Abduction : human encounters with aliens

THE PROVOCATIVE BESTSELLER--THE MOST RIVETING ACCOUNT EVER PUBLISHED ON ALIEN ABDUCTION PULITZER PRIZE-WINNER John E. Mack, M.D. "Fascinating, suggestive, and even inspiring." --The New York Times Book Review "A TRANSCENDENT, LANDMARK WORK...An extraordinarily rich and strange mind-expanding book.--Boston Herald When respected Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack, M.D., first published these astonishing results of four years of intensive research and investigation into alien abduction, he unleashed a firestorm of controversy. Now, in this paperback edition, Mack answers his critics, both believers and skeptics. Mack focuses on thirteen ordinary Americans (from nearly one hundred case studies) who tell dramatic, inspiring, and remarkably similar stories: repeated visits from large-eyed beings, mysterious machines, telepathy, invasive medical procedures, hours missing from their lives, and startling messages about the future.... "Provocative...This book is a challenge to any reader. It raises questions about how we live on this planet and with each other that the Western mind and culture will not be able to ignore for too much longer. It also raises questions about the nature of reality; of time, space, energy and the true nature of humanness. It opens the door to a very serious redefinition of life as we know it." --Los Angeles Times Book Review "Strange and disturbing...Something is powering this rash of abduction claims, making it worth the kind of serious investigation Mack presents here.--San Francisco Chronicle "A groundbreaking study...Credible and thought-provoking." --Publishers Weekly A FEATURED SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD image - 0002 2 image - 0003 3 image - 0004 4 image - 0005 5 image - 0006 6 image - 0007 7 image - 0009 8 image - 0010 9 image - 0011 10 image - 0012 11 image - 0013 12 image - 0014 13 image - 0015 14 image - 0017 15 image - 0018 16 image - 0019 17 image - 0020 18 image - 0021 19 image - 0022 20 image - 0023 21 image - 0024 22 image - 0025 23 image - 0026 24 image - 0027 25 image - 0028 26 image - 0029 27 image - 0030 28 image - 0031 29 image - 0032 30 image - 0033 31 image - 0034 32 image - 0035 33 image - 0036 34 image - 0037 35 image - 0038 36 image - 0039 37 image - 0040 38 image - 0041 39 image - 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Mack, a medical doctor and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, could no longer discount the recurring experiences of several individuals who consulted him in his office at the Cambridge Hospital in Massachusetts. The similarity and frequency of these experiences by clients with no history of mental illness provoked Dr. Mack to conduct four years of intensive research and investigation into the serious, ever-growing phenomenon of alien abduction. Dr. Mack's findings resulted in his best-selling book *Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens*, a work that will forever change our perception of reality by asking why, not if, such a phenomenon is happening. Out of nearly one hundred case studies, Dr. Mack focuses on thirteen ordinary Americans from all walks of life who tell dramatic, inspiring, and remarkably similar stories of alien abductions. These stories tend to feature repeated visits from large-eyed beings, mysterious machines, telepathy, invasive medical procedures, hours missing from their lives, and startling messages about the future. As suggested in a 1991 Roper survey, the number of potential experiencers may be in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, yet many people try to dismiss their encounters as nightmares or are misdiagnosed and treated for a range of physical and psychiatric disorders. "This book describes a clinical map of the abduction territory, which I believe shows that we are dealing with a phenomenon that may not originate in our physical reality but penetrates variably into it or manifests within it in a variety of ways. This very concept is somewhat revolutionary and difficult to understand within our current modem secular world view," explains Dr. Mack. "It was in the hope of serving a misunderstood population by making sense of their experiences, and, above all, of provoking my readers to reconsider their views of the universe in which we live, that I undertook to write this book." The revised edition of *Abduction* includes a new preface in which Dr. Mack addresses the various criticism his work has generated by some strict "rationalists" in the science and medical professions since the hardcover publication a year ago. As Dr. Mack says: "The interpretations and conclusions in this book are but hypotheses, designed to invite others to join me in the exploration of this important mystery. It is my hope that, if nothing else, this book will encourage at least some of the skeptics who have criticized my methods and hypotheses to immerse themselves in the primary data of this field, namely the experiences of those who have undergone the abduction encounters, and draw their own conclusions about what is talking place here and what it might mean for the human future." Emphazies the "the psychological and spiritual transformation" of those who have undergone an alien abduction. Includes case studies