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Contact and Multidimensional Subjectivity. Toward a Phenomenology of Disclosure
Paperback
PhilosophyUFOs & Extraterrestrials
ISBN13: 9781848905078
Publisher: College Publications
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
What happens when accounts of contact with the intelligences behind UFOs/UAP are no longer interpreted through the lenses of delusion or extraterrestrial technological threat, but are instead allowed to appear on their own terms? Working closely with first-person accounts of contact, Kimberly S. Engels asks what new possibilities for thinking about humanity, consciousness, reality, and ethics emerge when these experiences are taken seriously as sites of inquiry rather than dismissed or reduced to preexisting explanatory frameworks. Disclosure appears as a phenomenological event-one that opens new ways of thinking, doing, and being.
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When I read Kimberly Engels, I cannot resist an I told you so. But this is that confirmation taken to a whole new level of philosophical sophistication... Engels proposes a kind of nondual signal that breaks down our assumed distinctions and boundaries, an ethics that does not focus only on individualism and agency but is more adequate to the actual hyperdimensional reality reported by experiencers... Engels understands that it is not all about crisis and control, that these are often the colonizing ego's fearful responses that we now need to think and imagine after...We need to be someone else, someone really related to all and everything.
This is impossible thinking at its very finest.
Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else
The study of UFOs demands contributions from phenomenological methods. Kimberly Engels provides us with a groundbreaking study of this kind-providing a paradigm for what counts as taking the experience of the phenomenon seriously in all its relevant aspects. She gives us the tools to articulate the contents of uncanny experiences and follows the epistemological and ethical implications for how we should understand our relation to the phenomenon and those who encounter it. This work should now serve as the point of departure for a phenomenological study of uncanny experiences.
James D. Madden, author of Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World
In this groundbreaking book, Kimberly S. Engels carefully defines the phenomenological method, then employs it in discussing experiences reported by people contacted by non-human intelligence. The results are revelatory and uncanny. Evidently, we are not alone in the universe. Highly recommended.
Michael E. Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus,
University of Colorado-Boulder
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