by Klaatu (more info here).

(Of course in popular music there is also "Rocket Man" by Elton John and "Space Oddity" by David Bowie coming just after the Moon 'landing'. David Bowie built a whole career in fact on his alien type qualities...Ziggy Stardust, the weird different coloured eyes, The Man who fell to Earth).
"The Millerites were the origin of the 7th day Adventists and eventually the Jehovah's Witnesses, following a split in the 30's."
In Britain there are around 40-50 active Raelians. One audience member participated in a talk on the Cosmic Orgasm which the Raelians believe enables you to get in touch with the Elohim. However, when questioned on how you know if you've just had a Cosmic Orgasm as opposed to an terrestrial one (Is that where the expression "the earth moved" came from?) he then admitted he had never had either kind of orgasm.
Steve Wilson sees belief in UFO's as millenarianism, he also thinks 'free love' is more popular at times of great stress in society.
"Both occultists and ufologists are both seen as outsiders/loonies by society but for different reasons.
Occultists are into gods and goddesses, spirits, religion, meditation, etc
Ufologists are into implants, UFOs, abductions, but they believe they are scientists.
None of the Masters who have been channeled have really helped us. Have they cured cancer? The masters tend to utter bland phrases about world peace and everybody love each other..."


I mention the aptly named Dennis Gray who has seen UFOs at Highbury corner and down Islington High St in the last few months...He has bravely gone to the press with these sightings but each article mentions the fact that he is a second hand car dealer, apparently an instant disqualification from any kind of credibility.

(1)The Grecian Coffee House was in Devereux Court, Strand, and named from a Greek, Constantine, who kept it. Close to the Temple, it was a place of resort for the lawyers. Constantine’s Greek had tempted also Greek scholars to the house, learned Professors and Fellows of the Royal Society. Here, it is said, two friends quarrelled so bitterly over a Greek accent that they went out into Devereux Court and fought a duel, in which one was killed on the spot.

Jesus was an ET

Have a wander around the stalls, get chatting to a stall holder with plastic pointy ears. She says that when she gets some money, she will have them surgically changed. Her stall sells interesting Copper 'splashes'. I have a bit of an obsession with Copper after an important dream about it in 2005. As a result I visited 'copper valley' in France near Carcassonne. We have a little bitch about positive thinkers, how tiresome they are. Jean comes up and says positive thinking has really worked for her. She also mentions the recent UFO conference in Nevada, which Robbie Williams, the pop star attended with Jon Ronson, the journalist. Unfortunately she missed Robbie, who had a beard and sunglasses but was recognised by everybody anyway. She talks about her friend who can read auras and how this friends' children always tried to hide the area around their head when they were telling fibs because their mother always knew who was lying.
The next speaker is Richard Lawrence, who looks like a born-again Christian and is a confident speaker. Unfortunately he is in the after lunch spot when people's energies are flagging. At one point I looked around and noticed that most of the front two rows were asleep, which must have been difficult for him.
Richard Lawrence.
" A recent Mori poll said that 31% of public believe government is covering up alien sightings.
Nick Pope I remember talking to him on his first day at the Ministry of Defence. He didn't believe in UFO files. I said to him shortly you will believe in them because you will see them. Now he is one of the main speakers on them.
I'm going to talk about contact with a being from another world which took place 50 years ago with Dr King.
This ET said "I would warn you that when government are forced to admit our existence, the government will try to convince you that we are unfriendly. So forewarned is forearmed.
Now nobody believes in the government...spin... everybody knows about 'spin' but 20 years ago people were less sophisticated.
Nick Pope says we should prepare for hostile invasion. But this being told Dr King:" We could conquer you quite easily in 50 seconds if that was our intention."
How many people here have seen UFO's? " Several hands go up, and about 40% of the audience have seen a UFO.
" I know there was a talk about alien animal mutilations yesterday but if they want to perform medical operations on this planet they could easily take over a hospital. Our message is that extra terrestials are friendly. Jesus was an ET, Buddha, Sri Krishna, Confuscius, were all aliens.
The Star of Bethlehem wasn't a star, a star can't hover over anything. This was an extra-terrestrial craft which was sighted as moving, it was bringing to Earth a very great being. Jesus was brought here for karma.
Most people believe in UFO's, and believe in UFO cover-up by governments. I have brought CIA documents over to this country, regarding active aliens which are friendly, also there are documents from the Soviet Union. What this world needs are seekers after the truth."
(lots of murmurs of yes)
"Now I'm going to talk about the work of Dr George King, the man with whom I was honoured to co-author a book, I don't keep royalties from books, I put it back into the work.
This book is wonderful; Dr George King,  a master of yoga, born in 1919, spent his childhood in Blackpool, he was a practical man, and he was already psychic when he decided to take up yoga.
For him the finest use of psychic powers is healing.
After World War 2 he took up yoga. 18 million Americans practice yoga. But true yoga is not keeping fit. The ancient practice of yoga is Kundalini, Mantra, or Raja yoga.
Dr King took this up 8 hours a day. You need to look up the credentials of people claim to have contact from ET's.
So in 1945 Dr King was doing yoga, for 8 hours a day for 10 years as well as doing a job, he was a very single minded individual. That is why he was contacted. It's not because they like him.
I recommend karma yoga.
I've done a bit of mediumship, and had messages from people who have died from this Earth. I couldn't remotely channel an ET. That is way above my station.
We have to know what we don't know. Dr King was contacted in 1954, the same year Sir Peter Horsley,  number 2 in the air industry, was also contacted by an ET. But he didn't do anything about it. 
The name of our society is based on Aetherius, the name of a being, one who travels through ethers of space.
Dr King entered a state of trance named Somali (?) and because he could achieve that, he could be used as a medium by ET's. Dr King was in touch with them especially the last week of his life.
For 43 years he dedicated himself to this. In 1958 he received a communication from a something called Cosmic Voice. An accident had taken place in the Soviet Union in a nuclear power plant. Dr King was told how many were injured and killed by it. But this was kept secret.
18 years later, when I was working as press officer for the Aetherean society, the New Scientist revealed details of this accident 18 years earlier."

