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HopeDance magazine John Mack, Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry and writer of repute (he received a Pulitzer prize for his biography of T.E. Lawrence), is not necessarily doing this research to win friends and gain influence (already a team of his associates at Harvard created a commission to study his research). Aliens are not a subject that a professional writer or academic would take lightly for their careers are often times at stake. The subject has been covered more and more by respected journalists and academics in the past 5 years but the subject is fraught with complications so that it is still an enigma for many and grounds for ridicule by many more. In 1994 John Mack dealt with the subject of abductions in his fat 432 page work called Abduction. Five years later he returns to the subject to inform us of common themes from what abductees (or “experiencers” as they are called now) have experienced and learned, and to inform the public as to what might be going on. Mack does not get into the physical dimensions of the phenomenon, nor does he try to prove anything. His purpose is to bring forth the messages and transformations in a sincere and serious manner. Often times the author will be moved by the various abduction experiences while they relive their stories. Is this not real then? No longer do we find the word “hypnosis” in the text; we see the words “relaxed communication” interjected as to what mode they are in to tell their stories. And the stories are indeed unbelievable. Humans traveling through windows, being tunneled into different dimensions, seeing documentary videos showing the destruction of the Earth, participating in a project where aliens and humans are cross-breeding to create a hybrid species to survive the coming collapse… Three new insights I have received from this book: 1) these people are going through human transformational journeys quite similar to shamanic journeys (and more research is needed in this field); 2) in indigenous cultures they have accepted alien encounters (as well as an understanding of spirit/matter crossovers) within their religio-culture whereas in the west, spirit and matter is always suspect; and 3) that these purported aliens are no longer attempting to go through the government avenues and are now relying on transforming individual citizens to take a stand against the destruction of the planet (i.e., many of the experiencers have become very active environmentalists). In a chapter focusing on a medicine man in South Africa, Credo Mutwa's abduction experiences, he tells John Mack bluntly, “The entire Western civilization is based upon a blatant lie, the lie that we human beings are the cocks of the walk in the world, the lie that we human beings are the highest evolved forms in this world, and that we are alone and that beyond us there is nothing.” A provocative book, requiring an open mind
to stretch us into becoming more familiar with the outrageous mysteries
of reality and our peculiar time in it.
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