This is the final installment of a three-part post. To see previous installments, click here and here. For a "P.S." to the series, click here. The snake's name was ... Sabbatai Zevi. He really did exist--in history. This "snake" is the one who, in the Zohar, bites the "Doe of the Dawn" on … [Read more...]
Love Goddess Stories – Esther, Ishtar, and the “Doe of the Dawn” (Part 2)
This is the second installment of a three-part post. For parts 1 and 3, and a postscript to the series, click here, here, and here. Once upon a time, maybe 1800 years ago, two rabbis went traveling in the Galilee. It must have been a long journey. They took care to get an early start. Rabbi … [Read more...]
Thomas Jefferson, Meteorites, and Lawrence Anthony’s Elephants
" ... it was easier to believe that two Yankee Professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from heaven." -- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson So (allegedly) said our third President on the subject of meteorites. The UFOlogists will never let him live it down. I thought of … [Read more...]
Reincarnation, Quantum Physics, and Dr. Donald Menzel
Some 40 years ago, when I was a graduate student, I came upon a pamphlet by one Dr. Ian Stevenson, entitled something like “Evidence for Reincarnation from Claimed Memories of Former Lives.” I read it; I was impressed by what I recall as its judiciously open-minded approach. I showed it to my … [Read more...]
“What Is Grass?” Walt Whitman, Mark Doty, and the Student
I’m back from the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Last Wednesday I had the honor to deliver their annual “First Book Talk” on Journal of a UFO Investigator. I now have a few new books, a lot of new friends. One of these friends is the remarkable poet Jeff Gundy, a professor … [Read more...]
