A new commemorative edition of ‘alien abduction’ researcher Dr. John Mack’s final book, Passport to the Cosmos: Human Transformation and Alien Encounters (originally published in 1999) has just been released:
In ‘Passport to the Cosmos’, Dr. Mack focuses on the human dimension of alien encounters – how they affect people’s lives, how they force a reexamination of our sense of reality, and how the aliens’ presence may change our relationship to the world.
A magnificent new introduction by Michael Cohen is presented at the start, and we worked with one of the experiencers in the book to secure some of her artwork, which has been lovingly set into the book by Kunati Press’ art department. We are also grateful to Budd Hopkins for writing a lovely new blurb, which is reproduced in whole on the back cover.
…’Passport to the Cosmos’ remains Dr. Mack’s definitive contribution to the subject of alien encounters, and is, in his own words “a better book than Abduction”.
The book is available from Amazon US and UK. Also, there is a lot of great reading – and listening – available at the original Passport to the Cosmos website.
On a related note, Mac Tonnies has posted a review on his AboutSETI.com blog of Terry Matheson’s Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon (Amazon US and UK). Though published by Prometheus Books (which acts as the propaganda arm of CSI/COP), Mac gives props for Matheson’s “astute familiarity with the principal texts” and “valid points about the way popular authors present strange memes to an astonished (if often credulous) readership.”
