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Anomalous Experiences and the Transformation of Consciousness is one of the final presentations related to alien encounters given by Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack.
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Recorded October 25, 2002 at the International Conference on Altered States of Consciousness, Albuquerque, NM.

The original synopsis of the lecture: "UFO encounters, near death experiences, shamanic journeys, and spontaneous religious epiphanies all have the power to bring about a significant transformation of consciousness. By this is meant that the experiencers’ worldview, as internalized in the course of their upbringing and inculcation in this culture, is shattered. This, in turn, results in the potential opening of heart and spirit to a wider appreciation of reality and a (re)connection to realms of the sacred and divine. In this lecture I will discuss how this process occurs in specific cases, and its implications for social and cultural change."

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John Mack, MD, founder, Center for Psychology and Social Change, author, Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, Passport to the Cosmos and others, professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Keynote: Anomalous Experience and the Transformation of Consciousness Workshop: Anomalous Experience and Self Transformation

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Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld Hardcover – January 1, 2003

by Patrick Harpur (Author)

Product details

• Hardcover: 329 pages
• Publisher: Pine Winds Press; 1 edition (January 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0937663093
• ISBN-13: 978-0937663097

Lake monsters, Yetis, UFOs, crop circles, guardian angels and visions of the Virgin Mary can all be described as apparitions, and this book weaves together an account of them. It argues that only in the last three centuries or so, and only in Western culture, they're as lively as ever. But, the author suggests, they can be made intelligible again by appealing to a different world-view. Three of the chief models for understanding mind and world are Jung's "Collective World", which is used to illuminate the links between the apparently disparate experiences being dealt with.

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• Patrick Harpur (July 14, 1950; Windsor, England) is an English writer. He lives in Dorset, United Kingdom. He is best known for the work Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld which deals with the paranormal in a similar way that Jacques Vallee, Allen Hynek and John Keel have done in the past.

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  Theories[edit]

  Harpur's topics deal with forteana and folklore, Daimonic Reality, traditions of Western religion—Alchemy, Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and Depth Psychology.
  In his book, Daimonic Reality, Harpur argues that the human psyche extends beyond the confines of the physical human body, and that it may in fact be a part of our reality. He also notes that during most of human history, civilization has had another, "shadow reality" of folklore, except the current society which is strongly attached to the material. The following is a quotation from Daimonic Reality:
  

  Hitherto, I have taken "soul" to refer to two distinct, but unrelated, images. Firstly, soul is synonymous with the daimonic realm itself, the realm of Imagination, and is really an abbreviation for the collective Anima Mundi, or World-Soul. Secondly, soul refers to whatever images the World-Soul itself uses to represent itself. Archetypally, this image is usually feminine and appears, for example, as a female daimon or goddess who, as Jung would say, "personifies the collective unconscious." Now the third use of "soul" refers to the image by which we, as individuals, are represented in the World-Soul.
  Traditional views of human nature have always allowed for (at least) two "souls" of the latter kind. In ancient Egypt, for instance, they were known as the ka and the ba; in China, hun and p'o. One of these souls inhabits the body and is the equivalent of what, faute de mieux, we call the ego. I will call it the rational ego to distinguish it from the second soul, variously called, in other cultures, the shadow-soul, ghost-soul, death-soul, image-soul and dream-soul, for which our culture has either the word "soul" or else no word, because it is not generally believed to exist. However, it does exist and can be thought of as an ego, in the sense that it confers identity and individuality. It enables us, that is - like the rational ego - to say "I." But it is an ego, not of consciousness, but of the unconscious; not a waking, but a dream ego; not a rational ego, but an irrational ego. I will call it the daimonic ego. Like the rational ego, it has a body - not a physical one but a dream-body, a "subtle" body such as daimons are imagined as having, an "astral" body as some esoteric doctrines say: in short, a daimonic body.

   His follow-up The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination Harpur traces the evolution of the Imagination in the west, and how ideas of reality have been shaped over time using this faculty. Starting with the shamanistic traditions on to modern science. He claims that not only myths, poetry, and religions rely on the imagination for new concepts of reality to be created, but even modern scientific methods and models.

