Title:
American cosmic : UFOs, religions, technology
Author:
Pasulka, Diana Walsh, author.
ISBN:
9780190692889
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xvi, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee -- The invisible Tyler D. -- James: master of the multiverse -- In the field : the war is virtual, the blood is real -- When Star Wars became real : the mechanisms of belief -- The material code : from the disembodied soul to the materiality of quantum information -- The human receiver : matter, information, energy... contact -- Real and imaginary : Tyler D.'s spiritual conversion in Rome -- The artifact.
Abstract:
"More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. In American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka examines the mechanisms that foster a thriving belief in extraterrestrial life. Her work takes her from Silicon Valley to the Vatican Secret Archive and reveals how media has supplanted religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life"-- Provided by publisher.
