The OSS-Urantia-MindControl Timeline
By Alex Constantine
Sat, 9 Dec 2006
http://urantiagate.com/conspiracy/long-timeline.html
The "Voice" of Strangers
(John 10:5)
An In-Depth Timeline Showing the Possible Use by the
Intelligence Community of "Synthetic Telepathy" in the
Urantia Movement, Teaching Mission (TeaM), A Course in
Miracles (ACIM), Findhorn, and Other Religious/Cultic
Organizations.
RELATED LINKS: | Short Timeline | The Vern Grimsley
Affair | In-Depth Timeline: "The 'Voice' of Strangers"
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[NOTE 1: "Synthetic telepathy" (or as it is sometimes
called "artificial telepathy") is defined here as
being the human, intentional, surreptitious,
production of intra-cerebral "voices", pictures,
thoughts, and/or ideas by means of hypnosis, inaudible
transmissions, or a combination thereof, which are
experienced by an unwitting subject either directly in
the mind or apparently extra-cerebrally as emanating
from no known source. One of the most current known
technologies capable of producing an intra-cerebral
"voice" is called "acoustic psycho-correction". It
involves the transmission of specific commands via
static or white noise bands into the human
subconscious without upsetting other intellectual
functions. Alternately, by using an infrasound very
low frequency-type transmission, the acoustic
psycho-correction message can be transmitted via bone
conduction. See article at
http://www.heart7.net/mcf/bzapping.htm for more.]
[NOTE 2: It is not the intention of this author to
disparage or undermine the belief in genuine spiritual
contact. The URANTIA Book, however, warns that "a
human being would do better to err in rejecting an
Adjuster's 1 expression through believing it to be a
purely human experience than to blunder into exalting
a reaction of the mortal mind to the sphere of divine
dignity" (1208 A, 110:5:5), and that "in scrutinizing
mental situations, safety lies only in the prompt
recognition of each and every thought and experience
for just what it actually and fundamentally is,
disregarding entirely what it might have been (1199 C,
109:5:3). The Bible says: "Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try [test] the spirits whether they are of
God: because many false prophets are gone out into the
world" (1 John 4:1).
[NOTE 3: Author and former CIA operative, Miles
Copland, states that when the CIA’s Special Projects
Division makes "connections with international
religious groups for the purposes of aiding or
supplementing espionage operations (it) is almost as
touchy an issue as its association with criminal
rings. To start with, Jewish and Catholic
organizations are out. . . . Organizations stemming
from other religions are fair game, however." And he
quotes one CIA official as saying that before they
"tie into a religious group it’s got to be so offbeat
that anyone in the agency who belongs to it may be
fired as a security risk."]
TIMELINE
1940s -- Sheena Govan and Dorothy Maclean, who will in
the following decades help Eileen Caddy start Findhorn
(see, 1962), a New Age community in Scotland, are
actually working for British Intelligence while
ostensibly employed as secretaries at the British
Embassy in New York. The two are present there when
the OSS (Office of Strategic services, the forerunner
of the CIA) was formed in New York with the help of
British Intelligence (see, 1942).
-- During the 1940s OSS will begin "the first
systematic effort to evaluate an individual’s
personality in order to predict his future behavior".
(John Marks' The Search for the Manchurian candidate:
hereinafter, "SEARCH", online at:
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm , a
"must read" for readers who know little of the MKULTRA
scandal)
1942 -- British Intelligence, in New York, helps
America set up its own intelligence agency, the Office
of Strategic Services (OSS).
c. 1942-1944 -- Future URANTIA Book translator,
Jacques Weiss, fights with the French Resistance.
Thus, he is presumably in contact with the OSS, which
during these years was helping the "Free French".
Sooner or later Weiss would reportedly claim he
followed invisible purported celestials whom he called
the "hierarchy" (also see, 1980 and 1962).
1947 -- The CIA is created out of the OSS. It begins
some preliminary work with drugs, starts a
mind-control drug project at Bethesda Naval Hospital
in Maryland, and investigates hypnosis.
1950 -- CIA's Operation Bluebird Begun. British and
Canadian observers are present at its first meeting --
all agree to continue investigating behavior control
methods (SEARCH).
-- Helping to make up Bluebird’s staff are Richard
Helms, James Jesus Angelton, and Sidney Gottlieb. They
establish liaisons with police departments and
criminology labs. They contact hypnotists, physicians,
and psychiatrists. They design activities to create an
"exploitable alteration of personality".
-- The CIA contemplates operational use of hypnosis to
control a subject "to the point where he will do our
bidding against his will and even against such
fundamental laws of nature as self- preservation"
(SEARCH).
1950s (early) -- Eileen Caddy, later the primary
channeler of Findhorn, leaves her five children and
her first husband (Andrew Combe, who is both Peter
Caddy's Commanding Officer and a member of Moral
Rearmament, a religious organization which has been
linked to the CIA) for RAF Officer, Peter Caddy (who
was at the time married to "former" British
Intelligence operative Sheena Govan -- see, 1940s),
and it will not be long until Eileen begins to hear a
"voice" claiming to be "God". Before it is over she
will fill some thirty thousand notebook pages with the
"voice's" dictation to her. (See, 1954)
1951 -- An internal report describes Bluebird’s
purpose as "the specific subject of devising
scientific methods for controlling the minds of
individuals".
-- Bluebird is renamed, "ARTICHOKE". Artichoke’s
interests are in electro-psycho- therapeutic
techniques (see 1993), and it reportedly began work
with supersonic radiations.
-- Morse Allan (Bluebird/Artichoke) uses hypnosis on
CIA secretaries.
-- CIA convinces British and Canadian Intelligence to
start their own behavioral research programs.
1952 -- North Korean brainwashing (using Chinese
techniques) of American POWs is reported. The CIA
sends agents to investigate their methods.
[NOTE: Presumably it was around this year as well when
Army psychologist, "A Course In Miracles" (ACIM)
channeler Helen Schucman's future Columbia
University's College of Physicians and Surgeons
Psychology Department colleague, and expert hypnotist,
Herbert Spiegel (see, 1962 NOTE 3), carried out his
own investigation of the brainwashed Korean War POWs
for the US Army. He is considered to be one of the
earliest American experts in Chinese brainwashing
techniques.]
-- National Security Agency (NSA) established by Harry
Truman .
1953 -- MKULTRA begun (officially, it actually got
into operation the year before), with Dr. Sidney
Gottlieb as its director. Gottlieb later testified
before Congress that, MKULTRA’s purpose was "to
investigate whether and how it was possible to modify
an individual’s behavior by covert means".
-- ACIM's William Thetford, U.S. Government
psychologist, Washington D.C., consultant to Foreign
Service Institute, Beirut, Lebanon.
[NOTE: This was apparently the year that, according to
one of Schucman and Thetfords's student-colleagues,
Father Benedict Groeshel, Thetford admitted to having
been some sort of spy. This disappeared off of the web
at about the time that information concerning
Thetford's work for MKULTRA appeared there.]
c.1954 -- Eileen Caddy, in England, begins to hear
“God’s voice”.
