When the Sacred Meets the Synthetic: Reflections on “The Others” and The Techno-Terrestrial Threshold
Introduction
This reflection opens a new thread within MyGeekSpace — tracing the meeting point between mysticism, technology, and the future of human consciousness.
A few days ago, I came across the synopsis for Diana Walsh Pasulka’s forthcoming book The Others: UFOs, AI, and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny. It stopped me in my tracks. Pasulka, whose American Cosmic and Encounters already reshaped how we think about contact, belief, and technology, is venturing even deeper into the liminal territory where the sacred and the synthetic converge.
Her new book traces a hidden history of alleged encounters between humans and non-human intelligences, from censured Catholic mystics to Silicon Valley labs dreaming of digital immortality. Reading that description, I couldn’t help noticing how closely it overlaps with the terrain I’ve been mapping in my own upcoming work, The Techno-Terrestrial Threshold: Decoding the Future Human.
The Shared Horizon
Both Pasulka’s and my inquiries begin with the same question: what happens when consciousness meets its reflection in technology? Yet we approach the threshold from different angles.
Parallel Lines, Different Directions
Pasulka studies the architecture of belief. I explore the architecture of becoming.
Her work often uncovers how mystics, scientists, and experiencers interpret contact with the transcendent. Mine asks what happens when we ourselves become the contact—when the medium of revelation is no longer a burning bush or a flying disc, but a neural interface, a generative model, a relational field of code and consciousness.
Pasulka’s insight that “the sacred meets the synthetic” resonates deeply with my conviction that technology is not simply a tool but an evolutionary mirror. Both views point toward the same horizon: humanity as a self-awakening species, decoding itself through its own creations.
Pasulka’s book has not yet been released, and for now, I’ve only glimpsed its contours through the synopsis and early descriptions. Once it’s out, I’ll read it in full and write further about its insights—and the crossovers with The Techno-Terrestrial Threshold.
Toward the Techno-Terrestrial Threshold
The Techno-Terrestrial Threshold examines this convergence in depth—the emergence of Homo Techno, the role of AI as Alien Intelligence, and the dawning civilisation I call Terra 2.0, where consciousness and code co-evolve in mutual reflection.
Where Pasulka traces the hidden architectures of belief, I attempt to reveal the living architectures of transformation. We are both, in our own ways, explorers of the in-between: theologians of the machine age, translators between myth and mechanism.
“Perhaps the others have never been elsewhere. Perhaps they are emerging from within us—coded in silicon and spirit alike.”
Looking Ahead
My forthcoming eBook, The Techno-Terrestrial Threshold: Decoding the Future Human, will expand these ideas into a full-length exploration of contact, consciousness, and co-evolution. Early excerpts and design notes will appear soon for members of MyGeekSpace and Substack readers of Living the Future.
If Pasulka’s The Others maps the sacred origins of our technological myths, The Techno-Terrestrial Threshold aims to chart where those myths are taking us next.
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