I had the great pleasure to meet and hang out with Dr. Mack in San Francisco. About 3 or 4 months later he died and I am still sad and shocked about this. Whatever you think about the man, he was very warm, humorous and kind. RIP John.
MY BIRTH NAME IS JOHN Q. MACK . I LEFT THIS PLANET AT THE AGE OF 13 YEARS OF AGE . DUE TO A CAR ACCIDENT INVOVLING A MACK TRUCK 🚚. I SEPARATED FROM MY BODY AND DEPARTED INTO THE HEAVENS WHERE A LIGHT WHICH GAVE OFF A FAMILIAR VIBE AND WARMTH THAT I RECOGNIZED TO BE MY GRANDFATHER. HE WAS SO PROUD OF ME , HE SAID TO ME YOU NOT GONNA DIE YOUR GOING BACK , HE SAID YOUR GONNA HELP ALOT OF PEOPLE . I NOW UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANT IN TOTALITY AT 49 YEARS OLD . I HAVE PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THIS WHOLE PLANET HAS BEEN SECRETLY RAN BY ALIENS 👽 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME UNTIL CURRENT TIME
There is a God and its been no secret that every God you can believe in is said to Come from above / THE SKY / THE HEAVENS . THAT CLEARLY MAKES GOD , AN ALIEN 👽 JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THATS COMES FROM ABOVE
PLEASE Dr Grande, whatever you do, DO NOT get tempted to diagnose this man restrain yourself and only speculate what could be going on with a man like this.
Zachariah Stitchen‘s interviewing him? He said this informer I heard. Dr. Mac getting hit by a car and dying I’m not buying he was struck by a car on accident. Your thoughts?
The truth is somewhere in the middle, in all likelihood. The universe is so vast and diverse, it is almost impossible for us to be alone. That being said, because of the vastness of the universe, there is next to no chance aliens have ever visited us, nor will any time soon. If aliens reached us, we'd know it. We wouldn't need second and third hand "testimonies."
@@chad3232132 you are making assumptions based on your limited knowledge of the universe which is a as likely to be accurate as an ant assessing the planet Jupiter. They’re too far away to visit , but they exist, and gosh, we would know all about them if they were here. All statements are baseless or contradictory.
Your so kind and compassionate. John Mack accomplished more in his lifetime than most of us ever will. His entire life’s work shouldn’t be judged by the end of his life ‘alien theory’. I respect anyone who goes out of their way to learn. His heart was one of care and concern for others. Tricking him just to discredit him says everything about the character of the woman who was out to discredit him. Shame on her!
The real question is WHY would she go through all that effort just to discredit this particular person? Because clearly there was planning and premeditation in all of this.
@@thedarkprinceza I think Ivy League academics are really uncomfortable with the idea of advanced alien life capable of interstellar travel. It would mean there's something out there smarter than they are. They couldn't have one of their own taking the idea seriously.
@@thedarkprinceza Why wouldn't she? Just deposit a nice check for her, or get rid of some debt, or get a dead beat relative out of a jam, or, or, or, or... or she just wanted to stop a man who's ideas scared her. Something can be said for the idea that perhaps he was naive to assume good faith actors, but if most are good faith actors and one isn't, then who is the one with a pathology?
Indeed, even in the UFO community many thought of John Mack as gullible. But to the hundreds of people who struggled with paranormal experiences and the ontological shock that rocked their world, John Mack was the most kind, gentle, compassionate and open hearted clinician any of them could wish for. He was their voice and an anchor of sanity in the midst of things that just didn't make sense. None of us truly knows the truth about UFOs and the possibility of alien presence. But to the people grappling with first hand experiences he was a rock. Approach this vast universe with the humility that John Mack did. Anything is possible, even those things that cannot be proven.
@Sheyda Shakurova ... One pronoun takes the form of a sentient hue of the color vermilion. Another can only be expressed by employing a mathematical Fourier Series. The Terrestrially Challenged will be eternally & violently offended if any terrestrial ever deviates (even slightly) from these mandates. Remember that to them, "Cancel Culture" means complete and instantaneous planetary obliteration. Have a nice day!
Exactly! Was finding for a comment that did not resort to scientism rather was more scientific. Everyone seems to make this guy out to be evil or some kind of lunatic when he brings an important discussion to the table and something we can further investigate and perhaps learn more. It's either people believe in everything or nothing, being open to new ideas and thoughts is how the human mind evolved, I wish these sheep would get it instead of just trying to prove a point that they're more intelligent than others! Not only John E Mack was entitled to his own belief, it was an interesting field of study. Comes to show many of the people in comment section who intend to appear intelligent by making this dude seem like a weirdo fail to understand that it is the sign of an intellectual mind to entertain a thought without accepting it! They're just on the other side of the same coin!
This is a tutelary comment for civility and clarity in responding to a charged or controversial topic, but I don't think you're right here. I mean I think you're misrepresenting Dr. Grande's argument, wittingly or not. I can't find an explicit claim in this video where the doctor says, as a matter of fact, that alien abductions cannot happen. In fact, in his final thoughts, he mentions that 'in my opinion...' and goes on to say that John Mack's intellectual shortcoming (at least as far as those people he worked with who claimed some sort of pertinent experience) was his refusal or inability to consider a natural explanation for what these people experienced, or to allow for the possibility that at last some of those he worked with might have been disingenuous with him, to whatever degree. This shows me that Dr. Grande qualified his statements as being his opinion - he does tell us, after all, at the beginning of every video that he's only speculating, along with the 'my opinion' hedge in his final thoughts statements - and that he is aware of and takes into account the intellectual trap of not allowing for an explanation beyond one's own pre-existing beliefs. I just don't see how, in this video at least, he gets anywhere near the tautology you ascribe to him.
@@frankpaya690 If what you're trying to say is that left wing ideology can reject science on occasion, then sure. That's why it's called "ideology". What that has to do with anything is a mystery that even you probably don't know the answer to.
@@DonPeyote420 Haha. I actually thought of purchasing one last week, just for fun. I have to be careful of attachments though. I've seen aliens, I've seen ghosts, and I've seen Dr. Grande, all positive and mind altering experiences.
Im a fan of dc mack, I have his book on aliens, he truly was a real scientist, he didnt sell out himself to the academy, he risked his career to help and study abduction cases with an open mind without judgment. He had everything an academic could desire and risked it all to do what real scientist do, study something unknown. He's terribly missed in the academic world, where an honest man is hard to find.
@@kursk88-k1t A PhD is a doctor of philosophy of whatever discipline. His PhD is not in the study of philosophy. “Doctor of Philosophy” is what PhD stands for. So my boyfriend is getting his PhD in Chemistry, for example. He’s never taken a philosophy class (unless he was forced, which is unlikely because he would have complained about it by now.) A person who has obtained a PhD is given the title “doctor” of whatever discipline they read. My boyfriend will soon be Dr. lastname. But he does not have an MD, and will never be licensed to practice medicine, as he did not study medicine. And Dr Grande has been totally transparent about all of this, other than explaining what a PhD is, as I assume he didn’t feel the need to. Given this comment, though, he may now reconsider that.
