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THE MAITREYA EXTRACTS FROM HIS TEACHINGS

RAEL

THE MAITREYA EXTRACTS FROM HIS TEACHINGS WISDOM OF THE PROPHET RAEL Messenger of the stars

Published by the Raelian Foundation C.P. 328, FL 9490 VADUZ

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INDEX Introduction 9 Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Happiness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Serenity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Contemplation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Giving Life A Meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 The Myth Of Perfection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Taking Responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Loving Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105 Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119 A Look At Today’s World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .131 Non-Violence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155 The Right To Be Different . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173 Some shots of the Seminar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185 A Message To The Youth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .193 A Happy Humanity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205 Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210 America’s Mistakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237 Manipulation By The Military . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .243 Boycotting Countries That Don’t Respect Human Rights . . . . . . . .249 Dismantling The UN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253 The Elohim’s Humility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261 Links To Official Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .267 From The Same Author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .269 Addresses of the Raelian Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .273 ........................................................................................................

INTRODUCTION

The Role Of The Prophet The role of a Prophet on Earth today does not only include divulging the secrets of our origins as explained in the Elohim’s Messages, or revealing the promise of a wonderful future thanks to science, it also implies acting within today’s political arena so as to improve the lives of people, especially those living in countries who suffered the most from the selfishness and brutality of those who, for a short moment in time, were lucky enough to have had a slight advance. The only way to achieve world peace is to unite. That is why my role as a Prophet is not only spiritual and religious, but also political. And even if this brings me many enemies who one day might assassinate me, I will still say what I have to say. Rael, 13th December 2001 9

CHAPITER I

Love “Loving means giving, giving yourself without expecting anything in return.” Rael

Love Is To Give Everything Love, love passionately with all your strength. To love means to merge completely, to wish to give everything, to give completely. We should give for the pleasure of giving, rather than to be recognized by the person we give to. The person really giving the gift is not the one offering it, but the one willing to receive it. The best way to give is discretely, so that no one notices. That is the real gift of “being” rather than a gift of “having”.

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The gift of “having” is only aimed at receiving recognition, a quest for thanks: “I give you something with the expectation of your thanks to make me feel appreciated and important.” That is the opposite of humility! The one who loves the most is the one who gives the most, who is always trying to bring happiness to others. And by the same token, is also the person who benefits the most since contrary to money where the more we give the less we have, with love, it is the opposite, the more we give, the more we have. If we hold back our love, we lose it, it diminishes, it atrophies and fades, but if we give it, it multiplies and as if by magic, we receive more and more. Give your love so that the person you give it to is as happy as possible. Give happiness to others; give them harmony. Increase their happiness and even allow them to be happier than you. Distribute happiness around you; give out little gifts of happiness all the time. Turn each day into a day of giving.

Love Is Always The Fruit Of Consciousness

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emitting love is a maladjusted brain. A brain that sows violence and hate is a brain with hormonal and electrochemical anomalies. That is why its consciousness diminishes and even disappears, because it can no longer feel love. Consciousness is also a physicochemical phenomenon. Violence, hate and murder can be caused by a hormonal imbalance by physicochemical perturbations of this gland we call our brain. This gland is us and is what allows us to feel love or hate. Consciousness and love are one and the same thing. You can exercise your brain by thinking love, by imagining it, by sharing it around you. By exercising your brain to give love, you are training it to function better. How can we exercise our brains? By feeling connected with everything inside and around us, and especially by not following the crowd: thinking differently from everyone else. Try to figure out a point of view opposite from the norm. And what does the opposite really mean? If everyone thinks that something is bad, try to find the good side of the situation. That is when your brain will start developing, as you stop following the rest of the sheep. We should always try to understand the things that we don’t see at first sight. Wonder why. That is how the great inventions, the best music and all the beautiful things of this world came into being. Strengthen your brain; strengthen your intelligence. That is the way to fertilise the terrain for love to grow! 13

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If it is politically correct to hate something, real love means to always wonder how can we love it. Get into the habit of always asking yourselves why. That is how you will strengthen your consciousness, and by developing that, you will develop love. The more you try to understand, the less hate you will have, and finally you will just feel love and benevolence.

Love always contains the solution. Even in the worst criminals, even in the worst of things, there is always something one can love. That is what the Ying Yang symbol represents: a small white circle in the black tear shape, and a black circle in the white tear. Even in the darkest of blacks, there is always some good, and in the whitest of whites, there is always a dot of bad, if one assumes that black is bad and white is good, which is not always the case.

We Are The Fruit Of Love. Canada, March 2002

We were born of the dust of our planet. We might still be this bit of dust if it had not been for our creators who had decided otherwise. Relative to infinity, it does not make much difference. But our creators took this dust and made it conscious, or rather I should say they gave it the capacity to be conscious. There is a world of difference, since if we 14

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exploit this capacity to be conscious, we are no more than dust in motion. In fact it would be better to remain just dust if all we are going to do with it is move it about in time and space, because all we do is pollute when we move dust about. If the Elohim created us, it is to pass on the ability to render dust conscious, which will allow further bits of dust in the universe to be conscious. We human beings have the mission of not only creating life, but even more importantly, of imbuing it with consciousness. That is our prime reason of existence. Though giving birth to a child is a great delight for the parents, it is an even greater joy to transmit consciousness to them. So imagine how ecstatic our creators were to give birth on a virgin planet to a future population of billions of consciousnesses. It is a wonderful feeling of happiness because to propagate consciousness in the universe is the most beautiful manifestation of love. I am this little handful of dust, but what differentiates me from the bit of dust next to me or on which I am walking, is that I can feel my feet, my physical dimensions, I can feel that I am part of infinity. That is what gives me awareness. The ground on which I stand can feel nothing because it is not conscious. It us just a bit of dust with no purpose to its existence except to allow me to walk upon it. From the moment I become aware of what I am, combined with the awareness that there are other consciousnesses 15

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around me, love enters into the picture. I then realise how the person beside me is simply an extension of myself and that in fact we are all extensions of each other. Love means to no longer consider the other bits of dust traveling in same moment of eternity as strangers. When I contemplate another person living near or far from me and realise that he is a fellow traveler in space and time and that we both share the same opportunity to use and extend our consciousnesses eternally thanks to science, then I can only feel love. And yet our huge lack of humility blinds us to it. We should call each other “your dustness” so as to remind ourselves that we are nothing more than dust from the earth. Instead of thinking that we know everything, we should recognise with humility that we still have an infinity of things to learn. This same humility is also love. One day we will be able to calculate the level of love. We are surrounded by love, we live in love and yet we can’t even measure it. One day we will discover that love is a unit of measure that unites human beings. We will realise that, in fact, there is no real gap between us; we all form a living mass in which we live. It wouldn’t have taken much for you to be someone else and someone else to be you, but you are you now. Imagine if you were him, in his body, inside his head. Observe him carefully. How would you feel in his shoes? How can you hate him; how could you hit him if he could be you? 16

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The way we separate things, this is me, separate from you, is totally artificial. It is a big perceptual mistake; we are all one. And in the infinity of space, who knows, perhaps his molecules will become part of me. We are all part of this cosmic consciousness that, during a brief moment in our voyage through space and time, is aware that it is alive. Dust on the other hand is not aware of its existence. We are all traveling together in this infinity in time, and we should feel close to each other, because we are all in the same boat: the Earth.

Real Love Is To Love Our Enemies More Than Our Friends Seminars in Italy, July 2001

The thing that most illuminates our existence, more than wisdom, more than all the great philosophical teachings of the greatest of prophets, is LOVE. Love is a word we can use in many ways. We sometimes say “make love,” but this is not quite correct, because its not making love, its playing! We are playing with our hands, our bodies, our sexual organs and giving each other pleasure. It’s a game, not love.

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But on the other hand, we can “be love” by becoming aware of the connection that we have with others instead of remaining fixated on ourselves. We can give love to those close to us, but what is more important is to give love to those who are far from us. And to give love to those close to us, or those far from us, we first have to know how to love ourselves, to be in love with ourselves, to understand ourselves, to know ourselves, to have compassion for ourselves. We need to love ourselves before loving others, how can we give love to others if we don’t have it for ourselves. We can’t give what we don’t possess. To love one’s neighbor is good, to love those far and different is even better. At the time of Jesus, it was important to love one’s neighbor; it was urgent. People didn’t consider life to be sacred; they had no qualms in killing their neighbors. But today we are civilized, well at least a bit. Now its time for the next step, to put the interest of others before our own. We need to love the stranger more than our neighbors. War has always been started on the pretext of loving our neighbors more than strangers. We liked those in our tribe, but not those living on the other side of the river. And then it became the other side of the frontier, leading to wars and genocides. The only way to change humanity is to love the foreigner more than our own. It is to love blacks more than whites if we 18

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are white. It is to love heterosexuals more than homosexuals if we are homosexual. It is to love Tutsis more than Hutus if we are Hutus. It is to love people from another religion more than those from our own. You have all been proud at some point in your life of being part of a group, be it ethnic or geographic, proud to be French, r Japanese or Canadian, and then perhaps proud to be human. That’s natural. It is part of everyone’s personal evolution, but we must go beyond that and it takes time. Strive towards higher concepts. Abandon this separating form of love that is based on discrimination, between one village and another, one country and another, one planet and another, and aim for a universal love that includes everything. Go beyond racism. To erase it is to no longer see any differences, whether physical, behavioral or sexual. Don’t limit yourselves. Say to yourselves: what I want to focus on is another consciousness that is communicating with my consciousness. Racism, lack of love, discrimination, they all limit us; they reduce our communication with other consciousnesses. And every time we limit ourselves, we miss out! Develop this desire to love those you don’t know, discard this barrier blocking us from the wonderful opportunities of meeting such extraordinary people. Cut out basic hate. Explore outside your own culture. 19

Look around, and each time you wish to hate, take a step back; you will see love. That’s what love is all about, communicating. Not making love, but being love; loving strangers more than neighbors, loving them as we love ourselves. In fact we are all bathing in love and consciousness, but some pull out, cutting or separating themselves from it, alienating themselves, by seeing blacks, whites, yellows. Don’t cut! You are bathing in love, in universal fraternity and in consciousness – not only around you but in you too. Look, feel what is inside of you. We are one; we are in a bath of love. We are one and there is no separation, except the separation we invent ourselves and which distances us from others. We are ONE and the rest is just illusion.

CHAPTER II

Happiness “Don’t waste even a moment to be happy, because if you put off your happiness for tomorrow… maybe there will be no tomorrow!” Rael

The Importance of Playing – Italy July 2001

To have a playful mind means knowing how important it is to play. One cannot play without laughter. In fact, laughing is a very serious business! There could be far more wisdom in a few moments of laughter than in a two hour lecture. Laughter is the basis of everything. As they used to say a long time ago, “Where there is laughter, you will find the Buddha”. 21

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Let’s make our lives into a wonderful game, because our world is a playground. Look at all the creation and burst out laughing! It’s hilarious! Have you ever taken a good look at a peacock’s tail, or the way birds prance about during mating rituals, or how crabs run sideways? Check them out! Admire them! Creation is full of humour for those who know how to see, but most people don’t even look. The world is a huge playground and our lives are each a game, just one! Do you want the game you are playing today to be a success, to be wonderful and full of gifts and prizes? Do you want to win lots of points as in a pinball game? The winning balls we shoot are love, consciousness and giving. I throw my ball to someone, and “tilt” I earn another point. If you’ve earned enough points by the end of your life, you’re entitled to a free game, one which will last indefinitely, where you can play and laugh forever. However, you can also lose the game. Missed balls are called selfishness, stupidity and nastiness. “tilt” one point less! Then one day you’re out of points and the game’s over. It’s too late. From dust you came and to dust you shall return. Do you want to win another round? Well then, take a step back and look at your life objectively. Taking a step back always allows us to see better, to see the bigger picture. Observe yourself. Practice observing yourself while laughing 22

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at the same time - especially at yourself. Humor is the basis of wisdom and awakening. Know too that there are always many ways of seeing things. There are many facets to a diamond. We could just look at the first facet and see how it shines and reflects the light, but if we really wish to see the whole diamond, we need to take a step back to see the bigger picture, to see it in its entirety.

Correct Thought, Word and Action

The wise person knows how to take a step back to have correct perception, thought and action. You can find the correct thought by searching where your thoughts came from, what determined them: was it you who decided that “To be naked is bad,” or was it someone else who convinced you? Following the correct thought comes the correct word. Many people might have the correct thought, “It is good to be naked,” but then they tell their children with a frown, “Cover yourselves up! Aren’t you ashamed of yourselves?” Then there is the correct action. It is all very well to think and say, “I am not jealous,” but the real test comes when we see someone else sniffing around our partner…. and we sud23

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denly remember we were supposed to go shopping together… any excuse to put off facing reality! Thought, word and action. When these three elements are correct and consistent with each other, we start to improve. I think, I speak, I act. Those who tell us to do what they say, but not what they do, are false guides. The real guides are those whose thoughts are consistent with their words and actions. Easy to say, but difficult to put into practice!

No Need To Justify Being Happy Slovenia, August 2002

We don’t need a reason to be happy. Happiness is immediate, like a flower opening. It is not like filling a bag with food. The reason rich people commit suicide is because some time in the past, they created the illusion that they would be happy in the future, once they had acquired certain possessions. Happiness is not an experience we will have tomorrow or somewhere else, nor is it to be found in knowing or having. If we have a burning desire to be happy, it means we are not happy yet. If we are happy because of something, then it means our happiness depends on something. Be careful, because if we lose that thing, then we are liable to be unhappy. 24

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Many people spend their time running all over the place, thinking they will be happier somewhere else. So they run and run. At some point they settle down, and more time goes by, but one day they realise they are no happier than they were before. Be happy for no reason at all. Stop making your happiness depend on something outside of yourself. Be the magician of your own happiness. You have your own hat and magic wand. Your dreams are all in the hat; you knew what they were when you were a child. If you have lost them, find them again. And remember that dreaming while awake has much more value than when sleeping. We dream hundreds of times all night long, but none stand out in importance. However, the dreams we have while we are awake come from our consciousness and allow us to program our lives so they become beautiful. These waking dreams help us enchant our lives. Don’t let the fact that you are not happy make you unhappier! You can’t buy happiness insurance, and the aim is not to become happy, but to remain happy.

Say Yes To Life – Seminar near Albi, August 1990

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vibration and the thought of YES changes something in our brain, in our personality. It gives us a positive outlook and fills our lives with love, happiness and blossoming. Our lives cannot be harmonious, happy or full if we say NO too often. Of course, sometimes we have to know how to say NO, but only exceptionally, when something is proposed to you that is contrary to what your conscience would like. We should only say NO in exceptional circumstances. Most of the time we should say YES. We feel so much better when we say YES! Even our environment is transformed by it. YES, say YES. Try it out, feel what it does to the muscles in your face. It’s a natural face-lift! Learn to say YES in all circumstances, especially those that can transform your life for the better. YES can change your life! YES is a magic word! Being positive means starting with a YES, right from moment you wake up in the morning. As soon as you open your eyes, say YES. You will feel great all day.

Smile, It Will Make You Happier Smile as often as you can, because to smile is just as important as to say YES. Some people look as if they are crying even when they are smiling. If your face doesn’t smile when you smile, if you look as if the taxman is checking your accounts every day, it is enti26

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rely your own fault. It’s because you haven’t smiled enough during your life, and the muscles in your face have sculpted it in the expression that you most often put it in. Take a good look at those who laugh all the time, they have what are called wrinkles of expression. The whole face rises. The faces of those who are sad fall; the wrinkles in the corners go down. So smile. The smile is the first step towards love. Always be the first to smile and you will see that those around you will smile too, even the grumpiest will eventually end up with a smile creeping over their lips.

The right to be oneself Don’t waste energy trying to convince others and don’t accept that others wish to change you, because you are unique. I love this phrase and I repeat it often: “until today, I fought to change the world; now I am fighting so that others don’t change me”. It is so important. We don’t have the right to try to change others and they don’t have the right to try to change us if we don’t want to. I want you to be happy and if you are happy with me, then all well and good. If you are happy elsewhere, that is good too, because I prefer you to be happy elsewhere than unhappy with me.

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Never will you hear me say: “you must change others…” Never! So don’t let them change you. Stand up for the right to be yourselves. Stand up for your ideas. Do you remember hearing journalists asking experts during televised debates: “What should we think of…?” That phrase is typical of a one-thought society; one composed of adults all striving to be politically, socially and religiously correct. Instead we should say: “What could we think of…?” because in this way we invite openness to an infinite palette of differing opinions. This fosters a listening attitude towards others. Exchange and agreement soon follow. The “should we think” brings about crises, suffering, rebellion and crimes against humanity. The “can we think” frees different thoughts and possible choices and incites reflection.

Nudity

We all have complexes. Women often complain that their breasts are too small or too big. What difference does it make? We are all human beings with an internal beauty capable of making our external beauty shine wonderfully, whatever the

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shape of our body. In fact, there are infinite tastes, which means that you are bound to correspond to someone’s taste, whether it is the shape of your nose, mouth or breasts. There are some men who don’t dare go naked because they think their penis is too small. It is not the size of the organ that makes a man, it is the way he uses it, and I am sure that the women here will agree. What a mistake to think that a man has to carry his virility like a horse! His success depends primarily on his sensuality; the way he talks, the way he caresses with words, with his look, with his hands. Sex comes much later. We were naked when we were born, so why should we be ashamed when we are adults? Try lying in the sun without a stitch of clothing and feel the sun caress your body. Go at your own pace, and you’ll see how wonderful if feels. And know that as you take your pants off your body, you are also taking off the pants you have on in your head! Accepting being naked is much easier than learning to walk, and yet you all know how to walk. If you feel you have to hide something physically, it means that there are connections in your brain that correspond to blockages. If you are able to take off everything and show yourself fully, it immediately makes positive connections in your brain that help you feel good about yourself, to build

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yourself and elevate yourself. You can do it, if you have the correct thought. Don’t be timid about it; Don’t brag, just do it with tranquillity, taking on your responsibility for who you are and simply accept your physique.

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CHAPTER III

Serenity “Dance and sing on the earth, before it dances on you.” Rael

Laughter – Seminar near Albi, August 1996

Laughter belongs to man, just as genius does. In fact, a genius usually laughs a lot. All those who achieve the full use of their brain laugh a lot. Have you seen that photo of Einstein sticking out his tongue? I am always wary when I meet someone serious, , because seriousness always is accompanied by stupidity. Look at all the people in politics; they look like they have an umbrella up 31

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their rear end. They are so stiff! And to think it is these people who are running our country! Those who think they are going to become wise by being serious have no chance of awakening themselves. Serious people are boring. People who laugh are often awakeners, because it is more effective to mix teaching with humour. First of all, it is more fun, but more importantly, there is better retention when the teaching is combined with laughter and pleasure. Our brain is wired to quickly forget sad memories and remember happy ones. Our creators designed us that way for the sake of our mental health. Happy memories always come spontaneously, while bad memories require an effort to recall. In fact, they are often hazy too. If you don’t know how to laugh, then learn! How can you learn how to laugh? Just laugh! The brain uses laughter as a wedge. A wedge is used to split a log; it can also help us clean our brain out. Begin first thing in the morning; smile regardless of what happened the evening before. Smile, because after all, crying will not help anything. On the other hand, when you feel your smile blossoming, , it will be like a ray of sunshine, illuminating others and lighting up their day and yours.

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Greet yourself with a “Good-morning” every morning of your life. Look at yourself in the mirror. Flirt with yourself. Make a declaration of love to yourself every morning and tell yourself how much you love yourself, from your feet to your head, from the tips of your toes to the ends of your hair. Make sure that the first person you meet in the morning smiles at you. How do you ensure that? Easy: smile at them and they will smile at you!! It works every time! The more you laugh, the more harmonious you will be, feeling good about yourself, happy and feeling better everyday.

Life Is Beautiful

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Of course, progress can include some negative things, but so does the past. In fact the past contains more negative things than does the progress of the future, because progress ultimately liberates mankind. If consciousness and a sense of giving directed humanity’s direction, then progress would only bring happiness. You are the only one who chooses whether your day will be negative or positive. It is not difficult; it is just a matter of training. If you often choose the positive, then your brain will learn to automatically react positively and you will be happy. It is automatic. All you need to do is press the button. But if you choose the negative, your brain will apply the same automatic mechanism except it will learn to be negative and you will be unhappy. Thinking negatively simply poisons you. When we are negative, we are like a black hole, we are not attractive and others avoid us. To get rid of the negative habit, re-educate yourselves by being positive, right from the moment you wake up. Be happy. Make the most of life. Enjoy every moment. Be happy and people will gather around you because they will all wish to be infected and permeated with your happiness.

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Positive Attitude – Seminars near Albi, August 41 a.H. (1986)

Our life is just a succession of moments. These moments are not separate events that simply accumulate without links between them. On the contrary, each moment is strictly linked with the next with a dynamic theme, either positive or negative, depending on what we choose. If our theme is positive, it is thanks to a heightened level of awareness that allows us to manage the emotions that are strewn in our path. Negative emotions are the greatest enemies of our consciousness. Consciousness and negative emotions don’t go together. Never forget that being positive is a choice, especially if you experience a whole series of bad news all in the same day. You can lament, cry, and get angry or you can say: “I have chosen to be happy whatever happens. What can I do to improve the situation?” This does not mean that you should have no emotions at all. On the contrary, emotions are the spice of life. However, we cannot be efficient if these emotions carry us away and hold us hostage. And always differentiate between the things we can change and those we can’t. Have the awareness to know the difference between the two.

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We say: ”Time passes.” That is a mistake because it is not time that passes. Time doesn’t exists in itself. No one can claim that they saw time passing; it is we who are passing in time. Be aware of that. It will shine a new light on your lives, especially when you experience moments of sadness or despair, as every human being does at some point. One day, the bit of dust that is you, becomes animated, or aware of itself. Then suddenly it thinks that time is passing by counting days, when in fact it is this dust that is passing through time, through this immovable time. Our passage in time takes us through awareness of life and death, through the awareness that we are just dust that became animated one day and will ultimately be extinguished. The matter of which we are composed has completed a cycle: a life. We are travellers of time and not in time. We can’t travel back in time, nor can we travel into the future, but the present marks our passage and is that which sets out the course of our lives. Tick tock…. We all started this journey one day, each at a different moment. Some of us have been travelling for a long time; others are just starting out today. 36

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We are all travelling together in a fantastic voyage, in a spaceship called Earth. We are turning, passing through… Some of us are nearly at the finishing line, others have only just set out.

Consciousness and the Unpredictable Slovenia, August 2002.

Wisdom means being able to manage the unexpected. This allows us to remain serene whatever happens in our lives. Anyone can manage the predictable, even robots that are specifically programmed to respond to predictable situations and events. To manage the unexpected means to use foresight with all one’s senses open so as to include the prediction of one’s own circumstances with that of others, while at the same time managing the unexpected which others slip into our own predicted circumstances. Life is a succession of unpredicted events interfering with the events that we do manage to predict, and it is precisely how we react to this unpredicted element that allows us to test our intelligence and our level of consciousness.

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Emotions never unbalance us in the predictable arena, since by definition we have already anticipated what was about to happen. Emotions only arise when the events don’t go as we thought they would, and this applies both to positive as well as negative. We could either react violently to something that did not happen as we wished, or we could learn to anticipate, to foresee and to act at the right moment, using this unexpected event. If we don’t know how to manage the unpredictable, we are in a perpetual state of frustration and dissatisfaction that will gradually lead us to a sad and unhappy life. The difference between an ordinary person and one who is awakened is that the latter uses these challenges to grow while the former refuses them, using excuses to justify themselves or throwing responsibility onto others. We should not only congratulate ourselves when all goes well, or when we manage the expected and unexpected well, but also when, and especially when, we are experiencing failures, because they can help us grow. On the other hand, we should also strive to not repeat the same mistake twice, while not letting the possibility of making mistakes hold us back from taking risks. We should even feel excited by the thought that we have an area at our disposal that can help us grow. 38

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We can learn so much when we make mistakes, and we will always make mistakes, though not for the same reasons. That is what is wonderful. A wise person contemplates each moment of his life objectively, looking at the big picture, so as to expect the unexpected without being caught and affected. On the contrary, they appreciate the unexpected because they know it is a way to make progress in their own self-development. That is how the unpredictable is a challenge for consciousness.

