Jerome Clark, The UFO Encyclopedia, 3rd edition. Detroit: Omnigraphics, 2018. I've never met Jerry Clark, the editor and for the most part the author of the monumental UFO Encyclopedia that's about to come out in its third, updated edition. Yet he's one of my oldest friends and, for a few … [Read more...]
“Lucrecia the Dreamer” and the Spanish Inquisition – Kelly Bulkeley’s New Book on Dreams (Part 3)
Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. (For the first two installments of this post, click here and here.) Does it make sense to compare three dreams coming from three different worlds, separated from … [Read more...]
“Lucrecia the Dreamer” and the Spanish Inquisition – Kelly Bulkeley’s New Book on Dreams (Part 2)
Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my post of two weeks ago.) At the end of our last installment, we left Lucrecia de León in the prisons of the Spanish Inquisition with her newborn … [Read more...]
“Lucrecia the Dreamer” and the Spanish Inquisition – Kelly Bulkeley’s New Book on Dreams (Part 1)
Kelly Bulkeley. Lucrecia the Dreamer: Prophecy, Cognitive Science, and the Spanish Inquisition. Stanford University Press, 2018. Dreams. Animals have them. Humankind's oldest stories talk about them. In your dreams! we say, or, beyond my wildest dreams, validating with our speech habits … [Read more...]
Michael Gordin’s “The Pseudoscience Wars” – Immanuel Velikovsky and His Enemies
Michael D. Gordin. The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012. "Like other scientists with an interest in UFOs, [J. Allen] Hynek was denied a voice in most of his profession's publications yet ridiculed … [Read more...]
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