UFO CONTACTEE
              The Meier Case & Its Spirituality
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                    By James W. Deardorff


     Jim Deardorff is a retired professor (emeritus) from
the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State
University in Corvallis, Oregon, a former senior scientist
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder,
Colorado, and a fellow of both the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.
     In the 1980s his interest shifted twords study of the
UFO phenomenon, and in 1986 he retired early in order to
study the Meier case and its implications.  Since then, he
has devoted nearly full time twords becoming a New Testament
scholar in order to better investigate a document discussed
in this article: the Talmud Jmmanuel.  His upcoming book on
the subject, Celestial Teachings: The Emergence of the True
Testament of Jmmanuel (Jesus) will be available this year
from Blue Water Publishing.  (See resource list following
article.)

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     Among those who investigate UFO cases, the Meier case
is well known and needs no introduction.  Among others, if
it is known at all it is most likely because of the book
Light Years by Gary Kinder, which became available to most
bookstores in 1987.  Eduard Meier is a 52-year-old Swiss
citizen who reported that his main series of UFO contacts
commenced in 1975 from human-looking beings; they told him
they came from the Pleiades in certain UFO-like craft which
they call beamships.  For the Cherokees, Navahos, and Incas,
who claim to be decended from sky-gods who came from the
Pleiades, this possibility might not seem too surprising.
     From 1975 until 1978, Meier was contacted by one of
several Pleiadeans, usually through mental telepathy, in
order to arrange a time, usually late at night, to have face-
to-face contact meetings.  These meetings occurred about
once every ten days, on the average, but only after Meier
had successfully reached the contact point unaccompanied by
others.  These contacts were held in the hills several miles
southeast of Zurich, with the contact discussions on most
occasions taking place right in the Pleiadean's beamship.
Meier's primary contactor was a Pleiadean woman who gave her
name as Semjase.  The topics of the conversations raged all
over, from small talk to science and history to
spirituality.  After the first several contacts, during
which Semjase had much to tell Meier about why he had been
selected, he was allowed to ask her numerous questions.
     Interspersed with these contacts, the Pleiadeans
supplied Meier with 19 daytime occasions, in 1975 and 1976
and again 1981, on which he could photograph from one to
four of their space craft at a time.  This was for support
of the reality of his contacts when describing them to
others.  As a result, he ended up with a collection of over
500 color photographs of their craft hovering both near and
far, and sometimes partially eclipsed by branches of a
foreground tree.  On six of these occasions he also had an
8mm movie camera along with him with which he obtained movie-
film sequences.  All this was far too much for most
ufologists who learned of it; first the European UFO
organizations and then the American ones, by the late 1970s
and early 1980s, roundly rejected the case, declaring it
must be a hoax.

     It was an American investigative team headed by
Wendelle Stevens, a retired Air Force colonel, which looked
into the case in greatest detail, from 1977 on.  Stevens and
his associates found all kinds of evidence of genuineness in
the photographs, and no evidence that a hoax had been
commited.  They could find no means available by which Meier
could have faked the objects in the photos (which in many
instances could not possibly have been small models close to
the camera, as we shall see); nor could they find any means
by which Meier could have faked the photos themselves, and
no financial means by which he could have paid others to
achieve these ends.  There are also some two dozen secondary
witnesses who support the authenticity of the case -- people
who, for example, saw UFO lights at night or dusk just
before or after Meier attended a contact meeting, and others
who photographed peculiar circular areas of grass depressed
into a counterclockwise swirling pattern, on the day after a
contact meeting, at spots where Meier reported Semjase's
beamship had hovered close to the ground.  (The grass would
continue to grow out horizontally for weeks afterward,
rather than growing vertically or dying.)
     There are four named witnesses who saw Meier
"materialize" once in their midst just after a contact
meeting, and one of them witnessed the same on a second
occasion.  According to Meier, this was done through the use
of Pleiadean technology, when the beamship was hovering
invisibly nearby.

