The Unacknowledged Other
Sartrean Phenomenology and Encounters with Non-Human Intelligences (NHI)
in Sartre Studies International
Author: Kimberly Engels
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/31/2/ssi310207.xmlDOI:
https://doi.org/10.3167/ssi.2025.310207 Keywords:
UAP; non-human intelligence; the Other; bad faith; authenticity; ontological insecurity; abjection
Abstract
Reported encounters with advanced non-human intelligences represent a growing body of perplexing and unexplainable experiences. While academic exploration of these encounters has historically been dominated by approaches that suggest these experiences exist in the mind alone, the climate may be shifting with the recent official acknowledgment of the existence of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). I examine encounters with alleged non-human intelligences (NHI) through the lens of Sartrean phenomenology. In a society that does not officially recognize non-human intelligences as “real” these encounters are existentially disruptive and often traumatic. In encounters that involve apparent NHI, subjects are faced with an Other who is unaccounted for and believed by mainstream society not to exist. Faced with an encounter with the seemingly impossible, experiencers undergo ontological shock, existential rupture, and abjection, questioning the boundaries of self, other, and the world. I conclude by giving suggestions for authentic existentialist responses to these alleged encounters.
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Kimberly S. Engels is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Molloy University and past president of the North American Sartre Society. She received her PhD from Marquette University, where she first studied phenomenology. Her UAP research interests lie in the lived conscious experience of individuals who report UAP encounters.
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20.1.2026, desetiminutova prezentace Dr. Engels na 02h05m10s
OFFICIAL UAPCon Watch-Along (LIVE) | Nanu x UAPedia | UAPs, Consciousness & The Futurehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybDV7Tx4riM&t=2h5m10sFeaturing:
Whitley Strieber – (@WhitleyStrieber) Communion, Dreamland
Jeffrey Nuccetelli (@Ice_Alchemist11) – USAF vet, UAP experiencer
Alan Steinfeld (@alan_steinfeld) – Making Contact, Contact in the Desert
Jeffrey Kripal, PhD – Rice University, Center for the Impossible
Rizwan Virk, PhD (@Rizstanford) – The Simulation Hypothesis
Thomas Brophy, PhD – Institute of Noetic Sciences
J.J. Hurtak, PhD & Desiree Hurtak, PhD – The Keys of Enoch
Kimberly Engels, PhD (@kimberly_engels) – John Mack Institute
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, PhD (@sesbjornhargens) – Integral studies
Daniel Branco, PhD – Neuroscience & consciousness
Paul Hynek (@paulhynek) – MUFON board
Dr. Tara, PhD – Transpersonal psychologist (Moderator)
(na 2h01m Whitley Strieber o svem zazitku...)