God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

Change can be brutal In 2011, my husband and I watched a series on Netflix called “Into the West.” We enjoyed it, but it was depressing. It covered the expansion of white people from the east to the west throughout the nineteenth century, focusing on the conflict between the whites and Native Americans as the inexorable tsunami of wagons crossed the plains. It told about Indian wars, broken treaties, the near extinction of the buffalo, stolen lands... For the whites, the 1800’s were an exciting time of prosperity and gain. Inventions made life easier, the railroad brought the coasts together, while gold mines, industry, banking made some people millionaires. Huge cattle ranches and drives were the stuff of legend. Literature, politics, education, entertainment, journalism--there was nothing withheld from the irrepressible, enterprising whites of eighteenth-century America. For the Indian tribes, it was a time, with a few notable exceptions, of humiliation and loss. They fought brav

  Hell and heaven are both just on the other side of our material reality. This is an update from an old post.  I imagine a lot of my Christian friends wonder why on earth I blog about dark paranormal stuff like shamans and UAPs. There is method to my madness. I don’t pursue freaky lore for its own sake. My goal is to weave all aspects of the paranormal into a cohesive theology that coincides with the understanding of heaven and hell as portrayed in both Bible testaments. The purpose is not to use what I write as lurid clickbait, but to show that the image of the universe, both in the material and immaterial world, is consistent with biblical teachings. I hope to extend the Christian invitation to a glorious afterlife as well as to caution my readers, because the Bible does contain dire warnings about the consequences of living a careless, selfish life. If there’s a heaven, there’s a hell; if there’s a God, there’s a devil, and we ignore him at our peril.   Michael Harner , Ph.D.,