X-ZONE Podcast Appearance

This Wednesday night, November 26, I'll be on Rob McConnell's X-Zone podcast. You can find out more here.

The Lady

UFO and paranormal researchers who study BVM apparitions say that, in many of these apparitions, "the lady" never says who she is. She doesn't tell the witness she is the Blessed Mother; that's an assumption and interpretation on the part of the witness.

This fact, and parallels to psychic, paranormal and UFO phenomena, supports the theory that BVM appearances are UFO related, not literal religious events only.

In Heavenly Lights: The Apparitions of Fatima and the UFO Phenomenon, the authors Joaquim Fernandes and Fina D'Armada also mention this. In Chapter I of the book, they begin by pointing out that the lady appearing to the child witness Lucia didn't say who or what she was; the assumption it was of course the Virgin Mary was made by the deeply religious people in the area.

They quote Antonio dos Santos, Lucia's father, who said of the apparition's origins:

"If the kids saw a woman dressed in white, who else could she be but Our Lady?"

Lucia's mother questioned her about the visitation:

"Lucia, I heard it said that you saw Our Lady at Cova da Iria," her mother asked.

Lucia responded with:

"I never said that it was Our Lady -- rather, a small, pretty lady."

Visitations of ladies, often dressed in white, that come from the heavens, go back thousands of years; predating Christianity. The BVM phenomena cannot be considered in such strict and narrow terms as purely a literal religious phenomenon, as the authors of Heavenly Lights write, these apparitions are neither literally religious, nor are they to be dismissed as delusions:

Between the two extremes of irrational pity and rational intolerance, viewed in the long tradition of "the manque," there lies a vast no-man's land, where the practice of a "third way" is the beginning to find legitimacy in academic circles.

"Babbling" Child and Mary Statue

Speaks for itself. . . is there something she sees the rest of us don't? Very possible. . .

Source: Father Joe

Saints and Tarot

My Llewellyn catalog came today; I had a great time looking it over. Definitely some oracle decks I want to purchase. Among the Tarot and oracle decks were a couple that dealt with the saints. I don't think I'd get those decks, maybe, but either way, they are interesting.


Here are a few links:
The Aeclectic Tarot (Tarot of the Saints), Voices of the Saints Tarot, and this one: The Alchemical Egg site.

Pam Grundy is From Outer Space

Great title for a blog. Or, "hub" it's a blog, but something new to me, the format or platform seems to be something called a "hub" -- I didn't explore a lot but it seems kind of, sort of, along the lines of Squidoo.

Pam Grundy has an entry about dreams of UFOs and Mary. You'll have to scroll down a bit and you'll see it.

Something About UFO-Mary

Of Rosalind Russell, Italian drama queens, epic intricacies and visiting folklorists . . .


I haven't been consciously thinking about Marian apparitions lately, or this blog, haven't had any visions or visitations or synchronicities, yet for some reason I've dreamt about Marian apparitions and this blog the past two nights.

The night before last I had one of those dreams that had nothing to do with me. It was as if I had astrally bumped into someone else's dream-head out there in the ether. The dream kept changing point of view: often the observer, sometimes the "main" character, which was the actress Rosalind Russell. In the dream she wasn't the actress Rosalind Russell playing a part, she just happened to be Rosalind Russell.

The dream took place over several decades, like a David Lean film. All very colorful and epic and intricate. Location: Italy. Pre war, post war. . . Rosalind Russell behaving, for the most part, like an amped up Melina Mercouri. Whenever Russell/Mercouri would get annoyed, which was often, she'd put on a one woman street theater performance. Once she hung herself upside down inside a wooden box while nude, which shocked the villagers but they were used to that kind of thing. She had to be rescued by children; not her kids, but more like her nieces and nephews.
And something about a younger man and they were both wildy in love but it was never consummated. He eventually got ill and was languishing downstairs in a huge, open room full of gilt and multi-colored tiles, while Russell was upstairs, lounging around in a giangantic bed, drinking a glass of white wine.


Rosalind Russell on a bed, but without a brilliantly colored nun's habit.

That was the last scene: Russell in a colorful nun's habit, drinking a glass of white wine, gabbing with a female friend of hers, also on the bed. Something mildy lesbian-erotic about it not overtly. And while Russell was dressed like a carnival version of a nun, she wasn't pretending to be a nun; it just gave off that impression.


Actress Melina Mecouri.

Hmmmm.... I know, lots of things we can say about all that. Hanged Man imagery, "Never On Sunday" Madonna and whore stuff, Russell as Sister Carrie, Italy, the Vatican, younger dying man; a hodge podge of Freudian stuff. One thing that strikes me is the Trickster quality of Russel-Mary: in your face, theater, acting out, over the top . . .



Last night's dream had me wandering around the folklore department at the college I went to (where I majored in folklore.) Whenever I dream of the folklore department it's always been changed since I was there. That's not too hard to figure out. anyway, I'm roaming around, a bit lost, no one knows me of course, until I run into one of my professors. Turns out some of the graduate students know my name and reputation -- ego runs strong in dreams, lol. I'm asked to present to a lecture hall class once a month on UFO stuff, mainly UFO-Mary; they want me to focus on that. I'm surprised that the UFO-Mary connection would be of interest, but glad.

I'm very jazzed about this of course. And, they're paying me! Not bad for someone who threw up her hands at the last minute and never finished her thesis. So I'm up there, making last minute notes, etc. I get a bit worried because I don't have a power point slide show thingie to show off; all the previous presenters had one. I was under the impression they'd be fine with me just talking. But I make a note for next time and carry on.

To my surprise some people are shocked or offended: "What, Mary, mother of Christ, and flying saucers??!! Aliens???!!" But it goes quite well, and I'm very happy.

So, UFO-Mary on the brain. Something's percolating in there . . .

Mary in the window

Mary appears in hospital window.

Coast to Coast Thursday: Fatima Secrets

Nicholas Gruner, "Fatima Secrets" will be on Coast to Coast this Thursday night.

The Fatima Teardrop

From Coast to Coast site, an image of the Fatima teardrop. (He's right, I don't think it looks like the famous ghost photo either.)

Alien Saint Icon

Thanks to Mac Tonnies, of Post Human Blues and Things That Look Like Flying Saucers, who sent me this image.

Mary in Palin's Hair - Do

Okay, Sarah Palin isn't a UFO or even paranormal (er. . . .) but I couldn't resist this item from The Smirking Chimp about the Virgin Mary appearing in Palin's outdated do. Thanks to Lesley of The Debris Field for the link.

Mac Tonnies on UFOs and Religious Agnosticism

UFOs and Religious Agnosticism by Mac Tonnies on the About Seti.com site.

"My religious agnosticism is more nuanced. I don't dismiss the possibility of some kind of cosmological creative intelligence, but I do dismiss the God of the Christian tradition, making me (according to some definitions) an "atheist." "

Thanks to Lesley of The Debris Field; hat tip and all that.

Grape Mary!

Mary on a grape. For commentary and image, visit the very excellent Cabinet of Wonders/Damn Data blog.

BVM Apparitions, UFOs, and Deceptions

I have a new article up at UFO Digest: BVM Apparitions, UFOs and Deceptions.