Gustaf Fröding and the Esoteric Tradition
On October 8, 2016 my wife Margaretha and I attended a very interesting and inspiring lecture, Konsten, poesin och sanningen (Art, Poetry and Truth) at Kristinehamn Public Library. An excellent...
View ArticleAFU people: Anders Liljegren
If anyone deserves the title Mr. AFU it is my old friend and UFO research collegue Anders Liljegren. The truth is that the archive would never have achieved its present dimensions and renown if it...
View ArticleAFU Downloads
Without libraries and archives we have no history, only anecdotes, myths and hazy memories. Without archives and libraries serious and scientific research becomes very difficult and in some areas...
View ArticleAFU quo vadis?
On Friday, December 16. 2016 the AFU board held its annual meeting at one of the foundation premises in Norrköping. Detailed annual reports of 2014-2015 were submitted by Anders Liljegren and can be...
View ArticleThe UFO contactee no one investigated
There is one aspect of American ufology that has always puzzled me. Why have no serious investigators ever made in-depth studies and documentation of the first generation contactees? Instead there has...
View ArticleA tribute to Mother
On Wednesday, January 11, 2017 my mother Marianne Kantorp, (formerly Gun Blomqvist), died peacefully at Vrinnevi hospital, Norrköping. She spent the last two and a half years at Granen nursing home,...
View ArticleTo disclose, or not to disclose, that is the question
The history and future of the UFO movement has always been of great interest to me and I have written several articles pondering this issue. In Norway a new and fascinating constellation is developing....
View ArticleA unique document
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". This classic quote from science fiction author Arthur C Clarke often comes to my mind when studying and documenting UFO close...
View ArticleSweden, a failed state - an esoteric view
The best or surest way to make enemies is to write about politics. I have usually refrained from making political comments on my blog as my main interests are UFO research and the the philosophy...
View ArticlePlanetary and interplanetary guardians
Before continuing with the theme of this blog I find it necessary to inform all readers of the recent sad course of events. In my latest blog entry I presented some facts regarding the alarming...
View ArticleThe Blue John case and covert activities
In his groundbreaking 1983 book George Adamski – The Untold Story, co-written with Lou Zinsstag, Timothy Good refer briefly to an old friend he had known for a long time who had met the same or a...
View ArticleWhere are the UFO detectives?
”Where are the UFO detectives?”, is the very relevant question asked by Jacques Vallee in his classic tome Messengers of Deception (p. 222, 1979 ed.). I often ponder on this problem myself when...
View ArticleEsotericism for Dummies
During my student years at Stockholm University in the 1970s I did a rather extensive study of the Kabbalah, resulting in a short thesis on the early Merkabah mysticism, presented at the History of...
View ArticleHoward Menger interview 1978
Since 1983 I have been corresponding with British UFO investigator and author Timothy Good. We have exchanged data, photos, documents and ideas, especially relating to the more controversial classic...
View ArticleT. Bryon Edmond - ufologist and esotericist
Serious investigators of UFO and paranormal phenomena sometimes, after many years, enter the ardous journey of proceeding from mere documentation of phenomena to philosophy searching for the elusive...
View ArticleKelvin Rowe and the Esoteric Tradition
In the 1970s Timothy Good and Lou Zinsstag travelled around the United States interviewing several of the first generation UFO contactees. The interviews were taped and some years ago Timothy kindly...
View ArticleThrough the Curtain
Dr. Shafica Karagulla (1914-1986) was a well known psychiatrist and medical doctor with a vast research background in many countries. Early in her professional career she had made an in depth study...
View ArticleSven Magnusson, a unique voice in Swedish cultural history
My wife Margaretha and I are often visiting the town of our birth, Karlstad, beautifully situated by the river Klarälven. Strolling in the charming old city we usually pass a house with the adress...
View ArticleEmpirical evidence in the Richard Höglund case
In the American magazine UFO Report 1977, John Keel wrote a very interesting article, The Contactee Key, presenting some of his conclusions and advice from several years of field investigation. He...
View ArticleWho are these people?
Writing in Ivan T. Sanderson´s magazine Pursuit1991, American UFO investigator R. Perry Collins presents a group of very intriguing and controversial close encounter cases. (Unseen, Unspoken, Unknown,...
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