the timboucher experience

I’ve been having a lot of fun recently doing these email interviews (check out what I have so far here). The thing I like about them is figuring out what somebody is all about based on their work, respecting that and trying to build on it with my own insights and inquiry. I have a few other people that I’m trying to get interviews from in the near future:

1. George Erikson of the website and book Atlantis in America. George has agreed to an interview, and I’m going to work on questions over the next few days.
2. Mike Menkin of the websites Aliens And Children and Stop Abductions! Mike originally agreed to my interview, then retracted because he is a Christian and doesn’t think aliens have anything to do with the occult (which he believes is evil). This is too bad, because I put together awesome interview questions for him, and even invited him to share his Christian perspectives with us.
3. Jordan Stratford of the weblog Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion. Jordan was recently ordained as clergy in the Apostolic Johannite Church, and I want to talk to him about the calling to religious vocation. Currently waiting for Jordan’s response.
4. John Conner of the Resistance Manifesto. Conner emailed me a press release recently about the Georgia Guidestones, so I thought that would be a good opportunity to invite him to an email interview. I’ve not heard back from him unfortunately.
5. Sophia Stewart, the woman who claims to have written the original work which the Matrix and Terminator trilogies were both based on. Stewart has not responded to my requests for an email interview.
6. Rev. Chris Ortiz of the Chalcedon Foundation. Chalcedon is a group of ultra-conservative Christians who are sometimes referred to as “Biblical Reconstructionists” in that they seek a return to a society rooted in the principles of Biblical law. I’d written something about them a while ago, and Chris, the Director of Communications, graciously offered to answer any questions I may have. At the time I wasn’t sure what to ask him, but now that I’ve done a few interviews, I have a much better idea of how to approach it. I just emailed Chris today, so I haven’t heard back from him.
7. Greg Taylor who runs the excellent website Daily Grail. Greg also is the editor and publisher of Sub Rosa, a paranormal/alternative thought magazine. In addition to that, Greg also has a book out called Da Vinci in America, which plays upon the themes and material in the best-seller, the Da Vinci Code. I just emailed Greg today, so we’ll see what he says.

If anybody has other ideas for people who might be good to do email interviews with, please leave me your suggestions below. My requirements are two: that the person or group has an interesting and fairly consistent body of work dealing with religion, the occult, paranormal, counter-culture, the unusual or anything similar. And that their work is available online so I can go through it and effectively come up with questions to ask them to shed further light on what they are doing.

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