March 3, 2022 — Stuart Davis reads his 2004 remembrance of John Mack in this moving episode of Aliens & Artists. Available as an audio podcast at: AliensAndArtists.com Also available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts
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Growing up Alien
By Alexa Clay Originally titled “Wasn’t I Special Enough to be Abducted by Aliens?” when first published by Aeon in January 2014. This essay by the daughter of John Mack’s girlfriend may be read online at Aeon.co.
Continue ReadingJohn E. Mack: A Portrait
téphane Allix, INREES [This article is not yet available in English] Stéphane Allix a rencontré John Mack en 2003. Cet éminent psychiatre américain qui inspirera la création de l’INREES, est le premier spécialiste en santé mentale à s’être intéressé sérieusement aux personnes prétendant avoir été « enlevées par des extraterrestres ». John E. Mack est […]
Continue ReadingFaculty of Medicine – Memorial Minute: John E. Mack, M.D.
by Edward J. Khantzian, Patricia Carr, Janice Kauffman, Nina Masters, Alec Morgana He considered his life an odyssey a search for inner harmony and meaning that took him beyond himself to an expanding scope of commitment to social issues, scholarship, and the pursuit of clinical excellence. In all of these areas he was a […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Michael Blumenthal
Michael Blumenthal Euology for John Mack One of eleven eulogies spoken at John Mack’s memorial service by John’s family and friends. Delivered at Memorial Church, Harvard University, Saturday, November 13, 2004. “The art of losing,” the poet Elizabeth Bishop wrote, precisely because she knew it not to be true, “isn’t hard to master.” But it isn’t the […]
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by Harvey A. Silverglate In snubbing professor John Mack’s memorial, ‘official Harvard’ testifies to the power of his brilliant unconventionality Unsurprisingly, nobody from “official Harvard” — the administration of Harvard University or of its Medical School — took the podium in Memorial Church last Saturday to give Dr. John Mack the kind of sendoff that […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Will Bueché
Interview by Sean Casteel No one could quite believe the news of Monday, September 27, 2004. “At this time,” the posting on the website read, “we must with great sorrow confirm that Dr. John Mack has passed away in London, England.” The details of what happened to Mack are the stuff of high tragedy. “Dr. […]
Continue ReadingThe Aliens are Always with Us
by Bryan Appleyard A Harvard professor killed in London last week had been vilified for his belief in the ‘third realm’. His theories may not be as mad as some think says Bryan Appleyard John Mack, professor of psychiatry at Harvard, died after being hit by a car in north London last week. I learnt […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Georgiana & John Boyer
Georgiana Sykes Boyer MD & John T. Boyer MD October 9, 2004 Dear Friends: We met John in September, 1951, as we entered Harvard Medical School, and maintained our friendship visiting back and forth between Arizona and Massachusetts through the years. We never were involved in his professional life, but knew his family, many of […]
Continue ReadingRememberance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Jane Hughes Gignoux
John and I grew up across the street from one another on the upper Westside of Manhattan. We actually met and discovered this slimmest of connections one evening in 1981, when we were both back in our old neighborhoods for a small conference on the environment (John was a presenter), and found ourselves seated next […]
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Elaine A. Steblecki T.E. Notes: A T.E. Lawrence Newsletter Volume XIV, No. 2, Autumn John E. Mack (4 October 1929 – 28 September 2004), whose Pulitzer Prize-winning biography A Prince of Our Disorder, The Life of T. E. Lawrence was published in 1976, died tragically on the day after the recent T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium ended, being […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Gurucharan Singh Khalsa
by Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, Ph.D. Dear Friends, I write this with deep sadness and tears at John’s passing and with even deeper appreciation to know and love him during his life. My prayers and support go to each of you. I received the news while in our annual international meetings here in New Mexico. I […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Budd Hopkins
Budd Hopkins interviewed by George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, September 28, 2004 John Mack and Budd Hopkins together at the UFO Congress awards ceremony (Feb 9, 2002); photo by Stuart Conway. George Noory: A sad moment to bring you aboard, Budd, but I knew how close that John Mack was to you and […]
Continue ReadingRemembrance of John E. Mack, M.D.: Stuart Davis
With Love, to John Mack… by Stuart Davis September 30, 2004 song of the day: Universe Communion / for John Mack word of the day: lococession / place for giving (noun, 1656 -1656) i found out late last night that my dear friend John Mack has passed, he was apparently killed by a drunk driver in […]
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