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(22,293 posts)Celerity
(43,914 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)Last edited Fri Jul 24, 2020, 05:40 PM - Edit history (1)
Any beings that are out there are probably NOT like ET (the movie). Contact with them will more than likely NOT be advantageous to the human race.
Ask the Native Americans about their contact with Europeans and how that went.
Buckeyeblue
(5,508 posts)Maybe a good meatloaf recipe. Or maybe our water...who knows.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)We could be an ingredient in that meatloaf.
Renew Deal
(81,923 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I used to work with Dr. Davis about 20 years ago and he is legit. I also believe our government has recovered alien artifacts.
PCIntern
(25,688 posts)No question.
Tanuki
(14,933 posts)"John Edward Mack (October 4, 1929 September 27, 2004) was an American psychiatrist, writer, and professor and the head of the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. In 1977, Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his book A Prince of Our Disorder on T.E. Lawrence.[1]
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In the early 1990s, Mack commenced a decade-plus psychological study of 200 men and women who reported recurrent alien encounter experiences. Such encounters had seen some limited attention from academic figures, R. Leo Sprinkle perhaps being the earliest, in the 1960s. Mack, however, remains probably the most esteemed academic to have studied the subject.[citation needed]
He initially suspected that such persons were suffering from mental illness, but when no obvious pathologies were present in the persons he interviewed, his interest was piqued. Following encouragement from longtime friend Thomas Kuhn, who predicted that the subject might be controversial, but urged Mack to collect data and ignore prevailing materialist, dualist and "either/or" analysis, Mack began concerted study and interviews.[8] Many of those he interviewed reported that their encounters had affected the way they regarded the world, including producing a heightened sense of spirituality and environmental concern.[9][10]
Mack was somewhat more guarded in his investigations and interpretations of the abduction phenomenon than were earlier researchers. Literature professor Terry Matheson writes that "On balance, Mack does present as fair-minded an account as has been encountered to date, at least as these abduction narratives go."[11] In a 1994 interview, Jeffrey Mishlove stated that Mack seemed "inclined to take these [abduction] reports at face value". Mack replied by saying "Face value I wouldn't say. I take them seriously. I don't have a way to account for them."[12] Similarly, the BBC quoted Mack as saying, "I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can't account for in any other way, that's mysterious. Yet I can't know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry."[13]
Mack noted that there was a worldwide history of visionary experiences, especially in pre-industrial societies. One example is the vision quest common to some Native American cultures. Only fairly recently in Western culture, notes Mack, have such visionary events been interpreted as aberrations or as mental illness. Mack suggested that abduction accounts might best be considered as part of this larger tradition of visionary encounters.[14]
His interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more transcendent than physical in natureyet nonetheless realset him apart from many of his contemporaries, such as Budd Hopkins, who advocated the physical reality of aliens.[citation needed]"....(more)
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