Throughout the universe, far from home, all human dead will be reanimated to walk again eternally.  Cosmism, a seemingly unkillable philosophy, launches our supernatural, technological, and political history of a modern myth that crystallised in the Cold War and which now has millions of adherents, from unaffiliated believers to extreme cultists to the utopian Trotskyists known as the Posadists. 

 

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The Space Pope 

 

Episode 18, where we talk about Cosmism in the context of the space race 

 

Is There A God? (in Russian) - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1932) 

 

Le Voyage Dans La Lune - George Méliès 

 

Alien demonology: the Christian roots of the malevolent extraterrestrial in UFO religions and abduction spiritualities - Christopher Partridge (2004) 

 

Comet Hale-Bopp 

 

On UFOlogy with Chinese Characteristics and the Fate of Chinese Socialism - Malcolm Thompson (2020) 

 

Episode 52 - The Illuminazis feat. We Don’t Talk About the Weather 

 

"Alexa" scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home 

 

Sovereignty and the UFO - Alexander Wendt & Raymond Duvall (2008) 

 

Interview with Alexander Wendt in Vox - Sean Illing (2020) 

 

Scientist Edward Condon of Colorado University published a scientific study of UFOs  in 1968 

 

The Drake Equation 

 

David Halperin on the Hills' abduction experience 

 

UFOs, Otherness, and Belonging: Identity in Remote Aboriginal Australia - Eirik Saethre (2007) 

 

I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism - A.M. Gittlitz (2020) 

 

Afrofuturism: where space, pyramids and politics collide - Chardine Taylor-Stone (2014) 

 

Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection (Halloween, 1976)  

 

Further reading

Tsiolkovsky, Russian Cosmism and Extraterrestrial Intelligence - Lytkin et al (1994) UFOs and the US intelligence community - Charles A. Ziegler (2008) 

 

The Roswell Myth in the FBI Files: Aliens, UFOs, and the Cold War - Anna Wortman (2004) 

 

Afrofuturism, science fiction, and the history of the future - Lisa Yaszek (2010)