http://ndapak.com/wp-json/wp/v2/users Here, to follow up on John’s 1970 speech to the Humanist Society, is one for a MENSA convention in NYC in 1972. He touches on some of the same subjects, but is more concerned with the connections between paranormal and religious experiences. A few corrections about Charles Fort: he was not a “little man,” but six feet tall and stocky; he died in 1932, not 1931; the quotation “If there is a universal mind, must it be sane?” (with which John closes The Mothman Prophecies) was written by Damon Knight, in his biography of Fort; it was Aaron Sussman who proposed the title God Is an Idiot, which Fort rejected, preferring Tiffany Thayer’s suggestion Lo!
I’ll post the speech in three installments.
I love John’s speeches.
Comment by Joseph — March 29, 2021 @ 3:38 pm
Thanks again. Another good read.
Comment by Marsh — March 29, 2021 @ 7:16 pm
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