Updates

In this new excerpt from a larger article I’m working on I provide an overview to the ways exo studies draws on over 150 disciplines, domains, topics, and fields of knowledge in order to take a metadisciplinary approach to anomalist phenomena and in so doing makes over a dozen unique contributions to the study of UFOs.

For 6 months I’ve been trying to figure out a better way of representing the wide range of encounters with non-human intelligences (NHIs) that one finds in the UFO literature in all of its high strangeness variety. Thus, I conducted a meta-analysis of 12 different sources producing a new taxonomy of 33 types of NHIs.

After 10 months of hard work, Tom Curren and I have finally launched our new educational website WhatsUpWithUFOs. We curated 150 articles/videos to present a comprehensive overview of the UFO phenomena across four major categories: Flying Objects, Hard Science, Direct Experience, and Institutional Dynamics.

This diagram and its accompanying excerpt from a larger academic paper I’m working on provides an Exo Studies perspective on how to integrate the 10 most common hypotheses of what non-human intelligences (NHIs) are and presents a new eleventh hypothesis that argues for “mutual enactment”.

In this riveting 2.5-hour discussion 5 thought leaders within the Integral community take a deep personal and philosophical dive into their views on the reality of UFOs and ETs as they each respond to 8 provocative questions.

In this 45 min overview I explore 4-6 key areas of focus within the following major domains of an exo studies approach: cultivating multidimensional awareness, developing a galactic diplomacy, and the pioneering of a post-positivist integral science of the anomalist.

“The idea that we live in a multidimensional universe populated by beings or life-forms that are less densely embodied than we are, or perhaps not embodied at all, is not new to Eastern religious traditions or to most of the indigenous peoples of the world. But it is...

My graduate advisor Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is one of the most consistently inspiring and refreshingly different thinkers I’ve ever met. In our first Future Fossils conversation, we discussed his work to apply a profoundly “meta” and pluralistic philosophy to the everyday work of organizational development and social impact.

Is there intelligent life beyond Earth? Have alien beings contacted us? What do we make of the thousands of testimonials of human-alien contact, including from scientists, diplomats and astronauts?

Join me for an intense 3-month online course entitled Exo Studies Master Course. “Exo studies” is a phrase I’m using to describe the full range of the UFO phenomena in all of its disciplinary boundary-crossing splendor.