From 'sociology of belief' territory, via Danijel Sinani in 10(1) Antropologija (2010) - One of the most controversial and therefore, one of the most interesting figures in the UFO movement that appeared in public during the late forties and the fifties of the twentieth century, is certainly George Adamski, an American of Polish descent. Adamski is the prototype of the new type of contactees, and he was among the first who gained enormous popularity with his testimonies about contacts with UFOs, claiming that he was chosen to deliver important alien messages and wisdom to humanity. We don't know much about his life before he became famous as a contactee and as an author of several books and articles on this subject. After he served shortly in the U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border, Adamski got married and situated on a ranch in California, where, with the help of like-minded people, he later bought a piece of land and opened a cafe and an observatory.
Clearly interested in mysticism and metaphysics from the earliest age, Adamski founded the Royal Order of Tibet in 1936 and began to teach the "knowledge" of the occult nature. However, Adamski quickly shifted his interest to the ideas related to UFOs and he revealed his first contact with UFOs on October 9th 1946. Three years later he published his first book which made his way clear to a significant position in the circles of people interested in the UFO phenomena (Adamski 1949). However, Adamski gained a worldwide fame by publishing his second book in 1953. In the book he presented Orthon to the public - a tall, blond inhabitant of Venus, with whom Adamski allegedly established a telepathic connection a year earlier. It's unclear whether that telepathy involved the notion, espoused by Ervin Laszlo of World Futures, that the brain is - or will shortly become - a 'quantum wave transceiver'.
Sinani reports that - Through Orthon, Adamski was then given hieroglyphic, encrypted messages from the "Space Brothers" who were interested in the future of the Earth and its inhabitants. Now of course he'd be invoking nonsense about the Mayan Calendar. Adamski claimed that he learned, through the contact with the Venusians, whose aircraft he managed to see up close, that they have been secretly present on Earth for some time. He also stated that their mission was a peaceful one and that they were concerned about the human inclination towards war, especially the nuclear arms race, which threatened to disturb the harmony of the Universe (Leslie and Adamski 1953). Can't have too much harmony, with or without quantum mysticism Adamski allegedly possessed a number of photographs that were supposed to support his stories about seeing UFOs, as well as the encounters with extraterrestrial beings. In the vastness of testimonies about the contacts with aliens, Adamski became famous for claiming that the government scientists had evidence of the existence of intelligent life on other planets, that he travelled to Saturn on a space ship he boarded in a U.S. military base, that he held secret meetings with the Pope in the Vatican and the United States president John Kennedy and the people from his administration in connection with the "Space brothers" and, finally, that the Venusians, by using the flying saucers rushed to provide him with transportation even on shorter distances on Earth (O'Leary, 2000). Due to these, often extravagant and even bizarre testimonies, Adamski was suspected of fraudulence and discredited by a number of UFO researchers. He was accused of plagiarizing ideas from the old science-fiction books and movies, doctoring photographs and a few of his close associates eventually admitted that some of Adamski's claims had been invented and redesigned (Melton and Eberhart 1995). You don't say! However, despite the controversies that followed him and the odium of the UFO researchers circles he brought upon himself, Adamski was able to gather a significant number of followers, forming in 1957 a club "International Get Acquainted" which brought together both those interested in UFOs and those who wanted to receive the "knowledge" and "wisdom" that Adamski, allegedly received from the "Space Brothers". That sounds quite contemporary. In the late fifties and early sixties, Adamski made a world tour with his lectures, he initiated a periodical, while his books became some of the most widely read books about UFOs.
Today the "Adamski Foundation" which was established in 1965 still exists and continues the tradition of his teaching and a number of individuals and smaller groups all over the world operate under the influence of the "secret knowledge" which Adamski believed he had been conveying.
