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Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO Audiobook
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A voyage of exploration―to the outer reaches of our inner lives.
UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin, but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It’s about us, our longings, and terrors, especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence.
This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them, to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, as a species.
In the 1960s Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist, convinced that flying saucers were real and that it was his life’s mission to solve their mystery. He would become a professor of religious studies—traditions of heavenly journeys being his specialty. With Intimate Alien, he looks back to explore what UFOs once meant to him as a boy growing up in a home haunted by death and what they still mean for millions, believers and deniers alike.
From the prehistoric Balkans to the deserts of New Mexico, from the Biblical visions of Ezekiel to modern abduction encounters, Intimate Alien traces the hidden story of the UFO. It’s a human story from beginning to end, no less mysterious and fantastic for its earthliness. A collective cultural dream, UFOs transport us to the outer limits of that most alien yet intimate frontier: our own inner space.
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“A thoroughly fascinating dive into a third domain, a genuine twilight zone that is perpetually shimmering between mind and matter.”
— Dean Radin, author of Real Magic
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“[A] clearly argued position that a collective unconscious fed the experience, memory, and mythic continuation of UFO folklore.”
— Journal of the American Academy of Religion -
“On one level, this is a book about the UFO phenomenon. On another, this is a book about how a scholar of religion comes to be.”
— Jeffrey J. Kripal, Rice University -
“Part folklorist and part psychologist, Halperin reads our UFO mythos like an alienist analyzing an extended collective dream.”
— Jesse Walker, author of The United States of Paranoia -
“It takes a classical scholar to fully challenge the belief in flying saucers, and David Halperin is the right expert for the job.”
— Jacques Vallée, author of Passport to Magonia
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About David Halperin
David Halperin has published five nonfiction books on Jewish mysticism and messianism, as well as the coming-of-age novel Journal of a UFO Investigator: A Novel. He taught Jewish studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, until his retirement in 2000. He blogs about UFOs, religion, and related subjects at www.davidhalperin.net.
About Kevin T. Collins
Kevin T. Collins, an Audie Award–winning audiobook narrator, is an actor, singer, recording artist, and director who can be seen off Broadway, on television, and in films.