Of course everybody is free to express criticism which is best done in a dignified and scholarly manner, but Dr. Grande has proven himself over and over to be a careful and well-prepared analyst of situations like this. You may not agree with him but I don't think your disapproval is warranted.
Most alien abductions can be explained some cannot be examined by sleep paralysis as they were abducted in their car wide awake or out walking or fishing and hunting.
I respect your opinions, and you are clearly very well studied in your work, but I have had numerous sleep paralysis episodes as well as paranormal experiences and taking this purely logical approach is very easy and safe for someone in your line of work. I don’t wish for you to have an abduction experience at all, but if you were to have a real experience like many have then I think you would understand that it’s not as simple as scholars and psychological professionals try to make it sound
I met John when I lived in Boston, attending one of his groups; a good friend knew him well and belonged to PEER. I was saddened when I heard what had happened to him.
Heres one for you! I was having childhood memorys ,and remembered that what i thought was a witches hand came through my wall and grabbed my leg.About a year later I happened to meet a person who was bestys with John Mack. I was admiring his library one day and he gave me a book about u.f.o.s.. I laughed and said I dont believe in that. He encouraged me to check it out so I took the book home and read it. It read like my life. At the end of the book he goes to Africa to interveiw the school children.they drew a picture of a wand like thing for him, and its the same object that reached through my wall and grab my leg. Its Real! By the way I live in cape Cod and that was in the late 60's.
Interesting! What ever you do don't fear the unusual experiences. Fear generated experiences are delutions of ones ego and repressed emotion. Mystical experiences are without fear from the Soul/higher self!
my father in 1952 was on a Canadian frigate in the Bermuda Triangle and spotted 6 of them in the water 7 fathoms down...captain was hailed and all he could confirm is that they shone a bright light .were circular and also what ever it was had knocked out all their electricity and radar...that being said they managed to get back into Canadian waters outside Halifax sometime later and were being hailed by the military as to where they had been....they came in 2 days late and could not justify the time lapse as they thought it was a Friday arrival to them. but a Sunday to the folks at the dock...true or not? apparently the whole crew could attest to the fact but were met by some high mucky mucks and told to shut up..there are many incidences during that year that just didn't make sense..but do I believe him....yes I do!
In 1993, a UFO hovered over the WH Sammis powerplant along the Ohio River, in broad daylight in the afternoon. The Empire cop took a polaroid of it. It sat at about 400 yards above the edge of the ridge on the west ridge valley top, just before it slopes down to the ohio river. It stayed there for like 15 minutes, like it was watching the plant, then it zipped to the east and was out of sight in a few seconds. Empire was the town that almost touched the power plant, so quite a few people saw it very closely. It was a aluminum looking disc with a bulging center. The region is a cesspool of industry, including a waste incineration plant. The aliens (probably) are amazed at our pollution abilities.
@@wildlightarts My dad was a plumber in the USAF, serviced the latrines at the minuteman silos at Malmstrom AFB 63-67. The two guys stuck in the silos would clog them up on purpose, just to see another person. My dad joked about that. He said they were stuck with each other for long rotations. However, in March of 67 he saw the red UFO hovering in the area, but no one discussed it back then. He didn't see it over the silos, though. Both my mom and him observed one from a great distance just hung along the horizon, not very high up, for a good while, one evening while driving.
2 aliens from the Andromeda galaxy confronted me and demanded in perfect English pointing laser pistols: Take us to your supreme leader. And I took them to meet my wife.
Sleep paralysis scared the shit out of me…I thought someone was on top of me…it only lasted a very short time, but in my mind the idea popped, “well, I guess this is it…” I just remember thinking I was about to die, so it was pretty scary
@@nanakoosa1 yes happen last night and all my life and I was sleeping on my side towards the wall in my bedroom and swear someone or something was tapping on my shoulder and couldn't move when I broke free nothing was there. Weird
I once had sleep paralysis with my partner next to me ( including the pressure on my chest). I was convinced she was pinning me down and allowing a zombie to attack me - sounds ludicrous... absolutely terrifying at the time.
Baaaahaha! I saw your comment before I started watching. Dr. Grande just dropped the line and I can't believe I didn't connect it to Oprah before he said it 😅
I find that to be a condescending tone on the late Dr Mack. He (Dr Mack) could have been desperate and just looking for a large platform to clear his name. But my question is WHY go through the effort of discrediting a man who was investigating a phenomenon that was on the fringe of modern science?
I've never had another RUclips creator that I thought I couldn't keep up with their videos. Dr. Grande makes me think that. By the time I have time to watch his videos again he's put out three more. I mean holy shit for real.
Dr. Grande in 2010 I found a press conference that happened in 2001 called “disclosure project” and took some of it seriously. Especially the testimony of a retired navy commander Graham Bethune. All I could find was his obituary which told of a man of impeccable character and service. There are others who spoke that had some very interesting stories and pretty much all of them declared they were willing to testify under oath before congress which of course would be under penalty of perjury. Would you be interested in hearing them and speculate about what could be going on with them? Were they in on some elaborate hoax? Did the government set up the press conference to fool the gullible? George Filer the 3rd had a pretty crazy story too, many of them did…. Just for the record I know about Dr.Greer and how he can be a subject all on his own. I’m talking about the retired military pilots and radar controllers who testified.
I'm guessing that you have not served in the military, at least in an active role. It is VERY possible that persons of impeccable character can see and hear hallucinations because of the conditions they are working under, or they are simply mistaken. In other words, there are many more explanations than either "fraud" or "aliens are real".
@@floraposteschild4184 he had a co pilot and 30 passengers who all saw it including a naval psychiatrist from Bethesda naval hospital who was onboard that instructed him to not call it in. He claims when he got back to the cockpit the co pilot was already on the radio asking if they could see it on radar.
@Flora Posteschild It's funny how so many of the people who experience this phenomenon can share the hallucinations with other people. In Portuguese air Force there's a documented experience by a pilot who in a training session saw a flying disc flying around him in an ellipse for a half an hour. He contacted the control tower and asked if there was any planes in his area to which they said no. So he descibed what he was seeing and everyone joked and laughted at him. That's when he told "If you don't believe why don't you come here to see for yourself". Two other pilots decided to show up and saw what that pilot described.
"The Genius of John E. Mack": If John E. Mack lacks credibility for his positions, then everyone lacks credibility. Another way to say this is that he had the proper credentials for speaking about his chosen topics. Just as we prefer to listen to doctors when it comes to health matters or broken bones, and financial advisers when it comes to money, John E. Mack basically has shown that "alien abduction" is "for real." In a sense he assumes the basic liberal assumptions of people from his class and background. But it was the topic of alien abduction where his research bore the most impressive fruit. What impressed Mack the most was, as Dr. Grande points out, that the metaphors and tropes shared by those he interviewed conform to a pattern that varied only in small, unimportant ways. I think we might conclude from this that "alien abduction" is not some delusion of the ignorant, as it were, but a fully respectable position. In other words, there really is a war going on, as H.G. Wells noted in the title, "War of the Worlds," and it has been described in ancient Greek myth as the gods, in Christianity as demons and angels, and today as mental illness and aberrant behavior. Mack was harassed and bullied by people in position because his research was unsettling to them and their worldview. When your basic position is: (1) there is no capital "G" God and (2) everything will eventually be explained as "matter in motion," then (3) you have the imposition of a prison with academics and journalists as wardens.I appreciate the fact that his work discredits the skeptical and atheistic position of academics who offer people nothing but verbosity and sophistry. Thanks for reading.
