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. You'll find it said that the centerpiece of the collection is a hyper-dramatic UFO sighting that … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
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 will forever remain unique. But if the drawings in what's being called the "Box of Crazy"--a … [Read more...]
Conspiracy Theories Revisited – The Strange Case of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz (Part 3)
(This is part 3 of a three-part post. For part 1 click here; for part 2 click here.) In last week's post, I began to describe the scandalous book of Kabbalah that surfaced in Germany in 1725, with the title Va-avo ha-Yom el ha-Ayin, "I Came This Day to the Spring." Rumor had it that the book … [Read more...]
Conspiracy Theories Revisited – The Strange Case of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a three-part post. For part 1, click here.) “I came this day to the spring of wisdom … and now I shall enlighten you with words of understanding.” This is the beginning of what may have been the most controversial Jewish book of the 18th-century. It was a book of … [Read more...]