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Closer Encounters
The US government UAP Report of the summer of 2021 marks a turning point in the modern history of Close Encounters � but not for the reasons that most people think. The UAP Report is not the first step toward some future full “Disclosure� regarding UFOs and related phenomena. Rather, it is a milestone in a long-term plan to subjugate everyone on this planet to a tyrannically totalitarian regime. Taking as its point of departure this monstrous Pentagon lie, and the broader question of the relationship between UFOs and State Sovereignty, this book examines every aspect of the complex Close Encounter phenomenon through all of human history.
There are seven extant interpretive frameworks for Close Encounters: the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis (ETH), the Breakaway Civilization Hypothesis, the Inter-Dimensional Hypothesis, the Time Traveler Hypothesis, the Parapsychological (or Ultra-Terrestrial) Hypothesis, the Atlantean Survivors (or Crypto-Terrestrial) Hypothesis, and the Simulation Avatars Hypothesis. This study shows how these hypotheses are not mutually exclusive alternatives. All of them are facets of a single much more complex reality that has fundamentally defined the human condition on a fifth-dimensional level.
This reality is terrifying. It will never be revealed by any government on the planet, or acknowledged by the scientific establishment, and its disclosure would destroy every existing religious and social institution. In fact, humanity cannot survive the disclosure of what is detailed in this book. Rather, this profound philosophical analysis of Close Encounters demonstrates that the true nature of the phenomenon has to do with the cosmic force of evolution challenging us to overcome the limits of what has defined “humanity� for at least 250 million years � since our civilization on Mars was destroyed.
There are seven extant interpretive frameworks for Close Encounters: the Extra-Terrestrial Hypothesis (ETH), the Breakaway Civilization Hypothesis, the Inter-Dimensional Hypothesis, the Time Traveler Hypothesis, the Parapsychological (or Ultra-Terrestrial) Hypothesis, the Atlantean Survivors (or Crypto-Terrestrial) Hypothesis, and the Simulation Avatars Hypothesis. This study shows how these hypotheses are not mutually exclusive alternatives. All of them are facets of a single much more complex reality that has fundamentally defined the human condition on a fifth-dimensional level.
This reality is terrifying. It will never be revealed by any government on the planet, or acknowledged by the scientific establishment, and its disclosure would destroy every existing religious and social institution. In fact, humanity cannot survive the disclosure of what is detailed in this book. Rather, this profound philosophical analysis of Close Encounters demonstrates that the true nature of the phenomenon has to do with the cosmic force of evolution challenging us to overcome the limits of what has defined “humanity� for at least 250 million years � since our civilization on Mars was destroyed.
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First published August 19, 2021
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September 23, 2021
Jorjani is a brilliant speculatist, and I admire his radical open-minded-skepticism and his capacity and mastery of abductive reasoning. It is unclear to me what he believes personally, but some of the theories here hinges on very suspect axioms, I.e. on books (testimony) written by somewhat shady authors.
He manages to puzzle fascinating evidence together in ways which nobody else does, and he is incredibly brave to chase this story wherever it leads him, knowing that it necessarily will provide endless ridicule. A lot of the evidence (public domain, yet unfortunately not integrated into consensus reality) is reliable and would be shocking to most people, but I do feel he incorporated some ideas for the shock factor, or maybe as a David-Ickean way of protecting himself by stating ideas that are blatantly absurd. That strategy is defensible, but it leaves a lot of responsibility on the reader, such that he or she must by herself differentiate.
Hard to critique the guy, some of these facts are so deeply uncomfortable that whatever framework, tactic or rhetoric one chooses in order to communicate them as broadly as this is respectable. Most of us would have or psychological defense mechanisms kicked in long ago, but Jorjani is able to stay hyperfocused and does not cave. Just holding some of this facts clearly in mind for a bit is bound to induce cognitive dissonance.
We live in a post-UAP-confirmed world as of 2020 and 2021 specifically, let's hope that by releasing such information to the public, the Pentagon or the military industrial complex is not planning a mass scale psyop. The 21st century is definitively the most interesting Era to be alive, as the most intriguing question of all is being exploded open at a rate not even the craziest conspiracy theorists would have believed 10 years ago.
