Ufos and the Psychic Factor: How to Understand Encounters With Ufos and Ets

by Ida M. Kannenberg

Ida Kannenberg turns her experience gentle humor and considerable wisdom to exploring connections between UFO studies and the spiritual and psychic worlds. For the general reader is an intriguing look into the Undiscovered Country that lies beyond our workaday reality. For those who have encountered extraterrestrials and are struggling to understand the experience it is a voice of sense and sanity showing the way.

264 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1992

Reviews

[Christa · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a lot of interesting ideas in this book, and it was enjoyable overall. I will probably try some of her other books in the future. It talks at length about UFO encounters as a psychic phenomenon that prepares contactees for tasks that will better humanity (and positively impact other beings as well.) The author touches on symbolism, types of encounters, and ways to process and understand these encounters. Each chapter has a set of self-assessment questions at the end to encourage self-reflection.

I took off one star because some parts of it were self-contradictory, and the author includes a small list of "future" scientific breakthroughs that had actually been made in the decade prior to when the book was published. (Although to give the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were discovered between writing and publication?)

I docked one more star because author included a random sexist rant about prehistoric societies that the book could have done without... it was only about a page and a half and was meant to be humorous, but it did harm my enjoyment and made it sound like she doesn't actually know much about hunter-gatherer societies.