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“The Phenomenon” – Reflections on James Fox’s New UFO Documentary (Part 3) –...
“The Phenomenon.” Directed by James Fox. Released October 6, 2020. “The Phenomenon.” Available on Amazon by clicking the picture. (The final installment of a three-part post. For the first two...
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Of Astrology and Astronauts – Thoughts from a Jung Conference
We were supposed to meet on the campus of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, the first week of April 2020. Of course we didn’t. That was when–surely you’ve not forgotten?–everything was closing down,...
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The Coast Guard (Salem) UFO Photograph – a Pair of Jungian Quaternities?
I suppose it qualifies as an iconic photograph. Taken at Salem, Massachusetts, on July 16, 1952, it remains more than 50 years later a stock illustration for popular journalism on UFOs. The Guardian...
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Dreaming 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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Ralph Blumenthal’s “The Believer”– The UFO Odyssey of John Mack (Part 1)
Ralph Blumenthal. The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack. High Road Books, 2021. (First part of a two-part post.) Ralph Blumenthal, “The Believer.” This is a...
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Collective Trauma, Race, and UFO Abduction – The Work of Joy DeGruy
(This is the first part of a two-part post. For part 2, click here.) Call this a preliminary report, sketching out lines of research I want to pursue. On the evening of November 1, I had the privilege...
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Collective Trauma, Race, and UFO Abduction – The Work of Barbara Cerminara
(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...
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Messiah of Transgression – Thoughts on Sabbatai Zevi (Part 1)
“Tell me, dunce: are you quite certain you will have a blessed afterlife for believing, without any sign or miracle, in a man insane? Who perpetrated, moreover, one lawless act after another? In...
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Messiah of Transgression – Thoughts on Sabbatai Zevi (Part 2)
(This is the conclusion of a two-part series. For the first part, click here.) To say that the Sabbatai Zevi messianic movement of the 17th century was a personality cult would be an understatement....
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“Close Encounters”– the UFO, the Dreams, the River
She was 13 when she, her brother, and a neighbor boy were overflown at close range by a flying triangle. She was 16 when the UFO appeared in her dreams, and drew her and her mother together before it...
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