The Secret History of Extraterrestrials: Advanced Technology and the Coming New Race (5 page)

A NEW RESEARCH PARADIGM

Because of the importance of this long-awaited follow-up to
Abduction
, I interviewed Mack for
Atlantis Rising.
I hoped to get a sense of his motivation in writing the book and to get an update on his status with his academic colleagues. It may be recalled that although
Abduction
was reviewed enthusiastically in the popular press, it was greeted by a storm of criticism within the scientific community, ultimately compromising Dr. Mack’s status at the Harvard Medical School as an academic psychiatrist. A review by James Gleick in
The New Republic
magazine referred to the abduction phenomenon as a “mythology” and called it an example of the “anti-rational, anti-scientific cults that are flourishing . . . in the United States.” Psychoanalyst Sanford Gifford called it a “subversive assault on psychoanalysis as a science” and said that abductees are “‘crazy’ in the same way as believers in Creationism, faith-healing, and thought transference.”

Mack sums up all of these criticisms as coming under the umbrella of what he calls the “materialist paradigm.” It was Mack’s position in writing
Abduction
that this paradigm apparently no longer works, since it cannot be stretched to accommodate these phenomena. He says in his preface to the paperback edition, which he wrote in 1995, “The fact that what the experiencers are describing simply cannot be possible according to our traditional scientific view would, it seems to me . . . call for a change in that perspective, an expansion of our notions of reality, rather than the ‘jamming of data into existing categories’ that some critics would have us do.” The plight of the enlightened researcher is probably best represented by a quote in
Passport to the Cosmos
by eminent Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Victor Weiskoff, who reportedly said to theologian Houston Smith, “We know there’s more. We just don’t know how to get at it.” It was this dilemma that prompted Mack to found a new research organization called the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) in 1993 that would accommodate these types of experiences and that would be based on the premise that when dealing with phenomena that do not fit our definition of reality, we need a new way to study them. Ultimately, Mack concludes that his psychiatric training was the most useful preparation possible for interviewing abductees because psychiatrists are taught to use “not just our intellects, but our hearts and souls, our whole selves.” This method he refers to as “consciousness as an instrument of knowing.”

THE LIMITATIONS OF THREE DIMENSIONS

In both books, Mack says that no matter how incredible these abduction stories may seem, they are undeniably real experiences, and the abductees are perfectly sane. In answer to those who suggest that they may be dreams, he says, “The person realizes he or she was not asleep . . . they feel they have remembered something that actually occurred; the narrative has a logical sequence, however strange its content; and the episode, when recalled, or relived, may be accompanied by intense emotions and bodily reactions more usually associated with remembered events than with dreams.”

Coming from a psychiatrist, this is convincing enough. But scientific believability gets stretched when the abductees talk of “other dimensions.” They frequently report “being taken into another dimension or plane of reality with different properties.” In this other dimension, they usually experience time, space, and dimensionality in a different way. One abductee, Karin, who was interviewed by Mack, refers to this as “the fourth dimension.” Another says, “It was not a place like we have here, not in our space/time.” In this state, the experiencers frequently notice a change in perception, which several have attributed to an altered state of consciousness. They may see or hear things that others cannot see or hear. Apparently, the aliens somehow have the capability of increasing the vibratory rate of the molecular structure of the abducted person, which is probably experienced as being in another dimension. This explains how they are able to move people through solid windows and walls. Karin says, “It’s racking just to go through the window because they have to alter your vibration in order to get a solid object to pass through another solid object, literally. And that happens.”

None of this is very surprising to anyone familiar with UFO lore. For decades there have been reports of UFOs winking in and out of physicality. There is very little doubt now that the aliens have the ability to freely shuttle in and out of the etheric realm, where space/ time is collapsed, and this probably explains how they are able to travel such vast distances in short periods of time. While this concept may seem strange to scientists, it’s a cardinal precept to anyone into metaphysics and explains many otherwise inexplicable phenomena such as telepathy, remote viewing, astral travel, and astrology. It is this interdimensional component of the abduction phenomena that keeps scientists at arm’s length. Yet the most recent trends in theoretical science, especially in quantum physics, are coming to that very place. Mack quotes theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, who summed it up exquisitely in 1998, “There’s not enough room in the three dimensions that we’re familiar with to accommodate all of the forces of nature.”

