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| | Frontispiece | 3 |
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| | Acknowledgements | 4-5 |
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| Paul David PURSGLOVE | Introduction | 12-19 |
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| | Initiations |
| Michael GROSSO | Close encounter of the Jazz kind | 22-32 |
| Stanley C. KRIPPNER | An Anomalous Sighting? | 32-39 |
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| | Science, Sense and Zen |
| Daniel DRASIN | Zen... And the Art of Debunkery | 43-58 |
| A. Square (Edwin A. Abbott) | How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland | 59-66 |
| Nick HERBERT | Fringe Science | 67-69 |
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| | Crop Glyphs and Higher Strangenesses |
| Steven M. GREER | Close Encounters of the 5th Kind: Contact in Southern England July, 1992 | 72-101 |
| Bill BARKER | Cartoon | 102 |
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| | Visit |
| Whitley STRIEBER | from Extreme Strangeness | 104-107 |
| John E. MACK | from "Other Realities: The 'Alien Abduction' Phenomenon" | 108-110 |
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| | Missing Up What's "Real" |
| Rima E. LAIBOW | Excerpt from "Psychological and Psychodynamic Components of EAT" | 112--115 |
| Neil FREER | In the Middle of Whose Ship Are You Standing? | 116-126 |
| Gregory D. BISHOP | from " Interview with Robert Anton Wilson" | 127-131 |
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| | Psychosocial Zen-Alerts |
| John R. SALTER JR. | One Good Reason They Haven't Landed on the White House Lawn | 134-135 |
| John WHITE | The Danger of "Gods from Outer Space" | 136-140 |
| Whitley STRIEBER | Are Enormous Changes on the Way? | 141-145 |
| Barry TAFF | UFOs on Trial: Evidence 'Beyond Reasonable Doubt' | 146-154 |
| Michael LINDEMANN | UFOs and the Global Situation | 155-157 |
| Philip SLATER | from "Hands Off" | 158-161 |
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| | Is It Going Anywhere? |
| Leo R. SPRINKLE | The Significance of UFO Experiences | 164-165 |
| Keith THOMPSON | The Rock Is Still Rolling | 166-177 |
| Terence McKENNA | On Psychedelic Mushrooms and the End of History | 178-182 |
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| | Scholarly Paths |
| Peter M. ROJCEWICZ | Between One Eye Blink and the Next: Fairies, UFOs and Problems of Knowledge | 185-202 |
| (Spanish/Catalan translation La Nave de los Locos Año 4 No 21-22 Marzo/2003 Hadas, OVNIs y problemas del conocimiento, pp. 15-22) |
| Olian | Cartoon | 203 |
| Dennis STILLINGS | Mythopoeia an a Few Short Anomalies | 204-213 |
| Jon KLIMO | Reality Creation and the Unified Field in Otherworldly Experience | 214-234 |
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| | Two Poems and a UFO-Dharma Tale |
| Howard M. SHACHTER | the last alien | 236-239 |
| Paula UNDERWOOD SPENCER | Separation | 240-241 |
| Charles LE CANARD | Joy Ride | 242-257 |
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| | Calisthenics In Non-Doing With UFOs |
| Stan TENEN | Controlled Folly | 260-264 |
| Brian O'LEARY | from "Agriglyphs and Agraffiti" | 265-266 |
| Shari ADAMIAK | Close Encounter Zen Lab | 267-275 |
| Paul David PURSGLOVE | You Koan for Today: What Do the Crop Glyphs Means? | 276-285 |
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| | The Truth |
| Marilyn FERGUSON | Commentary: Crop Circles in a Trackless Field | 288-292 |
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| | Us Not Getting It |
| Thimothy LEARY | The Parable of the Five Caterpillars and the Butterfly | 294 |
| Mission Control and Diiana Luppi | from "How to Use this Manual" (E.T 101: The Cosmic Instruction Manual) | 295 |
| Robert Anton WILSON | from a letter to Saucer Smear | 296-297 |
| Daniel DRASIN | Guy in Times Square on New Year's Eve | 298 |
| Gallagher (the comedian) | Why the Flying Saucers Are Not Landing | 299 |
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| | Making Serious Fun |
| | From an Ersatz Dodo Comedy Team Performance | 302-308 |
| Jean MUNDY | Hey UFOLKS, Allee, Allee, All in Free-ee! | 309-319 |
| Carolyn BARNES | from "Trauma and Transformation" | 320 |
| Carolyn BARNES | "What, If Anything,Is the Role of Play In CSETI Activities? Explain" | 321-322 |
| Michael GROSSO | Mind in the UFO Blender | 323-327 |
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| | Endpapers |
| | Selected Bibliography | 332-333 |