Bluegrass Buddha: Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form; Silence is Music, Music is Silence

By KEN KORCZAK Part 1: There is No Spoon … Um, I Mean Music Part 2: Mescalito Riding His White Horse. Author Mike Fiorito’s new book inspired by the adventures of musician Peter Rowan Four decades ago, when I was a general assignment reporter at a Minnesota daily newspaper, a stout, 40-something bald guy with … Read more

A Metaphysical Masterclass: A Bona Fide Counterculture Traveler Enchants with Tales of His Adventures

By KEN KORCZAK Former counterculture vagabond, science fiction writer and honorary ‘Hermetic Magician’ Wayne Saalman wows with extraordinary true stories & essays on the transcendent destiny of humanity Years ago, when I was a teenager reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, The Brothers Karamazov, a subtitle in one of the chapters jumped out at me and lodged … Read more

The Acorn: Connecting with My Paleolithic & Pagan Ancestors

By KEN KORCZAK The first people of my state, Minnesota, the Native Americans, ate a lot of acorns. My ancient relatives back in eastern Europe probably did, too. Over in the Britons, Druids and Celts held the oak as sacred. Back in their day, the British Isles were covered in oaks. Some of them were … Read more

The Day I Met a Deceased British Ghost Hunter — And Took Her Photo

By KEN KORCZAK After reading and reviewing the late Violet Tweedale’s 1919 book, Ghosts I Have Seen, I met & conversed with the deceased author “in person” in the lucid dream realm. I also photographed her. Violet Tweedale died in 1936, but no one truly “dies.” As I discovered, the Scottish poet, writer and spiritualist … Read more

Fried Chicken, Jesus, Chocolate

By KEN KORCZAK A novel that’s like a slow IV drip of misery into your veins, and yet, it inspires and hints at deeper mystical wonders Author Fergus MacRoich has crafted a remarkable piece of literature that can be read and interpreted on many levels because of the multi-tiered stratum of meaning he built into … Read more

Humphrey, the 1st Duke of Gloucester: ‘The Good Duke’ or Debauched War Monger?

By KEN KORCZAK Today I divert briefly from UFOs & the Paranormal to offer my commentary and analysis of Prof. Kenneth Vickers’s massive 773-page study of Humphrey, The 1st Duke of Gloucester It’s been 600 years since he was born and lived. To study his role in history, scholars must tirelessly comb through the brittle, … Read more

Luis Elizondo’s New Book ‘Imminent’ Offers Stunning Revelations About UFOs and What the Pentagon Knows About Them

By KEN KORCZAK Former U.S. Intelligence insider Luis Elizondo makes his case for official UFO Disclosure. But is there a lot more going on behind the scenes? Think about this: The United States Intelligence Community (IC), including the Pentagon’s Department of Intelligence, spent an entire year going through every page of Luis Elizondo’s new book, … Read more

Astral Travel + Meditation a Powerful Combination

By KEN KORCZAK Deep meditation practice led a German-British man to mind-blowing OBE adventures with profound implications for all of us Astral travel and meditation are two esoteric practices that are, in many respects, aspects of each other. They go hand in hand because people who learn to meditate will succeed more in inducing an … Read more

Books to Read Before You Die: ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’

By KEN KORCZAK The masterpiece of esoteric literature that ruined the career of a brilliant Scotts-British writer but inspired and influenced J.R.R. Tolkien. C.S. Lewis. Novelist David Lindsay died a desperately unhappy man in 1945 living on the edge of poverty — despite having penned arguably the greatest underground novel of the 20th Century — … Read more

The Mystery of the Giant Minnesota Mushroom (and a possible UFO connection?)

By KEN KORCZAK Three campers in the deep woods of northern Minnesota are about to encounter something that will change their lives forever Author’s note: About 25 years ago, I placed a classified ad in several small-town newspapers here in conservative, rural northern Minnesota. Here is what the ad said: “Have you seen a UFO, … Read more