Posts

“Theology, Mystery, and Romance”: A Review of Penelope Holt’s The Angel Scroll

  (Roundfire Books, 2024). ISBN: 978 1 80341 569 7 Penelope Holt’s new novel, The Angel Scroll , proves that the history meets mystery (or theological-thriller) genre popularized by the likes of Dan Brown, Barbara Wood, Paul Christopher, and Katherine Neville can have at its core a genuine humanness and examination of personal loss without sacrificing the searing pace, relentless intrigue, and globetrotting action its readers love and expect. The Angel Scroll is replete with the requisite cast of professors, artists, clergy, doctors, researchers, and rare manuscript and documents dealers and collectors that readers of the theological-thriller genre have come to expect and love. The main villain is suitably dark as well, with proclivities that should bring a considerable chill to your spine. This well-funded, well-connected cast of characters moves between Manhattan, Jerusalem, London, Rome, Milan, Northern France, and other intriguing, exotic locales in search of three paintings
Post a Comment
Read more

“Technology and the gods”: A Review of Crossing the Crevasse: My Epiphany—How It Affected the Bible and Disclosure by W. Wallace Wagner, Jr.

   (2nd ed. Dimensionfold Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-989940-90-7 Last October, I had the pleasure of reviewing the follow-up to this book, Within Grasp . Since that time, this new edition, published in a beautiful 10 × 8 format by Dimensionfold Publishing, became available. I seized the opportunity to read it. W. Wallace Wagner, Jr., or Wally to his friends and colleagues, is an articulate, religious man who had a life-changing experience in 2016, when he encountered a Tic-Tac UFO (similar to the ones in the footage “leaked” by the Pentagon in 2020) as he was on his mail delivery route. As they have for many others, myself included, this profound experience led Wagner to reexamine everything he was taught in the Christian church. The result was two books that are required reading for anyone interested in biblical interpretation, UFOs throughout history, and a wide range of paranormal phenomena. I was impressed at the onset—and continue to be—by Wagner’s grasp of biblical t
Post a Comment
Read more

“The Science of Alien Abduction”: A Review of A Scientist’s Own Alien Abduction Encounters: Dominion Lost, Abridged Version by Bruce Rapuano

    (Self-published, 2023). ISBN: 979-8-871896-14-3 I have to begin this review by saying this is one of the most compelling, convincing narratives of ET abduction I have ever read. This is no small compliment: over the past 15 years, after my own experience with missing time and strange occurrences, I have studied this field intensively, reading many books, interviewing abductees and contactees, and carefully considered the evidence. Although UFOlogists lament the lack of attention paid to your “everyday person,” and I have long been skeptical of the assumption that being a police officer or airline pilot makes that person’s report of an experience automatically more accurate and credible, there is something encouraging about the increasing numbers of medical professionals and scientists taking a serious look at UFOlogy. Dr. John Mack, Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist, nearly lost his position in the university medical school because of his study of abductees. Since tha
Post a Comment
Read more

“Nourishing Your Body and Soul”: A Review of Why Am I Eating This? Is This the Nourishment I Need? (2nd ed.) by Sandy Robertson, RN, MSN, CHTP, CMIP

(Self-published, 2009/2023). ISBN: 979-8-85775-271-5 In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report with the following statistics on the prevalence of obesity in America: 39.8% among adults aged 20 to 39 years, 44.3% among adults aged 40 to 59 years, and 41.5% among adults aged 60 and older. The CDC defines obesity as a Body Mass Index of 30 or above. A few weeks ago, I reviewed a book linking eating disorders with past life traumas. As I say in that review, although the case studies are compelling and the past life exercises had a lot of value, the first step is to explore what is happening in your current life that may be leading to overeating. Why Am I Eating This? provides resources for those ready to find answers to the question posed in my review. This is a new, expanded edition, covering cutting-edge topics such as the gut–brain connection. It offers additional questions Robertson has devised since the book’s original release in 2009.
Post a Comment
Read more

“Minister, Activist, Mystic”: A Review of Enlightenment by Rev. Michael J. S. Carter

 (Pisgah Press, 2023). ISBN: 978-1-942016-81-6 Amongst the masses of every generation, there are those who possess such a strong Vision, clear Voice, and dedication to the betterment of humankind that they rise above the noise with a message of Hope, Love, and Enlightenment to which we all should pay attention. Reverend Michael J. S. Carter, who shepherds a flock of Unitarian Universalists (UUs) in western North Carolina, is one of those rare individuals who possess both strength of Conviction and depth of Humility. If you watch the History Channel’s Ancient Aliens , you may have seen Rev. Carter. He is easy to spot—a rare African American voice in the world of UFOlogy and the paranormal. Having an actor’s training (he has led many intersecting, cumulatively synergistic lives), Rev. Carter has a pleasant voice, soothing cadence, and commanding presence. He knows of what he speaks. I first met my Reverend Brother several years ago, through a mutual colleague in UFOlogy. I have
Post a Comment
Read more

“The Advantages of Authenticity”: A Review of You Can’t Make This Sh!t Up: Stories of a Badass Life by Stephanie Geller

  (Precocity Press, 2024). ISBN: 979-8-9892043-7-3 From Waffle House waitress to millionaire investment professional (achieved by the age of 40), Stephanie Geller is a modern success story. Throughout this series of anecdotes that travel back and forth through time, grouped thematically with section titles such as “Work Hard, Play Hard” and “Not Everyone Gets a Trophy,” Geller proves that Authenticity is key and, if you prefer high heels, your footwear never has to change as you go from rags to riches. From its short, sharp, whimsically rendered sentences to its road-less-traveled humor and celebrations of victory in loss, You Can’t Make This Sh!t Up: Stories of a Badass Life is proof positive that how we choose to live and tell our story truly matters. There are divorces, deaths, and more than a few debacles in both her childhood and adulthood (with an adolescence that plays as pure cinematic 1980s teen dramedy). Through it all, Geller is never afraid to embark on the Hero’s Jour
Post a Comment
Read more

“ETs Among Us”: A Review of Earth’s Galactic History: And Its Extraterrestrial Connection by Constance Victoria Briggs

   (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-948803-62-5 Over the past several years, through the publication and positive reviews of her Encyclopedia of Moon Mysteries and The Moon’s Galactic History , Constance Victoria Briggs has become a leading authority on the subject of visitations to Earth and the Moon by extraterrestrials. There are two reasons for her ascendancy into this well-deserved, hard-earned position. First, Briggs does exhaustive amounts of research, structuring her books like PhD dissertations (the structural design of MGH and EGH is similar). Second, she remains a hopeful but very staunch skeptic. She is primarily a reporter. She presents the facts and lets the reader do with them what they will, without gloss. In this way, she is like Dr. Michael Salla and Paul Blake Nelson. Although she traverses the same landscapes as the Ancient Alien crowd (one of whom, David Childress, is her publisher), Briggs is the Joe Friday of the bunch: “Just the facts.” In
Post a Comment
Read more