Michael Tellinger
{{Short description|South African musician and politician}}
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Michael Tellinger is a South African author, politician, explorer{{cite web|url=https://woub.org/2016/09/22/ubuntu-contributionism-touts-a-society-without-money-everyone-is-equal/|title=UBUNTU Contributionism Touts a Society Without Money: Everyone Is Equal – WOUB Digital|date=22 September 2016|publisher=}} and founder of the Ubuntu Party which supports the supply of free resources across society.{{cite web|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2012-09-14-00-new-age-leaders-weed-out-the-lies|title=New Age leaders weed out the lies|first=Phillip De|last=Wet|date=14 September 2012 |publisher=Mail and Guardian| archivedate=21 September 2012| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921104824/http://mg.co.za/article/2012-09-14-00-new-age-leaders-weed-out-the-lies| accessdate=17 December 2019}} He has led a campaign against banks and central banks{{cite web|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-16-court-sees-red-over-ufo-gurus-crusade|title=Court sees red over UFO guru's crusade|first=Phillip|last=De Wet|date=15 March 2012 |publisher=Mail and Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006235342/https://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-16-court-sees-red-over-ufo-gurus-crusade |archive-date=6 October 2018| accessdate=17 December 2019}} and championed pseudolegal ideas to obtain money from financial institutions.{{Cite journal |last=Netolitzky |first=Donald J. |date=3 May 2018 | url = https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3177472|title=A Pathogen Astride the Minds of Men: The Epidemiological History of Pseudolaw|publisher=Centre d’expertise et de formation sur les intégrismes religieux et la radicalisation (CEFIR) |ssrn=3177472 |access-date=January 24, 2022}} He is also a promoter of pseudoarchaeology influenced by Zecharia Sitchin's ideas of ancient astronauts.{{cite journal |last1=Hammer |first1=Olav |last2=Swartz |first2=Karen |title=Field Notes: The Bosnian Pyramid Phenomenon |date=May 2020 |journal=Nova Religio |volume=23 |number=4 |pages=94–110 |doi=10.1525/nr.2020.23.4.94 |s2cid=218928395 |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/nr/article-pdf/23/4/94/385414/nr.2020.23.4.94.pdf}} presenting the Blaauboschkraal stone ruins, interpreted by mainstream archaeology as 16th century boundary markers, as 'Adam's Calendar', an alien-built structure at the center of a network of stone circles across Southern Africa which purportedly channeled energy in ancient times.{{cite web|url=https://www.thesouthafrican.com/200-000-year-old-city-found-in-southern-africa-set-to-re-write-history/|title=200 000 year old city found in Southern Africa may rewrite history|first=Laura|last=Bradfield|date=10 November 2015|publisher=The South African}}
Author
Tellinger authored or co-authored the following books, three of them self-published through his Zulu Planet Publishers.:{{cite web |title=Amazing Metropolis Discovered in Africa is 200,000 years old! |url=http://www.viewzone2.com/adamscalendar66.html |website=www.viewzone2.com}}
- {{cite book | last1=Heine | first1=J. | last2=Tellinger | first2=M. | title=Adam's Calendar: Discovering the Oldest Man-made Structure on Earth | publisher=Zulu Planet Publishers | year=2008 | isbn=978-1-920153-07-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AWInAQAAIAAJ}}
- {{cite book | last=Tellinger | first=M. | title=Slave Species of the Gods: The Secret History of the Anunnaki and Their Mission on Earth | publisher=Inner Traditions/Bear | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-59143-807-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clkoDwAAQBAJ}}
- {{cite book | last1=Tellinger | first1=M. | last2=Heine | first2=J. | title=Temples of the African Gods: Decoding the Ancient Ruins of Southern Africa | publisher=Zulu Planet Publishers | year=2009 | isbn=978-1-920153-08-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vQY0QwAACAAJ}}
- {{cite book | last=Tellinger | first=M. | title=UBUNTU Contributionism: A Blueprint for Human Prosperity | publisher=Zulu Planet Publishers | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-920153-12-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=arbkoAEACAAJ}}
Politics
Tellinger founded a South African political party called Ubuntu Party, named after the principles of Ubuntu Contributionism.{{cite web | title=Ubuntu: About | website=ubuntu | url=http://www.ubuntuparty.org.za/p/about.html | access-date=13 May 2020}}[self published]
Education
Michael Tellinger graduated in 1983 from the University Of Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, with a B.Pharmacy degree.{{cite web |last1=Keene |first1=Rochelle |title=Our Graduates – 1924 -2012 |url=https://www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-university/alumni/documents/other-documents/Our%20Graduates_1924_2012.pdf |website=wits.ac.za |publisher=University of the Witwatersrand – Faculty of Health Science |accessdate=17 December 2019 |location=Johannesburg |page=141 |language=English }}
Music
He spent much of his early years in the arts performing on stage and screen. As part of the duo "Stirling & Tellinger" he had several music hits in South Africa. In 1986, he worked in Los Angeles for Cannon Films as a sound designer and editor; and wrote and recorded the controversial anti-apartheid song "We come from Johannesburg", which was banned under the previous regime. His latest contribution to the arts was a song called "Side By Side With Angels", for the TSUNAMI disaster fund in 2005, which featured a number of top South African artists.{{cite web | title=Michael Tellinger, author Slave Species God Adam's Calendar | website=Credo Vusamazulu Mutwa | date=8 March 2019 | url=http://credomutwa.com/friends/michael-tellinger/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190308231945/http://credomutwa.com/friends/michael-tellinger/ | archive-date=8 March 2019 | url-status=dead | access-date=17 December 2019}}
Campaign against banks
In 2012, Tellinger was sued in the Johannesburg High Court by Standard Bank for nonpayment of his R828 015 home loan granted in 2007. Tellinger's pseudolegal argument, in a nutshell, was that banks create money "out of the air" and therefore he could do the same. He sent Standard Bank a piece of paper which he said was a "negotiable instrument" for the final payment of the loan. Standard Bank took him to court and within minutes his case was dismissed by Judge Jackson Mabsele. Tellinger was ordered to pay the loan and legal fees of both parties. There was also the possibility that he could be sued for defamation and be declared a "troublesome litigant". He was quoted as saying after the court case that he would take the case to the Constitutional Court.
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