Chapter 149. Mehran Tavakoli Keshe and the Keshe Foundation: Origins, Self-Account and Corpus

Part 15 turns to a modern movement that the LSN library holds in unusual depth. It holds hundreds of weekly teaching transcripts, three books, two patent applications, newsletters and chat logs. The movement is the Keshe Foundation (KF), and its founder is the Iranian-born engineer Mehran Tavakoli Keshe. His “Knowledge Seekers Workshops” (KSW) mix plasma physics, teaching on the soul, Zoroastrian and Mithraic symbolism, and peace diplomacy. They speak directly to the themes of this study: religion, prophecy and politics. One point about the sources governs this whole chapter. Nearly everything the library says about Keshe’s life comes from Keshe himself, speaking in the workshops, or from material the Foundation published. The library holds no independent biography and no investigative account. Every biographical statement below is therefore given as Keshe’s own claim.

The self-account: family, Iran and England

The longest autobiographical passage is in KSW 171. Keshe opens it by saying that this history “will be written in the history book of the KF, it is better that you learn it from me then from anybody else” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 171, #377814, “Keshe Foundation History and Accusations”]. He goes on: “I was born in Iran to a fairly wealthy family, close was the richest family in Iran during the Shaw’s regime.” He says that in childhood he “saw wealth and abuse to the extreme”. He says he went to England at “15 or 16” because he wanted to change direction “towards travel into space and the humanity”. He states that he “graduated from Queen Mary Collage in 1981 as a nuclear Physicist specialized in Reactor design system control”. He also states that he was told only five such specialists existed worldwide, most of them in Russia [Keshe, KSW 171, #377814].

KSW 120 (30 June 2016) gives a summary headed “Facts about MT Keshe”. It adds that his father “worked with X-Rays, so he was always around radiation”. It also says that he watched the Moon landings and “thought there must be another way to get there”, and that he was admitted to Queen Mary College at 22 [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 120, #377763, “Keshe’s Nuclear Career, Gravity Discovery, and Conflict with Red Circle”]. KSW 554 (9 September 2024) records a related memory. When his brother arrived in London in 1976, he asked to be taken home, calling England “a village … so backwards” next to the “luxury and beauty” of Iran [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 554, #378266, “Personal History and Workshop Logistics”].

The Queen Mary reactor: two versions of the dates

Keshe returns to the Queen Mary College research reactor more than once, and the workshops show documents about it on screen. In KSW 235 the transcript notes “Phtoo of Mr. Keshe as a young man”, a 1970 photograph of the reactor, and a “Document of the de-commissioning of the reactor”. Keshe comments: “This is why people don’t find any information of Queen Mary reactor.” He states that the reactor “was moved in 1978 to a new site” and that “in 1981 the new site wa[s]…” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 235, #377947, “Keshe Foundation Activities, Council Meetings, and Reactor History”].

KSW 510 (2 November 2023) holds a longer exchange with the moderator (“R”). The two library editions of this workshop put the dates differently. In one, the moderator reads from “the final report on the decommissioning and de-licensing of the Queen Mary College Research Reactor”. He reads that the facility was “licensed by Nuclear Site License number 21 issued on the 24th of December 1963”, and that it “was shut down in October 1966 … in preparation for the transfer of the main components to the new Queen Mary College Nucleonics Laboratory in Marshgate Lane” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 510, #378222, “Queen Mary College Nuclear Reactor History”]. The other edition quotes a ministerial approval for “a 10 kilowatt research reactor on a site in West Ham”, with “the assembly being taken critical for the first time on the 10th of August 1964” [Keshe, KSW 510, #378222, “Mary College Reactor History and New Plasma Technology”]. Keshe’s own recollection in the same session is different. He says the reactor sat in a university basement until the “mid nineteen seventies”. He says it was then moved to a new building “towards West Ham … I think it was moved in 1976, 1977”. He also says that “in 1982, the reactor was shut down, because it was proven that the reactor field radiation reaches beyond and within the public” [Keshe, KSW 510, #378222]. The documents read out in this session give 1963 for the licence and 1964 for first criticality.

