by Anita Baskin
A single-page Omni magazine article about alien encounters, presented both as the version published in July 1994 and also as an earlier draft.
Alien Encounters and Human Transformation
Articles by Dr. John Mack and colleagues
My Favorite Martians
by Kathryn Robinson
The other night I was reading along in Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, the much-discussed new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack. I was right at the part where Mack explains that right before people are abducted by aliens mysterious electrical malfunctions often occur. It being nightfall, I reached up to turn on a lamp. Sparks flew and the lamp suddenly burst into flames.
Dark Side of the Unknown
by Patrick Huyghe
A few unusual therapists buck the system and specialize in treating people who’ve had encounters with the unexplainable.
The Outer Limits of the Soul
By Mark Gauvreau Judge
Increasing numbers of UFO abductees, as well as the experts who treat them, say their experiences have as much to do with inner as outer space.
The UFO Abduction Phenomenon: What Might it Mean for the Human Future?
by John E. Mack, M.D.
Developed from a talk first given at Interface, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 23, 1993 (and given again at the 24th Annual MUFON Symposium). Dr. Mack had not yet finished writing his book about alien encounters, but the prior year he had co-chaired the Abduction Study Conference held at MIT, for which he had received some critical feedback.
The UFO Abduction Phenomenon: What Does it Mean for the Transformation of Human Consciousness?
by John E. Mack, M.D.
Editor’s Note: This article was originally presented at the International Transpersonal Association Conference on “Science, Spirituality, and the Global Crisis: Toward a World with a Future,” which was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia. It was delivered on 25 June 1992. It was subsequently published in Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology, Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1995, 96-110.
Why the Abduction Phenomenon Cannot Be Explained Psychiatrically
by John E. Mack, M.D.
This paper appears in Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference (North Cambridge Press, 1992).
Blowing the Western Mind
by John E. Mack, M.D.
We hear the expression “consensus reality” used more and more often to distinguish the conventional Western/Newtonian/Cartesian world view from other possible philosophies or frameworks of thought. The frequent bracketing of these words in writing and conversation implies that there is one accepted version of reality that includes a social agreement about what the mind may or may not legitimately countenance, if its owner wishes to remain within mainstream discourse. Yet there is also a connotation of questioning or doubt in the use of the modifying adjective “consensus,” even a certain defensiveness. It is as if the speaker, who may generally accept the prevailing paradigm, does not completely agree that what we have been acculturated to believe is, in fact, the only reality.