Paratopia Magazine: Preview

Paratopia, the brain-child podcast of Jeff Ritzmann and Jeremy Vaeni has entered a new vein in the vesel of a quarterly digital magazine: Paratopia Magazine.

Currently, Paratopia offers a preview which includes two full articles. The Priests of High Strangeness by Carol Rainey, an award-winning PBS documentary filmmaker (and ex-wife to Budd Hopkins), and Tainted, Toxic & Taboo, by Tyler A. Kokjohn, Ph.D, a biochemist and Professor of Microbiology at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine.

This impressive preview of their first issue demonstrates the tenacity and to-the-point nature we've come to expect from Jeff and Jeremy, and serves as an excellent introduction into this new venture.

Paratopia pulls no punches with this puppy, building ever further on their case against hypnotic regression as a useful tool for abduction research and the lack of accountability by it's major players, namely Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs.

The Priests of High Strangeness, Carol Rainey's article on her close experiences with Budd Hopkins and his alien abduction research, starts things off -- and let me tell you, it's quite a powerful piece. If it doesn't get more of you looking at this area of Ufology with a more skeptical eye, I'm not sure anything will.

If you're familiar with the Emma Woods case (and you should be), this will further force the question many have been juggling with for months now: do we throw all hypnotic regression 'evidence' out, or do we hold on to what remaining scraps there are?

Tainted, Toxic & Taboo, by Dr. Tyler Kokjohn, educates the readers on the rigid methods of presenting scientific evidence to Institutional Review Boards, and helps explain why mainstream science is so hesitant to involve itself into the bizarre world of the alien abduction phenomenon.

These articles, while painting a very disturbing picture of an area of research largely accepted within Ufology, do not dispute abductions in general, only the major players in abduction research, their irresponsible (and sometimes sleazy) methods, and the questionable validity of their findings.

Give Paratopia magazine's preview a read. It's well crafted, well written, and helps take the frowned-upon subject of Ufology and the paranormal, to a new and more respectable level.


*Image Art by Jeff Ritzmann