Secrecy, gravity and the “Red Circle”

KSW 120 gives the Foundation’s account of why Keshe left the nuclear industry. It says he “worked in one of the most secret sites in British Nuclear Industry, in a cowshed. He refused to sign a secrecy agreement and was asked to leave, because there should be no secrets in the knowledge” [Keshe, KSW 120, #377763]. The same passage says British intelligence told him “he would never work in nuclear unless he worked for British government”. According to this account he then built a business with offices in Africa, Asia and Europe, built his own reactors, and “in early 2000 he could see the G fields”. The account goes on: in 2004 a group in a military museum told him “welcome home, we have been waiting for you for 20 years”, and the Minister of Defence personally signed a secrecy agreement with him “that it could not be leaked to the Ministry that the G has been discovered” [Keshe, KSW 120, #377763]. KSW 235 repeats the claim that the affidavit was signed “on behalf of the Minister of Defense of UK” because “your Technology (T) is too classified” [Keshe, KSW 235, #377947]. KSW 171 describes the moment of discovery itself: “around 2000 I discovered the Gravity, I sat in one corner and burst into tears” [Keshe, KSW 171, #377814].

The later parts of KSW 120 shift to accusations. Keshe describes a group he calls the “Red Circle” (RC). He says it offered to write his patents and was made up of “pedophiles and murders and stealers of intellectual rights”. He alleges poisoning, a car bombing with his sister inside, and police raids in Belgium, followed by flight to Italy. He also claims that “Red Circle works for Belgium government” [Keshe, KSW 120, #377763].

The “terrorist” label and the Belgian accusations

In KSW 171 Keshe explains how, as he tells it, he came to be called a terrorist. He names a lawyer, “Hans Brachenjeh”. He says this lawyer represented the other side while appointed to protect Keshe’s interests, and wrote “4 organization names on a paper”, warning that these organisations “are going to kill your husband if he doesn’t collaborate” [Keshe, KSW 171, #377814]. Keshe says: “Because of Hans Brachenjeh … he made me a terrorist, so you are all KF terrorists, because I didn’t give to Hans and Prince Phillip the present King of Belgium”. He speaks of being kept “11 days in (Toronto) airport”. He claims he told the then king, “I go and you abdicate”, and that “a few months after I left he abdicated”. In the same session he calls for “the arrest of these 3 Belgium’s”, asks the UN to protect his family, and says that “if I die the King of Belgium is responsible” [Keshe, KSW 171, #377814]. The session also contains self-descriptions that Chapter 152 takes up: “I am the Messenger of God, you can’t kill me … You touched Christ, not this guy” [Keshe, KSW 171, #377814].

Wealth, detachment and the Zoroastrian code

KSW 412 sets out Keshe’s account of his finances. He says he made money on a scale “beyond imagination” and that “for a 30 odd year old man to do this, was unbelievable”. He says: “In 2000 I made myself a promise, I’ll walk away”. He also says: “Money became detachment. I detached myself from the world of finance, but within it, I still have to live” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 412, #378124]. The transcript gives no exact age for this fortune beyond “a 30 odd year old man”. In KSW 648 he says that he “lived with world leaders, working with governments from age of 20 to 23” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 648, #378360].

KSW 554 also gives a different picture of his origins from KSW 171: its summary line reads “Humble family in Iran – during teenager time touched by beauty of Zoroaster” [Keshe, KSW 554, #378266], whereas KSW 171 speaks of a family “close [to] the richest family in Iran” [Keshe, KSW 171, #377814]. On religion, KSW 554 records that “in his teenager years he was taught and experienced the Ethos of Mitra with the Zoroastrians”. Keshe presents this ethos as a working code: “When you carry the Ethos of Mitra, you can never fail. (Then to Think Good, will be your emotion…)” [Keshe, KSW 554, #378266]. This echoes the Zoroastrian triad of good thoughts, good words and good deeds, which he restates elsewhere as “Talk good, think good, and do good” [Keshe, KSW 510, #378222]. KSW 648 links this way of life to his upbringing: “I lived this life even from childhood, the family I was brought up in Iran” [Keshe, KSW 648, #378360].

