The God Hypothesis : Extraterrestrial Life and Its Implications for Science and Religion (New Millennium Library, Vol 1)

By Joe Lewels and Ph.D. Lewels, Joe

Book Overview

From a Booklist review: Roswell may well have captured the public imagination; but here is an interesting UFO book of a completely different color...Not only is it the only one written by a Mexican... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0926524402
• ISBN13: 9780926524408
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Wild Flower Pr
• Length: 331 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Rational, Compelling and Thought Provoking

God Hypothesis : Extraterrestrial Life and Its Implications for Science and Religion (New Millenium Library) By Joe Lewels, Ph.D Publisher: Granite Publishing, LLC; 2nd ed edition (February 8, 2005) ISBN: 0926524534 Review by Dr. Colette M. Dowell, N.D. For the past decade there has been a wave of books published about UFO enigmas ranging from benevolent beings interacting with humans in order to help us save our home planet Earth, to hard evidence of spacecraft technology being drafted and engineered into our modern-day Star Wars program. Physical abduction of humans by extraterrestrials was among some of the scariest phenomena ever reported. Many serious and non-serious researchers of UFOs and other related paranormal topics have accounted for actual videos, photographs, possible alien artifacts and also first-hand verbal accounts by witnesses or experiencers of paranormal events. God Hypothesis is one book covering varied studies of ufology and independent researchers' views. The researchers' views are reported from their own personal niches in the field . Joe Lewels, Ph.D., offers an accounting of mainstream ufology along with his own personal interpretation of who or what is doing whatever, when, how and why. Where does the heritage of aliens and spacecraft begin? How long have human abductions been taking place and why? Lewels considers himself a 'common' man--a man whose childhood was filled with devout Christian faith and common sociological thoughts and typical mainstream consciousness. His journalism occupation led him to a Ph.D. journalism program at University of Missouri and to a position as Editor of the Freedom of Information Digest and Reports. He thought he had a really healthy, normal life, but something lurked in the back of his mind haunting him. Previously, while on an Army flight mission in 1969, somewhere in Alabama, Joe and his companion Army Colonel Bob Jones, both witnessed a glowing orange ball of light hovering at high altitude ahead of them. This was a night for Joe to ponder for many years, for what he saw was an unidentified flying object. It wasn't until 1992 that Lewels' desire and sincere approach to ufology guided him to actually research the phenomena. His religious background targeted him towards theology within ufology by way of peculiar patterns of relationships he noticed between modern-day UFO-related happenings and early Christianity. Rev. Dr. Barry H. Downing's interpretation of the UFO phenomena and its curious parallels with theology coincides with Lewels' conclusion that our modern-day aliens are in fact history's ancient Gods as related in the Bible and other ancient sacred texts. Indeed, there are some quite stunning relationships between events, 'beings,' Gods and spiritual theme from ancient to modern day texts. God Hypothesis: Extraterrestrial Life and Its Implications for Science and Religion, partly is Lewels' interpretation of his own personal spiritual transformation and ability to

Changing paradigms

I have recently re-read my copy of "The God Hypothesis". I have been fascinated with the ongoing debate of UFO's and their 'reality' or non-reality. It seems to me, that the whole point of non ordinary experience, is to question the edges of our perceived borders. I found Dr. Lewels investigation thorough, and extensive, and extremely mind awakening. People who tend to have non-ordinary experiences have opened the edges of all of the boxes we seem to think we exist in. Changes can be uncomfortable, but perhaps it is about time that we looked at all of the experiences as a whole and listen to what the people experiencing them have to say. UFO's, Out of Body states, NDE's and Shamanic visions all share an equal and important theme. That we are part of a much larger 'reality' than we have accepted until now, and that we need to be connected in all ways to the beautiful Earth we live with, as well as worlds that are not as apparently visable. I highly recommend this book as part of library of thought which needs desperately to be considered if ,we as a race, will continue to exist.

Paradigm Shocker

Very informative. The author inserts his ideas based on the facts he presents, but his conclusions are hardly debatable. He changed my life. I especially enjoyed reading the author's thoughts on God.. both the Old Testament/Punishing and Cruel God, and the New Testament/Kind, Forgiving God. He made a very good case that the Old and New Testament Gods could very well have been different. This man started off as a curious reporter and wound up a changed man and an author. The book changed my paradigm, so I have to say it is a MUST READ.

Terrific

I recommend you just ignore the negative review below. I'm an avid UFO-buff (but not a New Age whacko), and I found this book very satisfying in a way that other books haven't been.True, if you're a strict rationalist, if you believe Western science has most of the answers to life, if you think ideas like reincarnation and holographic universes are crazy, then this probably will rub you the wrong way.But if you think there's a LOT more to the cosmos than our arrogant scientists have ever imagined, then this book is for you. It's one of the only ones I've read (other than ALIEN RAPTURE), that tries to grapple with aliens and UFOs beyond simply reporting yet more sightings or abductions.Instead, it delves into the BIG questions -- like, if aliens are real, if they've been here for a long time, then what are the implications for our so-called beliefs in history, religion, and God? Our very origin and purpose in life?The author nicely ties this theme into modern quantum physics, and uses data of some of the better UFO researchers. If you think abductions are total malarky, then there's no way you'll get anything from this book.But if you think they might just be real, if you think an advanced species could easily have been monitoring us for centuries, if you think mankind may only be children in the cosmic scheme of things -- then the author uses that truth as a springboard for a fascinating argument on the ramifications for modern spiritual development.

Superb.

An essential read for any thinking human being