http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Vorilhon
Dr Susan Palmer has studied this ufo sect since 1987--she's not too critical though. This was written in 2010:
http://forum.raelian.com/viewtopic.php?t=74As someone who has been studying the Raelians for over a decade, I would say they are dead serious. To succeed in cloning a human would be the fulfillment of Rael’s millennial vision, revealed to him by aliens during a private Bible lesson held aboard a UFO parked in a hollow in France’s volcanic Clermont-Ferrand mountains in December, 1973. It was then that Rael learned that the first specimens of humanity—the original "Adams" and "Eves"—were created in test tubes from the DNA of the Elohim. Having mastered the techniques of cloning, "Our Creators" are virtually immortal.
In his 1976 book, They Took Me to Their Planet, Rael describes witnessing the "re-creation" of his own body in a vat on the planet of the Elohim. In a speech in Montreal last November, he promised immortality via cloning to everyone in the room 54 or under.
here what some ex-members have done with their version of "emf"..
http://raelian.com/en/
http://forum.raelian.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=71
http://confessions.rael.jeandenissaintc ... _rael.html
http://www.rickross.com/reference/raeli ... ans68.html