September 1, 2019 — David Halperin

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🗓️ 1 September 2019

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

How does a teenage UFO investigator from the '60s mature into a professor of religious studies specializing in the traditions of heavenly ascent? You'll find out as Gene and Randall present David Halperin. According to David, the UFO phenomenon is about us–our hopes, our longings, our terrors. Some of it is emerging … With messages for us? Perhaps, if we just need to learn to decode them. David taught Jewish history in the Religious Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1976 through 2000. His perspective on UFOs is that like religion, they are a human construct that has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. According to David, they are alien, but instead of coming from space, they come from within our own minds, our own souls, where there’s enough alienness to fill a universe. During this episode, David will offer insights into both sightings and abductions, including former Beatle John Lennon's sighting of a UFO over New York City in 1974.

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0:00.0	You're in the Paracast.
0:10.0	You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.
0:27.9	And now, here's Gene Steinberg.
0:32.2	Before we just got started, Randall and I and our special guest this week david halperin we're talking about the
0:39.0	meaning of the number nine and i was thinking of course of the beatles white album number nine
0:44.9	you know what i'm talking about whether they kept saying number nine revolution number nine yes
0:50.3	right revolution of course we prefer revolution number one or the single, which was much, much better.
0:56.0	The version with the fuzz guitar and all that's up.
0:59.0	Anyway...
1:00.0	Oh, that's classic.
1:01.0	It is, it is.
1:02.0	But I think of number nine because of the mystical significance, which you guys can explain,
1:08.0	but also because my birthday is September 9th.
1:13.3	Oh, wow.
1:15.2	I am cursed.
1:17.3	Or I could curse, but we're on a family radio.
1:21.4	Well, we got started on this because you were saying that you're having hot weather there for the next nine days. And I just sort of
1:31.4	piped in because if you look around in a lot of news articles, and maybe it's one of those
1:36.0	things where when you think about it, you just notice it. But for me, it's always had this
1:40.7	sort of synchronistic meaning. It goes back to my first band or my last band, I guess, an alternative band.
1:47.8	We called it nine days.
1:49.3	And it's nothing to do with the one that's out there now.
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