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Coming in Spring 2026.

Fiorito expands his exploration of music and creativity, weaving together new ideas with ancient traditions. His work stands as a timely and essential contribution to the field.

—Steven Halpern, Grammy nominated recording artist, sound therapy healing music composer.  

Mike Fiorito, an Adjunct Professor of English at City Tech (CUNY), journalist, and prolific author, occupies a territory in UFOlogy that is entirely his own: the intersection of music, consciousness, and the Phenomenon. His book UFO Symphonic: Journeys into Sound (2024), named a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award, explored how sound, synesthesia, and anomalous experience share deep structural connections that most researchers have overlooked entirely. Whitley Strieber, in his endorsement, went straight to the heart of it: the visitors do not speak; they make sounds. Fiorito’s insight; that music may be closer to the Phenomenon’s native language than any verbal or visual communication; aligns with what this book describes as the pre-linguistic, felt dimension of contact. His forthcoming book The Innerspace of Outerspace (2026), an anthology to which the present author has contributed a chapter, expands this inquiry with endorsements from Strieber, Jeff Kripal, Joshua Cutchin, and Greg Bishop. When Jeffrey Kripal, Diana Pasulka, and Whitley Strieber all endorse the same researcher’s work, you should pay attention."

— Kevin Cann author of the Platonic Surrealism three book series.

Fiorito’s treatment of Sun Ra is luminous, erudite, and often poetic. His text effectively bridges academic and mystical discourse and balances biography with cosmology nicely.

— Dr. Marques Redd is a multimedia artist, independent scholar,

and traditional African cosmologist who has been trained in

Afro-Cuban, ancient Egyptian, Yoruba, Dogon, Igbo, and Dagara

spiritual systems.

This book takes you on a fascinating journey through the transformative power of music, revealing landscapes that have quietly influenced my own

sound, even before I knew it.

— Domy Castellano is an Italian composer whose organic ambient soundscapes weave together classical elegance and intuitive experimentation. 

The Innerspace of Outerspace delves into the rich terrain of imaginal, fantastical, and non-logical approaches to exploring anomalous experiences, presenting music as a vital portal through which artists can offer profound insight to those who truly listen.

—  Greg Bishop, author of It Defies Language! and Project Beta. Greg is also the host of Radio Misterioso.

Building on the foundation of UFO Symphonic, Fiorito deepens his exploration into the essence of music—its significance to our inner lives and its resonance within the broader ecology of existence. Having already illuminated the links between these realms, his focus now turns from the ‘what’ to the ‘why,’ investigating how sonic artistry molds our shared humanity. It’s no wonder, then, that the keys to our most profound mysteries—from the UFO enigma to the puzzle of selfhood—have been quietly waiting, hidden in plain hearing.

—Joshua Cutchin, author of Fourth Wall Phantoms

Seekers throughout the ages have ventured into the elusive realms of myth and knowledge, and many have sailed there on the winds of music. Mike

Fiorito’s beautiful book can be your guide to these shining lands of creativity, visions, mystery, magic, challenges, rewards—and UFOs.

— Mike Clelland, author of The Messengers

The Innerspace of Outerspace is a reflective book about music, mystery, and the strange overlap between art and the unknown. It is not written as a technical UFO study. Instead, it explores how sound may influence perception, consciousness, and our sense of reality.

The core idea is that music can act like a tuning mechanism for the mind. Experimental and electronic music are presented as a modern language of futurism and mystery. Synthesizers and oscillators are treated as symbolic tools, carrying a meaning that goes beyond their physical function.

A major focus is placed on Sun Ra, who is portrayed as both a musician and a cosmic thinker. The book highlights his description of music as “tone science," suggesting that sound might interact with consciousness in ways that are not fully understood. Ra’s work is used to illustrate how music can become a medium for exploring spiritual and universal ideas.

The discussion of UFOs follows a consciousness-oriented perspective similar to ideas associated with Carl Jung and Jacques Vallée. The book leans toward the interpretation that unidentified phenomena may sometimes be experienced as symbolic or psychological events rather than only physical objects.

Fiorito’s main message is that music and consciousness are closely linked. Music is described as something that can soften the boundaries of identity and help open the mind to layers of experience beyond everyday perception. The book does not suggest that music can summon unknown entities, but rather that it may help people become more aware of mystery as a living presence instead of something purely technical or mechanical.

Overall, the book feels like a philosophical meditation on sound, creativity, and the unknown. It invites readers to listen to music more deeply and to think about mystery in a more personal and experiential way.

The ideas move across different themes fairly quickly, which keeps the reading experience fluid and allows space for reflection rather than strict argument.

— Review by Keith Ellul of Kuntatt UFO Malta 

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Recipient of the prestigious 2025 Eric Hoffer Category Finalist Award. 

"Fiorito has created a work of fiction, but it’s not a work of fiction. It’s something more than that. "

— Whitley Strieber 

“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, author of American Cosmic & Encounters. 

“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

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"Fiorito’s descriptive style has a suitably blunt, pithy honesty." 

- Kirkus Reviews

 "There is hope and there is escape to be found on a road that can be violent and vicious. Proceed with caution when reading The Hated Ones. But proceed. By all means, proceed. "

-New York Journal of Books

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"Fiorito’s prose is crisp and full of personality. If it sometimes drifts into a sentimental register, the writing never feels inauthentic to his voice. These 23 essays are short, often under five pages, and range from journalistic pieces about individuals or businesses to ruminations on the immigrant experience and humorous reimaginings of a secret cabal of pizza makers stretching back to Jesus. The strongest essays are those dealing with the author’s family, particularly his mother, who steps off the page as a larger-than-life devil’s advocate, seeming to dispute or complicate every point her son tries to make. Italian Americans, particularly those of Fiorito’s generation, will likely find much here to relate to, laugh at, and maybe even mourn."

 -Kirkus Reviews  

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“Freud’s Haberdashery” is a collection of pseudo-historical narratives that portray towering intellectual figures but focus on satire and humor: Jung and Freud sharing haberdashery secrets; Kant's obsession with order and eating cheese; Filippo Brunelleschi consorting with a nose oracle to win the Santa Maria Del Fiore cupola commission and other stories. 

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