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Guides and mentors: Alice Bailey
As a young student in 1971 I was browsing the shelves in the antiquarian section of Anderssons bokhandel (Andersson Bookshop) in Norrköping. My eyes caught the title Telepathy, written by Alice Bailey....
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Guides and mentors: Henry T. Laurency
To keep the chronology of guides and mentors in my life the relevant name here should have been Jacques Vallee. His writings and ideas have greatly influenced me personally in my research and he was...
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Cyril Scott as esotericist
In the 1920s and 30s three books excited enormous interest, especially among Theosophists and those interested in the Esoteric Tradition. They were first published pseudonymously, "by his pupil", but...
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Paranormal phenomena and the academic scholar
During my 40+ years of investigation and study of UFO and paranormal phenomena I have talked to many kinds of witnesses, with a wide variety in profession and education. One of the most regular...
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Selma Lagerlöf and the Esoteric Tradition
There are and have been many brilliant authors, excellent authors in world literature and then once in a while history gives us an author that is "divinely" gifted, truly inspired by "The Gods". In...
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The man who created AFU
The title of this blog entry may come as a surprise to the old guard Swedish ufologists who know that we were three young men who formally founded AFU in 1973. But the truth is that AFU as a library...
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Howard Menger and esotericism
In a 1979 lecture, Contactee rustling, Fortean author and journalist John Keel lamented the lack of serious investigation of the classic contactees: "In the 1950s, the government was very interested in...
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Field investigation in Sweden
Every autumn UFO-Sweden arranges a weekend seminar for field investigators. Since 2013 at the charming Föllingen Hotel situated in the southern part of the Swedish province Östergötland. Weekend...
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Robert Heinlein and esotericism
The novel, Lost Legacy, by science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) has been one of my absolute favourite novels since I first read it many years ago. It was originally published in the...
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Forbidden science versus dark science
Finally it arrived. The third volume of Jacques Vallee´s diaries Forbidden Science. This time with the subtitle Journals 1980-1989. On the Trail of the Hidden Truths. The two former volumes were...
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Edith Nicolaisen and the Esoteric Tradition
In most countries the UFO movement that appeared in the 1950s consisted of two factions, one with a basically scientific agenda and the other more or less inspired by new age ideas and the early UFO...
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The BSRF archive
For several years I have been deeply concerned regarding the future fate of the archive of Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (BSRF). On the internet I watched a video sequence showing the archive...
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ETI and the Esoteric Tradition
The scholarly and critical investigator of UFO and paranormal phenomena will usually, sooner or later, come to the realization that materialist, reductionist mainstream science cannot account for the...
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The two lives of George W. Van Tassel
One of the most well known, first generation American contactees of the 1950s was George W. Van Tassel (1910-1978). He became something of the hub of the contactee movement, very much because of the...
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Paranormal phenomena and the paradigm problem
Allen Hynek, Flying Saucer Review editor Gordon Creighton and Swedish ufologist Sven Schalin adopted Anthroposophy as their worldview, Fate magazine editor Ray Palmer championed the teachings of the...
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Paul Foster Case and the Esoteric Tradition
Recently one of my blog readers, a former member of Builders of the Adytum (B.O.T.A.), recommended an interesting biography of the founder Paul Foster Case (1884-1954). Builders of the Adytum is a...
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Gerard Aartsen, UFOs and esotericism
Was there a hidden hand, an ancient esoteric society behind some of the first UFO contactees of the 1950s? Were George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, Daniel Fry, George Van Tassel, Howard Menger a.o....
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When the impossible happens
What do you do if you experience something that according to mainstream science is impossible or encounter entities that doesn´t exist? Tell your friends? Contact the media? Consult your therapist?...
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AFU people: Sven-Olov Svensson
When you visit the AFU head office the first person you are likely to meet is our devoted and long-standing archivist Sven-Olov Svensson at his desk. He is one of the pillars of AFU who with idealism...
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Field investigator seminar 2016
During the weekend October 22-23 UFO-Sweden arranged the annual weekend seminar with the object of educating and training both new and old field investigators. As this event is also an important social...
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