Parapsychology, The Nine, and Lab Nine: Puharich’s Circle, Uri Geller, and the Star Trek Connection

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After World War II, Andrija Puharich started a Round Table Foundation to study parapsychology, where D. G. Vinod mediated séances that produced The Nine, nine universal beings who claimed divine and extraterrestrial status and that God is the nine orbiting Earth in an invisible ship to renew humanity through the Round Table, a circle of elites in 1953 including Henry and Georgia Jackson, Alice Bouverie, Marcella Du Pont, Carl Betz, Vonnie Beck, Arthur and Ruth Young, Uri Geller joined in 1971 with a forecast of a mass landing that did not happen, and Lab Nine emerged in 1973 with Sir John Whitmore and Phyllis Schlemmer whose members included multimillionaires, European nobility, Stanford researchers, and a Ford associate, with Gene Roddenberry said to have attended and possibly influencing early Star Trek concepts like the Emissary, weaving occult heritage into pop culture's vision of contact with higher intelligences.