Hakan Blomqvist touches upon the difficulty of communicating non-traditional views to the mainstream in this review of a truly novel means of doing so. Isobel Blackthorn has converted her PhD dissertation and work on the theosophist Alice Ann Bailey into a semi-biographical, semi-fictional book, and Blomqvist is taken by the tome on multiple accounts. Perhaps […]

Being a Contactee in the ’50s and ’60s wasn’t totally fun. That’s one takeaway from Hakan Blomqvist’s portrayal of a darker aspect to Danish New Age Swedish language publisher Edith Nicolaisen. This is another fascinating look at the many-sided, brilliant, and we now find troubled, figure and the movement she promoted. With The Reeves Papers […]

“It is generally a good idea to return to the classics in any genre.” Thus begins Hakan Blomqvist’s new appreciation of a remarkable contactee book. Hakan’s description of a two-year journey through contacteeland of the 50’s made us move our copy of Flying Saucer Pilgrimage, by Bryant and Helen Reeve, to the “read soon” part […]

Since the “standard” UFO hypothesis of ET visitation is generally regarded as not proven beyond doubt, other, perhaps more creative, speculations have arisen over the years. Swedish historian and ufologist Hakan Blomqvist presents what he regards as a tenable theory, refined by years of study and composed of seven main points. Blomqvist’s construct has the […]

Many equate the word “archive” with a dim and dusty room full of ponderous and musty, imponderably dull books important only to a few weird souls whose work will never see the light of public day. Yet hidden in archives are the vibrant stories of people, their thoughts, and the events and movements they experienced. […]