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thought of me as being critical and superficial. They accommodated themselves with banal ideas in their faith and in their religion, and wor ot 1 still do the same today. It was then that I decided to take a step backward for a year and search for the truth within my “soul”. I was still teaching, but I did not get involved in any movements. I questioned Jesus, and I felt that I was starting to see the light. On November 9th 1976, I attended a conference at the Plateau Auditorium, in Montreal, given by Claude Vorilhon, “Rael”. On that night, I really felt that my years of study had not been in vain. I understood many things, among others that I had always been an “atheist” deep down inside of me, and that I was profoundly religious as well. I was interested in the matter; I loved Man; prayer had kept me in constant communication with this group of extra-terrestrials, our creators, the Elohim, who I de-mystified more and more each day. I understood everything in a flash. I was happy; I recognized in Rael, Jesus speaking in his own era. Something happened to me, awakened me, enlightened me, I felt drawn to him; in 90 minutes, everything inside of me was reconstructed again; everything was being connected; everything was becoming harmonious again, and it has never ceased since. I was enraptured, and it showed. After all, from his mouth I had heard a truth, so simply, so clearly, and with such evidence, this truth that I had searched for so many years the hard way. It was as if a mental block had been removed in an instant. I had gone to the lecture with some friends, but as was confirmed later, it had not triggered such a reaction in them. Just the same, they had noticed a change in me that night, and they noticed it even more afterwards. It was as if the messages had provoked a “click” inside me, but they would not admit to what they were seeing. I became silent, happy and luminous. I could hear them trying to reject, to destroy by mystical reasoning, this beautiful, simple and liberating truth, which had become soft music to my ears, this good news in all its plenitude, in its entirety, in its clearness. They rejected Rael and his messages 346 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS