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'Claude Maurice Marcel Vorilhon'[1] (born September 30, 1946 in Vichy, Allier, France)[2] was a singer at a young age and soon became a sports-car journalist and test driver for his own car-racing magazine, ''Auto Pop''.[3][4] He replaced that activity with maintaining his religious Raëlian Movement which he founded as an atheist spiritual guide and metaphysical materialist[5] under the name of 'Raël'.
Child in Ambert
According to his book ''Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète'' ("Extraterrestrials Took me to Their Planet") published in 1975, Claude Vorilhon was raised in Ambert by his aunt and grandmother. Claude was impressed during his visit with a neighbor, the "pope" of the Druids, in 1953. He attended a Catholic boarding school with Le Puy-en-Velay where he obtained poor results (even if he revealed a certain potential in poetry and drafting), and caused a scandal by taking part in communion without being baptized. His parents withdrew Claude from the boarding school to put him in the school of Ambert.[6]
Singer
According to his autobiography, he was an impassioned guitarist who went to Paris in 1961 and became a street singer. Under the pseudonym 'Claude Celler', Vorilhon released a few records in the years 1966 and 1971, widely inspired by his idol Jacques Brel. Several albums were released under a contract with CEO , ex-husband of the French star Dalida:Rael: Singer/Songwriter, ''International Raelian Movement''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
'1966' (Age 20)
★ ''Sacrée sale gueule''[7]
★ ''Dans un verre de vin''[8]
'1967' (Age 21)
★ ''Le Miel et la cannelle'' (Honey and cinnamon)[9]
★ ''Madam' Pipi'' (Mrs. Toilet attendant)[10]
★ ''Monsieur votre femme me trompe'' (Mister, your wife is cheating on me)[11]
★ ''Quand on se mariera'' (When we'll get married)[12]
'1971' (Age 25)
★ ''Mon amour Patricia'' (My love Patricia)
In September 1970, Disc' AZ's producer committed suicide, and the career of Claude Celler, "small Brel", ended there.[13] However, many years later, his music remains available to the public with thousands of his records sold online.[14][15] Also present online are new songs sung by Claude Vorilhon which have been released in a free MP3 format.[16]
Author of the Raëlian Messages
In the book ''Le Livre qui dit la vérité'' ("The Book Which Tells the Truth"), Vorilhon recounts an alien visitation he purportedly experienced in December 13, 1973. In a secluded area within the ditch of a French volcanic crater, an extraterrestrial being came out of a craft which had fallen gently from the sky, and told him (in French) that he had come for the sole purpose of meeting with him. The alien being gave Vorilhon a message and told him that it was his mission to pass this message on to the people of Earth.[17] His meetings with the human-like extra-terrestrial lasted for six consecutive days, one hour each day.[18]
The extraterrestrial claims that every life form on Earth was created by advanced human scientists from another planet with 25,000 years of scientific advances.[19] According to Raëlians, these scientists were originally called Elohim or "those who came from the sky",[20] and some forty[21] prophets in Earth's history were sent by Elohim, but their messages were distorted[22] by humans, largely because of the difference in the level of civilization between the advanced race and our primitive one.[23]
Claude Vorilhon claimed he was given the ''demystifying'' mission of informing the world of humanity's true origins through a movement as well as fostering a welcoming return of the scientific creators by building a residential embassy in neutral territory.[24] The extra-terrestrials explained certain mysteries to him (which he recounts in his book), based on new readings of sacred texts such as the Bible.[25] On October 7, 1975 he claims he was again contacted by the Elohim who took him to their planet. There he met Buddha, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad and received many teachings which are passed on in his second book "''Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète''" (''Extraterrestrials Took Me To Their Planet''). He claims that he discovered wonderful, harmonious and peaceable beings who taught him a philosophy based on pleasure, love, knowledge and conscience, and who were free of money, sickness and war.[26]
Automotive enthusiast
Sports car magazine founder
According Claude Vorilhon's book ''Le Livre qui dit la vérité'' ("The Book Which Tells the Truth"), soon after he moved to Clermont-Ferrand, he began his own publishing house to create sports car magazine entitled ''Autopop''[27] which he founded 1970.[28] From May 1971 to September 1974 he published 34 issues.[3] One of the tasks for his new startup, he says, was the position of testing new automobiles. The lower costs of having the racing cars lent to him this way made it financially easier to enter the motor racing world.
