Psychiatric professionals who have dared to study the controversial abduction/experiencer phenomenon have had to walk a very fine line at times. The late John Mack at least showed an honorable way to study the subject while maintaining a professional and detached perspective considered essential among his peers. It is unfortunate that Dr. Richard Boyland
http://www.drboylan.com/ ...appears to have been incapable or unwilling to maintain that sense of objectivity that Mack had been able to show throughout his publications. Consequently, Boyland's professional career suffered the consequences. However, even with Dr. Mack's credentials, which included a Pulitzer prize for earlier work, he was nearly did in by his peers when it became known the extent of his research into the abduction phenomenon. The following article is a tad out-of-date, but nevertheless remains as relevant today as when the events occurred. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4071124.stm Final Thoughts: I actually met Dr. Mack briefly at the 1997 Roswell festival. I slipped the doctor a postcard of one of my digital paintings, "The Seeding", created back in the early 1990s. See: http://orionworks.com/artgal/svj/seeding_m.htm Dr. Mack gazed at the postcard briefly before pocketing it. Before walking away he smiled and said "You must be on drugs." Afterward, one of Mack's associates who witnessed the brief transaction leaned over to me and stated, perhaps in an effort to reassure me, "That was a complement." Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
