WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS "A leash of thin black whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset and was immediately withdrawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobbling motion. ... Then I saw some cabmen and … [Read more...]
Alien Abduction, “Erotic Mysticism” – The Strieber-and-Kripal Challenge (Part 2)
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. Tarcher/Penguin, 2016. (Continued from my previous post.) "Obviously something incredibly intense had happened to Whitley. I never have doubted the veracity of the intensity of it. ... As is the … [Read more...]
Alien Abduction, “Erotic Mysticism” – The Strieber-and-Kripal Challenge (Part 1)
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. Tarcher/Penguin, 2016. "If Communion is not a piece of modern erotic mystical literature, then I do not know what it is. I consider Whitley Strieber and his most famous text to be, in effect, litmus … [Read more...]
“Holy Fools” – Jack Womack’s UFO Library
Jack Womack, Flying Saucers Are Real! Brooklyn: Anthology Editions, 2016. Flying Saucers Are Real! is a beautiful book. Given the author's background, it had the potential of being an intelligent and insightful book as well. It is neither, and the missed opportunity is saddening. First, … [Read more...]
Eric Ouellet – (Para)psychology and the UFO
Eric Ouellet. Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event. San Antonio and Charlottesville: Anomalist Books, 2015. The question that kept occurring to me as I read Eric Ouellet's challenging, lucid, at times brilliant book: to what extent do you have to be a believer in … [Read more...]
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