Word: marsic
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...Twenty years ago Damien Marsic, then 18 and living in Nancy, France, doubted Raelian views. "When I first heard about it, I thought how can people believe such strange things!" he says. Now the 38-year-old University of Alabama at Huntsville doctoral student is a true believer and is even preparing to become a Raelian "guide," or priest...
...turning point came for Marsic after a Raelian friend loaned him "The Final Message," the book written by the movement?s French founder, Rael. Formerly known as Claude Vorilhon, Rael reportedly claims to have been taken up in a spaceship by a 4-foot-tall, green-skinned, long-haired, oval-eyed alien who directed him to write a book revealing the identities of the aliens as the creators of human beings. The aliens reportedly called him Rael...
...Even if Marsic had doubts, Rael?s work "was like a calling," he said. He spent "a few months analyzing it in detail" and questioning, a practice which is encouraged by the Raelian movement. "I had been told that evolution was a fact and that life on earth appeared by itself." But "if evolution is true, how can it be that life can be created by extraterrestrials?" he asked. With further exploration, Marsic says he discovered other scientists who do not believe in evolution and with even further investigation, he "only found confirmation that ?the message? is true...
...really think that this book was given to mankind by extraterrestrial people," Marsic says. Raelians call the extraterrestrial creators Elohim, a Biblical term, but the Rael movement is "an atheistic religion," with "no God, no supernatural," says Marsic. Even so, "we have a spiritual teaching. We believe in love and nonviolence and, as Raelians, we always try to improve ourselves, to raise our level of consciousness. We hope to contribute to make the earth a better place...
...What do you think is going to happen on earth in this decade?" asks Marsic. "We will be able to travel to new solar systems and discover new planets." As scientific advances increase, humans, like the Elohim, "will be able to design new organisms from scratch," he says. "I?m sure some day some people from earth will go to another planet and create new life...