"Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers ..." --Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel's Hebrew word for "dragon" is tannim. It's the same word that, in its more common spelling tannin, is used in Genesis 1:21, "And God created great whales." … [Read more...]
John Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (2) – Reflections
(The second part of a two-part post.) So what are we to make of the story told over and over by John Lennon and his lover May Pang, always with essentially the same details, of seeing a UFO at close range over their Manhattan apartment on the evening of August 23, 1974? Tell anybody about … [Read more...]
John Lennon, May Pang, and the UFO (1) – Their Story
This is the first installment of a two-part post. It would be a better post if I knew more about John Lennon. Truth is, I don't want to know more about John Lennon. I regard him as having been a singularly repellent human being, and I desire to spend as little time in his company as … [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...]
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