THE
QUEST FOR TRUTH:
FROM UFO CULT THE RAELIAN MOVEMENT TO CHRIST!!!
THE
EDDIE BENNETT TESTIMONY!!!
I was
Born in 1968 and raised in a small town called Dorking in Surrey just
outside London. I had a happy childhood for most of the time. When I
was 16 we moved to Tenerife in the Canary Islands for a while as a family, and we returned to England in 1986 moving to Battersea in
South London.
1988-
The Next Generation??
In
1988 at the age of 19, I saw a programme on television about a UFO
cult called the Raelian Movement, I found it very interesting, as I was always interested in science fiction growing up including TV shows
and films like Star Wars, Star Trek and Close Encounters of the Third
Kind etc. I was also interested in a monthly magazine called
Mysteries of the Unexplained, which included subjects on UFO's,
Pyramids and the Paranormal etc. I heard about a meeting in London
this UFO cult was putting on and I was very keen to go along and find
out more, I was completely fascinated. I went to their meeting and
invited my Dad along who had also shown an interest. They had a new
insight into the Bible. They said there was no God, but that instead
of God, we were created using DNA by an advanced alien race of people
from another planet, and they used certain scriptures in the Bible to
explain their beliefs. Stating that the word for God was Elohim and
was plural and that it actually meant “Those who came from the
sky”. They also had a slide show with commentary to explain their
beliefs, and that the garden of Eden was in fact a laboratory where
they experimented with the creation of life using DNA, and they had
discovered that they were part of a universal eternal cycle, part of
infinity, where they had come to this planet to create life and that
we would do the same one day, evolve as mankind and develop space
travel and create life with DNA. My Dad and I were taken in by the
deception and convinced it was true, we purchased some of their books
including a message given to Rael (the Cult leader) by these
extra-terrestrials. We got home and read these books over the next
few days and we believed them to be true. I even had a UFO sighting,
one night I looked out of the window up into space and saw a flying
saucer type object flying over the roof tops with flashing lights,
that seemed straight out of a Steven Spielberg movie. Most people in
our family thought we were mad and laughed at us for believing in
little green men from another planet.
1989-
The X-Files??
We
found it very convincing and got deeply involved in the cult and
started going to their monthly meetings in London and introduced to
meditation techniques to awaken our minds to these extra-terrestrials
and eternity and infinity. I also went on some weekend courses. We
were also initiaized into the cult as members, which was a type of
Baptism, and called the transmission of the celluar code, whereby
your celluar code is transmitted to an alien spacecraft where you
will be recognised by these aliens known as the Elohim and one day be
recreated from your DNA onto the Planet of Eternals. I also went to
their Course of Awakening, and Course for Guides for 2 weeks at a
camp in France. We done deep hypnotic meditation techniques and
astral projection, floating outside our body and into space to visit
these aliens in a hypnotic trance, to awaken our minds to alien
contact. At the camp the Raelians believed in nudity as natural and
many walked around naked. They also believed in sexual freedom and in
having multiple partners and group sex. Also part of their belief on
the planet of eternals, was having sex with biological robots which
you could design to your own tastes. I did not get involved in the
sexual activity that went on at the camp as it did not seem natural
to me. Also to become a member of the cult I had to sign a contract
and renounce any belief in God and in Jesus Christ and publicly in
front of other UFO cult members walk over a large crucifix to
renounce Christianity. I then joined the leadership team in the UK
and became a guide. A guide was someone who would be actively
involved in the Raelian Movement and spread the message to mankind.
After one year of being in the cult I had an experience of feeling
high and on top of the world and it felt like a had reached a higher
spiritual level of consciousness and my senses seem to improve, including touch, taste, smell, hearing, sight and felt one with the universe and the World around me and also an enhnaced brain mentaly after
listening to their meditation tapes and going to their meetings and
doing deep hypnotic meditation techniques. But then one day my mind
was losing coordination and my mind started declining and my mind started to snap...
1990-
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest??
I rang
the cult leader in this country for help and his voice changed and
became very evil and said "you know what's going to happen to
you Eddie?" it felt like a threat. I hung up the phone and
started becoming paranoid and started having a mental breakdown and I
was losing my mental capacities and I seemed to enter an evil demonic
realm, and started having very evil paranoid delusions and tormenting
thoughts.