The institution as KF presents it

The Foundation calls itself “Stichting the Keshe Foundation”, using the Dutch legal form stichting (foundation). Its January 2019 newsletter has a feature headed “Malta, Home to Keshe Foundation Headquarters”. The same issue describes the “Spaceship Program teachings” run through government-backed programmes [Keshe Foundation, KF Plasma Times 2019-01, #38317, “Malta”]. KSW 16 (June 2014) already mentions setting up “the structure for the Health Center in Malta” and running the Institute and the Foundation separately in Italy [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 16, #377659]. KSW 429 points donors to a “cash management account in Holland as a NGO” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 429, #378141]. The later workshops centre on Linz in Austria. KSW 430 describes a new management separated “from the knowledge” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 430, #378142]. In KSW 443 (28 July 2022) Keshe announces: “the transfer of the assets to Keshe Foundation, which I’ve been the trustee for a long time, has started”. He adds: “I’ll stay as a trustee, till in the future, I’m sure, the two heads of the Keshe Foundation, the two ladies, will become the trustees” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 443, #378155, “Asset Transfer, Future Governance, and Nuclear Safety Technology”]. The same workshop names KF Brazil as “a registered company of the Keshe Foundation”.

The corpus

The written core consists of three books. Book 1, The Universal Order of Creation of Matters (2009), opens with a foreword. It claims more than thirty years of research and lists four aims: clean energy without waste, food and medicine made through plasma, “universal travel” protected by magnetic fields, and peace through open disclosure [Keshe, The Universal Order of Creation of Matters, #80404, Foreword]. Book 2, The Structure of the Light (2011), treats light as a “cylindrical” plasma [Keshe, The Structure of the Light, #38309]. Book 3, The Origin of the Universe, describes universes forming by the “division” of larger ones within a “unicos” [Keshe, The Origin of the Universe, #38310]. There are also two European patent applications. EP1770717A1, “Gravitational and Energy System”, was filed in 2005 and published in 2007 [Keshe, Gravitational and Energy System, #38325]. EP1770715A1, “Micro Plasma Reactor” (2007), is held as a scan without a text layer [Keshe, Micro Plasma Reactor, #377868].

The largest body of material is the KSW series itself, catalogued as “Knowledge Seekers Workshops”. The library also holds two omnibus volumes: All in One — KSW Transcripts 1-602 and Knowledge Seekers Workshop Summaries 1-393. Both carry the same header: “Note: Transcripts has not been checked by KF. Please listen to original recording. (Transcripts by KF Brazil)”. The omnibus adds that KSW 1-4 “are Auto Transcriptions, and they were not proofed”. It also notes that the early entries are “mostly summaries of the important points” and become full transcripts only “around the 94th Workshop” [Keshe Foundation, All in One — KSW Transcripts 1-602, #38307; Keshe Foundation, KSW Summaries 1-393, #378714]. Individual later transcripts are marked “Auto Transcription by Elias” [Keshe, Knowledge Seekers Workshop 435, #378147]. Every quotation in Part 15 is therefore a volunteer transcription of speech that the Foundation itself has not checked. Around this core sit the satellite materials: the KF Plasma Times newsletters (2018-2019), Telegram logs of the KAKT (“Keshe American Knowledge Team”) chats, Universal Council question-and-answer papers, and excerpts prepared by KF Brazil [KAKT Knowledge Seekers, KAKT Chat 2022-08, #377898].

Key points

• Almost all biographical information in the library comes from Keshe himself or from KF publications; there is no independent biography, so each claim is attributed.
• Keshe says he was born into a very wealthy Iranian family, went to England at 15 or 16, and graduated from Queen Mary College in 1981 as a reactor-control specialist (KSW 171).
• The Queen Mary reactor documents read in KSW 510 give a 1963 licence, 1964 criticality and an October 1966 shutdown of the original facility. Keshe recalls a move in 1976-78 and a shutdown in 1982.
• Keshe says he left the nuclear industry after refusing a secrecy agreement, discovered “G” (gravity) fields around 2000, and was pursued by a “Red Circle” and by Belgian figures who, he says, branded him a terrorist (KSW 120, 171).
• He attributes his ethics to a teenage formation in the Zoroastrian “Ethos of Mitra” (KSW 554, 648).
• KF calls itself “Stichting the Keshe Foundation”, names Malta as its headquarters (2019) and later works from Linz. In 2022 Keshe announced the transfer of assets to the Foundation, with himself as trustee until “the two ladies” take over (KSW 443).
• The corpus consists of three books, two European patent applications, the KSW transcripts and summaries, and newsletters and chat logs. The transcripts state that KF has not checked them.