The Quatuor Coronati is associated not only with Freemasonry but also with numerous occult societies such as the Theosophical Society, the Hermetic Order of the Golden, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and the spiritual organization Society for Psychical Research and also the modern New Age movement and various Druid orders.

Walter Besant’s (1836-1901) brother Frank was married to the theosophist Annie Besant who became one of the leaders of the Theosophical Society and she was also one of the leaders of the Fabian Society socialist think tank started by the British aristocracy. A member of the Fabian Society was also Lord Bertrand Russel who was a eugenicist and wrote about abortion and birth control.

Annie Besant was also a spokesperson for the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and the Malthusian League founded in 1877 by her and Charles Bradlaugh and they advocated the use of contraception and educating the public about the importance of family planning. Charles Robert Drysdale (1829-1907) was elected the first President of the Malthusian League and this family were close friends of Charles Darwin (1809-1882). Alice Vickery (1844-1929) who was Drysdale’s partner was also a member of the Malthusian League and one of the first members of the Eugenics Education Society. The Malthusian League is also supposed to form a part of the society within Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World. Huxley was also a Fabian.

Annie Besant started the year 1912 together with the Theosophical leaders Marie Russak (1865-1945) and James Ingall Wedgwood (1883-1951) the organization Order of the Temple of the Rosy Cross. Russak and Wedgwood channeled messages from the “ascended Masters” during their temple meetings. This Order also had many members from the masonic organization Co-Freemasonry (The International Order of Freemasonry for Men and Women, Le Droit Humain) and Annie Besant was a founder of Co-Freemasonry in England.

James Ingall Wedgwood was a member of the Theosophical Society, Co-Masonry and a Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church. James whose father was the son of Hensleigh Wedgwood (1803-1891) was part of the Darwin–Wedgwood family who were deeply involved in eugenics and for generations they only bred into another family to try to bring out certain traits in the offspring they believed would be geniuses. Hensleigh’s sister Emma married Charles Darwin (1809-1882) in 1839.

Hensleigh’s interest was also in spiritualism just like his grandson and he attended séances and held membership in the British National Association of Spiritualists and a he was a vice president of the Society for Psychical Research.

Marie Russak was later involved in Harvey Spencer Lewis’s organization AMORC and helped shape rituals for this order. These rituals were similar to those of the Order of the Temple of the Rosy Cross.

Later in 1924, the order Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship was started by George Alexander Sullivan (1890-1942) whose rituals are also said to be influenced by Co-Freemasonry as many members there were also Co-Freemasons of the Scottish Rite. Several members were also connected with Alice Bailey’s Theosophical Arcane School.

Mabel Besant-Scott (1870-1952) was the daughter of Annie Besant and she too was a Theosophist and 33rd degree Freemason who assisted her mother in the Theosophical Society Adyar and in Co-Freemasonry of the Scottish Rite. She later became a member of the Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship founded in 1924 by George Alexander Sullivan (1890-1942).

Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) was a Freemason, a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and became a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn three years after its foundation. He started his own branch called “The Red Rose and Cross of Gold.” In 1905, the woman Rosamund Isabella Charlotte Sabine (1865-1948) became a member of this order, which was later closed down in 1914. Rosamund later joined George Alexander Sullivan’s Rosicrucian Order Crotona Fellowship during the 1930s. She later formed a group called the “New Forest Coven” and at this time Gerald Gardner also enters this Rosicrucian Order. A connection to Gardner also exists through Edith woodford-Grimes (1887-1975) who was a Co-mason. Gardner laid the foundation for the modern pagan religion of Wicca. Gardner also held membership in the Society for Psychical Research, the Folklore Society and was initiated by Aleister Crowley into the Ordo Templi Orientis and he was also interested in Druidry and joined the Ancient Druid Order founded in 1909 by George Watson MacGregor Reid.

In 1936 Peter Caddy (1917-1994) became a disciple of Sullivan and together with his wife Eileen Caddy (1917-2006) and their friend Dorothy Maclean (1920-2020) they founded in 1962 the New Age community Findhorn Foundation and Findhorn Ecovillage which are one of the cornerstones of the modern New Age movement.

Sheena Govan (1912-1967) was also involved in the start-up of Findhorn and she and Dorothy Maclean were during the 1940s during the Second World War employed by British Security Coordination in New York City. The BSC was set up as a secret organization by the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the year 1940. Part of the work at the BSC was propaganda to mobilize pro-British opinion in America through newspapers such as the Herald Tribune, the New York Post, The Baltimore Sun , and Radio New York Worldwide which published anti-German stories. Peter Caddy also worked in the military in the Royal Air Force (RAF).

“In the early 1960s, Caddy, along with others who called themselves channellers, believed that they were in contact with extraterrestrials through telepathy, and prepared a landing strip for flying saucers at nearby Cluny Hill.” (wiki)

Sir George Trevelyan, 4th Baronet (1906-1996) is described as one of the founders of the New Age movement and he was also involved in the Findhorn Foundation. He wrote several books such as A Vision of the Aquarian Age (1977), Operation Redemption (1981), Summons to a High Crusade (1985) and Exploration into God (1991).

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 3rd Baronet (1870-1958) was George’s father and a politician associated with the socialism that grew out of the Fabian Society. He joined there in the year 1895 and had a relationship with Beatrica Webb, Sidney Webb, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russel and H.G. Wells.