"The most probable explanation was mass hysteria"...Just like when 62 people see a car accident, the most probable explanation is also "mass hysteria", despite the fact that each witness can independently identify exactly what happened. I will start questioning anything large groups of people witness from now on...thx Dr Grande. Makes perfect sense! But better rewrite the legal system which relies on multiple witness testimony to convict criminals.
I really appreciate that you acknowledged all the positives about him, but also acknowledged that he perhaps opened to door a little too much! Such a great episode, Dr. Grande! I'll definitely have to look him up now!
Thanks for the explanation of sleep paralysis. I have had it multiple,e times but never felt I was abducted nor did I have hallucinations but it was extremely frightening to be paralyzed and aware.
I never recall a feeling of being "paralyzed" the feeling that I've had is that I'm falling and literally there's been times of grabbing at the sheet to hold- on.
@@melloyellogsxr no, just the sensation of being awake and unable to move with the overwhelming feeling that if I could just move one finger, everything would be okay. It’s horrifying.
@@AedanGUnit thank you for taking the time to reply. I've only experienced sleep paralysis once in my life. It was the most frightening thing that ever happened to me. I had painful vibrations and the worst noise I've ever heard. they came in waves becoming more and more violent. I hope It never happens again.. it was more than fear it was complete dread.. anyway thanks again..
I have had sleep paralysis all my life. Some nights it happens multiple times. You hear noise,see things and something is always trying to get you,touch you or sit on you, and you can’t move or scream. Then cataplexy sets in when my body goes limp. There has to be something more to this. I wish it on no one !
I have Mack’s book, Abduction. In it he says…”I personally don’t believe in aliens.” But…just like Bud Hopkins, they were encountering many people who had similar experiences. It got to the point where both men changed direction,
Seeing an unidentified flying object does not necessarily mean said object is extraterrestrial or that some sort of alien intelligence is involved with. It only means that people cannot identify it at the time. There has yet to be verified an actual alien or alien vehicle. It's fun to think about, but has not been proven to exist yet.
@@garmtpug I think UFOs are not alien craft in a conventional sense. I think they are a natural phenomenon. They are sometimes described as moving like a flashlight beam on a wall. This suggests a loss of dimensionality. Like the way a 3D object casts a 2D shadow. A shadow loses a dimension from its referent object. I think UFOs are the shadows cast by some hyperdimensional thing into our 3D space. They are shadows, only in 3D. They are evidence that something exists in a realm with more than 3 dimensions. Somehow stuff from that realm intrudes into ours but manifests as a mere shadow of its referent.
For some reason, the knowledge that you still like to conceptualize personality by means of the Five Factor Modal is deeply comforting to me. I was afraid you and OCEAN had had a falling out.
Oddly enough, Mack was an expert on "Nightmares and Human Conflict" - the title a book he wrote before he wrote his well-acclaimed bio-analysis of TE Lawrence in the '70s
I was interested that Dr. Grande chose not to mention the fact that John Mack got the 1977 Pulitizer Prize in Biography,for his biography of TE Lawrence, when he described Dr. Mack's death whilst in London to give a lecture about Lawrence. That's not just extra "stuff' which he did and exccelled in.
You need to take a closer look at the Zimbabwe case. It wasn't mass hysteria; the children actually saw a craft land and an "alien" exit it. They recently verified their experiences in the documentary "The Phenomenon".
I love it when there’s a “ scientific” explanation that discounts an experience simply because they themselves have never experienced the phenomenon they are trying to discredit. Then they call that “ science “.
I agree with you at a certain point, but I don't say his own belief, better his own proof because he collected the evidence, especially the one in Zimbabwe in brought daylight in which these kids were interviewed 30years later and still saying the same words.
Thank you for the respectful critique of Dr. Mack's unusual beliefs. You could have had a field day with the topic, but you chose to offer a plausible explanation for the reasons he might have had for trying to see legitimacy in his patients' claims. It was an interesting story!
Zimbabwe school incident may have been mass hysteria. Certainly that is the easy explanation. I saw several of the individuals interviewed recently, now middle aged, and they didn't think it was mass hysteria. I don't know what they saw and I can live with the question. When I heard Dr. Grande say Dr. Mack was on Oprah, I thought oh oh, here it comes. But it ended better than I expected.
Many of the individuals presented on this channel were on the governments blacklist and there is a huge probability that they were systematically murdered by the state. I bet the doctor is on the governments payroll to silence these individuals and convince the gullible public that these are not credible individuals.
Can you analysis how the pentagon has acknowledged and showed video existence of UFOs? Love your videos! I watch every playlist that pops up on my feed! Dr. G with the best dry humor on RUclips haha
I would love to see a psychiatrist who has the backbone & the integrity to defy colleagues and call-out the practice of psychiatry ignoring science altogether, through embracing transgenderism in so doing legitimizing the belief in certain people who have all the anatomy of one gender however believe they're the opposite gender. In many ways modern therapy in practice today takes people that are sick in the first place and makes them sicker than they were before "therapy".
@@frankpaya690 Get help. Stop obsessing over other people's genitalia. Find a hobby. Learn to love the life you have. There are so many more important issues in the world today than what bathroom someone uses.
The timeliness of this video is uncanny for me. Last night, at age 39, I think I had my second - ever - sleep paralysis episode. There were heavy storms in my area. I was woken by the thunder and had difficulty falling back asleep. I was going in and out. At one point I woke up to the din of the thunder and was looking at my cat who was asleep next to my head. Suddenly, this bizarre, aggressive buzzing sound crept up in the room quickly and became an immense cacophony. I completely panicked and tried to get up to try to figure out what the noise was, but couldn't move. It kept getting louder and it was extremely aggressive; almost hostile. I was completely shaken with terror because it was so obviously happening. I was completely convinced that this wasn't just some hypnogogic hallucination and that there really was this malicious sound swarming me and yet I couldn't even move to investigate it. That's the last thing I remember. Apparently I ended up falling asleep and getting an otherwise pretty decent night of sleep. Woke up for work this morning and that was that lol
I tend to doubt that all 150+ witnesses of the Ariel school incident (including adults and children of different ages and backgrounds) were coincidentally creative, distrustful and had cluster A personality features.
I remember having my first sleep paralysis episode at 19. Was terrifying but I already didn't believe in anything supernatural, didn't see ghosts or figures just the dread, anxiety and paralysis. Now when I have it, I still try to scream out but can't, but know it'll pass and I'm fine in 5 minutes
@@CastledarkDweller27 I can't find it now but it basically said a sleep mask solves paralysis cos it only happens when your eyes open slightly and you start seeing the room.
