(One 30-minute segment)

With the end of the mil­len­nium draw­ing near, it is increas­ingly impor­tant to be aware of pos­si­ble polit­i­cal manip­u­la­tion of people’s apoc­a­lyp­tic fears and hopes. In that con­text, a chan­nel­ing cult called “The Nine” bears par­tic­u­lar exam­i­na­tion. Pur­port­ing to be the “Ennead” (the nine gods of ancient Egypt), they have links to many dif­fer­ent indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions includ­ing: Andrija Puharich (con­nected to the CIA’s mind con­trol pro­grams of the 50s and 60s), Rus­sians asso­ci­ated with the Gor­bachev regime in the for­mer USSR, the Esalen Insti­tute and numer­ous New Age orga­ni­za­tions. This orga­ni­za­tion espouses a racist, ariosophist phi­los­o­phy that main­tains that all of the Earth’s peo­ples are descended from The Nine (and, con­se­quently, supe­rior) except for the black race (who are, con­se­quently, infe­rior.) With the New Age move­ment grow­ing and with 42% of Amer­i­can col­lege grad­u­ates believ­ing that we have been vis­ited by space aliens, the dan­ger that the views of The Nine could achieve wide­spread accep­tance and lead to geno­cide is not one that should be too read­ily cast aside. (It should be noted that there is con­vinc­ing evi­dence that so-called UFOs are real, but do not come from outer space. Should they be deployed in con­junc­tion with other types of secret tech­nol­ogy, the views of The Nine could be rein­forced in a very con­vinc­ing way.) For more on the real­ity of UFOs (from Earth, not outer space) and the total­i­tar­ian aspects of UFO cults, see FTRs 66–68, 105, 157, 167 and L-1, L-2.) As noted above, Andrija Puharich, whose orga­ni­za­tion has done much to pro­mote The Nine, was involved with the CIA mind-control pro­grams. Those pro­grams were ini­ti­ated from a research base devel­oped by the Nazis in World War II. (For more on the sub­ject of mind con­trol and cults, see RFAs 5–7, Mis­cel­la­neous Archive Shows M-7, M-9 and M14-17, as well as FTRs 64 and 65.) The pro­gram con­cludes with a brief look at Sav­itri Devi, a post-war Nazi mys­tic who has achieved con­sid­er­able influ­ence in the New Age move­ment. (Recorded on 9/19/99.)