Aliens and Religion, Part 10 - Nation of Islam, Scientology, and Falun Gong
Aliens and Religion, Part 10 - Nation of Islam, Scientology, and Falun Gong
Twentieth Century Religions and Aliens
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Religion and Aliens
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This post continues a series of objective, non-judgement views of various religions’ views on the potential of extraterrestrial life. See the previous posts on Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism and Other Christian Faiths, Islam Judaism, the Dharma faiths, the ancient faiths, Theozoology and World Ice Theory, and Native American religions for more.
Aliens Factor in Twentieth Century Religions
The twentieth century saw a rise in interest in the possibility of alien life. Numerous UFO religions arose, seeking to worship the supposed alien pilots of the mysterious crafts as ascended masters. However, not all new faiths that believed in aliens had extraterrestrials as their central feature. Three well-known new religions have aliens in their cosmos. However, aliens come across differently in each one, ranging from good to more or less neutral to outright evil.
Nation of Islam: Good Aliens (Who are Black Men)
The Nation of Islam is a black supremacist, theosophical gnostic faith that uses much of the language of Islam and some of Christianity. Founded in 1930 during the Pulp Era, the faith features aliens and science themes woven together in a narrative declaring the black man the original divine being.
Nation of Islam teaches that the original lifeform, a black man named Allah, created the stars and planets. Later, Allah created creatures he made as helpers, who were also black men. These people were scientists who then settled on the Earth and built things like a mini-planet known as the Mother Plane. Inside the Mother Plane, Allah’s original scientists and the Nation of Islam’s founder Wallace Fard Muhammad, who himself is Allah, live and observe the events on Earth. Eventually, Allah will use The Mother Plane to destroy all white people, returning blacks to their place as masters of the Earth.
In the faith, the Mother Plane has interacted with holy men such as Ezekiel and current leader Louis Farrakhan. Additionally, smaller alien craft deploy from the Mother Plane and visit the Earth. Nation of Islam teaches white men either discredit those who encounter these UFOs or make up stories of “little green men” to cover up the fact the people piloting these crafts are technologically advanced black men. Besides the Mother Plane, the Nation of Islam believes “black Muslim” advanced humans (referred to as gods because the Nation of Islam believes black people are divine) live on the Moon.
A survey of the Nation of Islam's beliefs implies that there are no thinking creatures other than those who appear as black men. Nothing in Nation of Islam texts indicates that there are non-black human-divine creatures in the universe.
Scientology: Neutralish Aliens (The Struggle Against Brainwashed Alien Souls)
The story of Xenu and how it affects Scientology’s stated goal of perfecting humanity through its self-help gnosticism is pretty well known. The documentary Going Clear uses Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard’s own words to describe the story. That movie and South Park tell the tale much better than I can.
However, Xenu and his Galactic Confederacy are only one part of the extraterrestrial story. The other stories are disconnected and sometimes unclear, but they do show continuous life in the Scientology universe.
Creation started four quadrillion years ago when a thetan (soul creature) heard a loud noise and saw a bright light that turned into a chariot, followed by an angel-like creature with a trumpet. This moment, known as Incident I, allowed thetans to enter our universe.
Around “382 trillion years ago to 52 trillion years ago,” there was the “little pipsqueak government, didn’t amount to very much” “interplanetary nation” of Helatrobus. Afraid of independent thetans, those on Helatrobus would implant negative thoughts in creatures to weaken their thetan and make them more compliant. Separately, the Helatrobus people periodically would fight off talking radioactive space clouds that attempted to settle on planets.
Finally, there is the Marcab Confederacy, which most likely is the latest incarnation of the Galactic Confederacy. The Marcab Confederacy is located in the Big Dipper Constellation. Earth is a Marcabian prison planet, with advanced alien technology capturing and forcibly reincarnating human thetans before they can fly away. Only well-trained Scientologists can escape the Marcabian soul recyclers. Of note, Marcabians are known for their love of race cars. Hubbard himself claimed to be a reincarnated Marcabian race car driver.
Falun Gong: Evil Aliens
Falun Gong, also called as Falun Dafa, is known to many as the group who do exercises in public parks and are persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party. The religion, founded in 1992, bases itself on ancient Chinese spiritual disciplines and teaches that performing specific exercises will allow a person’s energy to flow properly. The Falun Dafa Information Center produced a quick video explaining the basics of the religion.
While Falun Gong initially seems to promote an ancient, Earth-bound belief system, UFOs and aliens have been a part of the faith since the beginning.
To understand why, one has to understand that topics such as extraterrestrials were not taboo in 1980s Communist China. Instead, the Communist emphasis on anything that could be considered science allowed for open discussion on aliens.
Into this atmosphere came Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi. At first, Li would mention UFOs and aliens as part of the greater scheme of universal salvation. These aliens existed as creatures living in the energy flow of the universe.
Things changed after Li’s exile in the West. In 1998, at a speech in Germany, Li claimed aliens were abducting humans and putting them in zoos. Additionally, Li started claiming aliens were introducing new technology to corrupt humans and make them dependent on “science” instead of traditional faiths. He talked about things like computers and airplanes as examples of the aliens’ efforts to distract and control humanity.
The conspiracy gets worse, as an interview with a former Falun Gong member pointed out. According to Falun Gong, aliens want to destroy humanity by race mixing. As an Australian Broadcasting Corporation expose interviewing a former member demonstrates, “[t]he leader of Falun Gong claims that race mixing in humans is part of an alien plot to drive humanity further from the gods. He says that when a child is born from an interracial marriage, that child does not have a heavenly kingdom to go to.”
In Falun Gong, the aliens are destroying humanity, ultimately making creatures whose energy cannot flow in the universe, forever being stuck in an earthly hell.
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Until Next Time
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