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As seen on The Joe Rogan Experience!
A
revolution is underway. For the first time in human history, we
are at the cusp of experiencing contact with nonhuman life-forms
of all kinds due to technological innovations and research into
the experiences of people at the forefront of this development.
In Encounters, author D.W. Pasulka takes readers
to the forefront of this revolution, sharing the work of experts
across a spectrum of fields who are working to connect humanity with
unknown life-forms.
Most of us have visions of nonhuman
encounters that are shaped far more by Hollywood than they are
informed by the current research. Encounters rewrites our
visions of nonhuman species by featuring the work and stories of
contemporary innovators who are rethinking our most basic
assumptions about life and its manifestations beyond our
experience.
The author of American Cosmic, D.W.
Pasulka is a professor of religion at UNC, Wilmington; her work as a
scholar has given her the tools to systematically examine data that
exceeds rational categories—exactly the skillset needed to parse the
world of UFOs, angels, AI, dreams, and other dimensions, which exist
at the edges of human understanding. Encounters is a riveting
exploration of the leading science of nonhuman life and a bold
glimpse of the future of humanity in a universe where we are far
from alone.
In The Press
"Encounters is a ground-breaking, multi-layered look at aspects
of the UFO phenomenon that are rarely explored with such clarity,
sophistication and insight. While the study of UFO evidence has
captivated the world for decades, Encounters ventures further,
diving into the enigmatic realms of the mystery that lie at the heart
of this phenomenon, and which have touched the lives of so many
people. Through profiles of unusual, gifted individuals with much to
teach us, we learn how scientists and technologists are motivated to
explore profound questions about the nature of consciousness as a
result of their own connections to non-human intelligence. I highly
recommend this book."
—Leslie Kean, investigative reporter
and author of
UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the
Record
"Diana Pasulka takes us galaxies beyond her essential
American Cosmic, with Encounters. Here she delves into
the patterns of creation, visions of Saint Michael, the protector of
children, to synchronicity and the wide variety of interactions humans
have with nonhuman intelligences. This is a deeply moving meditation
on consciousness and all that we do not know about the mystery we
exist within. One of the great recent books on the subject, sure to
fascinate those interested in both spiritual and alien encounters.
Simply breathtaking in its scope and the depth of its feeling."
—Josh Boone, director of
The Fault in Our Stars and
X-Men: The New Mutants, creator of The Stand
"Diana Pasulka has applied her prodigious academic skills to
the generally dismissed subjects of UFOs and close encounters, and the
result is astonishing and revelatory. The present will greet this book
with wary surprise; the future will call it a masterwork."
—Whitley Strieber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Communion
"The next essential chapter in the UFO mystery. A
compelling page-turner that confronts the elephant in the room on
UFOs. That, on the evidence, the key to this intriguing mystery is
least likely to be that these strange objects are just mere
super-advanced craft from a technologically superior non-human
intelligence. In Encounters, Pasulka coaxes her fascinating UFO
experiencers to reveal a frequent preternatural high-strangeness
associated with their sighting events; the woo behind these events is
an uncomfortable feature not commonly emphasized, indeed often
overlooked. Her thesis is that maybe the very thing being ignored is
the key. Why, she asks, do so many great thinkers and creatives credit
their ground-breaking ideas to dreams and downloads? Is the phenomenon
an organic uber AI seeding human consciousness with transcending ideas
and UFO ‘craft' just but one manifestation of a broader enigma?
Underlying all indigenous knowledge systems is this idea of
pan-psychism, a sentient environment. She questions if the notion of
an organic internet explains the aboriginal dreamtime, even God. The
most intriguing question she poses is whether humanity’s intimacy with
technology is making us all blind to what we once were and are truly
capable of being."
—Ross Coulthart, author of
In Plain Sight: An Investigation into UFOs and Impossible
Science
"We are schooled by D.W. Pasulka in two seemingly contradictory
truths: the UFO phenomenon is riven with disinformation and
distortion, and the UFO phenomenon is real. Pasulka also explains why
it is the experiencers of nonhuman or superhuman intelligence who
count, and why the study of religion has the most to say about their
altered states and cosmic realizations. Encounters is a model
of where we should go from here—into a future beyond our present
understandings of the natural and the supernatural, of religion and
science. That is the past. This is the future."
—Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of
The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections, New
Realities
"In Encounters, Dr. D. W. Pasulka continues a
deeply profound journey to unravel the UFO mystery and place an
empathetic microscope on those who have experienced it. Invisible
hands continue to weave an uncharted path for Pasulka as she navigates
a maze of government involvement with the UFO topic and the narrative
painted between the gaps of uncertainty, while also exploring a very
human lens through the scientists, researchers, and experiencers who
truly shape the UFO interpretation. While the goal may appear to be a
crossing of these paths, Pasulka eloquently proves that sometimes the
journey is far more important than the final destination."
—Ryan Sprague, author and podcaster,
Somewhere in the Skies
"Diana Pasulka brings to the
incomplete study of unidentified phenomena the missing parts that make
it tick: a subtle, caring way to transcend the rough political and
military turmoil that has long disfigured the research; and a formal
framework for the spiritual reinterpretation of what the witnesses
say. Her book is a staircase to the top level."
—Jacques Vallee, author, scientist, and venture capitalist
“In
Encounters, Dr. Pasulka offers us a mind-expanding view of what
'contact' means. She explores the role of the paranormal, the
invisible and the spiritual as integral parts of the UFO contact
experience. She also explores the role of technology and AI as a new
form of contact through her fascinating profiles of scientists and
innovators. After reading this deeply insightful book, if you aren’t
surprised by what she reveals, you haven’t been paying attention.“
—Rizwan Virk, founder of Play Labs @ MIT and author of
The Simulation Hypothesis and Wisdom of a Yogi
"If American Cosmic took readers to super-secret crash
sites in the desert and off-limits vaults of the Vatican, D. W.
Pasulka’s new book Encounters takes them on a more inward
journey—not ETs in metal ships (although those do hover in the
background) but alleged interactions with nonhuman intelligence
through dreams, synchronicities, and inspiration. Pasulka’s unique
brand of erudite but also highly personal ufology humanizes her
subject in a way that few other writers nowadays approach. Her cast of
characters includes members of the scientific and technological elite,
many of whom believe they have interacted with, or continuously
interact with, the UFO Phenomenon. Some of her informants work on the
forefront of fields like AI and space medicine that are poised to take
our own species in new directions in coming years. Like Jacques Vallee
at his best, Pasulka is a curious and sympathetic guide to her
subjects’ dreamtimes, speculations, and spiritual landscapes."
—Eric Wargo, author of Time Loops and
Precognitive Dreamwork and the Long Self
"Diana
Pasulka shifts the paradigm on what contact with nonhuman
intelligences can mean and the social impacts it can have. She offers
us a subtle, sensitive, and deeply knowledgeable depiction of the
lives and worlds of people who have had experiences associated with
UFOs. Particularly intriguing is the way she weaves Plato’s Allegory
of the Cave throughout her narrative to illuminate various facets of
the UFO phenomenon and speak to the esoteric knowledges at the core of
contact with nonhuman intelligences. Pasulka shows us how the
experiencers may be more relevant to our potential technological and
spiritual futures than we have realized."
—Hussein Ali Agrama, PhD., Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
Praise
for American Cosmic:
"[Pasulka] approaches UFO believers
with an open mind in her irresistible debut . . . [and] gives
wonderful, entertaining insight into the curious study of UFOs." —
Publishers Weekly
"A thought-provoking book about
religion today." —Booklist
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