For a second, I thought this was about Hollywood nepotism

That right there is how you know it's authentic crazy and not just grifting crazy

thx for the post! this cult was started by my great uncle, so I'm always fascinated. the doc may mention this, but Ernest norman came from a large, very eccentric mormon family, which is also intereating.

Damn you ain't kidding

https://i.imgur.com/Wo1qUna.jpeg

They are spreading bullshit theories and calling it "science" without any evidence, which is harmful.

You should check out https://www.heavensgate.com/ .

Yeah, they’re pretty charming in their own way. Crazy, but apparently not harmful in the end.

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And not to be confused with the Urantia Foundation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urantia_Foundation

Oh man, this is the cult with Ruth Norman and her wild outfits. I don't subscribe to her crazy but I respect her commitment to gaudy, over-the-top fashion.

Also, bonus cool factor of getting referenced in one of the best X-Files of all time: Jose Chung's From Outer Space

I would have to agree. Definitely WEIRD, but overall harmless. I loved walking past the mural on the building and the window displays were always trippy. It fit right in with the rest of the odd shops on Main St.

I spent a good portion of this film unsure if it was a documentary or mockumentary. Love it! Bought the DVD.

I mean at the very least cults are harmful because they'll drain money out of their followers to go to the leader/highest ups in the church.

The website is definitely stuck in the 90s 😬

Well, have you seen their costumes? They are out of this world!

If a mofo claims a supernatural connection they better have irrefutably supernatural abilities

Do you mean Heaven's Gate?

I only realised it's 'Unarius' and not 'Uranius' after reading the full meaning. Lmao

What was that cult that ssid that they would take people ti the moon or something and killed the people?

Unarius Academy of Science

>Unarius is a non-profit organization founded in 1954 in Los Angeles, California, and headquartered in El Cajon, California. The organization purports to advance a new "interdimensional science of life" based upon "fourth-dimensional" physics principles. Unarius centers exist in Canada, New Zealand, Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and various locations in the United States. Unarius is an acronym for "Universal Articulate Interdimensional Understanding of Science".

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I used to work right around the corner from this place in El Cajon. It was truly very weird and gave off 'crazy vibes'. My friends and I only went inside one time, just to check it out. They greeted us and immediately asked if they could separate us and take each of us to a single room , alone to talk. We noped out of there and ran to a Winchells. It was fun to see the 'UFO cars' driving around East County San Diego, but that place always gave me the creeps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unarius_Academy_of_Science

No creepy, exploitative compound living? No rampant sexual abuse or taking of multiple wives by a charismatic leader? What kind of cult IS this anyway?

(It's definitely a cult though, and objectively weird. Just sounds relatively harmless)

Thanks for this take. Indigenous cultures the world over have be decimated for colonial profit is a sad and familiar story

Knowing how tribes started being massacred by mining companies, narco-traffickers, yet even more importantly settlers seeking land grants, his words and even the machete story make perfect sense. The Brasilian government had started giving settlers land, as long as they cleared it (the clearing being done via fire, and had at least 1 cow to make it official). The many beards, ie any of the above, who make a loud noise, ie gunfire, and the presence of smoke, which could be from intentionally set fires (s) fit perfectly as a retelling of the usual Indigenous v forces of progress in Amazonas tale.

The cow is a major clue, and he seems to understand that these strange other people had cows. It almost seemed to me as if he was relaying that the birds were making a racket when they approached. The fact that he's talking of many of his people dying makes sense that they could quite possibly have been murdered. What this doc fails to explain to people is that #1 there wasn't always a FUNAI trying to preserve Indigenous people, and #2, that there had been many Natives murdered-it just gave the brief mention of iron and the railroad. I'm not sure why he's mentioning the wild boar, but they are seen as THE fiercest and most dangerous wild animal. There must be a reason he's mentioining the jaguar as well.

As someone who has spent significant time in the Amazon with tribes and understands competing forces there, these are my 2 cents. Disclaimer-I did NOT spend time in the specific area these 2 were found in.