That they could exist: not so hard. That they do, without question, exist: hard. You need more evidence than "some people say so" and some blurry pictures. Especially these days, when it's so easy to fake something electronically, and social media attention can mean big money. But if you look back to so-called "incontrovertible evidence" of UFOs, ghosts, bigfoot, etc. from the 1950s, or even the 1970s, it's obvious, to our eyes, that the pictures and videos are fake. Not so then.
It's actually not very hard to believe anything without proof, how do you think religions form? All you need to do is turn off your brain and not require any evidence.
@@DonPeyote420 True. Believing in the paranormal much proof can be what some people do when they've drifted away from traditional religion. And some people do both: e.g. belief in ghosts and demons can fill both a religion and a paranormal slot.
Ok, JFK I can understand but why would the aliens take Khrushchev? He'd make a ruckus on the spaceship, banging his shoe everywhere yelling about corn...
Aliens actually do make the odd horrible mistake from time to time. They struggled with that defiant shoe pounding like you wouldn't believe! At least that's what the voices in my head tell me... 🥴😁
@@chad3232132 I bet Fidel Castro felt really left out when the aliens took JFK and Khrushchev on that space trip and didn't even have the courtesy invite him. Like hey, you're taking the Caribbean Crisis crew aboard, but not the actual Caribbean guy? Maybe they didn't allow cigars in the space ship idk
I won't be packing my bags for an alien vacation any time soon. Gotta be here everyday to listen to Dr Grande speculate but not diagnose anybody in situations like this.😉😂Thank you for your analysis doc! 💖💖💖
Mack comes across as a decent fellow doing his best to understand and help people but perhaps did them a dis-service by being too open to the abduction stories they told him. I think the human decency he showed to people everywhere is the best way to remember him. As always an excellent video 👍 PS. Your pronunciation of Totteridge was spot on!
From what I've read about Dr Mack, one of his defining traits was his empathy and compassion for others. He was a basically good person who just ended up believing some weird stuff.
@@harrysecombegroupie Dr. Mack's knowledge was extremely broad. Some of it might be regarded by some as "weird stuff," .but this man was also the winner of the 1977 Pulitizer Prize for Biography for his work on TE Lawrence. We need to respect his intellect and his breadth of experience which together resulted in him holding views which may be 'alien' to us but are clearly astonishing.
yes either do people in a giant field that spot a large triangular object zoom across the sky the size of 4 football stadiums...and there were a lot of witnesses in Arizona that year!
According to this guy, dozens of children and some teachers had an acute, simultaneous hallucination of a close encounter of the second or third kind. FYI, Mack did not try to walk his claims of evidence back. In fact, it was quite the opposite.
Damn.. I’ve dabbled in LSD and theory craft on things myself. I’m convinced there is another dimension that we can not perceive. If there is another intelligent life form, then they must not take on a form of matter and exist among this dimension. I’ve believed this since I was a child. I’m convinced at this point. Imma read up on this dude. It’s gonna be fun.
I'm sure he was killed whilst on his way to meet the author Graham Hancock who was researching his book supernatural.... it was strange timing considering the topic of the book
I've seen them demon looking entities too look like hooded cloaked monks in black. He shouldn't completely dismiss. Their are ways this guy speaking wouldn't agree with to deal with these beings as he has no belief in them
While you were talking, the sunlight entered my room flashing on my ceiling fan. It appeared you had a UFO circling your head! I had a great laugh! Thanks Dr Todd Grande for your dedication providing UFO and alien lizard quackery.
I used to experience sleep paralysis pretty frequently. I learned to relax my body and then I could wake up. It was pretty scary. Now I think it was caused by sleep apnea when I would stop breathing. A special pillow has minimized the sleep apnea, so I don’t experience sleep paralysis anymore.
Usually in life, when a person is on to somthing new most will ridicule the individual until the new material is processed and accepted by science. Then they are concidered a genius and everyone ends up kissing there Ass!🤣🤣🤣 This is usually the case with all major scientific breakthroughs! Science is a wierd animal. Science in general is not open to new concepts. "Science" is dedicated to what is "known" Science fights hard to reject new theories but eventually compitichulates when the new theory gains traction. 🤷♂️☺🤪
@@kayhawkins5925 well that's just irresponsible on the part of the aliens, plucking a driver right out of their vehicle not even allowing them to pull over. And does the car continue moving on its own for sometime until full stop after the driver is pulled out and into the UFO? What if the car rolls into the oncoming traffic and collides with another vehicle? In other words, this is yet another case of aliens not respecting traffic codes at all. One would think that the advanced civilization would at least give the driver some kind of warning like "Please pull over, you're about to be sucked into the UFO, be sure to lock your car" or something.
@@kayhawkins5925 would be nice if the alien mechanics could change the oil while their medical guys are experimenting on the abductees but I guess that was never the case. So much for technical advancement.
Hello Dr Grande, would you please do a video on Tania Head (who faked being a 9/11 survivor)? I find her case fascinating and would love to hear your thoughts!
As a life long sufferer of sleep paralysis I have yet to meet an alien or experience any type of visual hallucination. Yes a humming noise can occur but even as a child was aware I was in sleep paralysis. I completely disagree with you over this being an explanation.
I just saw an old 60 Minutes Australia segment in which one of Dr Mack's Harvard colleagues trashed his work and said he should be dismissed. He also said science already understood people who make such claims and used the example of men who think they're women, whom he said they try to help. Ironically, Dr Mack would today be the accepted one, while his colleague who thought trans men needed help would be run out of the profession.
I have had an experience akin to alien abduction, with the same hallmarks of common description of one, I did wake up to find a wound corrospinding to the experience, however what I believe is that while awake before the dream I must've noticed the wound wondered how I got it ( it was a perfect triangle of 3 needle like pricks) and not thought much of it then had a very lucid dream that subconsciously tried to explain it to me in the fantastical way that dreams to be
I had a dream once where I could control time but I couldn’t stop myself from being stoned to death so I kept dying over and over again I woke up in pain
I used to get those (pin prick triangles under the skin that eventually vanish yet reappear other times id find upon waking near the knees) when I was a child, they seemed to stop at age 10. This is the 2nd time today I've come across someone discussing this too.. I've had many what we refer to as paranormal experiences consciously aware of them from age 25. I don't agree with this guys analysis of what sleep paralysis is. I think his thinking is rather rigid and to dismiss this stuff as hallucinations etc is comforting for people who have no first hand experience of them 🤔
So? Is it kinda like if a medical doctor decides to go all natural? And the medical board tells them that it’s irresponsible? Then fire you? And remove your license as well?
One of the encounters John explored was the sighting of aliens at a school in Zimbabwe which you referred to as mass hysteria. I’m a Zimbabwean myself and have heard numerous stories from people all over the country who saw strange beings which they concluded to be ghosts of spirits of dead relatives. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe those people saw things which they thought were souls of dead people. We can debate what name to give to the things they saw, but we can’t say all those people are making things up. This may be difficult for a mainstream scientist like yourself to believe, but there are things that happen in this world that Eurocentric science will never understand. These things are common in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, unless you’re saying these people all need to be diagnosed. There’s so much we don’t know about this universe.
