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I love the philosophy of our existence developed by the Movement, because it seeks the complete expansion of individuals. It teaches us to listen to that which we have in the depths of ourselves and to reveal 4 Life is everywhere in the universe, but our life is unique, and it is important to make a success of it: ‘Life is a lost blessing if one has not lived as one wished to’ (Eminescu). I have found a blossoming through the in-depth study of the messages, a better understanding of others and of myself, and they have allowed me to become more conscious of our degree of an solidarity. The philosophy of the Movement is a philosophy of the love of life and of its creators, a tolerant and pacific philosophy, which tends to remove guilt from sensuality and to disengage from all the taboos, prohibitions and inhibitions connected with sexuality. The adhesion of the Movement is not a brigading, towards which I have always had a great distrust, but a voluntary and enriching act which has brought me great pleasure, by the personal blossoming that I obtained, and the joy in the diffusion of the messages around me. I believe that we must not commit the error — that which happened with Christ — of attributing more importance to the messenger than to the message. The essential thing is becoming conscious that the extra-terrestrials have always played a role in our history, and wish nothing better than to renew that contact today. The past history of Humanity shows us that each stage of its development necessitated an uprooting and renewing of fundamental beliefs in our scientific, social, philosophic and religious conceptions. Unfortunately, ‘a new scientific truth does not usually impose itself by convincing its adversaries; its triumph results by progressive extinction of its adversaries, and the appearance of a new generation for whom this truth had always been familiar’ (M. Planck). I believe that we should help people to stand on their own two feet and to get rid of the crutches that are the beliefs and religions; we should seek to dissipate obscurantism by raising the level of consciousness. For, if over the centuries, religion has asked and 343 COMMENTARIES & TESTIMONIALS OF RAELIANS - YES...[ AM RAELIAN the best in us.