Members of the Fabian Society also had several connections to occult societies such as the Theosophical Society and the Society for Psychical Research. Frank Podmore (1856-1910) who was one of the founders of the Fabian Society was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research and Annie Besant was a Fabian and a leader of the Theosophical Society.

“Annie Besant one of the members of the Fabian Society, founding members, she was one of the theosophists. She took over from Blavatsky, Madame Blavatsky. And she really was to bring in this new thought because really Hinduism when you bring it to the West is a definite form of mind control where nothing is real unless you have a master or a guru who tells you what is real. Even if the thing they are telling you is real is not real at all you will believe them. It’s a new thought, a new way of conditioning people into a belief system which is nothing to do with any actual reality.” (Alan Watt, November 24 2014, Neil Foster Radio)

Several of the Trevelyan family were members of the Cambridge Apostles and spiritualist movements. G. M. Trevelyan (1876 -1962) was a Cambridge Apostles and a Fellow of the Royal Society and wrote books about the Freemason Giuseppe Garibaldi in which he is described as a hero.

During this time with the beginning of the New Age movement in the 50s, we can also see the UFO movement emerging. George Trevelyan started after his military service in 1947 as Warden and Principal of Attingham Park where he taught spiritual knowledge. At Attingham there was also a UFO study group, but that did not last long. Victor Goddard (1897-1987) commander in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War who was a friend of George Trevelyan is said to have been the one who ran the group.

Peter Caddy is said to have also met George at Attingham Park in 1965 and he was also interested in UFO’s as he was in telepathic contact with his “space brothers”.

“– Sir George Trevelyan, in England, gathers together “all of the New Age groups under one roof for the first time,” with Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard former chief of British Air Intelligence — in attendance. Peter Caddy, who was uninvited, “gate crashes” this event to announce the beginning of Findhorn.” (The Magic of Findhorn, Bok av Paul Hawken, alexconstantine.blogspot.com)

Flying saucers and spiritualism are said to have been an interest among several retired military personnel after the Second World War. One of them was Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding (1882-1970), also in the Royal Air Force, who was a member of the Theosophical Society and who spoke openly about his belief in UFO’s in 1954. He was also a member of the Fairy Investigation Society.

The British UFO Research Association (BUFORA) was started in 1962 from previous organizations such as the British Flying Saucer Bureau and the London UFO Research organization and involved here we find names such as Lionel Fanthorpe, Matt Lyons, Jenny Randles, Brinsley Le Poer Trench, David Clarke, John Wickham, Hilary Evans, Major Sir Patrick Wall and John Spencer.

Lionel Fanthorpe was a president of BUFORA and he was an author with a large number of published books on the supernatural and he was a former Freemason and minister of the Universal Life Church founded by Kirby J. Hensley (1911-1999) and also president of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena. He is a member of the Ghost Club and has been a recurring guest on US radio station Coast to Coast AM. Books written by Lionel and his wife Patricia have titles such as Rennes-le-Chateau: Its Mysteries and Secrets (1991), Mysteries of Templar Treasure and the Holy Grail: The Secrets of Rennes Le Chateau (2004), Mysteries and Secrets of the Masons : The Story Behind the Masonic Order (2006) and Satanism & Demonology: Mysteries and Secrets (2011) to name a few.

Ufologist Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden (1911-1995) founded Contact International UFO Research in 1967 and became its first president and later became vice-president of the British UFO Research Association. He was also involved in the Ancient Astronauts Society which had ideas from Erich von Däniken and his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods?. Books published by Brinsley dealt with the “Hollow Earth theory” and that Adam and Eve were experimental creations of extraterrestrials. Some titles from Brinsley were The Sky People (1960), The Flying Saucer Story (1966), Secret of the Ages: UFO’s from Inside the Earth (1974) and Reptiles from the Internal World (1979).

Involved in Contact International was J. Bernard Delair who became a later president and he wrote the foreword to several books by author and astrologer Barbara Hand Clow. Her books have titles such as The Pleiadian Agenda, Alchemy of Nine Dimensions, Awakening the Planetary Mind, Astrology and the Rising of Kundalini and Catastrophobia: the truth behind earth changes in the coming age of light.

Also involved in the British UFO Research Association was Philip Mantle who was also a United Kingdom Representative to the American Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) founded in 1969 and he is also involved in the Institute for Frontier Science (IFS).

Another president of the British UFO Research Association was Patrick Wall (1916-1998) who had many connections to anti-communist political organizations such as the Monday Club (Chairman 1978-80), the British Anti-Communist Council (chapter of the World Anti-Communist League) and the Western Goals Institute which was a branch of the American Western Goals Foundation founded in 1981 by John Rees, Larry McDonald and Major General John Singlaub.

John Spencer who is another UFO and supernatural researcher was a chairman of the British UFO Research Association and also a member of The Mutual UFO Network and a member of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) and the Ghost Club.

Hilary Evans who was another member of the British UFO Research Association joined the Society for Psychical Research in the late 1960s and was a member of the Folklore Society and co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.

