History of Ashtar Command

From Wikipedia, thought you guys might want to know the history on your little religion. I was surprised it's popular enough to warrant a wikipedia article:

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Ashtar is the name of a purported extraterrestrial being, who was first claimed to be channeled by early UFO contactee George Van Tassel, on 18 July 1952.

Van Tassel

Although the purported method of communication resembled what is commonly referred to as "channeling",^[1] Van Tassel claimed to have established a new form of telepathic communication with extraterrestrial intelligences^[2] utilizing a method which included both natural human abilities and the use of an allegedly advanced form of alien technology, rather than the more traditionally "religious" non-technological spiritual medium based approach taken by many other early channelers of the era. Van Tassel maintained that the method he utilized was not a "paranormal" or "metaphysical" activity, but rather an example of the application of an allegedly advanced extraterrestrial science, that anyone could implement with the proper training.^[1]

Residing near a large boulder, situated in the desert of southern California called Giant Rock, in a UFO focused community he founded in 1947, the earliest messages Van Tassel claimed to have received from Ashtar were first presented to the public at an annual event called the Giant Rock Spacecraft Convention, which he himself organized. Van Tassel's early purported messages from Ashtar contained a great deal of apocalyptic material, which focused on concerns regarding the development of the soon to be tested hydrogen bomb.^[3] Van Tassel also claimed that Ashtar had provided specific messages that he was expected to pass on to the U.S. federal government regarding the potential negative impacts of the proposed upcoming bomb tests.^[4]

Ashtar Command

For the Indie music band, see Ashtar Command (band).

As the weekly channeling sessions at Giant Rock continued through the early 1950s, the Ashtar messages became much more elaborate and began to provide details of the purported existence of an extraterrestrial "government", which claimed to closely monitor activities on earth and offered material and spiritual support to its citizens. This concept of an "Ashtar Command" was appropriated for use by a number of prominent early channelers, both inside and outside the Giant Rock community, and was soon being utilized by several in the context of their own personal claimed messages from Ashtar, along with the use of the figure of Ashtar himself, originally developed by Van Tassel.^[5]

By 1955, a few well known channelers of the era, including Elouise Moeller, had incorporated the concept of an Ashtar Command and related ideas, as key components of their own developing systems. Several channelers, including Van Tassel himself, began publishing accounts which described predictions of the imminent arrival of an Ashtar-led UFO armada on earth, in order to guide and protect mankind. The public failure of these predictions had an enormous negative effect on the expansion of the Ashtar Command 'movement'. Without Van Tassel's role as a single authority constituting the sole source of messages from Ashtar, the movement became less cohesive and began to splinter from internal pressures. Several dozen channelers were simultaneously claiming to be obtaining, in some cases, competing authoritative messages directly from Ashtar. The overall movement began to wane in relative popularity because of infighting.^[6]

Tuella

After decreasing in popularity within the New Age community for a period of roughly twenty years, the concept of an Ashtar Command was revitalized by a channeler named Thelma B. Terrill, (best known as "Tuella") who channeled messages and wrote a series of books on the subject in the 1970s and 1980s.^[7] Her work shifted the focus from Van Tassel's extraterrestrial technological model, to a more 'spiritualized' approach. Tuella's version of the Ashtar narrative tended to play down the necessity of the direct involvement of UFOs in human affairs, with the shift of importance being laid onto purely interior spiritual development as a means of reaching "higher dimensions" and receiving the assistance of Ashtar Command. Despite Tuella's influences, several channelers maintained a separate more UFO-based cosmology, which insisted on the importance of messages from Ashtar containing predictions of the imminent destruction of earth, and the need for a literal physical evacuation of the planet, with the assistance of the spacecraft of Ashtar Command. By the 1990s the movement began to splinter into factions once again.^[8]

Yvonne Cole

One individual, named Yvonne Cole, who claimed to be channeling Ashtar messages from 1986, predicted the destruction of all earth civilizations and the arrival on the planet of various alien cultures in 1994. Cole claimed that governments were working with extraterrestrials to prepare for contact.^[9]^[10] These prophecies furthered the continued fracturing and disappointment within the movement when they failed to occur.^[11]

