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Yada di Shi’ite
Yada di Shi’ite lived five-hundred thousand
years ago, a member of the ancient civilization
of Yu, located in the Himalayas, or so he told
San Diego medium Mark Probert, through
whom he channeled from the 1940s until
Probert’s death in 1969. Yada di Shi’ite was
one of several entities who composed the
Inner Circle.
Probert, a man with little formal education,
entered the metaphysical realm when he
started talking in his sleep. His wife, Irene,
took note of what he was saying. Soon the
episode became known to a local man, veteran
occultist N. Meade Layne. Layne took over
Probert’s spiritual education, and soon Yada di
Shi’ite and others were speaking through the
medium. The others included Ramon Natalli,
in life a lawyer and a friend of Galileo; Professor
Alfred Luntz, a nineteenth-century Anglican
clergyman; and Charles Lingford, in life a
dancer and artist.
Through Probert’s Inner Circle Kethra
E’Da Foundation and Layne’s better-known
Borderland Sciences Research Associates, the
channelings of Yada di Shi’ite and associates—eventually
their number expanded to
eleven—found an international audience. In
the early age of flying saucers, the late 1940s
and early 1950s, the Circle’s pronouncements
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on the subject were particularly influential,
and they founded the basis of Layne’s The
Ether Ship and Its Solution (1950), which was
widely read in fringe circles and is still an influence
on latter-day occult saucer theorists
such as John A. Keel.
See Also: Channeling; Keel, John Alva
Further Reading
Barker, Gray, 1956. They Knew Too Much about Fly -
ing Saucers. New York: University Books.
Layne, N. Meade, The Ether Ship and Its Solution.
Vista, CA: Borderland Sciences Re s e a rch Assoc
i a t e s .
Yamski
On April 24, 1965, just a day after the death
of George Adamski, a flying saucer allegedly
landed near the Devonshire village of Scoriton.
Three humanlike beings clad in spacesuits
emerged. One, who looked like a youth
of thirteen or fourteen, identified himself as
“Yamski” to the sole witness, a groundskeeper
and handyman named Ernest Arthur Bryant.
Yamski, who spoke in Eastern European–
inflected English, expressed the wish that
“Des” or “Les” could be there. Bryant was
given a brief tour of the craft and a promise of
further contacts.
Some of Adamski’s partisans had been expecting
him to reincarnate and return to