-- MKULTRA absorbs Project Bluebird/Artichoke. Morse
Allen turns a CIA secretary into a sort of “Manchurian
Candidate” 1. She, however, is given an unloaded gun
with which to "shoot" her victim, and the results are
controversial.
1956 -- Peter Caddy installs Eileen Caddy with Sheena
Govan on the Scottish island of Mull. It is populated
largely in the south by Duart Clan Maclean. Sheena
subjects Eileen to what appears to be nothing less
than a case study of classical (Chinese technique)
brainwashing, at least as her experience is later
described by Paul Hawken (see, 1962), who interviewed
her for his book, The Magic of Findhorn. It includes
isolation, sleep deprivation, prolonged maintenance of
painful positions, ego- devastating disparagement,
etc. Previously to this she had refused to believe
that the "voice" she was hearing was actually that of
"God", as it had claimed. (By this time, after having
returned to and again left her first husband, Eileen
has married Peter Caddy. She has also tried to kill
herself during another, earlier, less intense apparent
attempt at "brainwashing" by Sheena Govan.)
[NOTE 1: I have not so far established a connection
between Findhorn's co-founder, Dorothy Maclean (see,
1940s), and the Macleans of southern Mull].
-- Future highly placed Teaching Mission (TeaM)
channeling supporter, URANTIA Brotherhood Legal
Advisor, retired USMC General Duane Faw, (see, 1983
October 6), at this point in his military career a
Major, is the Training Depot Legal Officer at Parris
Island during the "Ribbon Creek Incident", wherein a
highly-rated Drill Instructor (DI) led his charges
into dangerous waters causing the drowning death of
six recruits.
[NOTE 2: Inasmuch as this incident might have answered
questions which the CIA's MKULTRA was presumably
asking at this time (see 1950, 1951, and 1953), and
that there was a window of opportunity at the base
sick bay for the use of hypnotism and mind-control
drugs on the DI (he was given a probable hypnotic drug
for pain in his leg), some suspicion is justified.
Also, according to John C. Stevens III (Court Martial
at Parris Island: The Ribbon Creek Incident, © 1999),
powerful backstage legal politics arranged for the DI
to be defended by a former Air Force Intelligence
Officer, Emile Zola Berman, who later likewise
defended Sirhan Sirhan, Robert Kennedy's believed
hypnotically programmed assassin, who reported hearing
"voices" in his head. Please understand that
"suspicion" does not constitute certainty. However
there are too many inconsistencies and "coincidences"
to simply accept the Ribbon Creek story at face value.
Speculatively, Major Faw's role as Legal Officer
allowed him to keep the investigation away from any
sensitive areas, and Berman's role would have been a
similar one. Faw seems to have a facility for popping
up around CIA activities. In the next decade, he and
his unit of combat-ready Marines (Faw transferred from
staff to line officer status, he says, to increase his
chances for promotion) will be peripherally involved
as a possible backup landing force for the CIA's
invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and later they
will be close at hand as an occupation force if needed
during the CIA-backed invasion of the Dominican
Republic. (See, 1961 and 1965)]
[NOTE 3: "A Course In Miracles" channeler, Helen
Schucman's future colleague in the Psychology
Department at Columbia University's College of
Physicians and Surgeons, expert hypnotist and
brainwasher, Herbert Spiegel, (see, 1952 NOTE) is
likewise connected to Sirhan Sirhan. Spiegel accused
William Joseph Bryon Jr. -- a hypnotist who
immediately following the assassination of Robert
Kennedy had publicly asserted in the media that Sirhan
had been hypnotized to shoot the Presidential
candidate -- of having himself been the hypnotist.
Spiegel based this accusation against Bryon on
Spiegel's own esoteric interpretation of a seemingly
nonsensical phrase which appeared in Sirhan's
"automatic writings". This is sufficient evidence for
speculating that it was Spiegel who carried out the
actual necessary hypnosis on Schucman, convincing her
that what she heard post-hypnotically in her mind was
instructions being given by Jesus. It may also be
speculated that Spiegel's accusation of Byron was
merely a ruse to draw the scent away from himself, and
that it was he, Spiegel, who hypnotically turned
Sirhan into a Manchurian candidate. Please understand
that such speculations only constitute working
hypotheses which require further proof.]
1958 -- Dr. William Sadler's son, Bill Sadler,
acknowledges in an intra-office memo that "a really
clever conspiracy could destroy the [URANTIA]
Brotherhood or otherwise divert or destroy its
mission." This same year he also wrote: "There is no
place in the Urantia Foundation for naivete." Both
warnings have been largely ignored.
-- "A Course in Miracles" channeler (see, 1965), Helen
Schucman, goes to work for William Thetford in the
Psychology Department at Columbia University's College
of Physicians and Surgeons. (See URANTIAGATE article:
Lie Down with Dogs, Get up with Fleas!: The MKULTRA
Milieu Surrounding the "Scribing" of A Course In
Miracles).
[NOTE: Peter Caddy and William Thetman play almost
identical supportive roles in relation to their
channelers, respectively, Eileen Caddy and Helen
Schucman. Both men appear to be unwavering in their
belief in the genuineness of the women's "contacts",
both convince the women that what they are hearing is
indeed real and encourage them to continue in spite of
their doubts. Caddy, however, appears to have carried
his "support" over into actual brainwashing, as it was
practiced in the post-Korean War era. Peter Caddy had
only a known indirect connection with British
Intelligence through his wife, Sheena Govan. However
while he was in the RAF he did undertake a secret,
wartime, intelligence mission to Tibet for his
government. On the other hand, William Thetford's
secret direct connection to the CIA's mind-control
program, MKULTRA, has been exposed by the release of
FOIA declassified documents.]
-- Project ORION is reputedly begun. It is said to
study drugs, hypnosis, electronic brain invasion with
radar, microwaves, and extremely low frequencies (ELF)
of sound. Leading Edge attributes Orion to USAF, but
others say CIA. (see also, 1990, "Elizabeth Y.
Fitzhugh")
-- Captain Al ("Cappy") Hubbard, whose contacts
include the OSS, CIA, and, as evidence would indicate,
MKULTRA, writes to Urantia movement leader, Meredith
Sprunger, asking for information about The URANTIA
Book (see letter at,
http://urantiabook.org/archive/history/sprung_1.htm
and more about Hubbard at,
http://www.maps.org/media/bcflashback.html. Scroll
down 10 paragraphs). Sprunger when recently asked
could recall no outcome of this event.
Late 1950s -- Meredith Sprunger introduces Vern
Grimsley, then a high school student, to The URANTIA
Book.
[NOTE: I have neither wish nor reason to implicate
Sprunger in any of this. The above entry is made
simply for its chronological interest in the unfolding
of events.]
1960s -- CIA-funded investigators discover correlation
between EEG (Electroencephalograph) patterns and the
ability to remember numbers . (SEARCH).
