Dr. Jacques Vallee began his professional life as an astronomer at the Paris Observatory in 1961. While on the staff of the French Space Committee, he witnessed the destruction of the tracking tapes of unknown objects orbiting the earth, initiating a lifelong interest in the UFO phenomenon. Vallee arrived in the U.S. in 1962 and worked in astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin before receiving a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University in 1967. There he became a close associate of J. Allen Hynek, then scientific consultant for the U.S. Air Force on Project Blue Book-the result was The Invisible College. Other works by Vallee include Dimensions, Confrontations, and Revelations, including the Forbidden Science series of journals. Dr. Vallee is presently a venture capitalist living in San Francisco. His website is www.jacquesvallee.com.
"The Invisible College is unlike any other UFO book ever written.
Dr. Vallee questions what everybody else takes for granted, doubts
what everybody believes, drenches us with data that doesn't 'fit'
any of the theories of either the True Believers or the die-hard
non-believers and then offers a hypothesis on his own." - Robert
Anton Wilson"An important book-not only are UFOs and psychic events
inextricably linked, as Dr. Vallee so nicely points out, but
neither can be understood without an appreciation of the role of
myth, tradition, and belief system. Must reading for the serious
student of contemporary events." - Edgar Mitchell"Certainly one of
the most interesting, thought-provoking books so far written on
UFOs." - Colin Wilson"I once thought Jacques Vallee's thesis about
the phenomena being a 'control system' was a stretch but it makes
sense precisely because much of what he said it indicated has
actually happened in the decades since he first wrote. The shift in
consciousness on the planet vis-a-vis exterrestrial life and UFO
phenomena - not the same thing - has happened since the 70s. I just
reread The Invisible College, republished in 2014 after about 40
years, it is as relevant or even more relevant today then it was
then, and more obviously so. But it was difficult to hear when
nuts-and-bolts ONLY was the focus of many. It is definitely
nuts-and-bolts ALSO but not only, and a failure to account for the
psychic or 'paranormal' effects in many cases undermines any theory
about the phenomena. And any theory that treats 'time' as a fourth
dimension in a simple way like the three dimensions of space
without expanding the possibilities to include multi-dimensional
space-time or a genuine multi-verse is 20th-century old speak. The
material is available for the studies Vallee suggested if serious
workers want to do them. But to think the unthinkable inside the
old paradigm is impossible, and to think the unthinkable outside it
is almost impossible. That 'almost' is the key to new
understandings." - Richard Thieme, UFOs and Government,
Facebook"...if Passport to Magonia was about constructing 'a
picture of a different level of existence, a reality that seemes to
cut through our own at right angles..what I call the reality of
Magonia'...then The Invisible College is about exploring 'the
psychical component' that appears to be a common core result of
human exposure to UFOs. This is the book's most important, most
daring, contribution. Vallee notes that it came only gradually to
him, as the frequency and richness of the close-encounter cases
became both overwhelming and inescapable. The amount of evidential
data was just too great." - from Authors of the Impossible by
Jeffrey Kripal
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