An unreleased interview conducted by Jane Hanson for Today in NY, a morning television program that aired before The Today Show. Recorded at the New York Academy of Medicine on November 17, 1999 near the auditorium which had been the venue (the night before) for the launch of Mack’s new book, Passport to the Cosmos […]
Continue ReadingPEER Visits New York
November 17, 1999 The Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) visited New York City in mid-November to formally introduce Dr. Mack’s new book, Passport to the Cosmos, and to present to the public a summary of our current understanding of the nature and meaning of the alien encounter experience. The event was held in the […]
Continue ReadingEmerging Renaissance: UFO Encounters, Power and Implications
Roméo Di Benedetto, M.Div. and John E. Mack, M.D. In this excerpt from the Emerging Renaissance television program, Dr. John Mack candidly discusses the investigation into his work that was launched by Harvard Medical School in 1994 and ended without censure in 1995. Roméo Di Benedetto: Welcome to another presentation of The Emerging Renaissance: an […]
Continue ReadingJohn Mack and Stanton Friedman interviewed by Philip Adams
Brisbane, Australia October 1996 Philip Adams: We were to have a very solemn and serious discussion on life on Mars but our next guest or our proposed, hypothetical guest had to dodge a Russian spacecraft which was re-entering our atmosphere so what were we to do? Well it so happens that I have about my […]
Continue ReadingAlien Enlightenment: An Interview with John Mack
by David J. Brown An expanded version of this interview appears in David Jay Brown’s 2005 book of interviews from St. Martin’s Press, titled Conversations on the Edge of the Apocalypse: Contemplating the Future with Noam Chomsky, George Carlin, Deepak Chopra, Rupert Sheldrake, and Others. That book merges the original 1996 interview with a more […]
Continue ReadingChristopher Lydon interviews John E. Mack, M.D.
by Christopher Lydon Originally aired February 29, 1996 on The Connection. I’m Christopher Lydon, this is The Connection. Abducted by aliens you say? Really? Little bubble headed space people out of flying saucers you say? And you’re sober and you’re serious and you’re troubled about it? And you’re not given to this sort of extraterrestrial […]
Continue ReadingNOVA interviews John Mack, psychiatrist, Harvard University
This interview was likely conducted during Nova’s visit to the PEER offices on April 25, 1995. The Nova special itself was televised on PBS on February 27, 1996. This episode of Nova may not have been up the standards audiences had expected of the long-running, award-winning series — indeed a wave of last-minute edits were […]
Continue ReadingCrop Circle Connector Interview with John Mack
Originally published on the website of The Crop Circle Connector, July 19, 1994 by Richard Cutting Dr. John Mack is fast becoming world famous inside and outside of UFO research communities for his incredible investigations into the abduction phenomena and has appeared on prime time television interviews broadcast by stations all over the world. He […]
Continue ReadingRoy Leonard interviews John E. Mack, M.D., and an experiencer
May 5, 1994, in the studios of WGN Chicago This interview is presented primarily because Dr. Mack’s relaxation technique is discussed in some depth, both by Mack himself and by an experiencer – Peter from the chapter “Peter’s Journey”. The entire interview is very good but to skip ahead to when Peter joins the conversation, […]
Continue ReadingJohn E. Mack: The Psychiatrist and Biographer Addresses Human Encounters with Aliens
by Missy Daniel “Nobody could have been more surprised than I was that the book aroused so much interest,” claims Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack. Seated in his modest office in the Cambridge Hospital, where he has been affiliated with the department of psychiatry for over 25 years, he defends himself against those who have […]
Continue ReadingJim Bohannon interviews John E. Mack, M.D.
Jim Bohannon: Welcome to the Jim Bohannon Show and good evening, all. It’s good to have you with us on what was almost a rainy night here in the nation’s Capitol, not a terribly rainy night, but at least one that gave a little bit of pause as to what might be dropping from the […]
Continue ReadingRobert Hieronimus interviews John E. Mack
John Mack discusses past lives and dual identity in relation to alien encounters, in this excerpt from a June 27, 1993 interview on 21st Century Radio’s Hieronimus & Company. The full interview follows the excerpt. More interviews by Bob and Zoh Hieronimus are available from: 21stCenturyRadio.com Bob Hieronimus: You note that there are three classes […]
Continue ReadingAlien Territory
by Sara Terry John Mack still remembers the conversation he had with Carl Sagan, back in the 1960s. Mack, a Harvard psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, was intrigued by talk of UFOs and wanted to hear Sagan’s thoughts on the subject, which had been the focus of a recent, well-publicized government inquiry. “Sagan had had something to […]
Continue ReadingJohn E. Mack, M.D., Timothy Ferris, Ph.D., and David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. interview on NPR
May 19, 1992 In this NPR interview, Harvard professor of psychiatry John E. Mack, M.D. discusses the possible reality of alien encounters while a professor of journalism at UC Berkley, Timothy Ferris, Ph.D., discounts them. David M. Jacobs, Ph.D., appears later in the program to discuss the history of UFOs. This interview was conducted just […]
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