GLORIA LEE (First Contact September 1953)
Gloria Lee learned to fly before she could drive a car. She was married to an aeronautical engineer; she became entranced with the subject of UFOs and actively engaged in psychic research and the study of esoterica. While endeavoring to develop her extrasensory perception, she made contact with a mysterious being who claimed to be from the planet Jupiter.
Gloria s original contact with the entity, who identified as J.W., occurred at Los Angeles International Airport, where she was a ground hostess.
The entire communications and the book were done solely through telepathy, for which the Instrument, Gloria Lee, was explicitly trained and developed over a period of four years. Lee admits this may seem incredible to some minds. Still, it must be remembered that some Space People are over one million years ahead of our evolution and have developed faculties many of us are unaware exist.
Unlike many who wonder what is happening in the sky, Gloria successfully established a legitimate contact through telepathy. Not that the communications were all that successful at first, but some compelling inner force kept her continuing her search even though her family and friends tried to discourage her from digging deeper into the unknown. She shamelessly noted that my hurt was overcome by the belief that there was Truth, sometimes highly-priced, but always well worth the effort for the knowledge gained.
Lee, Gloria
Gloria Lee, one of the prominent flying saucer contactees of the 1950s, was born March 22, 1926, in Los Angeles. She developed an interest in flying as a teenager and became one of the early airline stewardesses, a position she held until her marriage to William H. Byrd in 1952. About this same time she developed an interest in flying saucers, then being raised as an issue by George Adamski, who claimed contact with extraterrestrials.
In 1953 Lee began to receive messages from the saucer brothers through the process of automatic writing. The first messages were received while she was at work. The contacts led her into association with several occult interest groups. The regularity of the messages increased, and eventually the automatic writing gave way to telepathy. The extraterrestrial identified himself as J.W., a Venusian who came from a race of people who no longer used vocal communications and in their evolution had lost their vocal cords.
They communicated by telepathy alone. As the communications continued, she attempted in various ways to prove J.W.’s existence, both to herself and others. In 1959 she founded the Cosmon Research Foundation and published her first book, Why We Are Here! The book shows some background in Theosophy. Theosophy pictures a hierarchy of spiritual beings that stand between humanity and the divine. In Lee’s thinking, that hierarchy had been transformed into a space command hierarchy. A second book, The Changing Conditions of Your World! appeared in 1962.
By the early 1960s Lee was a well-known figure in the contactee subculture. In the fall of 1962, accompanied by her friend and colleague Hedy Hood, Lee went to Washington to attempt to interest political leaders in her ideas about the space brothers. She wanted financing and assistance to build a spaceship, the plans of which had been given her by J.W. She found no positive response, and on September 13, the pair took a hotel room and Lee began a fast to call attention to her ideas. No one listened. On November 2, she fell into a coma and died.
Immediately after her death, several contactees claimed to have talked to Gloria Lee in her new spiritual existence. Verity of the Heralds of the New Age (New Zealand) and Yolanda of Mark-Age both produced booklets of what they claimed were communications from Lee. Lee was considered a martyr by the contactees of the 1960s but was soon forgotten as new people who did not know her moved into leadership positions.
Sources:
Lee, Gloria. The Changing Conditions of Your World! Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.: Cosmon Research Foundation, 1962.
——. Why We Are Here! Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.: Cosmon Research Foundation, 1959.
Steiger, Brad. The Aquarian Revelations. New York: Dell, 1971.
Verity. The Going and the Glory. Auckland, New Zealand: Heralds of the New Age, 1966.
Gloria Lee
Gloria-Lee-WikipediaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gloria Lee (March 22, 1926 – December 3, 1962) was an American airline flight attendant and a follower of Oahspe who became part of the 1950s contactee movement in 1953.[1]
Lee, a native of Los Angeles, claimed to be in telepathic communication with an entity known as JW, who lived on the planet Venus, and began to assemble a book of his spiritual teachings as dictated to her. At his direction she founded the Cosmon Research Foundation for the purpose of publication and study of JW’s superhuman wisdom, much of which bore some resemblance to the 1882 teachings of Oahspe.
Membership in Lee’s organization rose sharply after advertisements were regularly carried in Ray Palmer‘s monthly occult magazine Fate. She hit the contactee lecture circuit and attracted considerable public attention. During her lectures, Lee sold copies of her book of revelations, Why We Are Here! (1959). The year of her death, a second “JW” book was published, The Changing Conditions of Your World! (1962).
