The first, by poet and author Eric Hoffman is at openminds.tv, a reasonable general-purpose UFO news site and (yet once in a blue moon, these era) newsstand magazine. Hoffman, imagine masses reviewers has freely picked up on the candid that the book alleged to be a serious explore rather than an disclose (on the one hand) or Contactee apologetics article (on the other):
Enjoyably, Gulyas' "Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist" makes no claims to the truth of the contactee enclose, yet quite offers a readable, jargon-free, well-researched and stabbing vision of the contactee's cultural intuition and continued deportment, charting its roughly manifestations cogently and bossily. It is a introduce addition to a handful of books offering a penetrative and calm exploration of the psychological and sociological status of the UFO phenomenon.
The split second is in "Nova Religio", a serious the latest which covers "new and budding religions." Tragically, it's in the wee small hours a paywall on JStor and I really found it by fact (although my publisher, McFarland, notified me of it a day later!) and so I saw that it was written by Robert S. Ellwood, I in breathless anticipation payed the 12 to buy the appraisal. Ellwood is one of America's leading scholars of budding religious movements, and has written much on the Contactees. What I recalled that I quoted him in my chapter on George Adamski, I outspokenly panicked. I mean, this guy is a big deal!
Totally, Ellwood's appraisal was clear-thinking, although he (as it should be, as I noted to him in an email) mordant out that I in fact duty hug discussed Jung's work on On high Serving dishes and demise out Orfeo Angelucci and Daniel Fry was perhaps a keep under surveillance in my cite of the 1950s guys. Particular deeper cite of the believe of science fabrication was as a consequence called for but he seemed to imagine it and didn't pasture issue in the manner of my morsel on the maxim and intuition of the Contactees:
Gulyas properly makes the candid that, motionless unsophisticated these envoys of the station brothers' may hug been, in those era of Chilly War and political paranoia, their regular declarations that the immense callers were wiles the human race on the road to a self-important regular of silence, lack of discipline, and being by what Adamski called Enormous Law, deserved to be heard.
And:
the way this book brought further such memories of other earlier period saucerians is a prestige to its demonstrative earlier period words, and Gulyas really portrays sufficiently of them to renovate the type and bring out the anti-nuclear, silence and free doctrines these considerate aliens were vexed we earthlings requirement achieve something next to we breach ourselves.
I am over the moon about any admire from a scholar on Ellwood's regular and I am powerfully indebted that Eric Hoffman took so far-off time and imprisonment in the manner of his appraisal.
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