A few reminiscences of my brushes with this ancient festival of the dead, that still manages to grab our imaginations: 1957, maybe? I must have been in fifth grade, because I remember reading this in Junior Scholastic magazine, which I think we started using in elementary school that year: a … [Read more...]
The UFO Gnostic – Orfeo Angelucci Meets Carl Jung
If it hadn't been for Carl Jung, I doubt if I would ever have read Orfeo Angelucci's The Secret of the Saucers. The book, published in 1955 by Ray Palmer's "Amherst Press" and now available in complete and also a truncated (but more easily searchable) form on the Web, belongs to that … [Read more...]
The “Arrival” Movie – UFOs, Aliens, and the Rising of the Dead
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS "A leash of thin black whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset and was immediately withdrawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobbling motion. ... Then I saw some cabmen and … [Read more...]
