Dr. John Mack - In Memoriam

The Man and the Legacy Remembered 

A ZLANDCOMMUNICATIONS COMMENTARY

For those familiar with the late Harvard psychiatrist and alien abduction author Dr. John E. Mack it is not difficult to reach back in our memories to replay one of his lectures or interviews. His clarity of mind and wealth of knowledge verge on the unimaginable and visionary at the same time.   

John had a way of making the phenomenon of 'alien abductions’ penetrate the realm of the real without imposing cultural bias or psychiatric restrictions on a new frontier of knowing. He made it make sense. Both he and his good friend Budd Hopkins were pioneers on this new frontier.

For those not familiar with Dr. Mack's work - what follows may enlighten or disturb - either way it may prove instructive to the open mind.

John Mack was killed in a horrifying car accident as he walked along a road late at night in England after a lecture he had given. The details of this 'accident' were crushing and after16 years - still too raw in my mind to write about - so I'll let that be for now and re-live the tears I shed late that night for another time. 

The tragic news was sent to me by a close mutual friend... it said: 'Victor - he's gone..." and it went on from there - describing the sorrow and the deplorable needlessness of his death.

My history with John has many adventures and are unspoiled in reminiscence. 

In 1996 I visited John in his Harvard office over three memorable days to discuss the abduction phenomenon. I also had the honour and pleasure of interviewing John on the popular Toronto UFO radio program STRANGE DAYS... INDEED. 

Still - after 16 years since his passing, Dr. Mack's understandings of this bizarre phenomenon live on. These understandings - to this day - form the foundation around which current global researchers and writers present the 'alien abduction' phenomenon. John redefined the term ‘abductee’ - removing the negative connotation with a more heuristic term, ‘Experiencer’. In doing so Dr. Mack opened new doors.

• Is the ET experience part of the material world or does it originate from a different place?
• How do Experiencers describe the encounters they have; their bodies and vibrational energy and moving through solid objects?
• Why has the psychiatric community not embraced this phenomenon?   

Captured here for you are Dr. Mack's responses to these and other questions in this nine minute segment of the hour long interview I did with Dr. Mack on Strange Days... Indeed.

Listen to the interview: HERE

Questions and reactions to this interview and other thoughts about Dr. John Mack may be directed to the comment section on this web site or to zland@sympatico.ca

Victor Viggiani M.Ed.

ZNN News Director