He manages to puzzle fascinating evidence together in ways which nobody else does, and he is incredibly brave to chase this story wherever it leads him, knowing that it necessarily will provide endless ridicule. A lot of the evidence (public domain, yet unfortunately not integrated into consensus reality) is reliable and would be shocking to most people, but I do feel he incorporated some ideas for the shock factor, or maybe as a David-Ickean way of protecting himself by stating ideas that are blatantly absurd. That strategy is defensible, but it leaves a lot of responsibility on the reader, such that he or she must by herself differentiate.
Hard to critique the guy, some of these facts are so deeply uncomfortable that whatever framework, tactic or rhetoric one chooses in order to communicate them as broadly as this is respectable. Most of us would have or psychological defense mechanisms kicked in long ago, but Jorjani is able to stay hyperfocused and does not cave. Just holding some of this facts clearly in mind for a bit is bound to induce cognitive dissonance.
We live in a post-UAP-confirmed world as of 2020 and 2021 specifically, let's hope that by releasing such information to the public, the Pentagon or the military industrial complex is not planning a mass scale psyop. The 21st century is definitively the most interesting Era to be alive, as the most intriguing question of all is being exploded open at a rate not even the craziest conspiracy theorists would have believed 10 years ago.
June 16, 2022
Wildly unlikely but very entertaining book. The author cites everything from Charles Fort to the Old Testament, mainly without critical reflection, and suggests, for example, that time travellers from Earth, who came here from Mars millions of years ago (a nuclear war having rendered that planet uninhabitable), still regularly fly their Foo Fighters through cracks in time from underground/undersea bases, and the Antarctic, and they will gradually be revealing their true agenda soon. These 'Nordics' actually built the moon, you see, as a way to stabilise the biosphere and generate life here, and the moon is mainly hollow, what's more.
These devas mainly use the Greys 👽 (which are actually droids that they control) as a kind of lumpenproletariat.
I'm not sure I understood the propulsion technique they're using but none of this solid fuel rocketry bobbins.
Contrary to my belief that Humankind has not stepped on the moon (the whole rigmarole having been filmed in Arizona and massive hangars near Stanley Kubrick's home, and the rest, as every fule kno) our narrator explains that the astronauts realised that inhabitants of the Dark Side Of The Moon were watching their steps, Large and Small, from a hill. The NASA guys even said so on their magic radios to Mission Control but these recordings got lost, or something, and some Men In Black wiped their memories.
As I said: wildly unlikely but definitely fun.
These devas mainly use the Greys 👽 (which are actually droids that they control) as a kind of lumpenproletariat.
I'm not sure I understood the propulsion technique they're using but none of this solid fuel rocketry bobbins.
Contrary to my belief that Humankind has not stepped on the moon (the whole rigmarole having been filmed in Arizona and massive hangars near Stanley Kubrick's home, and the rest, as every fule kno) our narrator explains that the astronauts realised that inhabitants of the Dark Side Of The Moon were watching their steps, Large and Small, from a hill. The NASA guys even said so on their magic radios to Mission Control but these recordings got lost, or something, and some Men In Black wiped their memories.
As I said: wildly unlikely but definitely fun.
October 15, 2022
It continues to amaze me that witnesses and even abductees take appearances at face value when it comes to UFOs and aliens. Given this, it probably shouldn’t surprise one that this is also what’s happened with the bigger picture of the phenomenon.
Any sufficiently advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic.
Given the seemingly magical abilities that UFO’s consistently demonstrate, the powers of deception here must be assumed as such that you simply cannot accept of anything for what it appears to be. The legendary Jacques Vallée (author of the classic Passport to Magonia ) and guiding light on the UFO subject as well as a heretic with regard to the still official line of thought (Extraterrestrial Hypothesis) understands this. He masterfully demonstrates the imagination and hyper-focus necessary to grapple effectively with this mystery.
The best UFO books all embody a crucial element - fearlessness. As for this author, he’s way past a refreshing open-mindedness, he’s fearless to the end. The grand narrative he constructs and all the angles he attacks this phenomenon from astonishes. Those who adopt belief systems that unimaginatively and naively posit UFOs and their inhabitants as benevolent forces nudging humanity towards enlightenment and even a seat at the table of the harmonious and morally perfect galactic federation are almost certainly what they appear to be - wishful thinkers and fools. They obviously haven’t read Vallée’s book Confrontations about harmful and even fatal encounters with UFOs in the Amazon. They and you shouldn’t read that book or this book if unwilling or unready to confront all possibilities. It’s also worth noting that this book is a trove for references to other books on various aspects of the phenomenon.