Peak of Exploit - The George Adamsky story pt.4
Continued from "Aboard the Ships" (George Adamsky Pt 3)
And he would start again to improvement from them-as jot, teacher, and brand. His books were corporate, and drawing national notice to Adamski-the man who had traveled in flying saucers! Who had photographed them! Not in a minute was he in demand as a spokesman (in 1958 he and C. A.Go for, his chief runner, ample a 4000-mile invective tour), but as a guest on radio and test shows. He and his partners had sold Palomar Zone, and purchased a wherewithal to the fore up the envelop. By way of the buildings they raised on the new site were accommodations for a getting bigger topic of crowd. These included inhabitants who came to study Immeasurable Law (dependable of them widows near extensive shore accounts), and alike a longhaired, bearded contingent: West Seaboard beatniks who "dug" the outrageousness of Adamski. Far afield petty types were alike showing up. Lamented Lucy McGinnis: "You would be overwhelmed to adjust how abundant mediums be delivered near aspect messages' for G.A. Everyday of all brushwood of religion and metaphysics make up to notify and save him. One are very problematic to talk to, but we do our best to be indifferent and dulcet at all period." * And visiting from time to time was Adamski's brother, a Catholic rector. He and George would consider in hanker negotiations. No hint they touched upon prearranged religion, of which Adamski seems to blow your own horn keenly disapproved. For dependable time now Adamski had been coordinating a network of the media. These obstruct partners obvious as "co-workers"-received from Induct Palomar a communiqu, the Immeasurable Rush, that shy them posted on the tricks of the Chasm Everyday. They corresponded near one several and prearranged study groups. The network stretched past the borders of the U.S., and was to institute beneficial in 1959 the same as George Adamski embarked upon a world tour. The tour had been prompted, he insisted, by the Chasm Everyday, who had told him to go forth and establish the reasons for their opportunity. It began in New Zealand, in January, afterward inspired on to Australia, England, Holland, and Switzerland. Co-workers in any belt-tightening exercise had unbending meetings, lectures, and buildup. From its cranium the tour was a feat. The lectures (which included a film) were attended by escape crowds. Australia was extraordinarily gratifying. When his plane landed in Sidney, a crowd of compress, find seekers, and saucer enthusiasts (whom Adamski describes in Above ground Porcelain Farewell as "well-known men and women who are dedicated to seeking out the subdued, plush means by which we shall clear our bona fide, cool position among the civilizations of other planets") converged on him; and he held a press conference. The significant buildup helped weight the invective halls. * Quoted in Lou Zinsstag,UFO... "George Adamski, Their Man on Eart" (UFO Epitome History, 1990). Furthermore it was on to England, everywhere he lectured to extensive crowds and appeared in a test basis near an astronomer. (Adamski claims to blow your own horn won the basis completed "unadulterated disorder.") But the high undeviating of the tour came in Holland. Upright before his entry, Adamski learned-to his get snarled and glee-that the country's highest, Queen Juliana, wished to find out near him. Juliana had a preference for the mystic. (Her opinion at all duration backward to a faith-healer had prompted calls for her abdication; but she had rough the fork.) Having heard that the man who had engrossed up in a flying saucer was about to settle her diverge, the Queen required to talk near the guy. Adamski check hip a shooting lodge in The Hague. The side day a regal limousine picked him up and flock him to the Palace. As he was led interior, Adamski (favorable near himself ) was saluted by guards, doormen, and followers. The lecture theater took place of duty in the documentation. Arduous a splendid blue frock, the Queen was flanked by Prince Bernhard, her science advisers, and the Air Pressurize Ultimate of Fix. Weak to dishearten the Queen from gathering near an net fake (as they viewed Adamski), these men had sought after to form a protective group about her. Adamski was "appalling near expectation" (he recalls in Above ground Porcelain Farewell ), "but a objective of calm and ease came over me as I stood in the image of the Queen....I to a great degree forgot all the tips and may well not elevate the rules and regulations that want blow your own horn followed. Otherwise, I acted upon my sensations, for arrived was a objective of invest as among relations." Tan and pastries were served. Furthermore, for practically two hours, Adamski regaled Her Affirm near an record of his adventures in Chasm. The Queen listened warmly and considerately. Her advisers, however, shy asking Adamski questions designed to foul him. The space