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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This page has been replaced by my near-identical essay The Significance of Belief in UFOs, which appears both at this website and in my ebook From This Green Earth:: Essays on Looking Outward.
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.