Yes to Human Cloning

173 Pages·2001·0.63 MB·English

by  Claude Vorilhon

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Three years ago, RAEL, the
well known spiritual leader of
the Raelian Movement, the yes tto
largest UFO related organiza-
tion in the world counting
55,000 members in 84 coun-
tries (www.rael.org), founded human ccloning
CLONAID, the first company
offering to clone human
beings (www.clonaid.com). In
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this book, he explains how
today’s cloning technology is
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the first step in the quest for eternal life.
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Once we can clone exact replicas of ourselves, the next step will be
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to transfer our memory and personality into our newly cloned
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brains, which will allow us to truly live forever. Since we will be
able to remember all our past, we will be able to accumulate know- ll
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ledge ad infinitum.
And so now, man’s ultimate dream of eternal life, which past reli-
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gions only promised after death in a mythical paradise, becomes a
scientific reality. RAEL, with exceptional vision allows us an extra- aa
ordinary glimpse into an amazing future and explains how our
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nascent technology will revolutionize our world and transform our
lives. For example, he describes how nanotechnology will make
agriculture and heavy industry redundant, how super-artificial uu
intelligence will quickly outstrip human intelligence, how eternal
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life will be possible in a computer without the need for any biolo-

gical body, and much, much more.
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And as RAEL says, don’t make the mistake in thinking that this is
twentysecond-century science fiction. All this will happen within the tt

next 20 years! This is a book to prepare us for an unimaginably
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beautiful world, turned paradise, where no one need work no more! ee
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www.rael.org !!! ISBN !!!
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Copyright © The Raelian Foundation 2001
The right of Raël to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance
with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or
otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher and copyright holder.
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yes
to
human
cloning
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Thanks to:
Dr. Marcus Wenner for the translation,
Myriam and Pierre-André Dorsaz for the composition
of the book and the creation of the cover of which they
used a photo of their son.
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Raël
yes
to
human
cloning
Eternal life thanks
to science
Edition by Raelian Foundation
P.O. Box 328, FL 9490 VADUZ
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YES TO HUMAN CLONING
Contents
Author’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Preface by Brigitte Boisselier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Preface by Marcus Wenner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Preface by Daniel Chabot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Human Cloning: Access to Eternal Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
A Child ‘A La Carte’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Genetically Modified Foods: The Solution to World Hunger . . . . . . . 57
The Internet: A Religious Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Nano-technology: The End of Money and Labor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Space Exploration: Another Fatal Blow for the Myth of God . . . . . . . 75
For An Electronic Democracy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
The Truth About Clonaid.com. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Biological Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Transhumanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Elohimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Cyborgs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
New Technology and the Protection of the Environment . . . . . . . . . 121
A Civilization of Pleasure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Houses of the Future . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Macrobiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Declaration in Defense of Cloning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Raël’s declaration to the US Congress on march 28th 2001. . . . . . . 157
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Internet addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
From the same author. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Addresses of National Raëlian Movements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
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AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
In 1974, I released The Book Which Tells The Truth, which
described my contact with the Elohim, the extra-terrestrials
who created us scientifically in their laboratories, and who
were mistaken for ‘God’ or ‘gods’ by our primitive ancestors,
who were too ignorant to understand the truth. At the time,
it was the public’s enthusiasm for the ‘UFO phenomenon’
that made my books and the conferences I held around the
world a success.
Nevertheless, when I explained that we would soon be able
to do the same thing ourselves and live forever, thanks to
cloning, many laughed. However, their laughter was tinged
with the empty sound of those who have always been too
shortsighted to see beyond their noses and foresee the fall of
their own paradigms.
Now, after 27 years, and a few sheep such as Dolly, the real-
ization that my predictions have become reality has wiped the
smiles from their faces — and the time has come to shift into
a higher gear and reveal what the future holds for us.
While the ‘baby boom’ generation, which has now become
the ‘daddy boom’ generation, is horrified by all the recent
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In this book, the term ‘New Man’ refers to the human race. This includes both men and women, and
is without prejudice in accordance with its etymology from the Sanskrit word ‘mana’ meaning human.
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developments, like an aging man who has lost his references,
there is a new generation taking its place in society that has
no problem adapting to the new values riding in the wake of
this technological revolution.
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their
computers since the age of five or six, don’t have quite the
same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or
metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by compari-
son. Twentieth-century man, that is to say the older genera-
tion, will not be able to adapt completely to the world that is
coming. Like all older people who resist the diminishing of
their authority, they will try to legislate and prevent the
unstoppable progress towards the New Man. However, they
will be powerless, and will eventually be relegated to the his-
tory museum, or rather the prehistory museum, once we real-
ize what a ‘Neanderthal’ twentieth-century man will appear
to be in this new civilization.
This is all for the better, because if they are against human
cloning and eternal life, then let them die. They will then
make way for the new generation that will certainly accept
the gift of eternal life, thanks to science, with enthusiasm and
allow those who don’t wish to die to benefit from these new
possibilities.
To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal
life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are
depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living
forever is an unbearable source of suffering. Some depressed
individuals find the idea of living even a ‘normal’ life-span of
75 years to be so overwhelming that they commit suicide
long before they ever reach that age.
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