If nothing else, this book is entertaining, thought provoking, and frightening. It may be brilliant.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology becomes indistinguishable from magic.
Given the seemingly magical abilities that UFO’s consistently demonstrate, the powers of deception here must be assumed as such that you simply cannot accept of anything for what it appears to be. The legendary Jacques Vallée (author of the classic Passport to Magonia ) and guiding light on the UFO subject as well as a heretic with regard to the still official line of thought (Extraterrestrial Hypothesis) understands this. He masterfully demonstrates the imagination and hyper-focus necessary to grapple effectively with this mystery.
The best UFO books all embody a crucial element - fearlessness. As for this author, he’s way past a refreshing open-mindedness, he’s fearless to the end. The grand narrative he constructs and all the angles he attacks this phenomenon from astonishes. Those who adopt belief systems that unimaginatively and naively posit UFOs and their inhabitants as benevolent forces nudging humanity towards enlightenment and even a seat at the table of the harmonious and morally perfect galactic federation are almost certainly what they appear to be - wishful thinkers and fools. They obviously haven’t read Vallée’s book Confrontations about harmful and even fatal encounters with UFOs in the Amazon. They and you shouldn’t read that book or this book if unwilling or unready to confront all possibilities. It’s also worth noting that this book is a trove for references to other books on various aspects of the phenomenon.
If nothing else, this book is entertaining, thought provoking, and frightening. It may be brilliant.
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April 18, 2024
Pretty clearly Jorjani's most important book- this is where he first lays out his grand theory of just wtf is going on in this realm: an ever unfolding "change war" between die schlange und die spinne; conflict between a time travelling Nordic (wannabe) "master race" with their "grey alien" biobots, against some super-psychic ocean entity (something that is comparable to octopus as we are to apes) that has possibly been brought back into our time from the future by a faction of rebel Atlanteans to spark the impulse to novelty against another faction of Atlanteans that built megalithic structures as a reflection of their intention to enshrine permeance; hybrid humans being bred from our population and time traveler "aliens" based on Mars and the moon a the behest of the a cosmic trickster- the "Promethaion".
Taking direction from Charles Forte, Jacques Vallee and John Keel, Jorjani's "book on flying saucers" is an immense amalgamation of information and an heroic attempt at its coherent synthesis into a digestible ontology and ethos. He attempts to give the reader an out in his stalwart Americanism, but it is an incredibly bleak picture nonetheless- its devils all the way down; no authentic redemption deity to speak of, except Prometheus, who compels us to accept a fate worse than death to be worthy of him.
At times, some of the varieties of cases seem somewhat forced into Jorjani's synthesis (e.g. the cases about hikers being sucked into time warps), but its an admirable effort nonetheless. Our largest contention is probably with the chapters interpreting bible events are UFO encounters- some of them are certainly plausible if we accept the general premise of the time travelling breakaway civilization, but others seem spurious, and our view of the Bible as a manufactured Roman text (Joseph Atwill, Josephus wrote the New Testament as Flavian propaganda etc) conflicts with there being a real Jesus who was really a grifter from a flying saucer. But hey- both could be correct concurrently, in some regard.
Overall, if you're going to read JR Jorjani, this is probably the best place to start: if you can't stomach this, there's not much point in approaching his other work, and if you digest this first, it'll put the rest of his work in a proper perspective.
Taking direction from Charles Forte, Jacques Vallee and John Keel, Jorjani's "book on flying saucers" is an immense amalgamation of information and an heroic attempt at its coherent synthesis into a digestible ontology and ethos. He attempts to give the reader an out in his stalwart Americanism, but it is an incredibly bleak picture nonetheless- its devils all the way down; no authentic redemption deity to speak of, except Prometheus, who compels us to accept a fate worse than death to be worthy of him.
At times, some of the varieties of cases seem somewhat forced into Jorjani's synthesis (e.g. the cases about hikers being sucked into time warps), but its an admirable effort nonetheless. Our largest contention is probably with the chapters interpreting bible events are UFO encounters- some of them are certainly plausible if we accept the general premise of the time travelling breakaway civilization, but others seem spurious, and our view of the Bible as a manufactured Roman text (Joseph Atwill, Josephus wrote the New Testament as Flavian propaganda etc) conflicts with there being a real Jesus who was really a grifter from a flying saucer. But hey- both could be correct concurrently, in some regard.
