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A new article written collaboratively by Dr. John E. Mack and Sue Jamieson, has been published in Shamanism: the Journal of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies.
Shamanic Journeys and UFO Encounters: A Consideration of Two Avenues to an Expanded Reality is a 12 page article, including references.
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Shamanic Journeys and UFO Encounters:
A Consideration of Two Avenues to an Expanded Reality
by Sue Jamieson and Dr. John E. Mack
(Abstract follows)
Shamanism and the study of what we in our Western culture call UFO “abductions” or “encounters” both involve other worlds with phenomenological differences and similarities. A comparative study of these has the potential to augment, advance, and expand our understanding of “reality.” With this end in view, we examine the similarities and differences between shamanic journeys and UFO encounters. Similarities (e.g. non-ordinary reality, altered space and time, other “beings”, reports of flying, moving through tunnels, light, healings, and other world families) exist between the essential reality of shamanic practices and journeys and UFO encounters. There are noticeable experiential differences especially with respect to “agency” in relation to the experience, the dimensional plane, or realm in which the experience occurs, and in the resultant physical and emotional trauma and there are circumstances within both experiences in which differences and similarities overlap and are difficult to distinguish.
Many indigenous shamans and medicine people openly acknowledge UFO encounters as part of their reality and speak easily of myths and legends telling of peoples that come from the sky or the stars. Indigenous acknowledgments, coupled with collections of thousands of reports from experiencers, seem to be increasing public awareness and acceptance of the reality of the phenomenon within our own society. Mutual exploration of shamanism and the UFO encounter phenomenon can help us to expand the current paradigm of reality, extend our knowledge base, provide healing methods and techniques, and map the non-ordinary states of consciousness and realities. At the heart of our interest in subjects like shamanism and UFO encounters lies the desire to recover the vital information and wisdom lost through our turning away from traditional ways of knowing. Bringing the two studies together may lead to discoveries of the complex interplay of inner and outer reality, the relations of spirit to matter, and the possible existence of new physical domains and principles, plus capacities of our consciousness of which we have hardly dreamed. |
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