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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to coast am on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Keith, I'd be fascinated to learn how your work, your

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Speaker 2: writings influenced the late great John Mac, Harvard University.

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Speaker 3: I had there's a great question. I got to know

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Speaker 3: John Mac, a very well respected pull up Surprise winning

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Speaker 3: author from Harvard University. I had already been studying the

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Speaker 3: UFO phenomenon and had written an article that was based

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Speaker 3: on a talk I had given to UFO abductees and

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Speaker 3: individuals who had close encounters. I was invited to come

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Speaker 3: and share my research, and I had developed in that

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Speaker 3: talk the idea that there are parallels between what goes

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Speaker 3: on in these abductions and these close encounters and traditional

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Speaker 3: rites of passage in indigenous societies where there are you know,

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Speaker 3: the children are taken from the home, separated and taught

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Speaker 3: the initiat the the traditions of the culture, for example,

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Speaker 3: the mythology of the culture through initiation, ceremonies, and rights

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Speaker 3: of passage. I said, so there's a sense in which

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Speaker 3: these abductions seem to be initiatory. John Mack found that

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Speaker 3: article and he said, that's very fascinating, that are they

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Speaker 3: an email said we need to talk, and I knew

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Speaker 3: who John Mack was, and I said I'd be happy

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Speaker 3: to So we got to know each other and we

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Speaker 3: had many very interesting conversations over the years, and he

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Speaker 3: one of the leading researchers of individuals who have direct

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Speaker 3: encounters the abductions, who have the experience of being taken

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Speaker 3: against their will into what appeared to be craft and

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Speaker 3: various procedures are performed and then people are returned back.

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Speaker 3: He was asking the first question, are these people mentally?

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Speaker 3: Is there any indication that abductees have some part killer

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Speaker 3: psychological disorder? He was a psychiatrist. He's no longer alive

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Speaker 3: for twenty years now, but he was a psychiatrist, so

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Speaker 3: that was his first question. He was able to eliminate

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Speaker 3: and I had many good conversations about what kind of

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Speaker 3: conclusion that we are going to have to try to

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Speaker 3: expand to reach the data. We're going to have to

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Speaker 3: expand our models into the phenomenon rather than trying to

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Speaker 3: shrink the phenomenon down into our established categories. And he

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Speaker 3: got in a lot of trouble At Harvard University. There

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Speaker 3: was an inquisition looking at his practices, the standards and

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Speaker 3: practices he was using. What they were really criticizing was

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Speaker 3: can at Harvard with a divinity school, so okay to

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Speaker 3: talk about angels at the divinity school, not so good

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Speaker 3: to talk about aliens. He said, I'm asking these as

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to establish some subtled truth and coming

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Speaker 3: with answers. I'm asking questions. So I had a great

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Speaker 3: opportunity to get to know doctor mac and I certainly listened.

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Speaker 3: He he was he made a great contribution to these

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Speaker 3: round to our understanding of this phenomenon.

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Speaker 2: So had he started working with abductees prior to reading

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Speaker 2: your article or did your did your work your conversations

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Speaker 2: lead him into that work?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't say. I know he'd already he'd already

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Speaker 3: encountered evidence for the abductions. He knew about them through

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Speaker 3: Bud Hopkins researcher, and David Jacobs, a professor of history

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Speaker 3: with both of them and adopted their models for a while,

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Speaker 3: The parapsychological, the paranormal sense. If people are are floated

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Speaker 3: through walls? Is that something that has ever been reported

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Speaker 3: in any other aspect of human nature. That was one

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Speaker 3: contemplative practitioners of faith, meditation and prayer, indeed levitating, indeed

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Speaker 3: transcending gravity, and having other phenomena such as stigmata, the

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Speaker 3: emblems that reflect deep faith. I mentioned that because abductees

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Speaker 3: am interested in the larger patterns of mind body interactions

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Speaker 2: In greater length, right, because there are some fascinating parallels

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Speaker 2: between the abduction phenomenon and the ND which you've experienced.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's exactly right. When I was in my mid twenties,

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Speaker 3: I was taken out and I was exhausted, and I

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Speaker 3: I was dying. I said, I'm I'm going to die.

