Valerie Nieman. Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2018. I may have mentioned once or twice in the course of the past several years' blogging: I don't read a whole lot of poetry. Not that I have anything against poetry or poets. It's just that my attention normally … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 3)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. So what's the takeaway from all this, for us UFOlogists? By "all this," I'm referring to the apparitions of the Virgin Mary to a group … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 1)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. OK, here’s the problem: On June 24, 1981—the anniversary of the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold that kicked off the modern UFO era, if … [Read more...]
The Dreamlike Psalm 126 – Thoughts for a New Year
I'm not a rabbi, but with my beard I'm often mistaken for one. Especially for one particular rabbi, who lives in my town and who everybody thinks looks just like me. (He and I happened to be in a checkout line together a few weeks ago, and they asked if we were brothers. We aren't.) I'm not … [Read more...]
“Chariots of the Gods?” – Erich von Däniken and the Book of Enoch
I didn’t get a chance to tell Erich von Däniken, when he and I were guests together last week on Gene Steinberg’s “The Paracast” radio show, that the first time I read his Chariots of the Gods? it was in Hebrew. This was in the summer of 1978, nine years after Chariots was first published. I was … [Read more...]
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