At the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) founded in 1981 we can see several members with overlapping memberships of the former British UFO Research Association and the Society for Psychical Research. ASSAP was helped in its start up by Mostyn Gilbert who had some of their first members at his place where he ran an activity linked to the Society for Psychical Research which he co-founded called the Survival Joint Research Committee (SJRC) which was a branch of the SPR where they explored life after death.

A member of ASSAP was Michael Bentine (1922-1996) who became the first president and he was also a close personal friend of the Prince of Wales. Lionel Fanthorpe of BUFORA was a member. Another member was David Christie-Murray who joined the SPR in 1945 and wrote about theology and psychic research and he wrote the book Voices from the Gods (1978) about the phenomenon of ‘speaking in tongues’. Vernon Harrison was another member who was also in SPK and so was Hugh Pincott who joined SPK in 1971 and was a founding member of ASSAP.

George Trevelyan was also involved in the founding of the Psychosynthesis Trust in 1965 together with Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974) and Dr Martin Israel and Geoffrey Leytham.

Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974) was the founder of the psychological movement called Psychosynthesis, where the psychology of Sigmund Freud and Karl Jung is mixed with ideas from, among other things, Theosophy and the New Age. Also included were ideas from Alfred Richard Orage (1873-1934) and Maurice Nicoll (1884-1953) who studied under George Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky.

“Psychosynthesis is a form of transpersonal psychology which insists on integration, or synthesis of various psychological functions in order to achieve the goal of healthy individual. As a transpersonal theory, it stresses the need of communion with “Higher” or “Transpersonal Self”, or achievement of the state of transegoic existence – which is generally not accepted, or is interpreted as a psychological aberration, by other psychology schools.” (wiki)

“We believe we are at the beginning of a new psychological paradigm, a paradigm based on what is emerging in terms of aspiration and serving humanity as a whole.” (psychosynthesis.org)

Geoffrey Leytham who was one of the founders of the Psychosynthesis Trust was also involved in the Center for Transpersonal Psychology and was Vice President of the Scientific and Medical Network. Also involved was Lady Diana Whitmore who was CEO of Children our Ultimate Investment UK and Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation and a patron of the NGO Wyse International.

From the Psychosynthesis Trust comes a large number of networks of organizations with connections to New Age, astrology and extraterrestrial channeling. We have Howard Sasportas and Liz Greene who in 1983 started the Center for Psychological Astrology who previously graduated from both the Psychosynthesis and Education Trust and also from the Center for Transpersonal Psychology (founded by Ian Gordon-Brown and Barbara Somers). Howard Sasportas and Liz Greene also came with diplomas from the Faculty of Astrological Studies where Charles E. O. Carter (1887-1968) was one of the founders. He was previously second President of the Astrological Lodge of the Theosophical Society from the year 1922.

We also find Lynn Bell, who works as a teacher at the Center for Psychological Astrology and as a mentor at the Faculty of Astrological Studies at Wisdom University, where we find names like Barbara Marx Hubbard, Rupert Sheldrake and Jean Houston and others.

John Addey (1920-1982) was a President of the Astrological Lodge of the Theosophical Society and in 1958 founded the Astrological Association of Great Britain. He later acted as a mentor for Charles Harvey in 1963 who three years later received a diploma of the Faculty of Astrological Studies. Charles subsequently became co-director with Liz Green of the Center for Psychological Astrology and helped create the Sophia Trust (astrology) and the Urania Trust (astrology). He wrote the book Mundane Astrology in 1984 together with Nicholas Campion and Michael Baigent.

Michael Baigent is known for the book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (1982) which he co-authored with Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. Baigent is a Freemason and a Corresponding Member of the Quatuor Coronati lodge and he wrote the foreword to the Rev. Neville B. Cryer’s book York Mysteries Revealed (2006). Neville B. Cryers was Grand Master of the Quatuor Coronati in 1981 and is also a Past Grand Chaplain UGLE and a member of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, The Royal Order, The Operatives and The Order of Eri. Baigent is also said to have been part of the order Builders of the Adytum. Paul Foster Case created this order in 1922 after being in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

We also have the Astrological Psychology Institute which was founded in 1968 in Zurich by the astrologers and psychologists Bruno & Louise Huber who worked together with Roberto Assagioli. From members of this institute comes astrology, tarot, numerology and “starseed” stories about man’s “souls” historical roots from stars far away.

Roberto Assagioli studied Theosophy and Eastern philosophy and started two schools of meditation based on the teachings of Alice Bailey. The Group for Creative Meditation and the Meditation Group for the New Age. He was also involved in the School for Esoteric Studies founded in 1956 by Frank Hilton, Regina Keller, Florence Garrigue, Helen Hillebrecht, and Marguerite Schaefer. Frank Hilton was also co-Director of the Psychosynthesis Research Foundation and Regina Keller worked together with Alice Bailey. The School for Esoteric Studies is connected to groups such as Intergroup Collaboration “Within the New Group of World Servers”, Network for the Distribution of the Great Invocation and Triangles.

The Center for Transpersonal Psychology was founded in 1973 by Ian Gordon-Brown (1925-1996) and Barbara Somers (1929-) after working with Roberto Assagioli in Italy and then returning to England. Joan and Roger Evans also founded another center in psychosynthesis in England in 1973 after studying with Roberto Assagioli in Italy called the Institute of Psychosynthesis.

