January 15, 2003 A new film by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Laurel Chiten, TOUCHED, premieres at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts on February 20. TOUCHED is much more than a look at alien encounters. It is about the human condition – about longing for connection and fear of separation. Dr. John Mack, the founder of the Center […]
Continue ReadingSymposiums with Mack, Vallee, Kaku, Hopkins, and Jacobs to air on SciFi Channel
December 5, 2002 Those interested in our research into extraordinary experiences may be pleased to learn that an hour of highlights from the SciFi Channel’s two recent symposiums on alien encounters (in NY and Washington DC) will be aired at 3AM, late night of Friday December 13 (technically that is the morning of December 14). […]
Continue ReadingAlien Abduction Diaries documentary presents “an intimate look at otherworldly encounters”
November 6, 2002 On November 21, the Sci-Fi Channel is presenting THE ALIEN ABDUCTION DIARIES, an intimate look at otherworldly encounters, their aftermath and the unexpected impact on human lives in this production by award-winning documentary filmmakers Tina DiFeliciantonio and Jane C. Wagner. Kathy, one of the experiencers who braved the media exposure recently shared […]
Continue ReadingLeo Knighton Tallarico interviews John E. Mack, M.D.
Originally aired October 21, 2002 on Renaissance Radio, KSFR Santa Fe Listen to the interview (48 min, mp3) Leo Knighton Tallarico: Welcome to Renaissance Radio Hour. This is Leo Knighton Tallarico and each week the purpose of Renaissance Radio Hour is to help bring our consciousness and lives out of an old paradigm and age, […]
Continue ReadingSciFi.com Chat with Dr. John Mack
An online text-based “live chat” with Dr. Mack hosted by the SciFi Channel’s website in 2002 during the promotion of the Steven Spielberg-produced mini-series “Taken”. SCIFIMOD: Hi everyone, thanks for joining us here. I’m Ben Trumble for SCIFI. Tonight we’re pleased to welcome Dr. John E. Mack. Dr. John Mack is a professor of psychiatry […]
Continue ReadingDismissing Extraordinary Experiences
A rebuttal to a commentary by skeptic Joe Nickell by John E. Mack, M.D. with Will Bueché Nickell’s critique dismisses extraordinary experiences a priori. Having codified experiences that transcend our material reality (from “psychic abilities” to “religious visions”) as examples of fantasy, it is thereafter a simple matter of defining anyone who has such experiences […]
Continue ReadingRaising Consciousness Through Aliens? An Interview with Dr. John Mack
by Barbara Bibas Montero November 2001 Dr. Mack’s pedigree lends credibility to the alien experience phenomena. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, psychologist and professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School. He co-founded the Center for Psychology & Social Change and is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. In 1992, Dr. Mack co-chaired the Conference Committee […]
Continue ReadingVenturing from Shadows into Light
by Michael P. Lucas They claim to have been abducted by aliens. A Harvard research psychiatrist backs them. Now ‘experiencers’ want society’s respect. Camille sometimes wishes she were the average, everyday Beverly Hills expectant mom she appears to be. At 35, she’s youthful and attractive with a girlish mop of chestnut hair and a sweet, […]
Continue ReadingAlien Concepts: An Interview with Dr. John Mack
by Andrew Lawler John Mack’s research into alien abductions has thrust him far out of the academic mainstream, yet the Harvard psychiatrist and his Program for Extraordinary Experience Research soldier on, constructing a “science of the sacred.” “Virgin area — exciting,” John Mack wrote in a 1964 note to himself. He was referring to an […]
Continue ReadingWitnessing: Abductees as Sacred Truth-Tellers
By John E. Mack, M.D. ABSTRACT — The scientific method has been highly successful in giving us reliable ways of knowing about the material world as we know it. But we have yet to develop methodologies that are as reliable with respect to matters that are not clearly in the objective or the subjective realms […]
Continue ReadingAliens Among Us
by Joe Eich-Bonni, Boston’s Weekly Dig John E. Mack is a Doctor of Psychiatry and a professor at Harvard University. At 71 years old he might have retired by now, but he’s a doer and always has been. After attending Harvard’s Medical School he went on to found the Psychiatric Department at Cambridge Hospital. And […]
Continue ReadingPre-publication comments for The Spirit Molecule
By John E. Mack, M.D. These comments were prepared by John E. Mack, M.D. in October 2000 for possible use by Rick J. Strassman, M.D. in support of his book, DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2001). Explorers of human consciousness are discovering something of earthshaking importance: that there exist, in Rick Strassman’s words, “multiple invisible realms […]
Continue ReadingThe Environmental Message of the Aliens
By Robert J. Begiebing Are we ready to admit this lesson of the Rio+5 and Kyoto environmental meetings: that we must finally give up hoping for environmental wisdom and political will from political leaders and their conferences? Perhaps we need to look elsewhere, to reconsider those visionary, religious traditions that would transform us. Certainly, by […]
Continue ReadingPassport to the Cosmos: An Interview with John Mack, M.D.
Originally published in EarthStar, April/May 2000 By Vivienne Simon VS: In your first book, Abduction, you tried to get a handle on what you saw happening, through the presentation of case studies. In your new book, Passport to the Cosmos, you present the principal themes that have surfaced over the ten years of your investigation. […]
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