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YOLANDA, MARK and ZUMAH T h e UFO controversy has furnished the cults a field day. Everywhere new systems are springing up, claim ing contacts with visitors from other planets. One of the wildest and most publicized is the Mark-Age, Inform- Nations, Met-a-Center of Miami, F lo rid a , tax-exempt, “non-profit” group, which claims to impart “ sci entific and educational” information about “ our space brothers and sis ters” who are “more highly evolved” than earthlings. Although headed by a couple of incredible clairvoyants, calling themselves Yolanda and Mark (their earth-type n a m e s being Pauline Sharpe, 41, and Charles Genzel, 44), by far the most in triguing members of the “ team” is Zumah, a small Martian space pilot who cruises alongside in a two-or- three-man spacemobile, guiding the pair as to the best cross-country routes. What a road map! Not only that, but Zumah also communicates to Yolanda revelations from the Mar tian and Venusians which she in turn imparts to Mark who tells the world. When pinned down for a de scription of Zumah, Yolanda hedges: “ I see him with my spiritual vision. He looks like us but I don’t see him with the same vibrational frequency as earthlings. He is light and vapor ous, an astro-projection.” The space ship too is “ visible and invisible”— a kind of “ now you see it, now you don’t,” UFO. Met-a-Center teaches that man did not originate on earth, but in space; that earth once belonged to a federa tion of planets to which after 26,000 years it will return; that the U.S. will be the “New JerUSalem,” the center of unification of all creation. They insist that this was the teach ing of Jesus, Confucius, and others; that an UFO led the Israelites in the wilderness; that when the majority of our population wish the Martians and Venusians to land, they will and this will be before the end of this century, when we will become a part of a solar system designed to lift man and earth to a higher dimension. Their terms sound like United, I AM, etc.: “ Taking over by Christ Selves will change mankind” ; “ Immortality in mortality” ; “With love and un derstanding a new era will dawn.” As for a Saviour: “Your saviour is your own I AM presence.” Reincar- Continued on page 37 THE KING'S BUSINESS
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