Megan Rose started to experience “what I would classify as paranormal contact” in the early 2000s—“a vague sense,” she says, “that an alien entity was trying to communicate with me.”

Rose didn’t freak out. She’d spent the last few years deconstructing her Pentecostal Christian upbringing and exploring diverse spiritual traditions, many of which hold that the world is brimming with “other-than-human beings”—gods, spirits, and the like. This was an opportunity to learn firsthand about making contact with these entities, she figured. But when one of the beings she’d started communicating with proposed to her… well, that did catch Rose off guard.

“I thought, ‘What? What, what?’” she recalls. “‘What the heck is this?’”

The experience got Rose thinking—first about a class she took on heresies

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