Ah, paradigms. Can’t live within ’em. Can’t live without ’em. Or, more exactly, we can and must live within them. We couldn’t begin to think about scientific or other questions without the framework of our intellectual paradigms to sustain us; it’d be like trying to get our footing in … [Read more...]
A UFOlogy for the 21st Century
Here’s a proposition—a UFOlogical proposition. UFOs are a human phenomenon. A UFO sighting, therefore, is not bounded by the sky in which it’s appeared, or seems to have appeared. The observer—better, experiencer—is a part of the sighting. So is everyone who believes in that sighting. So is … [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...]
“Scenario”: The Aliens Arrive …
Full disclosure: I'm not a great fan of poetry. There are those poems, often read long ago, that have embedded themselves in my mind, whose rhythms come to me at the oddest times. They're a motley lot. Some of them, like Chesterton's "Lepanto" or Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," I … [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...]
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