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Title: Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens by John E. Mack ISBN: 0-345-39300-7 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Intelligent, Thought Provoking and Informative
Comment: As a contactee myself, I found the nature of the information assimilated by the abductees in Dr. Mack's book to be consistent with my own personal experience. Though each individual filters information through their own sphere of reference, Dr. Mack concludes that the experience of the abductees ultimately changes their world view, expands their environmental consciousness, and adjusts, positively, our basic egocentric view that we humans are the only species important enough to remain on our planet. I personally have found this expansion of consciousness into an empathy for all forms of life to be true and consider it to be the primary reason for contact. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone interested in contact, abduction or shamanic experience. The stories told by the abductees are as fascinating as they are unique to each individual. I felt a sense of anticipation with each page I turned, not wanting to stop reading until I had read the experiences of each abductee and wishing there were many more such accounts included before this exciting read ended.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting descriptions, fuzzy analysis
Comment: Harvard psychologist John Mack interviewed more than seventy people who believe that they were abducted by aliens. After using hypnosis and other techniques to draw out victims' memories, he concluded that they were not inventing their stories; they had suffered traumatic experiences, in many cases more than once. Mack also found that their stories were remarkably consistent. The cases he studied may be only the tip of an iceberg; a 1991 survey showed that at least several hundred thousand Americans have had abduction experiences.
Mack argues that abductions force us to reconsider our perception of reality; "no familiar theory or explanation has come even close to accounting for the basic features of the abduction phenomenon." As abductions can not be understood within the framework of Western science, a new scientific paradigm may be necessary. Mack speculates that the aliens may be from other dimensions. At the end, he offers his personal opinion that "abductions have to do with the evolution of consciousness and the collapse of a worldview that has placed humankind at a kind of epicenter of intelligence in a cosmos perceived as largely lifeless and meaningless."
Mack writes that "When we explore phenomena that exist at the margins of accepted reality, old words become imprecise or must be given new meanings." His own words suffer from that problem; many readers will find his analyses vague and fuzzy-minded, particularly when he writes about spirituality. Many of his speculations appear in both his introductory and concluding chapters, an annoying duplication.
Readers may be struck by how closely the X-Files followed the abductees' descriptions of their experiences, including implants and the creation of alien-human hybrids. The warnings delivered to some abductees sound a bit like those in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still, or in the more recent film The Abyss, suggesting that abductees may have been influenced by their own cultural experiences. Nonetheless, something peculiar happened to these people.
Rating: 4
Summary: Path-breaking; raises fundemental questions
Comment: You do not need to be convinced by Mack in order to admire his courage: as a Harvard Professor, to take a topic straight from the tabloids and treat it seriously deserves a four-star rating by itself. I am generally open to new ways of perceiving reality, and am willing to ponder the idea that "aliens" (or fellow -earth dwellers, differently dimensioned) are playing tricks with us. My main difficulty lies with using hypnosis as a tool to uncover hidden memories, which lies at the heart of Mack's approach. Hypnosis is just too easy to abuse. It may be the only tool we can think of, currently, to use in this quest, but it just has too many drawbacks to be taken as the sole tool for alien-style research. I think Mack, too, would agree with that.
The 1990s, when this book came out, were a heady time for alien research. Many books on the subject were published, and TVs shows produced. Maybe it was the upcoming millennium, or just an increase in alien visits in the late 80s, but the field was hot. Now, it has cooled off a bit. One wonders when the next alien wave, or 'flap,' will hit. But hit it will, and when it does, many will go back to Mack's book for insight. This is recommended, along with Jaques Valle's books.
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Title: Secret Life: Firsthand, Documented Accounts of UFO Abductions by David M. Jacobs ISBN: 0671797204 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 16 April, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Passport to the Cosmos : Human Transformation and Alien Encounters by John E. Mack ISBN: 0609805576 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The THREAT: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda by David M. Jacobs ISBN: 0684848139 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 11 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Communion : A True Story by Whitley Strieber ISBN: 0380703882 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Intruders : The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods by Budd Hopkins ISBN: 0394560760 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 12 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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