15-20 Ashtar on the Road, Submitted by the Odd Emperor with express thanks to ECETI
“I AM ASHTAR, SUPREME COMMANDER OF THE GALACTIC FEDERATION FLEET. WE HAVE MILLIONS OF SHIPS FROM ALL OVER THE GALAXY, AND WE ARE UNITED UNDER THE BANNER OF LOVE. WE ARE ANGELS AND MASTERS OF THE LIGHT, COMING TO YOU IN PEACE AND INDESCRIBABLE JOY
Sometimes I wonder about all-caps. Is it sexier than that normal writing? Does it give your text a special flare? Making people sit up and notice, causing people to say here’s someone worth following!’ We should get behind this Ashtar bloke, follow him to the ends of the Earth! (It doesn’t do a thing for me, seems dorky as a matter of fact.)
Well Ashtar and his trusty channel “Susan” doesn’t give a fig if it looks dorky or not. No supreme commander of millions of starships would really care if their web page looked like, well -dorky! All they care about is spreading the work of the supreme commander from the galactic federation.
So what is the Supreme commander of the Galactic Federation fleet comprising of millions of ships doing on Earth? Well he’s spreading a message of universal peace and love. Or else a hoard of invulnerable ROBOTS are on their way to obliterate your bungholes!
Dirty humans!
Whowa, I think I was channeling Claude Raines a as Klatu from “The Day they Earth Stood Still.” What does all this have to do with Ashtar?
Quite a lot actually!
OE —
Thanks for this. I ran into the Ashtar folks some years ago (still have a copy of the book Project World Evacuation, even though it’s unreadable). These people actually believe this stuff, and I wonder about the mechanism (or mechanisms) that makes that possible. I haven’t read When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of A Modern Group that Predicted the Destruction of the World but I get the sense that this kind of belief in nonsensical channeled material is not particularly rare.
Billy Myer, anyone?
It’s not rare, arguably most religious writing is based on channeled material. Even the Qur’an (Koran) is supposed to be the *direct* word of God is written by Mohamed as directed by the Archangel Gabriel. But you can’t tell me that Mohamed (as sincere as his believers might be) was not just channeling.
Ashtar seems like more on the lines of the Christin meme, revitalized and updated for a 21st century audience.