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  John Edward Mack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mack advocated that Western culture required a shift away from a purely materialist worldview (which he felt was responsible for the Cold War, the global ecological crisis, ethnonationalism and regional conflict) towards a transpersonal worldview which embraced certain elements of Eastern spiritual and philosophical traditions.
Mack's interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more spiritual than physical in nature -- yet nonetheless real -- set him apart from many of his contemporaries such as Budd Hopkins, who advocated the physical reality of aliens.
Mack described this investigation as "Kafkaesque:" He never quite knew the status of the ongoing investigation, and the nature of his critics' complaints shifted frequently, as most of their accusations against him fell apart when closely scrutinized.
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 John Mack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Edward Mack, M.D. (born October 4, 1929), professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, considered to be a leading authority on the spiritual or transformational affects of alleged alien encounter experiences.
Mack's interest in the spiritual aspect of human experience has been compared by the New York Times to that of fellow Harvard alum William James, and like James, Mack became a controversial figure for his efforts to bridge spirituality and psychiatry.
Mack's interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more spiritual than physical in nature - yet nonetheless real - set him apart from many of his contemporaries such as Budd Hopkins, who advocated the physical reality of aliens.
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 EducationGuardian.co.uk | Special Reports | John Mack
John Mack, the American psychiatrist whose research gave considerable credence to accounts by people who claimed to have encountered aliens - derisively dismissed by some of his fellow academics - has died in a road accident in London, aged 74.
Mack said his line with such cases was to be "questioning and sceptical"; and that he considered the abduction phenomenon "an authentic mystery", meriting more research.
Mack's work was seen as a slur on serious research by some disdainful colleagues; he had investigated, among others, the case of a man who recalled a female alien taking a sperm sample from him, and another man who claimed to have given birth to a half-human, half-alien.
education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/story/0,12212,1319951,00.html   (920 words)

  
 DeathOfJohnMack
John Edward Mack, M.D. (October 4, 1929 - Sep 27, 2004), professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, considered to be a leading authority on the spiritual or transformational affects of alleged alien encounter experiences.
Mack advocated that Western culture requires a shift away from a purely materialist worldview (which he feels is responsible for the Cold War, the global ecological crisis, ethnonationalism and regional conflict) towards a transpersonal worldview which embraces certain elements of Eastern spiritual and philosophical traditions.
Mack's interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more spiritual than physical in nature  yet nonetheless real  set him apart from many of his contemporaries such as Budd Hopkins, who advocated the physical reality of aliens.
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 John Mack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Mack, the English missionary preacher who worked with Marshman and Carey the 18th century Serampore missionaries in India.
John Edward Mack (1929-2004), the American psychiatrist known for his interest in alien abduction.
John J. Mack (1945?-), CEO and Chairman of the Board of Morgan Stanley.
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 Telegraph | News | John E Mack
John E Mack, who has died aged 74, was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard and won a Pulitzer prize for a biography of Lawrence of Arabia; he created more controversy, however, with his investigations of accounts of alien abduction.
Mack's conclusion that there was "no conventional explanation" for case studies such as Ed, who remembered an alien woman taking a sperm sample from him; Jerry, who had given birth to a human-alien hybrid; and Peter, who had an alien wife in a parallel universe, led some colleagues to launch the "Knife the Mack" movement.
Mack was speaking at the T E Lawrence Society Symposium in Oxford on Sunday, where his afternoon talk was so well received that he was invited to give an additional speech that evening.
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 John Mack
John Mack is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and a Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry best known for his research into the alleged alien abductions phenomenon.
According to Mack, regardless of whether the phenomenon was real in the conventional, physical sense, abductees might still be experiencing some kind of authentic interaction with another form of intelligence.
Mack's work is not without precedent, as even Carl Jung saw significance in the apparent mass hysteria over UFOs and extraterrestrials.
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 ellis c taylor  John Mack  Looking Into the Dark Places               ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mack is a name that is symbolic of moon and sun.
So thank you John Mack for everything you have done to help the many, many people who your spirit has touched and assured that they are not alone, they are not raving nutters and that somewhere there was someone who really did care.
John Mack spoke to On Point radio, Boston in June 2002 in which he described his extraterrestrial research.
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 Dr. John Mack Remembered   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1994 I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. John Mack while we were both shooting at the CBS news here in New York.
John Edward Mack, M.D., was Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital, as well as Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer for his work on Lawrence of Arabia.
He is a graduate of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, was Board certified in child and adult psychoanalysis and Director of the John Mack Institute, Cambridge Massachusetts.
www.crystalinks.com /johnmack.html   (664 words)

