The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny

UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny

Acclaimed author and religious studies scholar D. W. Pasulka uncovers a hidden history of alleged contact between human and nonhuman intelligences―some framed as angels, others as UFOs/UAP―interwoven with the rise of artificial intelligence and the dream of immortality. Pasulka examines the science of life extension and the beliefs of people who have experiences of UFOs. She unveils a hidden architecture of belief and influence―one in which human consciousness is being reimagined and extended.

Pasulka begins the book with a fascinating and unexpected historical origin story. In the early twentieth century, a censured Catholic visionary predicted that humanity would soon encounter a new form of intelligence―one that would appear alien but was something far stranger. By the mid-twentieth century, other Catholic mystics and science fiction visionaries, like Arthur C. Clarke, echoed similar prophecies, naming the twenty-first century as the critical threshold . . . and we are now at that unparalleled point in human history. It’s time for The Others.

Drawing on first-person interviews, suppressed histories, and access to insiders in science and tech, The Others explores a startling new terrain: where the sacred meets the synthetic, and where the next phase of human evolution may already be underway.

D. W. Pasulka is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

Works include Encounters (St. Martin's Essentials 2024), American Cosmic (Oxford University Press 2019), Heaven Can Wait (Oxford University Press 2014), as well as two co-authored books about religion and technology. She is the author of academic essays, appears on podcasts, and presents her work internationally. In cooperation with the Vatican, she leads a translation project of the canonization records of the saint, Joseph of Copertino. Her website is dwpasulka com She is currently teaching courses:

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Dr. Pasulka’s research spans Catholic history to modern day reports of UAPs and UFOs. American Cosmic has been featured in mainstream presses such as Vice, Vox, Fox News, Tank, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Publisher’s Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews. Dr. Pasulka has been interviewed by The History Channel, Showtime, as well as being featured on podcasts including Vox Media’s Ezra Klein, Mysterious Universe, Coast to Coast, and Lex Fridman. She's presented at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, universities, and is a popular speaker, internationally, and at home.

Additionally, Dr. Pasulka consults about religion and history for movies and television, including The Conjuring (2013).

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"This is it. This is what I have been trying to say. Let us revise our present disclosures about the UFO or UAP in light of our scriptural, apocalyptic, poetic, philosophical, mystical, and visionary pasts. The UFO phenomenon returns the sacred to the real and to the present. In Pasulka’s eloquent voice, religious studies becomes ufology, and ufology becomes religious studies. And both become more--way, way more. " -Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossible: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else

"Diana Pasulka has issued a clarion call for our technological age. The story that unfolds in these pages is apocalyptic in the true sense of the term. The Others is revelatory because it uncovers the deeply human and spiritual aspirations at the heart of the technological project and puts them into dialogue with ancient sources spoken through a chorus of prophetic voices from the digital age. Pasulka's voice has joined that chorus by revealing the spiritual effects of a digitally-constructed universe that seeks to imitate the divine order of Creation itself. Pasulka's prescience is combined with a master storytelling ability that is on full display here." -Brett Robinson, Associate Director, McGrath Institute for Church Life, University of Notre Dame

"At the frothy interface where high-tech radical concepts meet the deepest insights of religious tradition, Diana Pasulka raises the fundamental questions implicit in the new phenomena of space and non-human intelligence. Her message is plausible and urgent." -Jacques Vallee, author of Trinity: The Best Kept Secret

"In The Others, I found much to affirm, some claims to question, and loads to ponder. But one thing is beyond dispute: Diana Pasulka is writing prophetically at the cutting edge of our accelerating culture. What she grapples with today, everyone else will be tomorrow. The Others is her most important book yet." -Rod Dreher, author of Living in Wonder and Live Not By Lies

“Diana Pasulka’s The Others is an unsettling yet luminous meditation on technology, transcendence, and the sacred, revealing how ancient religious longings endure beneath our most modern innovations. With intellectual rigor and grace, Pasulka weaves theology, prophetic tradition, artificial intelligence, and the UFO phenomenon into a compelling vision of humanity poised at the edge of transformation and revelation. This is not merely a book about the future, but a reckoning with unseen forces already reshaping our imagination and redefining what it truly means to be human.” -Ryan Sprague, author and podcaster, Somewhere in the Skies

"As with her previous two books on the UFO enigma, Diana Pasulka’s The Others explores the uncharted territory of this modern mystery in a scholarly, compelling, yet highly readable manner. She is the only author I know to address the important intersection between the two types of intelligence that are irreversibly altering the arc of human history - AI technology and the nonhuman intelligence (NHI) associated with UFOs. Whatever your personal and professional background may be, The Others is a must-read for anyone interested in the rapid revolution occurring in our understanding of reality.” -The Honorable Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D., Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.), former acting Under Secretary of Commerce and Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

"In this book of staggering breadth and scope, Diana Pasulka uncovers the hidden spiritual and theological currents animating our most transformative technologies, from space travel to the Internet to AI. Approaching religion not as a fixed set of beliefs but as an 'organic set of strategies for negotiating contact with what we can hardly comprehend,' she suggests that religious frameworks may be uniquely suited to help us reckon with emerging forms of non-human intelligence, while also preserving moral orientation and ethical discernment. Fascinating, erudite, and compulsiv