pp. 183-196 Summary and Analysis

Part II, Models and Metaphors:

Further Fables and Allegories — From the Sufis - A man goes to heaven and challenges a heavenly voice to prove that it is authentic. From the Jewish - A rabbi proves the disciple's nose is real by punching it. From the German - Schrödinger's cat will be killed by poison gas triggered by quantum decay, but when does it exactly happen?

The Sirius Evidence — Wilson reviews evidence of messages from extraterrestrials from the Sirius star system. Leary receives messages during the Sirius dog days of summer. A book, Temple's Sirius Mystery, reports on primitive African tribes having knowledge of the twin stars of Sirius thousands of years ago, before the second star Sirius B could be seen by telescope. Temple believes that extraterrestrials told men about their star about 4500 BC. The...