To Diana and/or Leslie. How can we know that “spiritual” or “entity” encounters that have existed long before nuts-and-bolts, aren’t being conflated with next-generation technologies unknown to the general public due to necessary national-security reasons? On that same note, could foreign intel be using decades long advanced psychological warfare borne out of the Cold War, and/or modern directed-energy weapons, to exploit human belief systems and using such manipulation tactics to gain close-access to individuals with knowledge of the U.S.’s most sensitive programs, and over time making it nearly impossible for some to distinguish a genuine encounter from a technological or psychologically induced illusion? Do you believe this is part of why the Vatican felt compelled to hold public briefings about apparitions, because while some may be genuine, others could be the result of modern emerging technologies such as former DNI Avril Haines has essentially hinted at, and adversarial psychological manipulation tactics, or a combination of these? Lastly, if that is true, what is the best way to teach people, especially those in roles with access to classified information and sensitive programs, to protect themselves from having their belief systems weaponized by adversaries looking to boost their own weapons and space programs? Thank you!

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Thank you for doing this! Question; what should we be doing with the information being presented by your research?

Question: How should we think about telepathic religious experience as it compares to and differs from telepathy associated with UAP? Many thanks

1. I recently heard on the Hi Strangeness podcast Barbara Fisher refer to anomalous sightings as broadly categorized by the context, like if it's in a house, it's a ghost; in the sky, it's a UFO, etc. She described these as light phenomena. This made me wonder if there's a place at all for viewing strange things, like orbs or some such found in buildings as smaller UFOs. How would that change our relationship to them, and the inverse, maybe those are ghosts in the sky? I'm being intentionally obtuse here for the thought experiment, but I wonder what are the core beliefs at play that get in the way.

2. How do we square the deeply personal aspect of an encounter and how transformative it is with the gap between translating the importance and impact for people who haven't had any experiences? What is it about the tacit knowledge that experiencers struggle with when convincing others?

3. I forgot about a subsequently deeply transformative (and highly strange and atypical) sighting for years until someone asked me if I'd seen a UFO. I've wondered if I was hypnotized or something to that effect. Is there any connection with hypnosis and amnesia and UFOs, and what's the nuance of it? The person I was with also forgot until I asked her about it years later. I remember it all clearly now.

4. There are so many examples of UFOs around animals, by farms for example, and cattle mutilation sites. Also some experiencers report seeing owls around the time of abduction scenarios. What do you think the importance of animals is in the study of this phenomenon?

Thank you for your work! I just read American Cosmic and Encounters two months ago, and I've been following Leslie's work for a couple years. Also I know my questions are long. No hard feelings if you skip them.

Can you explain what is in Antarctica and how it relates to typical "sky" phenomena? If there are beneficial aliens & negative aliens, how will they effect us? Is there a "war in the heavens"? Is the US involved? How so? Are there portals in the ocean? Is that why ufos have been reported going toward large bodies of water? Do they exit thru the portals (if extant) or are there bases there? How do they live there, if so?

Question: if you had to give an "elevator pitch" about your work, which experience, event, pattern, or belief would you point to that you personally find most interesting or convincing that something beyond ordinary experience is occuring?

How Does Genesis 6 tie into our current encounters?

QUESTION: Since both of you have researched “life beyond life”…Leslie through investigating mediumship and Diana through studies of religious beliefs and history, do you see any connective continuum between UAP and your studies of afterlife? Thank you.

What possibilities are there for Prof Pasulka and/or attorney Daniel Sheehan to introduce the UAP/NHI/Disclosure subjects to the multi-religious meeting, for example, in the Nostra Aetate event organized by the Catholic Church??

Diana - Whilst writing your latest book have you had any more of those strange "synchronicities" that you've spoken about previously? E.g the archangel Michael happenings? Or experienced anything of the hitchhiker effects?

Also how does being a Catholic help you with this research? Especially as the Catholic Church discourages interacting with the overarching consciousness through remote viewing, telepathy or mediumship, seeing them as dangerous/demons and possibly leading to possession. I think that consciousness is key and humans might be able to tap into it through meditation, mediumship and remote viewing - it's all connected. So I don't understand the Catholic Church being so against these practices.

Do you believe any of this phenomenon is dangerous to humans?

And have you had any more meetings with Jacque Vallee - the master of UFO research??

Leslie - since starting on this research have you had any personal experiences that have convinced you of the validity of the after life?

