The UFO Chronicles How Science Fiction, Shamanic Experiences, and Secret Air Force Projects Created the UFO Myth
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Biografisk notat
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including 'The New Encyclopedia of the Occult', 'The Druidry Handbook', 'The Celtic Golden Dawn', and 'Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic'. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
A seminal text which has redefined extraterrestrial encounters.
Beyond the familiar opposition between those who believe that UFOs are spacecraft from other planets and those who believe UFOs do not exist at all, lies a landscape of stranger and more rewarding topics.
This new edition of Greer's groundbreaking The UFO Phenomenon is a discovery of the nature of apparitions, the history of secret American aerospace technologies, the mythology of progress, and the role of popular culture in defining experienced reality.
A seminal text which has redefined extraterrestrial encounters.
FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
INTRODUCTION: A RUMOR OF OTHER WORLDS
PART I: TRACKING THE PHENOMENON
CHAPTER ONE - Before the saucers came, prehistory–1947
CHAPTER TWO - A mystery in the skies, 1947–1966
CHAPTER THREE - Waiting for first contact, 1966–1987
CHAPTER FOUR - Twilight of the saucers, 1987–present
PART II: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES
CHAPTER FIVE - The barriers to understanding
CHAPTER SIX - The alternative hypotheses
CHAPTER SEVEN - The natural history of apparitions
PART III: SOLVING THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER EIGHT - Summoning the space brothers
CHAPTER NINE - The last secret of the Cold War
CHAPTER TEN - The end of the dream
GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including 'The New Encyclopedia of the Occult', 'The Druidry Handbook', 'The Celtic Golden Dawn', and 'Circles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic'. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He lives in Rhode Island with his wife Sara. Greer is also the author of eleven fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society, and also blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.