The 1990s saw the alien abduction phenomenon reach positively stratospheric proportions. Much of this was as a result of two men: John E. Mack, M.D. and David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. It must be said, however, that they brought very different concepts and thoughts to the table. Mack, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author (of a book on T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia) who was killed in 2004, in London, England, by a drunk driver, on a dark Saturday night, penned two books that left a big mark on 1990s-era Ufology. Their titles:
Abduction and Passport to the Cosmos. Certainly, one of the chief reasons why Mack’s books became such talking points wasn’t just because of their subject-matter. It was because Mack was a Harvard Medical School professor – and he was talking about alien abductions from the perspective of them being all too shockingly real. Needless to say, it didn’t go down well with the bigwigs at Harvard, and to the extent that, in May 1994, Mack’s work in
Imperial Capital Expands its Security & Defense Practice; Brian Ruttenbur joins Imperial Capital, LLC as Managing Director in Investment Banking
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( Imperial ) is pleased to announce that Brian Ruttenbur has joined the firm as a Managing Director focused on transactions in Defense, Government Services and Cyber Security.in the Investment Banking Group.
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Mr. Ruttenbur, a highly regarded thought leader in the Defense and Security verticals comes with over 25 years of industry experience in investment banking and equity research. He was most recently a Director, Investment Banking at Drexel Hamilton where he successfully executed numerous transactions in both Defense and Cybersecurity. His experience at Drexel Hamilton included Director of Equity Research, where he provided and published analysis on public companies in the Defense and Security space, as well as oversaw the Equity Research operations pr
Published Jan. 21, 2021Updated Jan. 23, 2021
What’s across the River Styx? Robert Thomas Bigelow would like to know. Wouldn’t anyone, especially now? But Mr. Bigelow is not just anyone, or any 76-year-old mourning a wife and confronting his own mortality. He’s a maverick Las Vegas real estate and aerospace mogul with billionaire allure and the resources to fund his restless curiosity embracing outer and inner space, U.F.O.s and the spirit realm.
Now he’s offering nearly $1 million in prizes for the best evidence for “the survival of consciousness after permanent bodily death.”
In other words, was Hamlet right to call death an inescapable boundary, “the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns?” Or does consciousness in some form survive bodily death what the Dalai Lama called how we merely “change our clothes”?