I'm taking a break this week from my regular postings. My friend Karen Thornburg has sent me some wonderful photos from my February 10 reading at the Regulator Bookshop, on Ninth Street in Durham, NC, and today I'd like to feature those pictures. Karen is the mother of Adrian Thornburg, who … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Peanuts Comic – A Lesson From Sally Brown
For my birthday last November, my wife bought me a book called Peanuts Treasury, a collection of weekday and Sunday strips from Peanuts’ glory days. I’ve read them all by now. Yet I keep the book beside me, often when I eat, dipping into it and rereading at random. It reminds me what an … [Read more...]
Freud, Jung, Lindbergh – “More Things In Heaven and Earth …”
A friend sends the following comment on the story of Jung and Lindbergh and the UFOs, which I talked about in my last post: “I imagine Jung was very aware that he was conversing with an aviator, not a psychologist, and moreover a person not likely to follow or grasp the approach Jung took to … [Read more...]
Lindbergh, UFOs, and the Jews
In July 1959, Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh paid a visit to the aged Carl Jung in his home in Bollingen, Switzerland. Lindbergh and Jung talked about—what else?—UFOs. This I learn from A. Scott Berg’s 1998 biography of Lindbergh, which my old friend in UFOlogy Jerry Clark has called to my … [Read more...]
Gray Barker’s Secret
At age twelve-going-on-thirteen, I had a terrible secret. That was why I became a UFO believer upon reading Gray Barker’s They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, with its wild tales of the “three men in black” who pay unwanted visits to those who’ve solved the flying saucer mystery, and terrorize … [Read more...]