As I read Dr. John Jay Harper's new article for UFO Digest entitled The Art of WWIII: The Unifying Archetypes of Apocalypse, 8/22/08, I felt a sense of déjà vu all over again. I looked into his synchronistic, Jungian, collective unconscious eyes and saw myself thirty years younger looking back wild eyed yet startlingly perplexed like a deer caught in the headlights. As I have written about many times before including my article My Early Descent into the Spirit World of Darkness and My Later Ascent into the Godly World of Light, UFO Digest, 2/1/08, I come from an intellectual and spiritual background very similar to many of UFO Digest readers and contributors. I began studying UFOs fifty years ago and reading books by Major Donald Keyhoe and about Project Bluebook. I affiliated with early UFO organizations like NICAP and APRO. As a young man, I read the works of Charles Fort and Brad Steiger. My Masters Thesis was a tribute to the Gnostic philosopher Rudolf Steiner. As a young Professor, I had the students in my graduate class, "Alternate Conceptions of Reality" read the same writers that Dr. Harper cited in his article including Jung, Huxley, Campbell, Capra and Zukav. I experimented with lucid dreaming and channeling images from the yenne velt (other world). I wrote an article for a feminist journal, Anima, in 1980 entitled "Adam: Male, Female or Both?" where I spoke of the androgynous nature of Adam and therefore of God. I read the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas which Harper cited and used its Taoist unity mantra in reconciling good and evil, male and female and other supposed opposites to write a novel, "The Other World" thirty years ago where I glorified the Hebrew feminist archetype Lilith.

I was probably versed in this stuff well before even Dr.Harper was. I was so called New Age before it was even called New Age. I was forever searching for the truth but I kept coming up empty handed.

"Always learning and never able to come to knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7).

That is why I can relate to people on this site and other UFO and paranormal sites. As I stated previously, I have befriended not only UFO Digest Publisher Dirk Vander Ploeg and Editor Robert Morningstar, but also noted Brazilian Ufologist A. J. Gevaerd, Don Allis, Publisher of Alien Seeker News, Chris Montgomery of UFO Research Center, Derrick Fulton of UFO Alley, Rob McConnell of X-Zone Radio, Jerry Pippin of UFO Radio fame as well as noted paranormal author Brad Steiger among many. Although we don't always agree on all conclusions, we do respect one another and do speak the same language of UFOs and the paranormal. As I just stated, I cannot discount such interests out of hand as many have done and continue to do because I have always been a part of these pursuits. I know them to be real. The devil is in the details. Dr.Harper's efforts to "demilitarize the planet for peace" and his notion that "we are fruit of an intelligent earth" reminded me not only of my antiwar youth but also of an article that I wrote 30 years ago entitled "Apocatastasis ", Greek for restitution, where I had an embattled earth become upset with nuclear missiles buried in her bosom and cause them to be set off in the dreams of the nuclear disarmament negotiators as a warning. Once again, been there done that, many years ago.

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