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Returning To The Basics

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  I am not entirely sure where to begin with this post, which comes to you (now perhaps an empty room) after many, many months of silence – at least here at Entaus. My silence has not, of course, been for lack of activity on my part, regarding the UAP subject. Indeed, I have been rather busy. Life has taken some, shall we say, interesting turns (and twists). But I continue to be deeply, profoundly, obsessively interested in the subject (sometimes so much so that I will withdraw from it as from a plate of sweets). As ever I was. My early convictions – that indeed there is a there here to be studied, probed, engaged, thought through, researched, analyzed, interpreted (the whole range of intellectual and empirical tools brought to bear on the enigma) – are if anything only further strengthened as I get deeper into the subject not, now, merely as a hermeneutic explorer (a “hermeonaut”?) but as an active organizer, a founder of a learned association of fellow academics and professiona...
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Zenith: Final Reflections on the Sol Foundation’s Inaugural Symposium. Part Two of Two.

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A t the end of the day (which might not be until 4:30 am, like last night—I’m a bit of a night owl and a morning bird, so I split the difference), I’m an intellectual. I am in pursuit not quite of Wisdom (I’m not stupid, I’m just post-post-modern), but of some sense of all of what nature has to offer us before we beg for that late checkout from our motel. I want to know what’s there . And here. I’ll take some hooey if it means that I get to glimpse what’s real. I don’t despise the religious and I do think we’ve come upon the beginnings of the end of science in a certain (classical) sense (and a philosophical sense, too). My eyes roll equally at the dogmatism of a physicist as they do the occultist who thinks they’ve pierced the veil of Isis and comes bearing the knowledge by acquaintance of the gnostic. In my professional writing (such as it is—I’m laughably under-accomplished by the standards of the great many gifted scholars which graced Sol’s mainstage during this two-day kickoff ev...
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