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We are told that we should manage our emotions, however the word “manage” is not quite correct because it suggests that we allow the emotion to arise before treating it. There are several ways to deal with an emotion as it arises. Let’s take the case of an insult. You could replicate with another insult, which would probably end up in a fight. Alternatively, you could listen without wishing to reply, but since you are still feeling the negative, a tension will nevertheless arise in you. However, the ultimate would be to completely ignore the insult, it’s just hot air, just a sound that the person is making with his mouth, a gurgling, blending in with the background. 39

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No one can physically enter into our brain to make us angry. Our own consciousness makes the master decision of what is beautiful and what deserves to penetrate into our brain. We alone are the ones making ourselves angry, there is no button that someone else presses to annoy us or make us sad. No one can make you angry without your authorisation. The problem is that you give other people permission much too often! When we are positive, we are like light; everyone wants to be with us. Being happy attracts others. So don’t be happy because others love you, be happy, and as a consequence they will love you. Be happy without any reason. If you are happy for a reason, then there is a risk that when you lose that reason, you lose your happiness. Be happy for no reason at all !

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Spirituality “The only privilege in being alive is that we are conscious. And when we are conscious, we cannot avoid being amazed by our own consciousness and happy to be alive.” Rael

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ONE with others if we don’t feel at ONE with ourselves. How is it possible not to feel separated from others if this division exists within ourselves, such as when we feel good in our minds, but dirty in our bodies. It is only after having succeeded in uniting ourselves that we can go the next step and be at ONE with others. Being at ONE with ourselves means being at ONE with the Universe, with Infinity, with all, and also with nothing, because there is no difference between all and nothing. They are one and the same. There is no more distance between you and me as there is between the stars and me. There is no more distance between you and me than between the atoms and me, because infinity is ONE. When we reach this stage of understanding and feeling, then we reach consciousness. We become small individual bits of consciousness that finally are realising that they are aware, because consciousness is ONE also. There is no separation in the universe between individual consciousness and collective consciousness. People often talk about the collective unconscious, but more important than the collective unconscious is the collective consciousness, which is not only planetary, but also universal and infinite.

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Feeling infinity means feeling the unity between everything that exists in the universe, in matter, both infinitely large and small, and in the infinity of time. We become truly conscious when we feel this unity linking everything around us. We become able to understand that we are bits of matter that came together to make the living being that we are. The matter composing us becomes conscious of itself. I am in you and you are in me. Even if I disappear tomorrow, I remain in you. This awareness of Infinity that I brought to you will continue to live on in you and you can transmit it to others. My presence itself is not important. This correct and just thought concerning consciousness does not depend on my presence, because if you are truly conscious, I will be eternally present in you and your descendants, as you will be too. Infinity and awareness of this unity are eternal. They are everywhere at once, in all directions. They exist now and will be forever. Being aware of these is to give them life! The awareness of Infinity illuminates us. It is what awakens us and makes us happy. Minor superficial possessions such as money, a large house, a beautiful car, or diplomas do not bring real happiness. “knowing” and “having” have nothing to do with awakening, but BEING, yes, because it allows infinity to express itself. We cannot “own” happiness, nor can we “know” happiness; but we can “be” happy. 43

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Possessions and knowledge come and go without consequence, but “being” always elevates one’s consciousness. Age has no hold on the intelligence of those who decide to develop their consciousness.

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our body and brain, and of the possibility of dissatisfaction that comes with the management of the various pleasures that life offers us. This is an easy way out, since if we don’t feel pleasure, then of course we will avoid all frustration. He who does not face up to himself will have no temptation. By abstaining, we take no risk, and thus we remain serene. We just need to convince ourselves that such an attitude is proof of wisdom. This is obviously flawed logic, because real wisdom comes with experience as in making mistakes, correcting them, continuing and advancing. Every lesson we learn from a mistake is a victory and yet one more step towards awakening. This second level, the path of abstinence, is taught by most religions. That is to say it is the refusal to enjoy our senses. Just like those who isolate themselves on a mountain or monastery, all alone far from everyone, far from temptation. It is easy to stay clean if we never risk dirtying ourselves. It can be very beautiful. Meanwhile, however, life continues past us with its procession of joys and sufferings. Finally, there is the superior path, that of enjoying life with awareness. This requires being able to develop within society, among the fools and temptations, while not losing our harmony or our smile, using all our senses, all our inner music, our capa45

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city to enjoy oneself and others full on without being frustrated if others don’t bring us what we wish. It means being able to play hockey without becoming a fanatic supporter of ones own town. Participating in competitions and training with the determination to be first, not to dominate others, but to surpass ones own limitations. To be in love and yet not fallen, retaining a level of detachment from the love relationship – such a subtle balance! To be able to have and fulfil one’s desires and enjoy the consciousness raising pleasure, while at the same time able to remain detached. Daring to taste the direct pleasures that life offers us when we are totally open to the world, since the whole universe is there to please us, while at the same time not depending on external pleasure to make us happy, instead being able to stimulate our own internal source of pleasure. “I create my own pleasure, therefore I am not frustrated if I am refused pleasure which I solicited” Our imagination creates internal pleasure, and this sort of pleasure never frustrates us since we create it perfect and different, according to our wish. All this requires a delicate balance, but it is so beautiful! I smell the flowers, and breath in their fragrance, but if they were to turn away from me, I would not be frustrated or unhappy in the least. To be in a state of detachment means to know that all the 46

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pleasures of the earth are marvellous, but at the same time they are not indispensable. They are just pleasures, not needs. There’s the rub, confusing pleasures with needs. In fact we have very few basic needs (eating, drinking and sleeping etc.). All the rest are just wants. Let us diversify our sources of pleasure to infinity; let us not limit them to any one thing or person, passion or pleasure. Let’s taste the greatest possible number so that if one of these abandons us, we still have the others, and even if only one remained, we could still be happy, and even without that one.

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than dust, as are all human beings and other living things. I am dust that lives and grows on dust and I will return to dust after my death to feed other living things. That is the eternal cycle of dust. A human being is totally insignificant regardless of the colour of his skin. He is just a bit of dust, small bits of infinity that came together one day, who is there just like me, at the same time as me, on the same planet. We are here together and together we are becoming aware of what we are. One day we will die; perhaps it will be in the next minute. We never know when our heart will stop beating: I might even die myself at the end of this sentence. It is possible, and I would be very happy if I died close to you. Take a quick look at your neighbours, right now, without losing even a second, and be aware that they could die at any moment. Look at them! How many among you lost your father, brother, mother or child in a sudden accident and who now regret not having given them more love, not having had time to tell them you loved them? Sadly, it is too late. They are back to dust, in the infinity of time and space. Tell your loved ones that you love them right now, before it is too late. When we realise how short-lived our lives are, how fragile our consciousness is, we can no longer make war, we can no longer kill each other. Life is too short!

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Contemplation “We are channels through which infinity can either express itself or not.” Rael

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way, it takes on another dimension. It then penetrates us through all the cells of our body. these are vibrations that travel, that can build us or damage us. That is why we need elevating music. They say, “Only speak if your words are more beautiful than silence.” We could also say, “Only listen to music if it is more beautiful than silence.” Let’s listen to these sounds. It is not music that we are listening to; it is sounds. Feel them. Let them penetrate you and organise the matter in your brain. Contemplate their effects on us. These sounds become matter in us, they build connections between our neurons, and our brain is sculpted by these sounds just as it can be by images, touch sensations or fragrances. Concentrate on the effects of these sounds on the brain. Each sound has an effect on us. We can play it without hearing anything, deafened by the noise, perceiving only the caricature of the music. Or we can let the emotions in it seduce us; that is a bit better! We can be enthused by a piece of music; that is even better. But best of all is to become the sounds we listen to while being aware of what it is building in our brain. That is the ideal way to place the sounds. Feel the specific effect each sound has in us. If we enter a state of contemplation beholding these sounds, then their effect will be more powerful than the most beautiful speech of any awakener. Feel what they are doing in us.

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Each sound, and its corresponding silence, solicits a specific part of our brain. At first we don’t necessarily perceive it, we just hear the sound of the music. However, we can feel it if we let ourselves go into the contemplation of the sound, concentrating fully on the sound and its effect on the brain. Each sound can create a specific sensation, and the experience of a specific colour. If we close our eyes, the effects of the sounds will be that much more powerful since the brain is no longer distracted by visual stimuli and so can concentrate purely on the effects of sounds. It has been scientifically proven that blindfolding our eyes several hours a day, increases our capacity to hear. Feel! When you start feeling the effects of the sounds on your brain, try also imagining that each sounds lights up these specific parts of your brain. This will help you feel each sound, each silence, and each little whisper. Allow these sounds, which are mini storms in your ears, to penetrate to the deepest of your consciousness and be aware of how they are organising the matter of your neurons. Every thought, every analysis, every judgement should disappear. Just feel the moment of each sound, each of which is new, because even if repeated, it will have a different effect each time. Our brain is changed by each note and so perceives a repeat of the same note differently each time.

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Feel! Being in a state of contemplation means allowing the sounds to elevate us, allowing the colours to illuminate us, hearing our heart beating, allowing the silence to penetrate us. We live in a society where everything is going so fast, that we are under the impression that silence is disorganised. On the contrary, silence can often be the most rich and beautiful of teachings. The cacophonic sounds we can hear in discotheques and in some modern rhythms can destroy us. Some excessive percussions can create illnesses. Did you know that some discordant sounds are used for torture? Such sounds can even prevent wheat from growing. The brain itself does not hear, it just perceives electric impulses sent by the auditory system. Try to pick up these electro-chemical signals in your brain. The musician’s sounds enters our brain just like a surgeon’s knife, and can heal as well as send people mad, make them stupid or awaken their potential.

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everything around you. Contemplation complements correct observation. To reach contemplation, we need to clean out unwanted emotions and other such parasites. In this culture that distances us from being, our education might make contemplation seem a stupid waste of time, whereas if truth be said, it is the only way to redeem our consciousness. Contemplation is to allow the object or the being to give us pleasure without experiencing desire. We can have the pleasure of admiring without desire, without owning it while at the same time without separating ourselves from it. Look at something, or look at nothing. Just be in a state of inner peace, of happiness, the joy of being. We have to “be” to contemplate. We don’t take enough time in this world. And then there is self-contemplation; it is easy to contemplate a bird, but what is more difficult is to contemplate oneself contemplating oneself. Take a step back; contemplate yourself BEING. Observe your own awareness, not intellectually, but by contemplating it, that is supra-consciousness.

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Giving Life A Meaning “The less we have… The more we ARE. The more we have… the less we ARE.” Rael

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One day, I read this marvellous saying: “It is not the person who possesses who is rich, it is the person whose needs are limited.” Because the more you earn money, the more you could miss it. It is better to be excessively non-possessive than excessively possessive. An excess of non-possession is never destructive. If you have more than you really need, then you pay the costs and waste energy as a consequence. You will need to work harder and manage your accounts with more care. It is a vicious circle. If you have only what is necessary, then you are free. That does not mean that we should not possess anything, and if some people can be perfectly happy while possessing heaps of things, then that is perfect. But in all cases, what I advise the most is to avoid credit, because it makes slaves of humans. It is much better to buy according to our means. For instance, first drive a small car for a few years, then later, when we have saved enough, get a beautiful, new, more powerful one; even if it takes years. Credit is so expensive. It is like being in chains. You work a third of your life fattening the credit companies. It only brings fleeting pleasures and distracts us from true happiness. Society creates useless needs. It cons us into thinking that if 56

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we don’t buy certain things we will be nobody, without any status or recognition in the social hierarchy. This is a form of modern day slavery where we are exploited by this politicaleconomic system. This system that encourages a dependence on having and knowing, and prevents us from BEING. Of course we should learn. It is important to learn, but we must avoid the blind quest for facts. And what is most important is to know that it’s not good to know too much. Some people have an impressive amount of knowledge. They have an enormous number of diplomas, and yet they “ARE” not; instead they are often extremely unhappy. The more we know, or think we know, the less we really know because it prevents us from BEING. Someone who IS is neither slave to KNOWING nor to HAVING.

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The same goes for KNOWLEDGE; it brings nothing, so it cannot bring happiness. Before you finish naming the beautiful little bird “colibrius whateverus,” it has already flown away, before you even had time to admire its charming plumage or particular way of flying… too late! Knowing has nothing to do with awakening our potential and awareness of infinity. We live in a society that prioritises having and knowing. The “knowers” and the “havers” dominate the world, whereas it should really be the “be-ers” who make the decisions and be the models for the people of the earth. Having cannot make happiness; it intoxicates. It can act like a drug, but only for a limited time! The sensation of having always crumbles at some point, while consciousness does not. Neither does BEING. On the contrary, they both continue to grow. That is the characteristic of consciousness, and age has no hold on those who decide to elevate their consciousness.

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retrieve it again as adults it takes a lot of effort. Why do people participate in so many seminars or courses? To be happy of course, because the goal of every human being is to be even happier! Right from the day we’re born, humans are confronted with contradictions. We are told: “Repent for your sins my brethren.” Does this teach us how to be happy? “Beware of sex.” Not much of a lesson in happiness there! “You will give birth in pain.” Still not very happiness producing! “You will earn your crust with the sweat of your brow.” Where’s the pleasure in that? Or even: “You can be happy, but you’re not allowed to eat pork.” It is true that we can be happy without eating pork, but it gets frustrating as the prohibitions accumulate. “You’re not allowed to light your lamp at such and such a time, you can’t use these plates on that day, you aren’t allowed to…” Help! And all this is written in enormous books. It would be faster to just write down what we are allowed to do. The books would not be so thick then! In fact everything should be allowed as long as it follows two essential rules: respect towards oneself and towards others; that is to say non-violence. The rest should be up to us. Our freedom to think what we 59

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want, freedom to be what we want, freedom to believe in what we want, and freedom to create and discover anything, thanks to science, to increase our happiness. Science is a doorway to happiness. It frees our time so that we can live better, have more fun, and blossom. We don’t realise how difficult our ancestors’ lives were. Short trips were a whole expedition. Today we can travel thousands of miles in just a few hours. In the past, most people never left their own village or their region and had no idea of what was going on just 100 miles from them. Their houses were cold in winter and dark at night. They used to have to break the ice to get water in winter. And some people regret the past! Personally I am very happy to be a Prophet in our era. Of course, I don’t walk on water, but I drive a car; that’s a miracle too! It’s the miracle of human creativity and intelligence. Some people think that science and technology are progressing too far too fast and that we can’t keep up. However, I say the opposite. We are capable of everything, and the more we go “too far” the less we will fall behind. And to those who think that what scientists foresee are impossible dreams and utopias, I tell you beware! Even the craziest things will be possible 20 or 30 years from now. We can’t even begin to imagine them yet. And all this will be possible thanks to the acceleration of computer development whose possibilities multiply 60

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every year. We will discover more things in the next 10 years than we have done in the entire history of humanity. Then it will be the same in just 5 years, then 2, then in 1, in 6 months, in a day and in a minute, puitch! We will reach what I call “absolute knowledge,” that is to say, we will know all the main principles. Around the year 1900, a famous man, whose name I have forgotten, said: “It is sad for our descendents because we have already invented everything and there is nothing left to be discovered.” He really believed what he was saying, because the railway had just been invented. We can laugh, but today many still think like he did; they think they know everything whereas in fact they know almost nothing. All those against science are hypocrites because they benefit from science everyday without realising it; they don’t know how to see and they have forgotten where they come from. And as for those who are against ”stem cells,” I ask them to sign a statement certifying that they will never benefit from the medical cures that will come out of stem cell research, nor they nor their families, even if they are seriously ill. Let’s help them be consistent!

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Consciousness and Intelligence Seminars in Ganges (France) August 1984

Intelligence is worthless if it is only skin deep. Every year I see people arrive here loaded with diplomas and they are all surprised, saying: “Rael. I have learned more with you than in all my years of study at university.” It’s true; their memories are stuffed with facts and despite that, they arrive with nothing real They thought they knew so much, whereas in fact they knew so little! Intelligence allows us to make links between things and find the connections between them. For example, some people would say there is no link between music and chemistry, but they would be wrong, because in fact they are very related. Both are concerned with vibrations, moving matter and creating syntheses. The next step is to use our consciousness. Consciousness is the ability to internalise external knowledge, to integrate this knowledge into ourselves so that it becomes us. Cold facts external to us are not sufficient. What is necessary is to link the information with our personality. Consciousness is a form of sensory intelligence; it requires feeling and experience. It is not abstract, nor does it come from hyperbolic intellectualisations. When replying to someone, it is all too is easy to crush him or her with facts; 62

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we are not quite there yet! Some people claim that because I recommend the world should be governed by the most intelligent, that I want to establish a fascist system, but this is not true at all. In fact, raelians should not dabble in politics or be a member of any political party. However, they are encouraged to vote for the geniocratic party the day that it exists. WF : Would someone who has achieved a high degree of wisdom be well suited to participate in a government? Rael : More than anyone else I would say.

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Increasing the speed and quality of the information we transmit develops intelligence. Personally, I like to speak very fast as a way of transmitting the maximum information in the minimum time, so that you can learn as much as possible. Some people take a long time to say nothing, while others say everything straightaway! That is the extraordinary talent of politicians, to be able to say nothing for very long periods. They are real artists in their own way. I would find it a real challenge to do that myself, what a sport! They are the same in every country: they all speak a lot and say nothing. And when we look at our watches, we realise that one hour has gone by just like that! And to think we actually listen to them, if we haven’t nodded off in the meantime! Are they wise? History proves they are not. Personally, I prefer to say everything very fast rather than take a long time to say nothing. Who cares if people don’t think I am wise? At least I have transmitted the information quickly. Train yourselves to think and speak fast, without sacrificing clarity. Train yourselves to communicate information fast and yet remain perfectly comprehensible, and to move fast too – I know that is a bit difficult when we are too hot! But the faster we move, the faster we work and the more efficient we are.

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one way, try thinking in another. If you like red and not blue, try dressing up in blue to see how it feels. Explore more and more new areas in life; develop your mind and your consciousness. If you don’t like blacks, go and speak to them. If you don’t like tapioca, taste it. I forbid myself not to like any food on earth. When I first arrived in Japan, I discovered nato. This is composed of fermented Soya beans and it stinks! And yet I saw Japanese people gobble it up with immense pleasure. So I decided to put aside my first impression of repulsion and taste it, just to see what it would do to my brain. Now I love it. We should force ourselves to at least try it, because as long as we haven’t tasted it, we can’t say that we don’t like it. We need to make our brain like a virgin, a clean slate without prejudices, to discover what is good in what we are given, whether we are talking about culture, ideas, people or food. Train yourselves to like what you don’t like. Of course we can have preferences, such as our favourite dishes, but it is important to be able to appreciate everything. Try it; because there is no food on earth that you are not capable of eating, there is no colour on earth that you are not capable of appreciating. In everything that exists, there is goodness and beauty.

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We Are In Constant Movement Seminars near Albi (France) August 1987

Everything in your lives is movement. Right from the moment of your conception when the sperm went for the egg, there was movement and you exist thanks to that. You are alive because one day, your father was inspired with a movement. It’s very difficult to ejaculate without movement! Everything in your lives is movement. It was thanks to movement that the Elohim came to create life on earth. Our earth is also in perpetual movement. It is spinning on its own axis; it is shooting around the sun, which itself is circling around the center of the galaxy, and all this is turning in an immense movement. Even if you were to say: “Stop, freeze, I am immobile,” you would still be moving, both from movement external to you which animates the solar system and the earth, and the movement inside you that allows you to live, such as your heart which continually beats, whether you want it to or not. Whether we like it or not, it is impossible to be still. Our blood circulates, what we eat moves about in our body, our lives are made up of perpetual movement, constantly, always moving. You are changing all the time. Every sentence I say modifies 68

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you. Every moment of silence, every movement inside your body changes you, every movement you make alters you. Each tiny molecular adjustment and chemical reaction in your body changes you in the infinity of time and space. Be aware of this movement that alters you second by second. And each minute that goes by, each movement, means one minute less of your total time capital. It is like a countdown! So enjoy your life to the maximum instead of having to endure it. Raise your consciousness because that is what will make your life beautiful. I propose an exercise: from these moments that you are presently living, select one, as if you are picking it out of a box, and just live it consciously. Simply observe it and just feel it going by. There you are; you just gained one minute, because you were aware of its existence. Be aware of how our time on earth is limited. We are not eternal, at least not yet on this planet, so enjoy each movement consciously!

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remaining on earth. But thirty or fifty years ago, there were maps where dark unknown areas still existed. Today, there are none left. Yet, I tell you, there is still one unexplored continent here on earth. It is completely untouched and remains to be discovered. This continent is yourselves, your own brain, which you don’t even know of. “Know thyself,” said the wise man, and that is what we are going to do together in the light of the Elohim’s teachings. Thanks to their 25,000-year advance on us, their teachings allow us to understand ourselves better and to help us realise how we could be a bit more awakened, a bit less limited and a bit more connected to the infinity inside and around us. The journey might be difficult for some, perilous for others, but it will be extraordinary and fantastic. And you will travel this journey alone; I will be no more than a guide to enable you to build yourself. It will be up to you to follow me or not, and go at your own pace. As you can see, I don’t have any magic wand or pointed hat with stars on it, I am not a magician and I will not tap your head saying: “Shazzam, you did a seminar of awakening, you are hereby awakened.” Much as I would love to, I cannot do that. However, you can do it and if you decide, you can be the most extraordinary and wonderful magician to make magic on yourself. There is nobody in the world better than you for that! 70

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You, and I insist only you, posses the magic wand that has the privilege and the capability to act on yourself, because only you can change yourself. As for me, I can show you a way among several. The Guides and myself are just like mountain guides, we will point out the various paths or directions that you can climb to feel good and become your real selves. My goal is not to brainwash you and depersonalise you. On the contrary, my goal is to personalise you, to help you reach your real self, and only your real self. There are about 500 of you here today; that makes 500 different people. My wish, and I will do my utmost to achieve it, is that you will each become even more different from each other than you are now. A false guide and a false prophet, and unfortunately there are many here on earth, tries to standardise you and make you all alike. I wish the contrary, because what enriches humanity most is what enriches each of us most, that is to say, our differences. So if you agree, I will help you become a multicoloured festival of awareness, and proud of our differences instead of being ashamed of them and hiding them. You will become yourselves and you will look like no one else.

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which is enormous, is yourself, and paradoxically only you yourself can destroy it. You are the one who built it, so only you can destroy it. I would like to hear you say: “I can do anything,” and not, “I can’t, I am not capable, it is too hard.” Yes! You can if you so wish. And yet you are not obliged to do anything, no one here is forced to do anything; you are all free to surpass your own limitations at your own pace, whenever you wish. Overcoming our limits is important, but it is not obligatory. There is nothing obligatory in these seminars except the respect of others. I insist on that; freedom yes, but always with respect!

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The Myth Of Perfection “When I change myself, I change the world. There is violence on earth because I have violence in myself. There is jealousy on earth because I harbour jealousy in myself. The more I act with thoughtfulness and love, the more I act on others.” Rael – The Conception Of Perfection – July 1984

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goal, it cuts us from the above-mentioned pleasure and makes us unhappy if we don’t achieve our objective. Happiness comes from concentrating on the actions we are carrying out, while being aware that both ourselves, and everything around us, are all constantly changing. Nothing is constant in the universe, neither in space nor time, and that includes us. Buddhism teaches us how: “We don’t bathe in the same river twice,” even if we dive into the same place, because new water has flowed past, and neither are we the same person jumping in the second time, because we have changed since the last bath, being in constant movement ourselves. Abandon all idea that perfection is static and definite and instead concentrate on the action that you are presently carrying out, whatever that might be. It is by being aware of this action that you can perfect yourself. Perfection is not found in the static, but in action. Perfection is in movement, so move!