  
 John Mack
Mack's research into this controversial subject focused on the consideration of the merits of an expanded notion of reality, one which allows for experiences that may not fit the Western materialist paradigm, yet deeply affect people's lives.
Mack was struck by a driver suspected of being drunk and evidently died on impact, according to the John E. Mack Institute, formerly the Center for Psychology and Social Change.
Mack was in Britain to speak at a conference on T.E. Lawrence, the British officer known as Lawrence of Arabia.
www.ufocom.org /pages/v_fr/m_articles/Enleves/john_mack.htm   (1382 words)

  
 John E. Mack | The San Diego Union-Tribune   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John E. Mack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Harvard Medical School professor whose research on purported extraterrestrial abductions generated widespread publicity and controversy, died Monday in an automobile accident in London.
Although he was subjected to widespread ridicule because of his work, Dr. Mack saw it as a unique opportunity to study spiritual or transformational experience, a theme that ran throughout much of his earlier work.
John Edward Mack was born Oct. 4, 1929, in New York.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041004/news_1m4mack.html   (567 words)

  
 Blog of Death: John Mack
John Edward Mack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a leading authority on alien abductions, died on Sept. 27.
Mack joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School in 1964 and was named a full professor of psychiatry eight years later.
Mack was attending the T.E. Lawrence Society Symposium in Oxford, England, when he was struck by a car while walking across a street.
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 John E Mack Institute
Mack was crossing a street in London Monday when he was hit by a car driven by a drunken driver, the institute said in a release.
Mack believed that there was “an extraordinary planetary crisis because of our inability to understand what native peoples all over the world understand, which is that there is a very delicate web of life, and that web of life is being destroyed by this species”.
Mack was an assistant editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and was on the editorial board of the American Journal of Psychoanalysis.
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 The Seattle Times: Obituaries: John Mack, author and psychiatry professor, dies at 74
Dr. John Mack, 74, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School who stirred controversy in the late 1990s with his writings about extraterrestrial encounters, died Monday in a London automobile accident.
Dr. Mack was in England to lecture at a conference sponsored by the T. Lawrence Society and was hit by a car while walking across a street.
Dr. Mack concluded that the experiences of those who said they had been abducted could have been more spiritual than physical, but they were real nonetheless.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/obituaries/2002052743_mackobit03.html   (405 words)

  
 John Edward Mack: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Mack advocated that Western culture required a shift away from a purely materialist worldview (which he felt was responsible for the Cold War, EHandler: no quick summary.
This theme was taken to a controversial extreme in the early 1990s when Mack commenced his decade-plus study of 200 men and women who claimed that recurrent alien encounter experiences had affected the way they regarded the world, EHandler: no quick summary.
Mack's explorations later broadened into the general consideration of the merits of an expanded notion of reality, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/john_edward_mack.htm   (1208 words)

  
 John E. Mack, 74; Professor, Author (washingtonpost.com)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John E. Mack, 74, the Harvard Medical School professor of psychiatry who won a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Lawrence of Arabia and who studied people who claimed to have had encounters with aliens, died Sept. 27.
Mack was struck by an alleged drunk driver in London and pronounced dead at the scene.
John Edward Mack was born in New York.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A61069-2004Sep29.html   (435 words)

