American Cosmic Quotes

“Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials”
― Diane Walsh Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

“The interpretation of technology as pure instrumentality was wrong, he said. The Greek temple, for the Greeks, housed the gods, and as such it was a sacred “frame.” Similarly, the medieval cathedral embodied and housed the presence of God for medieval Europeans. Heidegger suggested that the human relationship with technology is religiouslike, that it is possible for us to have a noninstrumental relationship with technology and engage fully with what it really is: a saving power.”
― D.W. Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

“The theory of space and time is a cultural artifact made possible by the invention of graph paper. If we had invented the digital computer before graph paper, we might have a very different theory of information today.”
― D.W. Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

“Dr. Brenda Denzler, whose own book, The Lure of the Edge, informed my study. The library included her own research, as well as the research of ufologists and organizations like MUFON (the Mutual UFO Network) and CUFOS (Center for UFO Studies) and the works of other academics and researchers studying the phenomenon. I read the works of Allen Hynek, Jacques Vallee, John Keel, Budd Hopkins, and John Mack, as well as those of people who theorize the phenomenon academically, such as Jeffrey Kripal, Whitley Strieber, Debbora Battaglia, Greg Eghigian, Carole Cusack, Susan Lepsetter, and David Halperin.”
― D.W. Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

“Witnesses and researchers often report the strange feeling that once you become aware that there is a phenomenon, it becomes aware of you. They report that the first sighting is just that—a first—and then others follow. The uncanny feeling that the objects are aware, or watching those who are watching them, is common.”
― D.W. Pasulka, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology