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SPOILERS "A leash of thin black whips, like the arms of an octopus, flashed across the sunset and was immediately withdrawn, and afterwards a thin rod rose up, joint by joint, bearing at its apex a circular disk that spun with a wobbling motion.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...]
Alien Abduction, “Erotic Mysticism” – The Strieber-and-Kripal Challenge (Part 2)
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. Tarcher/Penguin, 2016. (Continued from my previous post.) "Obviously something incredibly intense had happened to Whitley. I never have doubted the veracity of the intensity of it. ... As is the … [Read more...]
Alien Abduction, “Erotic Mysticism” – The Strieber-and-Kripal Challenge (Part 1)
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. Tarcher/Penguin, 2016. "If Communion is not a piece of modern erotic mystical literature, then I do not know what it is. I consider Whitley Strieber and his most famous text to be, in effect, litmus … [Read more...]
Eric Ouellet – (Para)psychology and the UFO
Eric Ouellet. Illuminations: The UFO Experience as a Parapsychological Event. San Antonio and Charlottesville: Anomalist Books, 2015. The question that kept occurring to me as I read Eric Ouellet's challenging, lucid, at times brilliant book: to what extent do you have to be a believer in … [Read more...]
UFOs and Parapsychology – Donald Menzel, Ernest Taves
"There are no such things as flying saucers. The government has told you that. ... If you believe in Donald H. Menzel, President Eisenhower, and Government announcements you need have no fear of being frightened by this story. Read it on a stormy night, or in the middle of a graveyard if you wish. … [Read more...]
