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Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination
In a brilliant stroke, Keith Thompson takes a subject usually confined to checkout-counter-tabloids and reveals its surprising literary richness, intellectual energy, and symbolic depths. By offering a new, open-ended perspective which avoids the dogmatism of true believers and debunkers alike, “Angels and Aliens” invites readers to enter a fascinating world with profound implications for our understanding of the human spirit.
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Natural and Supernatural: A History of the Paranormal from the Earliest Times to 1914
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The Highest State of Consciousness
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The Departed Among the Living: An Investigative Study of Afterlife Encounters
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