We haven’t heard much from the Council of Nine channeling cult for quite a while, but their ersatz spinoff cult “the Law of One” has been getting fresh attention due to David Wilcock’s recent death, which seems to have been modeled on Law of One leader Don Elkins’ self-exit in 1984.
There have been some vaguely Nine-adjacent themes in the recent batch of Star Trek series — the whole deal with the mushroom warp drives on Discovery, for instance — but it seems that whoever had been feeding more pointed Council of Nine themes into the franchise since its inception is no longer associated with it.
It would be a strange irony if the reason that the entire Trek franchise has collapsed so spectacularly and catastrophically was because it lost the Nine’s mandate of heaven, so to speak.
THE SECOND COMING OF THE NINE
It’s well known that Gene Roddenberry had extensive contacts with the Nine, as did his ghostwriter Jon Povill (who later worked on the series Sliders and Total Recall). But it’s less well-known that the nine major characters in the original cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation all had direct counterparts in the Egyptian pantheon.
Let me tell you a story…
In early 1975, a broke and depressed Roddenberry was approached by a British former race car driver named Sir John Whitmore, who was associated with a strange organization called ‘Lab-9.’ Though unknown to the public, Lab-9 were ostensibly a sort of an independent version of the X-Files, dedicated to the research of paranormal phenomena.
At least that was their cover story.
However, Lab-9 had another, more complex agenda: they also claimed to be in contact with a group of extraterrestrials called the ‘Council of Nine’ (or simply ‘The Nine’) who had been communicating through their ‘channelers’ or psychic mediums.
It was later revealed in the 1977 book, Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth, that the Nine claimed to be the figures on whom the ancient Egyptians had based their Ennead, or pantheon of major gods.
The Nine claimed to be the creators of mankind, and had informed the channelers that they would be returning to Earth soon. And so Lab-9 hired Roddenberry to write a screenplay based on the Council of Nine’s imminent return.
'To help Roddenberry in his research, Lab-9 flew him out to their headquarters, located on a large estate in Ossining, NY. There, Roddenberry met and interviewed several psychics, and prepared the groundwork for his script.
Roddenberry (kind of) wrote a script called The Nine, which fictionalized his experiences at Lab-9 and the message for humanity that the Council of Nine wished to convey.
But Roddenberry focused more on the producer’s fictionalized alter-ego’s marital and financial worries than on the Nine themselves, and Lab-9 requested a rewrite. He handed the task of revising the script to an assistant, Jon Povill.
In his revision, Povill rather cheekily posited that the hit sci-fi TV show that Roddenberry’s fictitious alter-ego had produced in the Sixties was not actually his work, but had been channeled through him by the Council of Nine.
UFO cultists in the Seventies and Eighties would make similar claims about Star Trek itself, but perhaps Povill was making an oblique reference to the fact that Roddenberry had a lot of unheralded help in “creating” Star Trek.
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