Product Description

Fascinating investigations into the Alien Abduction phenomena by a Harvard professor. Written by a Harvard professor of psychiatry, this is not a typical sensational Daily Mirror 'Aliens Sex Probe' shocker style -- it is an intellectual debate into alien abduction. Challenging stereotypes it looks at how these experiences effect the abductees and their common experiences of contact with the Divine, increased spirituality and universal love -- making it a really interesting cross-over read as it also explores the parameters of discussing spiritual experiences. * In this book there are stories from experiencers/ abductees who are: psychiatrists, shaman, school children, medicine men, photographers, estate agents, nurses, students, doctors and even a blind woman. There are three extended case studies, one from a Native American Vietnam veteran, a Brazilian shaman and a South African medicine man Credo Mutwa. He also cites people like Ken Wilber, Malidoma Some, Kerry Mullis, Stanislav Grof, Ralph Metzner, Black Elk -- who explore the cross over of physical and spiritual experiences. * John Mack likens the experiences of 'alien encounters' with other non-ordinary states of consciousness -- spiritual experiences, vision quests etc. and questions how we explain the unexplainable, how we create a language to explain experience, while looking at the differences between the material world and the spirit world and the cultures that see no distinction between them.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #500075 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review
"John Mack's research on the challenging phenomenon of alien abduction represents a stunning breakthrough in our understanding of ourselves and our place in the larger cosmos. He skillfully guides us to reconsider our attachment to the bankrupt materialist worldview and open our minds to the possibilities of a universe of awesome diversity." Ralph Metzner, PH.D, psychologist and author of Green Psychology

About the Author
John Mack is a Harvard professor who has spent the last ten years looking at the psychological consequences of alien abduction. His first book Abduction was out in 1995 and although no indication of the bigger picture, Amazon sales have been in excess of 59,000.