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the Buddha uses his challenges and mistakes to grow, while the ordinary person refuses them by justifying himself or saying it is someone else’s fault. In so doing, he destroys himself. We shouldn’t only love ourselves when we are beautiful or when everything is going well, or because we have succeeded, but also when we are experiencing challenges and failures, because they help us grow. We can learn so much when we make mistakes, and what is wonderful is that we will always make mistakes. We should even be excited when having made mistakes, because at least here is an opportunity to improve. We can even seek opportunities to challenge our expertise, to discover yet another measure of our consciousness. And if we make a mistake of fail in something, we can laugh about it and congratulate ourselves since, thanks to that, we have just learned something.. But what we should not do is make the same mistake twice. We are allowed once, but not twice, and yet this should not stop us from taking risks or risking possible mistakes. The trick is not to repeat the previous mistakes. We have to dare to measure ourselves. To produce a work of art, we need to make many, most of which will not be good. Edison burst 1,250 light bulbs before understanding how to keep them lit. The secret is to maintain a fresh and enthusiastic attitude, confident at each trial, even if it is the 1,250th one. 75

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And don’t forget that we don’t always make wonders, sometimes we will produce a pile of shit, and if because of that you get angry, or jealous, it will have been because you were imperfect in your reaction to the unpredictable. The wise course of action would be to take a step back and see the bigger picture saying: “What I did was not brilliant, I will do better next time.” Observe yourself objectively and laugh at yourself; don’t wallow in your mistake, drop it. When you wallow about in your own excrement, it doesn’t smell so good and you begin to smell too.

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In the same way that we should be selective with our environment, in our choice of friends, and in everything around us, we should also be selective inside ourselves with our own thoughts. It is obvious that we should not hang any old work of art on the walls of our apartment since some will depress us, and that we are not strong enough to spend time with a negative or violent person, because they will affect and harm us. However, we should also be wary of our own inner thoughts, and be selective towards them too. Choosing our thoughts should be a permanent exercise in sculpting our consciousness. We can call this mental hygiene. Our brain is like a garden. We build it, lay it out, cultivate it day after day, and we have to be careful of weeds growing through our own thoughts. Many people become depressed because most of their thoughts are negative. I mean that depression feeds depression and negative thoughts feed more negative thoughts, it is a vicious circle. Consecrate your consciousness like you would a diamond, by only selecting your best thoughts. You deserve the best. Be selective towards yourself. Just because your thoughts come from the inside doesn’t mean they are always good. Your excrement also comes from the inside! Luckily we can select our own mood. In olden days, moods 77

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were called ”humours” and were thought to be liquids circulating within us. When we are stressed, we produce poisons in our body. You can choose to close the tap of the bad secretions and open it to the positive substances, the ones that nourish your brain. We have the capacity to be selective and act on our own glands. It is our consciousness that can do that, helped by meditation and the quality of our own internal dialogue. When we ask questions related to consciousness, to infinity, to humanity as a whole, to free and independent thought, we can’t go wrong. It is when we stray from these main subjects that we land on questions that don’t help us grow. The questions that build us are those that bring us closest to perceiving infinity. Feeling we are infinity, the infinity inside us that we allow to be conscious. In that sense, we are infinity becoming aware of itself. We can descend to the level of dust, or we can rise to the level of light. It all depends on how we use our brain. It depends on the questions we ask, how we sculpt our brain, just as a smile sculpts our face. If we are always in a bad mood, our face becomes closed with vertical wrinkles, but if we laugh a lot, our face becomes open looking. And in the same way, we can sculpt our brain by only asking questions which raise our consciousness, which sculpts our consciousness positively. On the other hand, if our ques78

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tions lower us, then we are chiselling at our consciousness in a negative way. Have sufficient respect and love for yourself to only ask yourself big, beautiful questions, and from that moment on, your mind will rise to more important things, towards a greater light and a better understanding. The more you raise your mind towards globality, towards infinity, towards a panoramic viewpoint, the more it will improve.

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to conscious. This is humility, and is something we should never forget: “Little man, remember that you are just dust.” Bearing that in mind is the best antidote for avoiding selfish pride, pretentiousness and the wish to dominate others. When we, dust, are aware that we are just dust, how can we be violent or aggressive with other bits of dust? On the contrary, when dust is aware of its “dustness”, it is humble. Humility automatically brings awareness of the link and commonality between all human beings, giving birth to understanding, compassion and love. Humility does not preclude pride, when this pride is applied with consciousness. We can be proud to be a conscious being, to be ”newly-aware dust,” so long as we always bear in mind we are no more than dust. This will produce just and correct behaviour. If, on the other hand, we are proud to be conscious without being aware that our roots are dust, then we lose our humility in all that we undertake and in our attitude towards others. Humility is what grounds us. It links us with the earth; never forget that. There is nothing wrong with having our head in the stars so long as we always remember that we are dust that has become aware. We are capable of rising very high, but nevertheless, we are still just dust that one day will return back to a state of non-conscious dust.

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attractive and may wish to spend a lot of time with them, even if they don’t, and even if they find someone else more attractive. If we lose our humility, we could start to feel jealous. But if we remember that we are just dust, glad to be conscious dust among other conscious bits of dust, happy to be able to interact with them, to communicate, to help them feel good, then jealousy disappears and we rejoice in the other person’s happiness. And when we want to dedicate our own lives to help other people’s happiness, then we reach the second branch of the tree, representing the third quality: self-effacement, which means accepting not to be first.

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detaching ourselves from selfishness, from the desire to always be right, from all that keeps us down, detaching from ourselves but also from other people’s mistakes and from the harm that they might have done to us. That does not mean we should be party to them harming us. On the contrary, we should resist such harm, while at the same time being detached from it, letting it go. That is how we arrive at compassion. Feeling compassion means foreseeing the harm that the other person is doing do themselves when they harm us, and feeling sorry for them. It means being able to say, “You are making me suffer, but in return I will give you love. You must realise that you are harming me, you are wrong to harm me, but I forgive you”. The just path is compassion allied to humility (itself the basis of all behaviour). Compassion and humility should be discrete. So discrete you can’t see them. That is the only way they will act deeply on people’s sensibilities and perhaps engender more generous behaviour in them. I say perhaps because wanting to change them would no longer count as compassion!

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Some people forget to live. They don’t dare to do so because they are afraid of the judgement of others. They don’t know how to decide and instead put things off for later, Their lives pass, their hair gets thinner or white, and they get inexorably closer to the moment where they will need to give an account to themselves, at the moment of death that we will all experience. On that day, they will see their lives pass before them. They will remember what they have done, what they have accomplished, and their past emotions. Then it will be the last moment. It will be very soon for some, a little later for others, and for others it will come quickly and unexpected. But one thing is certain, however we live, everyone will die, because life ticks by. It takes us relentlessly to the day of our final judgement, which we should do for ourselves, and which others will do for us. And yet those people who forgot to live when they had the chance have had dreams. They wished to change the world, become rich, fall madly in love and have the most wonderful sexual adventures, but they never dared live out their dreams. And as they grow older, as they cut their hair shorter and shorter, they chop their own ideas, their sexuality slows down and their minds gently settle into old age. They then become hostile to new ideas and to those who enjoy their lives, becoming more and more intolerant and bitter. 84

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Occasionally they look at themselves in the mirror and wonder what happened to their dreams. They wonder “What have I become? I was so revolutionary once, with my long hair and flowery shirt?” And their mirror inevitably answers, “You’ve grown old. You’ve fallen in line and become normal.” They become worried about being old, but in fact they are no older than they were twenty years ago, because they were already old at twenty-five. Sure, they were young for a couple of months or weeks when they wanted to change the world, and then they fell in line and grew old. Now at fifty or sixty years of age they are still just as old as before, no more, no less. It is difficult to change once we have stopped living for so long. Our neurons take on a specific shape and their connections become fixed through repetition. It is like a tree branching out in the wrong way, it’s impossible to undo without breaking it once it has hardened. A bonsai can never develop into a full-grown tree because it has already fixed itself so crunched up. Those people whose minds have become so old are just like the bonsai. They are stunted and obviously become envious when they see young people of thirty, forty or fifty years old who have blossomed more than them, who are revolutionaries, living out their hippy dreams, who know how to grow and make the most of their lives, living life to the fullest. Seeing these people who are like full majestic trees with their 85

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heads reaching to the sky and their feet well on the ground, their fruits and blossoms enchanting the planet, disturbs them and makes them envious. Our time here on earth is limited; let’s not waste it. Every minute of our lives is precious; our time is accounted for on this planet. Every second ticking away in our brain is like precious nectar, we mustn’t spill even one little drop, because we can never relive each moment, each little minute, after it has flown away.

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You can decide to change your job right now. Only you know what really suits you, no one else! And if you discover that you truly enjoy what you are doing, then great, you are one of the lucky ones. To change, start by rediscovering your childhood dreams. What did you dream of becoming when you grew up? You wanted to be an illustrator, or a fireman, or a policeman? But you were told, “No, don’t be stupid, eat your soup. You will become an accountant just like your father”. And yet, every profession is beautiful if it corresponds to your dreams. What creates frustration and disappointment is when we do what was imposed on us without us reacting. Of course parents believe they are doing that for the sake of the child. They all want us to have a serious job. How many geniuses have been smothered in this way? Every invention that makes life easier for others on earth comes from people who decided to change their habits, and the status quo. Instead of traipsing off all the way to the river, why not install a pipe channelling it to your own house. That is how running tap water was invented. Why walk bare-footed on sharp stones? It hurts. What if we were to strap on a bit of leather to our feet? That’s how shoes were invented. Everything we use today exists because someone questioned something at one time. 87

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You should also constantly question things, and in this way you can check whether what you are doing is truly what you want to do. And for this, you need to search your memory, as far back as possible, maybe even right up to the time you were born. Why did I do that? What made me think that? How many among you didn’t have your mathematics teacher tell you that yes, your method is faster than his, but since its not in the book, it’s better to use his method? To change, it is important to reach a certain level of wisdom by developing three main things: have the wisdom to recognise our limits by recognising what can be achieved and what can’t; have enough energy to accomplish what can be accomplished; and accept what cannot be changed. Decide right now whether you have had enough of conforming! Choose to become extremely abnormal. Five and a half billion extremely normal people populate our planet. They have normal nuclear bombs. They have normal wars. They have normal borders, normal politicians and normal drugs. Then there are those who think that borders should be abolished; these are the abnormals. I am one of these abnormals and I think that if you are here among us today, it’s because you also wish to be abnormal, and like me, wish to spread love – but that is abnormal! And as I repeat to you so often, above all, don’t forget to smile; it is an essential ingredient to changing. When you don’t feel so good, don’t stay at home. Go out and see people 88

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Taking Responsibility “Consciousness is being aware of our actions and their consequences” Rael

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We need to be aware of our own limits and know to respect them under all circumstances. But we think we are almighty, strong and invincible; we always think it can only happen to others until the day when it is our turn to be confronted with this reality. Don’t seek any excuse when some such thing happens to us. Whatever event affects us, we are always responsible for what happens to us. Excuses attempt only to put the blame on external causes; they are words we use to justify ourselves because we lacked awareness at a moment in time when we were not sufficiently vigilant. Some invoke chance to explain their problems, but chance does not exist, and claiming it does is just another excuse. Taking responsibility for what happens to us is the key phrase of those who wish to increase their consciousness. This phrase is meant in its wider sense, that is to say we are not always directly responsible, but we are part of a human chain of events, and we also pay for our ancestors’ mistakes. That is the case of hereditary diseases. We are not directly responsible if we inherit them. The responsibility falls on the shoulders of those who engendered us and their mistakes extend over several generations before ours. Humans were originally created perfect, on a perfect planet. We squandered our capital of beauty and health from generation to generation through non-respect, violence, stupidity, selfishness, and worst of all, fear. 92

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We feel stressed if we are afraid,. Our fears make us vulnerable. If we are afraid of falling ill, then we will fall ill. If we are afraid of not having enough money because we have lost our job and are also afraid of not getting a job, then we will be negative and we will stew in our own fear. This will prevent us from inspiring confidence in future employers and we will experience difficulties in getting a job. Fear never brings anything positive. Fight as much as you can against your fears and remember that if our positive imagination is stronger than reality, then unfortunately it also applies to the negative. Negative imagination is the worst of all things. You are what you think, what you imagine. If you imagine that you are a winner, then you will succeed in everything because no obstacle will put you off. You will win if you chase away the demons. The greatest demons on earth are those inside you. If you are afraid of being impotent with a beautiful person you desire, then you will be impotent. It happens automatically; your brain takes what you are fearing as an instruction and sets it up. If you are afraid of getting ill, then you will get ill. Banish your fears by cultivating a positive imagination that will broadcast positive waves and disarm your fears.

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Daniel : Justification is a poison for the mind, isn’t it? Rael : All justification takes us away from the bull’s eye. In Zen archery, when the monk aims his bow and misses the target, he does not give excuses such as “Its because…”. On the contrary, he reaches to his inner self and meditates, because he knows it is simply because his aim was not correct, and tries again. This is essential and is the basis of our daily self-development: let us concentrate purely on giving up justifying ourselves and stop finding excuses. Looking for excuses wastes precious time in achieving our objective. We can evaluate them to ourselves, but purely with the purpose of improving: “Hmm, I can see that my arrow was not straight; it’s because my foot position was not right”. This we can say to ourselves, but never to others. Saying that to others is a way of trying to prove to them that we are good: “I was not good this time, but in fact I am usually very good and if I had not made that mistake, you would have seen that I was good.” It is just pride, the need to 94

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be recognised by others; and if we depend on what others think of us to feel good, then we ARE not. If we really ARE, then our focus is on our inner self: “My arrow didn’t hit the target, why?” I need to know that, but others do not. If they are observing me, then they can work out why, but if they aren’t observing me, then I don’t need to tell them. That is the basis of true growth, being focused on inner growth rather than trying to impress everyone and wanting to prove to them all that we were right, even if we were wrong. Always wanting to be RIGHT is one of the main obstacles to BEING. We ARE right only when we shut up, and we are RIGHT when we want to prove it to others. We ARE right when we shut up and reflect over it, but we are always RIGHT when comparing with others. When we shut up and reflect, we don’t justify ourselves. It is really important to focus on developing the self-discipline to avoid trying to justify oneself. The more we are convinced that we have good reason to justify a mistake, all the more reason to say nothing. That is really difficult for any person, because we so badly want to explain why we are right. There would never be any conflict if nobody wanted to be RIGHT. When two people of differing opinion try to use their intelligence to BE right, rather than trying to be RIGHT, then they will always reach a common accord, because there always is one. 95

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And beware of using the past to justify our lack of performance in the present. “I don’t feel good because my father abused me when I was young, or because I was raped, or because…”. Justification maintains mediocrity and we become like squirrels accumulating little stashes of nuts. Their nuts represent their justifications, which they keep in reserve and wheel out every time they feel awkward – “I have a problem, so quick get out the nuts!”. It is impossible to change or develop awareness as long as we continue to use excuses and justifications.

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made the mistake, because it enabled me to learn”. But this is yet another mistake! Daniel : Why, because they started justifying themselves again? Rael : Yes, they found yet another justification for their mistake. “In fact I was right to make that mistake because I learned,” they say. But no, they are wrong, not right. They should swallow their pride and swallow their wrong, that is to say, admit they made a mistake. You are wrong, and saying that you will learn from your mistake does not make it right. By saying that, you have learned less. But you said it because it is important for you that others appreciate how good you are, so you need them to know that despite appearances, your erroneous behaviour resulted in something good. Why do you want others to know that? Is it because you want them to appreciate your qualities? Why? Daniel : Isn’t their motivation selfish pride? Rael : Yes, selfish pride, vanity. All that is done for vanity distances us from BEING. We should act in humility, because we are just dust and humility is the biggest ally of wisdom. How can dust want to prove to others that it is RIGHT, that it is better?

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Being better than others is not important. What is important is being better than oneself.

Discipline “Let’s be disciplined enough to be undisciplined.” Rael

The most beautiful form of discipline is when it is not imposed by force, but when it flows naturally from oneself, by itself, through conscious and voluntary choice. For example, if we go to sleep too late for a few days and don’t get enough sleep, our organism will impose regularity in our sleep by sending fatigue signals. Our reflex would then be to catch up by sleeping longer. Similarly, if we eat too much fat too often, one fine day our liver will react and force us to change our dietary habits. Whether we like it or not, our body always requires us to follow a certain discipline. We can choose not to respond to its signals, but if we do so, we will get more and more ill. Some people do, but if we are aware, we can also chose to anticipate these risks and use our wisdom to self impose a certain discipline for a healthier life-style. Our reward would be a better life. The basic discipline is simple: avoid all poisons such as 98

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stress, tobacco alcohol and drugs. Discipline requires a certain effort to start with, and with regular training it will gradually become a reflex. We get used to it and it becomes natural and flowing. Though it might feel effortless once we integrate it into our daily habits, it is still a discipline. All we notice are its benefits. When we discipline this biological carcass, which is our body, it also allows our consciousness to realise it is more than just unconscious dust. Our consciousness depends on the smooth functioning of our body; it can only think, dream, create and blossom if certain physical conditions are met. If it is in good working order, as our body should be, it will be able to adapt to any change in our environment. Another benefit of self-discipline is that it allows us to remain open to any change. That is the opposite of military discipline, which imposes closure to any change and crushes any differences to form similar non-thinking robots. The discipline I am talking about puts us in a permanent state of openness to possibilities; this is exceedingly useful as we are living in a world where everything around us is in a permanent state of flux, except for our own biological functioning, which allows us to live. If our discipline is rigid, our thoughts are closed and prevent adaptation. But if our discipline is invisible, light and fluid, our thoughts will be supple, open and easily adaptable to all around us. It is important to maintain our own personal discipline in 99

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life for our potential of external adaptability to remain in top shape. If we are not in good health, then we can’t adapt well to what is going on around us. And don’t start imagining that self-discipline will make us serious and unable to fool around. On the contrary, the ability to adapt, that such life discipline develops in us, increases our capacity to integrate and make the most of all the good things offered to us in life. In fact it is very simple, the right type of self-discipline is one that allows us to be even more undisciplined. That is a good discipline; a bad discipline is one that does not allow indiscipline.

To Live Means To Take Risks – 1987

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What utter stupidity! Sexually transmitted diseases have been killing people for as long as we have been here, not as a consequence of making love, but because they are not using their consciousness. Those inhibited about sex call them “shameful diseases” – as if a disease could be shameful! Syphilis has been ravaging humanity for centuries. French history, among others, is full of examples of this little virus popping up among kings, artists and ordinary people. Though thousands have died from it, there are always survivors to talk about it! We are survivors of many generations that have preceded us and that passed through these epidemics, plagues, cholera, influenza and syphilis, just to mention the most infamous. At every generation, there were always a bunch of self-proclaimed “messengers of god” trying to make people feel guilty by claiming that it was “divine punishment” from their supposed god of love and goodness. How misguided can you get? We are all alive here and now, because our ancestors were sufficiently aware to have managed to avoid dying before giving birth to their children. For example, they managed to avoid stress, which would normally lower their immune systems and make them succumb to the plagues (a mechanism that science has recently recognised), and by nourishing themselves correctly - tea, chocolate, sugar and tobacco didn’t exist in Europe a few decades ago, or at least were very expensive – in fact the usual meal for most people was a good bowl of vegetable soup since meat was a rare luxury product. But the point here is that they were able to use their intelligence to 101

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relax, to nourish themselves and to avoid high-risk situations. Those with a higher consciousness were the ones who managed to escape danger, leaving heroism and prayer to the fools. Those were the days of great invasions, epidemics and genocides. More recently, it was the most intelligent among the Jews who managed to leave Germany the quickestest, as soon as they felt the rise of Nazism, and who ultimately survived. The rest thought that god would protect them, or that they were being chastised for an unbelievable mistake, and we all know what happened to them. We can take a tip from our ancestors by knowing how to protect our mental and physical health. And since we are talking about AIDS, this means using this little gem from science, this phenomenal invention whose inventor should have his statue erected all over the world, the condom. It has been more than eleven years now that I have been advising you to use it as an unbreakable rule, especially for those of you who have multiple partners. Today, its merits are being accepted and even being advertised all around the world. . Once again, it is those with the greater consciousness who are always ahead. Those who are sexually inhibited will always claim that it is not 100% csafe. OK, lets say that it is 99.9% safe, with 0.1% chance of risk, according to the official figures. But can we really live our lives at 100% safe? In fact, would it be desirable to have absolutely no risk in anything? Would it develop people’s potential? Definitely 102

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not, and anyway it is totally unrealistic. Even if we stay locked up at home to avoid all risks, we are still vulnerable to earthquakes, drinking water borne epidemics or from our food, etc. You could try to sterilise all your food, but evidence shows that the more we live in a sterile environment, the more we become receptive to microbes. Often it is the doctors and nurses who work in a permanently infected environment who are least ill. Risk enriches, develops and reinforces. If no one had ever taken any risks, we would still be living in caves, no one would have discovered the Americas, and we would not have landed on the moon. To live means to risk. How much risk we wish to take depends on our own personal preference; it is our own choice, and we need to know that the more we take risks, the more we enrich ourselves, the stronger we become and increase our consciousness. Those who wish to live in a sterile universe have free choice to do so. They can build it for themselves, but both their mind and bodies will suffer the consequences. And free choice exists for those who, using their consciousness, wish to take risks, enrich their lives, have fun and grow through increased contacts with others, and develop yet further!

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Loving Relationships “The light of wisdom, consciousness and love is extraordinary, the more we give, the brighter we shine.” Rael

Solitude - Ganges 1984

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We are born alone, we live alone and we die alone. Solitude is an absolute truth. It is far from being a burden; it is a truly rich opportunity that we should learn how to appreciate. Whatever you experience, you experience it alone. You alone should make your own decisions, and your great emotions are personal to you in that only you can feel them with such intensity. Being alone is necessary to exploit the potential in this amazingly sophisticated computer that is your brain. It is the crucible where the greatest of human creations are forged. Creation is not collective; genius is always solitary. There is no collective Mozart or Einstein, no collective Leonardo daVinci. We are designed to live together, to share and grow together, but never to the detriment of our personal autonomy. It is good to form harmonious groups of two or more individuals, on the condition that we have the wisdom to understand that we are creating an association of soloists who communicate and feel close to one another without ever seeking to undermine or depend upon each other. But if you are looking for a partner because your loneliness is heavy, because you don’t feel good with yourself, because life is difficult and sad, then you can be sure that people will avoid you, because they will have no pleasure in frequenting you since you will be too sad and needy.

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Those who are not autonomous or emotionally well balanced are making a huge mistake by trying to cling to someone else in order to solve their own problems. In fact, that would be our worst nightmare, to find someone else who also has such problems, because one problem plus one problem makes two problems. Don’t think that one person’s problem cancels out the other person’s problem and vice versa. No, one plus one never makes zero. Combining problems is what dramas are made of. So if by a stroke of luck, you are single, don’t feel lonely, enjoy it instead. That is the easiest and most profound way to feel in solidarity with Everything with a capital E, that is to say, with Infinity, plants, birds, flowers and other human beings. And when we open ourselves up in this way to the world, we love unconditionally and no longer fear solitude.

Don’t Save Your Happiness For Tomorrow

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problems right now, but tomorrow darling, you will see, we will go on holiday in Morocco, you’ll see, it’ll be great”. If you think that you will feel better somewhere other than where you are now, you are heading for failure. There is nowhere better than here and now. Happiness is lived in the present. The act of talking about it now is making you think, making you ask why, making you listen to your own selves, and deepen your personality. It is the most beautiful moment of your lives. Here and now, the present, right away, these are magic words because they allow you to live these moments with awareness. The best moment of your lives is the one you are living right now, when you are living them.

Your Ideal Partner

Let’s completely wring the neck of an illusion that poisons your existence, that of the ideal partner. The word “ideal” contains the word “idea”, that is to say the idea you have of the partner in question. If it is an idea, it is not absolute truth.

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Where does this idea come from? If you look carefully, you will find a long trail leading right to your childhood. As a child, the concept of the ideal partner might have come from your mother or father. Some little girls dream that the man for them will look like their father whom they admire; some little boys dream that they will defend their mothers for as long as they live. Then you grew up, and started reading. Remember Prince Charming with his bravery, fearing nothing and without blemish, or the princess with long hair, whose long eyelashes shaded her huge eyes? Gradually you might have started dreaming that you were these heroes of your childhood and you would give the kiss that would wake up the princess, and she would fall in your arms, reassured and grateful, and you would whisk her away on your steed, as a knight in shining armour. Such images, or ones like it would have been imprinted in you. Then with time, other heroes, other models would follow, models you admired, a singer, a tennis player, a dancer, or an actor. Then you became a fan, or a groupie. It was great! Your room was covered with his photos. Remember how you started your first masturbations looking at his photos. Me too, I did like you. I was crazy about Pascale Petit. I don’t know if she is still alive, she was an actress with big tits. When you are 9 or 10 years old, that’s important! Later too! Then you continued to modify that for one reason or another, perhaps as a reaction to something, and gradually you built up an ideal model in your head.