Alien abductors as described

AN ENVIRONMENTAL APOCALYPSE

For just about everyone who believes in the UFO and abduction phenomena, the most important question is, why are they here? There is endless speculation about their intentions and the so-called alien agenda. In
Passport to the Cosmos,
Mack, after ten years of intensive research, has come to some categorical conclusions. He believes that the primary goal of the extraterrestrials is to save the planet from toxic doom. As a means to this end, they have undertaken the rapid transformation of humanity through an accelerated global expansion of consciousness, person by person. This, they evidently expect, will engender new attitudes toward cleaning up the environment and will ultimately bring about the necessary legislation.

Precisely how Mack arrived at such visionary conclusions from countless recitals of painful probings on spaceship operating tables is not entirely obvious at first glance but comes more into focus as we consider the personal testimonies and transformations of the abductees whom he has worked with, along with interviews with shamans from more primitive cultures. What is somewhat mystifying about this conclusion is the fact that, as Mack says himself, “generally speaking, experiencers do not appear, on the basis of their backgrounds, to be particularly likely candidates for becoming environmentalists.” However, the ETs may be counting on getting the message across through sheer numbers. According to a 1992 Roper poll, approximately four million adult Americans had been abducted. Extrapolating worldwide, the global number would have been around ninety-six million in 1992! Also, it is very likely that the aliens anticipated that these stories would get wide distribution in print, as they have indeed through Mack’s books.

The narratives of the cases Mack reports on in
Passport to the Cosmos
are filled with dire warnings and prophecies about the fate of the planet. Jim Sparks, one of Mack’s subjects, who claims he has been educated extensively on board the spaceships, says he has been shown “scene after scene showing mankind’s destructive ways and its impact on the environment.” Along with the visuals he also gets an accompanying telepathic message: “YOU ARE KILLING YOUR PLANET. YOUR PLANET IS DYING.” Sparks says he has attended “meetings” on the spaceships where he was told, “Your air, your water is contaminated. Your forests, jungles, trees and plant life are dying . . . You have an overwhelming amount of nuclear and biological . . . contamination. Your planet is overpopulated.” The aliens then told him that they had made agreements with world leaders to correct these conditions, but they had all been broken because “those in power” view such measures as “a military and security threat,” which is why they were now turning to “average” people.

Abductees are frequently shown visions of apocalyptic destruction where the aliens narrate “the sky will become dirty, the animals will vanish, the seas will turn into poisonous mud, water will be even more precious than gold.” They speak of tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, weather changes, worldwide sickness, clouds of static electricity, a pole shift, meteor showers, cities gone, rubble everywhere, and “God’s wrath exploding.” The abductees are given to understand that this will be a “cleansing.” Although it is unclear to them whether they are seeing actual future scenes or possible scenarios, the emotional impact is usually severe.

According to at least two of Mack’s abductees, the aliens confessed that they had destroyed the environment on their own planet through similar disregard and had to move underground, where they deteriorated physically, having previously resembled earthlings. According to Sparks, the aliens’ motives are less than altruistic and noble. He claims that they are harvesting Earth products for profits in other parts of the galaxy and are simply trying to protect their investment! Credo Mutwa, a South African shaman, agrees. He says, “They don’t love us. They need us . . . how will they get things from us if our bodies are dirtied with drugs and toxins from the air?” This brings us to the most incredible part of the story, and the most damaging to the alien claims of selfless service to mankind.

Mack devotes an entire chapter in
Passport to the Cosmos
to the alien program of hybrid development. It is now well established that for decades aliens have been impregnating Earth women with alien seminal seed, and in many cases collecting human sperm from men and using it to impregnate female aliens. In a typical case, they remove the human egg, add the alien component, and then reimplant the fertilized egg in the woman’s womb. They then let the pregnancy advance for three months, at which time they return to remove the fetus and transport it to their laboratories, where it is immersed in a fluid-filled incubator. For a full discussion of the hybrid project, see chapter 19.