"How--and why-- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of …
Introduction -- 1. Against All Heresies: Gnosticism before Modern Scholarship -- 2. The Era of Gnosis Restored: Nineteenth-century Gnostics -- 3. The Alien God: Gnosticism as Existentialism -- 4. Elite Knowledge: Jung and the Eranos Circle -- 5. No Texts, No History: Nag Hammadi…