Overall, if you're going to read JR Jorjani, this is probably the best place to start: if you can't stomach this, there's not much point in approaching his other work, and if you digest this first, it'll put the rest of his work in a proper perspective.
October 10, 2023
This is such a fast paced and dense book, it was hard to keep up. Jorjani describes his grand unified theory of all UFO/religious/strangeness/“conspiracy theory� lore into one narrative. That narrative is:
Nazi scientists escaped to Antarctica and invented time travel. This then allowed them access to any technology that has or will exist. This eugenic Aryan race now portrays themselves and an alien race visiting earth in UFOs, commonly called the Nordics. This breakaway Nazi civilization went back in time and moved to Mars, so as to not affect developments on earth. The remains of their society include Cydonia and the face on Mars. Other alien races encountered by people, such as reptilians and greys, were created by the Nordics.
The Nazi/Nordics also infiltrated the American government to destroy communism. With the fall of the USSR, the American government is no longer useful to them and will be overthrown. They view themselves as the benevolent caretaker of a humanity that needs strong leadership. This also explains why UFOs are often more lethal in areas like South America (since they are super racist).
Through their extradimensional time travel journeys, they have come in contacts with a powerful Trickster entity/god which also has an interest in humanity. This entity also portrays itself through UFOs, cryptids and other strange phenomena and was written about extensively by John Keel and Charles Fort. This entity is amoral and largely unknown, but Jorjani says we should take our chances with the trickster than agree to Nazi subjugation. Jorjani also discusses at length against Abrahamic religions and explains them as Nazi time traveler propaganda.
The whole premise hinges on Nazis getting time travel technology. He explains how time travel would work and why they wouldn’t change time by giving the Nazis in WWII weapons from the future. I was impressed how many things he was able to connect with that basic assumption.
Nazi scientists escaped to Antarctica and invented time travel. This then allowed them access to any technology that has or will exist. This eugenic Aryan race now portrays themselves and an alien race visiting earth in UFOs, commonly called the Nordics. This breakaway Nazi civilization went back in time and moved to Mars, so as to not affect developments on earth. The remains of their society include Cydonia and the face on Mars. Other alien races encountered by people, such as reptilians and greys, were created by the Nordics.
The Nazi/Nordics also infiltrated the American government to destroy communism. With the fall of the USSR, the American government is no longer useful to them and will be overthrown. They view themselves as the benevolent caretaker of a humanity that needs strong leadership. This also explains why UFOs are often more lethal in areas like South America (since they are super racist).
Through their extradimensional time travel journeys, they have come in contacts with a powerful Trickster entity/god which also has an interest in humanity. This entity also portrays itself through UFOs, cryptids and other strange phenomena and was written about extensively by John Keel and Charles Fort. This entity is amoral and largely unknown, but Jorjani says we should take our chances with the trickster than agree to Nazi subjugation. Jorjani also discusses at length against Abrahamic religions and explains them as Nazi time traveler propaganda.
The whole premise hinges on Nazis getting time travel technology. He explains how time travel would work and why they wouldn’t change time by giving the Nazis in WWII weapons from the future. I was impressed how many things he was able to connect with that basic assumption.
July 24, 2023
This book felt like listening to a schizophrenic's map of history.
The Others are simultaneously omnipotent and unable to affect changes they want.
Able to time travel until it matters and they fail at ending nuclear proliferation.
Then the worst: the author explains the rise of using tools to measure and quantify humanity's traits by a most misguided belief in Eugenics.
Stating how this set of ideas was used to kill millions of humans, and yet failed to "raise" the race the nazis wanted.
In the very next chapter he levels up his profoundly unstudied view by saying we humans were bred for traits,like dogs, by "them". He states his apologies to any "politically correct" readers beforehand so that's all fine right?
Once again, "they" are simultaneously omnipotent and ineffectual,as the author needs them.
This view is childish and simplistic of our human history.
It is equally as dangerous and this type of rhetoric rings through the halls of every authoritarian since it was published.
These beliefs gained power in a time when few could read except the pale landed gentry, and they espoused it like doctrine.
It's been a pernicious root of vile behavior ever since and I cannot abide giving this misguided conspiracy monger another minute of my time.
I never trust anyone who feels safe in stating anyone else's motives, it's the true sign of a dangerous person.
Authoritarians like a neat and tidy outline of their worlds and that is the definition of farce.
I stopped listening at "we've been bred for our traits" . Just gross, and stupid and absolutely unsupportable.
