UFO encounters are offering us a transformative vision of the nature of reality and our evolving consciousness

We might well ask if UFOs come from outer space, inner space or a dimension in between. Are they trying to make up our minds for us?

The skewed logic underlying the UFO phenomenon realigns approaches to meaning through what David J Moore calls the ‘evolutionary metaphor’ in his edifying and interdisciplinary investigation — Evolutionary Metaphors: UFOs, New Existentialism and the Future Paradigm (O-Books, UK £10.95 / US $16.95, May 2019) — of one of the most perplexing mysteries of our time.

In a valiant and far-sighted attempt to get to grips with the phenomenon as ‘an archetypal challenge to our cultural limitations’, Moore draws on the optimistic ‘new existentialism’ of the English philosopher-novelist Colin Wilson (1931–2013), offering a spiritual and philosophical base for the ‘creative integration of our consciousness towards anomalous experience’.

In doing so, Moore — who says his outlook developed radically from gloomy existentialism to Wilson’s optimistic philosophy after seeing a UFO in 2008 — also explores the diverse occult, esoteric, imaginative and creative speculations that have arisen from ufolore…