Amazing. Vallee is a professional through and through. He reminds me on Joseph Campell and his grand mono myth theory. Vallee also tries to find common denominators in the making of myth from miracles. He is looking very closely at such phenomena as they occurred at Lourdes and Fatima where he finds similarities to more modern UFO sightings. All in all, an entirely new take on and attempt to make sense of the whole UFO shebang including sightings and abductions. All beautifully written and quite believable.
Geïnspireerd door Carl Jung, die wees op de opvallende hoeveelheid symbolen en archetypen die voorkomen in getuigenissen van mensen die ufo’s en ‘buitenaardse wezens’ hebben gezien, toont de schrijver hoeveel overeenkomsten er zijn tussen deze ervaringen en de manier waarop men vroeger keek naar elfen, dwergen en andere mythische wezens. Ondanks dat ik het geen goed boek vond - er hadden naar mijn idee wel veel minder van die getuigenissen in gehoeven en ik miste een bronvermelding - waren die overeenkomsten fascinerend.
My nonfiction, especially if you can call books about aliens and ufo’s and stuff “nonfiction”, reading/listening selection has been all over the place this year. But this was an interesting book. There’s two more in the series. It’s a good time filler during boring tasks where you can kind of zone out, this book in particular. The first like 85% of the book wasn’t necessarily repetitive but I was kinda like “ok man, I get it.” The last 15% was the most interesting.