Ep 17: An Interview with Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka

In this episode, I’m bringing you an interview with one of my personal heroes, Dr. Diana Walsh Paslka. Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka is a professor of religious studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She holds a bachelor’s from UC Davis, a master’s from Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She is the author of Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture and American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, which we will be discussing in this interview.

LISTEN TO THESE EPISODES FIRST
If you aren’t already familiar with Diana’s work, you’ll definitely want to start with these two episodes before listening to this interview to get the full context of our conversation.
Ep 11: Nazis & UFOs [Pt. 1]: The Emergence Of UFO Lore
Ep 16: The Sky Calls To Us: The Occult Origins Of The Space Race

GET DR. DIANA WALSH PASULKA’S BOOKS
American Cosmic: UFO’s, Religion Technology
Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory In Catholic Devotional And Popular Culture

MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger
What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger
Discourse On Thinking by Martin Heidegger
I, Product by Jacques Vallee
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Dubord