(This is the conclusion of a two-part series. For the first part, click here.) To say that the Sabbatai Zevi messianic movement of the 17th century was a personality cult would be an understatement. It was surely a great deal more than that--just what, historians are still debating--but … [Read more...]
“Men in the Moon” (and Women) – Stories from Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough
Caliban: Hast thou not dropped from heaven? Stephano: Out o' th' moon, I do assure thee. I was the man i' th' moon when time was. --The Tempest, Act II, Scene 2 I'm not yet ready to review Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough's new book, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History (Anomalist … [Read more...]
Jungian Psychology and UFOs – The Magonian Quaternity
(Third of a series) “[T]he physicist’s models ultimately rest on the same archetypal foundations that also underlie the speculations of the theologian. Both are psychology, and it too has no other foundation.” —Jung, “A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity” So what have we learned … [Read more...]
Jungian Psychology and UFOs – More On the Magonia Men (and Woman)
Four visitors from the skies—three men and one woman. First reported from Lyon, in what’s now France, early in the ninth century. Then from the Turkish Dardanelles, late in the seventeenth century. To reappear like that, after nearly 900 years, would be quite a trick for human beings. Even, I’d … [Read more...]
Jungian Psychology and UFOs – The Mystery Men of Magonia
Three men and a woman, actually. They fell from the sky, it would seem, in the vicinity of Lyon in what’s now eastern France, early in the ninth century. They came from a place called Magonia. So the local mob believed, as they prepared to stone them to death. We have the story from Agobard, … [Read more...]
