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It Defies Language!
A collection of essays about the UFO subject and related phenomena. The first chapter discusses the U.S. Government's involvement along with the author's personal experiences with agents and military personnel. The text also includes historical perspectiv
268 pages, Paperback
Published February 8, 2016
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June 28, 2016
I love Greg Bishop, his viewpoint of the subject is a bit deeper than the pap that fills up reams of other books and some of the stuff in here is actually new to me inspite of following weird stuff all my life.
I really hope it does well and he continues writing and doing his show.
I really hope it does well and he continues writing and doing his show.
July 2, 2017
Mr. Bishop continues to be one of the most honest and intelligent people writing on these subjects.
August 11, 2024
One of the few thinkers I enjoy when it comes to this topic, but this collection of blog posts contains a lot of reiteration of the same few ideas, right up until the final couple of chapters where Bishop gets into the sort of freewheeling, daring theorising that I know him for. Still worth a read, particularly if you're in the noncommittal space of loving the UFO topic but not clutching onto any one belief; my rating is more about the reader experience of mainlining several years of blog posts in a couple of days.
"I have played with the idea that the elements of the UFO enigma may be as ubiquitous and natural as something like the wind and waves. They simply exist and do what they do no matter what we think of them. Our meaning comes as, for example, navigators on the ocean or as scientists who discuss how the seas regulate weather, CO2 absorption, etc. In the same way, we may be forcing most of our ideas and feelings and attention onto something that only becomes meaningful when we choose to assign meaning."
"I have played with the idea that the elements of the UFO enigma may be as ubiquitous and natural as something like the wind and waves. They simply exist and do what they do no matter what we think of them. Our meaning comes as, for example, navigators on the ocean or as scientists who discuss how the seas regulate weather, CO2 absorption, etc. In the same way, we may be forcing most of our ideas and feelings and attention onto something that only becomes meaningful when we choose to assign meaning."
May 12, 2016
In this fascinating collection of essays Greg Bishop grapples with some of the tougher "big questions" concerning ufology and the paranormal, and explores the ways in which human perception, memory and consciousness may play into whatever it is that we collectively refer to as UFOs. Along the way he draws some unexpected parallels between the UFO phenomenon and other paranormal subjects, and makes many keen observations about some of the other researchers in the field, notable UFO characters and even himself. Don't expect another catalog of UFO sightings paired with cliché speculation or shallow analysis. This is the distilled thinking of a veteran in the field who has been mulling this stuff over for decades.
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