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The Mystery of the Merkabah – Alien Abduction, Shamanic Journey

(This post is the third of a series.  For the first two installments, click here and here.) Remember “The Fourth Kind,” the pseudo-documentary thriller about UFO abductions in Alaska that came out...

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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...

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The Mystery of the Merkabah – The Alien Eyes

(This is the fifth and final post of a series.  To begin the series, click here.) “Oh–oh, the eyes are there.  Always the eyes are there.  … Only the eyes are talking to me.  I–I–I–I don’t understand...

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The “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...

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The “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....

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Saint 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...

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Metatron – 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...

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Metatron – 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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An 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...

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“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...

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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...

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UFOs, 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...

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“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...

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The “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...

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The “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....

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Saint 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...

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Metatron – 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...

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Metatron – 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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An 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...

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“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...

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