About this Event
The Living Room is a monthly gathering at The Well for curious, thoughtful people who want space to explore the big questions shaping how we understand ourselves and the world. These evenings are not lectures or debates, but casual, guided conversations designed to feel open and reflective.
? Our next gathering explores a different question: What if UFOs aren’t what we think they are?
In recent years, conversations about UFOs, now often referred to as UAPs, have moved into mainstream culture through government hearings, serious journalism, and public testimony. While officials have acknowledged encounters that remain unexplained, most public discussion has focused on familiar possibilities: extraterrestrial life, advanced technology, or unknown natural phenomena.
But what if the phenomenon itself is not what we think it is?
Diana Walsh Pasulka, a scholar of religion, technology, and culture, suggests that modern UFO encounters may share surprising parallels with religious and mystical experiences described across history.
Rather than seeing these phenomena as entirely new, her work invites a deeper question: whether ancient encounters with the unknown and modern UFO reports are being interpreted through different cultural languages, yet pointing toward the same underlying mystery.
Across cultures and centuries, people have described overwhelming encounters with non ordinary reality using religious, philosophical, cosmological, and symbolic frameworks. Today, shaped by science and technology, similar experiences are often described using technological language. The experience may not be new. The interpretation may be.
This Living Room will explore those parallels thoughtfully. We’ll engage the current UFO conversation alongside religious history, cultural interpretation, and human experience, and reflect together on what this might suggest about the nature of reality, the spiritual world, and the limits of human perception.
This is not an evening about proving or debunking theories. It’s an invitation to wrestle with a deeper possibility: that reality may be more layered than we assume, and that encounters with the unknown have always played a role in shaping how humans understand meaning, spirituality, and their place in the universe.
This gathering is for anyone who feels curious, skeptical, intrigued, or simply thoughtful about big questions. You don’t need background knowledge or strong opinions to participate.
We’ll gather with wine, seltzer, and light snacks for a relaxed evening of small group conversation.
If this question has ever crossed your mind, this night is for you.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
22 E 1st St, 22 East 1st Street, New York, United States
USD 12.51