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Speaker 3: There was just the recognition and suddenly I was rising up,

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Speaker 3: I was rising above the ocean, Richard, I was. In fact,

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Speaker 3: I had never heard of the out of body experience.

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Speaker 3: But I found I left my body through the back

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Speaker 3: and I saw the friends on the shore who had

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Speaker 3: the absolute certainty that I had died. I went through

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Speaker 3: the tunnel. And by the way, this was all before

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Speaker 3: the near death experience had been made famous by the

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Speaker 3: research of Raymond Moody in his book Life After Life.

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Speaker 3: So I'd never heard of these stages. So I wasn't

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Speaker 3: coming back and telling people that I'd had this because

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Speaker 3: I survived. Obviously, there was one key here's one key element.

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Speaker 3: We could say that the near death experience of seeing

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Speaker 3: which I did. And I'm not from a deeply religious family,

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Speaker 3: but those can all be explained in principle. You know, well,

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Speaker 2: Explained of m and doorphins.

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Speaker 3: Right, that's exactly right. And one of my friends on

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Speaker 3: two hundred yards out according to witnesses, and it was

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Speaker 3: I said, I heard you say that. I why didn't

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Speaker 3: the things that near death experiences and UFO experiences have

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Speaker 3: I learned it very quick, as the German poet Garretta said,

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Speaker 3: So that gave me a deep affinity with UFO close

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Speaker 2: You mentioned something earlier in your conversations with the late

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Speaker 2: John Mack, and that is something you also you write

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Speaker 2: the abduction phenomenon has to do with or or is

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Speaker 2: similar to some of these well known rights of passage

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Speaker 2: where in human societies, where where you know, young boys

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Speaker 2: So what is the suggestion here that that this UFO

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Speaker 3: To what? Very good question, Very good question. Certainly, I'm

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Speaker 3: talking about it in two ways. One is that is

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Speaker 3: a conservative Christian family. She had a direct interaction with

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Speaker 3: That's stage one of an initiation ceremony. Ever, write a passage,

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Speaker 3: a separation from reality as you know it, and you

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Speaker 3: own existence, You question your own sanity, your own existence. Finally,

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Speaker 3: about this in his marvelous book The Hero with a

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Speaker 3: Thousand Faces. So young Emily Trim, eight years old, finally

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Speaker 3: return with wisdom for the rest of the community. But

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Speaker 3: in another sense, I'm arguing that it may be that

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Speaker 3: reality itself is calling on us, calling on humans metaphorically literally,

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Speaker 3: we already have. I think the answer is yes. And

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Speaker 3: you know, a call from the cosmos is only a

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Speaker 3: one way trip. It's a monologue until we respond. Then

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Speaker 3: it becomes a dialogue. And I'm trying to invite a

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Speaker 3: dialogue with the phenomenon on some new levels, including a work.

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Speaker 3: I strongly believe that the abductions are already happening in

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Speaker 3: some common ground we have with the aliens. We can

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Speaker 3: call them aliens or beings, whether they are the same

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Speaker 3: beings that the philosophies in other cultures. Indigenous cultures, for example,

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Speaker 3: have always described humans as being in interactions with such beings.

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Speaker 3: So they may not be from outer space, but in

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Speaker 3: any case, there's already common ground that shaman shamans in

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Speaker 3: the sap shamanistic cultures have worked with. The shaman is

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Speaker 3: that figure in indigenous cultures who works with the beings

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Speaker 3: in the lower realm, the middle realm, and upper realm.

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Speaker 3: So I bring that kind of material into the book

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Speaker 3: that takes it beyond the saucer frame of reference only,

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Speaker 3: which is in some ways confusing for people who think

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Speaker 3: the UFO phenomenon is nothing but et It may be extraterrestrial,

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Speaker 3: but even then the craft certainly don't behave entirely as

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Speaker 3: solidly physical, or they are only physical in some of

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Speaker 3: their spaces. They trans they transfer, they move between physical

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Speaker 3: and paraphysical with equalities that our science has a trend

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Speaker 3: us to expect. So we're learning on the fly with

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Speaker 3: this phenomenon.

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