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...]
UFOs, Louis Farrakhan, and the “Mother Wheel” – The Scholarship of Stephen Finley
About a month ago I was privileged to attend a small gathering of writers, scholars and thinkers--some from academia, others from outside it--loosely structured around the theme of UFOs. Professors Jeffrey Kripal and Diana Pasulka, two religious-studies scholars doing groundbreaking work on UFOs … [Read more...]
Antonio Villas-Boas and the Astounding She-Monster – A Zeitgeist Tale
This is the story of two space females. One of them, in October 1957, kidnapped a Brazilian farmer named Antonio Villas-Boas and half-seduced, half-raped him twice before letting him go. The other appeared about six months later on the silver screen, and far more powerfully in a movie poster that, … [Read more...]
“Can It Be Coincidence?” – Barney Hill, Whitley Strieber, and the Sinking of the Titanic
"The single most important thing to understand is that in most cases of startling coincidences it is impossible to make even a rough estimate of their probability. They are what mathematicians call problems that are not 'well formed.'" --Martin Gardner, The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold? How … [Read more...]
From Superman to Whitley Strieber – Reflections on a “Super-Story”
"I am not denying the obvious. I am simply suggesting that there is also a 'secret life' to Superman that extends far, far beyond his latest incarnation and 'descent' (or crash landing) into American pop culture." --Jeffrey J. Kripal It takes a big book to encompass between the same two covers … [Read more...]
