The Oz factor. One of the most insightful ufo phenomenon articles of the early eighties. Four decades later, it still is a cornerstone of intellectual, deep thought ufology. Written by British ufologist Jenny Randles.

If you want to deeply study the ufo phenomenon and its interaction with humanity, this is one of the recommended source works (from my library).

Lourdes and Fatima, two of the most significant non-human contact events ever. Yet the American hamburger-ufo contingent keeps on babbling about disclosure, where it has already taken place.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries an unprecedented international effort was initiated to chart and study non-human intelligences and the altered states of consciousness by which such contacts regularly occurred. Thousands upon thousands of reports were produced.

During her life in the 19th century Dutch spiritualist Elise van Calcar (1822-1904) compiled a massive encyclopedic compendium of paranormal lore and knowledge, in her yearly publications titled 'On the Borders of Two Worlds'. The series ran from 1877 to 1904.

Steden die hele planeten bedekken komen veel voor in SF-verhalen (Trantor, Coruscant). Maar zouden ze echt mogelijk zijn. Architecten hebben daadwerkelijk nagedacht op welke principes een wereldwijde stad gebaseerd zou moeten zijn. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTt... #Geekalert

The cosmos works in mysterious ways. Last week someone drew my attention to the astral messages of H.C. Randall-Stevens. His books from the 1920s are extremely rare. I already had one but today found this, The Chronicles of Osiris, first edition, 1926. About Atlantis and Lemuria.

Irish ghost hunter Elliott O'Donnell was a complicated person, but he surely wrote a lot about ghostly and paranormal phenomena. A selection from my collection of his very rich and at times very, very disturbing oeuvre.

Leuk ter inspiratie voor SF-schrijvers: milieuvriendelijke en biologisch afbreekbare levende computers op basis van schimmels lijken realiteit te gaan worden. Biopunk! www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

The biggest mistake is not having created a solid bridge between ufology and the paranormal.

@johankh.bsky.social De Leiber klassiekers zoals ik ze als kind las:

“Eventually a temple will be discovered underground in the rear of the Sphinx, which connects with other chambers and a great temple or grand chamber under the Great Pyramid.” I once held a copy of that book (Atlantis to the Latter Days) in my hands. I have his older title (1927) in my library:

This book by baroness Adelma von Vey arrived today. Published in 1890, it talks about the ‘spheres between the earth and the Sun’ and about “many humanoid species on the different worlds that I journey by”. This last detail from a seance sitting in 1871. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelma_...

@memizon.bsky.social great info, from Mike Dash

Deze foto van Jupiters satelliet Io werd genomen door Voyager 1 rond 16:30 uur (PST) op 2 maart 1979. Het ruimtevaartuig bevond zich op een afstand van ongeveer 8,3 miljoen kilometer.

Lack of shelf space is beginning to be a real problem around here.

A shelfie about the search for the forgotten knowledge of the ancients and the Victorian studies and fascination for these sacred mysteries.

Portland ICE facility

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.

#ufosky #Ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Slow Moving Triangle October 20, 1978 — Campton, NH 1/Dusk. Kate Chmurny, an archaeologist at Plymouth State College in New Hampshire,

Books migrate in my bookcases. When other items arrive they seek new spots. Like growth rings of a tree or sedimentary layers in soil. Two snapshots of my shelves to show that evolutionary progress.

The witches of Flanders are everywhere. Their tales may be forgotten, their voices unheard, but they are anything but quiet. Step into the darkness and help us give a voice to Flanders' witches! 🌙 kck.st/492NqKt 🌙 #WyrdWednesday

I think the biggest flaw of ufology is not to see the bridge with 19th century paranormal research.

Book Launch: Supernal Stories: Volume1️⃣ Phantasy short stories ~ Meet thunderous kaiju, cosmic librarians, poet gods, existential snipers, and philosophically-minded A.I. golems, among others…🐉📚✍️🪖🤖 Cover art by Caspar David Friedrich. 🔗⤵️

The infamous Kentucky flesh fall. blog.newspapers.com/when-meat-ra...

