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...]
J. Albert Harrill, “Paul the Apostle” — How I (Maybe) Got Paul Wrong
J. Albert Harrill. Paul the Apostle: His Life and Legacy in Their Roman Context. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. “I do not understand my own actions.” —Paul, Epistle to the Romans 7:15 I didn’t either. It was the beginning of 1970; I was 22 years old, taking a year off between … [Read more...]
“The Close Encounters Man” – Mark O’Connell on J. Allen Hynek
Mark O'Connell, The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs. HarperCollins, 2017. A human life can be read as the totality of its enigmas. The questions to be asked, naturally, will differ from person to person. For J. Allen Hynek (1910-1986), the brilliant … [Read more...]
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