• Works[edit]

  Fiction

  • The Serpent's Circle (Macmillan 1985)
  • The Rapture (Macmillan 1986)
  • Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth (Second Edition in 2007), Blue Angel Gallery ( ISBN 9780980286588) Third Edition, Squeeze Press, UK 2008.
  • The Savoy Truffle (2013)
  • The Good People (2017)
  • The Stormy Petrel (2017)

  Non-fiction
  
  • Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (1995), Penguin (ISBN 0-937663-09-3), Pine Winds Press (2003)
  • The Philosophers' Secret Fire: A History of the Imagination (2002), Penguin (ISBN 9780980286526)
  • A Complete Guide to the Soul (2010), Rider & Co (ISBN 9781846041860)
  • The Secret Tradition of the Soul (2011), Evolver Editions (ISBN 9781583943151)
  In The Secret Tradition of the Soul, author Patrick Harpur argues that answers to life’s
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• most difficult questions—the meaning of life, the nature of self, and the existence of an afterlife—can be met by a visionary tradition that runs through Western culture, from Greek philosophy and Renaissance alchemy to Romantic poetry and modern depth psychology. This hidden tradition, according to Harpur, places our soul at the center of the universe and emphasizes imagination, the collective unconscious, and an “otherworld” or afterlife; above all, it teaches us how to know ourselves and how to recover a sense of meaning largely lost today. Harpur shows how this tradition drives the literature of otherworld journeys, from the flights of shamans and the dreams of psychoanalysis to the mystic imagination of Romantic poets and the visions of those having near-death experiences. The Secret Tradition of the Soul is the first book to gather together all the threads of the soul tradition and weave them into a bigger, clearer picture, presenting a worldview at once ancient and revolutionary.
  About the Imprint:
  EVOLVER EDITIONS promotes a new counterculture that recognizes humanity's visionary potential and takes tangible, pragmatic steps to realize it. EVOLVER EDITIONS explores the dynamics of personal, collective, and global change from a wide range of perspectives. EVOLVER EDITIONS is an imprint of North Atlantic Books and is produced in collaboration with Evolver, LLC.

Two women see something uncanny in the skies over west London in the summer of 1989.
It's the summer of 1989, a time of global flux just before the collapse of the Berlin wall and of South Africa's apartheid; a time of signs and portents…
Two women see something uncanny in the skies over west London.
Maeve, the wife of the local vicar, finds she has lost nearly an hour of her life. In search of this lost time, she uncovers the memory of an encounter with aliens and, worse, a mysterious event from her childhood in Ireland, which she finally redeems in the underworld of an IRA-connected pub…
Her husband Alistair has his own nightmare: preparations for the visit of an African bishop and his entourage for a Christian conference, whose left-wing agenda is threatened by the attendance of a famous and enigmatic nun…
Meanwhile, Heather's sighting comes as a revelation that leads her, like a questing Grail knight, through strange ordeals, from a menacing cult to an alternate reality; from a mental hospital to, finally, an encounter with her own hidden depths.
A companion volume to the author's critically lauded Daimonic Reality, a classic nonfiction study of otherworld journeys, The Good People is a modern fairy tale that dramatizes with wit the interweaving of revelation and delusion, the natural and the supernatural, worldliness and sanctity―ultimately suggesting that our humdrum lives are shadowed by the alien dimension of myth.

Set among the mansions and tennis clubs of Surrey's richest suburb, The Savoy Truffle is a darkly comic drama that evokes an era when Mod gear was fab, the Shorty Nightie shocking, the coffee frothy, and a new Beatles' single brought hysteria to the classroom. The grey post-war years are trembling on the verge of Technicolour, and the Blyte children are struggling to cope with the transition in their own idiosyncratic ways: Hugh's novel is held up by yearning for the Irish au pair; Janey moons over the mystery of men and the enigmatic Black Mini; George wages savage war on his Enemy; and the Moo takes refuge in his exclusive Sloppy Club. A crisis in their parents' lives brings madness and death, a supernatural visitor and an all-too-real tiger... The children have to confront - and conquer - the follies of their elders with wit and invention. Patrick Harpur is the acclaimed author of three novels and three works of non-fiction, including Daimonic Reality, The Philosophers' Secret Fire and Mercurius. He lives in West Dorset, worlds away from his Surrey upbringing.