     The first book to support the case, written by Lee and
Brit Elders, and Tom Welch -- members of Stevens'
investigative team -- appeared in 1979 and was like an
annotated photo-album.  In addition to large blow-ups of
many of the color photos, UFO... Contact from the Pleiades,
Vol. 1, included some quotations of what Semjase and other
Pleiadeans had told Meier.  In 1983 they came out with Vol.
2.  In between, Stevens authored his own book on the case
giving voluminous details -- a book now out in print, as are
Vols. 1 and 2.
     One of Meier's photos, the "sun-glint" photo, is shown
above right (not available for this article, please refer to
"UFO from the Pleiades, by W. Stevens," page 438, picture
#164).  According to Stevens' data, the photo was centered
twords the southwest, so that the setting sun, on March
29th, 1976, would have been off to the right of the photo.
The foreground is in the shade, but golden rays from the sun
are clearly visible in the original color photograph,
reflecting off the hovering object's upper right side in two
streams extending down across the object's facing underside.
Since the tree which is apparently in front of the object is
in the shade, along with the rest of the foreground, the
object must have been somewhat more distant in order to have
intercepted the last rays of light from the sun.  It must
then have had a diameter close to what Semjase told Meier --
about 23 feet.  The tree could not have been a model, since
Stevens has a picture of it taken a year and a half later
when it was in leaf.
     Another point of reality in this photo is that the
reflected golden rays, made visible by the smog often
present over much of Europe and especially just east of
Zurich, should not have been visible if the object had been
a small model up close to the camera, even if the foreground
had been illuminated by the sun.  There would not then have
been enough viewing distance through the sun's rays to
render them visible, unless the smog had been do dense that
the hills in the distance would have been obscured.
     The second photo shown (opposite page, top left [not
available for this article, please refer to "UFO from the
Pleiades," page 383, picture #66]) is from a series in which
the beamship posed on various sides of a fir tree.  Two
professors of the forestry at Oregon State University to
whom I showed some of these photos had no difficulty
identifying the tree as a mature abies alba (European silver
fir).  Hence it could not have been a model tree, with a
model UFO attached.  Soon after Meier took that series of
photos, the tree top turned brown, as often been noticed on
other instances when the UFO came too close to some
vegetation.  Still later, the tree disappeared, and when
Meier quizzed Semjase about this, he was told that they had
"changed its time."  Thus, that the tree no longer exists in
the here-and-now as continuing evidence by which the UFO's
diameter might be judged.  Supporters of the Meier case can
look upon this as an indication that these Pleiadeans feel a
responsibility tword living things with which they interact,
while detractors ignore the reality indicated by these
photos because they feel that it should not be possible for
any alien civilization, no matter how far advanced over us,
to perform such an act.
     The more photographs Meier accumulated, and the more
his experiences with the Pleiadeans came to the attention of
ufologists, the more incredible his case appeared to them.
It became evident that if the case were genuine, it would
mean that these alleged extraterrestrials, or ETs and those
aliens responsible for more "ordinary" UFO sightings
worldwide, presently have a covert strategy of dealing with
us -- one which never provides enough evidence to satisfy
scientists and skeptics, but nevertheless lets their
presence and some of their capabilities be known to others
who are able to accept their potential reality.  If they
have such a strategy, it would mean that such ETs are more
experienced than we, are at least as smart or smarter, and
have some sort of ethical code designed not to send our
civilization into a sudden culture shock.  Such conclusions
are not yet acceptable to most ufologists, hence very few of
them pursued the case far enough to learn what it was the
Pleiadeans had told Meier.  Of those who did, some were
offended to learn that the Pleiadeans espouse a spiritual
philosophy which is largely at odds with Judeo-Christian
concepts.  This only fueled their hostility twords the case.