One of my favorite shelfies: an all female occult powerhouse. Anna Kingsford, Lady Caithness, Nizida, Emma Hardinge Britten, Florence Marryat. Sir William is a pen name. Was he a she? A fascinating book about contact with entities of other planets and star systems such as Sirius. Dogon!:)

Wow! Found 1920s film footage of Eleonore Zugun (1913-1998), the Romanian girl who was the subject of unexplained poltergeist attacks and stigmata phenomena such as bite and scratch marks: youtu.be/8Mk6LKAD4e0?... About her, here: psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/ele...

German horror pulps spotted at a Berlin flea market on the weekend.

There was a sequel to this story. "The Witch of the Willows" (1931) by Lord Dunsany was first published in THE TRAVEL TALES OF MR. JOSEPH JORKENS

"On the Borders of Two Worlds", an occult journal that was published annually from 1877 to 1904 (stopped at her death). Written by Dutch spiritist and feminist Elise van Calcar, it offers a wealth of 19th c. international paranormal, psychic and weird accounts. Extremely rare these days.

"On the Borders of Two Worlds", the famous occult series from the 1870s to the 1890s. Now extermely rare, it was written by Dutch spiritist, feminist and school reformer Elise van Calcar. She offers a wealth of weird phenomena from the international media of her day.

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

1/ “There is a difference,” Sir John said coolly, “between prejudice and principles.” “Yes,” Joyce replied. “Other people have prejudices; but I have principles. Just as other people are stubborn but I am firm...

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

I went searching for the cover artwork and found that @memizon.bsky.social posted it on Twitter a few years ago.

A shelfie of the 19th century occult. The discourses of our ancestors are deeply interesting.

Added to my library: 16 parts (seven in this photo) of the spiritualist series ‘On the Borders of Two Worlds’ by feminist and paranormal spiritist Elise van Calcar (1822-1904). I have an almost complete set, but I couldn’t resist these bindings. It was published in 29 volumes, from 1877 to 1905.

A shelfie of the 19th century female occult powerhouse: Anna Bonus Kingsford, Lady Caithness, Nizida, Emma Hardinge Britten and Florence Marryat. This time by daylight. Marryat also wrote the classic novel ‘The Blood of the Vampire’, published in the same year as ‘Dracula’.

A shelfie of the 19th century female occult powerhouse: Anna Bonus Kingsford, Lady Caithness, Nizida, Emma Hardinge Britten, Florence Marryat.

Leuk filmpje van Kurzgesagt met een briljant idee dat zo uit een SF-verhaal had kunnen komen: het blijft mogelijk voor bewustzijn de hittedood van het universum te overleven, als je een goede batterij hebt en de drager van het bewustzijn ver genoeg kunt afkoelen ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMm-...

This old hag tale from the Elsas. My translation: “In illzach often a village spook appears called Doggele, that, in the midst of night, sits heavily on the chests of children and seems to crush them. It is a nightmare or vampire, of undefined combined animal shapes…

Geoffrey Hodson and his strange fairy and angelic stories is a precursor to ufo contact accounts. It began when he was five or six years old. After the Great War he recorded fairies and nature spirits. He also claimed to have received teachings from a high angel. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffre...

This arrived a few days ago: ‘Mysterium Magnum’, the now very rare Jacob Boehme edition published in 1924 by Watkins, the venerable occult bookseller. Watkins still exists.

It’s so rewarding to study the old, international ufo zines of the past, to discover the breadth and scope of the ufo phenomenon as it was recorded. This zine was published in Japan in 1975 and it lists quite a few of puzzling Japanese cases:

Surveying for correlations - the unified field theory.

Belle Sheephead: a girl finds her pet lamb killed by a fox, and she drinks it’s blood. By the next full moon she is transformed into a Were-sheep! from: Folklore of the Lake District bardofcumberland.com/folklore/ #bookologythursday #lakedistrict 📷 Black Sheep film

17 september 1909, sterfdag van de Haagse feministe en sociaal-hervormster Marianne Klerck-van Hogendorp (Den Haag, 1834-Laussanne, 1909). Zij was voorzitter van de Vereeniging Vrienden der Armen en zette zich in voor hulp aan prostituees.