Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
_____, ______, 2026
_____ - _____ ET (NYC Time)
$140 Paid Patreon Members / $125 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
UFOs and other manifestations of non-human intelligence occur every day -- This class explores ancient and medieval religious experiences in light of contemporary uncanny reality narratives. These themes include: Specifically American mythology of UFOs and sublimated technology linked to trauma, nuclear war, and uncanny conspiracy culture. Absurdist non-real imitative gnosticism of Philip K. Dick, the mythic realities of Eranos scholars (such as Mircea Eliade and Henri Corbin), and the "control system" of French Ufologist Jacques Vallee. Alien abductions and prophetic tours of heaven. Myth of Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein: creating a homunculus and an inter-dimensional stargate. Historical accounts of the coloniality of Japanese utsuro-bune and imperial nuclear monsters. Reports of volcanic eruptions linked to theophanies, UFO sightings, and monkey-man attacks in Asia and Central America. Shamanistic bodily dismemberment, warrior initiation rites, and fallen angel narratives (including the fiery deification of Enoch into Metatron). Possibilities of time travel, temporal anomalies, lost time, and cyclical periodicity. Extraterrestrial languages and the viros of human language, meteoric origins of life, and many-worlds simulacra models.
Students should expect a dynamic learning environment with interactive and multi-disciplinary approaches focused on thoughtful conversations about issues raised by readings, images, sounds, and other sensory experiences. Learning focuses on unstructured creative insights combining multiple perspectives -- a kind of "keeping all the balls in the air" approach to resolving unsettling and profound questions relating to the history of human experience of the eruption into our consciousness of intentional non-human intelligence.
Brannon Wheeler, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), is a professional historian of religion with over 40 years of experience across nearly 100 countries worldwide. Currently a professor at a major educational institution in Annapolis, MD, Prof. Wheeler has published eleven books exploring the influence of non-human intelligences on the development of human culture and religion.
Images: The Night Journey (Isra and Mi'raj) of the Prophet Muhammad on the Buraq, ca. 621 CE; Illustration of the Japanese legend of the Utsuro-bune (hollow ship), ca. 1844, Nagahashi Matajirou; Air Battle of Stralsund, ca. 1665, Unknown artist.
Six Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom
_____, ______, 2026
_____ - _____ ET (NYC Time)
$140 Paid Patreon Members / $125 General Admission
PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time
UFOs and other manifestations of non-human intelligence occur every day -- This class explores ancient and medieval religious experiences in light of contemporary uncanny reality narratives. These themes include: Specifically American mythology of UFOs and sublimated technology linked to trauma, nuclear war, and uncanny conspiracy culture. Absurdist non-real imitative gnosticism of Philip K. Dick, the mythic realities of Eranos scholars (such as Mircea Eliade and Henri Corbin), and the "control system" of French Ufologist Jacques Vallee. Alien abductions and prophetic tours of heaven. Myth of Jack Parsons, L. Ron Hubbard, Robert Heinlein: creating a homunculus and an inter-dimensional stargate. Historical accounts of the coloniality of Japanese utsuro-bune and imperial nuclear monsters. Reports of volcanic eruptions linked to theophanies, UFO sightings, and monkey-man attacks in Asia and Central America. Shamanistic bodily dismemberment, warrior initiation rites, and fallen angel narratives (including the fiery deification of Enoch into Metatron). Possibilities of time travel, temporal anomalies, lost time, and cyclical periodicity. Extraterrestrial languages and the viros of human language, meteoric origins of life, and many-worlds simulacra models.
Students should expect a dynamic learning environment with interactive and multi-disciplinary approaches focused on thoughtful conversations about issues raised by readings, images, sounds, and other sensory experiences. Learning focuses on unstructured creative insights combining multiple perspectives -- a kind of "keeping all the balls in the air" approach to resolving unsettling and profound questions relating to the history of human experience of the eruption into our consciousness of intentional non-human intelligence.
Brannon Wheeler, Ph.D. (University of Chicago), is a professional historian of religion with over 40 years of experience across nearly 100 countries worldwide. Currently a professor at a major educational institution in Annapolis, MD, Prof. Wheeler has published eleven books exploring the influence of non-human intelligences on the development of human culture and religion.
Images: The Night Journey (Isra and Mi'raj) of the Prophet Muhammad on the Buraq, ca. 621 CE; Illustration of the Japanese legend of the Utsuro-bune (hollow ship), ca. 1844, Nagahashi Matajirou; Air Battle of Stralsund, ca. 1665, Unknown artist.
