Chalk this post up to Saturday being Yom Kippur. Or to my having spent last Saturday evening at a Sufi-style zikr (religious dance) at a local Friends' meeting house. Or to a certain nervousness over the future of the latest Gaza ceasefire. For whatever reason, I was moved to pull down from my … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
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? If so, what are its contours? Its meaning? I found myself thinking about this after posting two links on my Fan Page … [Read more...]
The Kabbalah Centre, 2003 – Zohar to the Palestinians
Read this post, if you want, as a belated tribute to the World Day of Prayer, observed last Thursday on the day better known as Patriot Day or simply 9/11. Or as a memorial to the late Philip Berg, head of the LA-based "Kabbalah Centre" where the celebs--most visibly, Madonna--learn their … [Read more...]
UFO Landing in Glassboro, NJ – Fifty Years Ago
Fifty years ago I had a friend, with whom I'm still in touch. He was an old friend even then, and a good one. Fifty years ago he did me a big favor which I now realize could have gotten him in big trouble. At the time, it didn't even cross my mind. We were both entering seniors in high school, … [Read more...]
“Jews and Arabs … Liked and Understood One Another” – Deborah Pessin’s “The Jewish People”
"The Arab conquerors loved beauty and wisdom. And so they were ready to give the people they ruled the freedom to write, to explore, to build. Jews and Arabs now found that they liked and understood one another. The Arabs had taken many ideas from the Jewish religion, and now the Jews learned … [Read more...]
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