[NOTE: This is similar to the type of scientific
investigation carried out for MKULTRA by Helen
Schucman and William Thetford's co-author, David R.
Saunders (see, SEARCH, Chapter 10).]
Early 1960s -- ORD takes over most of MKULTRA’s mind
control research.
c. 1960-1962 -- Bert Kaplan, Psychology Professor at
the University of Kansas hires Vern Grimsley as an
undergraduate research assistant on his National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) grant. NIMH is known
to have acted as a conduit, both funding and fronting
grants for the CIA's MKULTRA research during this
period. (Also see, 1993)
[NOTE 1: The problem is that Kaplan's version of the
terms of Vern's employment reportedly differs sharply
from what Vern is said to have later told his friends
as well as from autobiographical material which he
used in his speeches and elsewhere on occasion for
years. Grimsley apparently believed that he worked for
two years, not the single one which Kaplan reported to
Caston, who interviewed him around 1984. Vern
reportedly told people he spent a second year in
Washington, D.C. managing a Kaplan-overseen grant from
the National Science Foundation. Caston attributes the
different stories to exaggeration on Vern's part.
However he does not appear even to have considered the
alternative that Kaplan, or someone connected to him,
may have funneled Vern to be used as an unwitting
subject in then ongoing MKULTRA investigations, even
though the scandal surrounding the MKULTRA exposure
had filled the media less than a decade before he
wrote his analysis of Vern's experience. He certainly
does not include it among his six "Possible
Scenarios", but Caston does include "nefarious forces
exploiting an overdeveloped ego and plotting to
discredit and split the URANTIA movement . . . to
abort the mission of The URANTIA Book". Which, of
course, may in fact be what this synthetic telepathy
phenomenon is all about. (Refs., "Vern Grimsley
Message Evaluation", by Hoite Caston, © 1984,
hereinafter, "EVALUATION").]
[NOTE 2: I have established no direct connection with
any intelligence agency for either Kaplan or the
University of Kansas during the year(s) of Vern's
employment in the Psychology Department. However the
university medical school was possibly the only
institution to hold a symposium on the Russian device
which is capable of putting the "voice of God" in the
head of an unwitting subject (see, 1993 NOTE), and the
University of Kansas Psychology Department shows up on
a conspiracy theory webpage as having provided
disinformation on the subject of programmed false
memories (see,
http:/www.totse.com/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/ciaprop1.htm
l, scroll down to the alphabetical listing.)]
1960 -- Ex-CIA agent, Philip Agee, documents the fact
that even as late as this date the "most important
liaison operation of the CIA is with MI-6 (British
Intelligence). They exchange information and mount
joint operations . . . . The inner club includes
Canada." (Inside the CIA: CIA Diary, by Philip Agee,
hereinafter "INSIDE")
1961 -- Bay of Pigs: The failed CIA invasion of Cuba.
Future URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor and important
Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling supporter, Duane
Faw, the commanding officer of a US Marine landing
force, is fully armed and ready for combat in the
vicinity of Vieques, a Puerto Rican island used for
USMC assault landing training, US Naval bombing
practice, etc. Here also the expatriate Cuban frogmen
were trained by the CIA for their part in the
invasion. Ostensibly Faw's unit was merely rotated by
turn into the area in line with standard training
procedures, but the operation may have been
orchestrated to have his backup available. Even Faw
admits that his unit might have been called into
action, but this option was abruptly canceled when
President Kennedy at the last minute issued orders
forbidding all direct US military involvement in the
CIA operation.
[NOTE: The suspicion here is that Faw, following the
Ribbon Creek incident, represented a known and proven
quality who would not balk -- as an unproven quality
might -- at carrying out CIA orders if and when they
came. A further supposition is that such a known
quality might be persuaded to infiltrate a cult to
provide intelligence/security agency support as
perhaps a misconceived patriotic duty and for an extra
retirement income. (See, 1956, 1965 and 1983 October
6)]
1962 -- Helen Schucman and William Thetford co-author
a paper on "The personality theory of John Gittinger"
(See, http://www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm,
hereinafter "PAS BIBLIOG"). This was published by the
Human Ecology Fund, which has been identified by John
Marks as being a MKULTRA front.
[NOTE 1: John W. Gittinger (SEARCH, see
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lsd/marks.htm
Chap. 10) was the primary personality assessor for
MKULTRA. He pioneered scientific methods to enable him
to identify the most susceptible types of
personalities for Dr. Gottlieb's nefarious, amoral,
and often harmful U.S. government- sponsored
exploitations of innocent human beings, including
children (see, MKULTRA Subprojects 102,103, and 117:
http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/p ... ltra.shtml)
Gittinger's MKULTRA research eventually surfaced as
his "Personality Assessment System" (PAS), which also
both has been studied and used by legitimate
scientists for non-exploitive purposes.]
-- (Sept.) Helen Schucman and David R. Saunders
co-author a paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see,
PAS BIBLIOG).
[NOTE 2: David R. Saunders is mentioned in Chapter 10
of John Marks' book as having carried out secret
personality profiling investigations for MKULTRA.]
-- (Sept.) Helen Schucman, William Thetford, and David
R. Saunders co- author a paper relating to Gittinger's
PAS (see, Gittinger Bibliography of References:
http:www.pasf.org/print_bibliog.htm. Hereinafter "PAS
BIBLIOG").
[NOTE 3: Besides Thetford and Saunders, another of
Helen Schucman's Columbia University's College of
Physicians and Surgeons Psychology Department
"colleagues" around this time was Herbert Spiegel, a
recognized expert in hypnotism and brainwashing (see,
1952), who was then teaching courses in hypnosis.
During -- by his own estimation -- "maybe the mid
sixties", Spiegal was also associated with the case of
"Sybil", a Multiple Personality Disorder victim.
Because "Sybil" was so easily hypnotized he was using
the woman for demonstration purposes in his classes.
Spiegel since that time aligns himself on the
"disinformationist" side of the False Memory Syndrome
(FMF) controversy, (see,
http://www.astraeasweb.net/plural/spiegel.html), as
also apparently does the University of Kansas
Psychology Department (see, 1960-1962 (circa) NOTE 2),
where the URANTIA movement's "WW III" channeler, Vern
Grimsley, had been employed.]