My
parents called the Doctor and after seeing a specialist I was
admitted to a psychiatric hospital where I had an hallucination of
some of those in the UFO cult sitting in a circle seeming to be
meditating then they disapeared. I was very paranoid and was very
confused. After a while as I sat in the hospital I was looking for
answers when suddenly a story from a picture Bible I had read when I
was a child came back to me about Jesus being tempted in the desert
by the devil, plus also someone had shared with me the gospel a few
months back when I was in the cult and told me that Jesus loves me
"For God So Loved
The World That He Gave His Only Begotten Son, That Whoever Believes
In Him Should Not Perish But Have Everlasting Life." John 3:16,
and that He died for my sins at the cross "But
God Demonstrates His Own Love Toward Us, In That While We Were Still
Sinners, Christ Died For Us." Romans 5:8,
at the time I was so wrapped up in the UFO cult I laughed at him. But
now it all became to make sense. I realized
this cult had to be the work of a
destructive entity, the devil, satan, lucifer, and I began to realize
that aliens and UFO's were part of a big demonic deception to keep
you from God and to deceive you, and that these alien contacts I had
read about had to be demonic entities in disguise deceiving people
and mankind, and that UFO's were not alien spacecraft but
inter-dimensional demonic technology and deception. As I learned more
about the Christian faith I realised more and more that this UFO cult
was a grand deception from the truth's found in the Bible, a
deception on creation, a deception on Jesus and who He was, and a
deception on the only way to Salvation and into Heaven through the
cross. Jesus said to him,
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father
except through Me.” John 14:6. After
what I had been through I realised satan and His demonic realm were
very real and I turned to the Saviour Jesus more and more and clinged
to the cross of Christ and found a strong faith and belief in
Almighty God. I eventually got on my knees and prayed by my bedside
and called upon the name of Jesus and asked for His deliverance,
forgiveness and salvation. "That
if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your
heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."
Romans 10:9. I felt a
new strength and a new hope and knew God was in control and I had a
new found faith. I was not instantly healed straight away, but my new
faith made me persevere through the spiritual battles that would
continue and the demons continued to pursue. I was diagnosed with
paranoid schizophrenia which seemed to of been triggered by the
belief in the UFO cult, and the deep hypnotic meditation techniques
and astral projection but my mind also seemed to of been opened up to
the occult and a demonic realm. I realised how dangerous this cult
was, as at first I just thought my belief was just harmless fun
believing in aliens and UFO's. I went on for a few months having
paranoid thoughts and tormenting thoughts as well, my life was a
living hell. One day I saw a message on the notice board about a
Christian
meeting in the hospital, but I was not
allowed to leave the ward, but on the day and at the exact time of
the meeting the back door opened when I tried it, which was always
locked before and I was able to find the Christian
meeting. My faith was increased when
the door opened and I knew God was in control and that God was bigger
than the devil. It was a relief
to get away from the stress of the
ward and find a new life, new strength and new hope after my first
contact with Christians after finding my faith in Christ. I also
found a Christian Chapel in the hospital and felt peace and comfort
there, and gave my heart and life to God in prayer on my knees and
seeked His healing and deliverance. My daily routine was thinking of
ways to get out of the hospital to escape and some days to visit the
chapel for prayer where I felt peace and the presence of God. I
managed to escape from the mental hospital and get away a few times
but the Police brought me back as I was sectioned under The Mental
Heath Act so I was not supposed to leave the ward. One day I was
looking for ways to visit the chapel for prayer and talk to God. I
used to wait near the front door and sneak out when no one was
looking. I was just about to sneak out to the chapel when something
powerful like a demonic force, forced me against the wall and had me
pinned, I wondered what was going on, I tried to force my self free
but no joy, I realised this had to be demonic and remembered the
Lord's prayer which I had prayed as a child. I started saying the
prayer and slowly and eventually the force that had me pinned to the
wall started to die down and I managed to release myself from the
hold. I got to the chapel and prayed hard that day. This made me
realise how evil this cult was and that by believing in aliens and
UFO's was an opening to an occultic realm. Eventually I was released
from the mental hospital after about 4 weeks as my parents agreed to
look after me at home. I returned home but after a while my mind was
filled with paranoid and evil thoughts and delusions again, and I
felt suicidal, and felt like giving up on life with nothing to live
for. I even tried climbing out my bedroom window to jump, but my Dad
heard me opening the window and knowing I was in a disturbed state of
mind came running upstairs into my room and pulled me back in from
the window I was climbing out of and saved my life. He called the
Doctor and I was re-admitted for another 4 weeks. Eventually I got
out and was discharged and I started visiting churches asking for
prayer, healing, deliverance and guidance and found peace. I was not
healed straight away in an instance but my healing was slow and
gradual as I recovered from this mental breakdown, confusion and
paranoid and tormenting thoughts. Many Christians prayed for me
including whole churches and minsters, waging spiritual warfare in
prayer, praying for healing and deliverance by the blood sacrifice of
Jesus and in the name of Jesus. I also eventually managed to get my
Dad out of the UFO Cult, by sharing with him the things I had
discovered, and he visited a local church and gave His life to God
and seek forgiveness and repentance. After a while I began to get
confused with all the different churches. I was given a Bible by one,
and given a book of Mormon
by another, but
could not make any sense of it all. I wondered why there was so many
different churches and I decided to throw all the books and
information away, including the Bible and stopped visiting
churches...
After a
while I slowly started to recover from my breakdown and mental
illness and tried to get on with my life, I got a new computer and
got involved in computer games trying to hide from what had happened
to me. I started copying the games and began selling them and I
started going down hill as I nearly got involved in stolen goods and
stolen cars. When one day I met a Christian on the street inviting me
to a Bible study, your probably thinking good news but he was from
the London Church of Christ (LCC). He persuaded me to go to a Bible
study and I ended up going to the church for several
months, when one day I discovered a
book in a local library on cults. I started flicking through the
pages when suddenly I was amazed I had come across the LCC. I read
about the errors in the church and started checking in some of their
book's. I wasn't happy with the church and people told me if I left
the church I would go to hell as they told me they were the only true
and correct church and all the other churches were wrong. I was
confused and wandering what to do when someone in the church told me
demon's would come upon me. I decided to make a break and leave the
church and I had a mild breakdown and relapse. I read the bible at
home and began to recover. I felt like a lone Christian, I didn't
know where to go as I was told that LCC was the only church and that
you had to go to their church to be saved, all the others were
incorrect.