She developed a plan for world peace and a space station design and took them to Washington D.C. in late 1962 in an attempt to bring them to the attention of officials. However, after being rebuffed, she launched a hunger strike or protest fast, telling others in the UFO contactee community that she expected to enter a coma resembling death, then “return” with renewed spiritual energy to carry on her “great work”. However, the press were not notified of Lee’s hunger strike until some time after it had begun, and she attracted no publicity. After approximately 66 days without eating, she was taken to George Washington University Hospital. She died there on December 3, 1962 at the age of 36.
Mark-Age[edit]
After her death, Charles Boyd Gentzel, the founder of Mark-Age, Inc., and his partner Pauline Sharpe (also known as Nada-Yolanda), claimed to be channelling spirit messages from Lee on behalf of their own UFO-contact cult. Lee is not the only contactee or would-be contactee to starve herself to death. In November 1982, LaVerne Landis, a member of the UFO cult Search and Prove, died of starvation while waiting in her car in the northern Minnesota woods for over 40 days for a flying saucer to land, after reportedly being told to wait there during psychic contact with a Space Brother.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ “Lee, Gloria (1926-1962)”. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ “AROUND THE NATION; Vigil for Flying Saucer Brings Death to Woman”. The New York Times. 20 November 1982.
External links[edit]
- Survey of 1950s contactees, including Lee
- 1963 newsletter from contactee Daniel Fry announcing Lee’s death
- General Overview of 1950s Contactees
- Mark-Age, Inc.
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by Gloria Lee (Author), Dana Howard (Author), Timothy Beckley (Editor), Regan Lee (Introduction)
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Gloria Lee learned to fly before she could drive a car. Married to an aeronautical engineer, she became entranced with the subject of UFOs and became actively engaged in psychic research and the study of esoterica. While endeavoring to develop her own extrasensory perception, she made contact with a mysterious being who claimed to be from the planet Jupiter. Gloria s original contact with the entity, who identified itself as J.W., took place in Los Angeles International Airport, where she was working as a ground hostess at that time.
The entire communications and the book were done solely through mental telepathy, for which the Instrument, Gloria Lee, was specifically trained and developed over a period of four years. Lee admits this may seem incredible to some minds, but it must be remember that some of the Space People are over one million years in advance of our evolution have developed faculties many of us are not even aware exist. Unlike many who wonder what is happening in the sky, Gloria very successfully established a legitimate contact through mental telepathy. Not that the communications was all that successful at first, but some compelling inner force kept her continuing her search despite the fact that her family and friends tried to discourage her from digging deeper into the unknown.
My hurt was overcome by the belief that here was Truth, sometimes highly priced, but always well worth the effort for the knowledge gained, she shamelessly noted. On the other hand, Dana Howard’s contacts seemed to be highly evolved. In fact, the author of the exceedingly hard to find first edition of “Diane-She Came From Venus” speaks of her alien friends with high reverence as if they might be God’s angels: All over the world an auspicious new day is dawning. A triumphant spiritual victory is soon to be won. Many earthlings will live to see it emblazoned across the morning skies commingled with the dazzling radiance of the sunrise. With trumpets and fanfare the New Age will be ushered in. When that wonderful day arrives those from ON HIGH will descend earthward. They will help to release all the human family to a new octave in living. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of the trumpet, and they shall gather together. His elect from the four winds. . . (Matt. 24: 31.)
Unlike the odd looking humanoids and grey aliens of today, the saucer pilots of the contactee era were so human in appearance that it is said they could easily blend in with your average American, walking down the streets of Any Town, USA totally undetected. They were mostly Caucasian looking, had long, wavy, blond hair with piercing blue or green eyes. Most of the contactees were male, but as researcher/blogger Regan Lee points out in her postings at orangeorb.blogspot.com/, Dane Howard was an exception. Her story was perhaps a bit more romantic, a bit more New Age, with its talk of cosmic love from the stars, and its visions of a Marian-like space being who materialized before her as early as 1939. In her part of this historic tome, Dana discusses her transformation from a normal person, to one consumed by universal laws, teleportation, space travel, and things most women of the era would not have had an understanding of or liking for.
I would dare say Dana Howard was the Shirley MacLaine of her time! As an example of her prose, Dane expresses her feelings about her trip to our sister planet, either as an astral or physical experience we can only deliberate: During flight, we seemed to penetrate many dimensions of abstract space. There was no static. No interference. Then something happened. It was a gentle explosion of colors accompanied by an experience akin to an orgasm of spirit and matter. There was no time after that. No space in the usual connotation of space. All was consciousness.
