Encountering ETI

""Encountering ETI" weaves together scientific knowledge and spiritual faith in a cosmic context. It explores consequences of Contact between terrestrial intelligent life TI and extra-terrestrial intelligent life ETI. Humans will face cosmic displacement if there are other complex, technologically advanced intelligent beings in the universe; our economic structures and religious beliefs might need substantial revision. On Earth or in space, humans could encounter benevolent ETI solicitous of our striving for maturity as a species or malevolent ETI seeking our land and goods to benefit themselves, claiming that their "superior civilization" gives them the right - or meet both types of species. Earth Encounters of the Third Kind described by witnesses including Native American elders suggest that both may have arrived already: some have been accused of shutting down US and USSR ICBM missiles to promote peace; others of mutilating cattle or abducting people, perhaps to acquire physiological data on biota for scientific study or for other, unknown purposes. Scifi movies such as Avatar and novels like The Martian Chronicles describe humans as malevolent ETI aliens: we do to others what we fear others will do to us. A shared and evolving spiritual materiality could enable humanity to overcome cosmic displacement, and guide TI and ETI in a common quest for meaning and wellbeing on cosmic common ground. John Hart is Professor of Christian Ethics at Boston University, and often links the far out with the down to Earth when teaching and writing. He has travelled widely, speaking on issues of science, religion, ecology and social justice. His most recent book is "Cosmic Commons: Spirit, Science, and Space" 2013. "We do not yet have any scientific evidence for or against extra-terrestrial life. The 'not yet' here is important since the scientific search is becoming increasingly more sophisticated and the anticipation more intense. 'Encountering ETI' manages to raise the level of anticipation significantly while respecting the need for good science, a need not always respected in the public domain." George V. Coyne, author of "Wayfarers in the Cosmos" with Alessandro Omizzolo. "I have read hundreds of UFO books since reading my first in 1958. But this is the first one that not only reveals detailed knowledge of the UFO scene, but provides a great deal of food for thought concerning interactions between aliens and earthlings. As a scientist, I greatly appreciate his reasoned approach to ETI-TI discussion. I wish more thinkers would get involved." Stanton T. Friedman, author of "Flying Saucers and Science"."

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Language - English

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John Hart

John Hart

John Hart

John Hart

John Hart

John Hart

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ISBN - 9780718893972

Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm

Page Count - 306