1993
– Twelve Monkey's??
After
several
months
I started going to a church called Kensington Temple (KT) as some
people I had met recommended it. This is a Pentecostal charismatic
church. I was going to the church for a while when one day I started
relapsing and having flashback's from my past and I started having
another mental breakdown. I decided to go to a prayer meeting at KT
seeking prayer and I sensed a presence of evil coming upon me. I
returned home and after a while I could not get myself to eat and
drink and after several
days
without food and water, other than a few sips that my Dad had forced
me to have, I started losing my mind and having paranoid delusions
again and tormenting thoughts. I was admitted back to the mental
hospital. The doctor's and nurses could not get me to eat or drink
and they were going to put me on drip feed in the morning. My mind
kept telling me if I ate I would die. I was very confused. Later that
evening someone came on to the ward and got me a drink and put his
hand on my shoulder and said “Trust me I'm from heaven”, I felt a
peace and comfort, I looked at him and he said it again “Trust me
I'm from heaven”. I decided to trust him and I began to drink. He
sat by my bedside all night then he left in the morning when I awoke
and I never saw him again. He saved my life, maybe an angel sent from
the Lord??? After a while I slowly started eating and drinking again
and after about 5 weeks I was back at home. After several
months
recovering at home I went back to KT as I was longing to be part of a
fellowship and did not know where else to go and I also went to some
meetings they invited me to with Morris Cerullo, Benny Hinn, Kenneth
Copeland and Rodney Howard Browne and they also introduced me to the
Toronto
blessing...
1996
– Tomorrow Never Dies??
One
year there were some guy's outside a meeting with some banner's
quoting “Beware of False Prophets”. I thought I better check them
out, and they told me that not all things that seem right are on the
right path and they recommended some books to read on false biblical
teaching. I visited
a
local Christian bookshop and they had one of the books in stock. I
read the book and realized
I
was being deceived yet again by a movement known as the “word of
faith” movement and into an unbalanced biblical view of health and
wealth also known as the prosperity gospel and a false move of the
Holy Spirit called the Toronto Blessing. I decided to leave KT and
prayed and asked God “Where do you want me to go now?”. I then
found an invitation to a Calvary Chapel in London called Calvary
Chapel Westminster (also known as Calvary London - www.calvarylondon.co.uk) in a bag with the
book I had read. I said okay Lord I will go there. I went to the
church and they gave me some books including Charisma Vs Charismania
by Chuck Smith. These books helped put me on the right track and I
was introduced to good Biblical based teaching of the word of God and
found true living water and refreshment...”He restores my soul.”
Psalm 23:3.
2001
to 2003
– The
Lord led me to York to Calvary Chapel Bible College where I studied for 2 years and got an associates degree in Biblical Theology - www.ccbcy.com,
and I had a wonderful time there spending time with the Lord and in the
Word and with fellow Christians and retreats and mission trips.
2003
to 2010 – I Was part of the church at Calvary Chapel York and
helped out and served at the Bible College and the Church, including
Christian book ministry and Christian Coffee Shop at Walmgate Bar.–
www.calvarychapelyork.com.
2010 – I felt the Lord lead me on and moved me back to London.....The story continues...
I'm
currently working as a brain injury and neurological conditions support worker,
looking after people with brain injuries and neurological conditions
and other disabilities.
Through
my experiences I have grown in my faith with God and walk with Him
each day in my heart and soul, and my life has been enriched with the
goodness and grace of God and quality of character that only God can
shape and build in His molding house, in His furnace for His
service.
You
can also listen to recordings of my testimony at these sites:
Broadcast
on Eternal Radio on Laura Maxwell's programme The Supernatural:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlWvaAeSQZM
Broadcast
on Premier Christian Radio:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFNWNcWSjWN7LOy6MNnQC7WdYt-Z0h6lu
Podcast with Dana Emanuel on Spiritual Realities Podcast: https://youtu.be/HuRqXXKqoBI
Testimony with Stephen C Ministries: https://youtu.be/9k_osId_zZQ
Feel
free to connect with me:
Facebook: facebook.com/fasteddieb
Twitter: twitter.com/eddiebcalvary
YouTube: youtube.com/eddiebcalvary
Instagram: @eddiebcalvary
Linkedin: Eddie Bennett
TikTok: @eddiebcalvary
“...Take
heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying
'I am the Christ' and will deceive many.” Matthew
24:4-5.
“Now
the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from
the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrine's of
demon's.”
1 Timothy 4:1.
“...but
be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
john 16:33.
“...and
they overcame him (the devil) by the blood of the Lamb and by the
word of their testimony...”
Revelation 12:11.
"I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed." Galatians 1:6-9.
