Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). Her research focuses on religion, technology, and the lost tradition of the “spiritual senses” and how to recover them.
She's appeared on major platforms including The Joe Rogan Experience and The New York Times. She's served as a consulting producer on the Amblin Netflix docuseries Encounters and as a consultant on the first film in The Conjuring franchise.
Diana is the author of a series of acclaimed books, including: “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology”(2019), “Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture”(2014), and “Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences” (2024),
Her latest book is 'The Others: AI, UFOs and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny '(St. Martin’s Essentials, MacMillan, July 2026.