“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...
View Article“Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO”– Two Reviews, an Interview
Something of what it is to publish a book: You send your thoughts, your ideas, your stories out into the world. You hope to hear echoes; you dread the inevitable silences. You just love it when you...
View Article“Handbook of UFO Religions”–“Judaism and the UFO”
E. J. Brill, according to Wikipedia, is “a Dutch international academic publisher founded in 1683 in Leiden, Netherlands. With offices in Leiden, Boston, Paderborn and Singapore, Brill today publishes...
View ArticleBooks That Horrify – Ezekiel, “1984,”“The Island of Dr. Moreau”
There was a chapter of the Bible that people were afraid to read, I told the little girl. I want to know why they were afraid to read it. H.G. Wells, “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (illustration by Dominic...
View Article“Mystery of the Great Dragon”– Zohar, Kabbalah, and Evil
“Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers …” –Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel’s Hebrew word for “dragon” is tannim. It’s the same word that, in its...
View ArticleUFOs, Louis Farrakhan, the “Mother Wheel,” and …“Independence Day”
The date: September 17, 1985. The place: Tepoztlan, Mexico. Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation Of Islam–NOI, better known as “the Black Muslims”–is abducted into a UFO. Or is he? The...
View ArticleUFOs, 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...
View Article“Ezekiel Saw the Wheel”
This is a P.S. to my post two weeks ago about African-American UFOlogy. It’s inspired by Michael Lieb’s discussion of Ezekiel’s wheel in the African-American folk music tradition, in his extraordinary...
View ArticleAn African-American UFOlogy?
My aim in this post is to ask a question I can’t answer. Does there exist an African-American UFO tradition, parallel to but distinct from the UFOlogy of white America? Ilia Rashad Muhammad, “UFOs and...
View ArticleMetatron – the Mutant, the Mystic (Part 2)
(This is a continuation of last week’s post.) “Look at the Youth who comes forth from behind the throne to greet you! Do not prostrate yourself before him, even though his crown is like his King’s...
View ArticleMetatron – the Mutant, the Mystic (Part 1)
He’s an angel, sort of, but more like a god. His name “Metatron” sounds Greek, sort of, but comes down to us written in Hebrew letters. What it might mean in Greek, we don’t know, although...
View ArticleSaint Paul – UFO Abductee? (Part 1)
It sounds a bit grotesque. But more than the Old Testament characters–Elijah, Ezekiel–who’ve been claimed by the blogosphere as UFO abductees, the great preacher and ideologue of first-century...
View ArticleThe “Box of Crazy,” UFOs, and Ezekiel’s Vision (Part 2)
Read some of what’s been posted to the Web about the “Box of Crazy,” the amazing cache of artwork and miscellaneous papers discovered–in 2008, supposedly–by the side of a road near Asheville, NC....
View ArticleThe “Box of Crazy,” UFOs, and Ezekiel’s Vision (Part 1)
William Blake, move over. As illustrator of Ezekiel’s “chariot” vision–“merkabah” to the ancients, “UFO” to some moderns–you’ve met your match. Well, maybe not really. Blake’s loopy genius is and...
View Article“Mystery of the Great Dragon”– Zohar, Kabbalah, and Evil
“Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers …” –Ezekiel 29:3 Ezekiel’s Hebrew word for “dragon” is tannim. It’s the same word that, in its...
View ArticleUFOs, Louis Farrakhan, the “Mother Wheel,” and …“Independence Day”
The date: September 17, 1985. The place: Tepoztlan, Mexico. Louis Farrakhan, controversial leader of the Nation Of Islam–NOI, better known as “the Black Muslims”–is abducted into a UFO. Or is he? The...
View ArticleUFOs, 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...
View Article“Ezekiel Saw the Wheel”
This is a P.S. to my post two weeks ago about African-American UFOlogy. It’s inspired by Michael Lieb’s discussion of Ezekiel’s wheel in the African-American folk music tradition, in his extraordinary...
View ArticleAn African-American UFOlogy?
My aim in this post is to ask a question I can’t answer. Does there exist an African-American UFO tradition, parallel to but distinct from the UFOlogy of white America? Ilia Rashad Muhammad, “UFOs and...
View ArticleMetatron – the Mutant, the Mystic (Part 2)
(This is a continuation of last week’s post.) “Look at the Youth who comes forth from behind the throne to greet you! Do not prostrate yourself before him, even though his crown is like his King’s...
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