Technological imperative

Apotheosis religion of the future

Alberinos theory that a new religion will emerge acknowledging superior extraterrestrial entities and the belief that humans can become gods through technology blending apothesis and theism

Face peeler phenomenon

Amazon jungle legend dating to the 1980s about entities that harvest faces with laser precision leaving bodies with facial tissue removed using clean surgical cuts

Human-non-human collaboration

Theory that different groups of entities could be cooperating including human operatives working alongside non-human intelligent entities

Post-human apocalypse

Humanity is heading toward a post-human future where genetic engineering cybernetics brain-computer interfaces and artificial intelligence will fundamentally alter what it means to be human with dire consequences for preservation of human identity