Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (68 page)

Turner, Edith,
13
,
17
;
Anthropology of Consciousness
,
290n15

Twain, Mark,
16
,
50
,
295n45

Twining, Lieutenant General Nathan F.,
152

2001: A Space Odyssey
,
5

Tylor, Edward,
13

UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union
(Vallee),
181
,
184

UFO Experience, The
(Hynek),
152
,
155

UFO phenomenon,
6
; and absurdity,
213
; and aliens as signs,
214
; and Ann Arbor case,
301n8
; Brazilian Wave of 1977,
183–84
; and Christian mysticism,
208–9
; classification system of,
302n25
; and coincidences with science fiction stories of 1880 to 1945,
207–8
; as collective psyche balancing itself,
246
; and colonization,
124
; as coming from the future,
170
; as control system,
167–69
,
185
,
187
,
282
,
303n45
; European wave of 1954,
149
; Fátima events as,
150
,
153
,
173
,
182
,
190
,
275–82
,
286
; and folklore,
156–64
,
195
,
197
,
208
; and hagiography,
209
; as hermeneutical realities,
183
,
209–12
; and insect,
298n114
; as interdimensional,
182–83
,
186–87
; and Keel, John,
300n40
,
313n26
; Méheust's interest in X that lies behind,
249
; psychotropic reading of,
313n24
; as real,
301n11
; and religious studies,
191
; and science fiction,
6
,
166–67
,
207–10
,
214
,
249
; and science not up to task of explaining,
166
; and sex,
301n23
; and signal in the noise,
155–56
,
194
,
216
,
243
; and Super-Story,
122
; and technology,
167
,
173
,
212
; as unnameable thing,
210
.
See also
abduction; flying saucers; sightings; technology

Ullman, Montague,
Dream Telepathy
,
4

Underhill, Evelyn,
311n26

University of California at Los Angeles,
181

University of Chicago,
9
,
20
,
181

University of Colorado,
149

University of Texas at Austin,
150

Ursule Mirouet
(Balzac),
240

Valis: author's experience of something similar,
34
; Dick, Philip's autobiographical description of,
71–72
; Dick, Philip's encounter with,
32
; and fantastic as hermeneutical key to the paranormal,
33
; and neuroscience,
258
,
267
; and Platonic realm,
34
; and Vallee,
187
,
189
,
303n46
,
306n94
.
See also
Dick, Philip K.

Vallee, Jacques: and Agobar,
160–61
,
196
,
303n31
;
Anatomy of a Phenomenon,
152
,
155
,
156
; and Bergier, Jacques,
186
; and beyond reason,
144–45
,
301n3
; and Bullard, Thomas,
157–58
,
302n28
; and Cardan, Facius,
163
; and classification system of sightings,
154–55
,
302n25
; and
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
,
144
,
155
; comparative method of,
144
,
158
; and Condon Committee,
149
;
Confrontations
,
181
; and contribution of parallel between folklore and UFO phenomena,
157
; and demiurge,
190
; and Dick, Philip,
187
,
303n46
,
306n94
;
Dimensions
,
181–83
; early life of,
147–48
;
The Edge of Reality
,
152
; and esotericism,
145–46
,
168–70
,
191–92
; Evans-Wentz,
161–62
, 03n34;
exile
of,
180–81
; and Ezekiel,
15
3
,
190–91
; and the fantastic,
163
; and fantasy,
144
; and Fátima,
173
,
182
;
Forbidden Science
,
181
,
184
,
186
,
306n95
; and gnosis of multidimensionality,
188
,
194
; and gnosis of the future,
187–88
,
194
; and gnosis of the rosy cross,
192–94
; and Hall, Manly,
192–93
,
306n98
; and Hynek, J.,
150–52
,
155
,
168–70
,
180–81
,
192–94
; as inspiration for Claude Lacombe,
144
; and Jung,
153
,
172
,
174
,
243
,
245
; and Kazantsev, Alexander,
185
;
The Magonia Collection
,
300n1
; Martin, John,
153
; and Méheust,
242–45
,
309n49
;
Messengers of Deception
,
181
; and metalogic of encounter stories,
170–71
; and Michel, Aimé,
148
,
150
,
159
,
243
; and Muller, Paul,
148
; and multiverse,
144
,
181–82
,
186
,
188
; and the mystical,
145–46
,
189
,
196
; personal experiences of,
189–90
,
196
; and physics of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
173
;
Prodigies
,
309n50
; and Project Blue Book,
146
,
151–52
,
301n8
; and Project Grudge,
151–52
; and Project Sign,
151–52
,
154
; and psychical component,
157
,
217
; psychic defined by,
171
;
Revelations
,
181
; Rosicrucian tradition,
161
,
192–94
; and science fiction,
166–68
; as seldom read,
7
; and the sexual,
163–66
; and signal in the noise,
155–56
,
194
,
216
,
243
; social-control thesis of,
167–69
,
185
,
187
,
282
; and Soviet Union,
184–86
;
Sub-Space
,
167
; support of academics for,
181
; and synchronicity,
189
,
245
,
306n94
; and Thompson, William Irwin,
159
;
UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union
,
181
; as underground legend,
185
; and Valis,
187
,
189
,
303n46
,
306n94
. See also
Fastwalker
(Vallee);
Invisible College, The
(Vallee); Magonia;
Passport to Magonia
(Vallee); SRI

Vallee, Janine,
150
,
164
,
169
;
Challenge to Science
,
152
,
302

Vaughan, Alan,
4
;
Dream Telepathy
,
4

Verne, Jules,
16
,
124
,
207–8
;
Robur le conquérant
,
207

Versluis, Arthur,
The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance
,
308n36

Vilars, Abbé Montfaucon de,
161

Villas-Boas, Antonio,
164–66
,
303n36

Virgil,
45
,
47
,
48

Virgin Mary.
See
Mary, the Virgin

Visionaries, Mystics and Contactees
(Freixedo),
286

Viswanathan, Gauri,
28

Von Neumann, John,
211

voyant prodigieux
,
Un,
or
A Seer Extraordinaire
(Méheust),
233

Wach, Joachim,
9

Wallace, Alfred Russell,
70
,
72
,
84
,
231
,
295n45

War of the Worlds
(Wells),
124

Watson, Ian,
Miracle Visitors
,
308n22

Weber, Max,
21

Wells, H. G.,
124
,
128
,
300n37

Wheeler, John,
307n19

Whitman, Walt,
230
,
294n14

Wild Talents
(Fort), vi,
98
; and evolution,
132–34
; and Fort's experiments with own wild talents,
137–40
; and God,
136
; and parable of peaches,
102
; as science mysticism,
123
,
300n34

Williams, Dwight,
The Way of the Explorer
,
305n67

Will in Nature, The
(Schopenhauer),
11

Winkelman, Michael,
13

Winter, Alision,
238–39
;
Mesmerized
,
309n45

Wizard of Oz
,
147

Wojtowicz, Slawek,
Inner Paths to Outer Space
,
313n24

Wolff, Robert Lee,
Strange Stories
,
291n27

Wolfson, Elliot R.,
Language, Eros, Being
,
292n47

Wonder Woman,
163

Wordsworth, William,
47
,
86
,
294n18

World as Will and Representation
,
The
(Schopenhauer),
11

X, not here

X-Files, The
,
264

X-Men, The
,
135
,
137
,
306n91

Yale University,
20

Yeats, William Butler,
16

Yoga,
18
,
19

Zukav, Gary,
The Dancing Wu Li Masters
,
300n34