Encounters, page 21
14. Weibel, “The Overview Effect and the Ultraview Effect,” 12.
15. Stephanie Nolasco, “William Shatner explains why his trip to space ‘felt like a funeral’: ‘I saw death and I saw life,’” Fox News, October 7, 2022, https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/william-shatner-explains-trip-space-felt-funeral-saw-death-saw-life.
16. I’ve written about this in my book: Pasulka, American Cosmic, 157.
Chapter 2: Technology and AI
1. Tim Lewis, “‘It always hits me hard’: how a haunting album helped save the whales,” The Guardian, December 6, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/06/the-songs-that-saved-the-whales.
2. Ibid.
3. Personal correspondence with Australian scientist who wishes to remain anonymous.
4. Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk (New York: HarperCollins, 2021), 248, Kindle.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Alexander and Nicole Gratovsky, The Principle of the Dolphin: Life on the Wave (Russia: Bombora, 2018).
Chapter 3: The Gray Man
1. Personal communication from Gray Man.
2. Yunkaporta, Sand Talk (New York: HarperCollins, 2021), 138.
3. “The Gosford UFO Incident with Moira McGhee,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN_n-jtKMdE; “UFO Gosford,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHQSE2uxDUA. For an excellent overview of this account, see Moira McGhee and Bryan Dickeson, The Gosford Files—UFOs over the New South Wales Central Coast (Katoomba, New South Wales: INUFOR, 1996).
4. “The Gosford UFO Incident with Moira McGhee”; “UFO Gosford”; McGhee and Dickeson, Gosford Files, 9–13.
5. Personal correspondence with Matthew Roberts, 2021.
Chapter 4: Gray Man II
1. Kary B. Mullis, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field (New York: Vintage, 2000): 131–32, Kindle.
2. Project Paperclip.
3. Paul Grigorieff, “The Mittelwerk/Mittelbau/Camp Dora Mittelbau GmbH—Mittelbau KZ: Mittelbau Overview,” http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/mittel.html.
4. Craig Marke and Rob Tannenbaum, “Freddy Lives: An Oral History of A Nightmare on Elm Street, Vulture, October 20, 2014, https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/nightmare-on-elm-street-oral-history.html.
5. Jacques Vallée discusses the control system. Interview with Jerome Clark, Fate, 1978.
6. “Jacques Vallée Discusses UFO Control System,” Think About It, https://thinkaboutit.site/ufos/jacques-vallee-discusses-ufo-control-system/.
Chapter 5: The Soldier
1. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper Perennial Classics, 2008).
2. Ken Booth, Theory of World Security (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 198.
3. Michael Marks, “Drive-By City,” San Antonio Current, February 24, 2016.
Chapter 6: Gnosis
1. Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 4: The Spring Hill Chronicles (San Antonio, TX: Anomalist Books, 2019), 439, 440.
2. Ibid., 436.
3. “Esotericism,” New World Encyclopedia, https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Esotericism.
4. Hanegraaff Wouter, Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013).
5. Vallée, Forbidden Science 4, 438.
6. Ibid., 126.
7. Ibid., 438.
8. Ibid., 437.
9. Dr. Aaron J. French, “The Magic of Technology: Rudolf Steiner’s Rosicrucianism and the UFO Phenomenon,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fReIz1gU-nI.
10. Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science 4.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Jacques Vallée, “Jacques Vallee’s Stating the Obvious: I, Product,” BoingBoing, October 20, 2010, https://boingboing.net/2010/10/20/jacques-vallees-stat.html.
14. Ibid.
15. Personal correspondence with Maria Matsuki Mockett.
Chapter 7: Moon Girl
1. Shawn Eyer, “Translation from Plato’s Republic 514b–518d (‘Allegory of the Cave’),” (Millford, MA: Plumbstone Books, 2016).
2. From an interview with journalist Jeffrey Mishlove, which aired on the PBS series Thinking Allowed on April 7, 1997.
Chapter 8: Children of the Invisibles
1. The Space and Missile Systems Center Heritage Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA, https://www.losangeles.spaceforce.mil/About-Us/History-of-SMC/Photo-Page/.
2. “Socrates on the Forgetfulness that Comes with Writing,” Work & Days, https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-on-the-forgetfulness-that-comes-with-writing.
Chapter 9: From Atheism to a Magical Mystery Tour
1. As stated in Pasulka, American Cosmic, introduction.
2. All quotes from Len Filppu are from personal correspondence with him.
3. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, August 3, 1967, 11.
4. Ibid.
5. Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, August 10, 1967, 42.
6. As reported in Pasulka, American Cosmic.
7. https://www.ourstrangeplanet.com/the-san-luis-valley/guest-editorials/jacques-vallee-interview/. Accessed November 15, 2022.
8. Personal communication from Australian scientist.
Chapter 10: The Dream Network
1. Dan Gunderman, “Kurt Russell claims to be pilot who called in prolific 1997 ‘UFO sighting’,” New York Daily News, June 16, 2017, https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/kurt-russell-claims-pilot-called-1997-ufo-sighting-article-1.3253058.
2. The following books are excellent analyses of the topic of dreams: Amira Mittermaier, Dreams That Matter: Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010); Eric Wargo, Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self: Interpreting Messages from Your Future (Rochester, NY: Inner Traditions Press, 2021).
3. Jayne Gackenbach and Stephen LaBerge, eds., Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain: Perspectives on Lucid Dreaming (New York: Plenum Press, 1988), ix.
4. Personal correspondence with Aaron French.
5. Rudolf Steiner, Esoteric Development: Selected Writings and Lectures, https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/EsoDevel/19061020p01.html.
6. Dalai Lama, Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying (New York: Wisdon Publications, 2002).
7. Yunkaporta, Sand Talk (New York: HarperCollins), 19.
8. Mittermaier, Dreams that Matter, 15.
9. Vincent Crapanzano, Hermes’ Dilemma and Hamlet’s Desire: Essays on the Epistemology of Interpretation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 142.
10. Katy Glaskin, “Innovation and Ancestral Revelation: the Case of Dreams,” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 11, no. 2 (2005): 297–314.
11. Douglas Price-Williams and Rosslyn Gaines, “The Dreamtime and Dreams of Northern Australian Aboriginal Artists,” Ethos 22, no. 3 (1994): 373–88.
12. Personal communication with an archaeologist who wishes to remain anonymous.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
D. W. PASULKA is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She has written several books, including American Cosmic and Heaven Can Wait. Dr. Pasulka’s research spans Catholic history to modern- day reports of UAPs and UFOs. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Introduction
1. The Space Psychologist
2. Technology and AI: A Language Bridge Back to Contact
3. The Gray Man
4. Gray Man II
5. The Soldier
6. Gnosis
7. Moon Girl
8. Children of the Invisibles
9. From Atheism to a Magical Mystery Tour
10. The Dream Network: Dreamscapes, Visions, and Lucid Dreams
Conclusion: The End of an Allegory
Acknowledgments
Notes
Praise Page
Also by D. W. Pasulka
About the Author
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