Forbidden Science 2: California Hermetica, The Journals of Jacques Vallee 1970-1979

By Jacques Vallée

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Science & Math

California Hermetica, the second volume of Jacques Vallée's journals, covers 1970 to 1979, years he spent in California working on early computer networking, including the ARPANET, while pursuing UFO research and studying the paranormal. The entries describe his contacts with scientists at Stanford Research Institute, the remote viewing experiments there, his collaboration with J. Allen Hynek and his connection to Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

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• Joe Rogan: “I'm going through Jacques Vallée's stuff because he's coming on the podcast again and so I've been going through all of his books. He's got several books and he's got a very nuanced perspective on this whole UFO thing”