I wanted to call the attention of readers to this informative and humorous post from Skeptophilia entitled, “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Starseed.” The post is about the nonsensical new-age fantasy maintained by some people that they are actually...
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Nick Redfern Final Events Lecture Online
Readers may recall that I reviewed Nick Redfern’s book, Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife on this blog back in 2010. Nick has posted a lecture on the book and its content here . Having heard Nick lecture before,...
Myth and Mystery of UFOs: A Review
I just finished Thomas Bullard’s book, The Myth and Mystery of UFOs , by scholar-folklorist Thomas Bullard (University of Kansas Press, 2010). Rather than write my own review, I found the work summarized nicely in this review over at Magonia review of books...
Update from Nick Redfern on Final Events Research
Nick has an interesting post today about possible links to the Collins Elite group, featured in his book Final Events (reviewed here by yours truly). In a nutshell, the update concerns advances in “memory metal” that may be linkable to a memo Nick cited in...
Review of Nick Redfern’s Final Events
Nick Redfern, Final Events and the Secret Government Group on Demonic UFOs and the Afterlife (Anomalist Books, 2010) Well, I finally carved out some time to review Nick Redfern’s latest book. I’m hoping you all went ahead and bought it and read it during...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 10
Well, it’s about time I got back to this. When I last left you, I had noted that I was writing about end times over on my Naked Bible blog and that you needed to check out that discussion to understand my hesitation on agreeing with the typical Christian...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 7
I just posted another installment on eschatology (end times) over on my Naked Bible blog. Again, the goal in that series is to get people to understand that the typical “there’s going to be a Great Tribulation, a rapture, and a millennial kingdom in...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 6
We’ve reached the point now where we can transition from explaining the four pillars of the “fundamentalist” view to offering some points of (friendly) critique. Here they are for sake of review: 1. Abductee testimony of the forcible trauma of their...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 5
In the last post , we moved into the fourth element to a Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are demonic). The four elements are: 1. Abductee...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 4
So far we’ve covered the first three of the four elements to a Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are demonic). The four were: 1. Abductee...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 3
To review (again) the purpose of this thread, I suggested at the outset that there were four aspects to the Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are...
Understanding the Christian Fundamentalist View of UFOs and Aliens, Part 2
To review the purpose of this thread, I suggested at the outset that there were four aspects to the Christian fundamentalist view of UFOs and aliens (i.e., that UFOs that are not man-made or other natural phenomena are demonic and alleged alien life forms are...
Aliens, Abductions, and the Jinn
Nick Redfern recently posted this story about a possible connection between abductions and the Jinn, supernatural creatures known from the Quran. Â There are a number of things said about the Jinn in the Quran that fit abductee narratives. That said, the article Nick...
New Review of The Fourth Kind
Gary Bates has written a lengthy review of The Fourth Kind. If you haven’t seen the movie yet and care about reading spoilers, you may want to defer reading the review. If you have no time at all for a spiritual explanation for alien abduction, you won’t...
“The” Christian View of Aliens, Part 3: Angels, Demons, Gods, Aliens: Are These Terms Reconcilable?
I’ve been hesitant to write about this subject for some time, though I have addressed it a bit in Q&A sessions at conferences. My reticence is rooted in my feeling that it’s a lose-lose proposition. I’ll try and explain. On one hand, there is a...