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Then the time for the real thing came along, and it was no longer in front of photos! It was a real life adventure. Perhaps you were a bit shy the first time. That is the case for most adolescents, especially boys. 95% of people are very shy. Some are even more timid than that and say, “Tomorrow I will approach her, for sure, I will dare”. And then when they are in front of her, or him, they blush all over and give up without having dared to say anything. “I can’t believe it, how come I wasn’t able to?” This goes on for months, even years for some people. They get spots and think that is the reason why they can’t succeed. So they plaster them with cream. We all went through that! As we get older, we no longer need cream because we have a beard to hide them instead, but we boys often remain shy! And one day, you meet your ideal partner, just the type that you have in mind. All you can think about is them, but they reject you. What a humiliation. So you decide this can’t be your ideal type any more and you change your criteria again. So with each successive dream, success or failure, you corrected and tweaked your internal model. And gradually with time, you construct an ideal type in your memory, which as you now understand, is an accumulation of everyone you knew and all your hopes, and generally it ends up corresponding to the first partner with whom you had a successful sexual relationship. For the rest of our lives we end up chasing that same type of man or woman.

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You can see for yourself by going over your sexual career, if I can call it that, and you’ll find that all your partners follow approximately the same pattern, with a few exceptions that are often a reaction to a disappointment. Both woman and man alike, we were so imprinted by our first experience with our first love, that we chase after that same type all our lives. In fact, nothing can be more stupid! We shall demonstrate this with a fun calculation. There are four and a half billion humans on earth – this number will have surely changed in the few moments since I just said it since there are over three births per second. Let us remove half, which leaves about two billion and a half remaining of your complementary sex. I don’t say opposite sex, because man and woman are not opposite, they are complementary! So that leaves us two and a half billion people of the complementary sex to you in the world today. If we subtract the very young and very old, that leaves one and a half billion people available for a loving relationship. Lets remain in the French speaking part of the planet, let’s say seventy million. Next we remove all those in a different social category from you, whom you will probably never have the opportunity of meeting. Thinking big, this leaves about ten million complementary people. Lets keep on narrowing it down by dividing that into 111

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regions. That gives one million potential partners in your region. Take away those with different tastes from you and who don’t fit exactly with your type, we divide by ten. That leaves one hundred thousand possible partners. Lets narrow it down even more. Why? Because they have their own ideals, and because of their racism, religious fanaticism or hate of sects, they will reject you. So let’s divide by ten again, which gives ten thousand possible partners! So in your region, there are ten thousand possible partners who potentially correspond to your tastes and to the ideal that you have built up. And still you feel sorry for yourselves because you think there is only one ideal partner for you? Of course this is just an arbitrary calculation, but can show you what possibilities are within your reach. If you wanted to be even more selective, we could say that there are at least 500 ideal partners for you. That means 500 ideal partners who correspond to exactly what you are hoping for. Isn’t it wonderful to think of this number when you feel a bit alone? That means there are presently 500 people who are dying to know you. So go for it, if your dream is to have a loving relationship or to form a couple. It goes without saying you will need to make an effort, because if you stay at home thinking “I will never succeed, I am too shy and inhibited,” then nothing will happen, that’s for sure! 112

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The more you meet others and communicate, the more you will become enriched and the more chances you will have of meeting your ideal partner. You have to dare to smile, to dare look at the person you are meeting. Everyone has had the experience of suddenly feeling as if something special happened upon meeting someone. Some call this love at first sight. Suddenly, just from a look, or touching hands, something unexplainable happens, something fantastic. And then we are hooked! We are in love just from passing someone in the street. Sometimes we don’t even dare to speak to them for fear of ruining it. Rather than risking it, we prefer to keep on dreaming. But dare, dare to go further. What’s the worst that can happen? That you might realise that the other person is the ideal partner for you? No problem, there are still 499 remaining. So each time you meet someone, dare to look at him or her, whoever they are. Look at them as if they were the most important person in your whole life. The same applies to your professional life. Tell yourself: “This might be the person with whom I might make a million”. And each time you meet someone you like, imagine they might be the ideal partner you have been waiting for. This will produce an intensity in your relationships that will make 113

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it wonderful, whether it leads to something or not. It would be so terrible to think that this could have been the one, but it didn’t happen because you didn’t give the best of yourself. Make sure all your assets are working for you right from the start. Don’t be afraid to approach people; be enterprising, be aggressive. The meaning of aggressive was originally to “go towards” others. We can go towards people negatively, that is to say violently, or towards them positively, that is to say to approach them. So dare! And from now on, each time you meet someone, be aware how they are a universe just like you. Go towards him, and think how it is the most beautiful moment of your life, because the most beautiful moment is always the one we are just initiating, which will prepare the one that follows.

The Couple

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couple. And the couple locks up each person composing it. First we start cutting ourselves off from our friends and our relatives. We go out less often; everything is done together and jealousy slowly slips in. At this point the couple turns into an association of two semi-existences (in fact some describe their partner as their “other half ”) sharing one life, only leaving half a life each. A philosopher once said, “my life is too short to share”. Being locked in a couple is the best way to kill the love that brought you together in the first place. Some couples are completely cut off from the outside world, as they brood their home. Nothing else exists. Then they have a child, and the baby becomes the most important thing. “Oh isn’t he sweet! How cute”. Everything else that we appreciated so much before suddenly is out of the picture. This type of family atrophies those inside it. Even saying “my wife, my children, my husband, my mother, my father,” you are expressing possession and limiting love. And possession is just a stone’s throw from jealousy! And yet a couple can be so much more beautiful than that. It is the wonderful closeness of two conscious individuals who know how to remain open to the exterior and who love each other freely. To love means to give the other person the possibility of being even happier, through our own presence, and if that does not make them happier, then we need to know how to 115

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leave without any shouting or incriminations. We are not there to reduce their happiness with subtle tricks, such as is marriage for example. During the catholic marriage ceremony, they recite, “You are united for better or for worse”. Have you ever thought about that? This phrase means that when you commit to marriage, you are committing to living the worst. Whatever happens, you have to remain together under the marital yoke. Is that what you want? For two people who love each other, living together should be for the best. And if sometimes there are hurdles to surmount, then you can decide to enjoy surmounting them together, but in that case, it would be the free choice of each party. And whatever happens, make sure you separate during the “best” before the “worst” happens.

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To love is to avoid possessing things, people and all that exists for one’s own pleasure. To love means not to expect anything in return. Loving just for the pleasure of loving, for the happiness of loving, of saying, “I love you” without any expectation. We should never demand love from others; let it come naturally by itself, and if it doesn’t, then don’t worry. Just observe and feel because sometimes your partner’s actions speak so loudly of their love that words are not necessary. But it is also good to say these words of love just for our own pleasure and for that of the other. The words’ own melody is so beautiful. It is wonderful to say it when they are close to you. One day, they will no longer be there, and if you had not been able to say it even though you wanted to, then it will be too late. If you love someone, tell them. Tell them without delay; you never know what might happen. “I love the person that you are.” Tell them simply, first with your eyes, then with words. Maybe you will feel awkward because you might not be used to saying it with such simplicity. People have been so conditioned with the idea that love is to be given in exchange for something, that they don’t even dare express their love for fear that the other will interpret it 117

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as expecting sex. Yes, sometimes it can mean that, but sometimes we just want to say it as our expression of awareness of the other, and as a recognition of their value. “I am happy to be living at the same time as you, it is an honour for me to be close to you, because like me, you were created in the image of the Elohim. Whether I am gay, and you a woman, or straight and you a man, I am happy, I am proud to be alive, to be here close to you during this short moment of awareness, alive at the same time as you, as opposed to having lived prior or after you had your life on earth.”

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Science “Science should be used to serve and free mankind, not to destroy and alienate him”* Rael

Science Is Unavoidable December 2002 – Brazzaville, Congo.

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death itself. It is cloning that will make us equal to gods, as foreseen in the bible and the ancient writings, since immortality is the privilege of the gods. Space exploration is still in its infancy. We are only just beginning to glimpse the possibility of truly travelling in space, and if humans believe that they are limited by certain speeds, they will soon discover that travelling faster than the speed of light is possible. In fact we have already begun to discover some particles that exceed the speed of light. We are almost there. We need to understand that science on this planet is still very primitive. Our science is barely one century old and that is almost nothing. We think we know something for sure, only to find one year later we were wrong. All of this is thanks to computers, whose phenomenal power doubles every year. We are progressing faster and faster and soon we will discover more things in one minute than we have in the whole history of humanity. I am not talking about the next century; what I am describing will happen in about 20 years. All of our contemporaries will be there for it. Of course this will cause unimaginable upheavals in every field, which will be difficult to manage for the elderly who govern our planet today and who remain encrusted in their traditions. If they don’t react fast, they and their old systems will be goners.

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Let me give you an example: nanotechnology. These robots are so tiny that you could fit 10 billion in a drop of water. They are capable of rearranging matter at the atomic level. This might mean nothing to you, so let’s take a practical everyday example. It means that you will have a little oven in your kitchen, like a microwave into whose microphone you can say, “I would like a lettuce salad”. This little oven will then create lettuce leaves by rearranging the basic elements that exist in everything around us (see Mendeleyev's table) into the elements of lettuce leaves. Thus the salad will be fabricated without having to grow it in the soil, without using fertilizer that pollutes the earth, and without wasting any time transporting it to the supermarket. Amazing, isn’t it! And there is more. Imagine that you feel like eating a steak. Easy! You just say, ”Beefsteak,” and the machine will automatically rearrange the same basic elements – because everything, including a lettuce leaf and a beefsteak are composed of the same basic elements – to form the beefsteak as you so desired. No slaughterhouse, and no animal suffering.

That is why the new technologies will bring about enormous changes in our lives. They will overturn the concepts of productivity, sociology and global economy. These times are fast approaching, so we need to prepare ourselves right now.

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I have been talking about the eradication of money and labour for the last 27 years, because man is not designed to work. I have been saying this for the last 27 years, and people laugh, as they did when I predicted cloning. Nevertheless, science is taking us to a world where nanotechnology will provide all the materials that our society needs, without requiring anyone to work. When we connect up all the computers on earth, they will be much more intelligent than if humans connect up with each other, even if these artificial intelligences are just an extension of human intelligence. At this very moment, human intelligence is being increased exponentially by the use of robots and computers that are taking care of all the repetitive tasks. Soon we won’t need anyone to work in offices or laboratories, etc., any more. Of course, we could always do it for the pure fun of doing it, but not out of obligation. Neither will we need miners to extract metals or oil from the land. Instead we will be able to inject billions of microscopic robots that will extract the basic elements for us. Other robots will then be able to transport these to factories where yet another nanotechnology will refine and transform them again. Agriculture will be obsolete, as will be breeding of animals, or any other industry.

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This will have enormous social implications. If people start living to be 120 years of age, then the retirement systems, which presently start at about 60 to 65 years of age, will need to be reconsidered. And that will be fine, since only those who wish to work will do so, working at what they enjoy. But they will not be able to sell anything, since everything will be freely available. There will no longer be any need for commerce; it will be a totally different economical system. Some people still mock me when I say this, but laugh now while you can, because it will happen very soon!

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ning a little child is considered a scandal, how horrific! Aren’t we sinking here into a complete mental confusion? Armament is the science of death, while cloning is the science of life. What is amusing is the same people who are against cloning are against abortion. They say that even foetuses have the right to live, and yet when we want to bring a 10-month-old baby that died in hospital back to life again, they call it a scandal. I would like to tell them, “Use your head for a moment. Does that baby have the right to live or not? If so, we should give him all the chances we have at our disposal to allow him to exist.”

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have access to space exploration. Instead, we will need to have and to develop love, communication, and exchange. We will need to ensure that our population is self-limiting in number since cloning could result in overpopulation if we are not careful with our reproduction rate. But if we are intelligent, and we are, then we will forbid those who wish to have eternal life to have children, as the Elohim have done. We can’t have children and also clone ourselves indefinitely; we will have to choose one or the other. And this will be all the better. We are about to enter a world of wonder, a world with a whole universe as yet unexplored, which like the Elohim, we will probably never explore completely, since its impossible to discover Infinity. We should not forget the most important thing is to be able to live happily here on our own planet, while ensuring that we are not overpopulated. We are close to becoming as gods in a world where there is no need to work, no money, no money at all, but we are not there yet.

Rael’s Speech At The American Congress – 28th March 2001

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same powers that condemned Galileo for saying that the earth rotated on its own axis. The issue today is not whether we are for or against human cloning, but whether we are for or against the freedom of science. I have with me a manifesto signed by 31 top scientists and philosophers of the world, including Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, and numerous Nobel Prize laureates. All of them support the freedom for human cloning as a part of the freedom of science, and I have copies of this manifesto for each and every one of you. Why did I ask Dr. Brigitte Boisselier to create the first human cloning company in America? Because as The Country of Freedom, you have a Constitution which should be a model for the whole world, and the most wonderful jewel of your system: the Supreme Court, which guarantees the respect of your Constitution and the freedom of your citizens even against your own government and law makers. This includes the separation of Church and State and it means, in fact, a separation of Church and Science. I am quite confident that even if human cloning were banned, the Supreme Court would cancel this law as unconstitutional as they did for In Vitro Fertilization (IVF).

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If, 100 years ago, the religious powers had been able to pass laws against the freedom of Science, today we would have no antibiotics, surgery, blood transfusions, organ transplants, vaccinations, cars, electricity, computers, airplanes, etc. Delaying Science is a crime against humanity. If such discoveries had been forbidden 100 years ago, 3 billion people would never have been able to enjoy life, instead dying at a very early stage of their existence, and that number may include your own parents, and yourselves. We can say that at least 90% of us are still alive today thanks to science. Three billion people. This is a greater crime than any criminal has ever committed against humanity, including Hitler or Napoleon. Today, you have in your hands the lives of billions of people, those alive now, as well as future generations. You have the choice to be remembered as heroes for saving billions of lives, or if you slow down scientific progress, to be remembered forever as criminals against humanity for denying them a possible cure or a new life. In any case, you will only be slowing down scientific progress, which will happen eventually somewhere because, fortunately, nothing can stop Science. But laws can slow down research and it is the ordinary people who will suffer as a result. 127

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And you will be responsible for the delay and the deaths and the suffering it will create. This death and suffering could be yours too, since lawmakers are not immune to sudden diseases, or those of your own children or grandchildren. Remember that they may die without a cure because of your own laws slowing down science. Religious people who are against human cloning should be free to refuse it for themselves or for their own children, just as they are free to refuse abortion, blood transfusion or surgery. If one day human cloning makes it possible for us to reach eternal life, and it will, they should also be free to die, as nobody should be forced to live eternally. But for those who enjoy life, who may be atheists, and who want to enjoy the fruits of scientific progress, including human cloning and the eternal life it will bring, these people should also have the right to benefit from it. If religion and superstition, which are one and the same thing, had power over science, we would still be living in the dark ages. Your great Constitution includes the right to religious freedom, and that also means the right to be atheist, as we Raelians are, and the freedom to believe that there is no god, as we Raelians believe, and as more and more Americans believe. 128

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We Raelians believe that science should be our religion, since Science saves lives, while religion and superstition kill. Science destroys superstition and supernatural beliefs. That is why religion has always been the enemy of Science and progress and, once again, is trying to stop Science at all cost. By letting the individual decide if they want to benefit or not from human cloning, you are protecting the rights of the unreborn. Cloning gives infants, like the 10-month old baby killed by medical malpractice, and whom we are cloning now, a second chance to live. It could be your beloved child or grandchild. Think about it. Lawmakers should not be accomplices to the powers and superstitions of the dark ages, as history will judge them. Don’t make the mistake of burning Giordano Bruno a second time!

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A Look At Today’s World “Solitude, rather than being a weight and a burden, quite the opposite, it is a source of richness: We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. It is in our solitude that the greatest creations are forged” Rael

“Disinformation; a weapon used by those in power” – 1991

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the facts to understand the situation and judge for themselves. That is how our governments deliberately act. They hinder the development of knowledge on the pretext that it is for the protection of the people, who according to them are not ready to deal with such a reality. They carefully cultivate fear, fear of others, fear of communism or capitalism depending on the country, fear of other races, of other religions, of AIDS, of a god or a devil, fear of sects and their alleged brain-washings, fear of genetic engineering, of progress, pollution, of the genius, etc. If it were not for a deliberate ploy to retain the population in uncultured ignorance, then these fears would have disappeared years ago. If the people were instead given a proper program of scientific vulgarisation based on an honest and progressive education, then each person could make up their own mind and would stop being afraid. As soon as they realise there is no devil, nor enemy, they will understand they don’t need any protection, and will become less easy to manipulate and control. There are three main forces whose interests lie in keeping the population in the dark ages, in maintaining traditions and turning them into unconscious morons:

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The first power is political. This power is made up of people who will do anything to retain any advantages their situation gives them. They would even be prepared to switch parties several times in their political career. Listen to their recent speeches and compare them to what they said in the past. The difference is very eloquent! To keep or gain a post, they will usually just say what the people want to hear, and unfortunately it works! That is how tyrants are elected in all legality, because they are elected democratically. Luckily, despite their efforts, the information still gets around thanks to today’s increasingly efficient means of communication. The result is people are beginning to become aware that they are being manipulated. It is not surprising that in western countries the level of abstention from elections regularly exceeds 50%. That means over half the population no longer trusts their political leaders, a conclusion that was confirmed by recent scientific surveys. In listening to their previous speeches, it becomes apparent that most of them are liars. And if they justify their aboutface though a so-called change in circumstance, it proves that even if they are not complete liars, they are certainly incompetent, because to govern means to foresee, and they foresaw nothing! The people will judge, thanks to democracy and to the fact that their fears are dissipating. They will then go on to find other forms of government, more adapted to our age of science and global awareness. The second power is that of the great religious traditions. 133

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These benefited from the principle of general guilt, which they have maintained very efficiently, such as the fear of being punished for our sins, fear of hell, of the devil, and of a vengeful god. Anything goes, even the alteration and suppression of ancient original texts to retain the advantages that they accumulated over the centuries on the backs of those, who through lack of culture, naively swallowed their mystical stories and superstitions and became even more uncouth. But gradually, the people acquired more and more knowledge, leading to the situation where today, there is a significant decrease in the number of people attending church, synagogues, mosques or other sort of temples. And soon, all these old and dusty traditional religions will disappear to be replaced by something else. The third power is that of the military. It is supposed to be subject to the political powers, but really is extremely powerful and influential and it too has a lot to gain from keeping the public misinformed. It is the most destructive of all “sects” because it can carry out brainwashing perfectly legally and it possesses force. The military powers have been responsible for thousands of deaths all over the planet since the beginning of the history of humanity. It swallows up the lion’s share of national budgets, and these vast fortunes could be more usefully allocated to educating the masses and bringing science and its benefits to everyone. 134

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And yet again, the people are becoming aware of the sheer stupidity that is inherent in accumulating armaments and are pushing for world disarmament. As we near the end of the 20th century, we see more and more peace rallies around the world and actions of solidarity towards victims of military might. The standard of living is quite rightly becoming more important than nationalism or the colour of a flag. The economic growth enjoyed by certain countries that have disarmed, such as Germany or Japan, provide a good example. Since they are not allowed an army, the money saved on having no military spending is channelled instead into research and development of science and technology. At the other end, we are witness to the collapse of the USSR, which was the second military power in the world, and the economic difficulties experienced by the US, first military power in the world as they suffocate under the enormity of their spending.

The Lying Media – 1991

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The job of informing, increasing public awareness, vulgarising science, and the sharing of knowledge to eradicate fear and superstition should fill the various publishers with enthusiasm and motivate a united true press. Unfortunately, the terrible truth is that the situation is quite the opposite. The press today belongs to powerful financial groups whose sole objective is to make money, and for whom ratings and sales are more important than quality and truth of the information they propagate. They know that fear is what sells best and know how to exploit it. Just take a look at the headlines. Listen and compare the length of time devoted to positive versus negative information on television – negative information which maintains the populations in a state of fear. It is quite a revelation. Whether we are talking about political forces, traditional religions or the army, each of these organisations entertain close relations with the press, because it is in their interest to be able to propagate information which suits them, and are quick to set up orchestrated lies, which is another word for disinformation. Thankfully, there are other media doing a proper job of informing the public who are gaining increasingly large shares of the market and weakening the traditional media. The increasing number of papers, magazines and television 136

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companies going bust is very reassuring and brings new hope. It suggests that the people are learning to become more discerning since they are refusing to buy or watch the lying media.

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because they increased people’s awareness about the reality of their lives and responsibilities. But how could one condemn men and women who speak about love, preaching, as Jesus taught them, to “Love thy neighbour,” or “If someone hits you, turn the other cheek” ? Nobody in the Roman Empire would have gone along with such an injustice. Public opinion is a weighty factor in the balance of power, whoever controls it can do what they want. Any atrocity can be dressed up as acceptable so long as they have the approval of public opinion. And how were they able to drum up enough public indignation to convince the whole population that their plan to eliminate men, woman and children was justified and indeed useful, even when they were their own neighbours from their own streets and buildings? It was just a matter of inventing lies that push people’s buttons; sensitive areas such as children (claiming they were sacrificing children), sex (they accept homosexuals), and family (they encourage prostitution). And if on top of that, you disguise these sacrifices as entertainment and set them on a public stage as popular as an arena, then as quick as lightning, you will attract a mob of 10,000 to 50,000 all clamouring, in the name of morality, for the horrific deaths of innocent people, whom they believe to be dangerous enemies of society. Luckily today, people no longer rush to the streets, sticks and stones in hand, to lynch some poor person who happened to not fit the popular norm. Unfortunately the same could not be said for certain Islamic countries where, to their shame, they still allow poor wretched women to be stoned by 138

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a lynch mob for having committed adultery or simply for having given birth to children conceived from a rape. Luckily today, people have the means to inform themselves, or at least are able to do so if they are honest, so it is easy to check what is true and what is false. But we must still remain vigilant; the horror of rumour is still too close for comfort! Just because the methods used are different does not mean that it has disappeared: loss of job, of reputation, denunciations, stealing children away from their families, isolation, defamatory articles in the papers, etc. It is no more pleasant today for those who are different than it was yesterday!

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All those in Germany who followed Nazi law and denounced the Jews followed the law, but betrayed both the human community as well as the “Charter of Human Rights,” which is there to protect it. All those who denounced homosexuals, as requested by an old Quebec law, are guilty and condemnable. The list of anti-social laws is a long one and the states that voted them in will one day have to answer to the justice of our creators. We should fight against a law that does not respect human beings and their freedom. We should go right to the end and exhaust all possible legal means and procedures, invoking the “Court of Justice” of “Human Rights,” which is there to ensure that the marvellous “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” be respected and applied. We should never hesitate to lodge a complaint against our own country or organisation if it hampers the respect to which every human being is entitled. It is quite inglorious for a country or organisation to find itself condemned for not respecting “Human Rights” and be condemned publicly in plain view of the whole world! Our Depressive Society It is important to have a spirituality that gives a meaning to our lives. A philosophy, whatever it may be, makes many 140

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people happy. Depending on what it teaches, it can allow people to feel good about themselves. It can balance them if it provides values and concerns directed at humanism, if it enhances religiosity, and it can teach them not to allow their happiness to depend on their environment but instead on themselves. If we reach a state of happiness, of harmony and blossoming, if we are happy without any artificial drug, without needing external possessions, if we are happy to be alive from feeling part of infinity, if we love life, then we will wish to continue living. But if we are depressed, then we certainly will have no wish to continue living and in fact, that is the reason there are so many suicides. Some people are so depressed, that even one day more is unbearable. The media hardly mentions it, but the rate of suicide, especially among the youth, is getting dangerously high! There are dozens, hundreds, thousands of young people committing suicide every day all over the world because they are unhappy. They are killing themselves alone at home without any witnesses. To commit suicide alone like that with no one to prevent them from committing the final act, means they must be really terribly desperate and unhappy. Today’s society is increasingly depressive; it creates unhappy people. What is it that makes us depressed? 141

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Granted, among some people, depression is caused by some chemical and medical imbalance, but these are just a minority. The greatest cause of depression is our society and its parade of horrors, sufferings, obligations, pressure to have, to know, reinforced by the hammering of the information promulgated by the media, which is always stressing how terrible the world is. And yet, there is at least as much good news on this planet as there is bad news. The number of scientific discoveries allowing people to feel better, the number of philanthropists donating parts of their fortunes to help others, the number of people on earth doing good are all greater than the number of people doing harm. We are living in a wonderful world, and yet it is the killers, the rapists and thieves who make the headlines. They make it to the news and are talked about on TV for hours. It is terribly sad. And yet, if a scientist discovers a way to treat an illness, all he gets are five lines on the last page, if he gets any at all. And yet the secret of happiness is to know how to appreciate the simple things in life, such as the pleasure of being alive and able to benefit freely of all that nature has to offer, such as sunrises, sunsets, water, sitting down, smiling at someone we love, etc. The secret of happiness is also understanding we are surrounded by people who are constantly changing. They are not fixed, and they change as we do every moment. Any problems can be fleeting if we look at them right, rather than 142

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taking a defeatist attitude, since there is always a way to find solutions to solve them.