     It was early in his life that Meier was first
contacted, via telepathy, by a Pleiadean male.  But in his
twenties his contacts were taken over by a female who said
her race was a close collaborator with the Pleiadeans, and
from another universe.  Only in the last couple of decades
have some scientists postulated the existence of multiple
universes.  However, the thought that there could ever be
any communication or travel between universes is entirely
unacceptable by today's science.  The thought that any one
human could be selected out for such contact is equally
unacceptable.
     It has been found that many of these abduction victims
had been subject to recurring UFO incidents, often dating
back to childhood, so that it is now becoming evident to
most ufologists that ETs do single out particular people
upon whom they wish to experiment, or with whom they wish to
communicate.  Still, if certain subjects are supplied with
extensive messages from the ETs, while not being treated as
traumatically as are the abductees, they are considered to
be frauds unworthy of study by the UFO organizations.
Hence, the contactees, like Meier, remain mostly ignored.
     During some of Meier's early ET experiences, in the
1950s and 1960s, he was urged to learn all he could, through
first-hand experience, about Earth's various religions.
This he did in travels to India and the Mideast, and by the
mid-1970s he was prepared for the spiritual philosophy to
which the Pleiadeans educated him.  It is a philosophy
emphasizing the immortality of the individual spirit or
soul, and its purpose in life of learning -- learning even
when it means making mistakes and learning from the
mistakes.  The learning goes on in successive lifetimes, or
reincarnations, over which time the soul gradually evolves
and accumulates memories and knowledge normally unavailable
to us except as feelings of conscience.  Their philosophy
also involves living in harmony with nature, avoiding
stripping a hospitable planet of its resources, avoiding
pollution of the environment and over-population, refraining
from nuclear industries and armaments, and avoiding excesses
and extremes.  They stress the holistic approach, and the
bringing together of logical reasoning and physic power.
Needless to say, these Pleiadeans take a dim view of the
adverse treatment by governments and institutions of Earth's
peoples and environment.

     Now, all of this represents concepts common to many
other ET contactees' messages, concepts common to the New
Age movement, and concepts common to the Amerindian
heritage.  Partly for this very reason, ufologists have
tended to reject it all as too banal to be worth study.
They can also point to various inconsistencies between
different messages allegedly stemming from ETs, and to
apparent absurdities within some of the messages, as reasons
to dismiss all contactees.  Instead of studying the
communications openly to attempt to learn why they may
possess certain puzzling aspects, ufologists reject the
messages by assuming that if they contain anything other
than the truth as 20th century science knows it, the
messages must represent hoaxes or the result of misguided
imaginations.  One reason for this behavior is that if they
treat these messages seriously, they fear ridicule from
scientists whom they are trying to woo into the field of
ufology.  They greatly fear the possibility of being taken
in by some giant hoax, even if they cannot begin to explain
how such a hoax could have been carried out.  And they fear
the criticism of scientists sympathetic to CSICOP (Committee
for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the
Paranormal) if they adopt a stance that the claims of any
genuine contactees ought to involve aspects of an advanced
technology totally beyond our understanding.

     The Meier case stands out from all the other contactee
cases and their messages, however, in being the only one
supplied with very extensive photographic evidence in
support of its overall reality.  Hence the fear of being
taken by a hoax is greatest of all for this case.  Yet,
interspersed in Meier's evidence are ambiguities and
unexplained oddities which can keep skeptics satisfied that
their criticisms are justified.  This would again seem to be
part of an ET strategy, if the ETs possess a level of ethics
which forbids forcing their views upon the majority of a
planet's population.  Meier's contact notes, as well as many
other contactees' messages, do profess this philosophy of
non-interference on a societal level.  The strategy will
succeed as long as skeptics and scientists insist that all
of a UFO witness's testimony and all of a contactee's
evidence must be proven genuine beyond any reasonable doubt;
failing this, the witness is declared mistaken and the UFO
contactee guilty of a hoax or hallucination.
     Gary Kinder's 3-year investigation of the Meier case,
leading to Light Years, confirmed among other things that
Meier's 35mm color film had indeed been processed through
normal commercial channels.  Kinder was also able to obtain
further opinions from scientists and technicians to the
effect that either the objects were truly hovering in the
distance, or Meier was an extremely clever hoaxer.  Analysis
of certain metal samples Meier claimed to have been given
him by Semjase, and of a sound-track recording Meier had
taken of a beamship while is was hovering invisibly,
produced similar statements supporting their strangeness and
seeming impossibility of hoaxing.  However, the UFO
organizations had long since commited themselves to
debunking the case, and since Kinder was not himself either
a ufologist or a photographic technician, his positive
findings made no visible impact upon the UFO organization
leaders.

