Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. (Continued from my previous post.) "A few years ago," British historian Ronald Hutton wrote in 1999, "I was lunching in a hotel restaurant … [Read more...]
Virgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy (Part 1)
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. OK, here’s the problem: On June 24, 1981—the anniversary of the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold that kicked off the modern UFO era, if … [Read more...]
The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Eyes of Terror
(This post is the fourth of a series. To begin the series, click here.) Imagine: we're Jewish mystics of the sort that Gershom Scholem called the "merkabah mystics"--fascinated, or maybe obsessed, with the divine Chariot (merkabah) that's described in the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. … [Read more...]
A UFOlogy for the 21st Century
Here’s a proposition—a UFOlogical proposition. UFOs are a human phenomenon. A UFO sighting, therefore, is not bounded by the sky in which it’s appeared, or seems to have appeared. The observer—better, experiencer—is a part of the sighting. So is everyone who believes in that sighting. So is … [Read more...]
