Angels To begin with, angels are not winged creatures with nice faces. They are certain patterns of proportions; intellectual patterns that are self-conscious as...
Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination
In a brilliant stroke, Keith Thompson takes a subject usually confined to checkout-counter-tabloids and reveals its surprising literary richness, intellectual energy, and symbolic depths. By offering a new, open-ended perspective which avoids the dogmatism of true believers and debunkers alike, “Angels and Aliens” invites readers to enter a fascinating world with profound implications for our understanding of the human spirit.
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God’s Fingerprints: Impressions of Near Death Experiences
Amy C. Ever since I was age 17, I’d had chronic pain. The doctors said I had “fibromyalgia.” My life had become a tortured...
Light Changes: Experiences in the Presence of Transforming Light
1. Exceptional Experiences in the Absence of Light Lack of light is often associated with the activating of fears and, symbolically, that which is...
The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism
THE CASE OF MOLLIE FANCHER 1 THE present chapter aims at illustrating the difficulty of assigning precise limits to the range of those natural...