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American Cosmic

UFOs, Religion, Technology

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American Cosmic

By: D.W. Pasulka
Narrated by: Norah Tocci
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More than half of American adults and more than 75 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions.

Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D. W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors, including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.

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Diana's book is fantastic. We are all connected to the inspiration of the Universe.

An insight into the sources of inspiration

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The stories were excellent reading and I would recommend reading this book if you like this sort of subject matter

The story

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Want everything UFO rendered through a Catholic lens? That’s ultimately what this book does. Claims of separating the author’s faith and previous studies into the miracles in Catholicism aren’t borne out. She does try to remain neutral but fails and the subtext that develops is strongly “It’s all God”.
Not a book for sceptics nor indeed for the non-religious UFOlogist.

Overwhelming Christian subtext

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This is an interesting take on the Religious aspect of the “modern” phenomenon or at least interpretation of UAP’s/UFO’s. The story is more of a tale of personal discovery for the author and Pasulka’s experiences at the Vatican in Rome.

The book is interesting and I really wish I had read it and not listened to the audiobook. This is because Norah Tocci, the narrator reading the book has such a monotone and expressionless voice that she manages to have less humanity than an AI text to speech algorithm. I had to listen in small chunks as my brain would switch off. I may give it some time and try to read the text.

There has been much trumpeting of this book online and UAP podcasts…

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This book is locked in my library and I can no longer read it. Can I get my money back?

This book is locked in my library and I can no longer read it.

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