 

Outcast from society, his health - and heart - broken, the anguished figure of K paces the rooms of his great house, pausing to scribble furiously at a lectern...Only Victor knows that beneath K's public guise as an idle dilettante, lies a genius who has been fired by an unholy secret into creating a new kind of philosophy, where thought is passionately infused with personal experience. Based on the life of the Danish thinker, Soren Kierkegaard, who asserted that when he died 'there will not be found one single word to indicate what my life was really about', The Stormy Petrel is precisely the inside story of what his life is about - an investigation into a soul torn between natural love and a supernatural vocation, which leads inexorably to the attack that makes his name anathema for a hundred years.

 

 

 

Bruce Maccabee (May 6, 1942) is an American optical physicist formerly employed by the U.S. Navy, and a leading ufologist.^[1][2][3]

 

Biography[edit]

Maccabee received a B.S. in physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., and then at American University, Washington, DC, (M.S. and Ph.D. in physics). In 1972 he began his career at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, White Oak, Silver Spring, Maryland; which later became the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. Dr. Maccabee retired from government service in 2008. He has worked on optical data processing, generation of underwater sound with lasers and various aspects of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) using high power lasers.^[4][5]

• Ufology research[edit]

  Maccabee has been an active ufologist since the late 1960s when he joined the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and was active in research and investigation for NICAP until its demise in 1980. He became a member of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) in 1975 and was subsequently appointed to the position of state Director for Maryland, a position he still holds. In 1979 he was instrumental in establishing the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR) and was the chairman for about 13 years. He presently serves on the National Board of the Fund.
  His UFO research and investigations (which, he often stresses, are completely unrelated to his Navy work) have included the Kenneth Arnold sighting (June 24, 1947), the McMinnville, Oregon (Trent) photos of 1950, the Gemini 11 astronaut photos of September, 1966, the Tehran UFO incident of September 1976, the New Zealand sightings of December 1978, the Japan Airlines (JAL1628) sighting of November 1986, the numerous sightings of Gulf Breeze UFO incident, 1987–1988, the "red bubba" sightings, 1990-1992 (including his own sighting in September, 1991), the Mexico City video of August, 1997 (which he deemed a hoax),^[6] the Phoenix lights sightings of March 13, 1997, 2004 Mexican UFO incident and many others.^[7][8][9]
  He has also done historical research and was the first to obtain the secret "flying disc file" of the FBI (what he calls "the REAL X-Files"). In addition, he has collected documents from the CIA, the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army, and other government agencies.
  Maccabee is the author or coauthor of about three dozen technical articles and more than a hundred UFO articles over the last 30 years, including many which appeared in the MUFON UFO Journal and MUFON Symposium proceedings. Among his papers was a reanalysis of the statistics and results of the famed Battelle Memorial Institute Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, a massive analysis of 3200 Air Force cases through the mid-1950s. (See Identified Flying Objects (IFOs)). Another was a reanalysis of the results of the Condon Committee UFO study from 1969. (Like many others, Maccabee concluded that Edward Condon lied about the results.)
  In addition, he has also written or contributed to half a dozen books on the subject of UFOs and appeared on numerous radio and TV shows and documentaries (some given below) as an authority on the subject.
  Maccabee is also an accomplished pianist who performed at the 1997 and 1999 MUFON symposia. He lives in Allen County, Ohio and married to Jan Maccabee.

Books[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

• ISBN 978-1-56718-493-8 UFO/FBI Connection (paperback, 2000)
• ISBN 978-0-380-78599-5 UFOs Are Real: Here's the Proof (paperback, 1997)
• ISBN 978-1-56065-093-5 Could UFO's Be Real (library binding, 1991)
• ISBN 978-0-9618082-0-4 Melbourne Episode: Case Study of a Missing Pilot (paperback, 1987)

Fiction[edit]

• ISBN 978-1-893183-28-5 Abduction In My Life: A Novel of Alien Encounters (paperback, 2001)

Recent articles[edit]