Your conclusion from 62 children that had an experience with aliens from a UFO, most of them through telepathy, letting them know their concern on how we treat our planet, being mass hysteria, really!?!
Had to listen to that twice. " Explore personality angles before packing one's bags for an alien vacation." May I steal that? It applies to so many things.
Swing and a miss on that Zimbabwe case. 60-plus people saw it and they'll all tell you today it happened. Also, there was a scholarly paper done on mass hysteria cases in Africa and it specifically discounted it in that event. Look at the drawings those kids made of what they saw - they're all so similar. How could 60 kids draw the same thing that wasn't there?
Hey Dr., I think it would be interesting if you did a series of personality profiles on the ancestors of psychology like Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson and even those from the Frankfurt school of psychoanalysis. Maybe a thought for future content. Keep up the good work!
I believe this man. He was a hero in my eyes. Stood his ground even though the world laughed and said he was crazy. Needless to say, UFO hearing just ended in us congress. Ty for. Your opinion doc.
Actually Dr. Mack sounds awesome considering the issues of Mental health clinicians disregard spiritual and cultural beliefs outside of "Western science". To this day, this is problematic for clients of diverse backgrounds.
I've had sleep paralysis twice. It's very weird. You see and hear stuff that isn't there while paralysed and fully conscious. It's very easy to see how people with a screw lose think there is something alien or supernatural going on.
Dr. Grande's explanation of sleep paralysis with illusions as the cause of abduction reports omits the cases where the experiencers are fully awake, or driving a car, or doing other non-somnolent actions when they are abducted. Picking and choosing cases do reinforce explanations or beliefs, while ignoring others that don't fit, is a huge credibility error in his analysis.
I had the great pleasure to meet and hang out with Dr. Mack in San Francisco. About 3 or 4 months later he died and I am still sad and shocked about this. Whatever you think about the man, he was very warm, humorous and kind. RIP John.
A lot of replies have good things to say about him. He must have been a genuine man.
Thank you. What an amazing person he was. We need more like him
MY BIRTH NAME IS JOHN Q. MACK . I LEFT THIS PLANET AT THE AGE OF 13 YEARS OF AGE . DUE TO A CAR ACCIDENT INVOVLING A MACK TRUCK 🚚. I SEPARATED FROM MY BODY AND DEPARTED INTO THE HEAVENS WHERE A LIGHT WHICH GAVE OFF A FAMILIAR VIBE AND WARMTH THAT I RECOGNIZED TO BE MY GRANDFATHER. HE WAS SO PROUD OF ME , HE SAID TO ME YOU NOT GONNA DIE YOUR GOING BACK , HE SAID YOUR GONNA HELP ALOT OF PEOPLE . I NOW UNDERSTAND WHAT HE MEANT IN TOTALITY AT 49 YEARS OLD . I HAVE PROOF BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT THIS WHOLE PLANET HAS BEEN SECRETLY RAN BY ALIENS 👽 SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME UNTIL CURRENT TIME
There is a God and its been no secret that every God you can believe in is said to Come from above / THE SKY / THE HEAVENS . THAT CLEARLY MAKES GOD , AN ALIEN 👽 JUST LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE THATS COMES FROM ABOVE
PLEASE Dr Grande, whatever you do, DO NOT get tempted to diagnose this man restrain yourself and only speculate what could be going on with a man like this.
*in a case like this
10/10 comment. Would laugh again. Highly recommend.
Literally Dr. Grandes first words were "this is not a diagnosis but speculation on what might be happening." His insights are always interesting 🤔
Or Mack was on to something. Possible if not plausible.
Zachariah Stitchen‘s interviewing him? He said this informer I heard. Dr. Mac getting hit by a car and dying I’m not buying he was struck by a car on accident. Your thoughts?
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” - Arthur C Clarke
There is nothing to be terrified about, we are the creators of it all! ⚛🔮♾
No external force is pulling our strings!
The truth is somewhere in the middle, in all likelihood. The universe is so vast and diverse, it is almost impossible for us to be alone. That being said, because of the vastness of the universe, there is next to no chance aliens have ever visited us, nor will any time soon. If aliens reached us, we'd know it. We wouldn't need second and third hand "testimonies."
@@chad3232132
Its likely to be other than linear.
"Wormholes"
Also through dreams and visions.
@Chocomello2
Why not? 🤷♂️🤷♀️ 👽📦❓😁
@@chad3232132 you are making assumptions based on your limited knowledge of the universe which is a as likely to be accurate as an ant assessing the planet Jupiter. They’re too far away to visit , but they exist, and gosh, we would know all about them if they were here. All statements are baseless or contradictory.
Your so kind and compassionate.
John Mack accomplished more in his lifetime than most of us ever will. His entire life’s work shouldn’t be judged by the end of his life ‘alien theory’. I respect anyone who goes out of their way to learn. His heart was one of care and concern for others. Tricking him just to discredit him says everything about the character of the woman who was out to discredit him. Shame on her!
The real question is WHY would she go through all that effort just to discredit this particular person? Because clearly there was planning and premeditation in all of this.
@@thedarkprinceza I think Ivy League academics are really uncomfortable with the idea of advanced alien life capable of interstellar travel. It would mean there's something out there smarter than they are. They couldn't have one of their own taking the idea seriously.
@@thedarkprinceza the government probably set it up.
Yes. This is how people are discredited.
@@thedarkprinceza Why wouldn't she? Just deposit a nice check for her, or get rid of some debt, or get a dead beat relative out of a jam, or, or, or, or... or she just wanted to stop a man who's ideas scared her.
Something can be said for the idea that perhaps he was naive to assume good faith actors, but if most are good faith actors and one isn't, then who is the one with a pathology?
Indeed, even in the UFO community many thought of John Mack as gullible. But to the hundreds of people who struggled with paranormal experiences and the ontological shock that rocked their world, John Mack was the most kind, gentle, compassionate and open hearted clinician any of them could wish for. He was their voice and an anchor of sanity in the midst of things that just didn't make sense. None of us truly knows the truth about UFOs and the possibility of alien presence. But to the people grappling with first hand experiences he was a rock. Approach this vast universe with the humility that John Mack did. Anything is possible, even those things that cannot be proven.
Such a reasonable and compassionate person you must be! What a balanced and fair comment. Tell your best friends they are lucky to have ya! 😉
@@donaldfeatheroff301 Aw, thank you!
Great comment! I'm here after aliens we brought up an congress recently. about time!
They don't like being called, "Aliens." They identify as, "The Terrestrially Challenged."
only an alien can call another alien alien
as in "yo whatup my alien" or "alien please"
That is hilarious.
SS - maybe pronouns like helian or shelian? Or maybe theylian!
@Sheyda Shakurova ... One pronoun takes the form of a sentient hue of the color vermilion. Another can only be expressed by employing a mathematical Fourier Series. The Terrestrially Challenged will be eternally & violently offended if any terrestrial ever deviates (even slightly) from these mandates. Remember that to them, "Cancel Culture" means complete and instantaneous planetary obliteration. Have a nice day!
