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Passport to the Cosmos

Disciplines:
psychology
consciousness/consciousness studies

Summary

Mack's second abduction book — focusing on the transformative effects of abduction experiences on the people who have them, and on the implications for consciousness and human identity.

Core Contribution

Moves from clinical documentation toward the transformative dimension: many abductees report profound changes in their sense of identity, environmental sensitivity, and spiritual orientation following their experiences. The 'Other' as a category: Mack is not claiming extraterrestrial craft but an encounter with some genuine otherness that challenges materialist assumptions about consciousness. The political and ecological dimensions: many experiencers receive messages about environmental destruction.

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung William James

Intellectual Lineage

Consciousness Studies Psychiatry

Allied Works

Abduction A Prince of Our Disorder

Contemporaries & Peers

Abduction

Minds Influenced

Consciousness Studies

Intellectual Posterity

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