A new episode of The Mystical Underground is live! “Ralph Blumenthal: The Believer”:
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Ralph Blumenthal was a reporter for The New York Times from 1964 to 2009 and has written seven books based on investigative crime reporting and cultural history. His newest book is “The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack.” It will be released on March 15, 2021, and is the first biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack (1929-2004) who risked an esteemed career to investigate stupefying accounts of human abductions by aliens.
Recently, Ralph has also written some fascinating articles on alien abduction, Robert Bigelow’s contest to prove that human consciousness survives death, and the Navy reports that describe encounters with UFOs.
Funny thing about Mack writing that book about Larry of Arabia and getting killed after attending a conference in London about Larry was that I was watching a 2017 HBO doco on Amazon Prime called ‘Spielberg’ about Stephen’s movie career up until that point, and he stated the ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ was the film that inspired him to make Hollywood blockbusters.
He watches that movie every year to motivate himself apparently.
That doco is worth watching if you have an Amazon Prime subscription –
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7133092/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_49
Onto my list is goes. We have prime.
I watched ‘The Life After Death Project’ on Prime on the weekend, the movie produced by Anne Strieber and starring Whitley.
It also starred Richard Matheson, who passed away in June 2013, which was one month after it was aired on TV according to the movie’s IMDB page –
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2838946/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
Richard talks about his book ‘What Dreams May Come’ in that doco, which was made into a movie starring the late Robin Williams, who took his own like on August 11th, 2014,
Then Anne Strieber passes away exactly one year after Robin did, on August 11th, 2015.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5622352/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Very spooky indeed, in hindsight.
Wow, Daz, you’re way ahead of me. Robin and Anne. Aug 11, a year apart.
I’ll tell you why I watched it in an up coming post I’m going to write about that movie and all the “coincidences” leading up to me watching it.
But the main reason was because I watched Whitley Strieber’s latest You Tube interview with Robert Schoch and Whitley ran a commercial for something involving Glennys Mackay, who lived in the next suburb from where I grew up and went to school.
I looked her up on a Google search after Whitley mentioned her and the search told my that she was in that movie that Anne Produced … and she was.
The night I watched that movie was March 13th, the anniversary of the first screening of the movie ‘Metropolis’ –
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Keep that in mind if you watch that movie about Forrest J ACKerman 😉
And check out this synch film Jake Kotze made about Robin and rainbows, and how Robin passed away on Chris Hemsworth’s (Thor) birthday of August 11th –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f7jltc9_hI
You do realize that you posted this interview on Albert Einstein’s birthday of 3/14 Trish, which is Pi Day and also the day Stephen Hawking passed away on?
It’s also the birthday of Giorgio A. Tsoukalos from ‘Ancient Aliens’ 🙂
I’m not saying it’s aliens, but … ALIENS 😉
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2021/03/pi-day-ancient-aliens-and-birthday-issue.html
Damn! didn’t occur to me. And I’ve done Einstein’s birth chart!
Yeah, aliens.
I also lost internet connection twice. This seems to happen whenever aliens or UFOs are mentioned. Just sayin’…
You do mention Albert Einstein in the podcast, which was why I commented that you posted that episode on his birthday 🙂
Right. He crept in!
Interesting interview Trish.
I never realized that John Mack was from a secular German Jewish family background, too.
That photo on Mack’s Wikipedia page reminds me of Christopher Plummer from ‘The Sound of Music’
And when I looked up his Wikipedia page I noticed that John Mack was featured in the 2020 documentary ‘The Phenomenon’ and considering that your latest book title is ‘Phenomena’ that’s a phenomenal synchro, too 🙂
Mack was a fascinating character.
Wonderful interview with Blumenthal. Fascinating that John Mack got the blank rune before he left for London and knew that he probably wasn’t coming back. I think people always know. I got that rune several times and it never meant death for me, obviously. But I do believe that I’ve jumped a couple of strings since then.
I though the blank rune was definitely precognitive. You would love his book.
Will read it!
You’ll enjoy it.