tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post8576661375572333535..comments2024-03-07T12:48:21.070+00:00Comments on MAGONIA REVIEW: FIRST READ - JACQUES VALLEEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-19988833306103946782014-04-23T02:08:37.070+01:002014-04-23T02:08:37.070+01:00Vallee: "The UFO mystery, because of its appe...Vallee: "The UFO mystery, because of its appeal to human imagination provides an opportunity for persons who lead a generally dull life to bring a touch of extraterrestrial horror into their existence."<br /><br />John Fuller, in Incident at Exeter (1966), called UFOs "a Space Age ghost story."Terry the Censorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07442516952399215568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1485997200234349788.post-54509561096928728462014-04-01T14:50:51.509+01:002014-04-01T14:50:51.509+01:00Oddly enough, I just read this book again myself, ...Oddly enough, I just read this book again myself, finishing it a month ago. My impressions are different, it has stood the test of time. Vallee was only 25 or 26 when he published it, and in some ways it is superior to some of his later wilder, even uncharacteristic speculations, published in some of his books decades later (perhaps Vallee would later be unconsciously motivated by increasing mystification and frustration at a phenomenon that remains impervious to our attempts to get to grips with it, at a fundamental scientific level). The idea that there is a 'mysterious intelligence' - having nothing to do with ET or even extradimensional fractal beings as Vallee has speculated - behind the phenomena is not mutually exclusive to recognizing the folkloric and psychological/sociological aspects to ufology. On the contrary, they may well be mutually complementary, even if that mysterious intelligence is nothing but ourselves. And by the very fact that we still know next to nothing about our *conscious* selves (that is the true depths and reach of the mind and how and to what extent it interacts with the physical world), and perhaps in this day and age, less than ever before, it remains in every way a 'mysterious intelligence'. As mysterious as it has ever been.<br /><br />Whatever criticisms one may have of this giant in the field, I think it hardly fair to say that he has ever pandered to audience expectations! Hardly. Let us not forget that approximately four years later, Vallee would publish Passport to Magonia, a landmark book on the folkloric dimension to ufology, whilst continuing to emphasize a hidden inscrutable intelligence to the phenomenon. And he has never wavered on both fronts over the decades. To repeat my point, they may well be two sides of the same coin.Lawrencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04531198239870181089noreply@blogger.com