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John E. Mack, M.D., is a Pulitzer
Prize-winning author and professor of psychiatry
at Harvard Medical School. He is the founder of
the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge
Hospital.
Dr. Mack earned
his medical degree at the Harvard Medical School
(Cum Laude) after undergraduate study at Oberlin
(Phi Beta Kappa). He is a graduate of the Boston
Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and is Board
certified in child and adult psychoanalysis with
over 40 years of clinical psychiatric education
and experience.
His exploration
of the “human dimension” of alien encounters
led him to consider the merits of an expanded
notion of reality, one which allows for experiences
that may seem impossible, yet deeply affect people.
“What has become
clear to me in the ten years that I have been
wrestling with the mystery of the alien abduction
phenomenon,” he writes, “is the deeper
power and meaning of the encounters cannot be
understood without consideration of their transformative
power and spiritual significance.”
“The people
who have the experiences change. They grow. They
transform. They become Earth-conscious,”
he explains. “That is why I seek to give
them voice, because they become passionate on
behalf of the stewardship of the Earth.”
Dr. Mack is the
author or co-author of eleven books, including
a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of British
officer T.E. Lawrence, A
Prince of Our Disorder, the controversial
Abduction,
and Nightmares and Human Conflict. The
culmination of his 12 years of research into how
alien encounters affect people's lives and worldview,
Passport
to the Cosmos, was published in 1999.
The theme which runs through all of his seemingly
diverse work is the exploration of how our perceptions
shape our relationship with each other and with
the world.
He is the founder
of a Cambridge-based non-profit organization,
the Center for Psychology & Social Change:
www.centerchange.org
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