workin' on mysteries without any clue

The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination Right: Top-1000 Amazon reviewer J. E. Barnes recounts not only the author's imaginative belief in, but also apparent familiarity with, "these entities." Below: A clip from Joseph Campbell's introduction to The Portable Jung (p. viii): “...his mother, as he tells in a volume of old-age reminiscences, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, read to him of exotic religions from an illustrated children's book, to which he constantly returned to view with fascination its pictures of Hindu gods.”

“Whether manifesting as phantom animals, fairies, channeled or medium-visiting spirits of the dead, "gypsies on the roof," vanishing hitchhikers, poltergeists, unidentifiable aerial phenomena, voodoo loa, "soul guides," lake monsters, "men in black," hairy humanoids, the "terrors that come in the night," alien "grays," or even the mysterious quasars at the ends of the known universe, Harpur argues that mankind coexists and always has coexisted with these entities throughout time." bumper sticker seen today in Boulder Barnes & Noble parking lot The phrase is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("thrice blessed") in the ancient Tabula Smaragdina (The Emerald Tablets) but was probably just made up by some random occultist, as various scholars have argued, in the 19th century, in 1967, or early last week.

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