When you think of the UFO abduction literature, what authorial names come to mind? From the 1980s, Whitley Strieber and Budd Hopkins, surely. From the 1990s, David Jacobs and John Mack. Of course your mind will go to the granddaddy of abduction books, John Fuller's The Interrupted Journey … [Read more...]
“Erasing Death” and the NDE Phenomenon – Softening the Grim Reaper
Dr. Sam Parnia (with Josh Young), Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death (Harper One, 2013). "Howl, howl, howl! ... She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives ... This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so, It is a chance which … [Read more...]
From Judaism to Islam – Margaret Marcus, Maryam Jameelah (Part 1)
Deborah Baker. The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2011. How many years has it been since I first heard of Maryam Jameelah, the former Margaret (“Peggy”) Marcus? At least 15 or 20, I think. Sometime in the 90s, I was in a library paging through an issue of … [Read more...]
An Initiatory Journey – Jeffrey Kripal’s “Comparing Religions” (Part 2)
(Continued from last week's post). This will be my last blog post for three weeks. I'm taking a short break to work on a rewrite of my novel The Color of Electrum. I'll be back on May 15, with the first of a two-part post on the precognitive dream reported by Mark Twain--one of the many … [Read more...]
An Initiatory Journey – Jeffrey Kripal’s “Comparing Religions” (Part 1)
Review of Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms, by Jeffrey J. Kripal; with Ata Anzali, Andrea R. Jain, and Erin Prophet. Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Has there ever been a book like Jeffrey Kripal's Comparing Religions? If there has, I haven't seen it, and in my 24 years as a professor of religious … [Read more...]
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