THE PELLEY PILL

Why haven't you learned about the man that took on Roosevelt and got arrested for sedition?
This man was woke as fuck.

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William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890 – June 30, 1965) was an accomplished and prolific writer, a controversial political activist, an innovative economist and a committed believer in spirituality and metaphysics.

Early History

Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the son of a Methodist minister, Pelley experienced firsthand the hardships of poverty. His father was pastor at a number of New England churches who was forced to start several business ventures in order to meet the economic needs of his family. When sixteen years old Pelley went to work in his father’s factory in northern New York where he became general superintendent of the plant. Pelley’s early family life left a lasting impression on him about economic justice and social inequities reflected in his later political and economic writings.

Pelley’s Literary Career

Starting his life-long literary path, Pelley began writing as a young man for local newspapers. He became a feature writer for the Springfield (Mass.) Homestead, then the night man for the Boston Globe, and ultimately owned the Chicopee Journal, Deerfield Valley Times and Caledonian-Record in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

Pelley gained prominent recognition for his extensive fiction writing in national publications. He had over 240 short stories published in the most widely circulated national magazines of the time including the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, and Colliers. He was a constant contributor to The American Magazine.

Pelley excelled in the short story genre. He won the O. Henry Memorial Award for the best short story in the nation for two different years, “The Face in the Window” in 1920, and “The Continental Angle” in 1930. Several times his stories appeared in the best short story collections edited by Edward J. O’Brien.

Along with his short stories Pelley authored six novels, two of which were made into movies, and took him to Hollywood to assist in their production. One book was the Fog, which was published by Little Brown and Co. and sold nearly a half million copies. The other book was titled Drag in which Richard Barthelmess was the leading actor.

In addition to the two books, which were made into movies, he was a screenwriter throughout the 1920’s adapting many of his short stories into films. Lon Chaney was his best social and professional friend and starred in the Shock and The Light of Faith, which Pelley had written and adapted into film.

Pelley Experiences the Bolshevik Revolution

Before he went to Hollywood in 1920, Pelley traveled to Russia. Because of Pelley’s national recognition as an accomplished writer senior leaders in the Methodist Church offered Pelley a contract to encircle the world assessing its foreign missions. Accepting the contract Pelley departed from the United States sailing west to Japan. When he arrived in Japan in 1918, the Russian Civil War had erupted. Czar Nicolas II and his family had been assassinated, and Russia was engaged in a bloody civil war between the Whites and the Reds for control of its government.

The United States joined with England, France and Japan in sending troops into Siberia to counter Bolshevik activity in the region, also known as the 1918-1919 Siberian Intervention. The United States and others were concerned over Bolshevik efforts to expand their revolution beyond Russia. Pelley was recruited as a consular courier, was given a military ranking of second lieutenant, and traveled some 5,000 miles into the heart of Russia on the Siberian railway. He was an eyewitness to the bloody take-over of Russia by the Bolshevists.

Pelley’s first hand experience with the ruthless violence of Bolshevism left a deep and indelible scar in Pelley’s psyche that had a compelling influence in his later political opposition to Stalinist Russia during the 1930s.

“My Seven Minutes in Eternity”

Near the end of his Hollywood era, Pelley had a psychic, out of body experience that would change his life forever. One night in May 1928, living alone in Altadena, California, while retaining full consciousness at all times, he left his physical body to visit higher realms of existence, returning to it later on the same night, greatly shaken and changed.

At the insistence of a close friend connected with The American Magazine, Pelley wrote an article describing his exceptional occurrence, which was then published in the March 1929 issue, under the title “My Seven Minutes in Eternity.”

Public response to Pelley’s article was enormous. The magazine was inundated with reader questions and comments expressing interest in Pelley and his out of body experience. Many related similar episodes but had been reluctant to tell anyone. Pelley decided to return to the East Coast to handle the torrential correspondence over his metaphysical experience and to pursue his increasing opposition to the U.S. government’s economic and foreign policies.

Pelley’s Metaphysical Work

Shortly after his “Seven Minutes” experience in May 1928, Pelley discovered that he was able to “tune in” clairaudiently to sources of information above the mortal. He began the “recording” of information that later were to fill 908 pages in the book entitled The Golden Scripts. At the same time he received material less poetic but highly metaphysical which he published in his books and magazines.

During this period Pelley was led into an intensive investigation of metaphysics, mysticism and ESP (extra sensory perception). He published his findings in a magazine called The New Liberator. He lectured and organized study groups in the major cities of the nation. He moved to Asheville, N.C and opened a center called “Galahad College” where students gathered from all over the country for philosophical study. Later in his life Pelley moved to Noblesville, Indiana where he continued his metaphysical writings and study.

When Pelley died in June 1965, his metaphysical philosophy was embodied in what he termed “Soulcraft”. As part of Soulcraft he authored over two dozen volumes of metaphysical writings. Prominent among his metaphysical works are the Golden Scripts (a 908 page treatise) and the Soulcraft Scripts, a set of 12 volumes, each containing 13 lectures. He wrote an additional ten volumes related to metaphysics:

As Thou Lovest --- Jesus’ life through the eyes of Peter.

