Diana Pasulka: Religion, Atheism, Heidegger, and the Dark Night

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0:00 Intro
3:24 Diana's journey: atheist to agnostic
7:17 Nuns who saw orbs and prayed
11:45 What are beliefs?
12:27 Atheists who believe in God
19:50 Spiritual vs religious; secularization thesis
22:58 UFOs as a religion
29:37 Psychedelics and religion
37:01 Flack for covering the phenomenon
39:42 Rationality of UFO belief
47:38 Atheism unlike a religion but can be dogmatic
49:18 False claim: religions tell you what to think
55:03 The case for dogma
1:01 06 Heidegger on technology
1:06 04 Heidegger and Jacques Vallée
1:10 03 Why many UFO researchers are Catholic
1:13 49 Vatican view of UFOs
1:15 12 Religious vs materialistic UFO interpretation
1:20 05 NDEs, UFOs, and Dean Radin
1:22 35 CIA/DOD strategies
1:26 57 What Diana shouldn't have uncovered
1:29 45 Roswell and Promethean myth
1:31 10 Dangers and reality of CE5
1:33 48 Bob Lazar credibility
1:36 02 Protecting against disinformation
1:38 08 Academic openness vs government closedness
1:42 39 SpaceX and Latin writing
1:48 18 President as short timer
1:49 02 Who is Tyler?
1:50 48 Does the government understand UFOs?
1:52 01 Multiple phenomena, not just one
1:52 51 Biblically accurate angels
1:55 26 Physical evidence of purgatory
1:57 36 Collocating UFOs with religion
2:02 10 Who is the modern Heidegger?
2:05 21 Jung and UFOs
2:08 00 Plato's Cave and shackling
2:12 54 Sangha as the answer to deception
2:18 46 Rediscovering meaning, Heidegger, Weinstein, TOE
2:22 09 Experiential vs analytical approach to God
2:24 52 Lovecraft and the open mind peril
2:27 14 Epistemic vs ontological shock
2:38 10 Importance of Sangha
2:41 21 Reconciling religion with ET
2:42 15 How Diana's faith was affected
2:44 27 Why the Hitchhiker effect
2:45 32 Angels, demons, and the third option
2:46 45 Rosicrucianism and Gnosticism
2:50 52 Kurzweil's singularity, Omega Point, UAPs
2:55 14 Jung and the UFO archetype (cont.)
2:56 10 UFO hearings (May 2022)
3:00 23 Catholic Church, remote viewing, Thomas Campbell, Jacques Vallée
3:05 54 Podcasts sanctioned behind the scenes for disclosure

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