Decoding UFOs: A Religious Historian's Personal Journey
2025-05-02
This book, written by a distinguished historian of religion, attempts to explain the long-standing American fascination with UFOs by combining religious studies and Jungian psychology. Using the author's own teenage obsession with UFOs as a starting point, the book explores the psychological mechanisms behind UFO sightings, arguing that many incidents result from the interplay of real phenomena, personal psychology, and cultural archetypes, rather than visits from extraterrestrial spacecraft. The book analyzes several famous cases, including Roswell and the Hill abduction, delving into Jung's theory of the collective unconscious to offer a unique perspective on the UFO phenomenon.
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