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particular impression on psychologist and
guru Baba Ram Dass (the former Richard
Alpert, who worked with Timothy Leary on
early LSD research and advocacy).
Emmanuel taught that “the separation” of
human beings from God was only temporary,
and it served a larger purpose. Through it,
human beings have gained the knowledge
they need to reunite with the divine and become
cocreators with God.
See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Rodegast, Pat, and Judith Stanton, eds., 1985.
Em m a n u e l’s Book: A Manual for Living Com -
f o rtably in the Cosmos. New Yo rk: Some Fr i e n d s
of Em m a n u e l .
Eunethia
Eunethia, who channels through Yvonne
Cole, commands the starship Venusia, serving
the Ashtar Command. She and her crew originally
came from Venus but now live in a large
ship that orbits Earth. Their purpose is to observe
and to teach humans. They are also here
to prepare humans for the great upheavals
that will soon occur in response to their long
abuse of the Earth.
According to Eunethia, more than fourteen
planetary species are involved in the Earth
project. “When the call went out for volunteers
to assist planet Earth,” she says, “the response
came from all areas of the Universe.
Most interaction is in the form of telepathic
contact” (Bryant and Seebach, 1991), though
relatively few humans are sufficiently developed
in their psychic powers to communicate.
See Also: Ashtar
Further Reading
Bryant, Alice, and Linda Seebach, 1991. Healing
Shattered Reality: Understanding Contactee
Trauma. Tigard, OR: Wildflower Press.
Extraterrestrial biological entities
According to a body of modern folklore, the
United States government has established secret
contact with space people, whom it calls
“extraterrestrial biological entities,” or EBEs
(ee-buhs). It also has retrieved the bodies of
dead EBEs from crashed UFOs such as the
one that came down near Roswell, New Mexico,
in early July 1947.
Such rumors have been in circulation since
the earliest days of the UFO controversy,
which began with a sighting by private pilot
Kenneth Arnold of nine “flying saucers” over
Mount Rainier, Washington, on June 24,
1947. One of the first rumors alleged that a
giant spacecraft landed not far from Juneau,
Alaska, in mid-1948, and in the first interplanetary
conference, President Harry Truman,
along with his top aides and high-ranking
military officers, met with its occupants,
who were friendly and humble. In the 1950s,
George Hunt Williamson, a contactee and
popular author of saucerian books, wrote that
“a highly secret operation known as Project
NQ-707,” headquartered at Edwards Air
Force Base in the California desert, had established
radio contact with flying saucers and
was trying to get them to “land at a rendezvous
point near Salton Sea in Southern
California” (Williamson, 1953). Williamson’s
friend George Adamski insisted that the U.S.
government and space people regularly spoke
with one another. He would even claim that
in 1962 he boarded an alien spaceship at an
air force base on his way to a conference on
Saturn.
In 1956, England’s Flying Saucer Review
published startling revelations by a contributor
identified only as a “special correspondent.”
The correspondent asserted that a
highly placed American official had confided
to him that UFOs were known to contain
friendly space visitors who were trying to find
a way to breathe Earth’s atmosphere before
landing and declaring themselves. The magazine
revealed nine years later that its unnamed
informant was one “Rolf Alexander, M.D.,”
and that the official was the late general and
diplomat George C. Marshall. It did not mention
that “Alexander” was in fact an ex-convict
whose real name was Allan Alexander Stirling.
“Alexander” claimed vast psychokinetic powers
that allowed him to break up clouds.