The Seekers, also called The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays, were a group of rapturists or a UFO religion in mid-twentieth century Midwestern United States. The Seekers met in a nondenominational church, the group originally organized in 1953 by Charles Laughead, a staff member at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan .

When Prophecy Fails: A Social and Psychological Study of a Modern Group That Predicted the Destruction of the World is a classic work of social psychology by Leon Festinger, Henry Riecken, and Stanley Schachter, published in 1956, detailing a study of a small UFO religion in Chicago called the Seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse.

2022年12月23日 · The Seekers, a religious group led by Dorothy Martin, believed that a catastrophic, world-ending flood was afoot. They expected a group of aliens called the Guardians to come and abduct them ahead of the apocalypse. Although the spaceship never came, the Seekers did leave their mark.

2021年12月21日 · A cult of extraterrestrial believers in the US thought that they would be abducted by a UFO firstly on December 21, and then while they sang Christmas carols on December 24. The group, known as ‘The Seekers’, were led by Dorothy Martin, a woman who claimed to have an ability to channel messages from distant entities. ‌

2011年5月20日 · Though it’s a work of psychology, it’s written in a narrative that reads like a combination of investigative journalism and Charles Portis’s brilliant cult spoof Masters of Atlantis.

In the 1950s, Leon Festinger was scratching his head over a group of people who called themselves The Seekers. Scratching because Leon was a psychologist, and The Seekers were a semi-popular doomsday cult proselytizing the end of the world.

The classic 1954 study by Festinger carried out a study of a small UFO cult called the Seekers that believed that a great flood was imminent and that spacemen would rescue those who were true believers.

The Seekers, or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, were an English dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers – Walter, Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation.

2011年5月20日 · A fringe religious group called the Seekers had made the papers by predicting that a flood was coming to destroy the West Coast.

2022年12月7日 · In the 1950s, The Seekers, a small doomsday cult (a.k.a. The Brotherhood of the Seven Rays) predicted when the world would end. Festinger, who would study The Seekers with Henry Riecken and Stanley Schachter, read about the cult leader's predictions in a local newspaper and "saw a made-to-order way of putting his theory [of cognitive dissonance ...