These three posts speak to different sorts of groups interacting with humans, for purposes good or ill–at least in the strong beliefs of those who appear in the stories. Hakan Blomqvist describes a cadre of different ordinary people who had lived on Earth and were channeled by psychic medium Mark Probert. Blomqvist says these dead […]
Early contactees uniformly reported meetings with ETs looking in their physical prime–even if the space buddies were hundreds of years old. Hakan Blomqvist takes contacteeism more seriously than do most ufologists and argues such stories not be rejected out of hand. Unattractive is a good word to describe John Keel’s life at the time of […]
Strange that skeptic Jason Colavito would mark this anniversary, since he has nothing nice to say either about Fort or anybody writing about him, but the title of his article is accurate and works to introduce this post about Fort’s groundbreaking book. In Vindication for the Damned: Why Fort’s Strange Philosophy Has Endured, Micah Hanks […]
Travel Channel has a new Bigfoot program in its viewing lineup, “Expedition: Bigfoot” with Primatologist Mireya Mayor. Mayor’s CV is impressive for both its scientific and broadcasting credentials, so there’s hope that this series may be more palatable and satisfying than others of the same ilk in programs past. Mayor will not however be solving the […]
The late Uber-Contactee George Adamski still has some highly intelligent followers. And from the 1960s onwards these folks have sought to square some of Adamski’s more outre statements with possible realities. In this case Hakan Blomqvist ponders a possible mind manipulation program by aliens or humans, benevolent or otherwise. More interesting 1960s stuff appears in […]
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Nathaniel Comfort’s got an article in the prestigious journal Nature concerning How Science has Shifted Our Sense of Identity. Steven Pinker does not like that piece, not just one bit. Jason Colavito notes both the Comfort piece and Pinker’s complaints. Colavito simplifies the philosophical and scientific points, noting that the histories of science and of […]
Hakan Blomqvist tells an enjoyable story about how he got involved in the esoteric side of ufology and the beginnings of the AFU (now Archives for the Unexplained) and its holdings. (By the way, a Swedish mile, or mil, is currently 10 kilometers.) Continuing the archives theme, John Keel site minder Doug Skinner has posted […]
Sweden’s Archives For the Unexplained (AFU) is one of the world’s greatest resources for ufological literature, as Hakan Blomqvist’s tribute emphasizes. Particularly important is the AFU Downloads asset, which makes PDFs of more than 22,000 magazine, journal, and newsletter issues available for free. It’s worth visiting the AFU website at Archives for the Unexplained. AFU’s […]
Is sleep the “final frontier” in understanding ourselves, our long term health, and what lies beyond our current existence? Most likely, according to these two reports. Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) was gifted with a remarkable mind and an insatiable curiosity which he brought to bear in his personal studies of sleep as a connection to what […]