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Mark-Age

Mark-Age (formerly Mark-Age MetaCenter) is an American UFO religion. It was founded in 1962 in Miami, Florida by Pauline Sharpe (Nada-Yolanda) and Charles Boyd Gentzel (Mark). Its headquarters later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1970s and then Pioneer, Tennessee by the 2000s. The group incorporates New Age, UFO contactee, and Theosophical elements. Mark-Age believes itself to be a contact point with extraterrestrials who govern the Solar System, and believe in an alien-assisted Second Coming. It was one of the most significant and largest contactee groups. Founded after the founders claimed to receive a spiritual message in the 1950s, members believe in channeling messages which are supposedly communicated through telepathy and automatic writing. Members were affiliated with the contactee Gloria Lee, and claimed to channel her after she died, writing a book claiming to contain her messages from beyond. The group has published its beliefs in several publications and periodicals.

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Mark-Age (formerly Mark-Age MetaCenter) is an American UFO religion. It was founded in 1962 in Miami, Florida by Pauline Sharpe (Nada-Yolanda) and Charles Boyd Gentzel (Mark). Its headquarters later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in the 1970s and then Pioneer, Tennessee by the 2000s. The group incorporates New Age, UFO contactee, and Theosophical elements. Mark-Age believes itself to be a contact point with extraterrestrials who govern the Solar System, and believe in an alien-assisted Second Coming. It was one of the most significant and largest contactee groups. Founded after the founders claimed to receive a spiritual message in the 1950s, members believe in channeling messages which are supposedly communicated through telepathy and automatic writing. Members were affiliated with the contactee Gloria Lee, and claimed to channel her after she died, writing a book claiming to contain her messages from beyond. The group has published its beliefs in several publications and periodicals.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1962 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1962". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347633421

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.