Summary of John E. Mack's Abduction

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#1 I was eventually able to meet Budd Hopkins, an artist who worked with people who reported being taken by alien beings into spaceships. He told me stories of people all over the country who had come forward after reading one of his books or articles, describing experiences that seemed real but were never reported in the media.

#2 I have seen more than a hundred individuals who have been referred for evaluation of abductions or other anomalous experiences. I have done between one and eight modified hypnosis sessions with forty-nine of these individuals, and have developed a therapeutic approach based on my own clinical experience.

#3 The experience of working with abductees has changed me. The intensity of the energies and emotions involved is unlike anything I have encountered in other clinical work. The immediacy of presence, support, and understanding that is required has influenced the way I view the psychotherapeutic task.

#4 The connection between humans and beings from other dimensions has been illustrated in myths and stories from various cultures for millennia. The contemporary Western tenet that we are alone in the universe is an anomaly, as many societies have believed that consciousness is something more potent than we have in the West.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822530676

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was eventually able to meet Budd Hopkins, an artist who worked with people who reported being taken by alien beings into spaceships. He told me stories of people all over the country who had come forward after reading one of his books or articles, describing experiences that seemed real but were never reported in the media.

#2

I have seen more than a hundred individuals who have been referred for evaluation of abductions or other anomalous experiences. I have done between one and eight modified hypnosis sessions with forty-nine of these individuals, and have developed a therapeutic approach based on my own clinical experience.

#3

The experience of working with abductees has changed me. The intensity of the energies and emotions involved is unlike anything I have encountered in other clinical work. The immediacy of presence, support, and understanding that is required has influenced the way I view the psychotherapeutic task.

#4

The connection between humans and beings from other dimensions has been illustrated in myths and stories from various cultures for millennia. The contemporary Western tenet that we are alone in the universe is an anomaly, as many societies have believed that consciousness is something more potent than we have in the West.

#5

The myth of the paradisiacal era, when humans could fly between Heaven and Earth, is a reminder of how humans lost their freedom and ability to ascend into heaven. Today’s UFO abductees are continuing a documented tradition of ascent and extraterrestrial communication.

#6

The history of sightings of unusual aerial phenomena, and beings or objects of light, is long. They have been recorded by the Romans, the Greeks in the fourth century, and in the Middle Ages.

#7

The most debated issue is whether there is any reality independent of consciousness. At the level of personal consciousness, can we apprehend reality directly, or are we by necessity bound by the restrictions of our five senses and the mind that organizes our worldview.

#8

The experience of internalizing what is first perceived as external light happens frequently during mystical flashes or transcendental journeys that result in spiritual rebirth. The resulting psychic chaos is a metaphor for the precosmogenic chaos, amorphic yet penetrating, that the individual has been exposed to.

#9

The author believes that the UFO phenomenon is evidence of other dimensions beyond spacetime. He believes that the UFOs may not come from ordinary space, but from a multiverse which is all around us and of which we have stubbornly refused to consider the disturbing reality.

#10

The abduction phenomenon is most common in Western countries or countries dominated by Western culture and values. The first publication of an abduction case occurred in Brazil in 1957, and reports of UFO sightings worldwide are far more common than accounts of actual abductions.

#11

Abductees around the world have similar experiences, which are drawn to a powerful light, they are unable to account for a lost period of time, and they frequently bear physical and psychological scars.

#12

The modern history of abductions began in 1961 with the experience of the Hills. They were a stable, respectable interracial couple living in New Hampshire, who had suffered from disturbing symptoms for more than two years when they reluctantly consulted Boston psychiatrist Benjamin Simon.

#13

The abduction phenomenon is the unexplained time periods and associated symptoms that indicate that abduction experiences have taken place. It is the pioneering research of New York artist and sculptor Budd Hopkins that has established the consistency of the abduction experience.

#14

The attempts to define abductees as a group have been unsuccessful. Some abductees are highly functioning individuals who seem to need support in integrating their abduction experiences with the rest of their lives. Others are overwhelmed by the traumatic impact and philosophical implications of their experiences, and they need a lot of counseling and emotional support.

#15

The effort to find a personality type associated with abductions has been unsuccessful. Some abductees come from broken families or have alcoholic parents, but some come from intact, well-functioning families.

#16

The abduction phenomenon has been linked to sexual abuse, and it is important to realize that dissociation is a means of coping with a traumatic experience by splitting off part of oneself to keep disturbing emotions out of consciousness.

#17

I was dealing with a phenomenon that could not be explained within the Western scientific worldview. I had two choices: to stretch psychology beyond its limits and ignore aspects of the phenomenon that could not be explained psychologically, or to consider the possibility that our current reality paradigm is too limited.

#18

When a possible abductee comes to see me, I explain that I am engaged in research about the phenomenon. I explain that my first responsibility is to