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News Briefs 10-08-2010

By Gregon

All good things must come to an end…

Thanks Olympus.

Quote of the Day:

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Neil Gaiman

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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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5 Comments

    1. A bit biased

      The wonder of transcendent visions comes from our need for wholeness. And it is an old story. In the ancient plays of Sophocles, King Oedipus is divided from his fate by his hubris. In the tragic vision of Modernity; we are divided from the expanse of eternity by the smallness of our bodies and from life by the language that describes it. And being divided means the need to be part of a larger reality is central to the human condition. Yet our need for transcendence is always defined by history.

      As a boy in Catholic Church I was divided from my body by the concept of sin, transcendence was floating as a spirit in Heaven. As a teen, I was divided from myself by racism and transcendence was the Nation of Islam’s vision of a black-ruled world. Raised in an orphanage, I was divided from my family by class and transcendence was the Communist prophecy of an equal world. As a man divided by bitterness, transcendence was the euphoria of the Obama campaign.

      Whether it’s one’s body, color or place in society; transcendence is reclaiming what was lost and faith is the first step. Whether it’s a messiah stepping down from Heaven in glory or a U.F.O. streaking through the sky or a media haloed politician saying “Yes we can!” we are trained to reach for lights in the sky

      This is a valid observation. But after reading the rest of the article I feel the author went to that event expecting to see crazy people; and that’s exactly what he found.

      It’s odd because he paints with a broad stroke everybody involved in the UFO field. And saying Birnes is the same as Dolan is highly unfair… to Dolan! 😉

      I have heard several podcasts interviews with Dolan and he seems like a level-headed academic. He arrived late to the field, which is a good thing since he didn’t have a lot of pre-conceived ideas about what UFOS might be or not, and that allowed him to study the last 50 years of UFO sightings from a different perspective.

      As for Pinchbeck, well… I don’t agree with many of the things he says either. But that doesn’t mean I don’t give him props for trying to convince people that indigenous cultures may yet have a thing or two to teach us. Are young thirty-something professionals seeking his words out of boredom? Maybe; that doesn’t mean Pinchbeck is striving to become a XXIst century guru.

      I think he’s just trying to gather people so they can look at old problems in a new way, in order to finally get around to solving them. He probably won’t succeed, but IMO there’s no harm in trying.

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