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Religious Texts Evidence for Aliens

The idea that spiritual texts from around the world could be reinterpreted isn’t new, but the new push is more academic.

John Ege

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Chariots of the Gods, 1968 book by Erich von Däniken, followed by a film in 1970, receiving an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 43rd Academy Awards in 1971. If you’re old enough to remember that, do you remember that, or do you just remember the controversy? Were you aware the Vatican recently sent him a letter of applause?Even Galileo didn’t get a repireved for like two hundred years!

These trippy aliens keep coming at us from all the corners of the world, leaking in from every aspect of culture. Culture has to be defined, which was address in a NASA publication called Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communications. We banter the word culture around a lot in this day and age, but does anyone truly know what it is?

If we really spent the time studying words, why is NASA in a 2014 paper including archaeology and anthropology in essentially a theoretical approach to aliens? Did they quote from Carl Sagan’s ancient alien theories that he published in 1964? No. Did they quote from Erich von Däniken’s book? No. Are they pulling information from Jimmy Church and his…

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