  
 Alien abduction facts, theories and information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Matheson writes that "On balance, Mack does present as fair-minded an account as has been encountered to date, at least as these abduction narratives go." (Matheson, 251) Furthermore, Mack notes when alternative interpretations are viable; throughout Abduction he allows and even considers likely that alien abductions are a new type of visionary experience.
In June 1992, Mack co-organized a five-day conference at MIT to discuss and debate the abduction phenomenon.[1] The conference attracted a wide range of professionals, representing a variety of perspectives.
John Edward Mack, for one, suggested that modern abduction accounts should be considered as part of this larger history of visionary encounters.
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 Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
Harvard professor and psychiatrist John Mack was hit by a car and killed in London on Monday night, September 27.
Ever intellectually curious, one of the reasons Mack was in the U.K. was to speak at a crop circle symposium.
Mack was killed by an intoxicated motorist, a young Czech man who lives in the neighborhood.
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 Blogger: Email Post to a Friend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mack at Kyoto and Boston (by M) I happened to visit John mack' homepage and knew that he had been killed by a car on September 27, 2004.
John and his wife Sally and I met at Kyoto.
John, Sally and I met at a restaurant in Hyatt Boston, had dinner, and visited his office in his research center.
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 Alien-UFOs.com Network Forum - Phillip Coppen on Dr. John Mack (long)
Harvard Professor John Mack was what many people believed the phenomenon had always been lacking: a big-time professor who spoke up for the reality of the phenomenon.
Mack published on his findings and quickly found himself the centre of a controversy that reached into the pages of TIME and other major publications.
Mack largely came to the same conclusion: “I think that the most important point here is that something that opens us to a larger sense of self, of identification with others and with a more cosmic level of being, will open us to a sense of the divine and a reverence for life, for nature.
www.alien-ufos.com /forum/showthread.php?t=5861   (2089 words)

  
 Passing Of Dr John Mack: Announcement To Friends And Colleagues
The John E Mack Institute, recently named in his honor, honors Dr Mack's courageous examination of human experiences, and his landmark explorations of the ways in which perceptions and beliefs about reality shape the human condition.
Mack's interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more spiritual than physical in nature -- yet nonetheless real -- set him apart from many of his contemporaries such as Budd Hopkins, who initially advocated the physical reality of aliens.
Mack's academic freedom to study what he wishes and to state his opinions without impediment," concluding "Dr. Mack remains a member in good standing of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine."
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 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Pulitzer winner is killed in accident
Mack eventually interviewed some 200 individuals who said they had encounters with extraterrestrials.
Although he was subjected to widespread ridicule because of his work, Dr. Mack saw it as a unique opportunity to study spiritual or transformational experience, a theme that ran through much of his earlier work.
Dr. John Mack, Harvard professor of psychiatry and Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/09/29/pulitzer_winner_is_killed_in_accident   (667 words)

  
 UFO Evidence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
John Mack, M.D. David M. Jacobs, Ph.D. Budd Hopkins
Dr. Mack was in Oxford speaking at the T. Lawrence Society Symposium, this past Sunday afternooYesterday evening he went out for dinner with friends in London and was returning to where he was staying, on a darkened street,was struck and died instantly, by a vehicle driven by a drunk driver.
Dr Mack was one of several speakers discussing British officer T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") at the T. Lawrence Society Symposium, in Oxford on Sunday.
www.ufoevidence.org /news/article144.htm   (834 words)

  
 Passing Of Dr John Mack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Information will be posted to the John E Mack Institute website, www.johnemackinstitute.org The John E Mack Institute, recently named in his honor, honors Dr Mack's courageous examination of human experiences, and his landmark explorations of the ways in which perceptions and beliefs about reality shape the human condition.
Notes: Mack was a student of Grof Holotropic Breathwork, a meditative technique developed by Stanislav Grof.
Mack's work was documented in the film "TOUCHED" by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Laurel Chiten http://www.blinddogfilms.com/touched HIGH RESOLUTION (3.5 MB) PORTRAIT OF DR JOHN MACK http://www.johnemackinstitute.org/johnmack.jpg Archive of Dr John Mack's writings: http://www.passporttothecosmos.com The John E Mack Institute: http://www.johnemackinstitute.org
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