PASSPORT TO THE COSMOS

Mack has taken on the prophetic tone of Whitley Strieber in his latest works about alien contact, a tone that can become annoying. Mack created quite a stir when he published his book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens a few years back. Why, people wanted to know, was this brilliant Harvard psychiatrist supporting the delusions of people who are clearly crazy? But Mack insists they—re not crazy, that, in fact, on all personality and other psychological tests given to them, abductees seem completely normal. After working with hundreds more abductees over the past few years, Mack has concluded that they and aliens together have important lessons for us. For, according to Mack, the aliens come not from another planet, but from an other reality—a kind of parallel universe. They “are forcing us to appreciate that cosmic realities exist beyond the three-dimensional universe that has bounded our earthly existence.” “The cosmos that is revealed by this opening of consciousness . . . appears to be filled with beings, creatures, spirits, intelliigences, gods . . . that have through the millennia been intimately involved with human existence.” In support of this thesis, Mack focuses in depth on several aspects of the abductees” experience: the sense abductees have that their bodies begin to “vibrate” at a “higher frequency” when in contact with the bright light and energy of the aliens; the environmental lessons that the aliens seem to be teaching the abductees, and the intense bonds of love that develop between the abductees and the aliens. The abductees quoted by Mack here believe the aliens are in some sense messengers of God, or Source, as they call this power. Mack quotes at length from a selection of abductees, all of whose testimony echo these themes. Only the most dedicated abduction devotees will be able to read this all the way through without intense skepticism.