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  1. by John E. Mack, M.D. The majority of “abducteesreport some degree of trauma in connection with their experiences. The intrusive events themselves may be terrifying. Experiencers feel afraid to talk about what they have undergone lest they be ridiculed and further isolated. The experiences shock their ideas of reality.

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  2. Apr 3, 2015 · Dr. John Mack was a Harvard Medical School professor, distinguished psychiatrist, and Pulitzer-winning author who was arguably the most respected academic to investigate the alien abduction experience. He wrote two books on the subject, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (1994) and Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters (1999). He was interviewed by NOVA on his ...

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  4. Jun 6, 1996 · After more than 30 closed-door hearings over the past year, an investigatory committee of Mack’s Harvard peers is said to be on the brink of delivering a report sharply critical of Mack, who went on to write a thought-provoking book ( Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens) arguing that the phenomenon he has studied must not be simply ignored.

  5. participants interviewed reported continuous memories of alien abduction (i.e., memories of alien abduction that were never forgotten). On the basis of participants’ responses to interview questions about the development of their abduction memories, the sequence of events was similar for all participants in this group.

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    • How I Became a Space Alien Abductee Researcher
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    Explaining “Memories” of Space Alien Abduction and Past Lives: An Experimental Psychopathology Approach Richard J. McNally, Ph.D. Harvard University Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (in press) Abstract In this article, I describe how my colleagues, students, and I have used the methods of experimental psychopathology to explain why seemi...

    Susan and I had originally considered recruiting participants who reported satanic ritual abuse as a means to study false memory propensity in participants whose memories were almost certainly false. However, we soon changed course after I received an invitation to participate in a weekend conference at Harvard Divinity School on “anomalous experi...

    A new Ph.D. student, Cynthia Adelle (“C. A.”) Meyersburg, was keen to pursue issues of false memory further, and she hit upon the idea of investigating people who report memories from past lives. I ran across a notice for a conference of past life regression therapists, featuring actress Shirley MacLaine’s channeler as the keynote speaker. C.A. f...

    There are similarities and differences between people who report memories of alien abduction and past lives. Both groups score high on measures of absorption and magical ideation, suggesting vivid imaginal capabilities and an openness to unusual ideas. Both groups have salient experiences that motivate a quest to ascertain their meaning. Isolat...

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  6. Abstract-Six well-documented UFO abductions reported in Spain are re- viewed. Investigation reveals them to be the result of hoax, delusion or psy- chosis. On a global scale, the annual distribution of abductions plotted ac- cording to year of report shows clusters associated with media-related triggers.

  7. Many old standbys of UFO reports appear in abduction accounts as well, like a disk-shaped craft, diminutive beings, and electromagnetic effects on vehicles, so abductions re- main rooted in UFO tradition despite their many innovations. At the same. time abductions rate as a major expansion of the UFO belief system.

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