In 1974, Claude Vorilhon finally decided to give up automobile magazine ''Autopop'' and devote himself fully to the task allegedly given by his biological "father", an extra-terrestrial named Yahweh.[30] Shortly after a first public conference, Vorilhon founded MADECH - a group of people interested in helping he in his huge task, which later became the ''International Raelian Movement''.[31]
Sports car driver
In 1994, rich Japanese Raëlians rented a race car and showed it to Claude Vorilhon. They believed that it would generate publicity for the movement. Claude accepted the offer on the condition that the funding must not come from member tithes or embassy funding. So the funding of Raël's races which took place in the 1990s and early 2000s came mostly from well funded European and Japanese people.[32]
In 1999, Claude Vorilhon, under the name of Raël, participated in the BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Series:
| Round | Date | Car | Start | Finish | Laps | Track | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two | May 23, 1999 | Chevrolet ??? | 21st | 19th | 35 out of 40 | Mosport International Raceway | ''Motorsport.com''[33] |
| Three | May 31, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 32nd | Lime Rock Park | ''Motorsport.com''[34] | ||
| Four | June 6, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 32nd | Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course | ''Motorsport.com''[35] | ||
| Five | July 10, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 38th | Road America | ''Motorsport.com''[36] | ||
| Six | July 25, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 44th | Road Atlanta | ''Motorsport.com''[37] | ||
| Seven | August 1, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 45th | Circuit Trois-Rivières | ''Motorsport.com''[38] | ||
| Eight | August 7, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 47th | Detroit street circuit | ''Motorsport.com''[39] | ||
| ? | September 4, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 50th | Molson Indy Vancouver | ''Motorsport.com''[40] | ||
| Eleven | September 25, 1999 | Chevrolet Camaro | 52th | Grand Prix of Houston | ''Motorsport.com''[41] |
In 2000, Claude Vorilhon, under the name of Raël, participated in multiple Speedvision GT Championship events:
| Round | Date | Car | Start | Finish | Laps | Track | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| One | April 1, 2000 | Lotus Esprit | 29th | 32nd | 15 out of 29 | Lowe's Motor Speedway | ''Motorsport.com''[42] |
| Two | May 21, 2000 | Lotus Esprit | 31st | 18th | 27 out of 27 | Mosport International Raceway | ''Motorsport.com''[43] |
| Three | May 27, 2000 | Lotus Esprit | 38th | Lime Rock Park | ''Motorsport.com''[44] | ||
| Eight | October 15, 2000 | Porsche 911 GT3 | 32nd | 25th | 25 out of 26 | Laguna Seca Raceway | ''Motorsport.com''[45] |
| Nine | October 29, 2000 | Porsche 911 GT3 | 25th | 25th | 29 out of 30 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | ''Motorsport.com''[46] |
According to Canadian sociologist, Susan J. Palmer, Claude Vorilhon made an announcement in November 2001 that he intends to retire from professional auto racing. She says that Vorilhon still enjoys automobile racing, albeit in the form of video games.[32]
Technology advocate
Claude Vorilhon believes that the present reality of genetically modified food is the only way to stop hunger everywhere in the world, and he sees a future where qualities of different foods can be combined through direct genetic modification.[48]
As a supporter of Clonaid's claims of cloning a human being, much of Vorilhon's advocacy concerning more futuristic technology is described in his book, ''Yes to Human Cloning''. He believes decisions involving human genetic engineering would be done to avoid genetically inherited diseases as well as to put less of an economic burden on society, and that no distinctive emphasis needs to be allocated to a particular race or religion.[49][50] Elsewhere in this book, he says nanotechnology will make it possible to have micro-distributive power generation (effectively a power plant in each house), fur-like furnishings that are self-cleaning with hair-like fibers that move on their own,[51] and even biological robots.[52] Nanotechnology controls biology, so Vorilhon expects someday that meat and salads will be grown in a machine via molecular construction.[53][54]
Vorilhon supports the animation of plant life through nanotechnology in his book, ''Extraterrestrials took me to their planet'' (book number 2 in the volume entitled ''Intelligent Design''), where he claims he was presented genetically modified flowers that sway and change colors with music.[55]
Controversy
Raëlians asking to stop the prohibition of Raël's entry into Korea
Authorities deny entry of Claude Vorilhon and his wife into Korea
In response to Claude Vorilhon's association with Clonaid, South Korean immigration authorities at the airport denied him entry into their country in 2003.[56] This decision led to the quick cancellation of the planned Raëlian seminar which seven hundred registered for. Raëlians of South Korea were instructed by Raël to protest near the center of the country of Ministry of Health and Welfare that ordered him to leave.