Developments after the mid-1990s

Despite these failures, by the mid-1990s, and continuing to present,^[2] several of these channeling groups began to utilize the Internet in order to promulgate their beliefs and to attempt to encourage a movement toward unifying the movement and establishing a single 'authoritative' source for all Ashtar messages. Individual channelers espousing messages which differed and continued to focus on themes such as the destruction of earth, were declared invalid. It was claimed that channelers who had avowed such messages in the past and continued to do so, had in fact been deceived by spiritual forces who opposed Ashtar's benevolent intentions. Most significantly of all, the new more unified movement declared that in future no new channeled messages from Ashtar would be accepted as valid unless they complied with criteria established by the recently formed and authoritative core group. The criteria consisted of a set of twelve "guidelines", which it was claimed established a baseline of 'orthodoxy' for the movement. After the alleged radio broadcast from Vrillon in 1977, they also began using the term Ashtar Galactic Command as opposed to simply Ashtar Command (see Southern Television broadcast interruption hoax for more details). Ashtar came to be depicted as commanding a fleet of dozens to hundreds of flying saucers continually monitoring Earth, and the being Vrillon came to be depicted as Ashtar's communications director. ^[12]

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Permalink Reply by Tyler on May 21, 2012 at 9:08am

FOX News: Freaky Physics Proves Parallel Universes

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/05/freaky-physics-proves-par...

Look past the details of a wonky discovery by a group of California scientists -- that a quantum state is now observable with the human eye -- and consider its implications: Time travel may be feasible. Doc Brown would be proud.
The strange discovery by quantum physicists at the University of California Santa Barbara means that an object you can see in front of you may exist simultaneously in a parallel universe -- a multi-state condition that has scientists theorizing that traveling through time may be much more than just the plaything of science fiction writers.
And it's all because of a tiny bit of metal -- a "paddle" about the width of a human hair, an item that is incredibly small but still something you can see with the naked eye.
UC Santa Barbara's Andrew Cleland cooled that paddle in a refrigerator, dimmed the lights and, under a special bell jar, sucked out all the air to eliminate vibrations. He then plucked it like a tuning fork and noted that it moved and stood still at the same time.
That sounds contradictory, and it's nearly impossible to understand if your last name isn't Einstein. But it actually happened. It's a freaky fact that's at the heart of quantum mechanics.
How Is That Possible?
To even try to understand it, you have to think really, really small. Smaller than an atom. Electrons, which circle the nucleus of an atom, are swirling around in multiple states at the same time -- they're hard to pin down. It's only when we measure the position of an electron that we force it to have a specific location. Cleland's breakthrough lies in taking that hard-to-grasp yet true fact about the atomic particle and applying it to something visible with the naked eye.
What does it all mean? Let's say you're in Oklahoma visiting your aunt. But in another universe, where your atomic particles just can't keep up, you're actually at home watching "The Simpsons." That may sound far-fetched, but it's based on real science.
"When you observe something in one state, one theory is it split the universe into two parts," Cleland told FoxNews.com, trying to explain how there can be multiple universes and we can see only one of them.
The multi-verse theory says the entire universe "freezes" during observation, and we see only one reality. You see a soccer ball flying through the air, but maybe in a second universe the ball has dropped already. Or you were looking the other way. Or they don't even play soccer over there.
Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology and a popular author, accepts the scientific basis for the multi-verse -- even if it cannot be proven.
"Unless you can imagine some super-advanced alien civilization that has figured this out, we aren't affected by the possible existence of other universes," Carroll said. But he does think "someone could devise a machine that lets one universe communicate with another."
It all comes down to how we understand time.
Carroll suggests that we don't exactly feel time -- we perceive its passing. For example, time moves fast on a rollercoaster and very slowly during a dull college lecture. It races when you're late for work . . . but the last few minutes before quitting time seem like hours.
Back to the Future
"Time seems to be a one-way street that runs from the past to the present," says Fred Alan Wolf, a.k.a. Dr. Quantum, a physicist and author. "But take into consideration theories that look at the level of quantum fields ... particles that travel both forward and backward in time. If we leave out the forward-and-backwards-in-time part, we miss out on some of the physics."
Wolf says that time -- at least in quantum mechanics -- doesn't move straight like an arrow. It zig-zags, and he thinks it may be possible to build a machine that lets you bend time.
Consider Sergei Krikalev, the Russian astronaut who flew six space missions. Richard Gott, a physicist at Princeton University, says Krikalev aged 1/48th of a second less than the rest of us because he orbited at very high speeds. And to age less than someone means you've jumped into the future -- you did not experience the same present. In a sense, he says, Krikalev time-traveled to the future -- and back again!
"Newton said all time is universal and all clocks tick the same way," Gott says. "Now with Einstein's theory of Special Relativity we know that travel into the future is possible. With Einstein's theory of gravity, the laws of physics as we understand them today suggest that even time travel to the past is possible in principle. But to see whether time travel to the past can actually be realized we may have to learn new laws of physics that step in at the quantum level."
And for that, you start with a very tiny paddle in a bell jar.
Cleland has proved that quantum mechanics scale to slightly larger sizes. The next challenge is to learn how to control quantum mechanics and use it for even larger objects. Do so -- and we might be able to warp to parallel universes just by manipulating a few electrons.
"Our concepts of cause and effect will fly out the window," says Ben Bova, the science fiction author. "People will -- for various reasons -- try to fix the past or escape into the future. But we may never notice these effects, if the universe actually diverges. Maybe somebody already has invented a time machine and our history is being constantly altered, but we don’t notice the kinks in our path through time."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/05/freaky-physics-proves-par...

