On Thursday February 28th, 2019, the Hermetic Hour with host Poke Runyon

will review and discuss "The Eighth Tower" by the late UFO investigator

John A. Keel (1930-2009). He was most noted as author of "The Mothman

Prophecies" (1975) and film (2002). Keel was more interested in monster

sightings, like the mothman and big-foot than he was in UFOs but he

believed that the two phenomenon were related and emanated from the same

source. He was an ardent successor to Charles Fort "The Book of the

Dammed" (1919) which was a collection of fantastic anomalies such as UFO

sightings, monster sightings and other fantastic events such as rains of

frogs and ghost ship sightings. Mostly newspaper clippings collected

from the beginning of the industrial age to the First World War. Like

Charles Fort, Keel was a journalist who continued the collection from

the 1920s, through the UFO era. The Eighth Tower is a Fortean book but

with an agenda that Fort was very cryptic about. What do all these

strange things mean mean? Fort concluded that "We" humankind, "Are

property." Keel expands on that. After continuing Fort's bizarre

collection he brings in Carl Jung's Collective Unconscious, the world

soul, universal mind and the Seven Demonic Towers of the Yazidis and

postulates an Eight Tower that is a sort of empyrean Godforce over the

rest. This is not an easy book to get through but it will take you down

the rabbit hole, so join us for some Fortean adventuring.