[NOTE 4: Schucman appears to be like a mouse caught on
a glue trap surrounded by cats. Two of her
"colleagues" (one a dear friend) have or will have
direct, secret connections to the CIA's mind-control
program, MKULTRA. A third "colleague" is an expert
hypnotist and brainwasher who is perfectly capable of
making unwitting subjects see and hear whatever he
wishes. Likely her psychological weaknesses were
pinpointed and categorized by Gittinger's PAS, and
probably she had been hired for the very reason that
she fit the profile of a "hypno-patsy" or a
"manchurian channeler". When the backgrounds of her
"colleagues" are brought into scrutiny, what took
place between 1965 and 1972 at the Columbia University
college of Physicians and Surgeons Psychology
Department in the so-called "scribing" of A Course In
Miracles is so blatent as to almost be overt! Even
Eileen Caddy, surrounded as she was by ex-British
Intelligence personnel comes in a poor second to
Schucman! ]
-- Led by Eileen Caddy's "voice", Findhorn is begun in
an old house trailer pulled up near the beach on a
bleak section of the northern Scottish coast adjacent
to Kingloss Royal Air Force Base. Eileen's husband,
Peter Caddy, is a former RAF officer and recently the
husband of Sheena Govan, who worked for British
Intelligence during WW II. The Caddys are accompanied
by Dorothy Maclean, who was formerly employed by
British Intelligence under Govans' supervision (see,
1940s). Later Govan became something of a recognized
spiritual teacher and cult leader with ex-underling
Maclean and husband Caddy as, at least, two of her
"disciples". She apparently continued to direct Caddy
after he had left her bed for that of Eileen's, and
she played a direct role in Eileen's earlier
"brainwashings" (see, 1956).
[NOTE 5: Author Paul Hawken, who later visited
Findhorn, will write in The Magic of Findhorn, about
the "thick, vibrant energies" felt in the house
trailers and gardens. "Whatever it is, it seems to be
the physical stuff of the place. If you walk across
the road to the bay, it is not quite there. . . the
intense energy field is lacking. Everybody here talked
about it, knew about it, referred to it as 'the
energies'. It was a 'buzz' which was more felt than
heard" (see also, 1979, Ken Cory). No one seems to
have thought to ask whether or not the Kingloss RAF
Base next door might have been somehow responsible,
even though on the base immediately adjacent to
Findhorn was a posted secret, fenced-off area
protected by guard dogs.]
-- Publication of La Cosmogonie D’Urantia, a French
translation of The URANTIA Book by Jacques Weiss.
(See, 1942-1944 and 1980)
-- Martin Myers and Richard Keeler drive to Chicago to
meet Dr. Sadler and Christy.
1964 -- Vern Grimsley begins his URANTIA Book teaching
based radio broadcasts on KFAX in San Francisco. He
agrees with the URANTIA Foundation that he will not
mention the book by name on the air.
1965 -- (June - October) Helen Schucman experiences "a
dramatic progression of waking dreams . . .
culminating with her experiencing a Voice which speaks
clearly in her mind. The Voice, which Helen references
with a capital "V", explains to her the visions she
has been receiving" (ref.,
http://www.whitmorelaw.com/time_line.htm).
-- Sir George Trevelyan, in England, gathers together
"all of the New Age groups under one roof for the
first time," with Air Martial Sir Victor Goddard --
former chief of British Air Intelligence -- in
attendance. Peter Caddy, who was uninvited, "gate
crashes" this event to announce the beginning of
Findhorn (The Magic of Findhorn).
-- Future URANTIA Brotherhood Legal Advisor and
important Teaching Mission (TeaM) channeling
supporter, Duane Faw, and his combat ready Marine
landing force, lay in wait just over the Caribbean
horizon from the Dominican Republic. If called by the
CIA officers directing the invasion, they are to go
ashore to seize and hold the government. The
situation, however, developed in such a way that they
are not needed. (See, 1956, 1961 and 1983 October 6)
[NOTE: Again, this is an illustration of the high
degree of trust placed in Faw by the
intelligence/security community.]
1965-1968 -- Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's
support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form,
purportedly directly from Jesus) "A Course In
Miracles" (ACIM).
1967 -- Family of God Foundation (FOG) established by
Vern Grimsley in California.
1968 -- MKULTRA's Gittinger and Saunders co-author an
article or paper relating to Gittinger's PAS (see, PAS
BIBLIOG).
-- Martin Myers moves into in the Chicago URANTIA
Foundation and Brotherhood headquarters to live there
with Dr. Sadler and Christy (whom the Sadlers had
"adopted").
-- In the beginning many hippies were drawn to
Findhorn, who likely could be expected to be familiar
with psychotropic drug effects, but around this year,
according to Paul Hawken, Peter Caddy began to
"verbally thrash" them for "the slightest deviation
from the rigid order and structure of the community".
Most left. Only those who, as Hawken paraphrases
Timothy Leary, "gave up, gave in, and submitted" to
the "thick overlay of authority" stayed behind.
[NOTE: Most, if not all, of strange experiences
described by Hawken during his own stay -- which
Findhorners ascribed to spiritual causes -- are
similar (actually appear to be identical) to the
effects of a variety psychotropic drugs (including
marijuana and MDA, or "love drug"). This same
similarity is also apparent in the earlier purported
religious experiences of selected Findhorners, such as
Robert O. ("Roc") Crombie, who had several LSD-type
experiences which he believed included a genuine
visitation by the "horned god Pan". Caddy and others
supported this illusion as being reality. At least 25
MKULTRA Subprojects concern drugs or botanicals]
1969-1970 -- Recent Yale graduate and future URANTIA
Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop, is employed and
trained by the National Security Agency (NSA), then
and possibly still America's most secret spy shop.
-- The CIA accomplishes brain-computer link-up. The
process unscrambles an individual’s brainwaves,
deciphers and records them, and injects them into
another subject.
(http://www.trufax.org/welcomemsie.html: Hereinafter
"LEADING EDGE")
[NOTE: The labels "brainwashing victims" and
"Manchurian candidates" will evolve through
"hypno-patsies" to, currently, mental or emotional
"clones". The development of this particular
technology during the past three decades may account
for this change. It is believed that secret technology
also presently allows for direct wireless access to an
unwitting subject's visual cortex both for inputting
and downloading of realtime awake and dreaming field
of vision data. The idea that other areas of the brain
can be equally accessed should not be dismissed.]
1969-1971 -- Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's
support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form,
purportedly directly from Jesus) the ACIM "Workbook"
1970 -- Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, NSA-trained
Neal Waldrop enters the U.S. Navy, attends Officer
Candidate School.
[NOTE: Phillip Agee described his own experience in
becoming a CIA officer with a military cover. After
being inducted into the agency, he was hired as a
civilian by an "Air Force cover unit". A few weeks
later he enlisted in the Air Force. "While in the Air
Force," he wrote, "I will be treated like any other
enlisted man. . . . Keeping the secret will be a part
of my training -- learning to live my cover."
(INSIDE)]
-- Rand Corporation publishes a report entitled, "A
Direct Mechanism for the Direct Influence of Microwave
Radiation on Neuroelectric Function", by R.J.
MacGregor. He "notes that power densities of close to
1000,000mw/cm2 can produce auditory hallucinations in
a field that would be averaged as low intensity and
non-thermal." (LEADING EDGE)
1971 -- Harry McMullan makes initial contact for Vern
Grimsley’s Family of God Foundation (FOG) with Radio
Free Europe (RFE) while in New York. RFE at this time
is a "proprietary arm of the CIA" (Mark Lane).
Congress will later force the CIA's disassociation
from RFE.
-- One month after this possible CIA involvement
began, Vern Grimsley visits Bert Kaplan (see,
1960-1962), who was by then teaching at a college in
California.
