Van Tassel begins conducting weekly meditation classes at Big Rock throughout which he claims to speak telepathically with extraterrestrials, channeling their messages via his vocal chords.
One evening, he says he’s awoken by a being from Venus who levitates him aboard a spacecraft and provides him a system to construct an antigravity time machine that may inhibit growing older.
A 1954 Instances story didn’t take George Van Tassel’s claims very severely. One paragraph reads: “The house individuals, Van Tassel says, discuss via him and provides messages about life ranges, structure and different issues. One is known as Noot. One other is Numa.”
(Los Angeles Instances Archive / Newspapers.com)
He founds the Faculty of Common Knowledge, which at one level maintained a listing of some 17,000 house beings who’d been in communication with people, and begins to carry yearly spacecraft conventions at Big Rock.
The Instances reported of 1 such conference, in 1955:
“Becoming a member of [Van Tassel] as sponsors had been quite a few women and men who’ve written books about spaceships or are going to take action as rapidly as doable. They almost all sounded some dire warnings for earthlings, however threw in a bit hope, too, if we get up and hearken to what pleasant house beings are telling us to do.”
“… One man who was going round with a Geiger counter stated that even the air round Big Rock was leaping with cosmic rays of leftover clouds from the Nevada atom blast, or backwash from house ships. Anyway, all people was looking out for an area craft to return in and land.”
In later years, the conference featured, interspersed with audio system, parachute leaping and stuntmen doing acrobatics on rope ladders beneath airplanes, based on The Instances.
