Aetherius Society members during a previous visit to Pen y Fan
Groups of UFO believers will make the trip to two British hills next weekend to pray for peace and spiritual uplifting.
The members of the Aetherius Society will gather at Pen y Fan, south Wales’s highest mountain and The Old Man of Coniston, once the highest point in Lancashire, for ceremonies at the sites they regard as holy mountains.
The society members are advocates of the late George King, who believed there are 17 other holy mountains throughout the world, charged with spiritual energy by extraterrestrials from Venus and Mars, and by other highly evolved spiritual intelligences.
Society spokesman David Trimble said: “Members believe that by chanting mantras and saying prayers on the mountain they can access this energy, and send out light to bring about peace, healing and much-needed spiritual upliftment in the world.”
The meetings will be held next Saturday, 25 August, at the sites in the Brecon Beacons and Lake District, where followers of the society believe the hills have been charged with spiritual energy by a cosmic being known as The Full Aspect of Nixies Zero Zero Two.
Mark Bennett, an international director of the Aetherius Society, plans to take part in the pilgrimage to Pen y Fan.
Mr Trimble added: “In 2008, an Aetherius Society pilgrimage to Holdstone Down in Devon, another of the 19 mountains around the world believed by members of the society to be holy, was dedicated to the praise and appreciation of advanced extraterrestrial beings in this Solar System, who are currently helping Earth.
“In one of the most amazing so-called coincidences of UFO history, just hours afterwards there were around 200 UFO sightings all over the UK, a record number according to local and national media.”
Pen y Fan, at 886m (2,907ft), is the highest point in southern Britain and is famed as a proving ground for the fitness of British special forces, who had to complete the Fan Dance, a gruelling 24km (15-mile) march traversing the peak twice.
Old Man of Coniston, one of the society's 'holy mountains'
The Old Man of Coniston, the 803m (2,634ft) Lakeland fell, once had the distinction of being the highest point in Lancashire, a title now held by the unassuming rise of Green Hill, a 628m (2,060ft) outlier of Gragareth on the ridge rising to Great Coum in the western Dales.
The society is named after Aetherius, a being the movement’s founder claims to have telepathically contacted and channelled. Aetherius is believed to be a cosmic master from Venus.
Andy
19 August 2012Tragic.
Roworth
20 August 2012Ignorance is bliss, I hope they enjoy it.
Glenna
20 August 2012Putting out good energy is always beneficial in some way.
Andy Strangeway
20 August 2012Old Man of Coniston still is the highest point of Lancashire.
Gwilym
20 August 2012Andy,
The modern Lancashire border ends 40km South-East of the Old Man near Burton-in-Kendal. It no longer lies within Lancashire!
Charles Britten
20 August 2012Gwilym,
Maybe when the aliens land they will not only enlighten mankind on how to overcome war, famine and disease, but also put the old county boundaries back!
RedRoseKaren
20 August 2012Charlie,
Bringing peace to Lancashire and Yorkshire over the matter of county boundaries is beyond the power of any extra terrestrial!
Full Aspect of Nixies Zero Zero Two
20 August 2012Greetings Earthlings, from up here the highest point in Lancashire looks like Pendle Hill.
vick
20 August 2012wow..!! these idiots are so deluded..might form a religion. thats exactly how ppl started religion and started believing in supernatural BS. take facts and add some mysteries to them, attach some super natural and thr u have it.. A Fkin RELIGION. lol.
Rupert Barnes
20 August 2012Unless they are administering local government while up there, they will be in Lancashire on the Old Man; the "Cumbria" and "Lancashire" local government areas are just that and no more. Lancashire itself remains as ever it was.
The Old Man of Coniston and Pen y Fan and the highest points of Lancashire and Brecknockshire respectively, and I have never seen an extra-terrestrial pixy on either of them.
Charles Britten
20 August 2012If they did find aliens up there, would the peak be renamed the Little Green Man of Coniston?
Full Aspect of Nixies Zero Zero Two
20 August 2012Charles Britten, I'm not little and green, I'm big and ugly. It's only your hills that are little and green.
Charles Britten
20 August 2012Nixies, I am up in the Lakes next week. Let's have a close encounter and discuss it then.
Mick Graham
20 August 2012Hear! hear! in relation to Lancashire they tried to take the Duddon valley off us also but I always regard Coniston Old Man and the Duddon to belong to the Red Rose County.
Ward's Stone and Gragareth (good old cumbric name) seem to be the contenders for highest points in the administrative countyof Lancashire now.
The reason these people picked Coniston Old Man could be UFO sightings over Walna Scar reported by Heaton Cooper in the 1950's. The only FO I have seen on the old man was my hat blown off in a gale last time I was up there!
R Webb
20 August 2012There is supposedly some doubt as to which is higher - Swirl How or OMC - so the Lancashire top is still up for grabs.
Charles Britten - That is a candidate for post of the year.
OutdoorsAndy
23 August 2012Their proper ace! Good luck to em ;D
On a more seriouse note, the lack of personal spirituality in people is a concern. IMO its better to have some faith than none at all, (as long as said faith does not include killing those who hold other things as sacred).