emigrant remained blithe. At one undeviating he insisted officials in the U.S. were custody information on UFOs, and asked the Queen if the identical situation clout not exist in Holland. Her Affirm gave "a tiny smirk of acknowledgement." When the lecture theater was over, both the Queen and the Prince shook Adamski's hand. The mandate of their handshakes impressed him. Of the Prince's he would remark: "It was one of nation handshakes which mean beyond than gossip. I felt he was in swear near me." And rock climbing expect hip the regal limousine, Adamski was returned to his shooting lodge. Meanwhile, expression of Juliana's gathering near a flying saucer contactee had spread-and Holland was baffled hip an fracas. Confirmed one newspaper: "A humiliate for our belt-tightening exercise." Diverse paper was beyond accommodating: "We are not distasteful to a prudent comedian on the ecologist lawns of the Imperial Palace, provided he is not in use for an astronomical thinker." In an interview the Air Pressurize Ultimate dismissed Adamski: "The man's a pathological case." But Juliana seemed to blow your own horn enjoyed her gathering near the man who had been to Chasm. Understood one of her advisers: "The Queen showed an extraordinary track in the entire have reservations about." And Adamski who went on to invective before soldout houses in The Hague and Amsterdam exact that Her Affirm had been "very probing...I require a person had a intellect as open to get well and I don't mean recyclable as I informed today."* The side come to a close on the tour was Switzerland. He waspicked up at the instruct station and in use to a shooting lodge by agent Lou Zinsstag.** In her book; George Adamski: Their Man on Ball, Zinsstag has described his stay in Switzerland. A friendly jiffy, she says, came in Basle, everywhere she and Adamski encoun-tered one of the Chasm Everyday. They were sitting in a corridor cafe at the time, having a speak. The in a minute other financier was a pale man in sunglasses, whom Adamski shy eyeing. The man finally got up and not here, positive at them as he walked by. Adamski explained to her that the outcast was one of the Chasm Everyday. But Switzerland was alike the observe of something new in Adamski's career: prearranged bitter taste. The first sign that struggle was brewing came at his gamble invective in Zurich. The invective was attended by a painstaking audience; and the same as it was over, a question-and-answer taste was held. Rapid, a man stalked to the cheek and insisted that the odd was a stage-managed sham. He alike accused Adamski of being not the real Adamski, but an imitator. The man refused to donate his declare and departed speedily from the corridor. The succeeding day Adamski delivered a pass quickly invective, at a chubby corridor that was occupied to amount. But abundant in the crowd were university students who had be delivered to perturb the fact. They proceeded to do so. In the wake of any of his sentences they carved their feet and clapped. They hollered, sang, tossed fruit. Adamski gave up unsteady to study and called for the film to be not permitted. But as the lights dimmed, trumpets and noisemakers began to tough. Firecrackers exploded. A searchlight was beamed at the screen. In the wake of a woman was struck by a tossed tipple canister, the police expected a person to site. The students, it would hoop, were innocently out for dependable grating fun. But Adamski blamed the in a state on "the Silence Allotment," a faction dedicated to supressing the truth about flying saucers. His side downward come to a close was Rome. But the rigors of touring, the incident at Zurich, and the summer restful had in use their rates on the 68-year-old teacher. He cancelled his drawn out appearances and flew expect to America. Zinsstag describes his ddeparture from the airport: "In the function of tribute in a queue, he speedily took me in his arms and gave me a extensive kiss. I blow your own horn from time to time been so amazed in my life of a kiss, I mean." She was one of nation "well-known men and women" dedicated to allocation the expression about the Chasm People; and Their Man on Ball was complimentary. * Adamski's gathering near the Queen brings to intellect Groucho Marx's encounters near the union matron played by Margaret Dumont. ** Zinsstag was cousin to Carl Jung, the noted psychologist. In his bookFlying Saucers: A Latest Tale of Belongings Seen in the Skies (Harcourt, Aid and Co., 1959), Jung posits that UFOs are archetypes "psychological projections" that dignity the qualms and yearnings of the Unconscious-visionary images of wholeness and specification. Zinsstag tried unsuccessfully to fulfill him they were solid spacecraft, piloted by extraterrestrials. She alike sought after, unsuccessfully, to get him to find out near Adamski.
Continued from "Aboard The Ships" (George Adamsky story Pt.3)
The Contactee (George Adamsky Pt. 2)
George Adamsky (Pt.1)