-- The CIA's Radio Free Europe dispatches a
questionnaire to be filled out by all FOG members.
Later RFE produces and airs a half-hour documentary
about Vern and FOG ostensibly based on the group's
answers.
[NOTE 1: It is not impossible that this questionnaire
also was to be used for creating Gittinger-style
psychological profiles of the members. The FOG Diary
describes it as a "list of questions dealing with the
religious beliefs, and principal religious doubts, of
America's young people, the mission and future plans
of the Family of God Foundation, together with a
request for background information on 'what led you
(VBG) and your associates into this work?'" (quoted in
EVALUATION, p. 129). Generic, unanswerable questions
about "America's young people" would tend to open a
Rorschach-like window into the subconscious mind of
the individuals answering them rather than to elicit
real facts, which the testees could not be expected to
know.]
-- The printing plates for The URANTIA Book are
destroyed after the second printing by the URANTIA
Foundation, thus severing the last physical link
between the published work and the original "Papers",
and thereby erasing a benchmark for future scholars
and translators.
-- Eileen Caddy’s "voice" is discontinued. She will
remain at Findhorn.
[NOTE 2: Peter Caddy (after divorcing Eileen) will
tour the international New Age scene, propounding the
"spirit" of Findhorn and group consciousness until he
is killed in a car wreck. Dorothy Maclean (ex-British
Intelligence), along with a few more Findhorners, will
start the Lorian Association in California. Sheena
Govan, after having suffered from "cluster headaches"
for much of her adult life, has died. It is worth
noting in this context that in the early 1960s
ultrasonic experiments on 225 Fort Ord soldiers
produced brain lesions.
-- General Duane Faw retires from the Marine Corps
(see, 1961, 1956, 1965 and 1983 October 6).
1971 - 1978 -- MKULTRA's David J. Saunders and ACIM's
William Thetford together secretly contract to the
CIA's MKULTRA to do personality theory research (see,
http://www.nemasys.com/rahome/library/p ... ltra.shtml,
Subproject: MKULTRA 130).
1972 -- Helen Schucman, with William Thetford's
support, "scribes" ("channels" into written form,
purportedly directly from Jesus) the ACIM "Manual".
-- The U.S. Army publishes a study entitled:
"Controlled Offensive Behavior: USSR" which concerns
itself with targeting individuals with "mind altering
techniques" and "the total submission of one’s will to
some outside force." The study involved the use of
pulsed microwaves. (LEADING EDGE. See also, 1993)
1973 -- Dr. Sidney Gottlieb and Richard Helms order
the destruction of most of MKULTRA's records. Many,
however, apparently overlooked, will later be found
intact, declassified, and subsequently released to
John Marks (1,600 pages of documents) and others as a
result of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
[NOTE: In 1977 John Marks will make a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request for ORD files on
"behavior research related to bio- electrics, electric
or radio stimulation of the brain, electronic
destruction of memory, stereotoxic surgery,
psychosurgery, hypnotism, parapsychology, radiation,
microwaves, and ultrasonics". The CIA reports back as
having 130 cubic feet of material expected to contain
pertinent documents. Marks regretted that he could not
afford to obtain them.]
1974 -- "J.F. Schapitz proposes a project, later
funded by the U.S. Department of Defense, showing how
the spoken word of a hypnotist may be conveyed by
modulated electromagnetic energy directly into
subconscious parts of the brain. The subject cannot
consciously control the information input." A
monograph entitled "Psychotronics in Engineering"
published by the Joint Publications Research Service
in Arlington, VA. repeats Schapitz’s claim, adding
that "voices would program the subconscious mind
without employing any technical devices for receiving
or transcoding the messages . . . ."[emphasis added]
(LEADING EDGE. Also see, 1993).
-- An Army Medical and Information Agency document,
entitled, "Biological Effects of Electromagnetic
Radiation" discusses, among other things, the
induction of voices inside the brain by use of signal
modulation at very low power densities. (LEADING EDGE)
-- The author of "Microwave Auditory Effects and
Applications", Dr. James Lin, notes that "the capacity
of communicating directly with humans by pulsed
microwaves is obviously not limited to the field of
therapeutic medicine." (LEADING EDGE)
-- Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal Waldrop,
becomes a URANTIA Book reader while serving in the
U.S. Navy in Washington, D.C.. Each of his duty
stations have the word "communications 3" in their
name.
[NOTE 1: The NSA's primary mission is to monitor and
analyze "communications".]
[NOTE 2: Ex-CIA operative, Phillip Agee describes two
methods by which the CIA puts agents where they want
them. Sometimes they will recruit leaders of groups
they want to infiltrate. And the other way of
penetrating, he says, is to have an agent join and
then work his way up from the bottom. (INSIDE)]
-- USMC Brigadier General (Ret.) and Pepperdine
University Law Professor, Duane Faw, makes his initial
contact with the URANTIA Foundation. He will associate
himself with Vern Grimsley's cult-like organization,
the Family of God Foundation (FOG), and shortly be
given the position of Chairman of the URANTIA
Brotherhood's Legal Committee. Faw will become the
chief "inner circle" supporter of Teaching Mission
channeling and "stillness practice", both of which
appear to be contra-indicated in The URANTIA Book!
(See, 1099 D, 100:5:8 through 11)
-- Paul Snider, for the URANTIA Brotherhood and as its
President, signs the Foundation's "Confirmatory
Agreement", essentially a lie which denied that the
registered trademark "Urantia" had been in general use
up to that time, ceding all rights to it (and to the
three azure concentric circles) to the Foundation. The
Foundation later used this to "disenfranchise" the
Brotherhood in 1989. Without this agreement it would
have had no grounds to do so.
[NOTE: This "Confirmatory Agreement" was so
hypocritical and dishonest that a number of Urantia
Brotherhood Societies refused to become signatories to
it, so "Licensing Agreement" governing each Society's
use was then drawn up and signed by each of them.
The Brotherhood's General Council reported to its
membership in 1989 -- just a month and a half before
the Foundation "formally terminat[ed] the Confirmatory
Licensing Agreement" and evicted the Brotherhood from
their shared office space -- that in retrospect there
were four "perhaps unintended" (my emphasis) effects
to the 1974 signing:
1. "It partially defeated the initial founding
effort to separate the work into two automous
orgizational entities".
2.
"It caused the URANTIA Foundation to believe it had
veto power over Brotherhood activities".
3.
It "seemed intended to sever the inherent
organizational integrity of URANTIA Brotherhood".
4.
"It set up an almost inevitable conflict between" the
official, organizational use of the name "Urantia" and
its "also valid use" as a symbol with spiritual
meaning by readers of The URANTIA Book ", Sept. 16-17,
1989).
The split between the two Urantia movement
organizations can be seen as having its roots and
beginning in this document.]
1975-- A version of Vern Grimsley's radio program is
being carried on 874 outlets of Armed Forces Radio
Network (AFRN), including 572 onboard Navy ships. Each
station is indicated by a destroyer on the FOG map.
