BOOK REVIEW Prof. Charles F. Emmons At the Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age $18.95 + shipping Blue Water Publishing, Inc. POB 190, Mill Spring, NC 28756 (800) 366-0264; (704) 894-8444 URL http://www.bluewaterp.com/~bcrissey In 1988, I researched how the media treated UFO phenomena for my Mass Media and Society term paper; this research led to my current passion to understand the phenomena. Were I invited to appear on Ted Koppel's "Nightline," I would use Prof. Charles F. Emmons' excellent book, At the Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age, to prepare for rebuttal. Though weighty in its coverage of the subject, At the Threshold is suitable for the layman: since it details The Background of the Debate. I don't know if the government has crashed saucers or alien bodies, or if it has secret agreements with ETs, or if it hires ufologists to create false UFO data. However, I think that it is very likely that some of the endless black-marked lines of text released under the Freedom of Information Act to ufologists like Stanton Friedman contain important information on government involvement in UFO matters. I also tend to believe some of the insiders who have told me of their own observations of UFOs and of UFO data when they were associated with the military. [Chapter 11] I suspect that the UFO phenomenon is complex rather than a single mystery capable of solution...I suspect that the origins and purposes of the Visitors are many. [Chapter 11] To examine the complexity of the subject, Prof. Emmons covers the implications of New Physics (wormholes; 10-dimensional reality; holographic universe), the history of ufology (significant cases; governmental and scientific studies; current funding for UFO research), paranormal aspects of UFO incidents (telepathy; apparitions; out-of-body travel), related phenomena (crop circles; cattle mutilations; the Face on Mars), media coverage (sensationalism; witness ridicule), and personality types (encounter-prone personality; hypnogogic and hypnopompic hallucinations). As a professor of sociology, he writes: UFOs seem to pull us into a "Larger Reality," a place that operates on more than the standard physical principles we understand scientifically. [Chapter 11] [60 lines left ... full text available at <url:http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/go?choice=message&table=04_1997&mid=3007559&hilit=UFO> ] -------------------------------- Article-ID: 04_1997&3009489 Score: 90 Subject: Re: Anomalous Satellite Photo - Clarification