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Science Humbled

Admin · April 24, 2023 ·

by Reverend Jeffrey L. Brown and Janis A. Pryor The Reverend Jeffrey Brown is pastor of the Union Baptist Church, Central Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Janis A. Pryor is an author who lives in Cambridge. Perhaps the most significant consequence of John Mack’s work with abductees (those who believe they have had an encounter or encounters […]

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Integrating Extraordinary Experiences

Admin · April 24, 2023 ·

by Roberta L. Colasanti, LICSW At a mutidisciplinary meeting of academicians convened by the Center’s Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) in April 1999 at the Harvard Divinity School, PEER’s former clinical director Roberta Colasanti, LICSW, spoke about the people who seek clinical assistance in dealing with life-long alien encounter experiences. This transcript is excerpted […]

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Alien Abduction? Reductionists Call It Sleep Paralysis

Admin · April 24, 2023 ·

Roberta Colasanti, LICSW Clinical Director, PEER The recent article by Nicholas D. Kristof[1] suggesting that science implicates sleep paralysis as the main reason for reports of alien abductions demonstrates how threatening data, like reports of alien abduction or contact, can only be tolerated by fitting them into a reductionistic worldview. The fact that the only […]

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Contact Experience and Ancient Traditions

Admin · April 24, 2023 ·

by Veronica Goodchild, Ph.D. One of the difficulties of the alien encounter experience is trying to convey to others the kind of “place” or “landscape” of these anomalous visitations. Because in the West we are so used to restricting our experience within an empirical scientific worldview, things either happen in a world outside, or we […]

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How a Mobile-Optimized Design Impacts User Experience

Admin · April 12, 2023 ·

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Understanding the Differences of Good (and Great) Design

Admin · April 12, 2023 ·

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The Secret Method to Creating the Perfect Amount of Simple

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Why White Space and Typography Matter in Minimal Design

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Shamanic Initiations, Alien Abduction Phenomena, and the Return of the Archetypal Feminine: An Experiential Distillation

Admin · February 2, 2023 ·

February 2023 — JEMI is proud to premiere a new paper by Tiffany Vance-Huffman of Naropa University: “Shamanic Initiations, Alien Abduction Phenomena, and the Return of the Archetypal Feminine: An Experiential Distillation”. “The purpose of this paper,” Vance-Huffman writes, “is to change the way people think about anomalous experiences and illnesses of the body-mind by examining […]

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Ariel Phenomenon press continues

Admin · January 1, 2023 ·

January 19, 2023 — Dave Schrader of The Darkness Radio interviews Ariel Phenomenon producer Randall Nickerson. If you haven’t yet seen the documentary, play the first 2 minutes of this podcast to hear a sensational collage of excerpts. Listen to Darkness Radio interview with Randall Nickerson (30m, mp3) Ariel Phenomenon is available from many digital retailers. Buying from ArielPhenomenon.com benefits the film […]

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Government UFO report…seems to downplay spooky sightings

Admin · November 1, 2022 ·

November 1, 2022 — Rizwan Virk, founder of Play Labs @ MIT, writes “It wouldn’t be the first time officials put the issue to rest without a full, open-minded investigation” in this essential editorial on NBC News’ THINK website. Christopher Mellon calls it “One of the most balanced and thoughtful recent articles regarding the UAP […]

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New book by Stéphane Allix

Admin · September 1, 2022 ·

September 28, 2022 — Stéphane Allix’s interview with John Mack appears in this new book, which is in French. Available from Amazon.fr. The interview can also be viewed in English at youtu.be/CuYV62uzd_0. It was recorded in Sept 2003 at Mack’s home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while Allix was producing a documentary film.

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Psychology as if the Whole Earth Mattered

Admin · May 2, 2022 ·

May 2022 — James Dunk of the University of Sydney has published a deep dive into the history of John Mack’s anti-nuclear activism. “Psychology as if the Whole Earth Mattered: Nuclear threat, environmental crisis, and the emergence of planetary psychology” may be read online (see link below) or in the APA journal History of Psychology. Dunk’s extensively-researched article is an excellent companion […]

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