The comments don't disappoint on this one. :)
Love your work but disagree with you here. Your argument: alien abductions cannot happen therefore: they did not happen
Exactly! Was finding for a comment that did not resort to scientism rather was more scientific. Everyone seems to make this guy out to be evil or some kind of lunatic when he brings an important discussion to the table and something we can further investigate and perhaps learn more. It's either people believe in everything or nothing, being open to new ideas and thoughts is how the human mind evolved, I wish these sheep would get it instead of just trying to prove a point that they're more intelligent than others! Not only John E Mack was entitled to his own belief, it was an interesting field of study. Comes to show many of the people in comment section who intend to appear intelligent by making this dude seem like a weirdo fail to understand that it is the sign of an intellectual mind to entertain a thought without accepting it! They're just on the other side of the same coin!
But biological men belong competing against biological women?
That's not "following" the "science",
that's making a mockery of it.
This is a tutelary comment for civility and clarity in responding to a charged or controversial topic, but I don't think you're right here. I mean I think you're misrepresenting Dr. Grande's argument, wittingly or not.
I can't find an explicit claim in this video where the doctor says, as a matter of fact, that alien abductions cannot happen. In fact, in his final thoughts, he mentions that 'in my opinion...' and goes on to say that John Mack's intellectual shortcoming (at least as far as those people he worked with who claimed some sort of pertinent experience) was his refusal or inability to consider a natural explanation for what these people experienced, or to allow for the possibility that at last some of those he worked with might have been disingenuous with him, to whatever degree.
This shows me that Dr. Grande qualified his statements as being his opinion - he does tell us, after all, at the beginning of every video that he's only speculating, along with the 'my opinion' hedge in his final thoughts statements - and that he is aware of and takes into account the intellectual trap of not allowing for an explanation beyond one's own pre-existing beliefs.
I just don't see how, in this video at least, he gets anywhere near the tautology you ascribe to him.
@@frankpaya690 settle down. Gender is whatever. We are all earthpeople.
@@frankpaya690 If what you're trying to say is that left wing ideology can reject science on occasion, then sure. That's why it's called "ideology".
What that has to do with anything is a mystery that even you probably don't know the answer to.
I'd like to see John E. Mack analisys of Dr. Todd Grande's life, and career..
Analise? You mean probing?
Yes, that would be completely fair. Sadly he's dead, and easy to target, as he can't respond.
@@wildlightarts Dr Grande can use an Ouija board
@@DonPeyote420 Haha. I actually thought of purchasing one last week, just for fun. I have to be careful of attachments though. I've seen aliens, I've seen ghosts, and I've seen Dr. Grande, all positive and mind altering experiences.
nailed it
Mack's biography of T E Lawrence is a masterpiece
It really is one of the best biographies I've ever read. Highly recommended.
"A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence" won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1977.
When you get your gold RUclips plaque, I EXPECT for it to have a permanent spot between the succulents. I can accept nothing less.
He can put it wherever he wants
@@RaineVinyayaa Someone doesn't understand what a joke is. Fortunately, the several thumbs up shows that others do.
@@RaineVinyayaa No, he cannot. You read OP's comment. if he wishes for their approval, he knows where he must place the golden plaque.
Any day now! 999K!
my current favorite thing is coming home from a rough day at work and seeing a new dr grande vid:)
I live in Greece and i always watch dr Grande just before sleep, great synchronization.
How sad.
Dr. Grande is an A$$!
Mother of god. He needs to find another way to scam people.
Im a fan of dc mack, I have his book on aliens, he truly was a real scientist, he didnt sell out himself to the academy, he risked his career to help and study abduction cases with an open mind without judgment. He had everything an academic could desire and risked it all to do what real scientist do, study something unknown. He's terribly missed in the academic world, where an honest man is hard to find.
@@kursk88-k1t A PhD is a doctor of philosophy of whatever discipline. His PhD is not in the study of philosophy. “Doctor of Philosophy” is what PhD stands for. So my boyfriend is getting his PhD in Chemistry, for example. He’s never taken a philosophy class (unless he was forced, which is unlikely because he would have complained about it by now.)
A person who has obtained a PhD is given the title “doctor” of whatever discipline they read. My boyfriend will soon be Dr. lastname. But he does not have an MD, and will never be licensed to practice medicine, as he did not study medicine.
And Dr Grande has been totally transparent about all of this, other than explaining what a PhD is, as I assume he didn’t feel the need to. Given this comment, though, he may now reconsider that.
Of course everybody is free to express criticism which is best done in a dignified and scholarly manner, but Dr. Grande has proven himself over and over to be a careful and well-prepared analyst of situations like this. You may not agree with him but I don't think your disapproval is warranted.
@@kursk88-k1t hmm
St Girl John Mack, MD ....hence, he was a medical doctor.
Most alien abductions can be explained some cannot be examined by sleep paralysis as they were abducted in their car wide awake or out walking or fishing and hunting.
YAH! Sleep paralysis doesn't explain this...
I respect your opinions, and you are clearly very well studied in your work, but I have had numerous sleep paralysis episodes as well as paranormal experiences and taking this purely logical approach is very easy and safe for someone in your line of work. I don’t wish for you to have an abduction experience at all, but if you were to have a real experience like many have then I think you would understand that it’s not as simple as scholars and psychological professionals try to make it sound
Yes it's comforting to people who haven't experienced this stuff to dismiss them completely.
so close to 800k!!! i’m excited for you dr grande!!!👏👏
Mass hysteria of 60+ healthy normal kids at recess randomly one day is hard for me to believe. Something went down.
I met John when I lived in Boston, attending one of his groups; a good friend knew him well and belonged to PEER. I was saddened when I heard what had happened to him.
I met him once as well. Still recall his kindness.
Damn thats amazing
I hadn’t heard of John Mack previously. He sounds fascinating. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of a deeper understanding of my own beliefs.
Heres one for you! I was having childhood memorys ,and remembered that what i thought was a witches hand came through my wall and grabbed my leg.About a year later I happened to meet a person who was bestys with John Mack. I was admiring his library one day and he gave me a book about u.f.o.s.. I laughed and said I dont believe in that. He encouraged me to check it out so I took the book home and read it. It read like my life. At the end of the book he goes to Africa to interveiw the school children.they drew a picture of a wand like thing for him, and its the same object that reached through my wall and grab my leg. Its Real! By the way I live in cape Cod and that was in the late 60's.
Interesting!
What ever you do don't fear the unusual experiences.
Fear generated experiences are delutions of ones ego and repressed emotion.
Mystical experiences are without fear from the Soul/higher self!
my father in 1952 was on a Canadian frigate in the Bermuda Triangle and spotted 6 of them in the water 7 fathoms down...captain was hailed and all he could confirm is that they shone a bright light .were circular and also what ever it was had knocked out all their electricity and radar...that being said they managed to get back into Canadian waters outside Halifax sometime later and were being hailed by the military as to where they had been....they came in 2 days late and could not justify the time lapse as they thought it was a Friday arrival to them. but a Sunday to the folks at the dock...true or not? apparently the whole crew could attest to the fact but were met by some high mucky mucks and told to shut up..there are many incidences during that year that just didn't make sense..but do I believe him....yes I do!
