Posts tagged with ‘satellites’

  • Esoterica

    My Favorite Martians

    A UFO Epistemology

    A UFO Epistemology

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...
  • Quotes

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    “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

    “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...
  • Quotes

    Quote 4

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...
  • Religions and Spirits
    6 min

    Televangelists Tune Into the End

    National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War

    National Religious Broadcasters convention during the first Gulf War

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...
  • Quotes

    Quote 1

    But what if the medium is the message?

    But what if the medium is the message?

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...
  • Quotes

    Quote 5

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...
  • Quotes

    Quote 2

    There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

    There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

    If we're to believe our ancestors, close encounters with the gods are no joke. Even if they beam down in a celestial glow, they still scare the shit out of everybody. And more often than not they lurk on the edge of revelation, in the outer dark, where the firelight is swallowed in gargantuan night. Today our fires are so bright—the skeptical lights of labs, satellites, and TV cameras—that such entities would need to go guerilla to penetrate our glaring...