Something of what it is to publish a book: You send your thoughts, your ideas, your stories out into the world. You hope to hear echoes; you dread the inevitable silences. You just love it when you get applause. But when you get thoughtful criticism, you've received a gift just as fine--not … [Read more...]
UFO Moon, “Miracle of the Sun” – When the Sky Turns Strange
"He says the sun came out last night. He says it sang to him." --"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) Of course it wasn't really the sun. The sun, considered as an astronomical body, doesn't do that kind of thing. So when the nodding, grinning, half-crazy old man announces at the end … [Read more...]
Alien Abduction, “Erotic Mysticism” – The Strieber-and-Kripal Challenge (Part 2)
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. Tarcher/Penguin, 2016. (Continued from my previous post.) "Obviously something incredibly intense had happened to Whitley. I never have doubted the veracity of the intensity of it. ... As is the … [Read more...]
Alien Abduction, “Erotic Mysticism” – The Strieber-and-Kripal Challenge (Part 1)
Whitley Strieber and Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Super Natural: A New Vision of the Unexplained. Tarcher/Penguin, 2016. "If Communion is not a piece of modern erotic mystical literature, then I do not know what it is. I consider Whitley Strieber and his most famous text to be, in effect, litmus … [Read more...]
Blackhawk Comics, the Shaver Mystery, and the Vril-ya (Part 2)
(This is a continuation of last week's post on the 1956 "Blackhawk" comic book story, "The Master Race." It'll be my last post until after Labor Day. I'm taking the month of August as a break from blogging. I'll be back the week of September 1.) "Venn der Fuehrer says ve iss de Master … [Read more...]
