This is the first installment of a three-part post. For parts 2 and 3, and a postscript to the series, click here, here, and here. The weekend after next is the Jewish festival of Purim. I don't plan to celebrate. Purim is not one of my favorite holidays. The text on which it's founded, the … [Read more...]
“Life of Pi,” UFO Journal, and the Nature of Truth
Over the past year or so my novel Journal of a UFO Investigator has been compared to Don Quixote. It’s been compared to Catcher in the Rye, to The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Wizard of Oz. Now my friend Victoria Zula has suggested a comparison I hadn’t heard before, with Yann Martel’s award-winning … [Read more...]
Lindbergh, UFOs, and the Jews
In July 1959, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh paid a visit to the aged Carl Jung in his home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Lindbergh and Jung talked about—what else?—UFOs. This I learn from A. Scott Berg’s 1998 biography of Lindbergh, which my old friend in UFOlogy Jerry Clark has called to my … [Read more...]