Ian worked for the Lucis Trust for 14 years and was an executive director of World Goodwill from 1959 to 1969. World Goodwill is recognized at the United Nations as an Non-Governmental Organization (NGO). He is also involved in a journal called World Union-Goodwill which is a collaboration between Auroville/Shri Aurobindo Ashram and World Goodville. Auroville located in India was founded in 1968 by Mirra Alfassa (1878-1973) who practiced occultism under Max Théon (1848-1927) who founded the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in the 1870s. The Order’s teachings are said to have been inspired by the Rosicrucian Paschal Beverly Randolph (1825-1875).

At the Auroville Foundation we find names like Dr. Karan Singh (Temple of Understanding at the United Nations, World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality and member of Club of Rome and the Club of Budapest) and former members such as Michael Murphy (Esalen), Maurice Strong, Ervin Laszlo etc.

“Ian was keenly aware that from time immemorial there have been mystery schools and centres of spiritual training (ashrams, religious orders, fraternities) offering seekers a progressive initiation into new, expanded states of consciousness. He saw his Transpersonal work as being in preparation for the mystery schools of the twenty-first century.” (transpersonalcentre.co.uk)

Ian and Barbara wrote several books in transpersonal psychology such as Journey in Depth: A Transpersonal Perspective, The Raincloud Of Knowable Things: A Practical Guide To Transpersonal Psychology, The Fires of Alchemy and Symptom as Symbol: A Transpersonal Language.

The British psychologist David Fontana (1934-2010) was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and was one of the founders of a Transpersonal Psychology Section within the British Psychological Society. Fontana was very interested in paranormal phenomena and also served as president of the Society for Psychical Research from 1995 to 1998. He also wrote several books on meditation, dreams and life after death.

George Trevelyan started the Wrekin Trust in 1971 after an idea to form a new university where spiritual knowledge could be taught. With advice from Major Bruce MacManaway, Ian Gordon-Brown and Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard, an “Educational Trust concerned with the spiritual nature of man and the universe” was started, named after a mountain outside Attingham. “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills, from whence comes my help, I will call it the Wrekin Trust after this central hill in England”. (Exploration into God, 1991)

“The Wrekin Trust is an educational charity concerned with the spiritual nature of humanity and the universe and part of a worldwide movement towards personal and planetary transformation.” (sirgeorgetrevelyan.org)

Janice Dolley who was Development Director at the Wrekin Trust explains how George saw life where we were all ‘drops of divinity’, and that ‘the earth lives and we are its stewards’. Janice was also a Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation and Director of the Findhorn College where she showed how we can live a spiritual and ecological life. She was also a Trustee of Wyse International and President of CANA (Christians Awakening to a New Awareness). At Wrekin we also find Tony Neate as Chairman with his colleague David Furlong as Co-Director. As president at Wrekin we also find Hertha Larive who was cofounder of the College of Healing and trained in Esoteric Psychology and Healing and also Roger Orgill as a Trustee.

Over the years, several people have given lectures at Wrekin such as Satish Kumar (Schumacher Society, patron Wyse International, Temenos Academy), Ravi Ravindra (Scientific and Medical Network, Fellow of the Temenos Academy), Peter Dawkins (Francis Bacon Research Trust), Ursula King (American Teilhard Association), Patrick Holden (Soil Association, Sustainable Food Trust, World Future Council Initiative), Roger Woolger (psychotherapist specializing in past life regression spirit release and shamanic healing) and Serge Beddington Behrens (Institute for the Study of Conscious Evolution, practitioner in Psychosynthesis).

The Wrekin Trust came to an end in 2017 but has first passed on to the Chalice Well Trust which was founded by Wellesley Tudor Pole (1884-1968) in 1959 in Glastonbury. The Pole family was involved in spiritualism and Wellesley’s father Thomas Pole was a Freemason in the Royal Clarence Lodge in Bristol and was also interested in Fabian socialism and Theosophy (Jakob Böhme).

Wellesley was interested in the Holy Grail of Arthurian Legend and this brings us back to networks within The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Freemasonry, British Israelism and the Bahá’í Faith. Wellesley was initiated into the Order of the Table Round (Ordo Tabulae Rotundae) in 1910 where Neville Meakin (1976-1912) was Grand Master. Meakin tells us that the Order of the Table Round was re-established by his grandfather whose family had held this title since the time of King Arthur. Neville who died early of tuberculosis passed the title of Grand Master to Robert William Felkin (1853-1926) in 1912.

Robert Felkin joined the Theosophical Society in Edinburgh in 1886 and later joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Amen-Ra Temple in 1894. After some time in 1903 the Order of the Stella Matutina was founded after a split within the Golden Dawn. Felkin also became a Freemason in the Mary Chapel Lodge in Edinburgh in 1907 and also admitted to the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) in the Metropolitan College where W. Wynn Westcott (Quatuor Coronato Lodge) was minister of mass. Felkin also became involved in the Baháʼí Faith in 1911 and so was Neville Meakin who was also a member of Stella Matutina.

