Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's midnight, so here we go with a new Magic Monday. The picture is of George Adamski, the most successful of the contactees of the 1950s. The whole contactee phenomenon is largely ignored or dismissed in modern UFO circles, but I'm increasingly seeing it as one of the keys to the whole phenomenon, because it wasn't a spontaneous creation by any means.

Adamski, like most of the other major figures in 1950s contacteedom, was a significant figure in the occult community of his time; back before UFOs were a thing, he headed a magical lodge in the Los Angeles area called the Royal Order of Tibet, ran a religious organization called Universal Progressive Christianity, and was a frequent guest on occult-themed radio programs, the internet podcasts of the day. Orthon, the blond-haired alien from Venus he claimed to have met in the California desert one sunny day in 1952, obligingly passed on a great deal of the same sort of occult teaching Adamski had been sharing with his students for years beforehand -- an interesting detail that was also true of all the first-generation contactees. There's an interesting story waiting to be told about how this played a huge role in launching the New Age movement and getting simplified versions of many of those occult teachings into very wide circulation among the general public...

Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer, though it may be Tuesday sometime before I get to them all. If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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With that said, have at it! 

***This Magic Monday is now closed to new questions. See you  next week!***