(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...]
The UFO Experience – “Although I Am Only a Child, Please Believe Me”
A gentleman named Jordan Hofer, with whom I’ve had a stimulating exchange of comments in connection with my post "Drawing Dirty Pictures - Philadelphia UFO, January 1974," tells me he has no objection to my calling attention in a new post to some of the points raised in our conversation. So that’s … [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...]
A UFOlogy for the 21st Century
Here’s a proposition—a UFOlogical proposition. UFOs are a human phenomenon. A UFO sighting, therefore, is not bounded by the sky in which it’s appeared, or seems to have appeared. The observer—better, experiencer—is a part of the sighting. So is everyone who believes in that sighting. So is … [Read more...]
