“Chariots of the Gods?”– Erich von Däniken and the Book of Enoch
I didn’t get a chance to tell Erich von Däniken, when he and I were guests together last week on Gene Steinberg’s “The Paracast” radio show, that the first time I read his Chariots of the Gods? it was...
View ArticleThe Dreamlike Psalm 126 – Thoughts for a New Year
I’m not a rabbi, but with my beard I’m often mistaken for one. Especially for one particular rabbi, who lives in my town and who everybody thinks looks just like me. (He and I happened to be in a...
View ArticleVirgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy...
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. OK, here’s the problem: Daniel Klimek,...
View ArticleVirgin Mary at Medjugorje, the “Supernatural,” and What it Means for UFOlogy...
Daniel Maria Klimek, Medjugorje and the Supernatural: Science, Mysticism, and Extraordinary Religious Experience. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. So what’s the takeaway from all this, for us...
View ArticleThe “Leopard Lady” and the Bible – The Poetry of Valerie Nieman
Valerie Nieman. Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse. Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53, 2018. I may have mentioned once or twice in the course of the past several years’ blogging: I don’t read a whole lot of...
View Article“Storm Area 51”– Why It Happened as It Did
“This has a high potential of getting ugly. Please consider visiting at another time.” –Website of Rachel, Nevada, quoted by Billy Cox in the De Void blog “This,” of course, was “Storm Area 51,” the...
View ArticleAbout UFOs – Conversations with Michael Shermer and Whitley Strieber
“Have you ever,” he inquired hesitantly of Yossarian … “been in a situation which you felt you had been in before, even though you knew you were experiencing it for the first time?” Yossarian nodded...
View ArticleUFO and the Bible – Rael, Ancient Aliens, Evangelical UFOlogy
Joseph P. Laycock, “Unmasking the Alien Deception: Why Evangelicals Are Studying Ufology,” Brill Handbook of UFO Religions, ed. Benjamin E. Zeller, pp. 103-115. Olav Hammer and Karen Swartz, “Ancient...
View ArticleCryptids, UFOs, Lost Continents – Colin Dickey’s “The Unidentified”
Colin Dickey. The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with The Unexplained. Viking, 2020. “Obsession” was perhaps an unfortunate choice of words for the subtitle. It...
View ArticleDreaming Beyond Death – When the Time Comes To Pop
Kelly Bulkeley, Ph.D., and the Reverend Patricia Bulkley. Dreaming Beyond Death: A Guide to Pre-Death Dreams and Visions. Beacon Press, 2005. “I am sailing again at night in uncharted waters and the...
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