January 12, 2005 – The Kosmos Journal, created by the John E. Mack Institute’s own Dr. Nancy Roof, has been nominated for its excellence in Spiritual Coverage by the prestigious Utne Independent Press Awards! As our United Nations NGO representative for more than fifteen years, Dr. Roof has been informing and inspiring participation in shaping our […]
Continue ReadingReview of David Grinspoon’s Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life
by John E. Mack (review), David Grinspoon (excerpt) Review follows a publisher-authorized excerpt. Excerpt from Lonely Planets by David Grinspoon, Ph.D. Spirits from the Vasty Deep We have all felt this impulse in our childhood as our ancestors did before us, when they conjured goblins and spirits from the vasty void, and if our energy […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mack Remembrance Event in San Francisco, January 16
December 1, 2004 With speakers Joe Firmage, Stan Grof, James O’Dea, and many more. An alliance of Bay Area organizations are presenting a large-scale event in memory of Dr John Mack. This event is sponsored by Joe Firmage and co-sponsored by the the following organizations: John E. Mack Institute (www.johnemackinstitute.org) Institute of Noetic Sciences – IONS […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Michael Blumenthal
Michael Blumenthal Euology for John Mack One of eleven eulogies spoken at John Mack’s memorial service by John’s family and friends. Delivered at Memorial Church, Harvard University, Saturday, November 13, 2004. “The art of losing,” the poet Elizabeth Bishop wrote, precisely because she knew it not to be true, “isn’t hard to master.” But it isn’t the […]
Continue ReadingMack, the Life
by Harvey A. Silverglate In snubbing professor John Mack’s memorial, ‘official Harvard’ testifies to the power of his brilliant unconventionality Unsurprisingly, nobody from “official Harvard” — the administration of Harvard University or of its Medical School — took the podium in Memorial Church last Saturday to give Dr. John Mack the kind of sendoff that […]
Continue ReadingMemorial Service for Dr. John Mack at Harvard Memorial Church
November 2004 Memorial Service for Dr. John Mack in Cambridge, MA The family of John E. Mack wish to announce that there will be a memorial service in his honor at the Harvard Memorial Church in Cambridge, MA on Saturday, November 13th at 12:00 Noon. Harvard’s Memorial Church is located in the center of Harvard […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mack Remembrance and Fundraiser in Los Angeles on Dec 9
November 4, 2004 You are invited to join friends of John Mack at 6 pm on Thursday, December 9th in Malibu at the home of Andrew Beath for a commemoration of John Mack’s life and a fundraiser for the John Mack Institute. Join friends of John Mack for shared remembrances of John, video clips, and […]
Continue ReadingThe Aliens are Always with Us
by Bryan Appleyard A Harvard professor killed in London last week had been vilified for his belief in the ‘third realm’. His theories may not be as mad as some think says Bryan Appleyard John Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard, died after being hit by a car in north London last week. I learnt […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Will Bueché
Interview by Sean Casteel No one could quite believe the news of Monday, September 27, 2004. “At this time,” the posting on the website read, “we must with great sorrow confirm that Dr. John Mack has passed away in London, England.” The details of what happened to Mack are the stuff of high tragedy. “Dr. […]
Continue ReadingThe Aliens are Always with Us
by Bryan Appleyard A Harvard professor killed in London last week had been vilified for his belief in the ‘third realm’. His theories may not be as mad as some think says Bryan Appleyard John Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard, died after being hit by a car in north London last week. I learnt […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Georgiana & John Boyer
Georgiana Sykes Boyer MD & John T. Boyer MD October 9, 2004 Dear Friends: We met John in September, 1951, as we entered Harvard Medical School, and maintained our friendship visiting back and forth between Arizona and Massachusetts through the years. We never were involved in his professional life, but knew his family, many of […]
Continue ReadingRememberance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Jane Hughes Gignoux
John and I grew up across the street from one another on the upper Westside of Manhattan. We actually met and discovered this slimmest of connections one evening in 1981, when we were both back in our old neighborhoods for a small conference on the environment (John was a presenter), and found ourselves seated next […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mack’s Transpersonal Journey Continues
By Bill Chalker Like all of us I found the news of John Mack’s untimely passing very saddening. While some of us might not have agreed with some of the directions John was taking the subject in, I think the field has been enriched by his involvement. When he was in Australia I supported his […]
Continue ReadingUS Memorial Service for John E. Mack
Elaine A. Steblecki T.E. Notes: A T.E. Lawrence Newsletter Volume XIV, No. 2, Autumn John E. Mack (4 October 1929 – 28 September 2004), whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biography A Prince of Our Disorder, The Life of T. E. Lawrence was published in 1976, died tragically on the day after the recent T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium ended, being […]
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