Esoterica: Reading List

Have Read

• American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology – DW Pasulka
• Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers – Jacques Vallée*
• Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Secret Government UFO Program – James Lacatski, Colm Kelleher, George Knapp
• Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs – Luis Elizondo
• How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else – Jeffrey Kripal
• Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences – DW Pasulka
• The UFO Experience – J. Allen Hynek°
• Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret – Jacques Vallée & Paola Leopizzi Harris
• The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race – Jacques Vallée
• Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults – Jacques Vallée
• Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP: Unlocking the Extrasensory Power of Your Mind – Ingo Swann
• UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go On the Record – Leslie Keane €
• Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife – Leslie Keane
• A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness – Michael Pollan

Queued Up!

• Communion: A True Story – Whitley Strieber
• The Phenomenon of Man – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • referenced often by DW Pasulka — stoked to read it myself!

_{*Vallée consulted on Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind and inspired the French scientist character in the film}

_{**made into 1989 film starring Christopher Walken}

_{°worked on Project Blue Book for US Air Force and developed “close encounters” classification system}

_{€published 6 years before her co-authored NYTimes front page story about UAP}