This is a post for Passover, the Jewish holiday celebrating the Exodus from Egypt, which starts tonight. It's on a subject, though, that at first sight doesn't seem to have much to do with the festival. Snakes. Snakes, not as a zoological but as a psychological reality. Snakes, not for what … [Read more...]
UFOs, Screen Memories, and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery
It's nighttime, and it's raining. I'm in a bedroom--my bedroom, I assume--in the three-story house on Bellevue Avenue in Trenton, NJ, where my parents and I lived with my mother's parents until I was five. My father is with me. We're looking out the window at a rainy street, the glare of the … [Read more...]
John Mack and Donna Bassett – UFO Abductions and Lawrence of Arabia
"I faked it," said the woman named Donna Bassett. "Women have been doing it for centuries." What Donna Bassett "faked" was her hypnotically evoked memory of having been abducted into a UFO. The victim of her fakery was the august John Mack--professor of psychiatry at Harvard University, … [Read more...]
“Mystery of the Great Dragon” – Zohar, Kabbalah, and Evil
"Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers ..." --Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel's Hebrew word for "dragon" is tannim. It's the same word that, in its more common spelling tannin, is used in Genesis 1:21, "And God created great whales." … [Read more...]
John Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (2) – Reflections
(The second part of a two-part post.) So what are we to make of the story told over and over by John Lennon and his lover May Pang, always with essentially the same details, of seeing a UFO at close range over their Manhattan apartment on the evening of August 23, 1974? Tell anybody about … [Read more...]
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