Monotheist Religions Are Dangerous And Responsible For Humanity’s Major Disasters – 2002

The attack on September 11th in New York demonstrates the urgency in asking the right questions on the causes of terrorism. What can be at the root of such an ill feeling that can generate such monstrous acts? What is it that allows human beings to voluntarily, red bandanas around their heads, take command of a Boeing 767 and crash it into a building, committing suicide and causing the death of thousands of others? As this phenomenon snowballs, it is no longer possible to be satisfied with easy replies designed to disturb no one, whose political correctness will in no way prevent it from happening again. We have to conclude that military and violent acts of revenge do not solve the problem. On the contrary, all they do is engender more hate and more despair, therefore yet more violence in a never-ending vicious circle whose only victor is terror. Only a just and lucid understanding of the roots of the problem can bring a solution. 143

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I had a lot of compassion for the poor Americans as I saw them on TV saying, “It is time to pray, because god is with us in these tragic moments”. What? So where was this god during the disaster itself, and why didn’t he prevent it? If he is almighty and omnipotent, as they try to make believe, then why didn’t he intervene? Instead, he did nothing, does that mean he is sadistic and bloodthirsty? If not, it proves he is either not all-powerful, or that he simply doesn’t exist! But while we are on the subject, what god are we talking about? Are we talking about the god of a few madmen in the middle of their mystical delusions as they crash a plane into a building shouting, “God is great!” as they dedicate their crime to him, or are we talking about the god of the victims who are praying to ease their sufferings? This is precisely the danger: a belief in an “almighty” god that acts as an amplifying lever for the human desire for revenge. But what does god do? Absolutely nothing. Nothing for one side and nothing for the other. If he loves man, why favor some and not others and vice-versa? If he is so powerful, why would he need the pilots to destroy buildings and why didn’t he protect the innocent victims? The truth is that this belief in one unique and almighty god is the very cause of the biggest disasters that humanity has known. It has been going on for thousands of years. Every army in the world went to war claiming that “god is with us”. 144

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The Muslims did when they colonised Europe, as did the Christians when they mounted their crusades to save the tomb of Christ, the religious wars, the Inquisition, and today the wars between India and Pakistan, in Cypress, Northern Ireland, in Kosovo, the Middle East, etc. Always and everywhere, people are cutting each other up, killing each other in the name of almighty god. The root of this evil is in the belief in this god who is cynically described as “a god of pity and love”! Spot the mistake! The evil especially lies in the “holy” scriptures attributed to this god, which in fact were always written by men, whose meanings were distorted throughout the centuries according to the prejudices and personal interests of each age. Whatever text it be, the Old Testament, the Scriptures, the Koran, the Torah, all these ”holy” books contain elements that encourage hate, intolerance, violence and barbarity. While we ponder the causes of the New York disaster, wondering how human beings could have committed such atrocities, right now children are being educated in all goodwill into the fanaticism and intolerance that such monotheistic religions teach. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” – right from the start, monotheism showed its true colours. It required Abraham to sacrifice his own son, by cutting his throat with a knife, an order from this “loving god” to which he was pre145

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pared to submit and obey! “If your right hand sins, cut it off ”. “Those who look back will be turned into pillars of salt”. The examples are numerous. There is no lacking in examples of intolerance in Jewish texts forbidding marriage with non-Jews. Today, the automatic entitlement to Israeli nationality for any Jew, and impossibility of obtaining it for non-Jews follows the same goals: ethnic cleansing, today directed against Palestinians. Muslim writings very clearly encourage violence towards non-Muslims as well as women, whom they consider ”inferior”. This is the exact and official text supposedly given by their prophet: “Once the holy months are over, kill the idolaters everywhere that you find them, capture them, lay siege to them and ambush them. But if they convert, if they submit to prayer, if they give money, then leave them alone, because god is forgiving and has pity” – Koran IX.5 Islam officially encourages racism and discrimination, which are contrary to the Charter of Human Rights and democratic laws: “O believers! Don’t take any Jews or Christians for friends; they are their own allies. He who befriends them will end up by becoming like them and God will not be a guide to such perverts” Koran V.51. Here is another instruction, also contrary to Human Rights and to democracy, where Islam asks its faithful to carry out 146

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conjugal violence under the pretext that man is supposedly superior to women: “Men are superior to women thanks to the qualities that God gave to man elevating him above women…” “You will reprimand those women whom you fear are not obedient: you will banish them to separate beds and you will beat them…” (3) Koran IV, 34. Is it acceptable that any religion officially encourages these three actions, all of which are contrary to Human Rights and laws of democracy: encouraging murder, racial discrimination and wife beating? If ever a “sect” were to preach such principles, their leaders would already be in prison. Mystical-religious delusions don’t give anyone the right to break the laws of democratic countries and ignore Human Rights. The only solution, as I have been requesting for over twenty years, lies in censuring all religious texts, old and new, from minority and majority religions, to remove all passages that incite hate and violence and encourage the flouting of Human Rights and breaking of laws of democratic countries. And especially, that all this no longer be taught to children! Now that we are on the threshold of this new age, where the Earth can become a paradise thanks to science, it is time to destroy once and for all, or at least to muzzle with a firm and 147

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rigorous censorship, all ideologies that incite hate and violence. All the politically correct condemnations of terrorism in the world will change nothing, so long as they don’t address the root cause of the problem. We need to remove or censure monotheistic religious teaching, which always produces fanaticism. Now that we have reached a stage where the new technologies will revolutionise our life styles, where advances in genetics will allow us to heal all illnesses, feed the whole planet, where nanotechnology and robotics will allow us to remove the need for work, and cloning will even enable us to live eternally, it is unthinkable that such stupid beliefs still hanging around from the Middle Ages continues to keep this planet under the grip of suffering, violence and medieval obscurantism. It is time for humans to replace monotheism with science, which is what our religion should be. Science is intelligence. Monotheism is stupidity and obscurantism. Science saves lives. Monotheism kills. There lies a true mission for the UN, to create an organism empowered to censure the religious texts from all over the planet, to get rid of any incitation to hatred and violence, and 148

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to clean out everything that does not respect the Human Rights. We are not talking about removing religious freedom, which itself is part of the Human Rights. We are talking about preventing religions that contain incitation to hatred and violence and from continuing to teach this to children, who one day or another will commit atrocious crimes believing that they are simply acting as an “instrument of god”. In terms of levels of hatred, religious texts are more dangerous than firearms because they recommend their use to kill the ”infidels”. If monotheistic beliefs survive a bit longer, that is acceptable in the name of freedom, but only on condition that these beliefs no longer encourage assassinations (from the Arab word “assassin” meaning “those who kill the infidels”) or disasters such as the one committed in New York. To prepare the future humanity and make this planet more humane necessitates reducing the negative influence of monotheism, until the time that it extinguishes itself thanks to a better scientific culture. It is no surprise that the Taliban in Afghanistan put a ban on television, newspapers and Internet. The more the people are informed, the less they will submit to monotheism. While you read these lines, many people are in prison in 149

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many Muslim countries, with the death sentence over their head just for having denied their Muslim religion. And yes, this is in total contradiction with Human Rights, which guarantees the freedom to change religion. The UN should impose sanctions on countries that don’t respect Human Rights. How can we accept that the UN turns a blind eye to these crimes? If some people are aware enough to understand how the Islam that is taught to them incites crime and wish to leave Islam, then the UN and the international community should defend them and demand their immediate liberation. What is more, if these countries refuse to conform to the Charter of Human Rights by modifying their religious texts, the UN should initiate a campaign to encourage apostasy in these countries! And then help the refugees who accepted to apostatise, to find a country of refuge. How come Muslims are allowed to build their mosques in free and democratic countries while the construction of churches is forbidden in Muslim countries? Why do those who try and convert Muslims risk prison in those same countries? How can one accept that Christians are actually imprisoned in Muslim countries for trying to propagate their faith, whereas the Charter of Human Rights guarantees the right to proselytise? 150

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If Muslim countries wish to integrate into the international community and access the world economy, the modern world and new technologies, then they should be forced to also respect the rules of the democratic countries and the Charter of Human Rights. If not, they should undergo sanctions and remain stuck in the Middle Ages where they have chosen to live. That is the price the free world has to pay to remain free and for violence and terrorism to be eradicated once and for all. Monotheism is dangerous and responsible for the largest number of deaths and suffering in the whole of the history of humanity. This must be voiced again and again. Science should replace religion once and for all, and Human Rights should be the only ideology taught in schools. Only then can Humanity hope to enter into an age of peace and universal happiness.

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words mean, with all their funny sounds and hypnotic atmosphere, so they imagine that what they are saying must be wonderful, deeply spiritual and full of wisdom. Sadly, or happily, we are beginning to translate them and find people who can convey to us faithfully what these sorcerers from another age are saying… In Canada, there is a television station reserved purely for the Inuit people (in Canada the term Eskimo is considered pejorative) and their ceremonies are subtitled in English so that anyone can initiate himself or herself, if they so desire, into the culture of these peoples. And so the truth appears. For approximately half an hour, the shaman sings a repetitive litany explaining how fat and big the seal will be that the tribe will go and kill the next day, and that it will provide plenty of meat for the family, that the one from last year was fat too, but tomorrow’s one will be fatter still. And so on for half an hour. Then follows another “liturgical” song for another half hour explaining how powerful and dangerous the white bear is and how brave will be the one who kills him. Followed by yet another half hour. After all these half hours, the spell begins to lose its charm! In the Amazon, the words pronounced by a witch doctor from a tribe of Indians as he was carrying out a healing ritual were translated. As he carries out the fumigations on a very feverous child, he invokes the spirits of the ancestors, of the rivers, of his grandmother… This goes on for about three 152

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hours. The next day, the poor kid, now only semi conscious, is taken by the witch doctor to the “white witch doctor” meaning the western hospital where antibiotics will fix him in a couple of days. The witch doctor explains that the “white witch doctors helped him heal the child”. His image and his power are preserved! In some parts of Africa, the witch doctors have now added the stethoscope to their traditional fetishes that they wear around their necks. This gives them the kudos of a western doctor and impresses the ignorant population no end. But, when they listen to it, they pretend that it allows them to hear the bad spirits living in the sick people’s bodies! The ones that make me laugh most are the aboriginal shamans from Australia. There too, their dances and incantations appear highly inspired and make us dream, thinking that they posses fabulous secrets. The shaman, facing the sick child, evokes the spirit of his ancestors, the spirits of the desert, of the rocks, kangaroos etc. for hours on end. And very politely he asks the bad spirits to leave the child’s body, but they don’t want to know about it. So he adds a little magic potion, worthy of “Panoramix” (the venerable druid from the Gaulish village by Goscinny and Uderzo) composed of roots, dried toad skin and other insects, accompanied by hours more of lamentations such as: “Here is a gift for the spirits to leave this child’s body”. The next day, the child now hardly conscious, is transported to 153

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the local hospital where his appendicitis which has become peritonitis because of the time wasted by the magical lamentations, is cut out in emergency. And the witch doctor brings the child back a few days later to the village, taking part of the credit for the success of his healing. This is known diplomatically as “collaborating with traditional healers”. It is in this way that western style doctors can enlist the cooperation of the local witch doctors and have at least some chance of saving sick people before it becomes too late. Unfortunately, many still die, because the “witch doctor delay” was too long. But the Australian medical teams say that at least this “collaboration” helps them same many more lives than if the shamans took over the healing alone. That is very easy to believe! So when you get taken in to shaman and witch doctor magic, think back to all of this and it will allow you to touch base again with reality, and to rush back to your computer to read the latest scientific news. “All men are stupid without science”. The Elohim already told us that a very long time ago.

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Non-Violence It is better to be wrong with humility than right with lack of respect Rael

The Superiority Of Donkeys Apocalypse magazine - 2nd term 1994

Just as our present day society puts “having” above ”being,” it also values muscular development as part of “appearing” and neglects spiritual development. Consequently, we should not be surprised that violence rules in this world and since it is usually expressed with physical actions, thereby requiring muscles, it is the youth, espe155

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cially young “males” full of unspent energy and need for recognition, who are particularly susceptible. Let’s inject some clarity into this area of mental confusion and human stupidity. For a start, muscles are always stupid! Whether you like it or not, the fact is that a simple cow will always have far more muscles than any world champion bodybuilder. Instead of wasting your time in these sports centers trying to develop this mass of useless muscle fibres, you would do better to create mind building centers where what is unique to man, the mind and intellect, can be cultivated. Every misery in the world is the consequence of the use of force, whether it comes from physical muscular power or from firearms, which are no more than the extension of a brain, unable to assert its ideas through intelligence and communication. Brute force is the most impure residue of this primitive humanity that we are only just emerging from, as if we are just surfacing out of an ocean of excrement of our past, of wars and brutal domination. If we really want to exit from this primitive nauseous sea, we need to teach respect for non-violence right from school. It is from school among the more stupid that the idea they can get what they want with force and domination gets born. In fact some of these practices are maintained during initiation rites at college: even the parents and teachers turn a blind eye and tacitly approve of some of the demonstrations of 156

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force by the stronger over the weaker under the pretext that it is just youth taking its course! The teachers should assiduously prevent every such manifestation of force, in whatever form, as a priority. If your neighbour were to assault you, you would quite rightly take him to court. So why is this okay to do for an adult but not for a child? On the contrary, the bully should be punished even more so he understands once and for all there is no way he can get what he wants with force. If not, he will graduate to delinquency and crime. All the violence that is poisoning the neighbourhoods around the big cities saps its nourishment from the lax and over-tolerant school system that lets bullying and brutality get away with it. Any threat of violence should be punished as severely as the act itself, because to threaten means that the person has already acknowledged that they will resort to violence as a way of getting what they want. The success of bodybuilding centers is based on the same principles. Even animals that are symbols of strength for us, such as the bull or gorilla don’t do any bodybuilding. Imagine a gorilla doing push-ups! These animals are born with a musculature adapted to their level of consciousness, that is to say one below ground level, where brute force dominates! For “man” on the other hand, brute force has no use whatsoever in a world where “rights” should rule. A good example 157

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would be how Mike Tyson, world champion boxer was tried. A frail young woman sent him to prison for 5 years, accusing him of forcing her to have sex. What a wonderful example for the youth. Every bodybuilding center and school around the world should display a poster of Mike Tyson’s condemnation, showing the world champion of thick brutes being floored by a frail young girl. Rights triumphed in law; that is what we should be showing the youth! True power lies not in the muscles, but in what is most beautiful in ”man,” and that is his mind! Some people might retort that it is possible to have a developed mind in a muscular body: never! If we concentrate on our muscular development, then we lose out on the development of our brain. If we try to do both at the same time, then the brain will end up only half as developed compared to if we had concentrated on it full time. And what is even more serious, is that the act of developing muscles initiates in the brain of those practicing bodybuilding, a thought process, whether they are aware of it or not, which can lead them to consider the use of their new found strength to make their own ideas triumph. This is totally unacceptable! It is true that some people are genetically stronger than others. That doesn’t bother me. They are born that way and don’t spend hours each week pumping up their muscle fibres. The greatest men in the history of humanity were all physi158

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cally weak, without exception! Blood can’t flow to both the biceps and the brain. What flows to one subtracts from the other. Whether we are talking about Socrates, Mozart, Einstein, or Leonardo da Vinci, none ever did any bodybuilding and none had the biceps of athletes. In today’s world where equality between sexes is finally recognised, it is almost an insult to women to do bodybuilding. Perhaps after all, the only remaining way to display their superiority over the so-called “weaker sex” for these muscle-pumping fanatics is to develop their muscles. And yet there is still something that doesn’t quite figure: donkeys have a much higher muscle mass than the most macho of bodybuilders. Does that mean that donkeys are superior? I thought so! So the next time someone tries to impress you with his muscles, then do as I do, think of donkeys!

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from India. He chose love and self-sacrifice. He said: “I will never raise my hand against anything alive and I will make the truth triumph without violence,” and he succeeded. Those who use other means, and here I am talking about some world powers who believe themselves to be exemplary: “we will punish violence with violence and solve the problems by sending bombs over the populations”. It is a sticky sort of logic because once we have started sliding down the slippery slope it is difficult to stop. Once we have started, we are constrained to justify the unjustifiable: If we have killed so many civilians until now, then we have to kill even more to justify that we were right, because stopping requires an infinitely greater wisdom than not starting in the first place. And this we continue in this endless circle of terrifying logic. This has been going on for thousands of years. Violence never solves anything. Never. Violence leads to violence. Once it starts, it doesn’t stop and when we step in and get involved, we are condemned to carry on ever deeper. The whole planet is caught in the net of a terrible piece of propaganda, namely: the borders. People created borders. Here we are in Quebec, therefore you are Canadian, which is nothing to be proud of, no more than being French or American. Borders are just artificial separations, and yet they are at the origin of so many conflicts. We should wake up; we are all human beings on one common planet. Each one of us is equally close to the Serbs, the Kosovos, the Tutsis or 160

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Hutus… What is this mental construction that governs the world and influences us so much! I look upon this with deep sadness, because the only acceptable logic for any human being is that of love, humility and non-violence. They say that some loss of human lives might sound bad, but is a necessary sacrifice that we have to accept. This sounds normal to someone who is caught up in the logic of violence. “We saved numerous lives by killing some,” they say. By what right do some people have the right to live while others don’t? This is yet more propaganda. Propaganda for violence that will propagate further, because it will come to be seen as the model solution for the whole world. It will spread among the young generation because it will be the only model that they will have. In the Messages, we are reminded: “No cause justifies the death of even one human being”. Never deviate from this teaching, whatever happens, even if they claim it could save the world. We should never kill anybody, because if we can kill one, then we can kill one million. Thus all these so called civilised countries in truth are not civilised at all. For them, the synonym of civilised is militarised. You cannot be both at the same time; a country is either civil or military.

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If it is militarised, it enters into a military logic, it punishes: “If you don’t do what I want, then I will correct you”. But if it is civilised, it teaches: “What you are doing is bad, it is reproachable and I will explain to you why”. And if they don’t understand and their insufficient awareness leads them to harm dozens of others, then society will help them get better. Non-violence and love always win. You just have to be patient. It is true that some people died defending this principle, and we must accept the gift that these people gave in sacrificing their own lives. They knew the risks they were taking and they chose that way. The first Buddhists were killed in this way, but Buddha’s Message still got through. The first Christians were fed to the lions, but Jesus’ message still got through. The first Muslims were persecuted, but the Message of Muhammad still got through. Not everyone got killed, there are always some of the just who survive who ensure that non-violence lives on and is propagated. Non-violence is the true civilisation, the civilisation with civility. I would like you to feel how important it is to spread love in this world, which needs it so much. In this blinding aggression in this cycle of violence which is displayed everywhere as the way to be, the world is building up a huge wave of violence and I tell you that it will be terrible. 162

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Right now, Easter is being celebrated all around the world. Most people don’t question the rationality of the resurrection, and yet this supposed intervention of the Holy Spirit makes it totally supernatural! In fact, what people are really celebrating, without even realising it, is the cloning of Jesus. People are venerating the victory of science over death, carried out by scientists 2000 years ago. One cannot be more rational or materialist than that. Easter is also the victory of love from people of infinite goodness who decided to recreate their son whom the men of earth just sacrificed, as a way of showing how the life of one human being is more important than the whole of humanity. So, thanks to science, Jesus returned back to the human zoo to talk about love again and remind us yet again how important love, light and consciousness are important on earth. It is the struggle of good and evil, of awareness and the stupidity of lack of consciousness. Jesus hates the cross. And yet, what do all these people who claim to love him remember him by? A cross! They wear it around their necks, up on the walls, displayed in their churches, glorifying the instrument which killed him in the most barbaric way possible! If he had been killed by a slit throat, then would they wear a little knife hanging on their chests in 163

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memory of Jesus? How horrible! How can they claim to love him while at the same time they are adoring this symbol of suffering. Jesus hates the cross. Having said that, I wish you all a happy Easter. It is important to remember how far human barbarity can go, even on a messenger of the Elohim. Jesus spoke only of love. He came to tell us “love thy neighbour as you love yourselves” in replacement of the extremely primitive previous message of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. This means that if someone hits you, then you should hit them back, if they attack you, then attack them back, but this is the opposite of love! And Jesus, a Jew among Jews, came to tell them “if someone hits you on the right cheek, then show them your left cheek”. Love your enemies more than your friends, because they need more love than your friends. You already love you friends! But if someone hates you, answer them with love, not with violence! Answer open armed, saying “if you want to hit me, then go ahead! You will then have to live with it, with your own conscience”. It was truly revolutionary and he was killed for it. The two greatest examples of non violence in the history of humanity were without doubt, Jesus and Gandhi. Gandhi stood up to the most powerful army in the world by saying “You can kill us, but we will not even lift our little fingers, we will not retaliate”. The Dalai Lama is doing the same thing today for Tibet. He could encourage his people to revolt, to use bombs against 164

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the Chinese, but instead he said, No! No violence, with time, awareness will come bringing understanding between human beings”. That is the type of love and non violence that humanity needs, because war will never stop as long as love does not replace hate, as long as love does not win over violence and as long as we refuse to accept to offer our left cheek when hit on the right one. Our earth is beautiful and deserves to be saved. Only love can do it. Today, in the name of our fathers, I bring you a message which completes the one from Jesus: “the life of one single human is more important than all of humanity”. Perhaps that is the most important bit of teaching given to us by the Elohim, because it reminds us that there is no cause in the universe that justifies the life of even one single human being. For example, if someone told you that to save all of Humanity, you had to kill someone carrying SARS (atypical respiratory syndrome) to prevent them from contaminating the whole planet, then you should not do it! Because the first person that you kill in the name of a cause, contains the millions that can follow. The first Jew killed by the Nazis contained the millions that followed! 165

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If we accept to kill one, then we can accept to kill another. There is no chance to restrict it to one, since if we killed one, why not two? And if two, why not four? And if four, why not eight? And if eight, why not millions? Why not? It is the first one that we kill in the name of some cause who is the most important. An English journalist once asked the question “could we justify taking even one life in Iraq in our attempt to remove Saddam Hussein? The answer is no! Definitely not! Even this little child who lost his arms, legs and parents, and who might not even survive given that over 60% of his body is burned didn’t allow us to remove Saddam Hussein! Politicians call that “collateral damage! That is the worst possible abomination. Time, people and awareness will always triumph over dictators without having to rip the arms off children! Gandhi proved it, the principle is sound, it works! We must never forget this child. We need to exploit this memory so as to avoid further atrocities. Some might say that it is the exploitation of someone else’s suffering. Yes! And we need to exploit it, just as we exploit those photos taken of the 166

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poor wretched half starved Jews on their way to the gas chambers in the concentration camps, so as to ensure that it never happens again. So that no tyrant or government in the world dares kill even one human being for any possible cause! That is what Easter is, the memory of Jesus bringing love. Today, I bring further love with the three absolute rules taught to us by the Elohim, who are themselves the greatest examples of non violence for humanity: - not even one life can be taken in the name of any cause whatsoever ! Even if it is to save us all! And if there was one person who threatened to destroy all of humanity, we should protect this person and make do with them! That is love and the gift of self. I prefer to give my life rather than taking someone else’s, even if they want to kill me. And anyway, most of the time it never comes to that because there are always other solutions. - if someone claimed that we had to kill someone to save humanity, we should refuse. We should always refuse to obey an order which threatens someone’s life or brings suffering. We should always refuse to obey an order if it is contrary to our conscience and the Human Rights, even if the order came from the Elohim themselves or one of their Prophets. - anyone obeying an order should be held as responsible for their actions as the one giving the order. 167

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To claim “the strongest always wins” shows a complete lack of wisdom. It opens up the foundations of violence, creating a terribly confused world and mixed-up thought processes that are preparing the next generation to be even more terrible. That next generation promises to be horrifyingly unbalanced because for them who have grown used to seeing it every day, violence will seem quite ordinary. It is everywhere, on the walls, on the little screen. If our history books had been properly written, they would include hundreds of pages on Gandhi, Buddha, and Jesus and they would mention all the saints and people who worked for peace, who devoted their lives to increasing understanding between races, peoples, tribes and individuals, and only devote one page to the crimes of Napoleon, Hitler, Julius Caesar and Attila the Hun. Unfortunately, humanity’s assassins are all portrayed as heroes. They appear in the history of every country, of America, France, Canada: they are our heroes, except that their heroism is based on a false premise, that of violence and only violence.

