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This book is to leave the reader shock with amazement..., August 22, 2011
Resuming that the Alien abduction (that has always been with us since biblical times and prior, stretching across all cultures in all continents ) is a gift, a kind of catalyst for the evolution of the human consciousness, Dr Mack puts everything on the line; How else could a prestigious Harvard Professor in Psychiatry and a "Pulitzer prize-winner", risk career suicide by taking on the abduction phenomenal and fight against such mighty institution holding to his guns, when a committee was formed in the Harvard Medical School to investigated Dr John E Mack`s work with abductees. It was the first time in Harvard's history that a tenured professor was subjected to such an investigation, although with no specific complaint but with concerns about his Alien/UFOs investigations, where Dr Mack suggest that his findings might required a change in our world view of reality, rather than saying that he found a new psychiatric syndrome, needless to stress, the committee 14 months later was dismissed failing to stop Dr Mack in his research. Concluding the investigation, Harvard then issued a statement stating that the Dean had "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment," concluding "Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine."..BRAVO for Dr Mack, whom we missed dearly for his accidental death in 2004, he is one of the most serious if not the best researcher in the subject, breaking away from academia world view was his sin, a great understanding of the UFO/abduction phenomena was his and our triumph.
I found Dr Mack makes a very objective presentation. I do not see any new age philosophy, I read/heard from the voices of the abductees and the experiencers themselves; Jim Parks, Credo Mutwa, Bernard Peixoto, Sequoyah Trueblood, Karin, Andrea, Isabel, Carlos Diaz, Nona and Abby, etc a clear messages of a collected Cosmo tic intelligence, ours and of those entities. But Dr Macks goes beyond Kenneth Ring and Michael Grosso, associating this phenomena to Near-Death-Experiences(NDEs) and a planetary Super-mind that reflects our collected concerns and feeds them back to us symbolically in dreams(since both NDEs and abductions happens during medical procedures on Hospital for NDEs and onboard UFOs for abductees), or hallucinations to provoke evolutionary change in our human species as needed, cause by the own "Earth Electromagnetic fields" affecting those with a higher sensitivity and encounter-prone personalities which interpreted them such as ancient Angels, demons, fairies or whatever the culture conditioning dictates, in this case Aliens. Dr Mack has shown in this book, that this experiences are more than dreams, or mass hallucinations, or hoaxes(that do happen, see Donna bassets, Stan Romanek, Linda Cortile/Napolitano), stopping short of capturing the quantum physics smoking gun to solve this puzzled once an d for all.
Noting that Dr Mack is not establishing the physical proved of alien abduction, but instead focusing in the validity of it through the experiencers, and its meaning that altered the view of the cosmos full with intelligence, humane kind and our purpose in this journey through life and our responsibility to our environment and society. The book points out that no knowledge of psychiatry fit into this phenomena to explain how a force or entities were entering the lives of the abductees, making Dr Mack face the dilemma to try to fit, this reports into his world view and regard them such as fantasies, delusions, and strange dreams mostly know as Hypnagogic and hypnopompic experiences (HHEs), that are believed is caused by sleep paralysis where the hallucination of aliens has been generated by 20th and 21st century...by culture contamination through Science Fiction...Or perhaps a more unorthodox explanation will do and Dr Mack included the possibility that entities, beings from another realm are and had been reaching into our realm, ...could this be the real reason behind the Abduction phenomena, having many points in its favor, such as;
A-The high degree of consistency of the details of the abductees from all walks of life, ages from 2 to late 50`s, with great intense emotions, in many cases having Traumatic stress syndrome, a direct result from a real experience that cannot be explain such as sleep paralysis or hallucinations...
B-Body marks and scars, semen's extraction, and a sense that a medical procedure had been performed on them and constantly had been reported by abductees with no explanation of how a sleep disorder could account for it. Dr Mack clearly and professionally testified that there`s no proved scientifically yet to validate missing pregnancies or immaculate pregnancies, or pregnancies test or oval recollection and implants on abductees, that they indeed exist in a material world, and by Dr Mack judgment is beyond the point of the true meaning of the abduction phenomena, setting himself apart from any false claims to the contrary, typical of fanatics ufologist.
C-Second and third witnesses to a UFO sighting, but not yet, a direct witness of a abduction phenomena (except the Budd Hopkins, Linda Cortile case which is falling apart, shamelessly), once again reinforcing his professionalism on the subject, with only the notion that "missing time" has occurred and the testimony of being missing for some time physically, a occurrence that does not go unnoticed by family members and friends...
D-A direct proved that "culture pollution" does not played a role solely in the Alien Abduction, since children as young as 2 have describe having had a alien abduction experience and point reinforced by the testimony of many ancient cultures such as those of native Americans, Brazilian indigenous and African and Asian aborigines that indeed this phenomena had been recorded for millennia and is taken by what it is, a truth phenomena. To which, Dr Mack presence in his book, if I may add the testimony of these 3 native medicine men/Shamans: Bernard Peixoto, Sequoyah Trueblood and Credo Mutwa. Covering the shamanic experience, including ancestral guides and potential risk from imposters in the dimensional planes, and as Dr Mack explain in this book, are the most important lesson for all of us..."These man corroborate the reality of the abduction phenomena, making clear that this is not simply the product of the Western imagination", 20 and 21st centuries, nor is the Man-made aerospace technology in its entirely but has been part of our civilization since the beginning of time to now...as Jacques Vallee as proved in his book(Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times)
To summarize it in the words of Jim Parks; "he said, until I came to realized that is man who puts a limit of what God did not create, and what he does outside of this planet. so who`s to say what God has done in the rest of the cosmos, that does not mean that goes against god, it just means that God has created MORE than you have knowledge of, UNTILL NOW.
