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Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens

Abduction: Human Encounters With Aliens

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Intelligent, Thought Provoking and Informative
Review: 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: 5 stars
Summary: Dr. Mack is a true pioneer of the paranormal.
Review: Breathtaking-A real eyeopener for anyone interested in abduction or the UFO field. Thought provoking and very well written. A valuable resource to experiencers. Thankyou

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: whew! I hope it's not true.
Review: Dr Mack has made the terror of the abduction experience a gripping, palpable reality with this book. It scarred the hell out of me! There were many nights after reading this book that I could not fall asleep without my wife's arms around me! For God's sake people, I'm 33 years old! If you enjoy psycho-horror; squinting in pitch darkness to see if there's something there; or wondering, as you're woken up from a deep sleep trembling from a nightmare, if you just heard footsteps outside your bedroom door, then this book should do the trick. I'm not easily rattled but the stories in this book leave you no place to hide, there's no safe place! Apparrently, these little gomers can nab you in broad daylight! Very scarry stuff... Don't let kids read this or you'll have a big mess on your hands.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Politics of Ontology
Review: Dr. John Mack is a serious, careful and courageous research. Consider. If you were a Harvard Medical School professor with a Pulitzer prize and a sterling reputation would you endanger it for the sensationalism of "alien" abduction? Even if you were confronted with evidence of strange events, why put up with all the headaches? That Mack did proves him to be a true man of science, one who investigates phenomena instead of prejudging it as valid or not valid.

Mack is not saying outright that alien abductions are "real." He is saying that something is happening that leaves a real and lasting effect on people. These events have certain characteristics in common. Mack is mapping the terrain features of a new psychological continent using the case histories of individuals who have come forward. These individuals are also taking serious risks.

In truth the issue is not alien abduction per se, but what Mack calls the politics of ontology.

Personally I have had more than my share of "interesting" events. Mack's book, though not overtly written for this purpose, is a guide by which those who quietly keep to themselves may evaluate how their experience compares with others.

If you are interested in a serious exploration of this topic, this is the best book on the subject.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Politics of Ontology
Review: Dr. John Mack is a serious, careful and courageous research. Consider. If you were a Harvard Medical School professor with a Pulitzer prize and a sterling reputation would you endanger it for the sensationalism of "alien" abduction? Even if you were confronted with evidence of strange events, why put up with all the headaches? That Mack did proves him to be a true man of science, one who investigates phenomena instead of prejudging it as valid or not valid.

Mack is not saying outright that alien abductions are "real." He is saying that something is happening that leaves a real and lasting effect on people. These events have certain characteristics in common. Mack is mapping the terrain features of a new psychological continent using the case histories of individuals who have come forward. These individuals are also taking serious risks.

In truth the issue is not alien abduction per se, but what Mack calls the politics of ontology.

Personally I have had more than my share of "interesting" events. Mack's book, though not overtly written for this purpose, is a guide by which those who quietly keep to themselves may evaluate how their experience compares with others.

If you are interested in a serious exploration of this topic, this is the best book on the subject.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Interesting descriptions, fuzzy analysis
Review: 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 stars
Summary: Interesting descriptions, fuzzy analysis
Review: 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: 5 stars
Summary: The Truth May Be in This Book
Review: I got more than my money worth when I purchased this book. Anyone interested in alien abductions needs to read this one. If these cases are true encounters the public should be informed as to what is out there and what has been happening to people.I could not put this book down and I was horrified to learn about abduction experiences.It was informative but frightening material.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The book scared me.
Review: I read the whole book and it really grabbed my attention. It made me worry that I would be abducted by aliens. I remember being scared after reading it late one night, thinking at any moment, an alien creature would walk through the window and abduct me. I do not frighten easily, but this book made me keep a night light on for a couple of weeks. It is a great piece of work on a world wide phenomenon. Read it with an open mind. Can hundreds of thousands of people around the world all be crazy? I think personally that we have been visited by EBE's throughout all of Earth's history and that we are a product of their creation. They are abducting so many of us to create human-alien hybrids that will colonize the Earth after a lot of us die off from an upcoming global disaster of some kind. Get this book now and be afraid, be very afraid.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A pychiatrist who stands for and believes his patients
Review: I sincerely admire Dr. John Mack who is willing to face ridicule and ostracism to meet a perplexing and unusual phenomenon head on. Dr. Mack is a man who listens to his patients who have had truly traumatic experiences and is very concerned about trying to find the cause for the problems. On the other hand some of his colleagues who have criticized him have a tendency to brand their patients who have had similar experiences as being delusioned and overimaginative, which undoubtedly leave the patients frustrated. It is a relief to see that there are still professionals out there who care for people and not just for security and prestige in their positions in society.


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