(This is the second part of a two-part post. For part 1, click here.) Barbara Cerminara is a psychotherapist in Norwich, England. Her perspective is heavily Jungian. She's Jewish and Italian, and her family bears the collective tragedy of twentieth-century European Jewry: in 1944, her … [Read more...]
Collective Trauma, Race, and UFO Abduction – The Work of Joy DeGruy
(This is the first part of a two-part post. For part 2, click here.) Call this a preliminary report, sketching out lines of research I want to pursue. On the evening of November 1, I had the privilege and pleasure of meeting with a wonderful class of graduate students taught by my colleague, … [Read more...]
Remembering Stanton Friedman – The Recollections of Kevin Randle, Kal Korff
I never met the late Stanton Friedman. Nor did we exchange correspondence, nor did I ever hear him speak. To the memory of this man, I have no personal contribution to make. I can only repeat the obvious: that with his passing on May 13, UFOlogy lost a major figure. I'm moved to write … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Some Afterthoughts
Last month, I put up a two-part post on "The Stranger," the hit Australian TV series of 1964-65, and its possible influence on the dramatic UFO incident at Westall High School in Melbourne on April 6, 1966. ("Dramatic," at least, as recalled by some of the participants. Others were unimpressed; … [Read more...]
“The Stranger” and the Westall UFO – Does Life Imitate TV? (Part 1)
They say life imitates art. Do UFOs imitate cinema and TV? That is to say, when a particularly compelling image of spaceships or aliens figures in a popular movie or TV show, do people start imagining—and testifying, with every appearance of sincerity—that they’ve seen it in the sky? There’s at … [Read more...]
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