     Certain aspects of the case seemed too incredible for
Kinder himself to accept, and he was not interested in its
spiritual side.  Thus, he failed to even mention what is
perhaps the most remarkable feature of the case.  It is a
document, called the Talmud Jmmanuel (TJ), a translation of
which fell into Meier's possession in the early 1970s, and
which reads as if it is the original writing of the
teachings of Jesus.  The original ancient document is said
to have been written in Aramaic, but to have been destroyed
by those who felt threatened by its existence.  Before its
destruction, however, the translator, a Lebanese ex-prist
who knew German, mailed the section he had translated to
Meier, whom he had met in the 1960s.  Later, the translator
was killed by an assassin for his efforts.  Meier, in turn,
was told by Semjase that this was Earth's most important
writing, and that he should distribute it to interested and
sincere parties.  According to Meier's contact notes it was
no accident that while in the Mideast he met the man who the
Pleiadeans had prompted to locate the TJ, and became its
recipient.

     The TJ would seem to represent the logia, or sayings of
Jesus, which the early second century bishop, Papias from
Caesarea, had in mind when he wrote "Matthew compiled the
logia [of the Lord] in the Hebrew language, and each
interpreted them as best he could."  Scholars have been
pondering the meaning of this sentence ever since, with the
early 20th century theologian, Burnette Streeter, suggesting
it might mean that these logia had no authorized
translation.  This in turn would imply that they had been
heretical, and required heavy editing by the Christian
scribe of Jewish background who attached Matthew's name to
his new gospel.
     Meier learned from the TJ's translator that the
document did not make its way to the Palestine area until
around the turn of the first century, when a copy embedded
in resin was buried in the Jerusalem area, to remain there
for about 1900 years, while another copy (or the original)
apparently found its way to the early Christian church to
form the basis of the gospels.
     The TJ is briefly mentioned in the chief booklet
disparaging the Meier case, one written by Kal Korff, once a
young associate of the ufologist William Moore.  However,
none of its remarkable aspects were noted, perhaps because
of its heretical contents, or because of the intention to
debunk the case.  The TJ explains most of the outstanding
questions which have plagued Christian scholars for
centuries, but in a manner much more creative than one would
expect from any hoaxer or group of New Testament scholar-
hoaxers.  Its emphasis on the "power of the spirit" can
explain why the Gnostic movement suddenly flourished in the
early second century.  From it one can deduce interesting
relationships between the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, and
their origins.  About 21% of its content is very similar to
that of Matthew, another 23% is recognizable as having
parallel passages to those in Matthew, but with different
meanings, and nearly all the rest is fresh material --
mostly heretical from a Christian viewpoint.  An example of
the latter is this TJ verse:

     There is no eye that is equal to wisdom,
     no darkness equal to ignorance, no power
     equal to the power of the spirit, and no
     terror equal to spiritual poverty.

     Here, and elsewhere in the TJ, "spirit" refers to the
individuals spirit.  An example of a minor difference
between verses of Matthew and the TJ is:

     Matthew 13:54
      and coming to his own country
      he taught them in their synagogue....

     TJ 15:68
      And he came into his father's city,
         Nazareth,
      and taught in the synagogue....

     Few scholars even know that this verse of Matthew has
been criticized, three years after the TJ came out in print,
for not naming Nazareth explicitly, as if the compiler of
Matthew did not wish to name the town which once rejected
Jesus.  Also, "their synagogue" has been criticized as
reflecting the later viewpoint of a writer or scribe at a
time when the split between Judaism and Christianity was
still taking place.  The TJ suffers from neither criticism.
     Meier's very limited school education does not lend
itself to the hoax theory here.  His schooling did not
extend past about the seventh-grade level, due to his ET
contacts as a youth.  He is thus an extremely poor candidate
to be a hoaxer who could contact biblical scholars and bribe
them into writing a gospel which creatively solves a host of
New Testament problems.
     An example where the verses are similar but the
messages are quite different is:

     Matthew 5:3
      Blessed are the poor in spirit,
      for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

     TJ 5:3
      Blessed are they who are rich in spirit
      and recognize the truth, for life
      belongs to them.

