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George Van Tassel - Wikipedia Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Article Talk Read Edit View history George Van Tassel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Main page This article includes a list of references, but its sources Contents remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations. Featured content Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise Current events citations. (July 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this template Random article message) Donate to Wikipedia Wikipedia store George Washington Van Tassel (March 12, George Washington Van Tassel Interaction 1910 – February 9, 1978) was an American Born March 12, 1910 Help contactee, ufologist, author. Jefferson, Ohio About Wikipedia Died February 9, 1978 (aged 67) Contents [] Community portal Landers, California Recent changes 1 History Occupation Ufologist Contact page 2 Integratron 3 Conventions and organizations Tools 4 Publications What links here 5 See also Related changes 6 References Upload file 7 Sources Special pages 8 External links Permanent link Page information Wikidata item [ edit ] Cite this page History Van Tassel was born in Jefferson, Ohio in 1910, and grew up in a fairly prosperous middle-class Print/export family. He finished high school in the 10th grade and held a job at a Cleveland airport; he also Create a book acquired a pilot's license. At 20, he headed for California, where at first he worked for a garage Download as PDF owned by an uncle.[1] Printable version While working at the garage he met Frank Critzer, an eccentric loner who claimed to be working Languages a mine somewhere near Giant Rock, a 7-story boulder near Landers, California. Frank Critzer Français was a German immigrant trying to make a living in the desert as a prospector. During World War Tiếng Việt II, Critzer was under suspicion as a German spy and died during a police siege at the Rock in Edit links 1942. Upon receiving news of Critzer's death, Van Tassel applied for a lease of the abandoned airport near Giant Rock from the Bureau of Land Management, who managed the land, and was eventually given a renewable Federal Government contract to develop the airstrip.[2] Van Tassel became an aircraft mechanic and flight inspector who at various times between 1930 and 1947 worked for Douglas Aircraft, Hughes Aircraft, and Lockheed. While at Hughes Aircraft he was the Top Flight Inspector.[2] He finally left Southern California's booming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Tassel[4/26/2019 5:17:51 PM] George Van Tassel - Wikipedia aerospace industry for the desert in 1947. He and his family at first lived a simple existence in the rooms Frank Critzer had dug out under Giant Rock. Van Tassel eventually built a home, a cafe, a small airstrip, and a dude ranch beside the Rock.[2] George Van Tassel died of a heart attack in 1978.[3] Integratron [ edit ] Main article: Integratron George Van Tassel started hosting group meditation in 1953 in a room underneath Giant Rock excavated by Frank Critzer, a prospector. That year, according to Van Tassel the occupant of a space ship from the planet Venus woke him up, invited him on board his space ship, and both verbally and telepathically gave him a technique for rejuvenating the human body. In 1954, Van Tassel and others began building what they called Historical marker near Integratron in Landers the "Integratron" to perform the rejuvenation. According to Van Tassel, the Integratron was to be a structure for scientific research into time, anti-gravity and at extending human life, built partially upon the research of Nikola Tesla and Georges Lakhovsky. Van Tassel described the Integratron as being created for scientific and spiritual research with the aim to recharge and rejuvenate people's cells, "a time machine for basic research on rejuvenation, anti-gravity and time travel".[4] The domed wood structure has a rotating metal apparatus on the outside he called an "electrostatic dirod". Van Tassel claimed it was made of non-ferromagnetic materials: wood, concrete, glass, and fibreglass, lacking even metal screws or nails. The Integratron was never fully completed due to Van Tassel's sudden death a few weeks before the official opening. In recent times some people who visit the unfinished Integratron claim to be rejuvenated by staying there, and experiencing "sound baths" inside.[5] Conventions and organizations [ edit ] Van Tassel was a classic 1950s contactee in the mold of George Adamski, Truman Bethurum, Orfeo Angelucci and many others. He hosted "The Giant Rock Spacecraft Convention" annually beside the Rock, from 1953 to 1978, which attracted at its peak in 1959 as many as 10,000 attendees. Guests trekked to the desert by car or landed airplanes on Van Tassel's small airstrip, called Giant Rock Airport.[4] Every famous contactee appeared personally at these conventions over the years, and many more not-so-famous ones. References often state that the first and most famous contactee, George Adamski, pointedly boycotted these conventions. In fact, however, Adamski attended the third convention, held in 1955, where he gave a 35-minute lecture and was interviewed by Edward J. Ruppelt, once head of the Air Force Project Blue Book. It was the only such convention Adamski attended.[4] Van Tassel founded a metaphysics research organization called The Ministry of Universal Wisdom, and The College of Universal Wisdom to codify the spiritual revelations he was now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Tassel[4/26/2019 5:17:51 PM] George Van Tassel - Wikipedia regularly receiving via communications with the people from Space.[2] Publications [ edit ] Van Tassel's book, I Rode A Flying Saucer (1952, 1955), recounts his claims of receiving "cosmic wisdom" "Solgonda" and a large number of other people from space. Among his other works are Into This World and Out Again (1956), The Council of Seven Lights (1958), Religion and Science Merged, and When Stars Look Down. See also [ edit ] Ashtar (extraterrestrial being) Integratron References [ edit ] 1. ^ "I Rode A Flying Saucer - George Van Tassel" . Scribd.com. Retrieved 2017-07-06. 2. ^ a b c d "Archived copy" . Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2017-09-09. 3. ^ McCartney, Jennifer (20 February 2015). "A Time Machine in the Mojave Desert — A four- story structure designed to recharge cell structure is now a recording studio and tourist attraction" . The Atlantic. Retrieved 1 August 2017. 4. ^ a b c "Integratron's George Van Tassel and the Giant Rock Spaceship Conventions with George Hunt Williamson 1950s" . Labyrinthina.com. Retrieved 2017-07-06. 5. ^ "Integratron" . Integratron.com. 1966-11-17. Retrieved 2013-09-19. Sources [ edit ] Lewis, James R., editor, UFOs and Popular Culture, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2000. ISBN 1-57607-265-7. Ronald D. Story, editor, The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters, NY, NY: New American Library, 2001. ISBN 0-451-20424-7. External links [ edit ] "A Brief History of Giant Rock Covering the Last 90 Years (1887–1977)" , integratron.com; accessed 2 July 2017. Reminiscence of George Van Tassel , ufoevidence.org; accessed 2 July 2017. "A planned revival of Van Tassel's Spacecraft Conventions" . USA Today. 27 April 2006. Theriault, Michelle (August 5, 2005). "Big enough to see from Venus" . Archived from the original on November 7, 2005. V · T · E UFOs [show] Categories: 1910 births 1978 deaths 20th-century American writers 20th-century apocalypticists American UFO writers Writers from California Channellers Contactees History of the Mojave Desert region People from Jefferson, Ohio People from San Bernardino County, California Ufologists UFO religions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Tassel[4/26/2019 5:17:51 PM] George Van Tassel - Wikipedia This page was last edited on 13 March 2019, at 03:12 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 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