The UFO Paradox

The Celestial and Symbolic World of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena

De: Keith Thompson

Narrado por: Keith Thompson

• Looks at witnesses’ reports as well as the theories of skeptics, revealing how UFOs represent a call from the cosmos to expand our understanding of reality

• Explores UFO encounters against the backdrop of visionary experience—angelic visitations, near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, and religious miracles

• Shares the author’s UFO discussions with late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller, and astronaut Edgar Mitchell

In case after case related to UFO encounters and other unknown aerial phenomena (UAP), the same impasse is reached: testimony from witnesses on one side, dismissive responses from the authorities on the other. In the fertile void of this deadlock, however, lie extraordinary possibilities about the nature of mind and matter, spirit and soul, transforming the UFO into a celestial, metaphysical event.

Focusing on the possibilities found by exploring both sides of the UFO debate, veteran UFO observer and reporter Keith Thompson shares profound insights and experiences from his several decades of research, revealing that the UFO phenomenon is decidedly real yet perhaps not what either side of the debate expects. He looks at UFOs as a genuine unknown, from outer space or manifesting from hidden dimensions, as well as the theories of skeptics and debunkers who insist that UFOs can be explained as hoaxes, hallucinations, or misidentified phenomena. He explores the modern flying saucer era against the backdrop of visionary experience—angelic visitations, near-death experiences, shamanic journeys, religious miracles, and fairy tales—and shows how UFOs are simultaneously physical and spiritual, presenting a form of intelligence capable of altering the perceptions of witnesses.

Chronicling his own investigations into the UFO mystery, the author details how he introduced the late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to accounts of alien abduction and how he was invited by philanthropist Laurance S. Rockefeller to lobby then-president Bill Clinton to disclose government-held UFO information. Sharing stories from his friendship with astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, among others, the author recounts discussions on how best to interpret UFOs and non-ordinary phenomena of various kinds.

Thompson reveals how the UFO phenomenon ultimately represents a call from the cosmos for humanity to open to greater dimensions of reality and recognize that our understanding of the universe is still far from complete.

Solid but another recap in a crowded field

This is solid. But it’s just so similar to so many other books just like it. I think a better version of this is Closer Encounters by Jason Reza Jorjani. I’d recommend that one instead.

THE UFO/UAP CONUNDRUM KEEPS ON KEEPIN' ON...

This was a very thorough, well researched write up/ listen on a subject that never has developed into anything more than what we know today which is nothing more than we knew from the 1947 when that "Disc" smashed into the dust of the earth with all of it's chaos creating glory... What we have learned is that the more that is found on this subject, the more it points to things that no one wants to admit... These things have been answered long ago and the ancients that were not trying to channel these beings through telepathy had a pretty good line on it and they wrote of it in length in a large volume that has many books by many different authors and it told the story of the beginnings as they were not getting caught up in these "trickster" methods of distraction, confusion, discombobulation, and utter lies and tactics to get people to lose sight of what is our true reality once we put aside the sub-atomic particles and the man-induced questions what we come to understand just by keeping simple where simple began what is found is what we have known all along. It is a thing that only those with eyes to see and ears to hear are going to understand and it takes faith that is given not achieved or earned and it doesn't even matter because once one believes what the mind puts into a form of logic that will not be broken until something comes along to shatter that said logic. I'm sure we will all see the truth soon by the way this cookie is crumbling... What is certain is this... "The complexity of the human mind suppresses the raw simplicity of the divine soul." Mankind absolutely cannot leave simple simple... Great book... Learned some things that were edifying... Thank you