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Readers who believe in otherworldly encounters were quick to support Harvard psychiatrist John Mack's research into people's remarkable experiences with UFOs (BEHAVIOR, April 25). Among those who wrote was David Kostecke of Henrietta, New York. He recounted a 1989 experience with an intelligent non- human, noting, "Since my extraterrestrial contact, my body temperature has remained below normal -- near 97 degrees." Dave Aaron, director of the UFO Audio-Video Clearing House in Yucaipa, California, objected to criticism of the psychiatrist's scientific methods. "If John Mack's UFO abduction research is 'shoddy' can you please tell me what...
Bassett participated in three hypnotic-regression sessions (she says she used method-acting techniques to fake her way through them) and eventually served as treasurer of an abductee support group that Mack organized and ran. "I've never seen a UFO in my life," Bassett says, "and I certainly haven't been inside...
Bassett, who made extensive tapes and notes of her life in the UFO cult, says Mack provided her with UFO literature to read prior to her sessions -- a practice that medical hypnotists say will almost surely influence hypnotic revelations. During the sessions, which Mack held in a darkened bedroom in his house rather than in a neutral office, he asked leading questions that reflected his biases. "John made it obvious what he wanted to hear," says Bassett. "I provided the answers." Among other recollections, she told of an encounter with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev on board a spaceship...
Mack's view of the UFO phenomenon reflects a larger philosophical stance that rejects "rational" scientific explanations and embraces a hazier New Age reality. "I don't know why there's such a zeal to find a conventional physical explanation," he says. "I don't know why people have such trouble simply accepting the fact that something unusual is going on here . . . We have lost the faculties to know other realities that other cultures still can know. The world no longer has spirit, has soul, is sacred. We've lost all that ability to know a world beyond the physical...
...Harvard psychiatrist claims that UFO abductions are real...