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008			150128s2014 oru ob 001 0 eng d
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100	1		_aHart, John, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEncountering ETI : _baliens in Avatar and the Americas / _cJohn Hart.
264		1	_aEugene, Oregon : _bCascade Books, _c[2014]
264		4	_c©2014
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: The aliens are coming, the aliens are coming! -- Aliens and other Others - Where did they come from? -- Extraterrestrials: theirs and ours - Are we the others we don't want others to be? -- ETI: Roswell, Riverine, and Rendlesham encounters - We are not alone...? -- Xenophilia and Xenophobia - Good alien or evil alien from space? -- ETI encounters: state, academia, church, and science - Adversarial and accomodating attitudes toward UFO reports -- ETI in Avatar and District 9 - Aren't we always the "good guys"? -- Spirit, science, and space - Who are the "true believers"? -- Conclusion: We aliens are going! We aliens are coming!
520			_aEncountering ETI weaves together scientific knowledge and spiritual faith in a cosmic context. It explores consequences of Contact between terrestrial intelligent life (TI) and extraterrestrial 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 credible witnesses (including American Indian elders) suggest that both have arrived already; some shut down U.S. and U.S.S.R. ICBM missiles to promote peace; others mutilated cattle or abducted people, perhaps to acquire physiological data on biota for scientific study or for other, unknown purposes. Sci-fi 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.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
650		0	_aUnidentified flying objects _xReligious aspects.
650		0	_aSpace theology.
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655		4	_aElectronic books.
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