Book Reviews Perceptions Magazine, December 2023
Three of Dr. Greg Little's early classics, The Archetype Experience (1984), People of the Web (1990), and Grand Illusions (1994), have again been re-released recently in 2022 and are available on Amazon. Republished with dazzling new covers and with introductory commentaries at the beginning of each book, with updated comments at the end of each chapter, Greg provides additional new insights and information to the contents to each of these wonderful volumes.
In all three, Greg delves deeply into a full spectrum of significant and highly thought-provoking content. It's quite a unique literary journey. He explores Carl Jung's concept of synchronicity, his archetypes of the collective unconscious, and Jung's deep thoughts on the implications of the controversial UFO phenomenon [which Jung even wrote a book about that was published in 1959]. However, there's a great deal more covered in Greg's books than just these Jungian concepts and implications alone, though make no mistake about it, they are quite significant to Greg's evolving ideas and insights on all of this. He also studied the writings of journalist John A. Keel who in his research and investigations into the UFO enigma, concluded that to truly comprehend the phenomenon one had to pursue additional areas of research that the mainstream ufologists had largely neglected. For example, that certain geographical regions (that Keel called “windows”) might be more prone to such anomalous activity, evidenced in certain instances by geomagnetic anomalies, and that the phenomenon active at such locations might display magnetic anomalies and unusual electromagnetic disturbances (Greg has concentrated heavily on plasma energy) - all of which may provide valuable clues and insights into the nature of these manifestations. Keel also, from his field investigations, noted the reoccurrence of parapsychological phenomena happening to these experiencers at these sighting locations, be they poltergeist activity, cryptids, apparitional figures, witnesses suddenly developing unexpected psychic abilities, etc.
Greg also researched and presented in his books accounts of afterlife and near-death experiences, Marian apparitions, alien abduction claims, ancient rituals, shamanism, and ancient Indian Mounds and earthworks, which Keel had also noted were sites that could attract UFO activity, and Greg certainly felt that there could have been something to such sites being subject to various kinds of anomalies.
Greg casts a large and wide net over the high strange terrain of this complex area of inquiry. Certainly, some aspects covered will likely seem oddly out-of-place and unrelated to what they've been long conditioned to see as relevant in this kind of presentation. Already it may seem like a peculiar juxtaposition of contents. Some subjects like the mystery helicopters, tales of crashed saucers, and the cattle mutilations the reader will find that Greg dismisses a lot of such material, which he carefully explains why, while in other areas, as already stated, he finds considerable significance and meaningful content.
As a psychologist, Greg knows how to be cautious, objective and discerning in his approach to evidence, fully aware of how to best examine and isolate the various pros and cons that will present themselves. Surface appearances (especially in subjects like what are covered in his books) can prove to be quite misleading and deceptively misrepresented. I’ve known Greg since 1985, know of his serious, determined drive to get at the proverbial truth, and his personal ethical code of conduct, and I am so proud and honored to call him a friend and a colleague in this field, and honored to have also written a Foreword and Afterword to his People of the Web and Grand Illusions. I’m so glad that another generation will now be able to enjoy reading, learning from, and being inspired by his works.