In 1993, a UFO hovered over the WH Sammis powerplant along the Ohio River, in broad daylight in the afternoon. The Empire cop took a polaroid of it. It sat at about 400 yards above the edge of the ridge on the west ridge valley top, just before it slopes down to the ohio river. It stayed there for like 15 minutes, like it was watching the plant, then it zipped to the east and was out of sight in a few seconds. Empire was the town that almost touched the power plant, so quite a few people saw it very closely. It was a aluminum looking disc with a bulging center. The region is a cesspool of industry, including a waste incineration plant. The aliens (probably) are amazed at our pollution abilities.
These unidentifiable crafts have also shut down nuclear weapon capabilities.
I think the aliens are shocked by our pollution abilities.
@@wildlightarts My dad was a plumber in the USAF, serviced the latrines at the minuteman silos at Malmstrom AFB 63-67. The two guys stuck in the silos would clog them up on purpose, just to see another person. My dad joked about that. He said they were stuck with each other for long rotations. However, in March of 67 he saw the red UFO hovering in the area, but no one discussed it back then. He didn't see it over the silos, though. Both my mom and him observed one from a great distance just hung along the horizon, not very high up, for a good while, one evening while driving.
With any luck, they were poisoned and won't be back! 😉 -- A fellow Ohio (?) resident
2 aliens from the Andromeda galaxy confronted me and demanded in perfect English pointing laser pistols: Take us to your supreme leader. And I took them to meet my wife.
The couch will remain empty for yet another night! 🤭
And they then thrust upon you the title of worlds wisest man.
Sleep paralysis scared the shit out of me…I thought someone was on top of me…it only lasted a very short time, but in my mind the idea popped, “well, I guess this is it…” I just remember thinking I was about to die, so it was pretty scary
I used to get it a lot when i was younger, it's so terrifying isn't it?
@@nanakoosa1 yes happen last night and all my life and I was sleeping on my side towards the wall in my bedroom and swear someone or something was tapping on my shoulder and couldn't move when I broke free nothing was there. Weird
Plot twist: the aliens are actually Dr. Grande's growing collection of cacti 🌵
I wonder what you can read into the fact that he prefers cacti? 😱
@@winnifredforbes1114 He probably admires the healing properties of cacti. The prickly pear is especially delicious.
Dry humor.
I once had sleep paralysis with my partner next to me ( including the pressure on my chest). I was convinced she was pinning me down and allowing a zombie to attack me - sounds ludicrous... absolutely terrifying at the time.
Sorry that happened to you! Night terror, not a small thing.
That was even a part of the plot of Rosemary's Baby.
I had the same scenario, except that because I was religious at the time, I immediately imagined it as a demon. It really is a scary experience.
It’s the worst - that and your kid having night terrors 😱
“ A well-known refuge for pseudoscientists and spiritual gurus” 😂
Sick sick burn! She did do a lot of that though, it's fun as long as it doesn't ruin people's lives.
This cemented my schoolgirlish crush on Dr. Grande.
Baaaahaha! I saw your comment before I started watching. Dr. Grande just dropped the line and I can't believe I didn't connect it to Oprah before he said it 😅
Love the Burn on Oprah! 😂
I find that to be a condescending tone on the late Dr Mack. He (Dr Mack) could have been desperate and just looking for a large platform to clear his name. But my question is WHY go through the effort of discrediting a man who was investigating a phenomenon that was on the fringe of modern science?
Dr mack is a treasure
More like a seizure.
@@eadweard. lol ok bud
I've never had another RUclips creator that I thought I couldn't keep up with their videos. Dr. Grande makes me think that. By the time I have time to watch his videos again he's put out three more. I mean holy shit for real.
Dr. Grande in 2010 I found a press conference that happened in 2001 called “disclosure project” and took some of it seriously. Especially the testimony of a retired navy commander Graham Bethune. All I could find was his obituary which told of a man of impeccable character and service. There are others who spoke that had some very interesting stories and pretty much all of them declared they were willing to testify under oath before congress which of course would be under penalty of perjury. Would you be interested in hearing them and speculate about what could be going on with them? Were they in on some elaborate hoax? Did the government set up the press conference to fool the gullible? George Filer the 3rd had a pretty crazy story too, many of them did…. Just for the record I know about Dr.Greer and how he can be a subject all on his own. I’m talking about the retired military pilots and radar controllers who testified.
I'm guessing that you have not served in the military, at least in an active role. It is VERY possible that persons of impeccable character can see and hear hallucinations because of the conditions they are working under, or they are simply mistaken.
In other words, there are many more explanations than either "fraud" or "aliens are real".
@@floraposteschild4184 he had a co pilot and 30 passengers who all saw it including a naval psychiatrist from Bethesda naval hospital who was onboard that instructed him to not call it in. He claims when he got back to the cockpit the co pilot was already on the radio asking if they could see it on radar.
@Flora Posteschild It's funny how so many of the people who experience this phenomenon can share the hallucinations with other people. In Portuguese air Force there's a documented experience by a pilot who in a training session saw a flying disc flying around him in an ellipse for a half an hour. He contacted the control tower and asked if there was any planes in his area to which they said no. So he descibed what he was seeing and everyone joked and laughted at him. That's when he told "If you don't believe why don't you come here to see for yourself". Two other pilots decided to show up and saw what that pilot described.
Don't confuse Dr. Grande with the facts. He knows what he believes and also knows what the rest of us should believe.
@@reptilianresearchredux5887 You might want to apply that think sort of thought to your own pursuits.
Talk about looking the wrong way - Dr. Grande is always looking out for Alien Lizard People, but the Alien Cactus People are right behind him!
🤣
Dr.Grande I think you should consider adding a murderous barn owl to your next book 😂
It’s completely ignorant to believe we are the only intelligent life in the universe.
Well where the hell they at then. 😂
Why do you people act like “aliens aren’t flying around Earth” is the same as saying “there is no other life in the universe”?
@@Bhubnipz what do you mean "you people"?
@@DonPeyote420
“You people” = people with so little going on that they say things like this
Psssst… they’re already here and have been monitoring humanity for thousands of years if not more. Read a book man.
"The Genius of John E. Mack": If John E. Mack lacks credibility for his positions, then everyone lacks credibility. Another way to say this is that he had the proper credentials for speaking about his chosen topics. Just as we prefer to listen to doctors when it comes to health matters or broken bones, and financial advisers when it comes to money, John E. Mack basically has shown that "alien abduction" is "for real." In a sense he assumes the basic liberal assumptions of people from his class and background. But it was the topic of alien abduction where his research bore the most impressive fruit. What impressed Mack the most was, as Dr. Grande points out, that the metaphors and tropes shared by those he interviewed conform to a pattern that varied only in small, unimportant ways. I think we might conclude from this that "alien abduction" is not some delusion of the ignorant, as it were, but a fully respectable position. In other words, there really is a war going on, as H.G. Wells noted in the title, "War of the Worlds," and it has been described in ancient Greek myth as the gods, in Christianity as demons and angels, and today as mental illness and aberrant behavior. Mack was harassed and bullied by people in position because his research was unsettling to them and their worldview. When your basic position is: (1) there is no capital "G" God and (2) everything will eventually be explained as "matter in motion," then (3) you have the imposition of a prison with academics and journalists as wardens.I appreciate the fact that his work discredits the skeptical and atheistic position of academics who offer people nothing but verbosity and sophistry. Thanks for reading.
