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#188 - Top Aerospace Scientists Suspect UFOs Are Biblical Time Machines | Diana Walsh Pasulka

Danny Jones Podcast

Danny Jones

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.4777 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies and chair of the department of philosophy and religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her research centers on the connections between technology and human belief in the context of religious history. She is the author of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, & Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences: Explorations with UFOs, Dreams, Angels, AI and Other Dimensions. EPISODE LINKS Diana's Books - https://amzn.to/42kXjfK Twitter - https://twitter.com/dwpasulka FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/jonesdanny https://twitter.com/jonesdanny JOIN OUR KULT: https://bit.ly/koncretepatreon OUTLINE 0:00 - Introduction 5:26 - Connections between early Christian miracle events & modern UFO Experiences 14:25 - The secret aerospace scientist who took Diana & Garry Nolan to a secret New Mexico crash site 22:48 - The history of institutionalization on information 28:10 - The UFO connection to religion 30:48 - Was the ‘being’ that crashed in Virginha, Brazil was a demon? Connections to reports from history 35:10 - How media influences belief 40:24 - The Dark / Paranormal element to UFO encounters 45:30 - Aerospace engineers using mystical practices to ‘download’ knowledge 53:34 - The “Noosphere” Earths organic network 1:00:35 - Sightings of the Virgin Mary 1:06:29 - The Allegory of the Cave 1:14:58 - The ‘Hierarchy of beings’ 1:19:10 - Tic Tac UFO’s 1:23:11 - The Secret Space Program 1:31:58 - Media, mind wars, & Edward Bernays 1:38:50 - Socrates idea of “Second hand knowledge” 1:44:30 - Jacques Vallée & Esoteric traditions 1:52:51 - The history of Satan 1:56:61 - Synchronicities 2:04:38 - Bob Lazar 2:09:46 - How space changes human consciousness 2:14:36 - John Marco Allegro & Psychedellics 2:28:19 - Injuries/death related to some UFO encounters 2:32:26 - Children have a stronger connection to the earth network Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are a professor of religion and religious studies, but do you personally believe in God?

0:16.0

Okay, so let me talk a little bit about what we do in my field. In religious studies, it's a

0:23.0

multidisciplinary field. And some... A little bit closer. Okay, some of us are archaeologists,

0:29.5

some are historians, some are a combination of those. And our method is that we take a step back from belief. We study belief in how belief

0:42.1

informs practices and worldwide movements and things like that. Religion is a very powerful force.

0:49.0

People will die for their religious belief. So we're academics and we don't actually, like, I don't tell my students what I believe

0:58.8

because I don't think it's helpful.

1:01.6

We're learning about religion.

1:03.1

We're not, I'm not advocating religion.

1:06.5

But I personally, yes, believe in God.

1:09.2

But it's not part of my field.

1:11.6

It's, you know, we have atheists.

1:13.6

Some of the best people in my field are atheists.

1:15.6

Oh, okay.

1:16.6

So it's not being a minister or a priest or something like that.

1:19.6

I actually did get a master's degree along with priests and formation, Jesuits in formation,

1:26.6

from the Jesuit School of Theology, which was affiliated with UC Berkeley, it is part

1:32.4

of the Graduate Theological Union, which is very similar to Harvard Divinity School, but

1:36.7

Berkeley's version.

1:38.9

And then I went on to get a PhD from Syracuse University in Religious Studies, which is

1:43.9

a field, a field of international

1:45.8

academics who study religion. A lot of people are religious who study religion, but a lot of

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