Both movements imagine physically present heavenly creators, resident in space which they travel in wonderful ships. Both imagined human perfectibility in reach. Both arose in the seventies, a time when American culture, at least, was immersed to an unusual degree in self-absorption and the pursuit of pleasure. However, the Raelian movement is French, and that seems to account to a great extent for many of the differences. The Puritan meets the sensual rationalist, round-head vs. Cavalier once again.
History never stops repeating itself, it seems.
It's too bad there never was any contact between the two, as far as we know. This take on Apocalypse shows interesting similarities with the ideas we've already met. Interplanetary salvation and doom seem to have a definite grip on our prophetic imaginations. Chen Tao's failed prophecy . A Field Report on the Chen Tao .