How prophecy never fails: interpretive reason in a flying-saucer group

Sociology of Religion, Summer, 1998 by Diana Tumminia

Antares, under Uriel's direction, ordered several charter buses for the event. Antares did what he was told, although he had a sense of deep foreboding. He scheduled a fleet of buses, which would run relays from the Academy, so that all those who wanted to greet the Brothers could be taken to the landing site. As preparation continued, Antares had the road to the property widened and a fence constructed to keep out unauthorized seekers. Amidst the excited activity and frenzied anticipation, Antares tried to contain his growing fear that thousands of people would come to view the spaceships. Privately he told Uriel that surely she must make contact with the government, and arrange for the National Guard for the safety of all concerned.

But Uriel was somewhat oblivious to Antares for she was in a heightened state of ecstasy, "psychically seeing many of the scenes that were going to take place" (Norman 1985a: 279). She said that when the Space Brothers landed, they would present her with a crown. For this occasion, she had her dressmaker fashion a gown fit for an interplanetary coronation. Other gowns were also hurriedly ordered as the Brothers would surely take her on a world tour.

As Uriel saw the future events unfold in her mind, she described the scene to her students. A luxurious stateroom was being prepared for her on a flying saucer. In its enormous closet, she would put the lovely clothes she had purchased for the trip. Uriel went on extra shopping trips during that time to purchase more trunks and suitcases. Her plans were to move into a spacecraft with style. On the expected worldwide peace mission, she and the Brothers would greet many heads of state. Off they would fly to England, France, and Germany, subsequently they would visit the Soviet Union, China, and Japan. After their world tour, Uriel and the Space Brothers would proceed to contact the President of the United States.

On the home front, Uriel made arrangements to give away her worldly goods. Uriel wrote farewell notes to her dear students. She began the process of incorporating Unarius as a non-profit educational foundation. To Antares, Uriel gave her Space Cadillac with a model of a flying saucer attached to the roof. She began signing over her bank accounts and property to Unarius. As the hour grew near, Uriel gave her farewell speech to her closest students at the dining table in her home. Then later at the Center, she said goodbye to fifty students who softly wept at the thought of her leaving.

According to the Unarian version of what happened next, "Finally on Monday, the 22nd, the great psychic bubble exploded" (Norman 1985a: 231)! Cosmon, Uriel's close student and fellow channeller, called her from Los Angeles. Cautiously Cosmon told Uriel that he was in tune with the Brothers who wanted her to know that she was not going through a real event. Instead she was experiencing her life as Isis, Queen of Egypt, some 14,000 years ago. In that lifetime, Isis and her husband Osiris (Ernest Norman) rushed toward the landing site of a spaceship that had come to take them home. As they arrived, they were set upon and murdered by a crowd of people. The Brothers hovered aloft in their saucer unable to stop the attack. The very murderers had now reincarnated as Unarian students.