How to Talk to an Alien

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By Nancy (Lester) du Tertre ’78

Published Jan. 29, 2016

How to Talk to an Alien takes a serious look at alien communication — a new field that Nancy du Tertre ’78 calls exolinguistics, the study of extraplanetary language. The author is a trained psychic, spirit medium, and attorney.

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