Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens

by John E. Mack

Book Overview

A Harvard psychiatrist, the author of A Prince of Our Disorder, presents accounts of alien abduction taken from the more than sixty cases he has investigated and examines the implications for our... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345393007
• ISBN13: 9780345393005
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

It is a practical book on facts

The author has his feet on the solid ground on what he wrote. Facts are exposed. Conclusions remain open. He has the caution not to believe literally on every aspect obtained by the investigation, subjective but very significant nevertheless alternative explanations are suggested, remaining to the reader the final opinion. The author is a professional senior psychiatrist teacher. The main method of revealing facts here in this book is back-regression by hypnosis, to the time of the events, with the professional know-how not to induce, but to open individuals forgotten experiences. What for me states the quality of this work, and book, is it was done always with the goal of making the life of the persons studied a better one, not just to extract them material for a book or project. The quest to reveal and to solve the inner live problems of the people involved, and then to inform there is something REAL in the alien abduction subject. The book may deep influence some people lives, if the reader get confronted with similarities with one self or close people cases; 5 star indeed.

The Truth May Be in This Book

I got more than my money worth when I purchased this book. Anyone interested in alien abductions needs to read this one. If these cases are true encounters the public should be informed as to what is out there and what has been happening to people.I could not put this book down and I was horrified to learn about abduction experiences.It was informative but frightening material.

The book scared me.

I read the whole book and it really grabbed my attention. It made me worry that I would be abducted by aliens. I remember being scared after reading it late one night, thinking at any moment, an alien creature would walk through the window and abduct me. I do not frighten easily, but this book made me keep a night light on for a couple of weeks. It is a great piece of work on a world wide phenomenon. Read it with an open mind. Can hundreds of thousands of people around the world all be crazy? I think personally that we have been visited by EBE's throughout all of Earth's history and that we are a product of their creation. They are abducting so many of us to create human-alien hybrids that will colonize the Earth after a lot of us die off from an upcoming global disaster of some kind. Get this book now and be afraid, be very afraid.

Intelligent, Thought Provoking and Informative

As a contactee myself, I found the nature of the information assimilated by the abductees in Dr. Mack's book to be consistent with my own personal experience. Though each individual filters information through their own sphere of reference, Dr. Mack concludes that the experience of the abductees ultimately changes their world view, expands their environmental consciousness, and adjusts, positively, our basic egocentric view that we humans are the only species important enough to remain on our planet. I personally have found this expansion of consciousness into an empathy for all forms of life to be true and consider it to be the primary reason for contact. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone interested in contact, abduction or shamanic experience. The stories told by the abductees are as fascinating as they are unique to each individual. I felt a sense of anticipation with each page I turned, not wanting to stop reading until I had read the experiences of each abductee and wishing there were many more such accounts included before this exciting read ended.