(This is the conclusion of a two-part series. For the first part, click here.) To say that the Sabbatai Zevi messianic movement of the 17th century was a personality cult would be an understatement. It was surely a great deal more than that--just what, historians are still debating--but … [Read more...]
Messiah of Transgression – Thoughts on Sabbatai Zevi (Part 1)
"Tell me, dunce: are you quite certain you will have a blessed afterlife for believing, without any sign or miracle, in a man insane? Who perpetrated, moreover, one lawless act after another? In Izmir, for example, he spoke the sacred Name of God in the city streets; he taught the rabble and the … [Read more...]
Collective Trauma, Race, and UFO Abduction – The Work of Barbara Cerminara
(This is the second part of a two-part post. For part 1, click here.) Barbara Cerminara is a psychotherapist in Norwich, England. Her perspective is heavily Jungian. She's Jewish and Italian, and her family bears the collective tragedy of twentieth-century European Jewry: in 1944, her … [Read more...]
Collective Trauma, Race, and UFO Abduction – The Work of Joy DeGruy
(This is the first part of a two-part post. For part 2, click here.) Call this a preliminary report, sketching out lines of research I want to pursue. On the evening of November 1, I had the privilege and pleasure of meeting with a wonderful class of graduate students taught by my colleague, … [Read more...]
Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer” – The UFO Odyssey of John Mack (Part 2)
Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (For the first part of this post, click here.) "It is also possible that some of the affective energy which is displaced onto the UFO controversy derives from the … [Read more...]
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