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Book

Encounters : experiences with nonhuman intelligences

Call Number

  • 001.942 P2939 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Essentials, 2023.

Physical Description

248 pages : 22 cm

Summary

"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"--

Contents

  • The space psychologist
  • Technology and AI : a language bridge back to contact
  • The gray man
  • Gray man II : it's weirder than it is in the movies
  • The soldier
  • Gnosis
  • Moon Girl and the new extraterrestrial hypothesis
  • Children of the invisibles
  • From atheism to a magical mystery tour
  • The dream network : dreamscapes, visions, and lucid dreams.

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