New Religious Movements
"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."- Exodus 20:8
So, the Good Book says I'm supposed to do something to-day. Because I don't belong to any particular sect, I don't feel obligated to attend services. Therefore, I'm going to start a feature wherein I talk about some sort of alternative religion that's out there. I'll outline their beliefs, cosmology, and current status so far as I understand them.
For the first column, I'll skip the one I know most about and pick up on a more curious one. This religious movement is called "Ashtar Galactic Command."
Name:Ashtar Galactic Command
Type:New Age
Theology:Pantheistic
Prophets:Ashtar-Athena (yes, that Athena), channeled through a medium
Purpose:"assisting at every level with Earth and Humanitys transformation and paradigm shift into the fifth dimension and seventh Golden Age"
Religious Services:Meditative
I first heard about this group in the always-interesting "Sedona:Journal of Emergence" magazine, which is a veritable smorgasboard of New-Age groups. This group caught my attention because their article was based around pictures of clouds that Ashtar Command claimed were spacecraft. The name "Ashtar Galactic Command" is a real eye-catcher also. They claim to be the "Airborne Division" of the "Great White Brotherhood," which are beings from a higher dimension known as "Ascended Masters." There is no set membership to this "Brotherhood," so the list varies from group to group. The "ascended master" that the AGC follows is a combination of one being, called Ashtar, and the old Greek Goddess Athena. These two are non-corporeal beings which are combined together in the eighth dimension. Ashtar is described as a "Ray emanation" of Jesus, and they believe Ashtar continues Jesus' Ministry from his spacecraft.
There's a helpful over-view here, which puts down the fundamentals if the Ashtar group. Apparently it was started in 1952 by a George van Tassel, who received the first communique from Ashtar/Athena. There were a lot of UFO-based groups founded in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Apparently it's a sizeable bunch- their MSN Group has 423 members, and is extremely active, rating only below "Commercial Space Development" in its section. Their current leader is called "Commander Aleon" (original, eh?). However, there seem to be splinter groups. I've found one Captain Lyur who claims that Ashtar Command is very much like Starfleet from Star Trek, and says of Commander Aleon's bunch in the US "Real Ashtar Commanders work as team, there is no 'chief' some high place. So I will not report to that chief, if some around, just forget it."
From what I can tell, Commander Aleon seems to be based in the earthly section we call "Connecticut", and has a weekly radio show Sundays at 11AM, which can be heard here at WESU-FM.It wasn't on to-day, sadly. Another alternative view can be had here, for those of you who can read Norwegian.
So, the Good Book says I'm supposed to do something to-day. Because I don't belong to any particular sect, I don't feel obligated to attend services. Therefore, I'm going to start a feature wherein I talk about some sort of alternative religion that's out there. I'll outline their beliefs, cosmology, and current status so far as I understand them.
For the first column, I'll skip the one I know most about and pick up on a more curious one. This religious movement is called "Ashtar Galactic Command."
Name:Ashtar Galactic Command
Type:New Age
Theology:Pantheistic
Prophets:Ashtar-Athena (yes, that Athena), channeled through a medium
Purpose:"assisting at every level with Earth and Humanitys transformation and paradigm shift into the fifth dimension and seventh Golden Age"
Religious Services:Meditative
I first heard about this group in the always-interesting "Sedona:Journal of Emergence" magazine, which is a veritable smorgasboard of New-Age groups. This group caught my attention because their article was based around pictures of clouds that Ashtar Command claimed were spacecraft. The name "Ashtar Galactic Command" is a real eye-catcher also. They claim to be the "Airborne Division" of the "Great White Brotherhood," which are beings from a higher dimension known as "Ascended Masters." There is no set membership to this "Brotherhood," so the list varies from group to group. The "ascended master" that the AGC follows is a combination of one being, called Ashtar, and the old Greek Goddess Athena. These two are non-corporeal beings which are combined together in the eighth dimension. Ashtar is described as a "Ray emanation" of Jesus, and they believe Ashtar continues Jesus' Ministry from his spacecraft.
There's a helpful over-view here, which puts down the fundamentals if the Ashtar group. Apparently it was started in 1952 by a George van Tassel, who received the first communique from Ashtar/Athena. There were a lot of UFO-based groups founded in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Apparently it's a sizeable bunch- their MSN Group has 423 members, and is extremely active, rating only below "Commercial Space Development" in its section. Their current leader is called "Commander Aleon" (original, eh?). However, there seem to be splinter groups. I've found one Captain Lyur who claims that Ashtar Command is very much like Starfleet from Star Trek, and says of Commander Aleon's bunch in the US "Real Ashtar Commanders work as team, there is no 'chief' some high place. So I will not report to that chief, if some around, just forget it."
From what I can tell, Commander Aleon seems to be based in the earthly section we call "Connecticut", and has a weekly radio show Sundays at 11AM, which can be heard here at WESU-FM.It wasn't on to-day, sadly. Another alternative view can be had here, for those of you who can read Norwegian.
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