Bernardo Kastrup Budd Hopkins C. D. Broad Calvin Parker Christina Grof David Grusch David Jacobs Freud James Harder Jeffrey Kripal John Mack Joseph Campbell Jung Michael Murphy Pascagoula PK Man Plato's Cave Raymond Moody Shivas Irons Shunryu Suzuki Stanislav Grof Synchronicity Thomas Kuhn

UFOs and UAP: Can We Penetrate the Paradoxes?withKeith Thompson

Keith Thompson

Books Mentioned In This Interview

Keith Thompson, an independent journalist, is author of Angels and Aliens. His newest book is The UFO Paradox: The Celestial and Symbolic World of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena. He has been investigating UFO related phenomena for many decades, having introduced the Harvard psychiatrist, John Mack, to the phenomena of abductions.

Here he reviews the evidence that the materialist paradigm is insufficient for understanding the many anomalies associated with UFOs.

00:00 Introduction

02:57 The inadequacy of materialism

11:28 Everyday magic

16:43 Return of the repressed

23:09 Alternative worldviews

26:19 Recent events

30:17 Abductions

36:02 Who are we?

44:10 The Pascagoula case

52:22 Conclusion

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(Recorded on July 13, 2024)

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Published on August 5, 2024

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