How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary. Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures-novelist and abductee Whitley Strieber; environmentalist and reptilian proponent David Icke; and David Wilcock, alleged reincarnation of Edgar Cayce-the investigation reveals that millennial conspiracism offers an explanation as to why the prophesied New Age failed to arrive-it was prevented from arriving by malevolent, hidden others. Yet millennial conspiracism constructs a counter-elite, a gnostic third party defined by their special knowledge. An overview of the development of UFO subcultures from the perspective of religious studies, UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age is an innovative application of discourse analysis to the study of present day alternative religion.

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I wrote this book because I, like most people in this world have been bombarded with religion my whole life. There are crosses everywhere we look, anti-vaxxers using religion to justify their dangerous conduct, Jesus peddlers knocking on our doors, politicians spouting ridiculousness and influencing our laws, as well as family and friends forming conclusions based on a diluted version of reality. This book is a laymen's attempt to take a comprehensive and critical look at religion and superstition in our world. We know too much. Advancements in our understanding of science and history are fundamentally incompatible with the myths that are propagated by today's religions. This book conclusively demonstrates why we must let go of the childish fables of world. Taking an irreverent and sarcastic tone, "The god that Cried Wolf" clearly demonstrates why all religions and superstitions draw false conclusions about how our world functions. It will be best received by those people whom already have a skeptical mind. However if this book is read entirely from cover to cover, any religious or superstitious person will be able to clearly see why they can no longer put stock into their particular myth. It also illuminates why religious and superstitious moderates help perpetuate and provide security for the extremists. This book is a call to action for everyone to start living in a rational and logical state of being. The intent is to create a world without frivolous and dangerous forces which bear no validity and to remove these fraudulent influences from causing the many poor behaviors people carry out in the name of their particular religion. If a person honestly and actually reads this book with an open mind in its entirety, they will no longer be a believer in god, religion and superstition by the time they finish reading it.