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  • American Cosmic

  • UFOs, Religion, Technology
  • By: D.W. Pasulka
  • Narrated by: Norah Tocci
  • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (150 ratings)
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American Cosmic

By: D.W. Pasulka
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Summary

More than half of American adults and more than 75 percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. American Cosmic examines the mechanisms at work behind the thriving belief system in extraterrestrial life, a system that is changing and even supplanting traditional religions.

Over the course of a six-year ethnographic study, D. W. Pasulka interviewed successful and influential scientists, professionals, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, thereby disproving the common misconception that only fringe members of society believe in UFOs. She argues that widespread belief in aliens is due to a number of factors, including their ubiquity in modern media like The X-Files, which can influence memory, and the believability lent to that media by the search for planets that might support life. American Cosmic explores the intriguing question of how people interpret unexplainable experiences and argues that the media is replacing religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life.

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The Truth is inside of us, not out there!

American Cosmic is as much about our own spiritual destiny as our materialist world view of Ufology and the technologies that are spun off from relics and artefacts of crashed objects. It ties together ideas from quantum physics, religion, eye witness accounts of UFO's, belief systems and the impact of the media thereof, and the future of mankind.

it was an interesting and fun read.

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wow what a great story

Over and over I kept thinking "yes I'd never thought about it like that before". Right up there with anything else in the genre. I'd go as far as to say it's on a par with Majestic by Whitley Strieber. The theologians viewpoint and deep knowledge of religion really intrigued me. If you have an interest in this subject matter get this book now! Only criticism is the narration sounds a bit robotic.

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Shocking narration. Sounds like a robot. Avoid!


Shocking narration. Like listening to a robot, can’t get into it. Tried several times and it’s difficult

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Interesting

Really interesting contents but the robotic narration sucks all the life out of the story, found it difficult to listen to for long periods.

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A well written book which is easy to understand

Diana took a complex subject and made it accessible.

I really enjoyed it and feel like I’ve learnt a lot. Though I wish I knew more about Tyler and his protocols

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Brilliant!

A wonderful tour of apparently distinct concepts that are shown to be part of one constellation.

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Hope

The the book links traditional religions and miracles to new religion of UAP and technologies.

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Dull

Had high hopes but alas dull to the point of boredom, hopefully others might enjoy it more

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There has been much trumpeting of this book online and UAP podcasts…

This is an interesting take on the Religious aspect of the “modern” phenomenon or at least interpretation of UAP’s/UFO’s. The story is more of a tale of personal discovery for the author and Pasulka’s experiences at the Vatican in Rome.

The book is interesting and I really wish I had read it and not listened to the audiobook. This is because Norah Tocci, the narrator reading the book has such a monotone and expressionless voice that she manages to have less humanity than an AI text to speech algorithm. I had to listen in small chunks as my brain would switch off. I may give it some time and try to read the text.

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Interesting take

Like other reviewers, I saw the author interviewed and my interest was piqued. The subject matter is well discussed although the narration is robotic to the point of sounding like an elevator announcer. The factual mistake of placing Ramanujan at Oxford rather than Cambridge is sloppy and draws into question accuracy elsewhere.

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