The International UFO Reporter (IUR), published by the Chicago-based Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), terminated its print edition about three and a half years ago, ending more than 35 years of publication. A great pity. The IUR in its heyday was just about the finest UFO journal the world has ever … [Read more...]
Erin Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet – The Life of a “Prophet’s Daughter”
Erin Prophet, Prophet’s Daughter: My Life with Elizabeth Clare Prophet inside the Church Universal and Triumphant. Guilford, CT: The Lyons Press, 2009. “I am not a prophet, nor am I a prophet’s son …” —Amos 7:14 But Erin Prophet, whom I had the pleasure of meeting this past September, is the … [Read more...]
UFOs, Louis Farrakhan, the “Mother Wheel,” and … “Independence Day”
The date: September 17, 1985. The place: Tepoztlan, Mexico. Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation Of Islam--NOI, better known as "the Black Muslims"--is abducted into a UFO. Or is he? The issue may be one of nomenclature. For Farrakhan the experience wasn't an abduction but a … [Read more...]
UFOs, Louis Farrakhan, and the “Mother Wheel” – The Scholarship of Stephen Finley
About a month ago I was privileged to attend a small gathering of writers, scholars and thinkers--some from academia, others from outside it--loosely structured around the theme of UFOs. Professors Jeffrey Kripal and Diana Pasulka, two religious-studies scholars doing groundbreaking work on UFOs … [Read more...]
God in His Mother’s Womb – Journal of an Eibeschuetz Translator
I intended to blog about UFOs this week. I really did. But my mind and spirit have been where they've dwelt for the past several weeks: in the eerie Kabbalistic world of Jonathan Eibeschuetz, the 18th-century rabbi, alleged pornographer, and in fact designer of a new faith that was to redeem all … [Read more...]
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