(This is the second post in a series. For the first post, click here.) "Now, friend, return to the study of the descent to the merkabah. I have been instructing you in it: how one goes down and how one comes up; what the character of the First Palace is; how one gets angels into his service and … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – “What Was That Paradise?”
Sometime around the beginning of the 11th century, an Iraqi Jewish academician named Hai Gaon had to field a query from a puzzled reader of the Talmud: "With respect to that which our rabbis taught, 'Four entered Paradise, Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, the "Other One" and Rabbi Akiba'--what was that … [Read more...]
Gershom Scholem – Kabbalah’s Greatest Scholar
I was thinking of calling this post “Gershom Scholem, Jewish Mysticism, and the UFO.” But I don’t want to be accused of false advertising. The UFOlogical relevance of Gershom Scholem, and the domain of learning of which he was undisputed master, will become clear only gradually. I'll need a … [Read more...]
The UFO Experience – “Although I Am Only a Child, Please Believe Me”
A gentleman named Jordan Hofer, with whom I’ve had a stimulating exchange of comments in connection with my post "Drawing Dirty Pictures - Philadelphia UFO, January 1974," tells me he has no objection to my calling attention in a new post to some of the points raised in our conversation. So that’s … [Read more...]
Trickster Tales – James Moseley, Sherlock Holmes, UFOlogy
I've been reading an unusual UFO book. It came out about six weeks ago, edited by Timothy Green Beckley, whom I've known from our teenage UFOlogist days in the mid-1960s. It's entitled The Astounding UFO Secrets Of James W. Moseley: A Special Tribute to the Editor of Saucer Smear and the Court … [Read more...]
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