AFRN is known at times to have loaned its facilities
to the CIA. (Mark Lane). Vern's complete program is
being heard in all 50 states and in a number of
foreign countries, as well. FOG claimed a grand total
of "more than 1,000 stations around the world" and
"over 100 million listeners", figures which are
disputed by Caston.
-- (April) Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal
Waldrop, is admitted to URANTIA Brotherhood as a
member-at-large.
-- Carolyn Kendall, a former Forum member (joined in
1951) and Urantia movement leader, believes that the
URANTIA Brotherhood was diverted this year from its
primary role of fostering serious and systematic
study, to marketing The URANTIA Book, the "endless
reassessment of its [organizational] purpose," and the
"fine tuning of its organization". (Ref., "The Plan
for The URANTIA Book Revelation", by Carolyn B.
Kendall, April,1996)
[NOTE: I myself see no direct revelence to this issue
in this, and Kendall dismisses the idea that it may
have been conspiratorial (however, she does not appear
to have been considering a governmental conspiracy). I
have included it since it shows a general trend. Also,
I have yet to learn General Faw's role here, if any,
which may alter the entry's significance.]
1976 -- Neal Waldrop is sworn in as a Foreign Service
Officer in the U.S. Department of State (which is
well-known to provide cover for CIA and NSA
operatives).
-- Emma “Christy” Christensen tells then URANTIA
Brotherhood President John Hales that Vern Grimsley is
a member of the Reserve Corps of Destiny 3. Many
believe that "voices" which she heard told her this.
1977-1979 --Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal
Waldrop, co- hosts the Washington, D.C. study group.
1978 -- Secret journals purportedly prepared by Dr.
Sadler and kept in a locked file cabinet until this
year unexplainedly disappeared, as Urantia movement
member Barbara Newsom was prepared to testify under
oath. [ ref. TENTH CIRCUIT MICHAEL FOUNDATION, INC., a
foreign corporation, Plaintiff - Appellee, v. URANTIA
FOUNDATION, an Illinois Charitable Trust, Defendant -
Third-Party Plaintiff - Appellant, v. HARRY MCMULLAN,
III, Third-Party Defendant - Appellee: No. 01-6347 and
01-6348 (D. Ct. No. CIV-00-885-W) (W.D. Okla.):ORDER
AND JUDGMENT; II.4B.¶2 ]
-- Jonestown mass "suicide". This followed the
assassination nearby of Congressman Leo Ryan by
followers of Jim Jones. Ryan was at that time
investigating what he called "CIA cults". The
investigation apparently ceased with the Congressman's
death.
[NOTE 1: Author, Michael Meiers, will later claim in
his exhaustively researched book, Was Jonestown a CIA
Medical Experiment? A Review of the Evidence, that
Jonestown was a field test of mind control drugs on
African Americans and Native Americans -- two racial
distinctions which made up the majority of Jones’
followers.]
[NOTE 2: Jones is said to have once told a reporter
for the Black Panther newspaper that all of his
thoughts came from the CIA (Mark Lane).]
1978-1979 -- Future URANTIA Foundation trustee, Neal
Waldrop, is the chief organizer, master of ceremonies,
and a speaker at the First through Third Mid-Atlantic
Conferences of Urantia Book readers.
[NOTE: The apparent chronological inconsistency above
(three annual events in two years) appears in
Waldrop's "URANTIA Brotherhood Background" which he
submitted in a cover letter to his, "Do We Live in the
Shadow of Nuclear Annihilation?" (see, 1983 November
14).]
1979 -- Ken Cory, whose channelings became the book
Starseed Transmissions writes that while channeling he
hears "a low humming, an energy field" (see, 1974,
also, 1962 NOTE 4). The messages he receives, he says,
"came first in non-verbal form on waves or pulsations
that carried the concise symbolic content of what I
term ‘meta- conceptual information’" (quoted in Jon
Klimo's book, Channeling) This last appears possibly
to be similar or identical to the channeling
experience of Helen Schucman and Teaching Mission
(TeaM) "transmitter/receivers", whose "voices", while
dictating, are described as being just at the
audible/sub-audible threshold.
1979-1989 -- Soviet Union war in Afghanistan: During
this time the Russians reputedly used then-secret
equipment employing inaudible transmissions that can
convince individuals that they are hearing the voice
of God inside their heads (see, 1993, the year
knowledge of it surfaced in the media). The
possibility that some of this technology fell into the
hands of CIA-trained and supplied Afghanistani
fighters, such as Osama bin Laden, and into the hands
of the CIA itself cannot be discounted. The use of
this equipment could explain the seeming mass-
production of ("mentally cloned"?) "fanatic" terrorist
suicide bombers. The probability that the U.S.
intelligence/security community had itself developed
similar, parallel technology, as indicated in this
timeline primarily by Leading Edge and John Marks
references, should neither be confused with this
Russian technology nor be quickly dismissed.
1980 -- Emma "Christy" Christensen receives an
apparently audible "message" from "unseen friends",
who are believed to be the same Revelatory Commission
of supernal beings who created The URANTIA Book. She
reportedly informed several people of this occurrence.
Thomas Kendall credits the solution of the "French
situation" to the credence given to this message.
[NOTE: The "French situation" concerned the first
French language translation of The URANTIA Book,
entitled, La Cosmogonie d'Urantia, which was made by
Jacques Wiess, (see, 1942-1944 and 1962). Wiess was
sued by the URANTIA Foundation in 1974 for copyright
violation, and his book went into underground, pirated
publication.]
1982 -- Emma "Christy" Christensen dies.
-- Two months after Christy's death, Neal Waldrop
submits to the URANTIA Foundation "a detailed Project
Outline for a [Mandarin] Chinese Translation of The
URANTIA Book, together with a draft Chinese
Translation of the Foreword and Paper 1". (EVALUATION)
[NOTE 1: A URANTIA Book reader reports that sometime
around this year Waldrop expressed his anger that the
Foundation ignored his translation project. Waldrop
also reportedly told that same individual then that
some unnamed US intelligence/security agency had
previously been involved in the Urantia movement, but
that it no longer was at that time. If Waldrop's
reference was to CIA (MKULTRA or ORD) activity, it
would likely have been disseminated only on a
need-to-know basis. The fact that Waldrop was privy to
that information hardly closes the door to the idea of
subsequent or simultaneous NSA involvement (he could
hardly be expected to admit or allude to his own
undercover mission, if any -- indeed, those readers
who know Waldrop cannot picture him as an intelligence
operative, a fact which is necessarily the mark of
successful undercover work). If this hearsay is
factual (and I have no reason to doubt the reader's
veracity) it would appear that the NSA may have won a
bureaucratic turf war against the CIA. It might be
observed that a revelation such as The URANTIA Book,
transmitted by extra-terrestrial, ("alien") supernal
beings undoubtedly constitutes "communications". This
"communications" aspect places the Urantia movement in
a distinctly different category from ACIM, Findhorn,
Jim Jones' People's Temple, or David Koresh's Branch
Davidians. The Urantia Papers had been received in
1934-1935, several decades before
intelligence/security community interest in developing
synthetic telepathy began. Therefore it could not have
been the product of "synthetic telepathy". It would
appear, then, that beginning sometime around 1974-1975
(when NSA-trained future URANTIA Foundation trustee,
Neal Waldrop, became a URANTIA Book reader and was
admitted into the URANTIA Brotherhood as a
member-at-large), in cultic activity where there are
no purported intra-cerebral "communications" other
than those likely induced by "synthetic telepathy" --
TeaM, ACIM, Jim Jones' People's Temple, and David
Koresh's Branch Davidians -- the CIA is in charge, but
where the prospect of actual "alien" communications
exist -- the Urantia Papers and UFOs -- then the NSA
has jurisdiction. How fine this dividing-line is drawn
and exactly where it is placed is known only by the
intelligence/security community itself.]