The Others are simultaneously omnipotent and unable to affect changes they want.
Able to time travel until it matters and they fail at ending nuclear proliferation.
Then the worst: the author explains the rise of using tools to measure and quantify humanity's traits by a most misguided belief in Eugenics.
Stating how this set of ideas was used to kill millions of humans, and yet failed to "raise" the race the nazis wanted.
In the very next chapter he levels up his profoundly unstudied view by saying we humans were bred for traits,like dogs, by "them". He states his apologies to any "politically correct" readers beforehand so that's all fine right?
Once again, "they" are simultaneously omnipotent and ineffectual,as the author needs them.
This view is childish and simplistic of our human history.
It is equally as dangerous and this type of rhetoric rings through the halls of every authoritarian since it was published.
These beliefs gained power in a time when few could read except the pale landed gentry, and they espoused it like doctrine.
It's been a pernicious root of vile behavior ever since and I cannot abide giving this misguided conspiracy monger another minute of my time.
I never trust anyone who feels safe in stating anyone else's motives, it's the true sign of a dangerous person.
Authoritarians like a neat and tidy outline of their worlds and that is the definition of farce.
I stopped listening at "we've been bred for our traits" . Just gross, and stupid and absolutely unsupportable.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 2, 2023
"... to be capable of more interesting wickedness."
I imagine those familiar with Dr. Jorjani's work will respond to Closer Encounters with either 1) aneurysm or 2) delight.
There is some genuinely terrifying information here that I was not previously aware of.
The conclusions, too, are fresh.
Some surprises:
- Cephalopods.
- Ancient Greek Vampires.
- Dead gods playing dead; the better to draw you in, Dearie.
- Time traveling Nazi Overlords.
- Kamikaze seduction of the archons.
If you stand on a firm foundation of spiritual TRUTH, you will not like this book.
If you have not made up your mind and appreciate thought experiments, you might like this book.
If you are willing to stand in an open field, begging the lightening bolt to share a glimpse of its mysteries, THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK.
Thank you, Dr. Jorjani!
I imagine those familiar with Dr. Jorjani's work will respond to Closer Encounters with either 1) aneurysm or 2) delight.
There is some genuinely terrifying information here that I was not previously aware of.
The conclusions, too, are fresh.
Some surprises:
- Cephalopods.
- Ancient Greek Vampires.
- Dead gods playing dead; the better to draw you in, Dearie.
- Time traveling Nazi Overlords.
- Kamikaze seduction of the archons.
If you stand on a firm foundation of spiritual TRUTH, you will not like this book.
If you have not made up your mind and appreciate thought experiments, you might like this book.
If you are willing to stand in an open field, begging the lightening bolt to share a glimpse of its mysteries, THEN YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK.
Thank you, Dr. Jorjani!
September 28, 2021
THE EMPIRE NEVER ENDED
This book is about so much more than just UFO:s. It is a book that incorporates all different kinds of UFO (and USO) phenomena into a grand narrative in a quest to understand Being. The author has an uncanny ability to incorporate information from a vast number of different areas and synthesize it into novel ideas. I am just perplexed as to how anyone could have had the time to read all the material that is sourced in this book, it really makes the case for time-travel even stronger. Finally this a call for Dasein to break free from Das Man and its disillusioned archons. If not that this book will at least give you loads of inspiration and material to become the next H.P Lovecraft or Philip K. Dick.
This book is about so much more than just UFO:s. It is a book that incorporates all different kinds of UFO (and USO) phenomena into a grand narrative in a quest to understand Being. The author has an uncanny ability to incorporate information from a vast number of different areas and synthesize it into novel ideas. I am just perplexed as to how anyone could have had the time to read all the material that is sourced in this book, it really makes the case for time-travel even stronger. Finally this a call for Dasein to break free from Das Man and its disillusioned archons. If not that this book will at least give you loads of inspiration and material to become the next H.P Lovecraft or Philip K. Dick.
February 11, 2024
There's a lot to say on this one. I have watched many Jorjani videos and find him to be an outstanding thinker as well as an artist of ideas. He is also probably one of the most well-read people in the field of the paranormal. As a philosophy major myself, the blending of serious philosophical considerations taken with the real issue of the paranormal and parapsychology is a wonder to behold. Jorjani hits on key issues which almost no one in the mainstream is willing to talk about, if they are even aware of them in the first place.
