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With a rich cultural history and Hollywood stars publicly attesting to a wide range of faiths, it’s no surprise that California’s spiritual landscape is as diverse as its natural surroundings. The Visionary State weaves text and image into a compelling narrative of religion, architecture, and consciousness in California, from neopaganism to televangelism, UFO cults to austere Zen Buddhism. Acclaimed culture critic Erik Davis brings together the immigrant and homegrown religious influences that have been part of the region’s character from its earliest days, drawing connections between seemingly unlike traditions and celebrating the diversity of California’s spiritual composition. Michael Rauner’s evocative photographs depict the sites and structures where these traditions have taken root and flourished. The Visionary State is a landmark look at what is likely the most varied locale for religious activity anywhere. – $34.2
Virginia UFO’s and Extraterrestrials!: A Look at the Sightings and Sci
Carole Marsh,Paperback,Series: Carole Marsh Virginia Bks., English-language edition,Pages:36,Pub by Gallopade International – $17.95
A UFO crashes into the Atlantic Ocean creating an enormous title wave that threatens to capsize a fishing schooner and kill everyone on board. But instead, a mysterious force protects the schooner from disaster leaving everyone on board wondering what had happened and what the strange object was.Toward the north Mr. Philon, witnesses a falling object and sends his men to investigate. Moments later an alien is captured and imprisoned in a glass room in Mr. Philon’s private mental asylum where they soon discover the alien’s unusual influence over humans. An influence Mr. Philon wants to exploit. Wealth and power could be his, if he could only control his own sadistic cravings.A retired senior couple headed for Florida are shocked to see a transient limping by the interstate in the pouring rain. Little did they know that by picking him up they would plunge into an adventure they would never forget.Meanwhile, in the bottom of the ocean an unusual living craft moans and groans as it slowly repairs itself, despite the efforts of a US air force carrier trying to dislodge it from the ocean floor. – $12.55
Unidentified flying object.United States Air Force, Center for UFO Studies, Project Blue Book, Kenneth Arnold, Identification studies of UFOs, Extraterrestrial hypothesis, … – $66.6
Paul Hill was a well-respected NASA scientist when, in the early 1950s, he had a UFO sighting. Soon after, he built the first flying platform and was able to duplicate the UFO’s tilt-to-control maneuvers. Official policy, however, prevented him from proclaiming his findings. “I was destined,” says Hill, “to remain as unidentified as the flying objects.”For the next twenty-five years, Hill acted as an unofficial clearing house at NASA, collecting and analyzing sightings’ reports for physical properties, propulsion possibilities, dynamics, etc. To refute claims that UFOs defy the laws of physics, he had to make “technological sense … of the unconventional object.”After his retirement from NASA, Hill finally completed his remarkable analysis. In Unconventional Flying Objects, published posthumously, he presents his findings that UFOs “obey, not defy, the laws of physics.” Vindicating his own sighting and thousands of others, he proves that UFO technology is not only explainable, but attainable. – $17.05





