Once there was a man called Carl Allen, otherwise known as Carlos Allende, who had within him a secret. (Don’t we all?) From that secret, as yet undiscovered, Carl Allen created a myth called “the Philadelphia Experiment” which reverberates within our culture to this day. He died in 1994, … [Read more...]
“Life of Pi,” UFO Journal, and the Nature of Truth
Over the past year or so my novel Journal of a UFO Investigator has been compared to Don Quixote. It’s been compared to Catcher in the Rye, to The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Wizard of Oz. Now my friend Victoria Zula has suggested a comparison I hadn’t heard before, with Yann Martel’s award-winning … [Read more...]
Freud, Jung, Lindbergh – “More Things In Heaven and Earth …”
A friend sends the following comment on the story of Jung and Lindbergh and the UFOs, which I talked about in my last post: “I imagine Jung was very aware that he was conversing with an aviator, not a psychologist, and moreover a person not likely to follow or grasp the approach Jung took to … [Read more...]
The God Who Isn’t and Is
Some thirty years ago, one of my students at UNC complained that I was like all the profs in the Religious Studies Department. "They'll never tell you what they believe about God!" I thought it over and decided he had a point. So I tried to come up with a clear, straightforward answer I could … [Read more...]
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