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Title: "Passport" to nowhere in particular
Review: The latest fashion in UFOlogy places these phenomena squarely in the spiritual realm, and Mack's "Passport to the Cosmos" is a transparent attempt to cash in on the fad. If Mack had done a little more work with the physics, theology, and psychology implied by alien abduction experiences, he would have produced a groundbreaking work. As it is, "Passport" is just another shabby New Age hack. Probably the most irritating omission is the lack of reference to C. G. Jung, whose treatment of the '50s UFO scare forms the unspoken basis for Mack's work.The experiences Mack's subjects describe _are_ important, and their breakthrough into Western rationality arguably marks a major shift in human consciousness. If Mack has some idea of what the significance of all this is, he has managed to conceal it. In the meantime, we will have to await a more serious study.
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