John E. Mack - Passport to the Cosmos

• Nightmares and Human Conflict
• Borderline States in Psychiatry
  (Edited)
• A Prince of Our Disorder:
  The Life of T. E. Lawrence
  (Pulitzer Prize in Biography 1977)
• Vivienne: The Life and Suicide of an Adolescent Girl
  (with Holly Hickler)
• Last Aid
  (Edited with E. Chivian, S. Chivian, and R. J. Lifton)
• The Development and Sustaining of Self-Esteem in Childhood
  (Edited with Steven Ablon)
• The Alchemy of Survival: One Womans Journey
  (with Rita S. Rogers)
• Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning
  (Edited with Steven Ablon, Daniel Brown, and Edward J. Khantzian)
• Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens
• The Psychospiritual Clinicians Handbook
  Sharon G. Mijares and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa (eds.) (contributor)
• Mind Before Matter
  (Edited with Trish Pfeiffer and Paul Devereux)

Commemorative Edition | New Material Copyright 2008

Original Copyright 1999 by John Mack. All rights reserved. This White Crow Books Edition Copyright 2011 by John Mack. All rights reserved.

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First Published in 1999

Published in 2008 with a new foreword, introduction, covers, bibliographic materials and illustrations

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Paperback ISBN 978-1-907661-81-5
eBook ISBN 978-1-907661-82-2
Hardback ISBN 978-1-907661-83-9

NON FICTION / UFO / ALIEN ABDUCTION / SPIRITUALITY

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To the experiencers, who have been my teachers

Review From Publishers Weekly

Here is a fascinating foray into an exotic world. From Harvard psychiatry professor and Pulitzer prize-winning author John Mack comes a second book (after Abduction ) based on accounts by people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. While he fudges the question of whether the aliens are real in a strictly material sense, he insists that the experience is real for the abductees, in the way that shamans spiritual journeys are real to them; indeed, a couple of his interviewees are shamans. He focuses on the newly emerging spiritual importance of the alleged abductees message. Their reports, Mack believes, reveal much about human culture and the future of the human race. In extensive interviews with Mack, those who claim to have been abducted report that the aliens are especially motivated by questions of ecological destruction, and that they may even be survivors of a destroyed civilization seeking to breed hybrid children with humans to ensure the survival of both the human race and their own. Overwhelmingly, the abductees state that the aliens visit Earth to warn us that our cavalier tree-cutting, water-polluting, trash-dumping habits will have dire consequences if we do not change our ways. Abductees are left with not only a profound caring for the environment, but with a sense that they have encountered creatures sent by whatever power rules the universe. They particularly find that their experiences resonate with Native American religions. This discussion leads into what is possibly the most intriguing section of the book, the examination of sex between humans and aliensgreat sex, by numerous accounts. But as a serious investigation into a mystifying experience, Macks account poses questions begging for answers.

Review From Library Journal

Mack, a Harvard University psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of T.E. Lawrence, created an academic stir with the publication of Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (1994), in which he argued that tales of alien abduction were true. As a result, Harvard warned him to adhere to its standards of conduct for clinical research. In this follow-up, Mack, still undaunted, argues that our knowledge of reality needs to change and that scientific rationalism alone cannot explain the alien abduction syndrome. He examines traditional views of reality, the implications for humanity in light of the abduction phenomenon, and the traumatic effects on experiencers or abductees. Macks work with indigenous peopleshamans and medicine men and womensuggests that the phenomenon is not simply a product of Western imagination. This veritable handbook of New Age philosophy will find a readership in most public libraries.

John E. Mack, M.D.: A Tribute

By Michael H. Cohen, Esq.

This is a tribute to John E. Mack, MD, who has transitioned from his physical body to the next plane of consciousness. He was a colleague and explorer of the human experience who modeled insight, humor, and courage.

Grieving Johns Bodily Transition

When someone you love suddenly passes, a series of shocks ripple through the system: waves of grief, tenderness, memories, combined with a sense of your own finitude, and at the same time, this paradoxical analytical process of combing through the associations and trying to understand the enormity of what this person meant in your life.

When I learned from a friend last night that John Mack had suddenly died, I found these waves of emotions rising and subsiding. I felt deeply connected to John, though I knew him professionally only in passing, and personally hardly at all. I realized that we had connected beyond time and space, through a shared bond, a passion for truth; I admired John, and felt that I was able to travel further simply knowing he was there.

The details of John Macks legacy are now coming to light in tributes from around the world, both from academics and institutions of great learningincluding Harvard, which once put him through what might have seemed an inquisitionand the many individuals whose lives he touched. John was a pioneer, a Pulitzer-prize winning author, a dedicated psychiatrist and a humanitarian deeply committed to improving his community. John was committed to his local community in Cambridge, the community of mental healthcare, and the larger community of all beings everywhere. Whether specifically a Buddhist or maybe a bit of everything, he seemed to me to embody the Buddhist ideal of aspiring to help uplift the entire creation. John held the space for many to open up to their felt experiences, not judging them but allowing, and in our time together, I experienced his wisdom, his compassion, and his humanness. Both in his intellectual triumphs and in the stillness we sharedthe contact in-between the wordsI felt his essence as a marvel.