"You have people on Mars! Think how great you are. Ask the white man if he has any out there. We have life on other planets, but he don't." I don't know when Elijah Muhammad, until his death in 1975 the leader and most visible face of the black-nationalist "Nation of Islam" (a.k.a. "Black … [Read more...]
Albert Bender’s “Flying Saucers and the Three Men” – An Atheistic Contact Story
"Do you believe in God?" "That is a creation of your people on Earth. You have strange races and colors in your people, and many languages are spoken, but it seems that all your peoples have had the desire to worship something during their evolution. They, growing like small children, wanted to … [Read more...]
The UFO Gnostic – Orfeo Angelucci Meets Carl Jung
If it hadn't been for Carl Jung, I doubt if I would ever have read Orfeo Angelucci's The Secret of the Saucers. The book, published in 1955 by Ray Palmer's "Amherst Press" and now available in complete and also a truncated (but more easily searchable) form on the Web, belongs to that … [Read more...]
Desmond Leslie – Sifra di-Tzeniuta, the “Book of Dzyan,” and “Flying Saucers Have Landed”
At the beginning of this month I blogged about the terse, baffling Kabbalistic text called Sifra di-Tzeniuta, "The Book of Concealment." It's found in the second volume of the Zohar, written in Aramaic like the rest of the Zohar, yet orders of magnitude more cryptic and therefore, perhaps, more … [Read more...]
Credulity and the Astronomer – The Strange Case of Cedric Allingham
"It certainly has taken me by surprise," said Mr. Gascoigne. ... "Probably you think me blamable." "Not blamable exactly. I respect a man for trusting another." --George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, chapter 64 Do you know the strange story of Cedric Allingham? And--do you care? If you think … [Read more...]