That said, I do often find his conclusions hard to swallow and I sometimes find his justifications too flimsy. His thinking is beautiful and imaginative, I see all the connections he's making, but each data point is so uncertain to my mind -- I have no way of verifying which encounter may be physical, a dream, a visionary experience, an archetypal metaphor, or all of them and none of them at the same time. A key question raised in this book is the possibility that revelatory religious experience is "faked". Although the question is not really raised, rather it is asserted outright that this is the case without question. I admittedly skipped a lot of the parts deconstructing the Bible since he takes an entirely credulous literal-historical approach, and frankly it was boring. He criticizes God for a lack of morality and the Bible for a lack of consistency but also calls for us to consider becoming more wicked and more tricky. Since when are Tricksters sticklers for consistency? For all of Jorjani's wonderful criticisms of materialism and science, his take on the Bible's inconsistency comes off as a Dawkins atheist. Is he not aware that there are conceptions of God that are beyond good and evil? This is what Jung tackles with the transformation of the God image in Aion. It's very strange to see Jorjani's parallel notion of the Trickster god Aion, the child god playing in time, as well as his strong references to Heraclitus, both of which are pivotal figures in Jung's thinking, without more than a single off-hand reference to Jung's eponymous work. And I'm not sure it is accurate, since the reference asserts that "Jung... still considered Christ as the Aion". As far as I understand it, Jung thought Christ was the Aion of Pisces but the god image will transform through integration with the Antichrist into this divine child trickster Aion of Aquarius, very much in line with Jorjani's ideas as well as Crowley and others.
To my mind, depth psychology would appear to have a decent foundation on which to construct precisely the sort of Promethean technoscience of a symbolic (psychoid) reality. The fact that Jorjani completely overlooks this in his work would seem to have a two-fold explanation. Firstly, it's too symbolic for him, perhaps he wants to emphasize the material/physical reality of symbols, worried that we might "psychologize" these phenomena away. The other explanation for his fraught relationship with Jung is a truly grand irony worthy of psychoanalysis. Jung was forever conflicted with his alternate personality, the wise philosopher. He made a decision when he chose his career that he was going to be a scientist. Despite his need to eschew philosophical speculation in favor of a rigorous empiricism, Jung was constantly drawn towards the philosophical. His whole work circumambulates the nature of psyche, man's place in the world, the pursuit of wisdom and living a good life. Jorjani on the other hand decided to be a philosopher, but appears to have a personality #2 of the technoscientist. His work revolves around technoscience, in much the same way as Jung's work revolves around philosophy. Thus, Jung is never a good enough philosopher for Jorjani and Jorjani is always a way more imaginative scientist than him. Of course, he would be, since Jorjani's inner technoscientist is never held back by the deflating reality of an experiment which fails to prove the hypothesis. This conflict is particularly evident in Jung's notion of synchronicity which Jorjani takes as bad philosophy -- you can't say it's acausal, stupid, don't you know about these philosophical notions of causality?! Of course Jorjani is correct, but one cannot imagine that Jung was not familiar with Aristotle's four causes. Much more likely, Jung was trying to be a rigid empiricist and abide with the notion of causality as it is understood in physics so he would be taken seriously as a scientist. After all, he worked with Wolfgang Pauli to develop the theory -- a physicist, not a philosopher.
Jorjani takes such a wide and undiscriminating look at all paranormal cases that you can't help but think he is making fun of your credulity when he appears to deliberately misspell the acronym "IFSB" twice in a row as "IFBS", or when he is visibly holding back his laughter as he talks about the "soul trap" on the BTR podcast. Does his glaring misspelling of "bolt" as "bold" refer to his daring ideas or perhaps suggest he is a bold liar? Jorjani has said his books should be read esoterically. He cares about etymology and likes wordplay, in which case such suggestive typos should probably be taken seriously. Is this the world that Jorjani is really seeing, or is it the world he wants to create by suggestion, through writing and imprinting our minds? Of course, we would love to think we are part of that 1% of humanity he thinks should be allowed to survive and evolve. Perhaps if we are stupid enough to believe the narrative he's concocting, it is instead proof that we are part of that 99%. After all, he is just as fear-mongering, contradictory, morally pliable and credulous as these religious believers he is decrying. Maybe the point is to jailbreak his own narrative just as much as any other.