Officials detained Vorilhon for nine hours at Incheon International Airport before he and his wife Sophie de Niverville left for Tokyo from where the would take another plane on their way back to Canada. Vorilhon responded by saying that Korean officials treated him like a "North Korean" and that he would wait for an apology before coming back to Korea.[57]
See also
Bibliography
★ 1974 (Age 28): ''Le Livre qui dit la vérité'' ("The Book Which Tells the Truth")
★ 1975 (Age 29): ''Les extra-terrestres m'ont emmené sur leur planète'' ("Extraterrestrials Took me to Their Planet")
★
★ (collected in English as "The Message Given to Me by Extra-Terrestrials") ISBN 4900480053
★ 1978 (Age 32): ''La géniocratie'' ("Geniocracy")
★ 1979 (Age 33): ''Accueillir les extra-terrestres'' ("Let's Welcome the Extraterrestrials") ISBN 4900480061
★ 1980 (Age 34): ''La méditation sensuelle'' ("Sensual Meditation") ISBN 1903571073
★ 1992 (Age 46): ''Le racisme religieux financé par le gouvernement socialiste''
★ 1995 (Age 49): ''Vive le Québec libre!''
★ 2001 (Age 55): ''Oui au clonage humain'' ("Yes to Human Cloning") ISBN 1903571057
★ 2003 (Age 57): ''Le Maitraya'' ("The Maitraya")
★ 2006 (Age 60): ''Intelligent Design: Message from the Designers'' -recompiled English compilation of the 1974,1975 and 1979 books ISBN 2940252203
References
;General
★ Beer, Robert. The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols, ''Serindia Publications'', 2003. ISBN 1932476032.
★ Tiele, Cornelis P. ''The Religion of the Iranian Peoples''. ''"The Parsi" publishing'', 1912. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
★ McGovern, William M. ''Introduction to Mahayana Buddhism''. ''Kessinger Publishing'', 2003. ISBN 0766145840.
★ Morgan, Kenneth W. ''Path of the Buddha: Buddhism Interpreted by Buddhists''. ''Kessinger Publishing'', 2006. ISBN 1425484654
★ Partridge, Christopher H. ''UFO Religions''. ''Routledge'', 2003. ISBN 0415263239.
★ Palmer, Susan J. ''Aliens Adored''. ''Rutgers University Press'', 2004. ISBN 0813534763.
★ Raël, ''Intelligent Design''. Nova Distribution, 2006. ISBN 2940252203.
★ Raël, ''Yes to Human Cloning: Immortality Thanks to Science. Tagman Press, 2001. ISBN 1-903571-05-7; ISBN 1-903571-04-9.
★ Rowthorne, Chris. [Japan], ''Lonely Planet'', 2003. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
★ Yi, Sang-tʻaek. [''Religion and Social Formation in Korea: Minjung and Millenarianism'', ''Walter de Gruyter'', 1996. Retrieved 26 August 2007.
;Specific
1. Cult leader Rael denied residence in Switzerland, ''Agence France-Presse''. 19 February 2005. Retrieved 13 March 2007.
2. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', p. 123.
3. AutoPop, la revue des pilotes ''Raël : Messie ou Menteur ?''. Retrieved 20 June 2007
4. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 135-6.
