http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions Striking fear into the hearts of retail ufologists with peer-reviewed research and clear thinking. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:30:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I'm finally back at blogging after some brief travel. I had meant to go into the third group that would use UFO beliefs as propaganda, but to be honest, I'm more interested now in the next trajectory. For those who are curious, I may go back to this ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/09/professional-psychiatry-and-the-abduction-phenomenon/ I'm not going to go off on an exo-politics trajectory, but in view of the recent discussion, here's a recent example. http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/08/ufos-and-politics/ Follow this link to an MP3 file of a very recent interview of Joe Jordan on this subject. Joe, as you recall, was one of the central figures of the Roswell session that Greg Bishop blogged about dealing with deliverance from abductions via the name of Jesus.  We blogged about ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/08/joe-jordan-on-abductions-and-spiritual-warfare/ This is a follow-up to my earlier post in regard to the article on how folklore served as a useful propaganda tool in Nazi Germany. The article was meant to point out that governmental power, totalitarian or otherwise, often makes use of "big picture" ideas - BELIEFS - to serve ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/08/the-et-mythology-as-a-propaganda-tool-continued/ I know a number of you have been wondering why I "assigned" the second PDF article, the one on folklore as a political tool of the Nazi regime. I wanted readers to think about how folklore or religion serves many purposes of a totalitarian regime. Indeed, the folklore created ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/08/ufo-mythology-as-a-tool-of-the-state-part-1/ Well, by now a number of you have read the PDF articles from my last post. I want to make a few observations with respect to the first one (Bullard: "The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative in Technological Guise"). The article does two things, fundamentally: (1) it provides a fairly detailed overview ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/08/discussion-starters-on-bullards-supernatural-kidnapping-folklore-article/ If you're following this blog you may have had two recent thoughts: (1) Mike's time is being spent more on replying to comments than blogging; and (2) the comments are drifting away from the UFO theme. Agree on both counts. Now for the remedy. One of the stated goals of this blog ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/08/getting-re-kickstarted-with-a-bang/ Dave Ruffino posted a good comment to the recent thread on "Stopping Abductions with Prayer." For those who haven't been following the comments, here's the part of Dave's post I want to focus on: The one thing that I really wanted to touch upon though is what some of the researchers ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/07/can-non-christians-appeal-to-jesus-for-deliverance-from-alien-abductions/ For those readers of this blog who aren't subscribing to my other blog, PaleoBabble, just wanted to alert you that my second video about Lash's theory is up.  It's a large file, so high speed is a must. Just under 18 minutes. http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/07/second-video-on-john-lamb-lashs-gnostic-archons-are-alien-greys-idea/ I've blogged about this recently over at my other blog, PaleoBabble.  Part 1 was a sort of intro to the theory. Part 2 features a video of me searching the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts (in digital form) for the terms Lash says are in the Gnostic texts that describe archons ... http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/07/john-lamb-lashs-gnostic-archons-the-greys-theory/