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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.

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    March 15, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9780826362322

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      • ISBN: 9780826362322
      • File size: 7593 KB

  • Languages

    • English

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    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2021

      Blumenthal (Miracle at Sing Sing), a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, has written a compelling biography of Dr. John E. Mack (1929-2004), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist who provided mental health care in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Mack's interests in alien abductions and alternate realities set him apart from his colleagues, but his defiance of scientific expectation in giving credibility to alien abductees' accounts was risky for an academic and a scientist. The story begins in June 1992 at a secretive Alien Discussions conference held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and proceeds to follow Dr. Mack on his mission to discover whether we have been misunderstanding the basic concept of reality all along. This well-researched account uses Mack's personal journals, archives, and notes, along with interviews of close friends and family members, to capture the full picture of Mack's life and genius. VERDICT Likely to appeal to those with an interest in mental health or the anomalous, this book tells the story of a man with an insatiable thirst for knowledge who "believed in taking risks and breaking boundaries to boldly explore the deepest secrets of existence, which no one yet has come close to fathoming."--Marissa Mace, Cumberland County P.L. & Information Ctr., Fayetteville, NC

      Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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