(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...]
The Coast Guard (Salem) UFO Photograph – a Pair of Jungian Quaternities?
I suppose it qualifies as an iconic photograph. Taken at Salem, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1952, it remains more than 50 years later a stock illustration for popular journalism on UFOs. The Guardian used it in 2011, Time magazine in 2015, the New York Times in 2019. Just this month, attractively … [Read more...]
“Handbook of UFO Religions” – “Judaism and the UFO”
E. J. Brill, according to Wikipedia, is "a Dutch international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands. With offices in Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore, Brill today publishes 275 journals and around 1200 new books and reference works each year." I've known its hefty, … [Read more...]
Remembering Stanton Friedman – The Recollections of Kevin Randle, Kal Korff
I never met the late Stanton Friedman. Nor did we exchange correspondence, nor did I ever hear him speak. To the memory of this man, I have no personal contribution to make. I can only repeat the obvious: that with his passing on May 13, UFOlogy lost a major figure. I'm moved to write … [Read more...]
