Alien Dawn: An Investigation into the Contact Experience by Colin Wilson  (12)
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"Over the past 25 years I have witnessed a fair number of strange objects in the sky," writes Michael Craft of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Alien Impact. He's not the only one. His book recounts the surfeit of reports of visits by extraterrestrial beings, as evidenced by everything from animal mutilations to bizarre abductions, unexplained pregnancies, and abnormal births. Not all aliens are bad, however. The increase in reports of angel sightings is also evidence of the presence of more benevolent visitors from outer space, says Craft. His conclusion: "Humanity's oldest friends in the U.F.O.'s are along with us for the ride." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A compendium of the strange, Craft's first book, like the work of the 19th-century journalist Charles Fort, whom Craft credits, attempts not so much to explain the phenomenon of human-alien contact as to find it everywhere. It is all here: UFOs and chariots of fire; aliens and angels; channeling, the bigfoot and ley lines; crop circles, animal mutilation, the Philadelphia experiment, the Halls of Atlantis, Alistair Crowley, dwarfs and shamanism. Craft, the program coordinator at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, seems to have applied little method other than intuition in considering the most famous strange things that ever happened as aspects of a single phenomenon. At first he appears simply to conflate interplanetary hardware and religious concepts of inner space. The deeper into the past one goes, the more the "gods" look like spacemen, but the closer to the present one approaches, the more "aliens" appear to be parapsychological phenomena. Whether by design or chance, this technique has the effect of drawing the reader along in search of the author's perspective. That is duly delivered in the final chapters of this entertaining but scarcely analytical book. UFOs and aliens, we learn, appear to be psychic phenomena, yet they seem less like simple mental projections than like evidence of a "directed intelligence" that is intent upon "deconstructing" perceived reality, apparently for reasons to be announced.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"Over the past 25 years I have witnessed a fair number of strange objects in the sky," writes Michael Craft of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Alien Impact. He's not the only one. His book recounts the surfeit of reports of visits by extraterrestrial beings, as evidenced by everything from animal mutilations to bizarre abductions, unexplained pregnancies, and abnormal births. Not all aliens are bad, however. The increase in reports of angel sightings is also evidence of the presence of more benevolent visitors from outer space, says Craft. His conclusion: "Humanity's oldest friends in the U.F.O.'s are along with us for the ride." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Publishers Weekly
A compendium of the strange, Craft's first book, like the work of the 19th-century journalist Charles Fort, whom Craft credits, attempts not so much to explain the phenomenon of human-alien contact as to find it everywhere. It is all here: UFOs and chariots of fire; aliens and angels; channeling, the bigfoot and ley lines; crop circles, animal mutilation, the Philadelphia experiment, the Halls of Atlantis, Alistair Crowley, dwarfs and shamanism. Craft, the program coordinator at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, seems to have applied little method other than intuition in considering the most famous strange things that ever happened as aspects of a single phenomenon. At first he appears simply to conflate interplanetary hardware and religious concepts of inner space. The deeper into the past one goes, the more the "gods" look like spacemen, but the closer to the present one approaches, the more "aliens" appear to be parapsychological phenomena. Whether by design or chance, this technique has the effect of drawing the reader along in search of the author's perspective. That is duly delivered in the final chapters of this entertaining but scarcely analytical book. UFOs and aliens, we learn, appear to be psychic phenomena, yet they seem less like simple mental projections than like evidence of a "directed intelligence" that is intent upon "deconstructing" perceived reality, apparently for reasons to be announced.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- An Introduction to Planetary Defense: A Study of Modern Warfare Applied to Extra-Terrestrial Invasion by Travis S. Taylor on page 110, and Back Matter
- The Truth Behind Men in Black: Government Agents -- or Visitors from Beyond by Jenny Randles on page 195, and Back Matter
- The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs by Brenda Denzler in Back Matter
- Phase Two by C. Scott Littleton in Back Matter