5. Partridge, p. 21.
6. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 123-9.
7. Claude Celler - Sacrée sale gueule, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
8. Claude Celler - Dans un verre de vine, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
9. Claude Celler - Le Miel et la Cannelle, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
10. Claude Celler - Madam' Pipi, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
11. Claude Celler - Monsieur votre femme me trompe, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
12. Claude Celler - Quand on se mariera, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
13. Palmer, 132-3.
14. Claude Celler, ''Bide&Musique''. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
15. CELLER CLAUDE (RAEL), ''GroveCollector.com''. November 2004. Retrieved 17 August 2007.
16. Audio Files from RAEL, ''International Raelian Movement''. Retrieved 19 August 2007.
17. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 11-109.
18. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 136.
19. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 90, 107, 113, 159.
20. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 11.
21. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 161-5.
22. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 11, 33, 88, 293, 332.
23. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 73.
24. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 101-104.
25. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', 10-79.
26. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'' 163-4.
27. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'' 135-6.
28. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'' 3.
29. AutoPop, la revue des pilotes ''Raël : Messie ou Menteur ?''. Retrieved 20 June 2007
30. Raël, ''Intelligent Design''; 290-1.
31. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'' 139-40.
32. Palmer, p. 41.
33. Mosport Race Report, Results and Points, ''Motorsport.com''. 23 May 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
34. Mosport Lime Rock Park Trans-Am Race Story, Results and Points, ''Motorsport.com''. 31 May 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
35. Mid Ohio Race Story and Results, ''Motorsport.com''. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
36. BFGoodrich Tires Trans-Am Road America Results, ''Motorsport.com''. 31 May 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
37. Mosport Road Atlanta Trans-Am Story, Results, Points, ''Motorsport.com''. 25 July 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
38. Trois-Rivieres Race Report, ''Motorsport.com''. 1 August 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
39. Detroit Race Report, ''Motorsport.com''. 1 August 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
40. Vancouver Results, Points, ''Motorsport.com''. 4 September 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
41. Houston Trans-Am Series Race Story, Results and Points, ''Motorsport.com''. 25 September 1999. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
42. Charlotte GT Opener Race Results, ''Motorsport.com''. 1 April 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
43. Mosport GT results, ''Motorsport.com''. 21 May 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
44. Lime Rock Park line up GT, Touring, ''Motorsport.com''. 27 May 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
45. ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank> Laguna Seca Fitzgerald wins third straight in GT, ''Motorsport.com''. 15 October 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
46. ★ class=wikiexternal target=_blank> Las Vegas GT results, ''Motorsport.com''. 30 October 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2007.
47. Palmer, p. 41.
48. Raël, ''Yes to Human Cloning'', p. 57-60.
49. Rael's press conference in London, ''Archive.org: Rael Press File''. 5 February 2002. Retrieved 6 August 2006.
50. Raël, ''Yes to Human Cloning'', p. 51-55.
51. Raël, ''Yes to Human Cloning'', p. 133-6.
52. Raël, ''Yes to Human Cloning'', p. 132.
53. Brown, DeNeen L., The Leader of UFO Land, ''Washington Post''. 17 January 2003. Retrieved 3 May 2007.
54. Raël, ''Yes to Human Cloning'', p. 72.
55. Raël, ''Intelligent Design'', p. 138.
56. Ji-young, So, Raelian Cult Leader Threatens to Sue Korea Over Denied Entry, ''Korea Times''. 3 August 2003. Retrieved 12 March 2007
57. Goodenough, Patrick, Cloning Cult Miffed About Treatment of Leader, ''Cybercast News Service''. 6 August 2007. Retrieved 3 June 2007.
External links
★ Rael.org - Official Raelian Website with free e-book downloads.
★
★ Biographies: Singer - Racer - Religious leader
★
★ Other Raelian sites: News & Views - Africa - Radio site and podcast
★ The Rael Deal by Susan J. Palmer sociologist of Canada
★ The Message Given By Extra-Terrestrials, criticism by a Freethinker
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