The final thing I'd like to touch on is the distinct lack of any reference to Robert Anton Wilson in any of Jorjani's work that I've seen. Again, there are two reasons I can think of for this. Jorjani may dislike Wilson's radical agnosticism about what is actually going on with these phenomena, perhaps seeing it as lacking any capability for wielding power in the world. Alternatively, if Jorjani really doesn't take this stuff as seriously as he pretends, Wilson may reveal too explicitly what Jorjani is really doing: blending fiction with fact, playing with reality tunnels, performing chaos magick, etc. In other words, Jorjani may want to do Wilson with his theory, rather than explicitly incorporate him into it.
Ultimately, the fun that Jorjani had writing this book bleeds through and it is just as much fun to read it. It is wild, thought provoking and entertaining as all hell. That's why I'm giving Closer Encounters 5 stars.
That said, I do often find his conclusions hard to swallow and I sometimes find his justifications too flimsy. His thinking is beautiful and imaginative, I see all the connections he's making, but each data point is so uncertain to my mind -- I have no way of verifying which encounter may be physical, a dream, a visionary experience, an archetypal metaphor, or all of them and none of them at the same time. A key question raised in this book is the possibility that revelatory religious experience is "faked". Although the question is not really raised, rather it is asserted outright that this is the case without question. I admittedly skipped a lot of the parts deconstructing the Bible since he takes an entirely credulous literal-historical approach, and frankly it was boring. He criticizes God for a lack of morality and the Bible for a lack of consistency but also calls for us to consider becoming more wicked and more tricky. Since when are Tricksters sticklers for consistency? For all of Jorjani's wonderful criticisms of materialism and science, his take on the Bible's inconsistency comes off as a Dawkins atheist. Is he not aware that there are conceptions of God that are beyond good and evil? This is what Jung tackles with the transformation of the God image in Aion. It's very strange to see Jorjani's parallel notion of the Trickster god Aion, the child god playing in time, as well as his strong references to Heraclitus, both of which are pivotal figures in Jung's thinking, without more than a single off-hand reference to Jung's eponymous work. And I'm not sure it is accurate, since the reference asserts that "Jung... still considered Christ as the Aion". As far as I understand it, Jung thought Christ was the Aion of Pisces but the god image will transform through integration with the Antichrist into this divine child trickster Aion of Aquarius, very much in line with Jorjani's ideas as well as Crowley and others.
To my mind, depth psychology would appear to have a decent foundation on which to construct precisely the sort of Promethean technoscience of a symbolic (psychoid) reality. The fact that Jorjani completely overlooks this in his work would seem to have a two-fold explanation. Firstly, it's too symbolic for him, perhaps he wants to emphasize the material/physical reality of symbols, worried that we might "psychologize" these phenomena away. The other explanation for his fraught relationship with Jung is a truly grand irony worthy of psychoanalysis. Jung was forever conflicted with his alternate personality, the wise philosopher. He made a decision when he chose his career that he was going to be a scientist. Despite his need to eschew philosophical speculation in favor of a rigorous empiricism, Jung was constantly drawn towards the philosophical. His whole work circumambulates the nature of psyche, man's place in the world, the pursuit of wisdom and living a good life. Jorjani on the other hand decided to be a philosopher, but appears to have a personality #2 of the technoscientist. His work revolves around technoscience, in much the same way as Jung's work revolves around philosophy. Thus, Jung is never a good enough philosopher for Jorjani and Jorjani is always a way more imaginative scientist than him. Of course, he would be, since Jorjani's inner technoscientist is never held back by the deflating reality of an experiment which fails to prove the hypothesis. This conflict is particularly evident in Jung's notion of synchronicity which Jorjani takes as bad philosophy -- you can't say it's acausal, stupid, don't you know about these philosophical notions of causality?! Of course Jorjani is correct, but one cannot imagine that Jung was not familiar with Aristotle's four causes. Much more likely, Jung was trying to be a rigid empiricist and abide with the notion of causality as it is understood in physics so he would be taken seriously as a scientist. After all, he worked with Wolfgang Pauli to develop the theory -- a physicist, not a philosopher.
