We’re excited to announce that our course is now available in a new, accessible format: eight individual course units, each priced at $29.47.
Instead of purchasing the full course up front, you can now explore the material at your own pace, one unit at a time.
Each Unit of Study offers a focused exploration of key themes in the history, science, and philosophy surrounding UFOs, non-human intelligence, and the cultural evolution of contact.
What we now call “UFOs” have deep roots stretching back through millennia. In this second unit of Beyond the Stars, we trace the historical presence of aerial anomalies across ancient, medieval, and early modern sources. From Roman military reports to early modern sky wonders and Renaissance theological debates, we uncover how past civilizations framed what they saw in the sky—not merely as curiosities, but as messages, omens, or divine interventions.
Unit Two explores how different cultures integrated aerial phenomena into cosmology, religious thought, and philosophical speculation. We also examine how modern historical narratives have been shaped—sometimes distorted—by Enlightenment rationalism and Cold War-era disinformation. By returning to earlier sources, we gain a clearer view of how UAP have always been part of humanity’s engagement with the unknown.
This course is equivalent to an undergraduate course at a university in the United States.
Dr. D. W. Pasulka
D. W. Pasulka is a professor at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington. She researches and teaches about religion. In 2012 she began researching modern UFO reports and has published extensively about the topic.
Her work includes acclaimed books, essays, and interviews about technology and religion. She's been featured on The Joe Rogan Experience, Lex Fridman's podcast, Vox Media, and her work has been mentioned in the New York Times, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has presented her research at public and private events, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Harvard Divinity School, Rice University, and many other venues.
In cooperation with the Vatican Apostolic Library, Dr. Pasulka leads a translation project of the canonization records of the revered saint, Joseph of Copertino, St. Copertino is known as the saint who levitated. Dr. Pasulka also consults for movies, television productions, most recently Amblin’s Netflix series Encounters.
David B. Metcalfe
David B. Metcalfe, Windbridge Institute Scholar in Virtual Residence, is a researcher, writer, and multimedia specialist focusing on areas where creativity, culture, and consciousness collide.
In 2011 he established the Liminal Analytics: Applied Research Collaborative to focus on building multidisciplinary lines of communication through applied scholarship, digital media, and social network development.
David’s work has appeared in Oxford University Press and other peer reviewed anthologies. He was a research assistant for the University of Chicago under Dr. Hussein Ali Agama focusing on archival research, and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Windbridge Research Center’s Threshold: Journal of Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies.
