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27. UFOs and Ancient Astronauts
28. The Alien Abduction Phenomenon
This page has been replaced by my near-identical essay The Significance of Belief in UFOs, which appears both at this website and in my ebook The Future of Being Human and Other Essays.
Belief in UFOs is only one way of responding to fears aroused in us by our perception in this era of a universe wider than Earth. Another, more common, response is withdrawal from that universe through insistence that Earth is all that matters: that it is our sole source of life, or even divine--more specifically, it is identified with the metaphor of the Mother Goddess. That is the essence of the Gaia myth, which I will discuss in the next lecture.
If you got to this page by searching, please read the Introduction to the series.