Diana, 1. Whether we are referencing something biological or engineered, do we have a blueprint for interacting with NHI in Martin Büber’s well-known book “I and Thou”?
2. The hitchhiker effect is generally portrayed as a negative interaction, but what if any positive “hitchhiker effect” experiences do you feel have occurred with you stemming perhaps from your interactions with folks like “Tyler D” and Chris Bledsoe?

Dr. Pasulka, I'm very excited to pick up your new book. Ms. Kean, your UFO book is one of the best documented books on the subject. Do you have a new book (on UAP or any other subject) in the works?

Dear both, thank you so much for doing this!

-To Professor Diana Pasulka:

I have been an avid reader/ listener for a few years now and often found myself wondering why. Back in 2021, I had zero prior interest in UFOs, very little in religious history and US congressional hearings had yet to appear on my radar on this side of the world. Today, I'm still not keen on meeting an ET/ entity; since Grusch, congressional deliberations have been kind of bleh, but I keep coming to your work for the light.

Your ability to bring together insights from Philosophy, Religious Studies and Human Stories is an Illumination Machine, for lack of a better expression and explanation.

Echoing your exchange with Joe Rogan, on the pineal gland/ pinecone symbolism, it seemed there might something crucial that I don't know how to articulate. Could you shed more light on whether/ how it can inform our understanding of the phenomenon, and ultimately ourselves. Are there more dots we can orderly/meaningfully connect to get to the bigger picture?

[ Some few bread crumbs I found trying to bridge the pine gap ;)

* Philosophy meets Pop culture: Descartes saw the pineal to be clearly the seat of the soul.(Visual aid: that scene in Men in Black where the tiny alien opens the human robot head)

*Human Biology & experiencers: receives Sunlight signal from retina regulates circadian rhythms, turns serotonin/ melatonin on and off. PG turns the light on (serotonin) and off (melatonin) in the brain. from eyesight

Allegedly there was a NASA study on sungazing or suneating practices of HR Manek, and it is surprisingly reminiscent of Taylor's D rituals for higher creativity/ connection and "downloads" or insights from other realms.

This sounds all very natural but certainly not easy. Plato even warned those who made it out of the cave they would be blinded by sunlight, should they not learn gradually how to see. Gary Nolan's research on experiencers abnormal basal ganglia linked with emotional trauma(=> is there a bearing on PG?). Sainthood often comes with martyrdom.]

-To Leslie Kean:

Notwithstanding the convoluted nature of the disclosure process across nesting agencies, contractors, conflicting agendas & legal pitfalls all over, have enough "Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials gone on record" for NASA employees and astronauts to come forward and their testimonies to come through to the public?

Thank you so much, it was a wonderful Q&A!

In my personal experience, as I experienced it in the encounter with the entities, when they shared their consciousness with me, the divinity they experienced at each moment was not perceived as a figure separate from them or us, but as one comprehensive essence from which everything emanates and to which everything returns. It was not an idea or a belief – it was a living reality of unity, of infinite consciousness in which love, intelligence and life are one thing. At that moment there was an awareness of one presence, silent and infinite, that contains everything.
This experience completely changed my perception of the concept of “God” – no longer an external entity, but one reality in which every aspect exists, including us.

The visitors themselves do not even try to define, like us, that comprehensive consciousness that we call God. They are aware of it as the source of their being and ours out of modesty, a complete and absolute humility that knows and experiences directly and therefore does not try and does not need to understand it rationally like us.

They helped me understand this, or rather the way in which my consciousness tries to understand them and the world beyond, the veil of our normal conscious awareness, through the fact that they held the telepathic encounter and interaction with me in two different and basic states of my consciousness – in the first stage when I am a sleep and outside the body, looking from above, seeing my body lying on the bed and then also seeing them in the room, and then having natural communication with them, and in the second stage in the same room, the moment after I wake up and open my eyes and see them once again. After I managed to overcome the terrible and paralyzing physical fear that attacked me the first moment I woke up (much thanks to the memory of the pleasant communication a moment before when I was out of the body) the communication between us continued, but this time when I was fully conscious. Through this experience of the two different states of consciousness with them that they apparently allowed me (or was it a case of me suddenly waking up while they were still in the room) I was able to understand the essence of my consciousness in these two states with them and with their immense consciousness that naturally experienced what we call God. In my opinion, in understanding this difference between our two basic states of consciousness, there are probably many answers, or at least new understandings, regarding our interaction with guests, with the way our normal consciousness interprets moments of connection with guests or with the divine, near-death experiences, the essence of telepathy, and many other layers.