Dana Richards (ed.) Dear Martin, Dear Marcello: Gardner and Truzzi on Skepticism. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co, 2017. "Ben Azzai ... used to say: Despise no man and consider nothing impossible, for there is no man who does not have his hour and there is no thing that does not have … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Amy
(This is the second installment of my review of M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. For the first installment, click here.) “The UFO phenomenon/subculture is a reflection of ourselves, our fears and desires, our ghosts. In some curious way, it, … [Read more...]
MJ Banias, “The UFO People” – The Case of Roy
M. J. Banias, The UFO People: A Curious Culture. N.p.: August Night Books, 2019. This is a book that's brilliant in spots, fascinating in long stretches, intelligent and thoughtful throughout. It contemplates the paradoxical reality of a subculture committed to what to our cultural mainstream … [Read more...]
The “Leopard Lady” and the Bible – The Poetry of Valerie Nieman
Valerie Nieman. Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2018. I may have mentioned once or twice in the course of the past several years' blogging: I don't read a whole lot of poetry. Not that I have anything against poetry or poets. It's just that my attention normally … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 2)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my previous post.) "A few years ago," British historian Ronald Hutton wrote in 1999, "I was lunching in a hotel restaurant … [Read more...]
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