It's called "The Cherry-Tree Carol," and I'm sure you've heard a version at one time or another. Joan Baez did one. There's also a rendition--exceptionally eerie and haunting--by Judy Collins. I doubt if any two vocalists sing it with quite the same words. It's a traditional song, which means … [Read more...]
Conan Doyle vs. Sherlock Holmes – The Magician and the Believer
They say villains are always more interesting than heroes. They say it’s much more fun to read about scoundrels than straight-arrows, and that unflinching rectitude is an unendurable bore. “They” must not have looked at any of the Sherlock Holmes stories lately. Or heard anything about Holmes’ … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Alien Eyes
(This is the fifth and final post of a series. To begin the series, click here.) "Oh--oh, the eyes are there. Always the eyes are there. ... Only the eyes are talking to me. I--I--I--I don't understand that. Oh--the eyes don't have a body. They're just eyes ... not connected to a body. … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Eyes of Terror
(This post is the fourth of a series. To begin the series, click here.) Imagine: we're Jewish mystics of the sort that Gershom Scholem called the "merkabah mystics"--fascinated, or maybe obsessed, with the divine Chariot (merkabah) that's described in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – Alien Abduction, Shamanic Journey
(This post is the third of a series. For the first two installments, click here and here.) Remember "The Fourth Kind," the pseudo-documentary thriller about UFO abductions in Alaska that came out around the end of 2009? Filmed by Olatunde Osunsanmi? Starring Milla Jovovich as psychiatrist … [Read more...]
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