Behold Life --- A panoramic view of the whole Soulcraft philosophy.

Thinking Alive --- How substance grows from thought.

Earth Comes --- Our planet’s relationship to Cosmos and ourselves.

Star Guests --- The Great Migration and the story of “the sons of God.”

Adam Awakes --- New perspectives on romance and sex in modern life.

Know Your Karma --- How the laws of Cause and Effect bear on your current life.

Getting Born --- How you control your own birth and your own life pattern.

Undying Mind --- The eternal power and endurance of your own consciousness.

Why I Believe The Dead Are Alive --- Pelley’s story of his ESP development.

Pelley’s Political Life

With the Great Depression starting in 1929 combined with Pelley’s first hand experience with Bolshevism, Pelley became very concerned with the major political and economic problems facing the United States. Beginning in the early 1930’s Pelley became a very active and powerful critic of U.S. government foreign policy and the international banking system. In particular Pelley vigorously opposed President Roosevelt’s war policies and ties to international banking. Pelley claimed the banking system was dominated and controlled by a collaboration of international Jewish families whose actions were contrary to the interests of American citizens.

In 1932 Pelley founded Galahad College, in Ashville, North Carolina, Pelley. He used the school to promote his vision of economic justice, which he spelled out in his book “No More Hunger”. Pelley promoted a philosophy of “Christian Economics” in which the U.S. economy would be organized as a corporation with each citizen being a shareholder with a guaranteed minimal income. Pelley also used the school in Ashville to promote his metaphysical writings and projects. He founded Galahad Press, which he used to publish his various political and metaphysical magazines, newspapers, and books.

In the early 1930’s, shortly after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Pelley organized a political group called the Silver Legion with its members called Silver Shirts. The Silver Legion’s emblem was a scarlet L, which was featured on their flags and uniforms. Pelley traveled the country making speeches and recruiting members into his group. He founded chapters of the Silver Legion with their Council of Safety as he traveled until he had members in most regions of the country.

Pelley promoted isolationism, anti-communism and the ending of powerful Jewish influence in banking and the U.S. government. While Pelley’s views on Jewish influence paralleled much of the same sentiment in Germany after World War I, which also fueled Hitler’s rise to power, Pelley never endorsed or supported the Nazi extremism which promoted the extermination of Jews as a solution to Jewish influence.
Pelley’s condemnation of Jewish interests and influence in international banking, the Russian government and Roosevelt’s administration made him a lightning rod for investigation and attack by the Roosevelt administration, the House Un-American Activities Committee and pro-Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League. Ultimately Pelley’s activities so angered President Roosevelt that Roosevelt unleashed the full power of the U.S. Justice Department to put Pelley in prison even if it meant violating his basic constitutional rights.

North Carolina Litigation

As part of his efforts to raise money to fund his activities Pelley attempted to sell stock in his organizations. In 1934 agents of the Samuel Dickstein Committee discovered that Pelley had failed to make proper registration for stock sales with the North Carolina State Corporation Commission. Pelley was tried and convicted of a technical violation of the “blue sky laws”, and received a one-to-two-year sentence, which was suspended. Later officials of the state tried to have Pelley incarcerated for violating the “good behavior” clause of the suspended sentence. For 15 years Pelley fought this prosecutorial abuse of power, which finally ended by the Indiana Supreme Court terminating the prosecution.

World II and Indianapolis Trial

On April 4, 1942 Pelley was arrested in Indiana and in June was indicted for violation of the wartime “Sedition Law”. Pelley had so enraged Roosevelt that Roosevelt personally authorized the arrest and prosecution of Pelley. The Justice Department sent two special assistants to aggressively prosecute Pelley. While the Supreme Court later held in subsequent cases that the government needed to prove “intent” to violate and a “clear and present danger” resulting, and the evidence in Pelley’s trial was void of that evidence, Pelley was nonetheless convicted and sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Only Congressman Jacob Thorkelson of Montana and Charles Lindbergh “the lone Eagle” were allowed to testify in Pelley’s behalf.

In his book “Perilous Times”, Professor Jeffery E. Stone, University of Chicago Law School, who reviewed sedition cases since the signing of the U.S. Constitution, singles out the Pelley case as the most egregious, political misuse of the charge of sedition during World War II.

Mass Sedition Trial

Three months after the Indianapolis trial, Pelley was moved from Terre Haute Penitentiary to Washington, D. C. to stand trial with 29 others in the notorious Mass Sedition Trial. Those rounded up were writers, activists and publishers, all in varying degrees opposed to Communism and the war policies of the New Deal Administration. Whereas Pelley had been convicted under the 1917 Sedition Law, otherwise known as the “wartime” act, the defendants in the Mass Trial were to be tried under the “peacetime” Smith Act that had been passed in 1940.
The wording of both sedition laws is almost verbatim; the criminal charge is substantially the same. The same evidence that was presented against Pelley in Indianapolis was now being presented against him in Washington. The trial lasted for eight months when the trial judge died. The presiding judge of the same court, Chief Judge Bolitha J. Laws, then dismissed all charges against Pelley and the other defendants: “Under the circumstances, to permit another trial, which conceivable would last more than a year…with the outcome in serious doubt…would be a travesty on justice.”