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...Mack's fairly recent interest in abductionphenomena has left his colleagues "puzzled" MalkahL. Notman, acting chair of psychiatry at theCambridge Hospital, says, "People who have knownhim for a long time feel both loyal to him andpuzzled by what this particular interestrepresents...
...Mack says he has held long-standing interestsin unconsciousness, consciousness and "the depthsof the psyche." It was in the course of pursuingthese interests the Mack stumbled into the realmof alien abductions...
...became interested in the work of StanislavGrof, who had extended our understanding of thehuman unconscious through the use of non-ordinarystates for consciousness for exploring thepsyche," Mack says...
Through the use of rapid breathing, powerfulmusic and mandalas, Grof's holotropic breathingtechnique allows people to "explore the deeperrealm of the psyche," according to Mack, who nowuses this method with some of his patients...
According to Mack, Grof was also interested in"spiritual emergencies" involving various personalcrises surrounding life and death, addictionproblems, spirituality and UFO encounters. AfterGrof sent him and article on UFOs, Mack says, "Ikept asking myself: is this true? Are these UFOsreally coming...