Wellesley Tudor Pole was also an acquaintance of John Arthur Goodchild (1851-1914) who wrote on poetry and mysticism and was associated with an esoteric group with William Sharp (1855-1905) who was a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Alice Mary Buckton (1867-1944) who was a Bahá’í convert, feminist and a mystic bought in 1912 the Chalice Well in Glastonbury and in 1914 she supported an Arthurian festival at Glastonbury with a musical drama by Reginald Buckley called ‘The Birth of Arthur ‘. Golden Dawn member Dion Fortune (1890-1946) and also anthropologist, historian and folklorist Margaret Murray (1863-1963) who wrote the book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology in 1921 also stayed at Alice Buckton’s guest house in Glastonbury. George Buckton (1785-1847) who was Alice’s father was an English chemist and entomologist and was a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Linnean Society of London. Alice looked after Chalice Well until her death in 1944.

Tony Neate who later ended up at George Trevelyan’s Wrekin Trust began channeling during the 50’s a “spirit” called H-A (Helio-Arcanophus) who claimed to be a “high priestess of Atlantis”. In 1957 Tony founded The Atlantean Society in London together with Murry Hope where he promoted the channelings from H-A. Tony also spent 10 years at the College of Psychic Studies in London where he was a council member and a therapist.

“I had just done my first deep trance! I had no conscious memory of what had been said through me. Following that, I had some incredibly evidential sessions which convinced me that I was very psychic, something I had denied for a long time.” (eyeofgaza.org/Greg Branson, on Tony)

The College of Psychic Studies dates back to 1884 when it was founded as the London Spiritualist Alliance. Edmund Dawson Rogers (1823-1910) was an English journalist and spiritualist who studied mesmerism. In 1873 he helped form the British National Association of Spiritualists and later in 1881 he founded the journal “Light” where he wrote about spiritualism. He was also one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research together with Sir William Barrett (1844-1925) in 1881 where many early members included people such as William Stainton Moses, F. W. H. Myers, Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Gurney. In 1884 he founded the London Spiritualist Alliance and after that the College of Psychic Studies where he was president in 1892 until his death in 1910.

Murry Hope who was the second founder of The Atlantean Society was an English occultist and author of numerous books on Atlantis, the Sirius star system, Mother Earth (Gaia) and the Egyptian civilization. She wrote books such as Practical Atlantean Magic: A Study of the Science, Mysticism and Theurgy of Ancient Atlantis (Aquarian Press 1992), The Gaia Dialogues (Thoth Publications 1995), Cosmic Connections (Thoth Publications 1996) etc.

“Particularly in The Gaia Dialogues (1995), Hope defends the natural world asserting that the Earth (Gaia) is a conscious being, a living entity who is shifting its magnetic poles as part of a plan to defend itself from desolation caused by its human children.” (wiki)

Tony Neate was also involved in the “Friends of Runnings Park” occult society in London where a small group were guided by “Helio-Arcanophus”. This group founded The College of Healing in 1983 and The School of Channeling in 1990. The College of Healing lists Hertha Larive (President Wrekin Trust), David Furlong (Chairman Natural Health Network, Wrekin Trust, Atlanta Association, Spirit Release Foundation), Dr. David Smallbone, Gilly Soper, Diane O’Connell and Tony & Ann Neate as founders.

David Furlong was a Director of Runnings Park and was involved in a number of different organizations such as the College of Healing, first Chairman of the Natural Health Network, director of the Wrekin Trust, Atlanta Association (1993) and the Spirit Release Foundation (1999) and the Spirit Release Forum (2011). We can also find him at Horizon Research Foundation, Scientific and Medical Network, Swedenborg Society, International Futures Forum, Foundation for Holistic Spirituality, Integral Institute and Advisory Board at Archai.

Tony Neate who channeled a being from Atlantis and who worked with David Furlong was later involved in the Spirit Release Foundation founded by Dr. Alan Sanderson (1931-2022) who was a psychiatrist who had worked at St. Thomas’s Hospital in London and was a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Alan was interested in people who had been subjected to “possession” and wanted to work to be able to free them because psychiatry alone was not enough for them to get the help they might need. The Spirit Release Foundation came to an end in 2012 due to financial problems but David Furlong has continued this work through the Spirit Release Forum which was started in 2011.

In a speech in 2012 during a public gathering (protest) we can hear Dr. Alan Sanderson speak:

“I am a psychiatrist. My name is Alan Sanderson and I have seen a number of adults who’ve been appallingly abused as children. And that is what I want to tell you. Not just abused in their families but abused by organized pedophile groups. Abused by satanic sex and other cults. And it starts sometimes even from birth, the indoctrination into these groups, and there’s no way out. Long before they go to school. It is their life. Now it happens to be the best crime because the way they are treated with mind control it creates in many cases multiple personality. So the child that goes to school doesn’t know that she’s been abused. That being hidden in another personality. She’s another person in school, but a child that’s being abused is hidden inside, except it comes out when she’s being abused. So this is a horror which is in general not recognized at all.

Now in 2012 the Church of England came out with a well tought through document about dealing and helping those who have suffered or are still suffering abuse. And in that document it says that every city in England has at least one sect. Every town I think. So there are these sects are all over the country and in general it’s not recognized. It’s not known. If people are affected in this way if they’re abused now even as in adult life they’re the last people to complain about it because they have come just to feel that they are worthless. They’ve come to feel that they have nothing to say, and they’re not.

