It has been fifty years since Claude Vorilhon imagined his own myth.
That of Raël, the man who met, in 1973 and then in 1975, in the Auvergne mountains, the Elohim.
The so-called creators of Humanity would have landed in a flying saucer to appoint this former journalist and musician as their messenger to Earth.
While waiting for their return to the blue planet, Vorilhon would have been entrusted with multiple missions: building an embassy to welcome them, awakening humans through meditation, working for their sexual liberation, educating them on their origin (having been created in a laboratory it 25,000 years ago), while demystifying the great religions.
Invited on all television sets after his supposed
“meeting”
, Raël, with his concept close to the New Age but supposedly based on science, attracted tens of thousands of faithful.
Until in 2002, Brigitte Boisselier, one of the thinking heads of the movement, announced that she had succeeded in the first human cloning.
Generating a global controversy on the subject, which brought this chemist and her guru before the American Congress.
Faced with the lack of evidence and its outdatedness, the movement has lost its influence, to the point of falling back under the radar.
Quietly, the structure, accused of numerous sectarian excesses, nevertheless continues its actions under the always laughing eye of its guru, aged 77, exiled in Japan.
With the hope of continuing to expand.
Story of a still flourishing sectarian business.
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