Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (First part of a two-part post.) This is a remarkable book about an extraordinary man: John Mack (1929-2004)--Harvard professor of psychiatry, anti-nuclear activist, … [Read more...]
Jerome Clark’s “UFO Encyclopedia” – Thomas Bullard’s “Abduction Phenomenon”
Where have all the abductees gone? Back in the 90s, which feels in retrospect like UFOlogy's golden decade, they seemed to be everywhere. Comic strips spoofed them, a sure sign of their high visibility--readers could be counted on to get the joke. With the new century, perhaps helped along by … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Eyes of Terror
(This post is the fourth of a series. To begin the series, click here.) Imagine: we're Jewish mystics of the sort that Gershom Scholem called the "merkabah mystics"--fascinated, or maybe obsessed, with the divine Chariot (merkabah) that's described in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. … [Read more...]
