Dr. John E. Mack exposes Carl Sagan on alien contactees

Dr. John Mack was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a leading authority on the transformative and spiritual aspects of alien encounters.
Here is Carl Sagan's "explanation" why people see UFOs quoted from hi book 'The Demon Haunted World': "It appears that all human behavior and experience is well attended by illusory and hallucinatory phenomena. While the relationship of these phenomena to mental illness has been well documented, their role in everyday life has perhaps not been considered enough. Greater understanding of illusions and hallucinations among normal people may provide explanations for experiences otherwise relegated to the uncanny, "extrasensory," or supernatural."

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[spiritforpeace]

Why? Sagan is not a psychiatrist, has no psychiatric training, never taught clinical psych at a medical school and has no information in his academic formal training on the nature of hallucination... while John Mack does have the training, experience, and the academic credibility.

[McMearty1]

Thanks, cybersputnik, for including that quote from Carl Sagan's book. Sagan was brilliant, and that simple quote proves it.

[plebshadowofra]

You do not need a PhD in psychiatry to understand the mechanics of illusion or (put more simply) the mechanics of being mistaken. Sagan in fact thought it highly probable that aliens exist. That does not mean that all of the current conspiracy hype is based on fact. Nor does it mean that all of the flying saucer hype of yesteryear was based on actual alien contact and observation. Far too much of our collective energy and attention is being spent on this trash.

[wmansue]

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[CMazzucco]

I respect both John Mack and Carl Sagan, both brilliant minds.

[candie8301972]

The problem with C, Sagan's quote is nothing but an opinion. Opinion is like a nose everyone has one. Just because everyone has one does not mean his or her opinion is correct and true.

[badblueman]

But at the end of the day it was Carl Sagan who sent a spaceship with an Ancient Sumerian greeting, as the first on the list, on the golden record into interstellar space. There really isn't a need for this bullshit "my scientist is better than your scientist" games. Carl Sagan is still cool and apparently just wanted things to be proven more conclusively...so what. He'd love Earth-visiting aliens to be proven, why curse him for having certain standards.

[loosekarrott]

if you're this defensive, chance are you're wrong

[monsieurkarl]

@frogmaster3950 That's where we differ, I believe, from various research and books I've read that It is obvious theyre under intelligent control especially when it comes to interacting with aircraft, there's many accounts of pilots chasing and firing upon them and the apparent UFO evades the bullets/missiles or manoveurs at such speed that it is impossibe to catch. Surely even unknown atmospheric phenomena couldnt move at thousands of MPH and just stop suddenly? To me it just doesn't make sense

[frogmaster3950]

@monsieurkarl The most intelligent thing that they seem to do is interact with aircraft. Ball could do that or some similar unidentified atmospheric happenings.

[monsieurkarl]

@monsieurkarl cont. and sightingswere plentiful, as are today. I just read Leslie Kean's new book UFO's Generals, Pilots and Government officials go on the record. Highly recommend reading it, it is very well presented and has plenty of witness with hands-on experience when it comes to chasing these things.

[monsieurkarl]

@frogmaster3950 My thoughts are near enough the same. The vast majority could be explained in conventional, rational ways, completely agree with that. Perhaps some sightings could be secret technology, although most legitimate sightings of UFOs seem to defy laws of physics (gravity, inertia etc.) and quite obviously in most cases are intelligently controlled. In my mind, if it's not us then it's got to be aliens. Bear in mind in the 40's and 50's we couldn't do what they're doing technologically