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Conspirituality

Bonus Sample: The Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

George van Tassel was the original UFO contactee. He claimed to have been visited by aliens from Venus in 1953, which led to him hosting thousands of people at the annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention for almost 20 years. He channeled “Ashtar, ”a figure still popular in “Galactic Federation” conspiritualist circles today, and spent 25 years building a time machine based on telepathic communications with aliens.  Julian unpacks the wild story of van Tassel’s airstrip, the Mojave Desert’s Giant Rock, and how the FBI may have been involved in his mysterious death and subsequent disappearance of his cellular rejuvenation equipment. This is part of a series of free-standing episodes that excavates the history of pseudoscience and conspiracism beneath contemporary New Age spirituality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I say that what is occurring now has occurred before.

0:07.0

There are many records of these ships landing throughout history clear back into Sanskrit.

0:12.0

And there are records in the 1898 Chicago newspapers that covered the front page for three days of a big ship setting over Chicago. When you realize we're dealing with a type of man that is almost as far above us in intelligence as we are above the lower animals,

0:30.6

there isn't anything phenomenal in this at all.

0:32.6

If you live in L.A. or if you visited with crunchy hippie types who do, you've probably been to

0:39.5

Joshua Tree. It's that national park in the Mojave Desert, where the band U-2 took those iconic

0:46.4

black-and-white promo pictures for their massive 1987 album of the same name. Joshua Tree National Park is in the California high desert, about 130 miles east of L.A.

0:58.9

The succulent and distinctive yucca brevifolia trees that populate the park were apparently given the

1:05.7

name by Mormon settlers in the mid-19th century, who were supposedly reminded of a biblical story

1:13.2

about Joshua keeping his hands reached out for an extended period, and this somehow magically

1:19.7

leading to the Israelites defeating the Canaanites in battle.

1:24.9

Julian here for Conspiruality.

1:27.2

Stay tuned because this story for this bonus episode

1:30.3

has it all. Time travel, UFOs, the science of electromagnetic life extension, and a conspiracy

1:36.9

theory about the FBI and the suspicious death of a man who claimed to be in telepathic contact

1:43.7

with aliens from Venus.

1:48.1

Anyway, I myself went out to Joshua Tree with some friends on New Year's Eve of 1999.

1:55.2

We wanted to be out of town in case the much-touted Y2K computer crisis, remember that, led to power outages and civil unrest.

2:04.9

We stayed at a low-cost, hot spring motel, and had our room robbed immediately upon checking in

2:11.9

and decamping to the pools for a sunset soak after the almost three-hour drive.

2:20.0

They took our credit cards, some cash,

2:26.4

and an entire freshly bought stash of weed my friend had purchased on his way out of town.

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