So what can we do about it? There was a case, I think it was in Bristol, within the last year where he went to court and there were adults accused of child abuse who actually belonged to a satanic sect. But these things are considered so unbelievable that they are not brought to court. If abused children are brought next to the police. If the police are not themself involved, I’m afraid that happens, the police will in any case say: Well this case can be brought to court as child abuse but we mustn’t say anything about any cult activity because no one would believe it. So we wouldn’t get a conviction at all. So they have to go what they can get convictions of…”

It may seem problematic that people who channel (aliens or beings from Atlantis) also try to help with “possession”. The New Age movement whose roots go to the teachings of the Theosophical movement has been involved in several UFO and alien cults such as Heavens Gate and the Order of the Solar Temple and even “Jonestown” and has connections to the same spiritual network with military intelligence on its side.

Tony Neate was Chair of the Spirit Release Foundation for 4 years and several members of the Spirit Release Foundation were also involved in channeling. Deena O’Brien practices shamanism and helps with “soul retrieval and spirit release”.

Janet Treloar says:

“As a child I was a natural medium with a particular affinity to earthbound spirits, ghosts, souls who for one reason or another hadn’t moved on fully after death, “I went on to train as a Spiritual Healer with the SAGB (Spiritualist Association of Great Britain) and took psychic development classes to discipline and learn to work with a natural ability to link in to other vibrations. This lead me to seek professional training with the SRF (Spirit Release Foundation) as a qualified Spirit Release Practitioner.”

Wilma Davidson:

“Wilma is a member of the British Society of Dowsers, a healer member of the National Federation of Spiritual Healing, and a Reiki master. An experienced exorcist, she is a prominent member of the Spirit Release Foundation and is regularly called upon to help rescue lost spirits, and to write articles for magazines on this fascinating subject. A popular speaker, Wilma is often quoted in the UK media concerning spirits, ghosts and the paranormal.”

Involved in the Spirit release Foundation we also have the Royal College of Psychiatrists where a special department has been created called the “Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group”. The leader of this group is Dr Andrew Powell who also holds membership of the Royal College of Physicians, the College of Healing and the Scientific and Medical Network. He is also listed as an advisor on The Galileo Commission which is chaired by David Lorimer (Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society).

On the Spirit Release Forum we can find articles by David Furlong involving “Releasing a past-life with a ‘dark’ spirit attachment” and “Working with the Multiple Self: New insights in Spirit Release Therapy” and he has written books such as Illuminating the Shadow: Transforming the Dark Side of the Psyche, The Healer Within, Working with Earth Energies and Healing Your Ancestral Patterns. At the Spirit Release Forum we also find a range of Therapists who are simultaneously connected to the New Age movement with Reike healing, Akashic Records, Earth Energy Healing, Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, Soul Integration and Past Life Regression.

Back to Sir George Trevelyan. Together with Stanley Messenger and Peter Dawkins, they founded the Gatekeeper Trust in 1980, which organized pilgrimages for personal and planetary healing. Peter Dawkins also explains that nature and pilgrimages are an initiatory path to the Holy Grail and the higher mysteries which he also calls The Green Path.

Peter Dawkins who is a philosopher and author also runs the Francis Bacon Research Trust and the Zoence Academy (and Mystery School) and Stanley Messenger (1917-2013) was also a philosopher and a metaphysician who had studied Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy and also the “crop circle phenomenon” and he had his domicile at Glastonbury. At the Gatekeeper Trust we also find Barbara Siddall who went on pilgrimages to holy places around Europe and who studied the esoteric Shakespeare. Barbara is also a student of Transpersonal Psychotherapy and has been a researcher in altered states of consciousness together with C. Maxwell Cade using Bio-feedback and we can also find her at George Trevelyan’s Wrekin Trust.

C. Maxwell Cade (1918-1985) studied the teachings of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and clinical psychology and science like radar during World War II. After the war it was the scientific teachings that took up his interest and so did mysticism. He wrote about infrared radiation physics and astronavigation and he later worked for the British government on secret scientific research during the Cold War. He later obtained after hard work in various sciences a membership as Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and Royal Society of Health, a Member of the Institute of Biology and the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, and an honorary member of the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis. He later developed techniques in sound and light and research in mind research and this became in 1976 the Mind Mirror EEG which he developed together with Geoffrey Blundell.

“The Mind Mirror enabled Cade to explore and map the brainwave patterns of more than four thousand people from the 1970s into the 1990s. His studies on the brainwaves of meditation and higher states of awareness led to the publication of his classic book, The Awakened Mind, and the field of EEG-led biofeedback meditation.” (institutefortheawakenedmind.com)

Maxwell Cade was a master hypnotist, Zen meditation master and he was a secretary of the Society for Psychical Research.

“Way back in 1974, Sir George was invited to have his brain waves measured on Maxwell Cade’s ‘Mind Mirror’, which then registered an entirely brand new brain pattern – a circle in lights, joining together the left and right brain, showing us, as Max said excitedly, “Vast Creativity!” – how could it have been otherwise?” (sourcewatch.org)

At the Peter Dawkins Francis Bacon Research Trust, we find Saira Salmon who, in addition to having an interest in Francis Bacon, also talks about Astrology and the Alchemy of Self “the transformation of Homo Sapiens into Homo Luminous, the New Human for the coming Age” and shows how we can read from the Akashic Records to get information about our Soul and its roots far out among the stars (starseeds). We also find Jill Line and Julia Cleave who we can also find on Zoence and on the Board of the Temenos Academy.

