Two of the world's leading experts on extraterrestrials will speak at the College this Sunday.
Bestselling author and worldwide authority on the "crop-circle phenomenon" Colin Andrews, along with Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John Mack will speak at a day-long program beginning at noon in Cook Auditorium.
Mack is a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and has investigated about 100 cases of supposed extraterrestrial abduction through interviews and the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness to explore his clients' accounts.
He is the author of "The Alchemy of Survival," "Nightmares and Human Conflict" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Prince of Our Disorder."
"Around 1965, Mack was seeing patients who really believed they were crazy because they were having these hallucinations," said Martin Hussey, a local resident who is organizing the conference. "A number of people in very isolated situations reported these exact hallucinations, and Mack examined these accounts, suggesting that maybe they aren't hallucinations."
Through a comprehensive array of case studies done on men and women of varying geographic, economic and educational backgrounds Mack will attempt to persuade the audience that these alien encounters are in fact real and not hallucinations.
Following Mack's lecture, Andrews will give a two-part presentation on crop-circle markings, a phenomenon that has been discussed numerous times on television programs such as "20/20," "Unsolved Mysteries," "National Geographic Explorer" and "A Current Affair."
Andrews will use slides and video tapes to explore the origin of these mysterious markings, including a film showing two Army helicopters encountering an unexplainable pulsing sphere, the release said. Andrews will examine the nature of the crop-circle phenomenon and the link he believes exists between the markings and the Earth's current environmental crisis.
