Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (For the first part of this post, click here.) "It is also possible that some of the affective energy which is displaced onto the UFO controversy derives from the … [Read more...]
“Erasing Death” and the NDE Phenomenon – Softening the Grim Reaper
Dr. Sam Parnia (with Josh Young), Erasing Death: The Science That Is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death (Harper One, 2013). "Howl, howl, howl! ... She's gone for ever. I know when one is dead, and when one lives ... This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so, It is a chance which … [Read more...]
Lost Horizon, Deadly Paradise – Quaternity Tales (Part 2)
(Continued from last week's post:) The secret of Shangri-La is this: Living there, you age with preternatural slowness. Unlike in the archetypal paradise of Eden (at least according to some interpretations), you're not exactly immortal. Sooner or later you're going to grow old and die. But … [Read more...]
Agnostic Robert Ingersoll – “Here, We Should Be Friends”
A lady named Priscilla Threadgill has posted a comment to my Facebook Fan Page, that may be one of the nicest things anyone's ever said to me. "Are you using UFO as 'unidentified flying object,' " Priscilla writes, "or something further like 'universal friendship organization'? Well, … [Read more...]
Thomas Jefferson, Meteorites, and Lawrence Anthony’s Elephants
" ... it was easier to believe that two Yankee Professors could lie than to admit that stones could fall from heaven." -- Attributed to Thomas Jefferson So (allegedly) said our third President on the subject of meteorites. The UFOlogists will never let him live it down. I thought of … [Read more...]
