"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 compulsively readable, this work offers clarity amid confusion and a sense of wisdom, meaning, hope, and humanity in a rapidly changing world.
" -Joanna Ebenstein , founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy "Diana Pasulka has done it again. The Others reveals the hidden connections between artificial intelligence, UAPs, and the visionaries who predicted our current moment decades ago. Drawing on the prophetic insights of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Marshall McLuhan, and Arthur C. Clarke, Pasulka shows that the arrival of nonhuman intelligence was anticipated by some of the twentieth century''s most brilliant and unconventional thinkers. This book forces us to confront the unsettling reality that flawed messengers marginalized by mainstream culture sometimes deliver our most important and disruptive truths. At a time when AI is reshaping our world, and UAPs are dominating Congressional hearings, Pasulka provides the intellectual framework we desperately need. The Others is the Rosetta Stone for the strange new world we already inhabit." - Michael Shellenberger , best-selling author of Apocalypse Never and San Fransicko "Diana Walsh Pasulka''s The Others really stayed with us.
It''s one of those rare books that doesn''t try to shock you or force you into a conclusion. Instead, it feels like sitting down with someone thoughtful who''s honestly trying to make sense of a very strange moment in history. Diana moves effortlessly from the ancient story of Jonah to modern conversations about AI, UFOs, and the people quietly studying them. She describes this moment as one of ''disruptive truth'' - a time when the old categories we used to organize the world simply don''t fit anymore. What struck us most is the way she approaches everyone she encounters. Scientists, tech innovators, experiencers, skeptics-she treats them all with the same curiosity and respect. No eyerolling, no easy dismissals. Just a recognition that people across very different fields are wrestling with the same big questions.
As storytellers who spend a lot of time exploring the mysterious edges of belief, we found that refreshing. Even when the book brushes up against apocalyptic ideas or powerful emerging technologies, it never feels sensational or cynical. If anything, it feels grounded. Thoughtful. Quietly hopeful. At its heart, The Others suggests that the real challenge of the coming years won''t just be technological. It will be human. Intelligence and innovation may shape the future, but conscience, humility, and heart will determine what we do with it.
" -Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes, writers, producers, creators of The Conjuring franchise "''OMG!'' I mean that in both the literal and the figurative sense. Diana Walsh Pasulka''s new book takes us way beyond the scope of her earlier bestsellers. This is a full-tilt rollercoaster ride of an intellectual journey, as fascinating as it is frightening: a fast-paced plunge into the meta-media frenzy that has rewired the modern mind. Armed with nothing but avid curiosity and a faith-driven commitment to deeper truth, Pasulka tracks the hidden circuitry of our techno-spiritual age. She follows the signal through Arthur C. Clarke, Marshall McLuhan, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Timothy Leary--and ''the Others'' as she calls them --stitching together a wild cocktail of exhilaration and dread, hope and despair, as she tries to sober up a transfixed humanity facing a certain, uncertain future. At times it feels as if she vanishes beneath the weight of these towering minds, only to re-emerge--like Jonah from the whale--to deliver what she calls '' the inescapable demand of revelation and truth,'' a message of both warning and reward for the faithful and the faithless alike.
Pasulka is clear: our transhuman ambitions mean nothing without a radical upleveling of integrity and principles that make us human. This book is a ride worth taking if you want your mind stretched to the edge of the possible and the perilous. Her intricate narrative lays out a map for a civilization at a crossroads, where the two paths diverge--either towards salvation or desolation, ascent or decline. And she insists, as she says of Jonah, herself, and finally the reader, that it is '' our moral obligation'' to hold fast to the values of a more compassionate, awake, and hopefully evolved humanity." -Alan Steinfeld , author of Making Contact: Preparing for the New Realities of Extraterrestrial Existence.