Dr Mack drives the point, that abductees are saying that they have received a message that we humans have loss our relationship to the nature of the creator, and we had turned to forms of addictions to fill the void, shamelessly, those addictions now are causing an irreparable damage to our planet and societies, arresting our spiritual growth, our true mission in this life of ours. The stimulation of our material hunger and needs, are a step further to the destruction of our environment by human toxic pollution of our Earth, and the abductees had been shown scenes and images, by these entities, that are forecasting an ecological disaster for our planet, if us humans keep on negating alternative fuel energies alternatives to improve our lives and move on to our rightful place in the cosmos alongside other intelligence life forms that populate it.
Abductees had been shown on direct mind-to-mind with the entities a glance of what our future could be, an apocalyptic scenario full with images of nuclear and environmental disasters( much greater than those we had witnessed after Japans powerful earthquake in 2011, and oil spills such as the Deepwater Horizon in 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, the Alaska Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989), with toxic spills over our skies and waters with total disregard for our environment, inevitably resulting in our planet inability to sustain human life and that will soon collapse unless there is no fundamental chance in a collective consciousness from the bottom-up, because it has not worked so far, from the top(government and multi-national corporations) to the bottom(us), our leaders won`t do it, because it affect their bottom line, and they have to be, want to be re-elected for office again and again, and who pays for their electoral-campaign?, the mayor corporation, do. But as Dr Mack said; We cannot not turn back the clock to a time before industrialization, materialism, consumerism, and modern technology, they are not the enemy, but could be made into a partner to achieve greatness.
These abductees tell us, said Dr Mack, that their consciousnesses have been affected by these beings, they have been awaken by these vibrations, from a higher intelligence, by entities that vibrate in a different frequency than us but that are as real as you and me, call it God and its agents if you will, and a deep care for our planets environment and society has been created in them, many had give up higher paying jobs often for less paying jobs in the healing or other human service professions, and become active in Earth-preserving projects, this change continue to evolve and the abductees feel compelled to share what they have learned, a decision that many times comes with a heavy price, ridicule, attacks and criticism from colleagues, and society en general, also are seen as nuts...
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A "UFO" Book That May Be a "Spiritual" Classic, November 13, 2011
This review is from: Passport to the Cosmos (Kindle Edition)
Harvard educated psychiatrist John E. Mack was at the peak of a distinguished career as a doctor, Harvard professor, writer and researcher. He even won the Pulitzer Prize for literature and enjoyed universal respect. Then in 1994 he astonished everyone by daring to publish a UFO book.
It was as if every accomplishment of his entire life was now called into question. A Harvard "kangaroo committee" began to investigate him. High-level academic peers condemned him. Public ridicule followed.
Ironically, Mack's 1994 book "Abduction" was a bestseller and probably made him a ton of money - opening him up to that old skeptic's attack over anything to do with UFOs - 'he did it to cash in.' I remember other quotes in the media from egg-head academics that went something like this: "John Mack is a really brilliant guy, but for some reason, he just lost it."
But Mack was only going where the science was leading him. As a therapist, he was intrigued that he was getting an increasing number of patients who claimed to have been abducted by UFO aliens. They were distressed over their experiences, but Mack was perplexed that, outside their bizarre tales of abductions, these people seemed altogether normal and mentally healthy in all other respects. They wanted to stay anonymous; in fact, they were desperate to keep their experiences a secret. It was clear they were not just a bunch of nutty attention seekers, or deeply neurotic or psychotic lunatics. They were ordinary people who needed to deal with a traumatic event.
And so what really got Mack into hot water, especially among the academic and scientific community, is that he had the audacity to suggest that maybe these people REALLY HAD BEEN abducted by aliens! That maybe they were telling the truth! It was blasphemy!
In my view, Mack, who died in 2004, was treated in much the same way the Catholic Church treated Galileo when he dared support the idea that the sun did not revolve around the earth. In the end, Mack faced no disciplinary action from Harvard, and he didn't lose his license to practice psychiatry, but he endured a scathing wind of condemnation from the "established elite" and sacrificed his standing in the medical and academic community.
Just as I found Mack's "Abductions" a riveting read, I give stellar marks to this book, "Passport to the Cosmos." It's an amazing book in many ways - it's not even really so much a book about alien abduction as it is about spiritual transformation. "Passport to the Cosmos" bears greater relationship to such spiritual classics as "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda than to other books about UFO-related phenomenon - although there is plenty of "alien and UFO" discussion underpinning all of the content.
In addition to the experiences or ordinary Americans, Mack also highlights the UFO-like experiences of three modern day shamans - Sequoyah Trueblood, Bernardo Peixoto and Credo Mutwa. This is significant because Mack rather brilliantly shows us the UFO phenomenon through the eyes of a different culture - perspectives that are not as entangled in the highly rational, secular, materialistic, scientific mindset of Western society. It gives us another way to look at and consider just what might be going on with this whole UFO thing. It forces us to look at it in a new light.
For many readers who have read Mack's "Abductions," this book may seem like "more of the same" but my view is that Mack's thoughts and ideas about what is going on with abduction patients ("experiencers") and the UFO phenomenon have advanced and solidified, and are stated more firmly around a more coherent theory in this book.
This is an important book. I wish millions of people would read it, and give it serious thought.
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