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homosexuals and gypsies were not fundamentally bad people. It is just that they entered into a horrific logic, into a reasoning that seemed so coherent, that they bought into that system without questioning it; on the contrary, they were convinced they were doing the “right” thing and serving the cause. And right now what I find the most dangerous in terms of mental confusion, is what is happening in the field of sports. In these huge stadiums full of over excited people carrying flags with their favourite team’s colours, all that is needed is just one little thing to spark off dozens of deaths. Violence is lying just under the surface, and a defeat could easily ignite the dynamite’s fuse. Why support one team and not another? We should support talent, whomever has it. To think otherwise is stupidity: “Go on the greens!” We are all the same, humans, only our talents differentiate us. That is what we should admire and reward, not the country to whose team they belong, which in all probability built its team by buying their players from abroad.

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The only real heroes that our Humanity should refer to should be examples such as Jesus, Gandhi, Buddha, and those who helped to better humanity, who gave their lives to helping reduce barriers: “don’t fight, don’t be violent, love one another”.

Guardians Of Peace, There To Protect Life Lecture in Congo - 14th December 2002

Humility is the most important of qualities, especially in war-torn countries such as yours. Humble people don’t become soldiers: they don’t become warriors. We can, however, become guardians of peace, because it is good that some people, such as ex-army personnel, guard the peace against unbalanced, mad and violent people, and this not by condemning them to capital punishment, but by healing them. It is good to have a small force of guardians of peace, as the messages describe. But that does not mean soldiers taking power through the use of force. That is a complete aberration and we all know where that has led many people of the earth. Total non-violence stems from humility. Who am I to impose my will on others? Who am I? Nothing, just a bit of 170

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dust. We are all bits of dust, but conscious dust, dust able to be aware that we are part of infinity that is becoming aware of itself. We humans are the intelligence of infinity, because infinity is stupid and only becomes intelligent through a thinking brain capable of feeling. Infinity is stupid and is unintelligent, unless it becomes alive. Our consciousness brings life to the atoms that are part of infinity. And yet with or without us, it is still composed of the same ”bits”. The object I am touching right now could contain atoms that might have been part of your ancestors’ bodies at some point in the past, but even though their atoms are present, their consciousnesses no longer exist because these atoms are no longer thinking, nor can they feel anything. When you die, the atoms that are part of you now, will return back to the carpet, the grass, and the air other people will breath in. They will dissipate everywhere, anywhere. By being aware we are just dust for eternity, alive and conscious for a small instant in time, we become humble and respectful towards life and its extreme fragility. The duty of every human being on earth is to protect life and never fight it.

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The Right To Be Different “Our sexual orientation is genetic and to reproach a homosexual for being homosexual is as stupid as reproaching a cat for being a cat” Rael

The Normalisation Of Minds – 2nd term 2001

We must fight against the politically correct, the religiously correct and the sexually correct so as to preserve our right to be different, in this culture that tries every which way to normalise our minds and condition them like obedient little consumer sheep to think the same, vote the same, love the same, and pray the same.

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This “talibanisation” of our so-called free and civilised society has as its consequence to make all people think the same, because if we think too differently, then we are considered dangerous. However, I would say the real danger is quite the opposite, that is to say it is to all think the same! There is a tendency to demonise the heads of the extreme right or extreme left and some so-called “defenders” of freedom wish to forbid these parties altogether and would encourage some sort of rebellion if these extreme parties were to win an election. It is particularly delectable to listen to a French minister exposing the benefits of democracy and at the same time contradicting himself by saying: “Long live democracy, except if it elects someone who does not think correctly”. This means that this minister would be prepared to use force to overthrow an elected government despite the votes of the majority of the population. Therefore he is denying the very principles of democracy and would himself become a terrorist. Very good for France’s image, which still dares to claim it is the land of freedom! The same goes for religious freedom. In public, French politicians are showing off by talking about the right to be different and how much we should respect religious minorities, but in private the French government is financing a witch hunt against sects and has already passed some laws against these same religious minorities.

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As far as sexuality goes, even though the official stance is in favour of respect and protection of homosexuals, in practice, they still have not been given the right to a civil marriage. They are too “different” to have such a right, and so a special system was put in place. In practice, they are still being discriminated against, especially in the professional arena. And even amongst the “normal” faction, it is not done for older people to be seen to still be sexually active, while for youth, sexuality is plainly forbidden. And yet biological evidence shows that human sexuality starts at puberty around 12 years of age and ends at death, around 80 to 85 years these days. It is politically incorrect to have sex of you are under 15 years of age and even forbidden (even though 90% of them still do it anyway, don’t you worry for them!). In retirement homes, a separation is still carefully made between the male and female quarters, but luckily for them, some still alert enough sneak across to the other side.

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A well-known chef in France recently stood up against genetically modified foods that according to him will bring about the disappearance of varieties of foods and uniformity of tastes. According to him, there will only be one type of tomato grown on earth, for example, giving only one taste. He has obviously not understood much and would do better to go back to his sauces and pasta instead of talking about something that he doesn’t understand. In fact most people who are against GM foods (or cloning) have no idea what they are talking about. Not only will genetically modified foods not diminish the number of varieties of vegetables, they will also create even more savoury ones. They will enable us to have huge strawberries with the taste of the smaller tastier forest strawberries, instead of the strawberries that have flooded our markets these days full of water with that rather insipid taste. And these new strawberries will be so huge that you will only need one per person for dessert. Transportation and conservation will certainly be that much easier. We could also create new shapes of fruits and vegetables with new colours and tastes. For example, blue bananas, scented with vanilla and round like tomatoes, or huge white grapes as big as apples and cinnamon flavoured, since both these tastes go so well together. When you mix the imagination of chefs with geneticists’ technology, we will be able to create thousands of different species whose tastes can be adapted to the various cultures and their local gastronomy. 176

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The “gastronomically correct” even extends to the type of animal we can eat. Why is it acceptable to eat some but not others? You can eat tuna, but you can’t touch dolphin, how terrible! And today an old French actress is stubbornly trying to stop the Korean habit of eating dog. The only way for these culinary bossy boots to be truly consistent with themselves is for them to become vegetarian. If they want to lament over the terrible lot of animals, then they will first have to refuse to put cute-eyed veal on their plates, refuse to eat chicken, which were once such adorable little fluff-balls, and refuse to eat ”foie-gras,” which required three weeks of pure suffering for the poor geese. If not, how can they kick up such a fuss against eating some animals while finding it quite normal to eat others. Eating a well prepared Korean dog is no worse than eating a roast chicken. I can see them now, these fat red-faced politically correct people, stuffing themselves with ”foie-gras” at their next feast, while whinging on about the lot of these poor animals exploited by those savages. Americans are always disgusted by the French habit of eating snails, frogs legs and rabbits and by the Japanese for eating live fish, while the French whine about Korean dogs. So should we become vegetarian? Scientists have now proven that plants also feel pain and are aware of their environment. So should we refrain from eating 177

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carrots and lettuce on the grounds that they too suffer when we tear them out of the ground and chop them up? We have to eat something, so what is left? Milk and cheese? Is it acceptable to rear animals just to steal the milk from their babies and replace it with feed made from ground-up dead animals that makes them mad or vegetable powder from plants which suffered? What about eggs? But if we should listen to the scandalised cries from the “pro life” lobby trying to prevent the exploitation of stem cells sampled from human foetuses, then there is surely some old actress somewhere who we can find to cry, “Let them live!” in defence of the unborn chicks! No doubt an association would rise up in defence of the rights of the unborn chicks. Which means no eggs either. So what can we eat? Stones perhaps, but I can already hear the friends of the earth and other such schools of thought frowning at the eyebrows. Don’t some people claim that “mother earth” has a ”soul”? All that is left for us to do is die, so that the worms and bacteria can feast on us, and that without any sense of guilt on their part. But joking aside, everything we have here on earth has been put here by the Elohim for our pleasure and for our nourish178

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ment. And that includes all the animals and plants whether you like it or not,. The only rule is that when we kill them, we should inflict the least amount of suffering possible. I would prefer to eat Korean dog that has not suffered than French veal that has been mistreated. I have eaten most dishes here on earth, including shark, crocodile, tortoise, dolphin, whale, castor, ostrich, bison, jelly fish, horse and African grasshoppers. And for my next trip to Korea, I will gladly try some dog, if I can be sure that it has not suffered. I will never allow myself to eat the least bit of chicken if I know it was battery farmed or mistreated, and I will never touch ”foie-gras”! Lets be consistent and not practice racism on animals by being “gastronomically correct” and eat some but not others. If veal were able to speak, they would surely ask, “Why me and not the dog”?

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causes and one of them is fashion. I think everything is connected, the big subjects as the smaller ones like fashion, this horrible fashion that humans have, the politically correct fashion. What I mean is that in the whole of mankind’s history, men have been wearing elegantly designed clothes. Remember how the aristocrats were dressed in the 14th to 17th centuries? But suddenly the suit and necktie appeared. It might have been okay if it had just been a passing fad, but its been going on now for over a century that men have been dressed so ugly with clothes designed only for productivity. It came with industrialisation, with democracy, all these kind of ideas most of which are good, but not all, especially that of wanting everyone to look the same. They thought it meant progress, but to have everybody looking identical is not progress. Quite the contrary, its better if everyone is different. Equal rights doesn’t mean equal dressing. They confused everything: they thought that if everyone has equal rights, they should all wear the same ugly grey suit. This was the start of uniformity, a problem that continues in the world to this day. All the worst political systems such as communism start by doing that; everyone has to dress the same and follow the socalled correct fashionable guidelines, and then gradually it turns into the politically correct and then the religiously correct without anyone even noticing. Women are slightly more protected than men in terms of fashion since they can usually always wear beautiful dresses of any colour, but pity the men! Throughout the centuries, fashion often changed, but then 180

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suddenly it froze. Wake up; we have to get out of this situation. When you all wear the same thing, you are preparing the grounds to all think the same. There is a link between fashion and a creative mind and revolutionary spirit. Many designers such as Carl Lagarfeld or Versace brought a revolution for men’s beauty. Part of the philosophy that I teach is to be oneself, whatever anyone else thinks, so long as we are non-violent. Other philosophical groups attempt to make everyone the same. My wish is the opposite. My greatest happiness is for Raelians to be even more different from each other when they leave one of our weeklong seminars compared to when they arrived. I have been telling them for the last 30 years, “Be yourselves, wear what you want, enjoy colours without worrying about fashion”. One day I realised that I myself was locked into my black clothes and I decided to change. I designed my own clothes. My aim was for them to represent spirituality, space, the future, and most of all, that it would be comfortable. Now all I do is change the material, since I have not found a better design. I am often criticised for my clothes.

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ficent. They only wear clothes for beauty’s sake. To wear clothes for any other reason would be considered stupid. The journalist : “Is the white colour linked to the purity of the messages?” Rael : No, but if people associate purity with white, then yes. And yet white is no less pure than black, ask my African friend here! That is a stupid way to think, black and white are both neutral colours. I chose white because it reflects light and shows the symbol well. No, there is no link between white and purity. I consider myself a bit like a virus contaminating the planet with new ideas, new visions and a new philosophy. If we remain at the same level as everyone else, we can’t push much further: we have to go further ahead to pull them further. That is what all the spiritual leaders did, such as Jesus and Buddha. Education can change everything. People are racist, antigay and against any differences though lack of education. We need to educate people not only to respect but also to encourage their neighbour to be as different as possible, because the more people are different from each other, the more humanity benefits. When we submit to being politically correct, we don’t think for ourselves anymore; we conform to what everyone else wants. That is why for me, fashion is not superficial. Fashion’s 182

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power over society is deep-rooted. That is why men should refuse to wear ties and three-piece suits and stop looking like George Bush. Wear pink. How about a skirt? Why not? I was having a good laugh with my friends the other day about the way people are now beginning to copy what I wear. So perhaps I should come and give a seminar in a pink miniskirt! I’d look pretty cute, don’t you think?

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SOME SNAP-SHOTS OF THE SEMINARS OF VARIOUS CONTINENTS

How about coming to the next seminars? Who knows if they will be the last ones given by RAEL himself

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The seminars in Africa

The joy of being together to change the world

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The monthly gathering in Montreal, Canada

The seminar in Japan: the enthusiasm the Maitreya brings

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Breaking a fast, meditation before the meal, Canada

Morning meditation in Japan

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Some shots from the shows which are given nightly during the seminars by the many raelian artists. In this case, Europe…

…this one during the opening ceremony of the Asia seminars.

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If you wish to order the statue of Rael, write to: International Raelien Movement Case Postale 225 – 1211 Genève 8 – Switzerland

Available in green, beige or white Large (30cm): 140.– CHF (+shipping costs) Small: 65.– CHF (+shipping costs)

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To contact RAEL, or for information on how to join the Raelian Movement, please go to www.rael.org or write to: International Raelian Movement, CP 225 – 1211 Genève 8 (Switzerland)

DON’T FORGET THAT SOMEWHERE NEAR YOU, THERE ARE WEEKLONG SEMINARS GIVEN EVERY YEAR BY RAEL HIMSELF If you would like to meet Rael personally and benefit from his exceptional teachings, then take part in the seminars in your area. Like for the thousands of people who have already enjoyed these seminars, they will prove to be a truly unforgettable experience. RAEL insists that those with less means should still be able to attend the seminars at reduced costs. Find out about the special rates for students and unemployed. On the other hand, becoming Raelien is free and will always be so. Meeting the Maitreya while he is still alive is an opportunity that you cannot afford to miss. Don’t wait until he is no longer with us! Make sure you are among those who will one day be able to say: “I actually met him in person”. 191

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A Message To The Youth “The more you need security, the more insecure you are, The more you seek insecurity, the more secure you are” Rael

The Lack Of Spirituality Among The Youth 3rd term 2000

Though “having” has been placed higher than ”being”, I am pleased to see that mystified spirituality based on old guilt-ridden beliefs and primitive myths has disappeared. What is a pity is that for most people, nothing has replaced them and all that remains is an empty desert. It is like a mirage in a desert whose edge is lined with objects. People move forward, motivated by their desire to possess what they 193

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see. They buy it, are happy for a short while, but then as they get used to it, their pleasure fades. Eventually they run out of happiness. The object no longer gives them the illusion of feeling good, so they look elsewhere and just hope. But there is no longer any spirituality. The big myths, the belief in god, or the devil have all disappeared. Suddenly they realise that however much money they have in the bank, whatever the objects they possess, it hasn’t made them any happier and a deep sense of despair sets in. This deep sense of despair is commonly seen among the young. The elderly have an advantage in that their brains do not function as well, so they are less aware of the hopelessness of their situation, or at least they will realise it later, and they have certainly got more patience. Perhaps too, it is because they are afraid of dying and so avoid looking face-on at the reality of time that brings them gradually to the end of their lives. For the young, everything is faster; they want to live and to be happy. But happiness is not a right; it has to be cultivated. The young need to be taught that they have to create their happiness, cultivate it, and make it. We have to give “being” back its rightful throne. I am not saying we should not possess anything. We need to “have” for our comfort, but we should focus primarily on the “being”, because “being” doesn’t ever grow around things that we possess. 194

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That is the main problem of the youth today, and that is why suicide is their number one killer in the world today, by far above road accidents, cancer or AIDS. According to the World Health Organisation, (WHO) about one million people committed suicide in the year 2000 and about 10 to 20 times that number attempted it around the world. Quite impressive! This represents an average of about one death every 40 seconds, and an attempt every three seconds. One million people, who feel so bad that they chose to die because they no longer “are”. When we “are” we don’t feel like dying. “Having” cons us into thinking we ”are”, but one fine day we wake up to realise that we “have” nothing, zilch, empty. It is precisely at that moment that we should turn to a pure spirituality, this little something that allows human beings to be aware of the privilege of being alive, of being made up of particles of unconscious infinity becoming conscious. All of a sudden, we become aware of our infinitude. That is the privilege of people who are aware. They are happy because they are squeezing the maximum joy out of this momentary passage that is their lives. I can understand how people decide to die when they don’t feel good, and I respect them. We never chose to be born, but we can choose to die. A long time ago, our ancestors lived in deep discomfort. They were unhappy because they didn’t have enough to eat; they were cold and had no security at all, no health insurance, nothing. It was a world of animals, it was terrible, and yet there were very few suicides, because they had an extraordi195

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nary faith in the future and the construction of humanity. We need to rediscover this faith and give it back to the young. A new society is beginning to wake up. Not all is at an end; on the contrary, people need to realise we are in the middle of constructing an interplanetary, intergalactic civilisation, and if I were 15 or 16 years old right now, I would be so excited with the idea that one day I might travel to other planets, link up with other civilisations. It is fantastic! It is fascinating! Don’t let anyone tell you that the show is over, “There is no future”, as so many of the youth say. Inspire them with the hope of seeing this new spirituality grow, which is so essential for each human being. Man, as a famous philosopher once said, is a religious animal. Human beings need religion, but new religions, such as the religion of the human being, not those old primitive religions. In Latin, “religere” means to feel linked, to nature for example. It is already beginning to hatch right now under our very eyes, such as the ecologist movements, or this sort of mix of various Asiatic religions, or the connections being woven between the traditional American people, who feel connected to the trees, the plants, the animals, to the planet and its cycle with the sun and moon. That is real spirituality. It is a materialistic spirituality and is what people need right now, not an unreal spirituality with devils and gods; no one wants those any more, least of all the youth, and they are right! We want a spirituality where human beings realise that they are gods themselves, that is to say, they are ”everything”, that they are infinity themselves since they 196

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are linked with all other humans beings on earth, with all that is alive and all that is not alive, the stars, planets, infinity! Look around, feel, you are bits of infinity becoming aware of yourselves. Feel yourselves ONE, united with the stars, the planets the animals and the trees! Experience this type of religiosity that comes from feeling linked to everything around us, with our cells, with what we are composed of, with our neighbour and those distant from us, with what is living around us, plants, the ocean, the moon and the universe. You need never feel like dying. If we don’t seek depth in our spirituality and beliefs, then the suicide rate is going to increase to several per minute and the list of the dead will become even longer. The young no longer want to go to church; they have had enough of the priest, the devil with all his knobs on. They want something else.

The Spiritual Adventure – Quebec 1995

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was amazing for them; it was dangerous struggling against unknown animals, but their enthusiasm and hope dominated their fear. Today all that is over; everywhere on earth has already been explored and we are not advanced enough yet to go and explore other planets. So what adventures are still open to us? And yet people need adventures and the young even more. Once upon a time, you could go for a high-speed spin at 200km/h and feel giddy just from the speed. Today all that’s over, there are radars everywhere. Prohibited! Here the speed limit is 100km/h and though the motors are of 200-300 horsepower, they don’t seem to go any faster than cars 40 years ago. Very strange! There is no adventure left, every sport is controlled, all the sportspeople wear protection for each part of their bodies; no one can take any risks any more. But there is one type of adventure that remains, the spiritual adventure. I have been dreaming for a long time of creating a spiritual travel agency where people would be able to go and explore on spiritual safaris! Be a Scientologist for a day, a Buddhist for another day, a 198

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Jew another, Muslim another and a Raelian for another. Change, look around, check it out, try it; it is fascinating to take a tour of what exists. You might even find something that suits you; you have to look everywhere, rub shoulders with other belief systems and enrich yourselves. And if some try to hinder you by wheeling in the sect label, don’t let fear put you off from going on your adventure, it would be such a pity, because if so, there is nothing else left to discover.

Risk Is The Spice Of Life Montreal - 13 November 1995

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And you, what do you provide, what risks are you taking? And yes, it is precisely risk-taking that is the interesting part! Did you know that most people who succeed financially, or who become millionaires, never had any diplomas, most were self-taught? They know how to take risks. Isn’t that interesting? I am not saying that we shouldn’t go to school, but I am saying that we should only stay there as long as we are learning something and then leave as soon as possible. As soon as we feel like creating something, jump right in and risk it! There are people who, one fine day, decide to take a risk, for example by inventing a machine with caterpillar tracks for going on the snow, the Ski-Doo! That is what Mr Bombardier from Valcourt did, and everyone thought he was mad! And yet today it is a huge company with many employees. He could have continued to travel by horseback in the snow, but no, he took the risk! There are still lots of things to invent, create and risk! I encourage young people to risk it and take up an activity where they can be independent, where they will create their own employment and become an independent worker and look after themselves. The first settlers who arrived in Quebec didn’t ask “Who can give us a job please?” They went into the woods and brought back furs. There was no medical insurance. They took care of themselves and the result today is 200

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this wonderful country! They risked setting off to another country not knowing what they would find at the other end, but they took that chance and accepted the consequences. Taking a risk is much more interesting than waiting in line at the unemployment bureau every month. Right now as I speak, there are young people listening to a boring old teacher, for weeks on end, who follow their boring course and see their boring parents all week, but they will get a certificate at the end, and then perhaps be on the dole. I can understand why they end up considering suicide. But if suddenly they were to react: “Stop, that’s enough… I’ve decided to take a look around, change my ideas, study some philosophies to bring a bit of spirituality into my life, something that will be like a backbone, and give me a sense of joy in life, something that will allow me to understand where I’m coming from, why I’m here and where I’m going. Then I’ll feel good, I will look after myself and create my own job. I will create a company, a concept that doesn’t exist yet. I will stand on my own two feet”. Let’s bring risk back into our society. Sure, it’s risky! But are you sure that you can eliminate all risks if you just stay at home or sign on every week for unemployment benefit? No, because there is still the largest risk of all, and that is the risk of boredom! So bored you want to die. If you want a society where all risk is eliminated, then stop living. If you want a risk-free society, then stop kissing people on the mouth, because you could catch something. Put a 201

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mask on to breath. Taking risks is to live. Living means to take risks! I am not saying that we should go totally crazy and take risks unnecessarily. No, we should use our judgement before taking risks, such as using a condom when making love, or looking to the left and right when crossing a road. If we don’t want to take the risk of falling, then best never walk! Just the fact that I am alive means I am taking a risk. To avoid taking risks, I could commit suicide, if I do that, I am risking nothing, but that defeats the purpose. Encourage yourselves to take risks, to rub shoulders with each other, to experiment. Go and do something elsewhere, with your hands, your head, your mind, your heart. Sure, you will risk the pain of falling down, but in the end you will win, isn’t that wonderful? And then you can truly say, “I’m alive!” What about school curricula, Rael ? Pupils are being taught courses that will be completely out of date by the time they have completed them. That is terrible! And the young people know it, it is something they are increasingly aware of. So what they were taught at school ten years ago is totally irrelevant to the market demands today, to what companies need. What we are teaching the youth today doesn’t correspond to the jobs of tomorrow. They spend hours learning how to type, to write short hand, and yet at the same time, key202

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boardless computers are being designed today with microchips that will record their speech and transcribe it directly onto their computer screens. If we continue to teach students what we did a few years ago, we will not be preparing them for the future. What we need to teach them is what we will be doing tomorrow. Sure, that is a risk to take, but we need to teach the youth how to take risks, help them experience risk taking, in sport, for their professions and in love. We are teaching them to overprotect themselves and this doesn’t correspond to tomorrow’s society, where there will be more and more danger. We must prepare them for these dangers, help them discover the beauty of danger, because danger is beautiful, it’s exciting! Today we have AIDS. What can we do to never catch it? Should we never make love, or should we use a condom? Never make love? You could always try! In fact, that is what the pope advocates, abstinence. At around 15 to 16 years old, we are volcanoes, Mt. Fuji in eruption! So what should they do? Abstain? Okay, then you’re going to have to tie their hands to the bed as the Christians used to do. Let’s get real! Why are there so many people who go bunjie jumping? Why do so many young people climb to the top of the highest mountains, or sail or surf the biggest waves? Because that is the way man is made; man wants to take risks. Because we only appreciate life when we are risking it. Being born is a 203

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risk! The fact that we were conceived was a risk. The little sperm that allowed us to be conceived was ejaculated along with 300 million others. Only one survived, the rest died, and it is thanks to this that we exist today. It is wonderful! Our lives started out with a risk of 300 million to one against us, and yet we succeeded. Our birth is a challenge to existence. We need to teach hope to the young. Explain to them how beautiful it is to struggle in this society to be able to find a challenge that excites our brain, that stimulates our minds and gives us the desire to live.

