ABSTRACT
Although an atmosphere of optimism prevails among the new religious movements of ufology, there are groups that take a more cautious approach to the coming Millennium. One example is found within the doctrine of the Greater Community Way, founded by Marshall Vian Summers in 1992. Located in Colorado, the Greater Community Way does not celebrate the new world that is emerging with the advent of extraterrestrial intervention. They see the coming millennium as a time when the societies of planet earth will be taken in by the “Greater Community” of extraterrestrials who have been visiting our world for millennia. Summers believes that the Greater Community of extraterrestrials are not evil in the religious or apocalyptic sense, but neither are they messianic, and they do not necessarily have our best interests at heart.