[NOTE 2: I would like to point out the absurdity of
trying to present the fifth epochal revelation (The
Urantia Book) to the Asian world in a translation
sponsored by, or in any way connected to, either the
U.S. State Department or the NSA! It is bad enough
that the first Asian-language translation is in
Korean, the nation in the eastern hemisphere in which
there is probably the highest concentration of U.S.
Intelligence/Security presence, whose own intelligence
agency, the KCIA, was started with CIA help and which
likely still maintains CIA ties. The U.S. Congress
actually found connections between the KCIA and cult
activity in the United States (the Sun Myung Moon
organization). And one of the present URANTIA
Foundation trustees (who reputedly made the
translation) happens to be a naturalized American
South Korean. Dr. E. Kwan Choi, a Profesor of
Economics at Iowa State University, was elected
trustee in March, 1997 . None of this may be expected
to encourage Asians to accept the revelation. One must
wonder if there is a plan to keep the revelation from
widespread acceptance in Asia! Kwan is presently
(2002) suing the other URANTIA Foundation trustees for
alleged organizational, including financial,
improprieties.(See also, 1958)]
-- Six months after Christy’s death, Vern Grimsley,
"awoke one morning with a strong feeling that he must
buy a new property for his organization, the Family of
God (F.O.G.). He developed a picture in his mind of
what it should entail and encompass." (EVALUATION).
-- The following month, while viewing the vacated St.
Anthony's College campus, which was being shown to him
by a Realtor, Vern heard an audible "voice" from no
apparent source telling him, "This is it!"
-- Before the end of the year Vern bought his new
"Spiritual Renaissance Institute" at Clayton,
California for $4 million. Its was situated four miles
from the Concord Naval Weapons Station and partially
surrounded by a dozen other strategic installations
with varying importance as possible targets, including
two Naval shipyards (one for nuclear subs), two
military air bases and an international airport, a
Naval fuel depot, a Naval supply center, and Livermore
Nuclear Research Laboratory -- all at distances from
fifteen to twenty eight miles from Vern's soon-to-be
purported holocaust survival headquarters (see, 1983
October 6).
-- Many Urantia movement people believe Christy's
"mantle" as de facto leader of the Urantia movement
had been passed to Vern.
[NOTE 3: In 1969 when Dr. William Sadler died, his
last words spoke of passing the "torch" to Christy who
would then pass it to younger members.]
1983 -- Vern Grimsley has "over 100 ‘contacts’". He
would emerge from sessions "in a very tired and worn
state". Vern said that his messages came, "even when I
am asleep" (EVALUATION).
-- (October 6) Vern’s "voices" tell him to prepare to
survive a nuclear exchange (WW III). They then began
to develop survival strategies (including -- in answer
to a question put directly to them -- that if
necessary attackers storming F.O.G. fallout shelters
could be shot!). Accordingly, Vern surrounded the new
compound with chain link fence, and F.O.G. began
stockpiling arms. Combat veteran, Brigadier General
Duane Faw (USMC Retired), a URANTIA Brotherhood
official who would soon become the primary inner
circle leadership supporter of TeaM channeling (see,
1985), actually gave advice to FOG on military defense
procedures, reportedly including such things as
"fields of fire". Faw demurs that he never expected
FOG's all-out military response to his suggestions.
However, the purported celestials spoke to Vern in
words which sound more like those of a Marine Corps
General than of the seraphim or midwayers recorded in
The URANTIA Book. They told him that "the institute in
Clayton is projected to be in the top ten percent of
functional, slash, protectable locations given current
data" (EVALUATION). Ironically, after surviving the
holocaust, Vern was expected to carry on broadcasting
the light of truth from his radio transmitter tower on
top of nearby Mt. Diablo (Devil Mountain)! This area
was once reputedly the home of the Devil, who
reputedly made appearances to people in the days
before California became a state.
[NOTE 1: While I could find no direct ties between
General Faw and the U.S. Intelligence/Security
community (beyond his having been assigned as a Matine
Corps legal officer to the Judge Advocate General
Corps), Faw had the habit of popping up near actual or
possible CIA projects (see, 1956, 1961, and 1965).]
-- It was around this point in time that part of the
Urantia movement’s inner circle deserted Vern and/or
turned against him. The "official", or "organized"
Urantia movement would become divided precisely along
the pro/con "messages" fault-line. Continuing support
of Vern would later be used as the excuse for
disenfranchising the URANTIA Brotherhood (see, 1989
October 30), and Thomas Kendall would be suddenly
removed both from his position as URANTIA Foundation
President and trustee ostensibly because of his
support for Vern.
-- (November 14) Neal Waldrop submits reasons to the
URANTIA Brotherhood why he believes it is impossible
that the USA could then be living "In The Shadow of
Nuclear Annihilation", thus professionally 5 refuting
the message given to Vern by purported celestials.
There followed, according to one reader, "a well-neigh
general rejection of the ‘messages’ and an
overwhelming flow of criticisms" leveled against Vern
(ref., Emmanuel DeSurvire, quoted in EVALUATION).
-- The week following Waldrop's submission, Vern’s
"unseen friends" told Vern, "We won!" -- possibly
their very last message to him, or the last one about
WW III. Vern has remained silent on the issue. It was,
at least, the last message he forwarded to any
"official" Urantia movement organizations. Rumor has
it, however, that Vern is still hearing the "voices"
of purported celestials.
-- Many FOG members, including Richard Keeler (on Nov.
20), and Harry McMullan (before Oct. 27), abandon
Vern's group. FOG (reportedly) eventually will go
bankrupt, defaulting on its loan for the Clayton site.
Vern's influence as an effective movement leader with
a wide following from this point forward is curtailed.
Christy's mantle, if Vern had ever indeed worn it, was
snatched quickly from his shoulders.
[NOTE 2: It may be speculated that if Vern was an
unwitting CIA (MKULTRA/ORD) subject, the withdrawal of
its influence from the Urantia movement could have
allowed for the "sacrifice" of Vern as a red herring
and stepping stone for putting an NSA operative into a
leadership position. In any event, the "voices"
eliminated the widely acknowledged major contender,
the "voices" caused the movement to be divided over
the issue of belief in them (see for instance,
"Special report to the Readers of The URANTIA Book:
URANTIA Foundation Ends Its Relationship With The
Former URANTIA Brotherhood", by URANTIA Foundation,
April 1990, p. 15 and p. 19-3), and afterwards "NSA
Neal" Waldrop was put into the catbird seat (see,
1989).]
