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 […]
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Laurance Rockefeller, early funder of Dr. Mack’s work, dies at 94
Front to Back: Laurance Rockefeller, John Mack, Trish Pfeiffer, Whitley Strieber July 11, 2004 – Laurance Rockfeller, an early funder of Dr. John Mack’s research into alien encounters, has passed away. Read the full obituary notice at the New York Times: www.nytimes.com Excerpt: Laurance Rockefeller, the middle brother of the five prominent and philanthropic grandsons […]
Continue ReadingAnnouncement of John E Mack Institute
June 14, 2004 As long time friends, colleagues and associates of Dr. John E. Mack, Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, we are delighted to announce the birth of the new John E Mack Institute. Effectively immediately, the Center for Psychology and Social Change, which Dr. Mack established in 1983, is […]
Continue ReadingHarvard researcher (not John Mack) publishes study on “experiencers” of alien contact
June 29, 2004 Harvard psychologist Richard J McNally has published a study of “experiencers” of alien contact in the journal Psychological Science, Vol 15, No. 7, pp. 493-497. Harvard psychologist Richard J McNally has published a study of “experiencers” of alien contact in the journal Psychological Science. The National Institute of Discovery Science (NIDS) obtained permission to […]
Continue ReadingTOUCHED wins best documentary at Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto
December 14, 2003 — Local filmmaker Laurel Chiten’s documentary “Touched,” about Harvard psychiatrist-turned-philosopher John Mack and “experiencers” of alien contact, won best documentary at the Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto earlier this month. This was the film’s first festival and first award. The Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) is a Toronto based international independent […]
Continue ReadingTerrorism and Consciousness Explored by Dr. John Mack in Noetic Sciences Magazine
June 2, 2003 The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) June quarterly science magazine, IONS REVIEW, includes an article on terrorism and its link to consciousness and worldviews. In this difficult time of violent chaos and widespread outburst of hatred and destruction, is it possible to search beyond the acts of evil to gain an understanding […]
Continue ReadingSpirituality and Reality: New Perspectives on Global Issues, vol. 2 no. 2 in press
March 26, 2003 The mission of our UN program is to bring spiritual values to global issues. Our representative, Nancy Roof, Ph.D., has an announcement: Spirituality and Reality: New Perspectives on Global Issues, vol. 2 no. 2 is now at the printer and will be available in about a week. It presents an introduction of Spiral Dynamics and […]
Continue ReadingAlien ‘abductees’ show real symptoms; meaning of results in dispute
Feb 17, 2003 – At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver, Harvard researcher Richard J. McNally presented data which established that the physiological response from memories of “alien encounter” experiences may be as pronounced as the response from any reality known to be true. This has significant […]
Continue ReadingTOUCHED premieres at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts: film documents lives ‘touched’ by alien encounters
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 ReadingClinical Approaches to Unusual Experiences: Grand Rounds at Cambridge Hospital with Dr. John Mack
February 2, 2000 Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals often see clients whose experiences seem unfamiliar and do not fit the categories of the DSM-IV, the standard manual for psychological diagnoses. Our tendency in such cases may be to treat the experiences as pathological or to force them into categories to which they do not […]
Continue ReadingDr. Mack’s newest book published
December 31, 1999 John E. Mack’s newest book, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters, is the culmination of five years of additional research (since 1994’s Abduction) with more than 200 people who have reported encounters with beings often described as aliens (“experiencers”). A trade paperback edition is being released in November 2000. The book […]
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 […]
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