     Scholars of Matthew have had trouble with this verse
for many decades, arguing that "poor in spirit" must mean
either poor in material possessions or humble.  The
implication from the TJ is that the compiler of Matthew
preferred "poor in spirit" as a condition which would
encourage followers of the new religion to accept its
teachings rather than rely upon one's own knowledge and
conscience.  The TJ similarly avoids some 180 other
criticisms of Matthew which various New Testament scholars
have made, some of them only after 1978, and another 60
criticisms which can be deduced in hindsight.
     In the TJ, Jesus bears the name Immanuel (but spelled
with a J), with Paul implicated as the man who assigned the
name "Jesus" in order to support his theology of "God saves
us from our sins," which the Hebrew-derived name, Jesus,
implies.  Now, Paul also taught resurrection, while Jmmanuel
teaches reincarnation, amongst many other things in the TJ.
It is interesting that Paul had been a Pharisee before his
conversion on the road to Damascus, and that the Pharisees
had believed in resurrection after death (not reincarnation)
since about the first century B.C.  This, combined with
several passages within Matthew which suggest that Jesus or
his disciples had been discussing reincarnation, lends much
the plausibility to the TJ text and its implication that the
earliest writings upon which the gospels are based received
very heavy editing around the turn of the century, some 50
years after Paul's interpretations had taken hold.
     One concept in Matthew's gospel which is to be found in
the TJ is the value of striving for righteousness.  An even
more important one is the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you."  The Golden Rule bears a
close relationship to cause and effect, and to karma, which
inevitably accompanies the concept of evolution of the soul,
which Jmmanuel taught.

     It is interesting that the concept of reincarnation has
arisen from observations quite independent of any religious
teachings.  Data have been accumulating in the files of
those psychiatrists who have carefully studied childhood
cases of the "reincarnation type."  In these cases, of
worldwide distribution, an occasional child, usually between
ages of two and six, will be noticed by parents or relatives
to talk spontaneously at times as if he or she were actually
someone else.  Often the child makes enough statements so
that the "someone else" can be identified beyond reasonable
doubt as a particular person who had died some years or
months before the birth of the child in question.  Ian
Stevenson, author of cases of the Reincarnation Type (four
volumes published between 1975 and 1980), has over a
thousand "solved" cases of this nature in his files, along
with a comparable number of unsolved cases.  After the child
exceeds an age of from six to ten, the past-life memories
generally fade away.
     In most contactee cases, not just with the Meier case,
and apparently with a large proportion of abductees as well,
the subject, as a result of his or her UFO experiences, ends
up believing in the reality of reincarnation.  This
phenomenon has close links to the prevalent belief of
reincarnation within the New Age movement.  Of course, it is
also an old belief having been part of many cultures
including various Native American peoples, such as the
Lenapes of Delaware and New Jersey, the Hopis, the Pueblos,
and Eskimos -- especially the Tlingets of southern Alaska --
and of many South Pacific Peoples.

