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For All We Know

A UFO Manifesto

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Pub Date May 07 2024 | Archive Date Dec 31 2025


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Description

For All We Know is a literary excursion into the lived experience of the UFO phenomenon, interwoven into a tapestry of music, psychedelics and the flux-and-flow of everyday life. Written from the first-perspective the book provides the reader with a biographical snapshot of the processes by which anomalous experiences are perceived, processed and incorporated into a personal perspective on the cosmos and the human condition.

For All We Know is a literary excursion into the lived experience of the UFO phenomenon, interwoven into a tapestry of music, psychedelics and the flux-and-flow of everyday life. Written from the...


Advance Praise

“For All We Know is a manifesto for all of those fascinated by the numinous realities posed by the UFO. Mike Fiorito finds the UFO in experiences as diverse as Catholic Mass to the modern rituals of heavy metal music and reveals a decentralized transcendence. A fun and extraordinary experience.” — Dr. Diana Pasulka, Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion

“The UFO phenomenon is about many things, some of which can only be transmitted in the genre of fantastic literature, itself based on dreams, altered states, and out of body experiences. Mike Fiorito knows that and writes what he knows. Flying saucers appear alongside books, both of which appear alongside the so-called dead. “We are them.” Take that as large and vast as you can. — Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge. Dr. Kripal is also the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University in Houston, Texas

“The best fiction transcends the genre to tell universal truths, and this is precisely what Fiorito has accomplished. For All We Know takes us on a journey to the greatest of unknowns—not only the world of the UFO, but ourselves and reality—revealing that, in order to understand the outer world, we must also turn inward.” — Joshua Cutchin, author of Ecology of Souls

“What is so engaging about this marvelous mystical journey is that it encompasses the entirety of the post-entheogenic culture into a synthesized understanding of the soul incarnation into the multidimensional adventures of the mind. For All We Know is more than a read, it is an experience. While the book does more than describe other levels of awareness, we go through the machinations of consciousness of the protagonist Matteo and are transformed in the reading.” — Alan Steinfeld, author of Making Contact

“For All We Know lies in Fiorito’s sparse, evocative prose. In a series of short vignettes, he paints word pictures that delve into the experiences of a man’s growing awareness of the world around him from his teen years in the mid-1970s through to his forties. It reminded me of the magical realism of writers such as Gabriel García Márquez and Jorge Borges, when quite suddenly mundane situations become imbued with the noetic and the extraordinary. I found the themes explored in this book to be powerfully relatable, from the musical references to the social commentary. A work I know I will return to again and again. — Anthony Peake, author of Cheating the Ferryman

“For All We Know” takes the coming-of-age tale and reinvents it as a journey into the multifaceted universe of the unknown. Mike weaves aspects of the UFO phenomenon into the life experiences of Matteo. We follow Matteo’s experiences in their full range from childhood to adulthood. Love, loss, music, psychedelics, and the questioning of reality are all aspects of life, as well as the UFO phenomenon. This is beautifully reflected in this book. — Pricilla Stone, host of Quantum Wytch Cafe Podcast

“Fiorito’s writing is so cinematic that I felt like I was there, right there in this powerful story. The idea that this is fiction or reality doesn’t even matter because Fiorito succeeds in grabbing our attention and making us want more!” — Marla Frees; author of American Psychic and practicing Consciousness Coach  

“Fiorito’s words act as the third eye, leading the reader to contemplate the larger picture from the paranormal to ufology studies into consciousness exploration.” — Perceptions Today

“Mike Fiorito’s For All We Know is a literary excursion into the lived experience of the UFO phenomenon, interwoven into a tapestry of music, psychedelics and the flux-and-flow of everyday life. Written from the first-perspective the book provides the reader with a biographical snapshot of the processes by which anomalous experiences are perceived, processed and incorporated into a personal perspective on the cosmos and the human condition.’ — Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal, and is author of Ecology and Spirituality: A Brief Introduction

“For All We Know is a manifesto for all of those fascinated by the numinous realities posed by the UFO. Mike Fiorito finds the UFO in experiences as diverse as Catholic Mass to the modern rituals of...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781627205269
PRICE $16.99 (USD)
PAGES 146

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