John B. Alexander - Reality Denied: Firsthand Experiences with Things that Can’t Happen - But Did

Advanced Praise for Reality Denied

Col. John Alexander has brought in a fascinating compendium of mysteries that defy conventional norms of rational investigation. John is a Stoic individual with a sharp military mind who has served our country for decades. It is refreshing and intriguing to read his insiders take on enigmas that compel millions of people from all over the world.

DR. RAYMOND MOODY, AUTHOR OF LIFE AFTER LIFE

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I met John Alexander decades ago. He is smart and truthful to a fault. So when he speaks, I listen. My career has taken me to what others might find hard to believe. Therefore, I know what John Alexander faces in this book. Read this and know I have nothing but respect for this man.

Listen to what he says, and your notion of reality just might expand.

RICHARD BANDLER, PH.D., CO-DEVELOPER OF NLP

(NEURO-LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING)

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No one can consider him- or herself an informed world citizen without coming to terms with the phenomena described by John Alexander in Reality Denied. Alexander brings the skills of a critical scientist and a respected military strategist to a spectacular array of unexplained events. Underlying this captivating survey is the premise of a unitary, interconnected, nonlocal form of consciousness that is infinite in space and time. This extraordinarily courageous book is in the best traditions of science, whose foundation is the provocation of wonder and open-minded inquiry.

DR. LARRY DOSSEY, AUTHOR OF ONE MIND: HOW OUR INDIVIDUAL MIND IS PART OF A GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS AND WHY IT MATTERS

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In Reality Denied John Alexander details a number of firsthand encounters that range from UFOs, to remote viewing, spiritual healing, NDEs, and after-death experiences that all defy conventional wisdom. He has met with shamans all over the world and seen things that are physically impossible. Yet they happened and he documented them. In this book, he explicitly challenges traditional scientists who dismiss these events without ever looking at the hard data that exists in many instances.

GEORGE NOORY, HOST OF COAST TO COAST AM

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Retired U.S. Army Colonel John Alexander is a masterful storyteller. His long list of accolades ranges from Special Forces A-team leader to program manager at Los Alamos National Laboratory, to ufologist. With Reality Denied Alexander gives readers an action-packed, eyebrow-raising look into a life lived at the cutting edge of unconventional research. From his work with the Reindeer Shamans of Mongolia, to his dealings with the Voodoo masters of Togo, Ghana, and Benin, John Alexanders book is guaranteed to keep you up at night. A rare treat.

ANNIE JACOBSEN, AUTHOR OF AREA 51 AND FINALIST FOR THE 2016 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY

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In Reality Denied, Colonel John Alexander, a highly qualified witness and investigator with decades of experience, provides accounts of his firsthand experiences of events and phenomena deemed impossible by the current scientific paradigm. From shamans deep in the jungle, to macro PK, to post-mortem communications and much more, Alexander explores the meaning and the way forward in coming to grips with things that are not supposed to happen, but do. As a fellow traveler who has also experienced some of the same phenomena, I highly recommend this accessible, honest, and provocative book which provides a powerful challenge to those who stubbornly deny compelling datadata which offers all of us a new understanding of consciousness and its relationship to the physical world.

LESLIE KEAN, AUTHOR OF SURVIVING DEATH

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John Alexander has written an adventurous globe-spanning romp through worlds shunned by the more conventional. Follow the fascinating journey of a relentlessly inquisitive mind unafraid to keep poking at received wisdom and unafraid to experience profound mystery. Prepare to have your world rocked!

WILLIAM BENGSTON, PH.D., PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION

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With no stone unturned, John Alexander, PhD, lays before us a smorgasbord of challenging topics ranging from the merely outrageous to the taboo. What sets this book apart is his personal first-hand involvement, even immersion, in the events and topics covered during his globe-trotting investigations. With a level of discernment that has no equal, Alexander takes us on a riveting journey through exotic territory that lies just beyond the curtain of everyday existence.

HAROLD E. PUTHOFF, PH.D., DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES AT AUSTIN

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Every now and again a book appears that marks a watershed moment in the evolution of science and society. John Alexanders book presents and integrates a vast array of extraordinary and seemingly anomalous real-life phenomena that collectively require that we expand our understanding of the human mind, the physical world, and the existence of a greater reality. John is a wonderful writer, and the suite of personal stories he recounts more than justifies the buying and reading of this book. Moreover, his analyses, concerns, wise recommendations, and visions for the future are priceless. I have had the privilege to know John professionally and personally for more than two decades, and I can attest to the fact that he is a skilled as well as skeptical observer. John does not misrepresent or fabricate information; he tells it as it is, with precision and clarity peppered by playfulness and grace. Johns book provides a historic convergence of inspiring evidence. It is time that science and society awakens to this opportunity for understanding and transformation.

GARY E. SCHWARTZ, PH.D., PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY, MEDICINE, NEUROLOGY, PSYCHIATRY, AND SURGERY, AND DIRECTOR OF THE LABORATORY FOR CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AUTHOR OF THE AFTERLIFE EXPERIMENTS

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There is a joke, which we have all heard at one time or another, that the term Military Intelligence is an oxymoron. The example of John Alexander (Colonel, U.S. Army, retired) refutes that suggestion most emphatically. I ended my reading of this book wishing that my colleagues in science departments in the Western World were half as well informed and one tenth as open-minded as Alexander concerning the many unexplored phenomena that are surveyed in this book. Such phenomena should be of interest to psychologists who try to understand our mental processes, to physicists who try to understand the composition and functioning of the world we live in, and to everyone who has wondered whether death is an end or a transition. In the current era of big science, in which the significance of a project is measured by its engineering sophistication, the size of the team, and the size of the budget, it is refreshing to come across individuals such as Alexander who seek outand seek to understandmysteries that are unexplained by current science, and which are indeed studiously avoided by the scientific community.

PETER STURROCK, PH.D., EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF APPLIED PHYSICS, AND EMERITUS DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY

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When it comes to unusual phenomena, John Alexander has seen it all. In this remarkable book, his readers will learn about his first-hand observations of fire walking, remote viewing, mediumship, psychokinesis, telepathic dolphins, unconventional healing, voodoo, and avoiding death during war combat. They will learn about ayahuasca, dowsing, out-of-body and near-death experiences, UFOs, poltergeists, and the Crystal Skull. They will even be given instructions on how to arrange a spoon-bending party. However, they will also find out that some so-called psychics use sleight-of-hand, and that many uncanny events can be explained by personal expectations, the placebo effect, and other natural processes. Alexanders credentials are solid, his writing is straightforward, and his stories are fascinating. Readers may accept or reject the conclusions he presents in his final chapter, but at least they will have enjoyed the ride and, perhaps, found their understanding of people and the universe confronted, if not transformed.