     The TJ bears a direct relationship to the UFO
phenomenon.  For example, the voice at the baptism of
Jmmanuel in the Jordon River comes from the "metallic light"
into which he enters and is then taken away for intense
education for forty days and nights.  While the TJ's text is
largely unacceptable to both Christianity and Judaism, it
cannot be discussed or examined openly by Western scholars
whether they are Christian or not because of such UFO
aspects.  Furthermore, since its alleged Aramaic version was
said to have been destroyed, the TJ translation can be
quickly dismissed on the grounds of lack of hard evidence by
any who do examine it only cursorily.  Thus, it is nothing
that any skeptic with fixed opinions need feel threatened
by.
     The TJ adds another dimension to the Meier case.
Detractors already must assume that Meier was skilled in the
rapid writing (without making any revisions) of voluminous
conversational novels which read like self-consistant and
very interesting contact notes, that he had collaborators
exceedingly skilled in fake photography with access to very
expensive equipment, and that he had great magical talents
with which to deceive secondary witnesses.  With the TJ,
they must also assume that he had gained access to the
services of one or more apostate New Testament scholars who
were very knowledgeable and creative.  All this they must
assume he accomplished with no money available by which to
reimburse the unknown accomplices.  It is clear that if
Meier and his evidence are not taken at face value, he would
have needed several accomplices to obtain even less credible
photographs of hovering UFOs than he has -- perhaps ten or
fifteen accomplices by some estimates -- since he lost his
left arm just above the elbow in 1965, and could scarcely
have deployed 23-foot models of UFOs all by himself.  If his
evidence is taken at face value, his accomplices were the
Pleiadeans.
     According to Meier's contact notes, the Pleiadeans were
themselves aided in their Earth operations by several other
ET races working cooperatively with them.  However, another
ET group with less power is also mentioned as working
against them whenever they could.  In this respect Meier's
experiences suggest that some things never change!
     There has not been space to discuss but a fraction of
all the evidence and details which support Meier's
photographs and reports, nor space to discuss but a fraction
of the complaints of critics.  One of these complaints is
that the Pleiades is an open star cluster only some 70
million years old -- far too young by our understanding to
contain any hospitable planets.  Before the Pleiadeans had
moved to the Pleiades, Meier was told, they had emigrated
from a planet within the constellation we call Lyra.  When
Meier asked Semjase about the habitability within the
Pleiades, her reply was too occult to be understandable,
involving mention of a parallel set of "time-shifted
dimensions."  This kind of response is of course frowned
upon by skeptics.  Although they realize that an alien
civilization which can visit Earth may be many millennia
ahead of ours in technology, they continually revert to the
thinking which says that late 20th century science ought to
be able to understand all things reported by a genuine
contactee.  Otherwise, they feel, the case should be
rejected on "scientific" grounds.

     However, one of the primary complaints -- that if
anyone claims to have had many different occasions upon
which he or she, and scarcely anyone else, was able to take
photographs of hovering UFOs, they should be dismissed as
some kind of nut or egomaniac -- now needs reconsideration
by ufologists.  Between November 1987 and May, 1988, a man
with the pseudonym of "Ed" of Gulf Breeze, Florida, was
supplied with 18 opportunities to photograph hovering UFOs
of two or three different physical shapes.  Several members
of our nation's largest UFO organization, MUFON (Mutual UFO
Network), soon kept a close watch on Ed's activities, but he
kept receiving opportunities to photograph hovering objects
with his Polaroid camera when the MUFON personnel and others
(except sometimes for his wife) were not around.  These UFOs
usually seemed to have a base diameter of from 8 to 15 feet.
After Ed's 16th UFO incident, the MUFON investigators
realized that his experiences were ongoing, so they supplied
him with a stereo camera with sealed-in film on February
10th, 1988.  However, the hovering object Ed later
photographed with this camera, on February 26th, was
determined to have a length of only 3 to 4 feet, causing
detractors to pronounce it a model.
     For better future estimates of the size and distance of
such a relatively small UFO, the main investigators decided
Ed needed a stereo camera system with more resolving power,
which they instructed him how to put together.  Then, on May
1st, with this camera system he photographed a hovering
object whose base diameter was later analyzed, through
triangulation, to be about 14 feet, at a range of about 475
feet out over water.  The object had the same crown-like
appearance as what Ed had photographed earlier with his
Polaroid camera, in one frame of which three of them are
shown together.  After May 1, 1988, it appears that Ed
experienced an abduction event, and though he may seem to be
a contactee with respect to his photographic opportunities,
he has actually been treated as an abductee in all other
respects.
     The MUFON investigators can see much reality in Ed's
photographs, and cannot come up with any plausible scenario
of how he could have fraudulently manufactured any
significant fraction of the evidence, especially since there
are over a hundred other people in the area who have
apparently witnessed similar UFOs over the same half-year
period.  Yet, other ufologists, mostly from other UFO
organizations, keep in mind only the ambiguous aspects of
the case and remain very negative about its reality.  It is
clear that if the case is no hoax, it would mean that UFO
intelligences have a sophisticated strategy of dealing with
us, and this is still an unacceptable thought to many.
Hence, we see that skeptics who explore a case which
contains some unacceptable aspects, simply dismiss those
other aspects which support genuineness.  In a case like
this involving several thousand pieces of data input, they
can confine their attention to the numerous ambiguous
aspects without wondering if the ambiguities might reflect
the presence of an advanced technology.  The same apparently
holds true for the Meier case.

