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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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Book II Begin the morning by saying to thyself; I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things...

Conversations with Mozart

Simon Parke

He was the eternal child. As his sister Nannerl said, ‘Outside of music he was, and remained, nearly always a child.’ Read Mozart’s coming...

Conversations with Jesus of Nazareth

Simon Parke

THREE Whatever happened to family values? Jesus is from artisan stock and his family setting is the world of small farmers and independent craftsmen....

What is Religion? And Other Writings

Leo Tolstoy

WHAT IS RELIGION: AND WHAT IS ITS ESSENCE? (February 1902) I Always in all human societies, at a certain period of their existence a...