Then this attractive middle-aged woman comes and sits next to me, she gazes adoringly up at Richard Lewis. I guess that she is his wife. Yup, this is the extent of female leadership at this conference. (Yeah I'm just jealous, dying to experience the soothing limitations of being a surrendered wife but fear my anarchistic tendancies may crackle through) 

"First of all I went along to the BBC, and said this is in the news, but Dr King said that he heard about it from a Martian and I spoke to someone at the Home Service, a Dr Medvehjah(?sp). I went to the BBC with the proof but  when I returned to the BBC they told me the interviewer didn't exist. 'No, we aren't interested anymore' they said.
In Leicester recently there was  a sighting by many witnesses. This idea that ufology is dead is utter nonsense. The Fortean times published this and it's rubbish. When you start campaigning for the truth about UFO's, more evidence is required.
Many types of evidence in the past such as: "Dimanas", a Sanskrit word for flying beings...Buddhism concept of 'locas', heavenly spheres. The bible is jam-packed full of UFO's. Moses was followed through the desert by Pillars of Fire. There are many cases of Elijah travelling in a cloud. In the Greek legends, there are examples, the Roman poets,  the sky dwellers in person.
Then we listen to a recording of Dr King channelling, with stilted Dalek-style delivery as if he is forcing through with difficulty the message of an alien. "Serve and you will become enlightened. Serve and you will be practicising true selfless love. Serve and the almighty power of Kundalini will rise. The chakra jewels in your higher bodies will inspire. There are no words great enough to describe the wonder of service." 
Back to Richard Lewis: "Prayer. It's very misunderstood." He shows that hands should be raised when one prays. "There are many healers here. Everybody can heal. We experience heat in the palms of hands when giving healing. Prayer is when you send out this spiritual energy from a distance. You shouldn't pray with your hands closed. That is an asian greeting, where you protect your own heart energy." 
The Aetherian society practice the 12 blessings which is an extension of the Sermont on the Mount.
"You don't have to come to one of our groups, you can do it at home. Prayers are healing at a distance. Animals can heal too. Gardeners know, if you say the right things to the plants it will help them. "

There are some questions:
What is the Great White brotherhood?" It's a body of ascended masters who have been with us for thousands of years. They are not necessarily white or men, this is not racist. Ascended masters like the Count St Germain. They stay in retreats in Scotland and Mount Kilimanjaro. They help us behind the scenes, but do not interfere. Madame Blavatsky was in touch with a number of them.
The crucifix is a very negative symbol. The cross is a wonderful symbol.
I want to encourage people to do healing.
When certain satellites and craft (April 18th next one) come close to earth, your healing ability increases.
To cross yourself is to cut off oneness."
Lewis believes that the Earth is protected, from mass hypnosis, destruction.
How do you guard yourself against negative forces?...
"For general protection: you visualise a violet flame coming up through the feet through the head, it's a female preservative force from Mother Earth. It can immediately cleanse you."
The organiser gets up and states: "Richard, several people have seen figures behind you on the stage."
People go up and shake his hand, wife moves over silently and captures all this on pixels.