I am very intrigued by a book that is just coming available American Cosmic authored by DW Pasulka. This book is garnering mainstream attention. No one has posted a thread about this very interesting material as far as I have seen. Her book relates to disclosure. During her investigation of UFO believers Pasulka had anomalous experiences in the Southwest US. With two others who represent a level of social activity she relates to be part of elite "Invisibles" researching "alien technology", she found some unusual materials not believed to be manufactured on Earth.
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Her research focuses on religion and technology, including supernatural belief and its connections to digital technologies and environments.
She is author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Her current projects include two edited volumes, Believing in Bits: New Media and the Supernatural, co-edited with Simone Natalie and forthcoming with Oxford University Press, and Post Humanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens, co-edited with Michael Bess and forthcoming with Palgrave MacMillan Reference.
American Cosmic is available at these book sellers: Barnes & Noble; Indie Bound; Amazon; Oxford University Press. https://www.americancosmic.com/about-the-author/Why do more than half of American adults and more than 75 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life?
Diana Walsh Pasulka spent six years interviewing influential scientists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence. She has explored spiritual phenomena, visited the purported UFO crash sites of New Mexico and roamed the archives of the Vatican. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors, including their prevalence in modern media—from “The X-Files” to the search for planets that might support life.
Pasulka explores the connections between religion, technology and extraterrestrial life and examines how people interpret the unexplainable in our strange and sometimes mysterious world. https://patch.com/california/paloalt...eligion-technoThere are several interviews available but I am posting Whitley Strieber's interview with her and subsequent discussion concerning his own connections.Traditional religious manifestations such as shared visions and levitation are also factors in the UFO phenomena. We spoke of the Spanish nun, Mary of Agreda who bi-located to the Dulce New Mexico area prior to the arrival of the European explorers, and the celestial manifestations at Fatima in Portugal..... many factors play a part in the different ways that people experience both UFOs and religious manifestations, especially cultural context. https://shatteredrealitypodcast.word...erican-cosmic/