(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...]
Dreams of Aliens and Alien Abductions – The Kelly Bulkeley Dossier
I posted last time about what turned up when I searched Kelly Bulkeley's Sleep and Dreams database for dreams that mentioned "UFO" (17 reports, of what seem to have been 15 distinct dreams) and "flying saucers" (4). I also did a search for "alien," and here the harvest was considerably more … [Read more...]
The UFO and the Pink Triangle – The Tujunga Canyon Abductees
When you think of the UFO abduction literature, what authorial names come to mind? From the 1980s, Whitley Strieber and Budd Hopkins, surely. From the 1990s, David Jacobs and John Mack. Of course your mind will go to the granddaddy of abduction books, John Fuller's The Interrupted Journey … [Read more...]
Satan, the Holocaust, and the Madness of Ezekiel – Some Thoughts on Paradigms
Ah, paradigms. Can’t live within ’em. Can’t live without ’em. Or, more exactly, we can and must live within them. We couldn’t begin to think about scientific or other questions without the framework of our intellectual paradigms to sustain us; it’d be like trying to get our footing in … [Read more...]
