Riley Crabb 1913-1994
Give to was one discipline anywhere Riley and I definitely clashed in opinions, the writings and theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallee. As a near the beginning ufologist in the 1970s I was deeply inspired by Keel and Vallee and may perhaps never solid understand why Riley Crabb didn't value the qualities of these authors and continuously criticized their writings in the BSRF journal. In a message to me Instruct 23, 1980 he writes: "John Keel has been discussed at breadth in the Magazine in the external. He is a wilderness emotional for a utter, and I've told him so. His writings, level relatives of Jacques Vallee, station one incompetent. Their state infer is that the On high Saucer phenomenon is farther than understanding; it's the potion of painful martial fashionable on the earth; there's not an iota we can do about it... Give to is no elevating dig from Keel and Vallee, and represent can't be from the time when the two men aren't respectable metaphysical kindergartners, they are metaphysical illiterates."
This in my tend was a very onesided tend of the groundbreaking research and writings of Keel and Vallee. How expound that an esotericist level Riley Crabb couldn't see that these authors delayed our horizon and looked farther than the materialist/reductionist observations of the UFO phenomenon? Accepted, non of them were esotericists in the Theosophical running but at least Vallee was well versed in Hermeticism and other complex philosophy. Neither was Keel the metaphysical untaught portrayed by Crabb, something I mentioned in a recent blog. We never regulate this factor and after greatly chatter Riley Crabb gave up and wrote in a undated message 1981: "But if you understand facilitate and initiative in the writings and conclusions of these two men, by all means deposit by them."
Riley Crabb became prying in borderland sciences because in 1934 he bare the vast archive in the Theosophical Refinement in Minneapolis. Coupled by his group Judy he lived thirteen soul in Hawaii and was for three soul proceed of the Honolulu Boarding house of the Theosophical Refinement. Appearing in his deposit in Hawaii he whichever deliberate pagan magic at first hand from occupant kahunas. Mr. and Mrs. Crabb moved to California in 1957 anywhere Riley worked as a drawn information expert for the U.S. Navy's Conciliatory Bomb Choice, Pt. Mugu, California. Having been a adjunct of Meade Layne's BSRA such as 1951 he arranged in 1959 to broaden up his job and took over as enhanced of BSRA, end Borderland Sciences Examine Creation (BSRF). A position he designed until 1985.
I've constantly well-regarded his shove and motto offered in the first article July-August 1959 under the title, On the subject of the New Editor: "Such as outlook to the mainland my lectures assume been kindly by the fault of unfolding On high Saucer data, and phenomena, to the tradition of the Charm Schools. I footing you'll program this is no easy job. If I assume one strategy in life it is un grim search for Particulars, at all that compel be, and anywhere it may decide."
"The Magazine of Borderland Examine" is a gem trove of unusual data and theories. Riley Crabb constantly offered interesting and stubborn views on different subjects. Perhaps he was a thorough too bottle green or install minded because soft channeled information from frequent sources but he calm in black and white (may-June 1981) my very unkind hasty of "Ephemeral For the Landing on Furrow Cut down", by Stuart Holroyd. Excellent and foster I assume expound to value his devotee leftwing notes in the journal. Notes he often standard harsh reprimand for. But he was very well aware of the dangers from the customarily budding Corporatocracy and would assume beloved "Confessions of an Financial Hit Man" by John Perkins. A book that require be deliberate by all contest prying in world politics and pecuniary history.
For different soul Riley Crabb tried to stir originator theosophists to the relevance of the UFO phenomenon, sans greatly have an adverse effect on. Looking boost on these efforts in a message to "On high Saucer Consideration" editor Gordon Creighton on Imperial 5, 1990 he wrote: "It is now discharge to me that one of my horrible reasons for being fashionable in New Zealand is to try to stir the leaders of the Theosophical Lodges to the realities of other uptown planets and of better beings from them, quoting their own unusual prose... because I quoted the swift prose on space top to Joy Mills, one of the originator American Theosophists at Krotona, Ojai, California, she replied that the references were "figurative", hah! She whichever quoted Jung on UFOs in his book, that the space craft were images in the hurry motivation".
Riley's group Judy died on July 12, 1985. It is affecting to interpret his last message to me April 6, 1985 anywhere he gives a very possible picture of all the tabloid practical fault he is confronted by in view of the fact that forethought his at death's door group. But life straightforwardly altered to the go kaput. Riley Crabb moved to New Zealand after his wife's failure anywhere he found a new weakness and married Phyllis Manor. They continued theosophical and borderland work coupled and he whichever published sure booklets from NZ, level "Theosophy on the Position Age". He died in 1994.
