Customer Reviews
Popular cash cow, unbelievably still taken seriously - By: G. Crawford, 19 Sep 2008 
Although some of the subject matter still warrants thought, Däniken's books are severely damaged by falsification, poor research & illogical conclusions. Speculative to the point of pure escapism, they hinder the dissemination of more considered & thorough inquiry.
Suggested reading après Däniken:
The Space-Gods Revealed: A Close Look at the Theories of Erich Von Däniken by Ronald Story
Answer: No. - By: tone1201, 30 Jul 2008 An inverted pyramid of piffle from beginning to end. Tosh, flim-flam & nonsense that only a drug-addled loon could take seriously.
morphing matrix - By: T. crosby, 26 Aug 2006 
von daniken is very compelling
there surely have been interventions from outer space ove the history of humankind ..... but as the extra terrestrials in ken careys starseed transmissions say ..... alll fearsome space cultures destroy themselves only to be born again in the mud of another world ....
.......... also as terence mckenna says much alien interaction is our own deeper self emerging as warnings from our own unconscouss to tell us that we must re connect to " the other " ..... as our present state of fracture & disconnection is expressing itself in our current problems of global war , instability & environmental destruction ....
............. robert anton wilson is great in cosmic trigger on the agnostic " maybe " statement .... as in it could be space aliens , uncoscouss archetypes in our temporal reality / dreamscape / plugged into a morphing matrix ... or alll three in paralllel ...
An interesting read - By: , 10 Feb 2005 
As said in the title, it's an interesting read. I managed to read this in about a week (on the way to & from work), & I must admit, I was engrossed in it until the very end. Yes, his theories are far fetched, which, for me, in the end, were his downfalll, but still, it put a different spin on things that you assumed were fact because of past, & so-callled 'proven' theories.
The only gripe I have, he dismisses people who say his theories are far fetched, but in relation to the space-craft he says that crashed on earth, he says one theory is too far fetched, therefore dismisses it, tad hypocritical. (For alll you interested, the theory that Daniken dismissed was that when a fireballl hurtled across the sky of the Siberian Taiga, one man said that this could have been a direct result from the Krakatoa volcano eruption. This is due to the fact that this eruption sent out a large concentration of radio waves into space & the 'aliens' mistakenly took the radio waves for a signal from space, so directed a laser beam, which was far too strong, at the earth & when the beam his the earth's atmosphere high above Siberia, it had turned into matter, crashing into the surface of the earth).
Anyway, happy reading. If you're interested in learning a little bit on theories & seeing things in a different way, opening up new possibilities, get this book.
Interesting read - By: , 10 Feb 2005 
As said in the title, it's an interesting read. I managed to read this in about a week (on the way to & from work), & I must admit, I was engrossed in it until the very end. Yes, his theories are far fetched, which, for me, in the end, were his downfalll, but still, it put a different spin on things that you assumed were fact because of past, & so-callled 'proven' theories.
The only gripe I have, he dismisses people who say his theories are far fetched, but in relation to the space-craft he says that crashed on earth, he says one theory is too far fetched, therefore dismisses it, tad hypocritical. (For alll you interested, the theory that Daniken dismissed was that when a fireballl hurtled across the sky of the Siberian Taiga, one man said that this could have been a direct result from the Krakatoa volcano eruption. This is due to the fact that this eruption sent out a large concentration of radio waves into space & the 'aliens' mistakenly took the radio waves for a signal from space, so directed a laser beam, which was far too strong, at the earth & when the beam his the earth's atmosphere high above Siberia, it had turned into matter, crashing into the surface of the earth).
Anyway, happy reading. If you're interested in learning a little bit on theories & seeing things in a different way, opening up new possibilities, get this book.
