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I can ascertain that this is a book review, and I'm familiar with Jung, but the prose employed here makes Gravity's Rainbow feel lucid and upbeat by comparison. There were several paragraphs in this essay where I just found myself entirely lost. Am I the crazy one for expecting a grounded response to a novel where the protagonist is dissected so his semen can be extracted? Should I feel bad, waiting for my suspension of disbelief to collapse?

Ironically, this essay about how UFOs solicit the shadows of our consciousness ends up being consumed by subconscious apathy and far-too-stretched faith. Between the banal reality we can observe and the wild fantasy we can imagine exists a pretty boring, almost unbelievable story that precipitates the truth.

Awhile ago, I learned that Jericho was an ancient center for moon worship. That their main deity there was identified strongly with the Moon itself, and that Joshua's battles had been to defeat the heresiarchs of their time, the worshippers of the Moon, who refused to acknowledge Yahweh as he truly was.

Working a bit backwards from this, and indeed back from the Space Race championed by JFK and others, I decided that perhaps, just perhaps, one way of interpreting the Jericho battles and the Hebrew victory was that Joshua conquered the Moon itself. That he literally led an army bearing the Ark of the Covenant into Outer Space, and demolished the Moon and came back with all the spoils of war. [Now this handily explains why the Moon was so barren already!]

I found other cues too, such as "Gilgal" referring to the rolling of circumcision stones (but could it also mean "orbit"...) and perhaps there are multiple pericopes in our Old Testament that can be interpreted as conquering Outer Space itself... wandering in the wilderness 40 years before attaining Heaven, anyone?

It is all quite crazy but I feel like it handily explains the fervor and excitement that accompanied our push to land on the Moon itself. That Christians saw the USA as a modern-day Joshua who would actually make the trip and claim the Moon for ourselves. If you go over the details of the Jericho battles you will see that they are intricately planned, engineered, and executed. They were the pinnacle of liturgy at the time and could never have been realized without divine assistance and solid human leadership. And likewise were our Moon journeys of the Space Race.

Now today we may have another issue, as Joshua also took on "Ai" itself...

Some say Yahweh was a god of fire and metallurgy, so the analogy is even more intricate. Dig further and understand the symbolism of Werner von Braun (--the final step in the millennia long effort to assimilate sun worship as well)

https://old.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/bqfqar/je...

Honestly once I started thinking deeply about "The Burning Bush" I couldn't help but imagine it as an encounter with a volcano. Couched in mystical language, I am sure that many Canaanites and Egyptians couldn't even conceive of an active, erupting volcano in real life. And perhaps, just perhaps, Moses being identified with the Moon in certain contexts, a volcanic Yahweh Burning Bush would've been truly transcendent, indeed. Thank you!