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Periodical: The Prism

Summary: From Pat Deveney's database:

Prism, The.
Official Newspaper of Mental Investigations of New Dimensions (M.I.N.D.).
1966 Bimonthly
Hollywood, CA.
Language: English.
Editor: Wesley H. Bateman and JoNell Bateman.
1/1, 1966.
25 cents a copy, 12 issues for $3.00.
16 pp.

Wesley Howard Bateman (1937-2009), the "Telepath for the Confederation of Worlds," was a UFO contactee who in 1963 began communicating with the extraterrestrial "Federation," a brain trust called "Outer State," through ESP. These entities informed him that throughout recorded history the earth has been been surrounded by a "frequency barrier" that hindered mental development and was now dissolving, allowing mankind to begin intercourse with the Federation of beings. In his public appearances, Bateman demonstrated his ability to control flying saucers overhead by ESP.

Other Sources:
Issues:The Prism V1 N1 1966
Claude-Generated Themes:   Prism is a mid-century flying-saucer newsletter of the American contactee subculture: its pages are thick with saucers, occupants, spacecraft and the 'air force,' and it names its milieu directly — George Van Tassel and correspondents scattered from Yarnell, Arizona. Beyond the sighting reportage it carries the movement's characteristic cosmic-religious frame, in which advanced visitors acknowledge 'One Creator' and a 'master plan' for an Earth whose 'barrier' is lifting, alongside the field's own worry that the saucer scene has been 'infiltrated by kooks.' It sits squarely in UFO and contactee literature, with only a light New Age spiritual coloring. A small but characteristic Space-Age saucer sheet.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:UFOs and Contactee Literature