Reenchantment of the World & The Romance of Transcendence: Archives of the Impossible II. Part Three.
T he last day of the conference, which was Saturday the 13 th of May, was for me a half-day of rest. I missed the first sessions in the morning. I needed rest and recovery time. I’m sad, since the menu seemed tantalizing, with talks on more siddhis , Halperin’s intriguing “The Academy and the Impossible—A Tale of Two Bibles”, and the one I most wanted to hear, Gregory Mamedov’s “Dialectical Notes on the Human: Marxism as the Impossible, and the Impossible Through a Marxist Lens” (suitable dialectical inversions duly noted). The crown jewel of that first part would have to have been the plenary: Karin Meyers’ “Buddhism and the Impossible”. I was dismayed I missed these, but in any case that’s water under the proverbial bridge. What I did do was have an impromptu pre-lunch (which spilled into lunch proper) chat with noted (but more skeptically-inclined) journalist of matters UAP Keith Kloor, whom I’ve had the opportunity to get to know pretty well (he’s interviewed me for a piece on a...