Salvador Freixedo was a SpanishCatholic priest and a member of the Jesuit Order. A ufologist and researcher of paranormal subjects, he wrote a number of books on the relationship between religion and extraterrestrial beings, and was a speaker in several international UFO congresses in Europe, the Americas, and Asia. He was also a contributor to a number of parascientific magazines, such as Mundo Desconocido, Karma 7 and Más allá among others. He also appeared in a number of TV and radio shows dedicated to these subjects.
Biography
He was born in O Carballiño, in 1923, in the bosom of a deeply religious family. When he was five his family moved to Ourense, and it is there where he started his first studies, attending primary school at the Saint Vincent Paul Nuns and Secondary School at the Institute Otero Pedrayo. At the age of 16 he joins the Jesuit Order and is ordained priest in 1953, in Santander, Spain. He was a member of the Jesuit Order for thirty years. He lived in a number of countries in the Americas from 1947, in his role as a Jesuit, he taught History of the Church in the Interdiocese Seminary of Santo Domingo, and he founded the Movement of the Christian Working Youth in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was the national vice-assesor of this movement in La Habana. He studied humanities in Salamanca, philosophy in Universidad de Comillas, theology in Alma College in San Francisco, ascetics in Mont Laurier, psychology in the University of Los Angeles and in Fordham University of New York City. Since the 1950s, his critical position on the postures of the Catholic Church and the publication of some books led him to jail and to the expulsion from countries like Cuba and Venezuela, and also to his exclusion from the Jesuit Order in 1969. Since the 1970s he had dedicated himself to research in the field of parapsychology, in particular the UFO phenomenon and its relation to religion and human history. He had published a number of books on the subject, and founded the Mexican Institute of Paranormal Studies, of which he presided over the First Great International Congress organized by the former.
Literary works
1950 to 1970
In 1957 while he was in Cuba, he wrote his first book: 40 Cases of Social Injustice. Due to pressure from the Batista government he was transferred to Puerto Rico in 1958.
In 1968, while in Puerto Rico, he wrote My Church Sleeps in which he stated the Church was narrow-minded and denounced what he saw as the poor evangelical spirit of some of its leaders and what he believed to be the irrationality of some of its dogmas, for which he was excluded from the Jesuit Order. In Spain his book was banned.
In 1970 his book Love, Sex, Courtship, Marriage, Children: Five Realities in Evolution surfaced in Venezuela. He was jailed and subsequently expelled from the country.
1970 to 2012
From the time of his falling away with the Order, he dedicated himself to the study of paranormal phenomena, considering it a window to other realities and other dimensions of existence. He has published over thirty books, many discussing a possible relationship between religion and extraterrestrials, such as:
Extraterrestres y creencias religiosas — cuando los OVNIs aterrizan los dogmas vuelan
El diabólico inconsciente — Parapsicología y Religión
