Extraterrestrials as a Modern Myth: Religion, Technology, and the Quest for Meaning

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Humans use extraterrestrial ideas as modern myths to understand existence, with Claude Vorilhon and groups like the Aetherius Society, Scientology, and Heaven’s Gate showing how sci‑fi concepts become spiritual paths amid postwar fears and UFO episodes such as Roswell and Betty and Barney Hill, a process scholars like Whitley Strieber and Karen Armstrong call sacred storytelling that unites humans, animals, and nature.

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Even when it’s not explicitly religious, belief in alien visitors resembles our oldest ways of making sense of the world