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 ReadingHuman Transformation and Alien Encounters
Witnessing: 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 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 ReadingDr. John Mack at the Seven Stars Bookstore
Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer John E. Mack, M.D., spoke at the Seven Stars book store in his hometown of Cambridge, Massachusetts, earlier this spring (March 2000). Dr. Mack talked about his new book, Passport to the Cosmos, and shared where his journey has taken him in his understanding of the relationship between alien […]
Continue ReadingOn Human Identity
By John E. Mack, M.D. The most important change that is needed by humanity now is to move beyond the boundaries of a limited group identity to a larger sense of being human. When you open self to a connection beyond the material world, beyond the Earth to a larger firmament, to a larger identification […]
Continue ReadingThinking Like a Cancer
By Robert J. Begiebing This is the long-form version of the essay, The Environmental Message of the Aliens A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage. A dove-house filled with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell through all its regions. A dog starved at his master’s gate Predicts the ruin of the […]
Continue ReadingContact Experience and Ancient Traditions
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 […]
Continue ReadingRemembering the Eternal: Plato’s View of Education in Anomalous Experiences
by Michael E. Zimmerman, Ph.D. People describing the alien encounter experience often say that they receive information of some sort, as if they were being educated about complex topics that may seem crystal clear during the experience, but that may become cloudy or may even seem trivial afterward. The topics are frequently momentous, such as […]
Continue ReadingAliens: A Positive Experience
by Deborah Warren What do people really want when they think about UFOs? According to John Mack’s newest book Passport to the Cosmos, the first thing they want is for their experiences to stop. Only after they realize they have no power to stop the experience do they begin to accept a process that is […]
Continue Reading