Jorjani takes such a wide and undiscriminating look at all paranormal cases that you can't help but think he is making fun of your credulity when he appears to deliberately misspell the acronym "IFSB" twice in a row as "IFBS", or when he is visibly holding back his laughter as he talks about the "soul trap" on the BTR podcast. Does his glaring misspelling of "bolt" as "bold" refer to his daring ideas or perhaps suggest he is a bold liar? Jorjani has said his books should be read esoterically. He cares about etymology and likes wordplay, in which case such suggestive typos should probably be taken seriously. Is this the world that Jorjani is really seeing, or is it the world he wants to create by suggestion, through writing and imprinting our minds? Of course, we would love to think we are part of that 1% of humanity he thinks should be allowed to survive and evolve. Perhaps if we are stupid enough to believe the narrative he's concocting, it is instead proof that we are part of that 99%. After all, he is just as fear-mongering, contradictory, morally pliable and credulous as these religious believers he is decrying. Maybe the point is to jailbreak his own narrative just as much as any other.
The final thing I'd like to touch on is the distinct lack of any reference to Robert Anton Wilson in any of Jorjani's work that I've seen. Again, there are two reasons I can think of for this. Jorjani may dislike Wilson's radical agnosticism about what is actually going on with these phenomena, perhaps seeing it as lacking any capability for wielding power in the world. Alternatively, if Jorjani really doesn't take this stuff as seriously as he pretends, Wilson may reveal too explicitly what Jorjani is really doing: blending fiction with fact, playing with reality tunnels, performing chaos magick, etc. In other words, Jorjani may want to do Wilson with his theory, rather than explicitly incorporate him into it.
Ultimately, the fun that Jorjani had writing this book bleeds through and it is just as much fun to read it. It is wild, thought provoking and entertaining as all hell. That's why I'm giving Closer Encounters 5 stars.
March 24, 2023
This is an extremely thorough, very up to date summary of about 75 years of UFO literature. He goes all in on even the most fringe aspects but maintains the cool calmness of a guide navigating difficult terrain. This might be too much for beginners, but for those who want to delve deep, this is the way.
August 2, 2024
An entertaining read. Reads like science fiction
and 98 percent open to interpretation. Conclusion: nothing new and back to square one
and 98 percent open to interpretation. Conclusion: nothing new and back to square one
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 17, 2023
This book is a terrifying synthesis of the most important ideas of our time. The author opens the book with a quote by h.p. Lovecraft that sums it up best.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. � the sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.�
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. � the sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.�
January 11, 2025
Pretty tiresome political tract, written by a really obvious nazi, in the guise of being about ufology, but it's at least entertaining in spurts. The way he closes the book by saying that the space nazis are wrong to only want to kill 80% of mankind, and should instead kill 99% of mankind so that the ubermensch can thrive in the ashes was such an abrupt gut punch that it turns out to be hilarious.
March 12, 2025
A fascinating and uncensored deep dive into the dark abyss of the UAP/NHI phenomena. I don't think there's anywhere else that you can find such a collection of seemingly disparate ideas and themes all brought together in trying to explain something so completely. It's incredibly compelling and entertaining if you can suspend some disbelief.
February 27, 2023
It has been said that Jason Jorjani is a man whose brain is too large for his skull. The result of that cranial pressure is this gloriously loopy book; that makes Erich Von Daniken look like Neil Tyson at his most boring. Fun read.
August 1, 2024
Read Charles Fort’s The Book of the Damned.
Read John Keel’s Operation Trojan Horse.
Read Jacques Vallee’s Passport to Magonia.
Read William Bramley’s The Gods of Eden.
Then read Closer Encounters.
The answer is there.
Read John Keel’s Operation Trojan Horse.
Read Jacques Vallee’s Passport to Magonia.
Read William Bramley’s The Gods of Eden.
Then read Closer Encounters.
The answer is there.
September 16, 2023
This book is a treasure trove of gripping stories and theories regarding the “entities.� Couldn’t put it down and reread several chapters multiple times. Well done Dr. Jorjani.
September 17, 2023
We are coming for you Nordic’s
February 2, 2025
Definitely worth reading. Many important references to other works for further research.
September 8, 2023
Totally wild ride, massively speculative multidisciplinary work.
December 8, 2023
Although I don't agree with everything Jorjani posits in this book, he does offer a good argument for there being a breakaway civilization.
The problem I have with his philosophical meanderings concerning the nature of the UFO Phenomenon is that I don't think he has done enough research into the history of the phenomenon.
I recommend Jacques Vallee's books for a better understanding of what UFOs could be. The Invisible College is a good starting point.
The problem I have with his philosophical meanderings concerning the nature of the UFO Phenomenon is that I don't think he has done enough research into the history of the phenomenon.
I recommend Jacques Vallee's books for a better understanding of what UFOs could be. The Invisible College is a good starting point.
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