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Since conventional aviation history attests
that no such ships were flying over America in
the late nineteenth century, some UFO writers
have theorized that the so-called aeronauts
were really extraterrestrials or supernatural entities
in disguise. A more likely explanation is
that the stories were hoaxes of the sort that
filled many period newspapers.
See Also: Aurora Martian; Lethbridge’s aeronauts;
Michigan giant; Ultraterrestrials; Wilson
Further Reading
Chariton, Wallace O., 1991. The Great Texas Airship
Mystery. Plano, TX: Wordware Publishing.
Cohen, Daniel, 1981. The Great Airship Mystery: A
UFO of the 1890s. New York: Dodd, Mead and
Company.
Source
The Source, a sort of universal mind, was
channeled through Paul Solomon. Solomon’s
channeling began in 1972 when he was living
in Atlanta and going through acute personal
distress in the wake of a failed marriage. In an
effort to deal with his emotional problems,
Solomon underwent hypnosis. Under hypnosis
a powerful voice spoke through his mouth,
warning, “You have not attained sufficient
growth or spiritual awareness to understand
contact with these records!” Bewildered,
Solomon and hypnotist Harry Snipes III decided
to explore the mystery in a second session.
From there the Source, as Solomon and
Snipes called it, began instructing Solomon
on how to communicate with it and how to
pass on its wisdom to others.
The Source taught a spiritual philosophy
that it called “Inner Light Consciousness,”
thus the name of the organization Solomon
soon formed: Fellowship of the Inner Light.
In 1974, Solomon and his followers relocated
to Virginia Beach, Virginia, where Edgar
Cayce, to whom Solomon would be compared,
had lived and had pursued his spiritual
work. Like Cayce’s, Solomon’s readings encompassed
Atlantis, reincarnation, healing,
prophecies, and more.
The Source claimed to be a greater power
than the spirit or channeling entities that were
a good part of the focus of the New Age
movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Its mission
was to provide a way for seekers to touch
the Holy Spirit within them and, thereafter,
to let it guide them. Before his death in 1994,
Solomon had conducted thousands of readings,
many preserved on tape and sold by associates
who seek to keep his and the Source’s
memory alive.
See Also: Atlantis; Channeling
Further Reading
Beidler, William, 1977. “Paul Solomon . . . Another
Cayce?” Fate 30, 2 (February): 56–61.
A Healing Consciousness, 1978. Virginia Beach, VA:
Master’s Press.
Spiritual Unfoldment and Psychic Development
through Inner Light Consciousness, 1973. Atlanta,
GA: Fellowship of the Inner Light.
Wheeler, W. Alexander, 1994. The Prophetic Revela -
tions of Paul Solomon: Earthward toward a Heav -
enly Light. New York: Samuel B. Weiser.
SPECTRA
Under hypnosis on November 30, 1971, Israeli
psychic Uri Geller “recalled” an incident
that occurred when he was three years old.
Geller encountered a dazzling light from
which a voice emanated. The voice said it was
his “programmer.” Over the years, Geller received
many more messages from this intelligence,
which called itself SPECTRA and,
sometimes, Hoova. It gave Geller his reported
paranormal talents. In the opinion of Geller’s
hypnotist and then-collaborator, physician/
parapsychologist Andrija Puharich, Geller
may have been a prophet “specifically created
to serve as an intermediary between a ‘divine’
intelligence and man” (Puharich, 1974).
SPECTRA claimed it was a supercomputer
into which the minds and bodies of a wide variety
of intelligent beings had been transferred.
These beings communicated with
Geller through automatic writing, states of altered
consciousness, and voices on blank
tapes. SPECTRA’s first appearance on Earth
was twenty thousand years ago, when its
spaceship landed in the present nation of Israel.
Since then SPECTRA has seen the Jews