Among the unanswerable questions that come up as I ponder my life: At age 12-going-on-13, scared out of my senses but also thrilled and energized by Gray Barker's They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, could I have imagined that at age 71 I'd be planning to use that same book as a text for a … [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...]