Best of 2000: Best (Surviving) Space-Based Religion

Unarius Academy of Science
145 South Magnolia Avenue,
El Cajon
(619) 444-7062

Their interstellar doctrine and prophecy are not a religion, say the Unarians, but a mandate from the star people to teach humankind connective and higher spiritual understanding. The nonprofit, tax- exempt educational foundation has a huge cache of videos and books by Unarius cofounder Ruth Norman, calling herself "Archangel Uriel" and spreading word of the spaceship from the planet Myton, which will arrive in 2001 and land on a submerged Atlantis, in the Bermuda Triangle. If their space brethren miss the star-bus, let's hope the Unarians don't take it as hard as the Heaven's Gate group.