Episode · The Shawn Ryan Show · 2025-02-05
Books mentioned on #166 Diana Pasulka - Religious History, UFO Phenomena and the Ancient Mysteries of Purgatory
Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington who specializes in Catholic history and the intersection of religion, technology, and UFO beliefs.
Diana Pasulka recommended Plato's Republic for today, and discussed The King James Version of the Bible, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and 1984 by George Orwell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The King James Version of the Bible
Discussed“so we got this red letter edition of the King James version of the Bible and the red letter Edition for people who don't know it's the Edition that has Jesus's words all in red and to me that was exactly what I wanted”
Where to get it
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Plato's Republic for today
Plato's Republic by Plato is a foundational philosophical text exploring justice, the ideal state, and the nature of human morality.
Recommended“so they wrote things and some of those things we just found um they utilized and this is really important too they utilized the Plato's Republic the early Christians used Plato republic too which is a really amazing book and if you haven't read it you should”
Where to get it
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a chilling dystopian masterpiece that envisions a technologically advanced future society sustained by pharmacological distraction, engineered conformity, and the systematic eradication of deep human emotion and critical thought.
Discussed“then you've got um Brave New World was Plato's an an update of Plato's Republic”
Where to get it
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1984
1984 by George Orwell is a classic dystopian novel exploring totalitarianism, surveillance, political tribalism, and the systematic control of information.
Discussed“then 1984 was also an update of the allegory of the cave”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs religion and Technology Heaven Can Wait Purgatory in Catholic devotional culture and encounters experiences with non-human intelligences”
“you have offered a series of books including American Cosmic UFOs religion and Technology Heaven Can Wait Purgatory in Catholic devotional culture and encounters experiences with non-human intelligences”
“so I describe him an American Cosmic I was amazed by this person I was very impacted”
“so now what I'm learning about by the way I keep going back to my book American Cosmic because I wrote a lot in that book and I wrote it all truthfully so that means that there's data in there that at the time I did not understand now when I go back and read it I learn from my”
“so that was all over I saw that and so I saw the Vatican in a completely different light when I was there and we did we did find interesting information uh that basically made it into the last chapter of American Cosmic so that book had been done in my mind before I went to the Vatican”