On the Edges
Articles, book reviews, interviews and explorations of edgier subjects such as UFO phenomena, remote viewing, etc. through the years.
Interview with Jill Tarter, director of Project Phoenix of SETI
Jill Tarter: I would feel much more comfortable if one of the people you plan to speak to is Philip Klass. More to the point, Phil knows everybody in the business and because he made the study of UFOs a search to find credibility, he is aware of the foibles and lack...
Interview with Richard Haines, retired NASA research scientist and former Chief of the Space Human Factors Office at Ames Research Center
RH: I have a lot of ideas on a lot of subjects in this field, ranging from photic bacteria as basic explanatory hypothesis to fractal dynamics that would explain a lot of the characteristics that are seen and described by people. I have written papers on the fractal...
Zen and the Art of Hacking
"Zen and the Art of Hacking" by Richard Thieme published in Internet Underground, April 1997 Don't call them hackers, call them homo sapiens hackii -- human beings who are "back-engineered" by their symbiotic relationship with computer networks to frame reality in...
The Interior Castle
The Interior Castle The spatial metaphor of architecture has deep implications. A house, for example, is an archetypal symbol for the psyche; when we dream of houses, we are dreaming of our interior "space." Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle described spiritual...
Remembering Gary Webb Ten Years Later
Seeing "Kill the Messenger" reminded me that I wrote this ten years ago. Webb and his example meant a lot to me. But it also prompted an endless echo in my mind. If we don't tell the truth, then they win, he said, and after they stripped him of his reason to live -...
Identity/Destiny
Identity/Destiny. by Richard Thieme “Identity/Destiny” was published in Prophecy Anthology, Volume 1" a full-color book featuring sequential art by artists such as Shannon Wheeler, Scott McCloud, Sho Murase, Yuko Shimizu, Nathan Fox and Bernie Mireault by Sequent...
Hot Wired Wheels – Anticipating the Future
Hot Wired Wheels by Richard Thieme Published on Web Ireland, Summer 1997 Your autombile, the Internet and you will soon be a seamless weld of three systems of information and energy. You'll be slotted into an energy field like a card in a laptop. Daimler-Benz is...
A Review of “Late Night Thoughts About Science” by Peter A. Sturrock
“Late Night Thoughts About Science” from Peter A. Sturrock is a teaser as well as a repast. It's a repast because the short examples of a variety of scientific anomalies, as orthodoxy styles them, is in itself rich and rewarding. Examples of, for instance, remote...