Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my previous post.) "A few years ago," British historian Ronald Hutton wrote in 1999, "I was lunching in a hotel restaurant … [Read more...]
Ghostly Apparations, Wicca, and Ronald Hutton
So it's the merry month of May, and, accordingly, I spent last Saturday afternoon at a Beltane celebration out in the country. It was a beautiful blue-sky day, not too hot. The sun was pretty intense, though, and I decided to pass up the Maypole dance and stay in the shade. I'm not much of a … [Read more...]
UFOs and Apparitions – “They Weren’t There, But I Saw Them”
"I know they weren't really there," the lady told me. "But I did see them." She was talking about the UFO aliens she saw standing outside her home when she was a child, looking out through her bedroom windows. She's a charming person, in her fifties although she looks much younger. I met her a … [Read more...]