• "Strong Magnetic Field Detected Following a Sighting of an Unidentified Flying Object," Journal of Scientific Exploration, 8, #3, 347, 1994 abstract
• "Water Spout UFO Photographed," MUFON UFO Journal, Nov. 1994
• "The Arnold Phenomenon," January/February and March/April issues of the International UFO Reporter (CUFOS), 1995
• "Raining on Sagan's Parade," MUFON UFO Journal, January, 1996 portions of article
• "The White Sands Films," International UFO Reporter, (CUFOS) Vol. 21, #1, Spring, 1996 The White Sands Proof article
• "Illegitimate Science? A Personal Story," Journal of Scientific Exploration, 10, #2, 269, 1996 abstract
• "Acceleration," Proceedings of the International MUFON Symposium, 1996 article
• "The Nightline UFO Video," MUFON UFO Journal, Dec. 1996 related article
• "The First Sighting," Proceedings of the International MUFON Symposium, 1997
• "UFOs, the Real Thing or the Wrong Impression," Shutterbug Magazine, Aug. & Sept. 1997
• "My Mission from the Ashtar Command," International UFO Reporter, Winter, 1997–1998
• "Preliminary Report on the Mexico City Video of August 6, 1997," MUFON UFO Journal, April, 1998
• "Flying Peanut or Double UFO," MUFON UFO Journal, January, 1999
• "Phoenix Lights Revisited," MUFON UFO Journal, Feb. 1999
• "Immediate High Alert: The Mystery of December 6, 1960," Proceedings of the 1999 MUFON International Symposium. (this latter is the 100th published research paper on UFOs)
• "Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source," published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, #2, 1999 article
• "Atmosphere or UFO," Journal of Scientific Exploration, vol. 13, #3, 1999 abstract article
• "Prosaic Explanations, the Failure of UFO Skepticism," Infinite Energy Magazine, Issue #29, 2000; complete version in the Proceedings of the International MUFON Symposium, 2000; Updated version in UFO Magazine November and December, 2007
• "UFO detected by thermal imager," MUFON UFO Journal, January, 2007
• "Skylab 3 UFO Sighting and Photo Analysis," at [2] December, 2007

Appearances[edit]
Dr. Maccabee has been interviewed by print, radio and TV media numerous times since 1978. He has also appeared in a number of documentaries. Here are some of the more recent:

• A Current Affair TV show, April 1992
• Unsolved Mysteries (Guardian case), Feb. 1993
• Fred Fiske Radio Show on National Public Radio (Feb. 93 repeated twice during the year)
• Sonya Live on CNN, July, 1993
• WHAG Radio in Hagerstown (12 appearances as of summer 1996)
• Area 2000 Radio Show (Art Bell) in Las Vegas (summer 1993)
• WHPK in Chicago (Oct., 1993)
• Encounters TV Show (Feb. 1994)
• Dreamland Radio Show (June, 1994)
• Central TV in London (interviewed, summer, 1994)
• Sightings (Sep. 1994)
• Kiviat-Green productions - Aug., 1995
• Italian TV interview in San Marino (Sept., 1995)
• A&E TV documentary, Where are all the UFOs, shown April, 1996
• Four Point Productions for The Learning Channel
• Fox TV Special on Aliens landing (Independence Day movie tie-in)
• Nightline TV show, July 16, 1996
• Transmedia Productions of Paramount House, London, first shown in the fall 1996
• London Weekend Television, shown in the fall,1996
• Discovery Channel, UFOs Down to Earth, Dec. 1996
• Discovery Channel, UFO - Reason to Believe, 1996 (video)
• Sightings, January, 1997
• Fox TV Best Video Evidence, August, 1997
• The "Zoh Show" and 20th Century Radio with Zoh and Bob Heironimus on WCBM radio in Baltimore numerous times, 1997–1998
• The John Koon Radio Show, Radio South Africa, Dec. 1997
• Twentieth Century Radio with Bob Heironimus, March, 1999
• Top Ten Unexplained Mysteries, The Learning Channel, Jan. 2000
• The Julie Briggs Show on WMTR Radio, January, 2000
• The Tex-Files TV show of Fox4 News, February, 2000
• Fox TV Best Video Evidence, Part 2, May, 2000
• Mike Seigel Show, June, 2000
• Radio 630CHED, Edmonton, Alberta, July, 2000
• CBS TV affiliate, Edmonton Alberta, July, 2000
• Safespace - Fastwalkers - Winter 2006
• The Paracast, Radio Show, 24 June 2007
• Missing 411 : The Hunted (David Paulides' research into the missing), July 2019