This is a P.S. to my post two weeks ago about African-American UFOlogy. It's inspired by Michael Lieb's discussion of Ezekiel's wheel in the African-American folk music tradition, in his extraordinary 1998 book, Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Eyes of Terror
(This post is the fourth of a series. To begin the series, click here.) Imagine: we're Jewish mystics of the sort that Gershom Scholem called the "merkabah mystics"--fascinated, or maybe obsessed, with the divine Chariot (merkabah) that's described in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. … [Read more...]
“Outtakes of a UFO Investigator” – UFO Abductions Become Part of Us
There are some "banner years" in UFO history. 1966 was one of them. It was a threshold year, leading from the classic UFOlogy of the 1950s and early 1960s to something new, which has left its mark on our culture to this day. March, 1966: a rash of UFO sightings in Dexter and Hillsdale, … [Read more...]