     If the Meier case was meant for educating some segment
of humanity, it would appear that the Gulf Breeze case was
meant for educating ufologists!  Should that case ever
receive solid endorsements of genuiness from this country's
UFO organizations, there is likely to be some demand for re-
exploring the Meier case.
     In the meantime, it is up to each interested individual
to decide for himself or herself, after obtaining all
accessible information, whether or not the Meier case seems
genuine.  It is especially instructive, after thoroughly
digesting the data and photographs within the materials on
the case authored by Lee and Brit Elders, Wendelle Stevens,
and Gary Kinder, to access one's own odds that Eduard Meier
could have come up with the extensive color photographs and
other credible evidence in his possession if he had not
received continuing ET help.
     For the person who is more interested in a summary of
what is to be learned from Meier's experiences and ET
communications than in the evidence for or against the case,
a quotation from Meier's wife, Kalliope, from Vol. 2 of
UFO...Contact from the Pleiades by Lee and Brit Elders, well
expresses it:
     "In June of 1976, seven people were waiting with me for
Billy [Eduard] to come back from a contact.  He came and
said to us, 'go with me to another point.'  We went and
waited.  It was daylight and one of the boys told us to look
up into the sky.  It was our first sighting in the day.  The
ship was very big but got smaller as it rose, and I clearly
saw the detail around the top of the ship.  I saw little
ports, and the whole UFO seemed to be light.  The children,
three other woman and one man saw it too.  There are many
lights going across the sky at night and I cannot be sure
what they are, but this I am sure was the ship of Semjase.
I didn't believe it before because I had never talked about
UFO's or seen one.  But after this day...I believe.
     Now the UFO's are secondary, the information from the
Pleiadians comes first.  We have to learn to live
together...man and woman, different countries, different
races and different worlds."

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For literature which debunks the Meier contactee case, write
William Moore, 4219 W. Olive St., Suite 247, Burbank, CA.
91505.

For information on video tapes which tell the positive side
of the story, showing some of Meier's photos and movie-film
footage, and especially for the video called "Contact,"
write Lee or Brit Elders at Genesis III Publishing, P.O.
Drawer JJ, Munds Park, AZ.  86017.

For information about purchasing the Talmud Jmmanuel, write
Eduard Meier, Ch-8495, Hinterschmidruti/ZH, Switzerland.

For more information about the Talmud Jmmanuel, please write
Blue Water Publishing, P.O. Box 230893, Tigard, OR.  97224,
for the availability of the book Celestial Teachings:  The
Emergence of the True Testament of Jmmanuel (Jesus), By
James Deardorff.

For other information concerning this article, please write
the author at the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon
State University, Corvallis, OR.  97221.

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July 6, 1991:  UPDATE
The updated English/German version of the Talmud Jammanuel
can be purchased from:  Wild Flower Press, P.O. Box 230893
Dept. CT, Tigard, Oregon 97224.
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December 27, 1993:   UPDATE
You can obtain up-to-date information, as well as,
translated (to english) contact notes, photos, and other
materials from THE CALIFORNIA STUDY GROUP, P.O. Box 5108,
Chatsworth, California 91311.  THIS IS THE ONLY ORGANIZATION
/GROUP AUTHORIZED BY EDUARD "BILLY" MEIER TO PUBLISH AND
DISTRIBUTE HIS MATERIALS!  The information received through
this study group is approved and authorized by Billy
himself, no other person or group in the United States, as
of the above date (and about 2 years before), is authorized
by Billy to publish, nor even speak about his experiences.
Reasons for this are obvious if you are somewhat familiar
with his story, if not, simply put, Meier's experiences have
been extremely distorted, misrepresented, and has received a
total lack of investigation by ANY major UFO organization,
as a result, the TRUE information about his experiences has
NOT been "properly" told, or written about.  The ONLY reason
why there is so much controversy over this case is simply
because there is too much lack of proper information - THE
CALIFORNIA STUDY GROUP will give you the proper information,
they also hold monthly meetings.

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