Editing Luc Jouret (section)

=== Lecturing and conferences ===
By this time Jouret was traveling widely through French-speaking Europe, Eastern Canada and [[Martinique]] as an inspirational speaker.{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=126}}{{sfn|Palmer|1996|p=305}} He traveled a wide conference and lecture circuit in hotels and universities in several countries. His specific presentations included ones titled: "Old Age: The Doorway to Eternal Youth", "Love and Biology", and "Christ, the Sphinx, and the New Man".{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=126}} Jouret was a popular lecturer to Francophone audiences in both North America and Europe, with one commentator describing him as "something of a phenomenon". His publications and lecture recordings were sold in several New Age bookstores and health food shops. He lectured to the public from a homeopathic and New Age persona, providing a path to the secret society beneath – usually, at least some who attended his lectures were interested. Jouret was known as an excellent speaker, and according to former member [[Hermann Delorme]]:{{sfn|Hall|Schuyler|2000|p=126}}

{{Blockquote|text=You start listening and by God, you know, you just all of a sudden feel so attracted to what he is saying. You talk about the universe, you talk about how man is made of four ingredients and how the stars are made of these same four ingredients. Then you go back to Egypt and Egyptology, and then somewhere along the line comes the possibility of extraterrestrials. And it goes on and it goes on like that. But the more you hear, the less you understand, and therefore, the more you want to know. You slowly get caught up in the web.}}

As part of a larger investigation into new religious movements in Switzerland in the late 80s, religious historian [[Jean-François Mayer]] attended one of his conferences.{{sfn|Morath|Lemasson|2023a|loc=33:30–34:35}} After the lecture, pamphlets were distributed and attendees were told that if they wished to know more they could file an application, where they were then invited to another lecture to learn more about the group.{{sfn|Mayer|1998|p=6}} At this lecture, fewer than 10 people expressed interest and by several months later only one person out of the group had joined the OTS.{{sfn|Mayer|1998|p=6}}