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A Happy Humanity “When we reach the stage when the citizens of a borderless and armyless united world can exercise their freedom to be as different as possible from everyone else, so they may love themselves even more, and when the religions and philosophies will multiply infinitely until every human being will end up as the only member of their own religion, the religion of their own consciousness, of their own genetic code, unique and incomparable, only then will humans have attained what some call god, and what I prefer to call cosmic consciousness” Rael

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after the baby is born. There is no other way around it, the macro-organism of humanity, this huge child which is being born, has to go through this stage so that it can move up to a different level and become the cosmic man, and that is what is happening now. And so people are made redundant. The advantage of being a human being, rather than a cell, is that humans are not systematically eliminated when they no longer serve any function, whereas cells are. Sure, there might be momentary pecuniary difficulties, but it is not by complaining or criticising or listening to disinformation that we will stop unemployment.

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nue with donations so as to teach these countries how to stay eternal beggars? Or rather, shouldn’t we instead just buy the products of these countries? Surely that would be the best way to help them! That is how Japan was able to rise from its misery after the war: we all bought Japanese. Our watches, cameras and camcorders are all Japanese. The real way to help the developing worlds is to “buy foreign”. Loving one’s neighbour is good, but loving ones foreigner is even better. When we buy from foreign countries, especially from those with very low incomes, then we are helping millions of people to receive salaries rather than donations. Their profit margin might not be so high, but at least they are salaries. It is better than for them to pass the hat around and force them into becoming beggars. We have already learned how to love our neighbour as oneself, now we should also love our “distant foreigner” as oneself too. That is the real way to help the developing world; buy the products made by the poorest countries so that one day everyone on this planet may eat, clothe themselves, have somewhere to sleep, and have the minimum necessary to be able to live a decent life with dignity. Being Revolutionary – December 1992 Many years ago, Jesus overturned the stalls of the merchants in the temple. Today, there are still many things that need 207

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overturning. That is why we need to be non-violent revolutionaries! Non-violent, but we still need to act, non-violent, but with energy, non-violent but assertive. Who today would say that Jesus was violent? And yet he did chase out the merchants. Mohammed was expelled from his country of origin. He returned with the sword, still non-violent, but enough to make himself respected. The same for the first Buddhists, at first they were constantly being attacked and treated with disrespect, but then still non-violent, it was they who developed the martial arts. It is always among the minorities that consciousness develops; it is always among the minorities that the spirit flows. It was fantastic to be Buddhist at the time of Buddha, Christian at the time of Jesus. All the prophetic and messianic messages are exquisitely adapted to this new age. That is why we need to prepare ourselves before this new age arrives. To remain a Christian in the twentieth century means that one is locked into the old age. If Jesus or Buddha were here today, they would be Raelian. When Jesus arrived 2000 years ago with his message so advanced for its time, he was killed. Mohammed was thrown out of his village where he preached, for the same reason. When we live at the same time as a prophet and follow him, 208

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it gives us a head start. It is this head start that means that the most revolutionary people most adapted to the age to come are mobilised. These people have something in common; they have so much love for humanity that they are prepared to lose their jobs, their friends and their goods to help it. It is not easy for human beings to understand that there are other people more advanced than them somewhere in space. It is hard for them to realise they are not the most brilliant in the world and not at the center of the universe. And yet some people do have enough humility to understand this. And thankfully so, because it would be too depressing to think that we, with all our aggression and lack of love and compassion for others, were the ultimate marvels of marvels or that it were not possible to find a more beautiful civilisation.

No One Can Predict The Future – April 1999

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Without realising it, she will be looking out for a dark man with a red shirt. Of course she will find one as there is always one somewhere with those characteristics. And when she meets him, she will have a big smile on her face… of course! She won’t be hostile, because she had the dream about him and most probably that will lead to a contact. If a pretty woman smiles at a dark man with a red shirt, you can bet your bottom dollar he will smile back, approach her and start a conversation. Then they will go for a drink together, they will see each other again, and make love. So then this woman will say with conviction that, “I had a premonitory dream about meeting a dark man in a red shirt and it happened”. Of course, she met him because she went looking for him. In a way, she set up the meeting. And yet, the man of her life could have been blond in a green shirt sitting right beside her, and she wouldn’t have noticed him!! Maybe the dark man would be unbearable; maybe he would beat her and take all her money. But she “dreamt” of him, so she loves him! Beware! The belief in the supernatural conditions many people’s lives. We would do better to realise that it is our perception through our senses that conditions us, what we eat, hear, see, all our environment conditions our lives whether we are aware of it or not. Why did she dream of a dark man in a red shirt? Maybe she saw a film with a handsome charmer in a red shirt. She liked him and so dreamt of him the next evening, that she would meet him and spend time with him. Dreams are just amalgams of facts, thoughts, desires all caught up in our memory and released during the night by our brain. 210

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This example illustrates how we are completely responsible for our own lives. It is important to understand that. I am the only one responsible for my life! I can choose between good and bad, and that is so much more wonderful than the supernatural peddled to us by all these dealers of false hope to people who are so unhappy, that they are ready to believe any old charlatan. There is nothing wonderful about saying, “It was meant to be,” because that means you have no choice in the matter. It is much more wonderful when every moment offers all choices possible. Every time I do something new, I open myself to a multitude of yet undiscovered opportunities. Isn’t that fantastic! I can change my life at any moment depending on what I chose. Happiness in life is to have all possibilities available at any time, such as being able to approach someone I have consciously chosen, with whom I might wish to spend some time, perhaps a long time. Happiness is also the possibility of being able to change job, country, and language when all these possibilities are available. The human adventure is fabulous. It is our life adventure and we have the choice, using our consciousness.

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We are moving forward toward the third millennium, the year 2000 that everyone is talking so much about. In fact, the year 2000 only corresponds to the Christian calendar. Everyone has accepted this, but it is still good to remember that it was only because the Christians, who are not even a majority on earth, imposed their calendar on everyone else. So as I was saying, as we approach the year 2000, we can see a whole bunch of minorities popping up everywhere talking about the end of the world. I find that quite amusing, because it is the opposite to the end of the world, though it is the end of the way people think about the world. In fact the year 2000 is more like the beginning of a new world rather the end of the world. We are entering amazing times, where children, even tiny ones, are perfectly comfortable with technology. Just the other day I saw a program about six-year olds using joysticks: truly unbelievable! They are playing at lightning speeds right in front of their parents, who are totally unaware that they are breeding a generation who will have a totally different conception of the universe from themselves or myself for example, whose childhood toys were made of wood. They were nice toys, and developed the imagination, but I would have so much liked to have been born today, into the world of computers, where everyone takes it for granted to control 212

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with keyboards and explore the internet and discover the world with perfect ease. The age of computers is wonderful. It allows us to explore virtual universes and be instantaneously linked with everyone inhabiting this planet and discuss things in chat rooms. Our network of computers is humanity’s central nervous system that the Elohim tell us about. We are linked to everywhere just as neurons are all interconnected in the brain. Now all of a sudden, everyone on earth can connect together, and short circuit governments and their forms of national censorship. The Internet is wonderful; it plugs us in to the whole planet. So what a pleasure it is to be alive today! What a pleasure it is to exist! Back in humanities past, people had no chance of enjoying such contrasts. Certainly, there was the invention of gunpowder, and of the printing press that changed many things, but nothing on this scale. It is a great privilege to live in this age of technological upheaval, the likes of which have never been seen before. As the wooden toy is replaced by the computer, the horse by the car, the plane, the satellite and then the Internet, we are presently experiencing the most exciting transmutation in the history of humanity, and I am not just talking about the technological areas. On the spiritual level too, millions of people are still staggering under the burden of a supernatural god, a purely spiritual god. Deists are lost, confused, and bewildered, anything 213

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new knocks them for six counts, and each new discovery chips away at their fragile balance built on the house of cards of their beliefs. Very soon, we will create life in our own laboratories and we will be as gods ourselves. The world that is coming is completely unimaginable and the world revolution looming up is also totally incredible. Many prophets in the past spoke about the new age, the wonderful future. That was just spiritual. Today, we are moving from spirituality to science.

A Spin-Off Of Progress, Being Happy International Convention In Geneva - 7th October 2001 We live in a society that lacks imagination. We teach children not to have any and instead cultivate their memories. Memory is built on the past, it has gone, finished, and in this sense the past is dead. Both art and science have pure imagination in common, because every discovery, every invention and artistic creation stems from the imagination. What is the imagination? It is to make new things out of old. In fact, the brain can only create things with information that it already has and that it organises in a new way, according to its inspiration. That is how every future technology such as cloning and nanotechnology are born.

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In this way, you will be able to reach eternal life. Yes, I said eternal life. This will happen in stages, but we are getting there. For those of you who are less than 40 years old, you will live those times. It is possible that you will never die! I say 40 but it could be 50, or even 60; one never knows. Whatever it is, science will allow us to increase our lifespan as a first step. Not so long ago, even 35 or 40 years was an enviable life expectation. Today the average is about 85 years and many say that this will soon shift to 120 years of age. American life insurances already have policies that go up to 120 years old. So if we start from the hypothesis that we will live until we are 120 years old, then soon we will be able to increase this lifespan by 50 to 100%. Let’s stay pessimistic with only 50%, then 120 plus 60 means that we will be able to live from 180 to 200 years old. That promises plenty of time to have lots of pleasurable moments! And during these extra 60 years, we are bound to make even more discoveries, since every 10 years we are discovering more than we ever discovered in the past few centuries, and each time, this period is reduced by half. In five years, we will discover more than we ever discovered before, then in two and a half years, then one year, then six months, then three. We are accelerating at a speed that you don’t even suspect, and which even the greatest scientists can’t yet imagine, even if some of them foresee it. So, as mentioned above, we still have another forty or fifty years to live. By that time, the rate of progress will have accelerated exponentially, allowing us to discover how to extend our lives by yet another 215

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hundred years. And just another short time after that, we will discover how to extend it by yet another 300 years or so, all of which portends for a very long life. For the moment, we just need to be patient and be careful not to blow it all when crossing the road! And then after several life-lengthening stages, we will eventually reach a ceiling level which man cannot yet imagine, which is the natural lifespan of our cells of seven to nine hundred years, as the Elohim had demonstrated right at the beginning on earth with the first humans, such as the patriarchs of the Bible. From that moment on, we will be able to prolong life by using cloning to create a new body for those who deserve it, and we will transfer our personality and memory and start another seven hundred years of life. And believe me, this is not science fiction; we are almost there!

Money – April 2001

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where we are now, and while taking care not to become too numerous, to become sufficiently wise to be happy on a planet without violence, without work or money. For the moment, the concept of a world without money is still too Utopian, so we have to consider that both money and capitalism are good, because paradoxically, that is the best way to create a world without money one day. Both capitalism and globalisation are very important for freeing mankind. We can all see what communism brings by looking at the state of communist countries today. It is obvious to what extent this type of regime is anti-progress and destroys all possibility of development on Earth. On the other hand, capitalism allows those who contribute the most to society to help it develop and progress and to make discoveries. Capitalism allows scientific and technological development and so for the moment, money is essential. And yet money is money’s worst enemy. We have to help our society produce as much money as possible because the more money there is, the more it will implode one day. This will be thanks to the way nanotechnology* will produce basic materials such as food and industrial products at extremely low prices and extremely fast. Also thanks to all the new technologies knocking at our door, we will be witness to a fantastic socio-economic upheaval and our financial system will crumble by itself. But that is not quite for tomorrow. So for the moment, let’s be happy with what is already gaining in momentum: the end of employment, which also will 217

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progressively contribute to the dissolution of money. The reason we work is to make enough money to live. But if nobody works, then how will we live? We will be forced to find a system where everyone has sufficient food, clothes and shelter. Thus we will gradually reach a wonderful society where we will all have the basic necessities to live happily. And for those who wish to use their intelligence to produce some artistic or scientific creation, then they can do it purely for love. The painter will no longer need to paint for the purpose of trying to sell to some millionaire, but for the pleasure of offering as a gift to someone they like. The scientist will no longer need to invent or discover things as a way of making money, but for the pleasure of improving the lives of others, for the pure pleasure of research. That is the world we are heading towards. *Please see “Yes to Human Cloning” by Rael, published by the Raelian Foundation.

Human Free Choice – August 2001

The Elohim created us with free choice. They created us free. They could have made us as robots, only able to do good, but if we only do good because we have no other choice, then it is not an act of consciousness. If so, we would be machines only able to repeat the same 218

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thing in the same way. Bet we are not machines, we are bits of consciousness. That is the way the Elohim wanted it. And if we are bits of consciousness, we have free choice over our lives. Doing good is our free choice. It is wonderful and so much better for us to be in a position to choose at all times to do so. With my hand, I can caress or kill. Just with one hand, we can kill, one punch can be deadly, one hand can strangle. Or otherwise we can caress, help, or save with this same hand. Therefore it is not the tool that is important, it is the way we use it, and that is decided by our consciousness. Never forget, no one can be aware without freedom. Freedom is an essential condition for consciousness. This principle reflects the gift that the Elohim provided for us. They created us as biological robots, but gave us consciousness, and one day we said no to them. Of course, there is always a risk that given too much awareness, machines will become too powerful and dominate us. It is an interesting exercise in humility to imagine that, as it reminds us that we are not superior as we too often think. The most advanced computer scientists have already considered this possibility today as they attempt to create supercomputers with superior intelligence, but without any risk of destroying us one day. There is an American association*, I forget the name, which believes that man is just a stage to go through, which needs to 219

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free itself from its conservation instinct. And if the universe fares better with computers instead of man as superior species on earth, then all well and good, we should encourage them as we will avoid much suffering. What a beautiful thought! It is not true of course, but it is an interesting thought! Yet we can hope that human beings will raise their level of awareness and use electronic prostheses to create a world of peace, love and fraternity in which computers will think how wonderful their creators are and enjoy helping them, being at their service and loving them. * Trans-humanism

Yes To Eugenics One of the most recent scientific studies proves that intelligence is genetic. Thanks to genetics, we will soon be able to choose not only the sex and appearance of our children, but also their superior intelligence with scientific or artistic tendencies. Eugenics is becoming an exact science thanks to our growing understanding of human DNA. Many are the conservative scientists of yesterday who try to frighten the people by pretending there are dangers in improving the genetics of the human race. They are against it in principle and reject everything in one 220

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go, claiming this is the privilege of the god in which they still believe. They wheel out the old association between eugenics and racism that they got from the delusions of the Nazi “superior races”. One of the most recent scientific discoveries proves that intelligence is genetic. If intelligence is genetic, it means that soon we will be able to improve it. All sorts of opponents to the idea are coming out of the woodwork and getting hysterical at the thought. For them, intelligence can only be due to the environment! As if dimwittedness and Down’s Syndrome were due to the environment! Any parent in the world hope their children be as intelligent as possible, and if their own ancestors had passed down genetic mistakes generation after generation that might have given them club feet or cauliflower ears, or worse still, deadly genetic diseases, then it is perfectly legitimate for them to wish to stop these from being passed down to their children. There is no parent worthy of being called a parent, who would not want the best for their child as far as intelligence is concerned. To claim that “only chance or god (which is just another name for chance used by certain primitive people) have the right to decide if the genetic disease of which I suffer is passed or not down to my children” is as criminal as it is irresponsible, and no parent with any sense will refuse the technology to eradicate it when it becomes available. All that will remain will be a few conservative dinosaurs of 221

anti-science who will continue to bear genetically handicapped children, unless a law is passed to prevent such a crime against future humanity. The opponents to such progress forget one important thing when they associate this with Nazi projects and that is the latter wished to improve only one race to make it superior to all others. On the contrary, modern genetic eugenics will allow the whole of the human race to improve, without any distinction as to race, religion or ethnic group. Another thing that we are discovering today is that violent behaviour can also be genetic. Isn’t this discovery wonderful, since soon, as they do on the Elohim’s planet, those with a genetic tendency for violence will be able to be cured genetically, bringing us one step closer to a world without prison.

The Basic Goodness Of Man – October 2001

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ded even more. When we judge someone, we only judge the result and we don’t understand the cause. If we understand the cause, we can have much more love and compassion for people. It is much more important to focus on why they are doing it rather than what are they are doing. And in so doing, we will always find there is a reason behind why people behave badly. This allows us to understand them better and so love them better, without necessarily pointing out their mistake immediately in case they can’t handle it, except where it can help them. It is important to know how to give people time to grow. The only way to help them change and improve their behaviour is to give them models that can act as examples that will incite them to question their own behaviour. Deep down, every human being is good. There are no “baddies,” there are only people who are suffering, as I think Gandhi said. There are people with problems with unpleasant behaviour patterns, but deep down, initially everyone is kind. I love this image: if we were to show you a lovely little beautiful baby, playing, laughing, running, then everyone would watch these images with big smiles all over their faces thinking how beautiful this baby’s joy and happiness is. But what would they say if they were to learn that this baby is Adolf Hitler? Suddenly their expressions would fall. And yet he was once an innocent child just as we once were, marvelling as all children do at the insects, flowers and birds. What made him 223

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become such a monstrous tyrant? Most probably a number of factors, his education, the wrong models, a series of mistakes, etc. Don’t forget before you judge even the worst criminal, that they were all once cute and pure children. What have we done to them? What has society done to make them like that? What has conditioned them so? If we think of that more often, then we would have a bit more compassion for delinquents and criminals. That doesn’t mean we should not do what’s necessary to protect society from them. But wouldn’t it be more efficient to deal with the root of the problem rather than the symptoms so as to prevent them from being potentially dangerous, and heal them instead of condemning them to incarceration or death?

Geniocracy

Interview by William Faure, President of Human Rights without Borders – Amsterdam 8th April 2000

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body. Are the cells of the feet “sub-cells” compared to those of the brain? It would be stupid to think like that. The brain needs the feet. Each cell has its own speciality. Let me illustrate this with an amusing story. A French humorist had imagined a dialogue between the brain and the anus. One day, the brain accused the anus of being useless. The anus replied: “If I am of no use, then I shall go on strike”. Within a week the brain was begging the anus to open up again because it was drowning in toxins and couldn’t function anymore. I find this story very amusing, because it illustrates that there is no superiority between the different parts of the body; they are all perfectly inter-dependant with one another. The same applies to humanity. The problem with humanity is that at the moment, it is the anus that is in charge. You can see this in every field, in the economy and politics, and the results are famine, violence and wars. We are very badly governed all over the world.

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years. We need a license to drive a car, so why don’t we need a license to vote? Though we don’t yet know how to measure the global capacity of the brain, the Elohim do and so can measure who on their planet is most apt to work as foot cells or other organs, to return to the analogy used earlier. But there, it is the brain that decides, not the feet. That is Geniocracy as applied by the Elohim. Geniocracy allows those who are more intelligent to make the rest of the people happy. You have to admit that the system we have today is far form being able to make everyone in the world happy.

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Africa “Let us unite, people of the earth, we are one people: whether we be black, white, yellow, people of Islam, Judaism or Atheist, we are all fingers of the same hand!” Rael

The Casualties From The Colonisation Of Africa - 1987

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frontiers of totally artificial states so as to best divide and pillage the local resources. They took no account whatsoever of the African people living there so that each African state ended up containing dozens of different peoples whose traditions, customs and languages had nothing to do with each other. So much so that they couldn't even understand each other. But who cares! The colonists decreed that all these diverse peoples should live together inside arbitrary borders, containing artificial countries, centered around an all-powerful capital where the inhabitants’ lives would be determined, simply because their slight technological disadvantage didn’t allow them to repel their invaders in time. As long as the colonial power imposed its authority by force, there was no problem. Every African was submitted equally to this tyranny, bringing them closer together against the common enemy and uniting the various ethnic tribes who previously used to fight each other. Gradually their sense of injustice increased giving birth to the first militant revolts against colonisation. Then inevitably, in a world that claims to be based on rights rather than brute force of armies, decolonisation occurred. The colonial powers up and left, but they left behind them a central administrative power based on the European model which did not take into account the ethnic realities of the local cultures. The problems started once independence was achieved. Thanks to the laws of democracy inherited from the 228

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colonisers, the ethnic group with the larges population would automatically gain power. Real decolonisation would have been to give back independence to each tribe as they were before colonisation forced their arbitrary merging. They should have created a myriad of small independent states. Tutsis and Hutus would each have had their own territories to administer and we would not have known the present day wars. This process would have allowed each of these small African states to create a Federation comparable to those of the United States of America, or to what is presently occurring in Europe. It is not too late to start again, by deconstructing the present day states and their borders, created by the colonial powers.

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corruption running rife in these so called decolonised countries to continue to extract their resources. If each ethnic group or people were to regain control over the natural resources in their own territory, it would be much more difficult for the European pillagers to manipulate prices and production through the intermediary of multinational powers. Don’t forget that every conflict allows European arms manufacturers to make juicy profits even when they officially condemn or publicly deplore it. The recent military interventions demonstrate to what extent the independence given to so-called decolonised states is simply relative. As soon as any head of African state wishes to establish privileged relations with a state their ex-colonists don’t approve of, the latter’s armies come running to bring the African country back to heel. They sometimes even depose the government, even if elected democratically, and replace it with one more sympathetic to the ex-colonist powers. And if some resistance is manifest, they don’t remain insensitive to large “funds” deposited in Swiss banks. In fact it is interesting to note that almost every African leader has a bank account in Switzerland, despite currency export controls set up to prevent the meagre capital of these African countries from being exported out. What is the source of revenue to maintain these Swiss accounts? Africans, wake up! Destroy the borders of these states that you never chose, and create your own new states based on 230

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natural frontiers and ancestral tribes or populations which existed pre-colonisation. And then establish a Federation of these various countries that you create. African natural resources can then benefit the local populations rather than the multinationals hungry for profit. Thus each ethnic group or nation can discover its roots, traditions and language. All the inhabitants of this huge African continent can adopt a second federal language so they can all communicate with each other. It would be preferable that this language is not that of their ex-colonists. The ex-French colonies should adopt English as their second language as it is increasingly becoming the world language. The traditional African religions should be officially taught at school and to the people (in fact they never quite disappeared) since they are part of the African cultural heritage. This would provide a gradual de-Christianisation. One should not forget that Christianity was used as an instrument to enslave the conquered people and an attempt to make them lose their identity. Their ancestral cultures contained a large variety of local religions, which the colonists despised and called primitive. They were beautiful and were just as valid as Christianity or Islam, since they were directly related to the Elohim. Finally, it is time for Africans to realise that under the guise of “cooperation” their “co-operators” and other such “advisors” (which the ex-colonising countries so kindly put at the service of the African countries) are in fact structures desi231

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gned to maintain control, so that independence remains just a word, but never in fact actualises into concrete facts. Yes, it is really high time that Africans reach a true independence and finish with the comedy. It is not charity that “developing countries” need, but freedom to develop.

