A tour of Silicon Valley with Jacques Vallee -- The invisible Tyler D -- James: master of the multiverse -- Scott Browne's in the field : the war is virtual, the blood is real -- When Star Wars became real : the mechanisms of belief -- The material code : moving beyond the disembodied soul into the materiality of quantum information -- The human receiver : matter, information, energy... contact -- Real and imaginary : Tyler D.'s spiritual conversion in Rome -- The artifact : "For now we see through a glass darkly".
Summary:
"More than half of American adults and more than seventy-five percent of young Americans believe in intelligent extraterrestrial life. This level of belief rivals that of belief in God. In American Cosmic, D.W. Pasulka examines the mechanisms that foster a thriving belief in extraterrestrial life. Her work takes her from Silicon Valley to the Vatican Secret Archive and reveals how media has supplanted religion as a cultural authority that offers believers answers about non-human intelligent life"-- Provided by publisher.
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