Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies and chair of the department of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her research centers on the connections between technology and human belief in the context of religious history. She is the author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, & Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences: Explorations with UFOs, Dreams, Angels, AI and Other Dimensions. EPISODE LINKS Diana's Books - https://amzn.to/42kXjfK Twitter - https://twitter.com/dwpasulka FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 5:26 - Connections between early Christian miracle events & modern UFO Experiences 14:25 - The secret aerospace scientist who took Diana & Garry Nolan to a secret New Mexico crash site 22:48 - The history of institutionalization on information 28:10 - The UFO connection to religion 30:48 - Was the ‘being’ that crashed in Virginha, Brazil was a demon? Connections to reports from history 35:10 - How media influences belief 40:24 - The Dark / Paranormal element to UFO encounters 45:30 - Aerospace engineers using mystical practices to ‘download’ knowledge 53:34 - The “Noosphere” Earths organic network 1:00:35 - Sightings of the Virgin Mary 1:06:29 - The Allegory of the Cave 1:14:58 - The ‘Hierarchy of beings’ 1:19:10 - Tic Tac UFO’s 1:23:11 - The Secret Space Program 1:31:58 - Media, mind wars, & Edward Bernays 1:38:50 - Socrates idea of “Second hand knowledge” 1:44:30 - Jacques Vallée & Esoteric traditions 1:52:51 - The history of Satan 1:56:61 - Synchronicities 2:04:38 - Bob Lazar 2:09:46 - How space changes human consciousness 2:14:36 - John Marco Allegro & Psychedellics 2:28:19 - Injuries/death related to some UFO encounters 2:32:26 - Children have a stronger connection to the earth network

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