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Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on May 21, 2012 at 5:24am

You are quite correct. There is absolutely no logic there. It is called faith and has caused more strife and suffering than anything on Earth in history. When you are answered back with circular logic or responses like "let us agree to disagree" the person is telling you they have no answers and they are lashing out because they are actually angry with themselves for believing in something they have no explanation or proof for. Trying to make the other person look evil or confrontational is the only defense they have at this point because they are too prideful to just admit they do not have the answer or that their belief is ONLY a belief

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Permalink Reply by Uhhuh~ on May 21, 2012 at 1:21pm

"what is the GFL's definition of Light? How do we know that such and such ship in this video is really the GFL's? What makes the Dark Cabal so bad and why do they need to be "removed"? How do you plan to "remove" them? Why have no mass arrests happened? What is the definition of Light and Dark anyways? Why is Light better than Dark? Why is 5D better than 4D?" And so on.

- A plain proof that you're not reading the materials on this website. Most of your questions should be already answered - only if you read those articles/materials/channelings you call a joke. You want answers? Then seek it. Lazy person like you who want to be given answers on silver platter are likely given opinions from fellow members. Opinions that you don't agree with and bash it for lacking logical explanations that can appease you. And if you can't find answers here, you know well that you can search mr. google like how you found your article here.

And, how about you read ALL articles before you QUESTION? Please don't be lazy, please use that brain of yours to help yourself find the answers you're seeking. I'm very sure that if you exert notable efforts in your search for answers, I'm pretty positive that you'll find it. Good Luck!

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Permalink Reply by Uhhuh~ on May 22, 2012 at 4:51am

@reiz - you seriously didn't understand what I've said.

It's goes like this, you ask, then someone answer. Obviously people answer by their opinion, assumptions which is obviously biased. You want the straight answer? Like I've been telling you, read the channeling/article by yourself - the source of what they've read - and don't ask again for an answer from fellow members since obviously it is their opinion,formulated answer based from what they've read. And you call it biased because it goes against what you believed - to put plainly, not the answer you're expecting.

From a number of channelings/articles I've read, most of your questions are answered. But I'm not gonna search those articles/channelings just for you. If you want your answer, then make an effort to search for it. That's your homework not mine. If you don't want to do it that way, then can we take your question as "bait lure" so you can bash people of their belief?

You put a question for people to answer. They answer based on what they understand. I didn't pleased you, so you call it biased, and mock it for lacking acceptable logic.

You know what this is? a Bait Lure. A troll's widely used technique.

So if you're not, and still want an answer, please read the materials on this website until you find it. Otherwise you are a troll who love bashing people for their beliefs.

I have never gotten a satisfactory answer to any of those that tells me that the GFL

- It's noones responsibility to give you answer. You want answer? Then use your brain and find it. How? Use your brain and READ - articles, channelings, or anything else that can be a source of info. Yes, use your Brain or it'll rot.

Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on May 21, 2012 at 5:15am

Threats of physical violence are sad and pathetic and made by those who are weak in their soul so they need to bully and intimidate others.

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Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on May 21, 2012 at 3:57am

Christians are supposed to be loving too. Look at how many they killed over the centuries. We have great examples here on Earth of what the power of "love" can do.

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Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on May 21, 2012 at 5:37pm

Pacifists :)

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Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on May 21, 2012 at 7:29pm

How much violence did you commit while in the service?

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Permalink Reply by 3smn7ct05z5dx on May 21, 2012 at 2:35am

Your comment is the exact definition of trolling. Making a comment designed to stir up drama.

Leave me out of your drama-rama on ACC. I am not part of your little games.

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Permalink Reply by 19e2mvktfgs6q on May 21, 2012 at 2:49am

and the rest of you are all blind.

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Permalink Reply by 19e2mvktfgs6q on May 21, 2012 at 3:19am

LOL Disinformation? Give one example, just one! Instilling fear? How has anybody instilled fear?

MotherGod is the only one on that list that gives disinformation and she does it all the time.

Some of you people are unbelievable and just make up shit to stir the pot. And you say WE are the ones promote negative energy on this site. Ridiculous