Suppose I were to tell you that an alien abduction has been reported by no less a scientific authority than a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. You’d be impressed, wouldn’t you? But suppose I were to add that said Nobel Laureate has a long history of experimenting with psychedelic drugs. That he … [Read more...]
An Initiatory Journey – Jeffrey Kripal’s “Comparing Religions” (Part 2)
(Continued from last week's post). This will be my last blog post for three weeks. I'm taking a short break to work on a rewrite of my novel The Color of Electrum. I'll be back on May 15, with the first of a two-part post on the precognitive dream reported by Mark Twain--one of the many … [Read more...]
An Initiatory Journey – Jeffrey Kripal’s “Comparing Religions” (Part 1)
Review of Comparing Religions: Coming to Terms, by Jeffrey J. Kripal; with Ata Anzali, Andrea R. Jain, and Erin Prophet. Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Has there ever been a book like Jeffrey Kripal's Comparing Religions? If there has, I haven't seen it, and in my 24 years as a professor of religious … [Read more...]
“Under the Skin” – Thoughts on the Alien Woman
Now that Scarlett Johansson's "Under the Skin" movie has been released in New York and Los Angeles (last Friday), and starting tomorrow will be shown "in select cities," I'll have to make my decision. Do I really want to go see it? As a UFOlogist, I think I ought to. (If only for the imagery … [Read more...]
Antonio Villas-Boas and the Astounding She-Monster – A Zeitgeist Tale
This is the story of two space females. One of them, in October 1957, kidnapped a Brazilian farmer named Antonio Villas-Boas and half-seduced, half-raped him twice before letting him go. The other appeared about six months later on the silver screen, and far more powerfully in a movie poster that, … [Read more...]
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