(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...]
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...]
Blackhawk Comics, the Shaver Mystery, and the Vril-ya (Part 1)
"[Madame Blavatsky] also admired the fiction of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, whose oeuvre included the hollow earth romance The Coming Race (1871). Its hero wanders underground and contacts a race of superhumans who, through the use of wands, control 'Vril,' a mysterious energy akin to the life force. … [Read more...]
