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🗓️ 13 September 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Author and professor Dr. Diana Pasulka joins Blurry Creatures for an enlightening view into the convergence of UFO culture and religion. Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at UNC-Wilmington, Dr. Pasulka wrote American Cosmic in 2019, which explores the connections between UFOs, religion, and technology. Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, she interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence---bringing the topic of UFOs out of the fringe and into the mainstream. Dr. Pasulka graciously unpacks her journey in academia and its unlikely collision with the UFO phenomenon. She shares her own personal experience reviewing historical no-access documents in the Vatican and explores the relationship the church has had and continues to have with unexplained UFO experiences. Is the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, changing traditional religions or becoming a religion unto itself? Is how people interpret unexplainable experiences changing in the wake of media and pop culture? Come down the rabbit hole and find out.
Guest: Dr. Dianna Pasulka
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0:00.0 | So in the extraterrestrial research part of the archive, this is at the observatory, |
0:06.2 | because anything that has to do with space doesn't go to the Vatican archive, it goes to the |
0:10.3 | observatory, which is in Castle Gandalfvo, and that's the space observatory. So basically they |
0:15.7 | just had from back in the day, you know, from like 1200 onward, what people have thought about |
0:23.9 | and published about extraterrestrials. But if you look at the history of Catholicism, |
0:28.4 | and you look at like, especially people in the Vatican, they know about Emanuel Swedenborg, |
0:33.5 | who's talking about angels and people on Venus and things like this in 1750. |
0:39.1 | Right? In 1750, there was a best-selling book called Life on Other Planets. |
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1:04.5 | You might want to go back and start the beginning. This is kind of a journey podcast, mate. |
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1:13.4 | Our paradigms have been smashed and put back together several times. Just what you think you know, |
1:18.3 | what you're talking about, do you think you understand what's going on, do you hear a story, |
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