(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...]
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...]
Jerome Clark and Loren Coleman – “Descent into Hell” and the Bebedouro Abduction
In my last post, in honor of my old friend Jerome Clark and the forthcoming third edition of his monumental UFO Encyclopedia, I spoke of the Bebedouro UFO abduction and the Jungian interpretation of it that he and Loren Coleman published in their 1975 book The Unidentified. Jerry has since … [Read more...]
The UFO Gnostic – Orfeo Angelucci Meets Carl Jung
If it hadn't been for Carl Jung, I doubt if I would ever have read Orfeo Angelucci's The Secret of the Saucers. The book, published in 1955 by Ray Palmer's "Amherst Press" and now available in complete and also a truncated (but more easily searchable) form on the Web, belongs to that … [Read more...]
