I was just told that Dr. John Mack died in England last
night when he was hit by a truck.
I'll add more to this tragic news as I am updated.
The following as just given to me:
"Harvard University medical school professor Dr John E Mack, born October 4, 1929 and author of:
PASSPORT TO THE COSMOS: HUMAN TRANSFORMATION & ALIEN ENCOUNTERS,
ABDUCTION: HUMAN ENCOUNTERS WITH ALIENS and
SECRET LIFE: FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS OF UFO ABDUCTIONS
died in England last night when he was hit by a truck.
Dr JOHN E MACK: Author's bio
Summary: John E. Mack, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Center for Psychology & Social Change, explores how extraordinary experiences can affect personal, societal and
global transformation.
John E. Mack, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and founder of the Center for Psychology & Social Change, explores how extraordinary experiences can affect personal, societal and global transformation. He is the author of many books detailing how one's perceptions shape relationships with one another and with the world,
including the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder, and Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters.
About the Author (Bio)
John E. Mack, M.D., is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of psychiatry at the 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. He continues to teach trainees in psychiatry.
Dr. Mack has devoted his career to exploring the question of how our perceptions shape our relationship with each other and with the world.
He addressed this issue of "worldview" on the individual level in his early clinical explorations of dreams, nightmares and teen suicide, and in his biographical study of the life of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in biography in 1977.
He has sought out the psychological roots of collective experiences such as the Cold War, the global ecological crisis, ethnonationalism and regional conflict. Dr. Mack testified before Congress in 1983 on the psychological impact of the nuclear arms race on children, and was arrested at the U.S. government's nuclear weapons test site in Nevada.
The Center for Psychology & Social Change was founded by Dr. Mack in 1983. The Center's projects apply psychology to the process of healing and reshaping relationships in the social, ecological, political and spiritual realms. The Center's work is designed to promote shifts in consciousness and behavior that invite sustainable, equitable, and peaceful ways of living.
In 1992, Dr. Mack co-chaired the Abduction Study Conference held at MIT, a landmark scientific assembly on alien encounters. In 1993, Dr. Mack founded the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) to formalize his explorations in this area. Dr. Mack and his colleagues at
PEER worked with over 200 individuals from six continents who have experienced encounters with unknown intelligences. Dr. Mack's research into this controversial subject focused on the consideration of the merits of an expanded notion of reality, one which allows for experiences that may not fit the Western materialist paradigm, yet deeply affect people's lives.
Through collaborations and meetings with clinicians, "experiencers", psychologists, epidemiologists, historians, physicians, philosophers, anthropologists, physicists, theologians, and political scientists, Dr.
Mack has encouraged members of different disciplines to bring their talents to this exploration.
Dr. Mack is the author or co-author of eleven books, including A Prince of Our Disorder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), Abduction, and Nightmares and Human Conflict. The culmination of his research into experiencers, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters was publisned in November 1999. He has written more than one hundred and fifty scholarly articles.
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