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About Raymond A. Keller
Dr. Raymond A. Keller, II, a retired history professor currently serving as an Ameri-Corps VISTA at In Touch and Concerned, a United Way agency providing accessible and affordable transportation options for persons with disabilities, seniors and veterans in Monongalia County, West Virginia, has recently come out with his second book, Venus Rising: A Concise History of the Second Planet (Terra Alta, WV: Headline Books, 2015), 336 pages, illustrated. Dr. Keller's book explores many facets of conditions and life on Venus in many dimensions from a perspective of conspiracies, history, theosophy, ufology and current events, especially space research. To date, Venus Rising has won wild card awards at both the Southern California and London, United Kingdom, book festivals. Dr. Leo Sprinkle of the University of Wyoming at Laramie and Hakan Blomqvist of the UFO Archives in Sweden wrote the introductions; and Michael LaRiche of the Coast-to-Coast A.M. Radio Discussion groups in Northeast Ohio wrote the foreword for Dr. Keller's book.
Dr. Keller has lived and worked in 44 different countries and has been writing about UFOs and paranormal activity since 1967. He was the founder and director of the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) of Hilmar, California, as well as the publisher and co-editor of the New Millennial Star, a monthly pre-Internet tabloid newspaper with a circulation of 7,500 copies. He received his doctoral degree from West Virginia University in 2011, focusing on various aspects of the African and Basque settlement of Venezuela (See "Emergence of the Afro-Zulians in the Transatlantic World, 1722-1811," Lewiston, New York: Mellen Press, 2013); and his master’s degree from the same institution in 2004, majoring in foreign language with an emphasis on magic realism in Latin American literature. Married to Ydalis M. Herrera of Venezuela, they reside in Morgantown, West Virginia.
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Venus Rising explores many facets of conditions and life on Venus in many dimensions from a perspective of conspiracies, history, theosophy, ufology and current events, especially space research. Dr. Keller has lived and worked in 44 different countries and has been writing about UFOs and paranormal activity since 1967. He was the founder and director of the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) of Hilmar, California, as well as the publisher and co-editor of the New Millennial Star, a monthly pre-Internet tabloid newspaper