Preface- A Tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1- The Invisible Tyler D.
Chapter 2- James: Master of the Multiverse
Chapter 3- Scott Browne's In the Field: The War is Virtual, The
Blood is Real
Chapter 4- When Star Wars Became Real: The Mechanisms of Belief
Chapter 5- The Material Code: Moving Beyond the Disembodied Soul to
the Materiality of Quantum Information
Chapter 6- The Human Receiver: Matter, Information, Energy...
Contact
Chapter Seven- Suspended in Space: Levitating, Bilocating Saints
and Tyler D.'s Spiritual Conversion in Rome
Conclusion- The Artifact
D.W. Pasulka is a professor of religious studies at the University
of North Carolina Wilmington, and chair of the Department of
Philosophy and Religion. Her current research focuses on religious
and supernatural belief and practice and its connections to digital
technologies and environments. She is the author and co-editor of
numerous books and essays, the most recent of which are Believing
in Bits: New Media and the Supernatural,
co-edited with Simone Natalie and forthcoming from Oxford
University Press, and Posthumanism: the Future of Homo Sapiens,
co-edited with Michael Bess (2018). She is also a history and
religion consultant for movies and television,
including The Conjuring (2013) and The Conjuring II (2016). She has
been the principal investigator for numerous grants, including the
Federal grant program Teaching American History, which supported
middle school and high school teachers in their efforts to teach
religious and American history to public school students throughout
North Carolina.
"This book deserves to be given attention by those in the religious
studies field whose familiarity with UFO Religions is confined to
historical cases or more modern personality-driven organizations."
-- Aaron John Gulyas, Nova Religio
"refreshingly engaging" -- Benjamin E. Zeller, Journal of the
American Academy of Religion
"Pasulka's book is nothing short of spectacular and intriguing-a
mind-blowing read with fascinating insight. Her research and
knowledge present a whole new truth, some of which is very scary,
and we don't scare easily." -- Chad and Carey Hayes, writers of The
Conjuring and The Conjuring II
"From a solid base of scholarship Dr. Pasulka introduces us to the
players at the frontier of biological and physical research. Her
sharp insight is drawn from her research into spiritual phenomena,
updated by her travels from the purported UFO crash sites of New
Mexico to the archives of the Vatican. The result is a timely
introduction to the revelations in our collective future." --
Jacques F. Vallée, author of Wonders in the Sky
"UFOs are a remarkable phenomenon that both believers and skeptics
initially have a hard time connecting to religion. American Cosmic
is a vivid and even moving account of the way this strange world
works as a kind of sacred mystery for those within it." -- T.M.
Luhrmann, author of When God Talks Back
"[Pasulka] approaches UFO believers with an open mind in her
irresistible debut . . . lively character sketches bring the story
to life . . . Pasulka gives wonderful, entertaining insight into
the curious study of UFOs." -- Publishers Weekly
"Pasulka makes a reasonable case that the spirits, angels, divine
messengers, manifestations of God, aliens or their spaceships that
humans have been reporting since the dawn of history are too
numerous to be entirely delusional, so they deserve serious
investigation." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A thought-provoking book about religion today." -- Booklist
"American Cosmic is a superb investigation into the birth and rise
of a new religion." -- Foreword Reviews
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