Justin Klawans is a freelance News Writer at Collider, covering film and television news. He is currently a Staff Writer at The Week covering U.S. news, global news and general assignment work, mostly ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Elio,” now playing in theaters. Disney Pixar’s latest animated feature, “Elio” centers on a young orphan boy who is desperate to be abducted by aliens.

Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1977 (IMBD) In The Varieties of Religious Experience, his landmark book on the psychology of religion, William James delineated the traits that ...