- 426 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact. It uses a thought experiment to consider the ecological-economic-ethical-ecclesial impacts of Contact, analyzing incidents around the world described by credible witnesses (two of whom are interviewed for the book), including Roswell and the Hudson River Valley. It discusses government and academic efforts to use ridicule and coercion to suppress Contact investigations, supports a scientific method to research ETI reports in a field that should excite scientists, and calls on academics to publicly disclose their Contact experiences. It traces Earth ecological and economic injustices to the European Enlightenment and the Discovery Doctrine by which European nations rationalized invasion of distant continents, genocide, and seizure of the territories and natural goods of native peoples. It advocates a change in humans' Earth conduct to avoid replicating in space the policies and practices that wrought economic injustice and ecological devastation on Earth, provides an innovative cosmosociological praxis ethics theory and practice toward that end, and develops a Cosmic Charter, based on UN documents, to guide humankind in space and in ETI encounters. Permeated by a profound sense of the sacred, Cosmic Commons explores a positive relationship between religion and science as humankind ventures into space.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Cosmic Consciousness
- Part 1: Terra Firma
- Chapter 1: Terrestrial Trauma
- Chapter 2: Terrestrial Discovery
- Chapter 3: Terrestrial Transformation
- Part 2: Terra Conscientia
- Chapter 4: Extraterrestrial Discovery
- Chapter 5: Spirit and Science
- Chapter 6: Earth Commons and ExoEarth Commons
- Part 3: Terra Incognita
- Chapter 7: Cosmosocioecological Praxis Ethics
- Chapter 8: ExoEarth and Extraterrestrial Transformation
- Chapter 9: Cosmic Contact
- Part 4: Terra Cosmica
- Chapter 10: Cosmic Coexistence
- Chapter 11: Cosmic Charter
- Chapter 12: Cosmic Commons
- Conclusion
- Bibliography