1984-1989 -- The climate at Foundation headquarters
reportedly continues to deteriorate.
1985 (circa) -- What will become the first Teaching
Mission group (see, 1989) begins as a small channeling
group in New Zealand (see,
http://www.winged-horse.com/archives/time.htm), where
one of the NSA's largest facilities is located.
1986 -- Hoite Caston is made a trustee of the URANTIA
Foundation.
-- First Spanish language translation of The URANTIA
Book. It contains serious flaws, and is reputedly
distorted in meaning.
1989 -- The entire Executive Committee of the URANTIA
Brotherhood are signatories to a letter to the
Foundation trustees referring to Martin Myers'
"questionable and secretive use of 'instructions' or
'mandates' supposedly given [by supernal beings] in
confidence to our predecessors" (but see, 1990 Helena
Sprague letter).
[NOTE 1: These "mandates" were received over the years
as physically materialized writings and each contained
an instruction at the bottom that it was to be
destroyed by fire no later than the publication date
of The URANTIA Book. Reportedly, however, Dr. Sadler
and Christy were given permission to retain some
beyond that date which were destroyed immediately upon
the death of Christy. On the other hand, copies of the
"mandates" made by Forum members were reportedly
extant after that year. These might constitute a body
of "secret communications" worthy of NSA interest.]
-- (July through October) Three URANTIA Foundation
Trustees and several staff members resign in reaction
against Martin Myers’ actions and policies.
[NOTE 2: The question has never been answered whether
these trustees and staff members might have been
influenced by synthetic telepathy. The fact is that at
least one 533 Diversey Parkway, Foundation/Brotherhood
part-time office worker reports having herself heard
"voices" in her head which she continues to the day of
this writing to believe were genuinely supernal in
origin. These, she says, supported Vern Grimsley's
"messages" and directed her into performing certain
undisclosed activities which she describes as being
seemingly mundane, but which she maintains
nevertheless were purported to her as being necessary
to help ward off the nuclear holocaust (WW III). She
alludes to having knowledge of others like herself who
heard similar "voices", and there were also rumors of
"voices" being heard in that same time-frame in Hawaii
by URANTIA Book readers there. (Also see, 1990 "Helena
Sprague" letter)]
-- The new URANTIA Foundation Board of Trustees at
this time consists of three of Vern Grimsley's college
fraternity brothers: Foundation President Martin
Myers, Hoite Caston and Richard Keeler (as of July).
Also on the board are Patricia Sadler Mundelius (who,
of course, bears the honored Sadler name), and Neal
Waldrop (as of August), a Foreign Service Officer with
a NSA background..
-- (October 1) Martin Myers quits his upper managerial
bank job and assumes full-time URANTIA Foundation
Executive Directorship.
-- (October 30) URANTIA Foundation Trustees formally
disenfranchise the URANTIA Brotherhood and evict it
from their shared headquarters at 533 Diversey
Parkway, Chicago. (See, 1983)
-- A New Zealand channeling group (four members) is
introduced to The URANTIA Book by a channeled
purported celestial named, "Abraham", self- identified
as being the same Abraham who is the Biblical "father
of the Jewish race". This is the beginning of TeaM as
such. After this, members of the group reportedly took
TeaM to URANTIA Book-oriented internet listserves,
newsgroups, and web- forums -- as well as to URANTIA
Book study groups -- where they carried on a process
of recruitment. The goal, according to one purported
celestial, was to create at least one or two
channelers in every study group. (See also, 1985)
1990 -- Then-recently-resigned, former URANTIA
Foundation Trustee Helena Sprague writes that "Martin
[Myers] has been heard, with several present, to
bestow approval of the midwayers on one individual and
to tell another, 'The midwayers are not pleased with
you . . . you are in league with Lucifer.'" This
leaves one with the distinct impression that Myers
also may have heard "voices" and believed himself to
have been in direct contact with purported celestials.
It is therefore possible that his guidance was not
limited to extant copies of previously materialized
"mandates" or "instructions" (see, 1989 "Executive
Committee" letter).
[NOTE: Many accused Myers of having a "chosen person"
attitude. Speculatively something of the sort might be
expected to have developed if intra-cerebral voices,
claiming to be midwayers, had told Myers that
Christy's "torch" or "mantel" of Urantia movement
leadership had been passed to him instead of to Vern
Grimsley. (See, 1982 NOTE 3)]
-- Elizabeth Y. Fitzhugh's ad appears in some New Age
newspapers promoting her channeling of a purported
entity named "ORION" (she uses the upper case -- this
is the same name as what is believed to be a MKULTRA,
ORD, or U.S. Naval Intelligence program which
includes, among other things, "electronic brain
invasion" (see, 1958). One of the ad's two favorable
blurbs says:
"I found . . . that I could listen to the ORION
spokesperson as though I were listening to music or
observing a natural scene. . . . I became totally
absorbed by the utter beauty of the voice and the
language."
It is signed, "S.G., Boston, VA". The only listing in
the telephone directory for the Boston area in 1990
conforming to those initials is Sidney Gottlieb, known
to be the then retired former director of MKULTRA.
Boston is a small, U.S. postal rural delivery area
connected to a combination post office and general
store. Gottlieb's retirement location there is well
documented.
1991 -- A URANTIA Book study group member in Woods
Cross, Utah begins channeling a purported celestial
named "Ham". This becomes the second TeaM group, and
the first to appear in the United States. For a number
of years thereafter the procedure for a study group to
obtain a "teacher" to channel was that they must first
telephone their request to the Woods Cross channeler,
who would forward it on to the purported celestial
during a "contact". It is now presumably just as
possible for the massive email and telephone
monitoring programs currently being run by NSA and its
data-sharing partner nations to flag any interest
voiced in these communications mediums by persons
desiring "personal" or group "teachers" ("purported
celestials" who are believed to communicate
intra-intellect) as it is for them to flag the words
"cocaine" or "bomb". It should be noted that not all
who desire these "teachers" get them.
[NOTE 1: Although I have found no direct connection
between the Woods Cross group and either the CIA or
the NSA, Utah is the center of Mormonism, and Mormons
have long been especially sought out for recruitment
into the U.S. Intelligence/Security community. It may
be speculated that widespread support for secret
intelligence projects might be found within that
state.]
[NOTE 2: TeaM has not to this date subjected itself to
any testing procedures such as those to which Dr.
Sadler subjected the physically materialized text (as
well as the channeling-like activities which preceded
it). Neither has TeaM so far attempted to correlate
the reception of intra-cerebral "teachers" to previous
open expressions of a desire for the same on
electronic communications media. If TeaM wants to
behave responsibly and to find anything approaching
mainstream acceptance in the Urantia Book reader
community, it needs to
