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Fred Bell of Laguna Beach, California, has
his own Semjase tales to tell, to Meier’s intense
displeasure. An inventor, musician,
artist, and holistic-health enthusiast, Bell—a
committed believer in pyramid energy—once
went about in the world with a small pyramid
on his head. He says that beginning in 1971
he received mental impressions of an oddly familiar,
beautiful blond woman. Eventually, he
became convinced that he had known her in a
previous lifetime, when he was an archaeologist
who uncovered evidence that Paladins
landed on Earth long ago. Soon Bell met
Semjase personally. At first she would not give
him her name, but when they got close—apparently
even having a sexual relationship for
a time—she told him her life history and revealed
the secrets of the Pleiadians. She helped
him with various projects and inventions. Bell
came to refer to Semjase as his “soul mate.”
He also met her father, Ptaah, and others.
For a time, Bell was on friendly terms with
Wendelle C. Stevens, an Arizona man most
responsible for bringing Meier’s claims to an
American audience. Stevens has published a
series of books based on his investigations in
Switzerland and also on Meier’s contact diaries.
At first Stevens cited Bell’s claims as independent
evidence for the existence of Semjase
and Pleiadean visitors.
In due course, however, Meier denounced
Bell’s stories as lies. A Pleiadian named Quetzal
told Meier that Bell could not possibly be
telling the truth because Semjase and Ptaah
had never been to America. Moreover, the
Pleiadians entered into physical contact only
with Meier, and nobody else. Quetzal was
among the extraterrestrials with whom Bell
supposedly interacted.
One fundamentalist Christian writer holds
that Meier got the name “Semjase” from the
fallen angel/demon Shemyaza, described in
the apocryphal Book of Enoch. Or it might
be the Semjase, a real entity, that is one of
Satan’s emissaries, one of the “many evil deceptive
forces at work in the world right now”
(“Billy Meier and the Swiss UFO Case,” n.d.).
See Also: Contactees; Meier, Eduard “Billy”
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Further Reading
“Billy Meier and the Swiss UFO Case,” n.d. http://
netpci.com/-tttbbs/Articles-UFO/semjase.html.
Meier, “Billy” Eduard Albert, n.d. “‘Billy’ Eduard Albert
Meier Dissociates Himself from Dr. Fred
Bell’s Lies and Claims.” http://www.figu.ch/us/
critics/contra/bell.htm.
Steiger, Brad, 1988. The Fellowship: Spiritual Contact
Between Humans and Outer Space Beings. New
York: Dolphin/Doubleday.
Seth
Jane Roberts’s channeling of Seth had large
impact on the emerging New Age movement
in the 1960s. Seth first appeared when the
Elmira, New York, writer and her husband
were playing with a ouija board in 1963. Soon
Roberts learned how to put herself into a
trance state and let Seth—whom she thought
of less as a spirit than as some kind of intelligent
energy force—speak through her. She
recorded these sessions and used a few of
them in a book, How to Develop Your ESP
Power (1966), later reissued as The Coming of
Seth (1976).
In 1970, with the publication of The Se t h
Ma t e r i a l , Ro b e rts commenced writing a series
of books, most of them focused on
Se t h’s teachings. In time, a Seth move m e n t
came into existence on the New Age scene.
Ro b e rts also started channeling Wi l l i a m
James, the great American psyc h o l o g i s t ,
p h i l o s o p h e r, and psychical re s e a rc h e r, and
releasing books based upon Ja m e s’s alleged
p o s t m o rtem observations and experiences.
Unlike some channelers who would follow
h e r, Ro b e rts remained re c l u s i ve and publicity-shy
and rarely appeared in public. Sh e
died on September 5, 1984. After her death
other channelers claimed to have heard fro m
Seth. One, Thomas Massari, re p o rted that
Seth had communicated with him as early as
1 9 7 2 .
See Also: Channeling
Further Reading
Roberts, Jane, 1970. The Seth Material. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
———, 1972. Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the
Soul. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.