Discussion of three principal way;. in which alien intelligences could communi-
cate with us: (1) direct visitation; {2) remote c0mmunications; (3) ambassa-
dorial liaison.
Cade, C. Maxwell. A long, cool look at alien intelligence. Part IV -- Possible
significance of parapsychology. Flying saucer review, v. 13, Nov. -Dec. 1967:
13-15.
Discussion of ways in which prosopesis (alternating personalities) and ideoplasty
(an idea manifesting as a bodily change in the same person) are related to the
subject of flying saucers. It is suggested that many of the strange mental dis-
turbances which we put down to madness, genius, hysterical dissociation, or
drunkedness, are the eariy stirrings of ideoplastic concepts induced by cosmic
telepathy.
----- A long, cool look at alien intelligence: Part V -- It's all i.n the mind. Flying
saucer review. v. 14, Mar. -Apr. 1968: 7-9.
Author surrnests the possibility that UFOs and poltergeists are among phenomena
which could be "experienced, " with completely convincing realism, rlue to ef-
fects of electromagnetic fields. He also suggests that this electromagnetic iadi-
ation could be either terrestrial or extraterrestrial in origin; it could be either
a stochastic natural process or the planned product of an alien intelligence.
Calvin, Melvin. Chemical evolution. In Cameron, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar
communication. New York, W. A.-Benjamin, 1963. p. 33-77.
Fro questions on the nature and characteristics of life, the author proceeds
through theories on chemical evolution with the establishment of an e Inter-
stellar communication. New York, W. A. Benjamin, Inc., 1963. p. 309-31~.
Fields of research that c'l.n contribute in a more direci. way to guesses about
the nature of extraterrestr:ial societies are discussed. Nearest communicative
civilization should be expected to be about 87 parsecs away (284 light-years).
For civilizations on planets near the very faint stars which have been proposed
as likely to exist, the laser may be the obvious way of communication, since
the signal-to-noise ratio of their optical transmissions should be orders of
magnitude better than that calculated for the i:,un by Schwartz and Townes.
Cameron, A. G. W., ed. Interstellar ('Omn111'1ication. ;~ew York, W. A.
Benjamin, Inc., 1963. 320 p.
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