Raëlism - Immortality through science?

Raëlism is the belief system promoted by the Raëlian Movement, a quasi-religious organization which believes that scientifically advanced extraterrestrials known as the Elohim (taken from the Hebrew texts of the Christian Bible and the Torah and usually translated into God in English but translated by those who came from the sky in the Raëlian message) created life on Earth through genetic engineering, and that a combination of human cloning and "mind transfer" can ultimately provide immortality. Raëlism is a new religious movement and has been perc ...

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• Raëlism - The Elohim
• Raëlism - Immortality through science?
• Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning
• Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation
• Raëlism - Order of Angels
• Raëlism - Geniocracy
• Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult
• Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

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The Raëlians believe that immortality through science will one day be possible. The prophet Raël explains that this will be achieved through the following steps: creating a genetically identical copy of someone by human cloning causing the clone to mature much, much faster than normal (Raël makes the statement that in future scientists will discover a so-called "accelerated-growth process" - see mention on CNN. Then in a process like guided self-assembly of rapidly expanded cells or even nanotechnological assembly a ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Immortality through science?

During the height of the cloning story several news sources started listing Raelism as a cult. Amongst the more noteworthy to do so was the Guardian and Salon. As they had a living founder, unpopular ethical stances, and had become involved in a media controversy, this allegation is arguably unsurprising. Further, some claimed that Raël used donations for his own benefit - but this has never been substantiated and all financial records of the Raëlian Movement are open for inspection by any member. Despite the amounts of bad press and alleg ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult

During the height of the cloning story several news sources listed Raelism as a cult. Amongst the more noteworthy to do so was the Guardian and Salon. As Raëlism has a living founder, unpopular ethical stances, and had become involved in a media controversy, this allegation is unsurprising. Further, some have claimed that Raël himself has used donations for his own benefit - but this has never been substantiated and all financial records of the Raëlian Movement are supposedly open for inspection by any member. Despite the ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult

According to Raël, a message of the human origin was dictated to him in December 1973 in personal meetings with a 25,000-year-old extraterrestrial who came in a UFO. The story goes that after terraforming of Earth, human beings from another planet - the "Elohim" (Hebrew for the word "God" as found in the Hebrew Old Testament) - which the alleged extraterrestrial himself translated as meaning those who came from the sky) created humans and all life on earth using DNA manipulation and genetic engineering. The message dictated to Raël ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - The Elohim

It is important not to be confused by different uses of the word "cloning". In the scientific community, cloning refers only to the creation of a genetically identical individual. Note that "genetically identical" does not mean altogether identical; this kind of cloning does not reproduce a person's memories or experience, for example. In discussions of Raëlism, cloning sometimes seems to refer not only to biological cloning, but to biological human cloning plus mind and/or brain transfer ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning

According to Raël, a message of the human origin was dictated to him in December 1973 in personal meetings with a 25,000-year-old extraterrestrial who came in a UFO. The story goes that after terraforming of Earth, human beings from another planet (the "Elohim" - which the alleged extraterrestrial himself translated as meaning those who came from the sky) created humans and all life on earth using DNA manipulation and genetic engineering. The message dictated to Raël during his encounter with the Elohim states that the Elohim sent all the prophets who were at the origin of the main religions ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - The Elohim

One aspect of the movement is the Order of Angels, an international group of women whose primary mission is to help humanity develop the qualities of femininity and refinement. Raëlians believe that people must grow beyond the current aggression and violence on Earth, and this will only happen if men as well as women learn to develop their femininity. So, those women who choose to become angels work to develop their own feminine qualities in order to teach others to grow in the same way. These women put their interior and exterior be ...

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Raëlism, Raëlism - The Elohim, Raëlism - Immortality through science?, Raëlism - Confusion about human cloning, Raëlism - Confusion about reincarnation, Raëlism - Order of Angels, Raëlism - Geniocracy, Raëlism - Criticism and the Allegation of being a Cult, Raëlism - Related Religious Movements

Read more here: » Raëlism: Encyclopedia II - Raëlism - Order of Angels