“Yes,
it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and
it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and
originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon
stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not
simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility
that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our,
if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years
have closed us off.” – John Mack(source)
John
Mack was a Harvard professor, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize
recipient. He, like many other academics, became very interested in the
alien abduction phenomenon. One can see how this sparked his interest;
after all, he was a professor of psychiatry. If you told a psychiatrist
you’d had contact with beings from another world, you’d probably be
handed a diagnosis of schizophrenia or psychosis along with a handful of
medication. This is a disturbing thought, given the tremendous amount
of evidence that’s now available to suggest that people are actually
having legitimate experiences with extraterrestrial beings, or at the
very least, are being completely genuine in their accounts. That’s not
to say that some people do not suffer from hallucinations, but there are
a lot of people out there who are actually having real experiences as
well. John Mack was well aware of this evidence, and this is why he is
one of the key pioneers of abduction research.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” – Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor (source)
Before you continue, it’s important to
note that Mack was well aware of the UFO phenomenon, which has been
disclosed by dozens of governments around the world by high level
officials and documents. You can see some of those documents and
statements in articles that are heavily sourced HERE and HERE.
“Just
how literally to take this, is one of the most interesting and complex
aspects of this. And I want to walk through that as clearly as I can.
There are aspects of this which I believe we are justified in taking
quite literally. That is, UFOs are in fact observed, filmed on camera at
the same time that people are having their abduction experiences.” – John Mack (source)
As a
medical professional, Mack’s first priority was the health of his
patients. For the most part he considered them to be normal and healthy
people who had experienced something mysterious.
“In fact, he considered it
remarkable that, despite the obvious trauma they had undergone, most of
these people were not medically or psychiatrically disturbed.” – Richard Dolan (1)
Mack had personally interviewed hundreds of supposed abductees, which became the focal point of his book Abduction,
published in 1994. One of the most interesting cases came from a
supposed encounter with over sixty schoolchildren in the town of Ruwa,
Zimbabwe, on September 16th 1994. The children claim to have seen
multiple hovering objects that resembled what we would describe as
spaceships. All sixty of these school children described and offered
drawings of these events with remarkable consistency.
We published an article a few months ago
that goes more in depth on that specific case with pictures,
interviews, and more. You can read that article HERE. You can view him interviewing the children HERE.
“They describe these events like
a person talks about something that has happened to them. I can tell
that these are people of sound mind telling me something…” (source)
Through his work, Mack observed most
abductees express how they had gained a greater spiritual awareness, or
spiritual-type insights, as a result of their experience. He alluded to
the idea that contact between human and non human extraterrestrial
intelligence could in fact have positive outcomes. He found many
commonalities among these reports, and believed people were being
completely genuine about what they had experienced.
Another one of these similarities was
telepathic communication between aliens and abductees, in which he drew
the conclusion that this type of communication is part of altering human
consciousness. For example, a lot of this type of telepathic
communication (like the case mentioned above in Zimbabwe) has
involved implanting images of environmental disasters, earthquakes, or
other major catastrophes. As a result, many abductees have pursued
humanitarian paths, trying to shift the direction in which our planet
currently seems to be heading. (Realted CE Article: Alarming Study: Our Time To Avoid Dramatic Consequences Is Rapidly Disappearing)
Another common experience that supposed
abductees describe, which Mack outlines in his book, is the process
known as hybridization:
“Scott, one of the subjects in Mack’s book, ‘Abduction,’ had
been a skeptic on the matter of extraterrestrials, but then was
humiliated to recall how beings had laid him on a table and used various
wires to stimulate sexual arousal and ejaculation. In his words, all of
this was in order to ‘make babies.’ He felt violated and angry that the
beings were controlling his memories and ‘messing with his head.’ On
another occasion, he was shown cylinders with tiny babies, presumably
from his sperm. He was also taken to an underground facility, where he
saw that the alien beings were something like an extended family to him,
in the sense that they knew everything about him. Indeed, they knew
more about him than any human family would have known. Scott learned,
somehow, that these beings were in the process of changing
themselves physically so that they could breath on Earth. This is a key part of the hybridization process, he said.” (1)
One important factor about Mack was the fact that, although some abduction experiences have been extremely traumatic for some people, and even cruel at times, for him there was still an element of spiritual transformation. Moreover, even if we perceive something to be cruel, it may be borne of good intentions. This view is in contrast to that of many other abductee researchers, and it’s why Mack used the term “experiencer” instead of “abductee.”
Keep in mind, people have reported
contact with various types of beings, but human-looking beings, as well
as the classic “grey” alien type, seem to be the most common.
“There is a—I believe, a
gradation of experiences and that go from the most literal physical
kinds of hurts, wounds, person removed, spacecraft that can be
photographed, to experiences which are more psychological, spiritual,
involve the extension of consciousness. The difficulty for our society
and for our mentality is, we have a kind of either/or mentality. It’s
either, literally physical; or it’s in the spiritual other realm, the
unseen realm. What we seem to have no place for—or we have lost the
place for—are phenomena that can begin in the unseen realm, and cross
over and manifest and show up in our literal physical world.” – John Mack (source)
With the above quote, it’s fitting to
leave you with this video from the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure that
took place in May of 2013. It was held at the National Press Club in
Washington, DC where military/agency/political personnel shared witness
testimony about the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon. Also included were
statements from a number of academics, researchers, and activists. They
gave their testimony to several former members of the United States
Congress.
It’s a clip of Dr. Roger Leir, who was a
doctor of podiatric medicine, and arguably the best known individual
with regards to extracting alleged alien implants. He has performed more
than fifteen surgeries that removed sixteen separate distinct objects.
These objects have been investigated by several prestigious
laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico
Tech, and many others. Unfortunately, he passed away in March 2014, but
his legacy lives on.
“There is a
serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited
for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who
they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject
of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of
‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord
Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of
the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“There is another way whether
it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate
energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that
they’re here shows us that they found a way.” (source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska.
Sources:
(1) Dolan, Richard. UFOs For the 21st Century Mind: New York: Richard Dolan Press, 2014 (Historian, author, one of the world’s leading researchers on the topic of UFOs)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/aliens/johnmack.html
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/06/28/harvard-psychiatrist-on-alien-abductionscontact-yes-its-both-literally-physically-happening/
