Episode 22: Vision, Art and UFOs with Greg Bishop
“The Annunciation” by Henry Ossawa Tanner 1898. Oil on canvas. In the American collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Greg Bishop has been writing about UFO’s, high strangeness and conspiracies for decades and hosts “Radio Misterioso,” where he talks in depth with guests on all subjects strange and unusual. He also has a degree in art history, so here he talks with our three hosts about looking at UFO’s from a right-brained, art-centered perspective. The question is asked, “Have you ever seen a tacky UFO?” and the answer seems to be,, “No.”
Whatever they are, the brilliantly lit, aesthetically pleasing flying mysteries seem to be made to attract humans’ attention, and hold it.
The gorgeous painting shown above, “The Annunciation” by American painter, Henry Ossawa Tanner, is discussed in depth, which is why I posted a photograph of it here. It’s hard to visualize a painting if you’ve never seen it. And yes, it DOES have to do with UFO’s and how humans interact with non-human intelligences.
Of course, we go off topic. As Greg says, “Everything should be off topic—if you only read about UFO’s you’re not going to learn what it’s all about.”
We talk about food a lot. And octopi. And cattle mutilations. And food.
And books.
Including this one:
Photograph by Barbara Fisher.
Margaret Livingstone’s Vision and Art gets a special mention because we spent a good bit of time discussing it. Look for a separate review of this very important and interesting book later on our blog.
But for now, here’s a list of books mentioned as being read by Greg, Barbara, Morganna and Kendra in the episode. It’s a partial list; I probably missed writing down the titles and authors of some of them. It’s an eclectic mixture of non-fiction on many subjects, non-fiction on UFO’s, folklore and other paranormal subjects, a novel and a cookbook. Because, yeah. We read a lot.
Where the Footprints End, Vol. 2 by Joshua Cutchin and Timothy Renner
Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld by Patrick Harpur
Forbidden Science, Vols 1-4 by Jacques Vallee
The Vinland, Greenland and Icelandic Sagas
Phenomena by Annie Jacobsen
Quackery by Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
Stalking the Herd by Christopher O’Brien
The Thread that Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Mary Berry’s Baking Book by Mary Berry
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy by Phillip L. Fradkin
Wormwood Star: The Magical Life of Marjorie Cameron by Spencer Kansa
You Can’t Win by Jack Black
The Entity Letters: A Sociologist on the Trail of a Supernatural Mystery by James McClenon
The Comedians by Kliph Nesteroff
Supernatural by Jeffrey Kripal by Whitley Streiber
Communion by Whitley Streiber
A New World by Whitley Streiber
The Case Against Reality by Donald D. Hoffman
Information and The Nature of Reality by Paul Davies
At Day’s Close: Night in Times Past by A. Roger Ekirch
Heaven Can Wait by Diana Pasulka
The Trickster and the Paranormal by George P. Hansen
Silver Screen Saucers by Robbie Graham
California Jesus by Mike Marinacci
Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula
Authors of the Impossible by Jeffrey Kripal
Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz
Man on the Run by Tom Doyle
Entangled Minds by Dean Radin
How Music Works by David Byrne
Southern California: An Island in the Land by Carey McWilliams
Cyberbiological Studies of the Imaginal Component in the UFO Contact Experience edited by Dennis Stillings
“The Thought” by Mikalojus Konstantinos Ciurlonis 1904. Oil on canvas.
Greg mentioned several Radio Misterioso episodes in this conversation. To get to those conversations, go to the site and on the right hand side a ways down there’s a search box. Type in David Perkins, Peter Jordan. Christopher O’Brien, and Susan Demeter to listen to those episodes.
Whew. That’s it for the show notes. I hope you enjoy the episode and find the links, book titles, art and such listed here useful and edifying.
See you next week!