Temenos Academy was started in 1980 as Temenos journal which later developed into a project in spirituality and with lectures and study groups after 10 years. The academy was founded with the Prince of Wales’s as patron in his Institute of Architecture in Regent’s Park with Kathleen Raine, Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble and Philip Sherrard as the founders. Kathleen Raine (1908-2003) whose interests lay in poetry, Platonism, Neoplatonism and Kabbalah was an initiate in Dion Fortune’s Fraternity of the Inner Light.

Dion Fortune (1890-1946) was interested in Theosophy and occultism and in 1919 joined the London Temple of the Alpha et Omega which was an occult group that came out of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. She later founded the Fraternity of the Inner Light in 1924.

Keith Critchlow who was a co-founder of Temenos journal has written several books in sacred geometry and is a Professor Emeritus at The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts in London. We can also find Keith at the NGO World Youth Service and Enterprise (Wyse International) as a patron along with Laura Huxley, Sir George Trevelyan, Willis Harman (Institute of Noetic Sciences), Ram Dass, Robert Muller and many more. Wyse is in the business of training young leaders. Keith is also listed as an Advisory Board member at Chapel of Sacred Mirrors along with Deepak Chopra, Jean Houston and Alex Grey.

Temenos Academy has a large number of Fellows listed and one of these is Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi (1933-2020) who was a personal friend of Kathleen Raine. He was a founder of the Kabbalah Society and was also involved in George Trevelyan’s Wrekin Trust. We also find Wendell Berry (Lindisfarne Association, E. F. Schumacher Society), Satish Kumar (Gaia Partnership, Wyse International, Schumacher Society, Institute of Noetic Sciences), Karan Singh (Temple of Understanding, Auroville Foundation, World Wisdom Council etc.).

During the 80s, a friend of both Kathleen Raine and Prince Charles was a certain Laurens van der Post (1906-1996) who became one of the first patrons of the Gaia Foundation and he was also a founder of the Wilderness Foundation in 1974. The Gaia Foundation was founded 1984 by Liz Hosken and Edward Posey with Prof. Wangari Maathai from Kenya and José Lutzenberger from Brazil. Liz Hosken was a fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and campaigned for ecological and social justice and Edward Posey acted as a Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation and also sat on the Laurens van der Post Wilderness Foundation. At the Gaia Foundation we also find Thomas Berry with membership in a large number of networks such as the American Teilhard Association, Sacred Earth Network, E. F. Schumacher Society, Club of Budapest, Sacred Earth Network, Temple of Understanding, World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality and California Institute of Integral Studies. We find Jules Cashford who studied Psychology of Consciousness with Max Cade and we find Nic Marks who studied at the London based Psychosynthesis and Education Trust.

Another member of Gaia is Michael Shaw who is a staff member at Findhorn Ecovillage and a Trustee of the Findhorn Foundation. We find Anthony Thorley who is involved in Peter Dawkins Gatekeeper Trust and who organized sacred walks in The Glastonbury Zodiac as part of an “Alchemical Programme”.

Prince Charles was also in the focus of the book Radical Prince: The Practical Vision of the Prince of Wales published in 2004 and written by David Lorimer who was a former president of George Trevelyan’s Wrekin Trust. David was an editor of the Network Review at the Scientific and Medical Network which was a forum for the exploration of science, medicine, philosophy and spirituality. David has written a number of books on spirituality such as Prophet for Our Times (about Theosophist Peter Deunov), Resonant Mind (about One Mind), Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality and A Quest for Wisdom. We find David at the Swedenborg Society as Vice-President, Horizon Research Foundation, Integral Institute (Ken Wilber), Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology and is listed as one of the founders of the International Futures Forum (think tank with funding from a large number of companies including World Economic Forum).

The Scientific and Medical Network was founded in 1973 by George Blaker with help from Dr. Patrick Shackleton and Sir Kelvin Spencer. Blaker was a former member of the Theosophical Society and of the Horizon Research Foundation who had research on life near death. We also find the neurophysiologist Peter Fenwick who was also at the Horizon Research Foundation and the neurochemist and hypnotherapist Diana Clift. We have Geoffrey Leytham (Psychosynthesis and Education Trust, Center for Transpersonal Psychology) and philosopher and mystic Max Payne. We also have Bernard Carr who was also a member of the Society for Psychical Research. We also have former and international members such as Rupert Sheldrake (Institute of Noetic Sciences, Wisdom University), Sir Crispin Tickell (Club of Rome, Population Matters, Gaia Society), Edgar Mitchell, Ervin Laszlo, Robert Muller etc.

At the Scientific and Medical Network we also have the Swedish member Jens Jerndal who calls himself a social consultant and futurologist as he is also a member of the World Future Society based in Washington D.C. USA and also in the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) with its headquarters in California. He has written the books Paradigm Pulse (2010) and Cracking the Rainbow Code, For Access to the Secrets of Creation (2009).

