Diana Pasulka discusses Jung, Heidegger, and the recent UFO hearings. Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal (podcast).
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a writer and professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
Topics:
- Introduction
- Diana’s journey from “atheist” ⇒ “agnostic” (with respect to the phenomenon)
- Nuns who saw orbs, every night, then prayed…
- What are “beliefs”?
- Atheists who believe in God
- Spiritual vs Religious (and the Secularization thesis)
- UFOs (or the belief in) are like a religion
- Psychedelics and religion
- Getting flack because of covering the phenomenon
- To the skeptics: it’s rational to believe in UFOs
- Atheism is NOT like a religion, though it can be dogmatic
- It’s false to say “religions tell you what to think”
- The case for dogma
- Heidegger on technology not being just another tool
- Heidegger and Jacques Vallée
- Why do those who study the phenomenon tend to be Catholic?
- How the Vatican views UFOs
- Are religious stories interpreting UFOs, or are we interpreting UFOs materialistically?
- Near Death Experiences, UFOs, and Dean Radin
- How the CIA / DOD / etc. work (the nefarious strategies)
- Graham Hancock
- What Diana uncovered, that she shouldn’t have
- Roswell and the Promethean myth
- The dangers (and reality) of CE5
- Bob Lazar is considered credible by many, behind the scenes
- Protecting yourself against disinformation
- Academic Openness vs. Governmental Closedness
- SpaceX (does Musk know?) / Writing in Latin for “them”
- Images of the “patches” and Latin
- The president is a “short timer” (this is why he / she isn’t told the truth)
- Who is Tyler? Why is he significant?
- Does the gov’t believe they understand what’s behind UFOs?
- We’re dealing with MULTIPLE phenomenon, not just one
- Biblically accurate angels
- Physical evidence pertaining to purgatory
- What’s the point in collocating UFOs with religion?
- Who is the modern Heidegger?
- Jung and UFOs
- Plato’s Cave and the view that certain people have shackled us
- Sangha as The Answer to deception
- Proposition vs Participatory knowledge
- Rediscovering meaning, Heidegger, Weinstein, and the TOE project
- Experiential vs Analytical approach to understanding God
- Lovecraft, and the perils of an “open mind”
- Epistemic Shock vs Ontological Shock
- The importance of Sangha
- [Juliano Vargas] Reconciling religion with ET (and does ET believe in a Supreme Creator?)
- [Numb Her Two] How has Diana’s faith been affected?
- Why does the Hitchhiker effect occur?
- Angels… Demons… What is the THIRD (religiously interpreted) option?
- Rosicrucianism and Gnosticism
- Kurzweil’s Singularity / Omega Point / UAPs
- Jung and the UFO archetype (continued)
- UFO hearings (May 2022)
- [Tupacabra] Catholic Church, Remote Viewing, Thomas Campbell, and Jacques Vallée
- Podcasts being sanctioned behind the scenes for disclosure #DisTOEsure
- Disinformation on podcasts