The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack By Ralph Blumenthal

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The Believer is the weird and chilling true story of Dr. John Mack. This eminent Harvard psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer risked his career to investigate the phenomenon of human encounters with aliens and to give credibility to the stupefying tales shared by people who were utterly convinced they had happened.Nothing in Mack’s four decades of psychiatry had prepared him for the otherworldly accounts of a cross section of humanity including young children who reported being taken against their wills by alien beings. Over the course of his career his interest in alien abduction grew from curiosity to wonder, ultimately developing into a limitless, unwavering passion.Based on exclusive access to Mack’s archives, journals, and psychiatric notes and interviews with his family and closest associates, The Believer reveals the life and work of a man who explored the deepest of scientific conundrums and further leads us to the hidden dimensions and alternate realities that captivated Mack until the end of his life.ACCLAIM“This extraordinary biography reads like a fast-paced thriller. It deftly weaves the detailed richness of John Mack’s genius and complex life through the historical backdrop of the alien-abduction phenomena. Ralph Blumenthal has so beautifully captured the essence of Mack’s soul and his relentless curiosity that by the end of the book I mourned that Mack is no longer with us.”—Trish MacGregor, coauthor of Aliens in the Backyard: UFO Encounters, Abductions, and Synchronicity“As a person sane enough to hold a driver’s license, I say, what are we to make of Mack’s findings? Read this gripping, factual account of a mental-health pioneer and truth-seeker by a soundly accredited successful author, veteran New York Times foreign correspondent, and reporter. Decide for yourselves and then tell me!”—Dan Aykroyd“Anyone who is intrigued by the involvement of John Mack, a psychiatrist on the faculty of Harvard, or by the interest of psychiatrists in the anomalous in general and UFOs in particular, should not miss reading this book! It is filled with details on the topic, both pro and con, that are not publicly available in any other place that I know.”—David J. Hufford, author of The Terror That Comes in the Night: An Experience-Centered Study of Supernatural Assault Traditions“John Mack was one of the few prominent American intellectuals who saw and said what was, and still is, really at stake in the UFO phenomenon—reality itself. And Ralph Blumenthal is the perfect biographer to take up Mack and bring him to life, in all his humanity and complexity, on the page. A major achievement.”—Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge“Ralph Blumenthal’s definitive biography is beautifully written and impeccably researched, providing fascinating new insights into the professional and personal life of John Mack. What drove the Harvard psychiatrist to take alien abductions seriously? This question has never been addressed as brilliantly or as deeply as it is in The Believer—a must read!”—Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the RecordABOUT THE AUTHORRalph Blumenthal was an award-winning reporter for the New York Times. He coauthored the Times article in 2017 that broke the news of a secret Pentagon unit investigating UFOs, and he is the author of four nonfiction books including Miracle at Sing Sing: How One Man Transformed the Lives of America’s Most Dangerous Prisoners. A distinguished lecturer at Baruch College, he lives in New York City.

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This is the best book I've read in years - and I read a LOT of books. It's intelligent, fantastically well-researched and consistently fascinating.I bought the book without great enthusiasm. I've been involved in the study of the UFO phenomenon for upwards of 50 years. I closely followed the alien abduction phenomenon from its beginnings to a point sometime in the mid-2000s when I finally threw up my hands. I was convinced the phenomenon had nothing to do with literal aliens or literal abductions but likewise couldn't be explained away as some mass psychosis. Further study just seemed a waste of time, a road to nowhere.I was very familiar - or thought I was - with the late Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and his controversial work with abductees. This book opened my eyes. Expecting a more-or-less standard biography of Mack, I received a gripping page-turner that I devoured (Kindle version) in two days.Mack was a far more interesting and multi-faceted character than I had realized. A Harvard psychiatrist - yes, but so much more; that description barely scratches the surface. The author makes clear that Mack's fascination with the alien abduction phenomenon and his willingness to take abductees' reports at face value were almost inevitable, part-and-parcel of who he was and always had been - a troubled but very deep and human seeker.The author had the full cooperation of the Mack family and access to all of Mack's voluminous notes and recordings. He interviewed pretty much everyone worth interviewing. This book is an authentic portrait of Mack, not a long-distance biography that relies heavily on conjecture.Woven throughout is a fair amount of the history of ufology and the inner workings of the abduction research community. It's all presented in a completely objective manner, to the extent that I really had no inkling until the end whether the author was sympathetic to Mack or to the abduction phenomenon or ufology in general.Only at the end did I learn just how sympathetic the author is. The Epilogue includes a number of possible after-death communications by Mack (not to the author, but to former close associates of Mack), while an Afterword is entirely sympathetic to Mack and makes clear the author's serious interest in the UFO phenomenon. Those who fear this might be a superficial debunking biography thus may rest easy.I still have no great interest in the abduction phenomenon per se. I have my theories as to what is going on and how the phenomenon relates to other paranormal phenomena. It was highly interesting news to me that by the end of his life Mack had likewise moved on from the abduction phenomenon and was focusing on a wider range of phenomena and specifically the possible survival of consciousness after death.If you have even the slightest interest in Mack, the abduction phenomenon, ufology or related subjects, you will not regret buying this book.

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