Your Inferiority Complex Is Your Greatest Enemy Speech in Brazzaville – Congo, 13th December 2001

I know many Africans still have an inferiority complex vis a vis Europeans. Your greatest enemy is yourselves, not the excolonists, nor the colonisation itself, whether it was political, cultural or religious. And every time you think that you are inferior to the whites, you are fighting against yourselves. I tell you, and shout it loud, you are not inferior to whites at all; in fact I would add that you are even slightly superior. Imbibe well these words! Why? Because you still have the purity that they lost. They lost their innocence because of their culture and especially their crimes. Crimes such as slavery, colonisation and all that you underwent. You were victims. They were guilty, and feeling guilty makes them lose their purity, their freshness, because they become sour, they become more and more unpleasant, they become deprived of love and gradually, their society disintegrates and ends up by disappearing. 232

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Africa still has its enthusiasm, its freshness, and Africans should not forget this. I remember having heard all too often: “Whites invented everything, whites discovered everything and we poor Africans have achieved nothing”. Never say this! Yes, certainly, they made some major and minor discoveries, since they have geniuses amongst them. But those are exceptional and most non-Africans are not capable of inventing gunpowder, electricity or genetics. There are still many things to discover, so don’t give yourselves any complexes. There are just as many intelligent, stupid or closed-minded people among them as there are among the African people. And those who are brilliant have never committed crimes against your culture, against your peoples or against Africa, never. The ones who invaded you were just stupid colonists, who just exploited other people’s inventions like gunpowder and airplanes. And so it is still today, you have the same type of people with the same ulterior motives who are abusing you in their quest to dominate Africa, both politically and culturally. Your greatest mission now is to educate your youth. Young people are your future. Don’t pay any attention to what the western powers tell you about education when they advise you to go for industrial training. All they want to do is maintain their lead over you 233

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and keep you as part of the “developing world”. Its just neocolonisation! On the contrary, I would like to see every child with a computer at school; that should be your priority. If everyone were connected to the Internet as soon as possible, they would have direct access to information and knowledge of the whole world. In this way, they would be able to catch up and progress rapidly to the same level as people from other continents. Rid yourselves of all complexes! It is yourselves who are putting the poison in your own heads. You are capable of being better than them on every level. I insist, on every level, but you need to believe in yourselves! And to believe in yourselves, you need to rediscover your roots and culture, while at the same time keeping in mind a sort of pride in future science, which is what will allow you to not only equal your ex-colonisers, but surpass them.

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In fact, everything that exists has never really been invented, it always existed somewhere. All we can do is reinvent, and that requires knowing how to look and being able to express it concretely. Whether we are talking about the genetic code, the atom, steel, the wheel, lightening or electricity, all this existed before we discovered it. It simply took people who were sufficiently observant who wanted to reproduce it. There are African inventors, there are Mozarts among the Africans, there are Einsteins too, but they didn’t and still don’t have the means to express it. Had Einstein or Mozart been brought up by wolves, they would have just howled with the wolves. They would never have composed their symphonies or helped advance science. That is what you need to understand and it is an important truth. If you place genius children among the wolves, they will turn out like the human wolves that we discovered in the past in various parts of the world. They walked on all fours and were incapable of standing upright, because if you spend all your time on your hands and knees up to a certain age, then you will never be able to walk upright. They couldn’t talk either; in fact you could say that they could no longer become human. If you bring Mozart up with the wolves, despite the genius that he is born with, he will never be able to play the piano, because to create a melody, one needs to have already acquired some knowledge before being able to express one’s genius. That is why it is so important to educate and provide access to information, to knowledge, in order to succeed the extraordinary, as the human genius is capable of. 235

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Please never forget that you are in a state of development as are all the people on earth. Don’t let a prejudice stop you; don’t be held back by an inferiority complex. Go and explore the sciences, go and explore knowledge, push your children, encourage them, not just to equal the white man, but to surpass him because they are capable and because it is their duty to do so. And one day perhaps, your culture will be so developed that Europeans will come and study in Africa.

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America’s Mistakes “Being right is always wrong, only love is right” Rael Montreal 7th April 2002

There is a doomsday clock created by some scientists, which counts down how much time is left for humanity before humanity self-destructs. Not so long ago, we were at 9 minutes before the end, today we are at just 7 minutes. We are running out of time. The reason is very simple, there is just not enough of the most beautiful expression of consciousness remaining in the world: Love.

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Too many horrors, too many murders! And for each of these deaths, the killers always had their own “good reasons”: they were defending their country, their family, their honour. If a person killed his wife because she slept with someone else, it's a "good" reason. But reason is always wrong. Only Love is right. Whether the bombs are wrapped around their belts, or dropped from an airplane, they both apply the same terrorism. The greatest act of terrorism perpetrated on earth was committed by the country that claims to defend freedom the most: the United States of America. In one fell swoop, and through the orders of just one man, this country killed 300,000 people, 300,000 poor people who were simply living their lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. That totals 100 times more than the 2,700 people dead following the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center. 300,000 dead at once! Not because they were close to any military installation, but because by carrying out this monstrous act, the American government thought they could terrorise the Japanese into surrendering and accepting to sign a document of defeat to end the war. Can we call it an act of humanity when someone uses violence to intimidate others into submission as a means to make them obey their wishes? Do such means justify the end even when the end is such a beautiful cause as peace?

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No! Causes, however much we justify them, are always wrong because they create death. And the death of even a single human being is terrible, whatever side that person is on. People talk about innocent civilians. Does that imply that the military is guilty and does that justify killing them? There can be no more justification for killing innocent civilians than there can be for killing guilty military soldiers and vice versa.

Using fear to bully someone into submission is the perfect definition of terrorism. Those in power are under the illusion that they can solve terrorism through violence. Never has violence solved any terrorism. Northern Ireland is a perfect example, among many others. If only George Bush had a little love instead of such pride, then he might say: “Whatever good reasons or justification there may be, I don’t want to take any lives or make anyone suffer” but no, he wants to give a lesson in justice to the whole world, and in doing so, he is turning his own country into the biggest terrorist network in the world. Love on the other hand, is a totally different thought process… Jesus used to say: if someone strikes you on the right cheek, show them your left one.

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Gandhi used to fast and asked his faithful to sit down in silent protest. Thus he was addressing their consciousness, not their reason. The young Israeli military personnel t who recently refused to shoot Palestinian civilians are a remarkable example of the use of consciousness. They risked 20 years in prison, and yet they now number about 600 in Israel, who prefer to relinquish their freedom rather than kill!

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even the smallest of conflicts with your partners or neighbours; practice love because that is how you will change the planet. You must be models for this humanity. Follow what Jesus said and say: “I do not wish to harm you, but I will harm myself if you refuse me my rights”. Thus, instead of attacking them, you are addressing people’s consciousness, and when we talk to their consciousness, we are dealing in love. Non-violence is always superior to violence, but if someone attacks you physically, you have the right to defend yourself, while attempting to render the attacker powerless, using your bare hands rather than with guns, and especially doing the utmost not to kill him! Love is the ultimate and only solution to save the planet.

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Manipulation By The Military Press Release – 11th may 1999

Rael condemns the way the military manipulate public opinion with their propaganda to justify their illegal bombings and stresses the importance of non-violence.

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values brought by the Raelian Religion should be applied: “The life of even one innocent person is more important than the future of all of Humanity”. This value is particularly relevant to the way NATO bombs thousands of women and children while low consciousness militaries blind us to the horror of the act by poetically calling it “collateral damage”. The International Press Association condemned the bombing of the Yugoslav television headquarters, which killed many journalists, by, and yet surprisingly, by continuing to support NATO by attending NATO press conferences, it becomes an accomplice to its crimes against humanity. The journalists could at least have turned their back symbolically to the press conference presenters on the day after the bombings, as a protest against the assassination of their colleagues. NATO’s scandalous propaganda never speaks of the 750,000 Serb refugees, victims of the ethnic cleansing in Croatia and Bosnia. They compare Slobodan Milosevic to Adolf Hitler, which is ridiculous. Hitler invaded his neighbouring countries, whereas Yugoslavia lost three quarters of its territory in the last 10 years. They talk about genocide, which is an insult to the victims of the real attempts at genocide such as the Jews, Armenians, or the Tibetans. The Yugoslavs are chasing Albanian Kosovars out of their borders. Hitler’s intention wasn’t to force the Jews to leave; in fact he prevented them from leaving and even went to fetch them from other countries so as to completely exterminate them. That is genocide!

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Those responsible for the terrible events in Kosovo are independantalists who started to use terror against the Serb authorities, forcing them to react. The Raelian Religion supports the right to independence for all people or region on earth, but never by using violence. Gandhi is the ideal model, in the way he managed to get the English to leave India through complete non-violence. NATO countries have illegally entered into the vicious circle of violence andrse, Milosevic’s acts of criminal violence are unacceptable, but that the so called “civilised countries” operating under the umbrella of NATO are murdering hundreds of civilians as they illegally attack a sovereign country, is even less acceptable, especially as it is done in the name of ”good”.

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themselves had access to the images of suffering and destruction of the Serb people, broadcast by the Serb television. The real reason the Serb television was bombed, was to prevent the international press from having access to the images of their “collateral damage”. That is called censorship. NATO only allows clean images of “surgical” bombing to be broadcast. We can see images of bombs destroying bridges and buildings in the distance, but never close enough to see people being blown up, or people giving an account of what they witnessed from their hospital beds. Ever since that photograph of that young Vietnamese burning in Napalm fleeing her village bombed by the Americans, the Americans have kept a solid control over their war images, with an official department designed to supervise and control all the information released to the media called POC (Public Opinion Control). So according to them, the F117 was never shot down, it just “temporarily malfunctioned”. The three pilots were not captured, but “illegally detained”. And now they aren’t war prisoners who were freed, but “hostages” who they had been liberated. But what is more serious, is the way the violence of NATO’s military attacks will have long-term effects on the increase of violence among the youth. However many film stars you throw on TV adverts explaining how violence solves nothing, it will have no effect so long as the authorities continue to 246

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resort to violence to solve their international problems. The young listen to what we tell them, but what they see has a much greater impact. NATO’s bombings in Yugoslavia will require a long re-education for the young generations in order to promote models such as Gandhi or Jesus. These will need to pass the message to “show the left cheek when someone hits you on the right cheek”, otherwise both crime and insecurity will shoot straight up.

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Boycotting The Countries Which Don’t Respect Human Rights Respect for the right to be different Rael The position on homosexuality – boycott of Egypt.

A group of men were condemned by a High Court in Cairo to between one to five years imprisonment because they were supposedly homosexual and this without the right to appeal. Twenty-two of the twenty-three men were condemned as prisoners of conscience. The condemnations were based primarily on evidence designed to elucidate whether these men had sexual relations with other men. The accused were forced to undergo cruel, degrading and inhuman medical examinations in order to 249

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determine whether they had performed anal sex. The other criteria were based solely on confessions. This case illustrates the extent to which homosexuals in Egypt are the victims of discrimination and violence just because of what they are. Through the act of officially receiving the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak in France, the French government demonstrated yet again that they don’t respect Human Rights, even though these were initiated in France a long time ago. Thus the French president, Jacques Chirac shows his complicity and partnership in crime with the Egyptian government. Egypt and all other countries that don’t respect freedom of speech and Human Rights should be boycotted. This boycott should extend to all the products and goods coming from these countries.

Discrimination And France Boycott of French Products - October 2000 Every time I get the chance to speak to the American media, I always take the opportunity to recommend that they stop drinking French wine or buying French produce as long as France refuses to respect minorities. Every country in the world should boycott French products, as long as religious minorities in this country are not respected. France has to pay 250

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the price for its intolerance. I also ask the OSCE (Organisation pour la Securite et la Cooperation en Europe) to intervene unto France during the conference that will be held in Varsovie so that the following four measures be taken: the extinction of the report on sects by the National Assembly, the cancelling of the campaign against sects by the Inter-ministerial Commission, the cancellation of all projects attempting to outlaw religious minorities and finally the creation of a commission to integrate religious minorities into French society. We have to ensure that the right to be different is respected, and that includes the right to all differences, not just to the ones they judge acceptable. Today in France, we are allowed to be different, but within strict limits, that is to say, we can show that we are Jewish, Arab, Black – or at least almost, so long as we don’t insist too much. There are now five million Muslims in France so one can’t forbid Islam, because they could make a lot of noise and damage if they were to react. Now there are a few million Jews in France, this number requires prudence. But as for religious minorities, no problem, there are only a few of them, so let’s all jump on them! How brave we are! So we are allowed to be Muslim, Jewish or Black, but it is totally forbidden to be a member of a religious minority; the are too different!

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What’s more, this right to be different is even undermined among the minorities themselves. When we Raelians want to participate in public demonstrations for tolerance, the other minorities try to prevent us from taking part; otherwise they too jump on us. It is quite amazing when you think about it, that there is even intolerance among the minorities! And yet doesn’t the right to be different include the right to be totally different from others? Doesn’t it include the right to be oneself? That is what we as Raelians are, we are different and so happy like that, not only different collectively, but also different individually. Such is the planet on which we live!

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Dismantling The UN After the cowardly Anglo-American military attack against Iraq, the whole world saw anti-war protests without precedent, even in the United States and England. Unfortunately, these demonstrations didn’t stop the two invaders from continuing their bloody attacks. The leaders of these countries couldn’t care less about demonstrations on the street and continued their massacres of innocent civilians, despite the courage of some countries such as France and Germany, Russian and China who openly oppose such blatant aggression carried out without the approval of the UN. It is time for all the pacifists around the world to unite for a world peace revolution and initiate campaigns that will force the governments to submit to the will of the people: - First, they should all continue to protest against the war 253

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and the English and American pacifists should refuse to part with the proportion of their taxes that will be used to continue the military aggressions. This is called civil disobedience. - Then, the pacifists should announce very clearly that at the next elections, they will vote against the representatives of the present parties who favour the war, which should guarantee their defeat. Not only for the next election, but also for all those for the next 49 years. In this way, the war mongering politicians will receive a clear message that their political career is definitely dead! - Thirdly, and most importantly, we should lobby for the dismantling of the UN, which has completely betrayed its vocation by remaining submitted to the will of the USA. We must demand from the politicians of each country, their unilateral withdrawal from the UN so that it can be replaced by a new international organisation that truly represents the future world federal government where each country will be represented with equal weight. This will be a government supported by an army of “world peace keepers” made up of “soldier citizens” who relinquish their own nationality and replace it with a special status of “world citizen” so that they are linked to no country. This new organisation should also contain a commission to check, before each conflict, whether the people themselves agree with the decisions of their own government. The false pretext used by the US during the present conflict that they are there to “liberate” the Iraqis is a perfect example, 254

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since in fact, the majority of the Iraqis support their own government. Even if his phoney elections gave 99% vote to Saddam Hussein, according to specialists, probably 70% of the population would still have supported him. That is why such referendums organised by this new world federal government are important, to confirm the true aspirations of the people during situations of conflict. It will then become impossible to distort reality with the prime goal to discredit their leaders just as Israel is doing by claiming that Yasser Arafat is a terrorist whereas in truth, 90% of the Palestinian population are positively behind him. At least the dramatic events today will have had the effect of showing us that it is time to re-evaluate the way our world is organised and dismantle the UN, which is no more than a puppet of the US, and replace it by a real independent world organism, which will be the first step towards an independent world government. The pacifists from all over the world should unite to weaken their own governments and promote the fall of the UN so as to make place for a new entity. They should democratically nominate and support new politicians who can defend these ideas and put the dinosaurs of nationalism and war in their true place, that is to say in retirement, and into the waste basket of history. I call upon the new generations of every country, all races and religions to unite and initiate a true world revolution which will remove nationalism for ever and replace it with the 255

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The Elohim’s Humility It is important to understand that the more we raise our level of science, the more we need to raise our level of awareness in parallel, and that is the reason why the ELOHIM are not colonialists. They could so easily land on earth and enslave the whole population with a snap of their fingers. Even our largest nuclear bombs, the finest American strategic weapons, are impotent compared to their technology. We wouldn’t even have time to fire them, nor even have time for our planes to take off. Everything would be paralysed before we even knew what was happening. If the ELOHIM really wanted to invade and colonise the Earth, it would be so easy for them. But that is not what they want. On the contrary, the Elohim tell us: “We love you as our children, and it would bring tears of hap257

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piness to our eyes if you wished to welcome us, in memory of what we did for you. And if you wish – and only if you so desire – please build us an Embassy, and that will be the most beautiful day of our lives and we hope that it will be the most beautiful day of yours too. Thus, we will be able to offer you a bit more knowledge to help you, but not too much, since some might try to use it negatively. Our biggest happiness is to meet our children and be loved by them.” Can one imagine greater humility than that? They created us in their image and likeness with power of consciousness and thought. They helped us develop by sending Prophets and Messengers so that our lives would become beautiful. They could so easily just return without asking our opinion, since they were the ones who created everything! The earth is their garden, but no, they say: “If it pleases you, build an Embassy for us.” That is quite the opposite of the white man’s behaviour in Africa and elsewhere, where they invaded and behaved like conquerors. It demonstrates quite another level of consciousness when they ask their own creation, which is to say the whites, blacks, yellows etc: “Would you like to welcome us?” And if we don’t wish to welcome them, if we don’t build the embassy, they respect us so much that they will not come. 258

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It is love that they hope from us, and which they give us, even if we don’t return it, because love is to give without expecting anything in return. They gave us the great Messengers; they gave us their children, the Prophets and their light. They don’t say: “We gave you everything, so you owe us love” No, that would be bartering, not love. On the contrary, they tell us: “We created you infinite, able to be aware of yourselves, able to become gods yourselves. If you wish to welcome us, we will be very happy, but there is no obligation”. The most beautiful lesson in humility in the universe is the one given to us by the ELOHIM.

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Advances in cloning • Human cloning: http: / /www.humancloning.org/firsthumanclone.htm • Noah's ark: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/686? &start=682 • Great Britain accepts human cloning: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/655? • The stars of cloning: http: / /news.bbc.co.uk/ low/english/sci /tech/newsid_437000/437391.stm http: / /www.p-i.com/national /pigs15.shtml http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/649? &start=627 • To resurrect the dead: http: / /www.globeandmail.com/ offsite/Science/19991023/UMAMMN.html http: / /www.discovery.com/exp/mammoth/990911dispatch.html http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/420? &start=412 • No premature aging: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/677? &start=652

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• We are conserving DNA: http: / /www.humancloning.org/dnaaustralia.htm http: / /www.savingsandclone.com • Four Japanese calves copied with a new technique: Le Figaro Magazine. January 5th, 2000. • Cloned beef for dinner?: http: / /www.abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/clone_b eef990909. html Discoveries in Biology • And Man created: http: / /www.abcnews.go.com/sections/ living/Bioethics/bioethics.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/anaheim_99/newsid_262000/262 025.stm http://www.sundaytimes.co.uk/news/pages/ sti /00/01/23/stinwenws01049.ht ml? 999 • Sequencing of the human genome: the mission has been carried out! : http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/ living/Bioethics/bioethics.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/an heim_99/newsid_262000/262025.stm http://www.sundaytimes.co.uk/news/pages/ sti /00/01/23/stinwenws01049.html? 999 • On the way to eternity: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990831080844.htm 262

http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/552 http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/627? • Mutant mice with exceptional longevity: Le Figaro Magazine, November 19th 1999 • A killer’s brain: a clinically sick brain: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/ living/InYourHead/allinyourhead.html • The virtual plant : http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/sci /tech/newsid_771000/771145.stm • To wake up our retired neurons: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/health/newsid_447000/447973.stm • Cultures of bone and cornea: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/health/newsid_719000/719673.stm http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/585? Genetically modified organisms • Introduction: http : / /www.egroups.com/message/raelscience-select/440? http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/sci /tech/newsid_482000/482467.stm • Modified salmon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/sci /tech/newsid_708000/708927.stm

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• A solution for the Third World countries? http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/605? &start=597 • Treatment for victims of third degree burns: http://www.wired.com/news/techno ogy/0,1282,20874,00.html • More intelligent thanks to genetic engineering: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/397? &start=395 Building a Brainier Mouse, Scientific American, April 2000. pp.62-68 Mickey Mouse, Ph.D. Scientific American, November 1999. p. 30. • Genetically modified organisms for pleasure!: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/498? &start=470 • Water me! : http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/specials/sheffield_99/newsid_446000/446 837.stm • The marriage of the monkey and the jellyfish: Le Figaro Magazine, December 24th, 1999 New technologies • The speed of light: http: / /www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/10/991005114024.htm http: / /news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/sci /tech/newsid_655000/655518.stm http: / /news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/sci /tech/newsid_655000/655518.stm 264

• The DNA-based computer: Quebec Science, Volume 38, number 7, April 2000, p.30. • An electronic eye for blind persons: http: / /news.bbc.co.uk: 80/ low/english/sci /tech/newsid_606000/606938.stm • AIBO the dog full of bugs: Le Figaro Magazine, November 6th 1999. Space and its inhabitants • The Crop circles: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/377? &start=364 • Dream or reality soon to be?: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/456? • A new planet: http://www.egroups.com/message/raelscience-select/457 • The search for a contact: http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/390? http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/407? http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/671? http: / /www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/356? The beauty of Creation • The nose of the mosquitoes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi /english/sci /tech/newsid_426000/426655.stm • Insects… lesbians: Le Figaro Magazine http://news.bbc.co.uk/ low/english/sci /tech/newsid_481000/481394.stm • A nose to see the infinitely small: http://www.aibs.org/biosciencelibrary/vol46/sep.96.cover.inf 265

•.html Le Figaro Magazine, January 11th 2000 Sexuality and sensuality • The human sexuality Society: www.sexuality.org • The chemical mysteries of sexuality: Le Figaro Magazine: March 4th, 2000. • Badly informed young people: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/19991018/hl /sex9_1.html • The National Masturbation Day: http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/215? Meditation and Peace • Meditation prevents heart disease: http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/ living/InYourHead/allinyourhead_56.ht ml http://www.egroups.com/messages/rael-science-select/637 • Do you want to live longer? Smile! : http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/622? The case of Ancient Greece, Special research Living120 years, July/August> 1999 • Planetary Day for Peace: http://www.clothofmanycolors.com/ http://www.egroups.com/message/rael-science-select/670? • The effects of AOM meditation have been scientifically proven: Sang Yuel Choi (National Guide in Korea) • The case of Ancient Greece: La Recherche special issue ‘Living 120 years’, July/August 1999, p. 90 266

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FROM THE SAME AUTHOR : The Message Given by Extra-terrestrials (one million copies sold, translated into 24 languages) This book comprises the full messages given by Yahweh Elohim to their Messenger Rael on 13th December 1973 and 7th October 1975 containing the most revolutionary revelation of the origin of mankind, the secrets behind all religions and mankind’s future. Let’s Welcome The Extra-Terrestrials Detailed answers to the many questions thrown up by his extraordinary initial revelations Sensual Meditation How to open our senses, awaken our minds and develop our consciousness Yes To Human Cloning Immortality thanks to Science How genetic engineering and nanotechnology are about to revolutionize our lives Geniocracy A controversial political thesis describing the way the Elohim put their geniuses in power to build a true world of happiness and leisure Sensual Meditation – CDs The six guided meditations from the book Sensual Meditation are available in a set of three Cds 269

Narration of the book - CDs The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials also exists as a fully narrated recording in 6 CDs

The above books and CDs can be ordered directly from: www.rael.org The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials Humanity’s Origins and our Future Explained All life on Earth, including human beings, was originally created scientifically in laboratory by the Elohim, an advanced people from space, using a perfect mastery of genetic engineering and DNA synthesis. Traces of their work can be found in the Bible, which is the oldest atheist book in the world, since the word "Elohim", which appears in the original Hebrew version, means "those who came from the sky". The Elohim entrusted Rael with the mission of propagating this revolutionary revelation and building an Embassy where they will officially return very soon, along with the Great Prophets of Old that they had sent, such as Jesus, Moses, Buddha and Mohammed, who are being kept alive on their planet thanks to cloning, the secret of eternal life.

Yes To Human Cloning Today’s new cloning technology is the first step in the quest for immortality or eternal life. What past religions used to promise only after death in a mythical paradise will soon be 270

a scientific reality on Earth – this is Raël’s challenging conclusion in an incisive and wide-ranging review of how science is about to revolutionize all our lives. With rare vision, Raël sketches details of an amazing future in which our nascent technology will revolutionize and transform the world. Nano-technology, he explains, will make agriculture and heavy industry redundant, super-artificial intelligence will quickly outstrip human intelligence – and eternal life will be possible in a computer without the need for any biological body! These developments, he warns, are not 22nd-century science fiction. All this will happen in the next twenty years – and this book’s purpose is to prepare us for an unimaginably beautiful world turned paradise, where nobody will ever need to work again!

Geniocracy A controversial political thesis. Geniocracy is a selective democracy as practiced by the Elohim on their own planet, where they have put the genius in power, allowing them to live in a world where no one need work, but everyone has what they need to be happy.

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Sensual Meditation To open our minds to the future and realize our true potential, we must learn to awaken our bodies to the pleasure of all our senses. By helping us to enjoy sounds colors, tastes, perfumes and caresses more intensely, by developing in us the ability to question and remove the contradictions, the hypocrisies, the taboos and mind-numbing illusions of our culture, this gift of Sensual Meditation from the Elohim to humanity, allows us to achieve a harmony with the infinite nature of all things, the ecstasy of being and the cosmic orgasm of consciousness.

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