“A clear and accessible account of the emerging holistic world view, giving us a picture of a living, resonant and interconnected universe in which we all play a creative role. Cracking the Rainbow Code involves breaking out of the straitjacket of scientific materialism into a new vision of human potential.” (David Lorimer, Programme Director Scientific and Medical Network, editor of The Spirit of Science and Thinking Beyond the Brain)

Sir George Trevelyan showed an early interest in biodynamic agriculture which he gained through Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy with his “mystical” agricultural teachings and at Attingham Park lectures were given on soil erosion and forestry and his friend was the woman Lady Eve Balfour (1898-1990) who was one of the founders of the Soil Association in 1946. Lady Eve was a pioneer in agriculture and she is seen as one of the founders of the organic movement.

Eve’s father Gerald Balfour, 2nd Earl of Balfour (1853-1945) was interested in parapsychology and was a President of the Society for Psychical Research between 1906 and 1907 and was the brother of the Prime Minister Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour (1848-1930) who was also a Fellow of the Royal Society and in the Round Table Group of the Society of the Elect. Her mother came from another famous family and it was Lady Elizabeth Balfour (1867-1942) née Bulwer-Lytton who was the daughter of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-1891) and whose grandfather was Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( 1803-1873). Edward was interested in Spiritualism and a member of the Orphic Circle group where we find Emma Hardinge Britten (1823-1899) holding séances and making invocations of spirits into mirrors and crystals. We can read that Britten had been subjected to sexual abuse by some of the members of the Orphic Circle. She was later involved in the founding of the Theosophical Society in New York after being involved in various spiritualist societies after moving from England to America.

“Bulwer-Lytton was closely acquainted with Eliphas Levi, who was initiated into the occult by the Frankist Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński. Bulwer-Lytton met Levi during a trip to London in 1853. Through Bulwer-Lytton, Levi met a “certain lady,” an initiate of “a most exalted grade,” who arranged for him to summon the spirit of Apollonius of Tyanna. Lévi conceived the idea of writing a treatise on magic with his Bulwer-Lytton, which appeared in 1855 under the title Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, which presents his own system of magic, based in part on the grimoire known as the Greater Key of Solomon. Levi taught Lytton various magical rituals and procedures that Lytton incorporated into his fictional works, A Strange Story (1862) and The Haunted and the Haunters (1857), in which Levi served as the model for the magus.” (Ordoabchao, David Livingstone)

Lady Eve Balfour became the first President of the Soil Association (and Prince Charles became a patron) and a later President was Patrick Holden, a champion of “sustainable” food and a founder of The Sustainable Food Trust, and he was also an advocate of the New Age the movement. Patrick was a foreground figure at the Mind, Body and Spirit Festival (London, Olympia 1977) whose founder was Graham Wilson. George Trevelyan and his friends are said to have also been part of the construction of the festival. Patrick Holden was also an international director at the Aetherius Society who worked together with the founder George King (1919-1997) for several years. George King founded Aetherius in the 50’s and claimed to be in contact with extraterrestrials he called “Cosmic Masters” who would help people advance into the New Age.

Organic farming and ecological sustainability can also be found at Findhorn with its Findhorn Ecovillage and Global Ecovillage Network.

GaiaCorp is another connection to New Age spirituality and in 1991 Ross Jackson co-founded the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN). The Global Ecovillage Network was formally founded at Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland, in October 1995 with financial support from Gaia Trust. Global Ecovillage Network was founded by Jonathan Dawson and Declan Kennedy. Jonathan Dawson a sustainability advocate lists the World Bank, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation, Intermediate Technology Development Group as his clients. Intermediate Technology Developmen Group (now knowns as Practical Action) was founded in 1966 by E. F. Schumacher (Oxford friend David Astor) as a development charity. E. F. Schumacher is affiliated with Lindisfarne Association and Planetary Citizens.

Dr Bernard Lietaer was a founding member of the Global Futures Forum and a member of the Club of Rome and a Co-Creator & Key Architect of the EURO. He works with research at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California. He co-founded and managed GaiaCorp (1987) togheter with Ross Jackson and and managed an offshore currency fund (Gaia Hedge II).

“Gaia Trust is a Danish-based charitable association founded in 1987 on the initiative of Ross and Hildur Jackson, with the intention of supporting the transition to a sustainable and more spiritual future society through grants and proactive initiatives.” (gaia.org/gaia-trust/about-gaia-trust)

In the 1980s, Ross traveled to India and met a Hindu swami called Muktananda that resulted in a spiritual awakening that is also described in his book Kali Yuga Odyssey: A Spiritual Journey (2000).

Gaia Education is another globalist spiritual centre which was formally founded in 2005 at Findhorn Ecovillage promoting Gaia Schools. Gaia University was founded by Liora Adler, Andrew Langford and Declan Kennedy as a founding chair. It lists on its advisory board members like Ervin Laszlo, Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein, Barbara Marx Hubbard etc.

“In the Greek tradition out of Egypt, alchemy is hermetic and Hermes is the messenger of the Gods.”

“He is the flask and what is in the flask, the seal and the fire under the work. He is the catalyst, the third that comes wherever there’s a pair of opposites. He is said to be the transformative process.”

“And he’s there at the end as divine Mercury, the Philosophers’ Son, the Divine Child that’s born out of the whole process.” The Fires of Alchemy by Barbara Somers, p.19 (2004)