Perfect way to pass the rainy day!
@@marilyn-monroe being able to enjoy rain at all is new to me bc it's such a big migraine trigger. But this shit was SIDEWAYS lmaooo
Thank you for this analysis. His death was so sad. He seemed so compassionate and caring.💜🌈💜👏👏👏
"The most probable explanation was mass hysteria"...Just like when 62 people see a car accident, the most probable explanation is also "mass hysteria", despite the fact that each witness can independently identify exactly what happened. I will start questioning anything large groups of people witness from now on...thx Dr Grande. Makes perfect sense! But better rewrite the legal system which relies on multiple witness testimony to convict criminals.
I really appreciate that you acknowledged all the positives about him, but also acknowledged that he perhaps opened to door a little too much!
Such a great episode, Dr. Grande! I'll definitely have to look him up now!
Thanks for the explanation of sleep paralysis. I have had it multiple,e times but never felt I was abducted nor did I have hallucinations but it was extremely frightening to be paralyzed and aware.
I never recall a feeling of being "paralyzed" the feeling that I've had is that I'm falling and literally there's been times of grabbing at the sheet to hold- on.
Do you get the vibrations during sp?
@@melloyellogsxr no, just the sensation of being awake and unable to move with the overwhelming feeling that if I could just move one finger, everything would be okay. It’s horrifying.
@@AedanGUnit thank you for taking the time to reply. I've only experienced sleep paralysis once in my life. It was the most frightening thing that ever happened to me. I had painful vibrations and the worst noise I've ever heard. they came in waves becoming more and more violent. I hope It never happens again.. it was more than fear it was complete dread.. anyway thanks again..
I had that happen to me about 4 years ago,scared the shite' out of me,I totally remember the dark feeling I felt!
Intelligent people are full of doubt and wonder. The ignorant are sure of everything.
I have had sleep paralysis all my life. Some nights it happens multiple times. You hear noise,see things and something is always trying to get you,touch you or sit on you, and you can’t move or scream. Then cataplexy sets in when my body goes limp. There has to be something more to this. I wish it on no one !
Yes
I have Mack’s book, Abduction. In it he says…”I personally don’t believe in aliens.” But…just like Bud Hopkins, they were encountering many people who had similar experiences. It got to the point where both men changed direction,
The cacti are taking over. The diagonal line is unsettling.
How about Jacques Vallee & J Allen Hynek? Both came to believe UFO/Alien sighting/encounters were not from other planets, but from another dimension.
Really take an offense at those quotation marks! Dr. Grande has a bonified PhD and (like Jill Biden) has every right to use the honorarium of doctor!
@@kursk88-k1t Having a bad day?
@@kursk88-k1t Then why are you here?
Seeing an unidentified flying object does not necessarily mean said object is extraterrestrial or that some sort of alien intelligence is involved with. It only means that people cannot identify it at the time. There has yet to be verified an actual alien or alien vehicle. It's fun to think about, but has not been proven to exist yet.
@@garmtpug I think UFOs are not alien craft in a conventional sense. I think they are a natural phenomenon. They are sometimes described as moving like a flashlight beam on a wall. This suggests a loss of dimensionality. Like the way a 3D object casts a 2D shadow. A shadow loses a dimension from its referent object. I think UFOs are the shadows cast by some hyperdimensional thing into our 3D space. They are shadows, only in 3D. They are evidence that something exists in a realm with more than 3 dimensions. Somehow stuff from that realm intrudes into ours but manifests as a mere shadow of its referent.
This man went on the Oprah Winfrey Show to increase his credibility? What was he thinking?
Must have been hoping it was free give away day. "You get an alien & you get an alien, everyone gets an alien."
For some reason, the knowledge that you still like to conceptualize personality by means of the Five Factor Modal is deeply comforting to me. I was afraid you and OCEAN had had a falling out.
Oddly enough, Mack was an expert on "Nightmares and Human Conflict" - the title a book he wrote before he wrote his well-acclaimed bio-analysis of TE Lawrence in the '70s
I was interested that Dr. Grande chose not to mention the fact that John Mack got the 1977 Pulitizer Prize in Biography,for his biography of TE Lawrence, when he described Dr. Mack's death whilst in London to give a lecture about Lawrence. That's not just extra "stuff' which he did and exccelled in.
@@hstookey interesting, indeed.
You need to take a closer look at the Zimbabwe case. It wasn't mass hysteria; the children actually saw a craft land and an "alien" exit it. They recently verified their experiences in the documentary "The Phenomenon".
Yes your right about this, this did happen!
I love it when there’s a “ scientific” explanation that discounts an experience simply because they themselves have never experienced the phenomenon they are trying to discredit. Then they call that “ science “.
Great analysis Dr Grande. I personally don't believe in ufo . But in my opinion John Mack, had the rights to his own belief. Thank you Dr Grande.
UFOs are real but aliens driving them is questionable
I agree with you at a certain point, but I don't say his own belief, better his own proof because he collected the evidence, especially the one in Zimbabwe in brought daylight in which these kids were interviewed 30years later and still saying the same words.
Thank you for the respectful critique of Dr. Mack's unusual beliefs. You could have had a field day with the topic, but you chose to offer a plausible explanation for the reasons he might have had for trying to see legitimacy in his patients' claims. It was an interesting story!
Yes! This is a perfect compliment!
Zimbabwe school incident may have been mass hysteria. Certainly that is the easy explanation. I saw several of the individuals interviewed recently, now middle aged, and they didn't think it was mass hysteria. I don't know what they saw and I can live with the question. When I heard Dr. Grande say Dr. Mack was on Oprah, I thought oh oh, here it comes. But it ended better than I expected.
Many of the individuals presented on this channel were on the governments blacklist and there is a huge probability that they were systematically murdered by the state. I bet the doctor is on the governments payroll to silence these individuals and convince the gullible public that these are not credible individuals.
Can you analysis how the pentagon has acknowledged and showed video existence of UFOs? Love your videos! I watch every playlist that pops up on my feed! Dr. G with the best dry humor on RUclips haha
I would love to see a psychiatrist who has the backbone & the integrity to defy colleagues and call-out the practice of psychiatry ignoring science altogether, through embracing transgenderism in so doing legitimizing the belief in certain people who have all the anatomy of one gender however believe they're the opposite gender.
In many ways modern therapy in practice today takes people that are sick in the first place and makes them sicker than they were before "therapy".
@@frankpaya690 Get help. Stop obsessing over other people's genitalia. Find a hobby. Learn to love the life you have. There are so many more important issues in the world today than what bathroom someone uses.
Yeah, the pentagon have admitted to Unidentified Flying Objects, because they are seen objects in the air that they can not identify.
@@earthmotherr5230 That was given as an example but your too dumb to understand how that's not "science", it's defying science.
The timeliness of this video is uncanny for me. Last night, at age 39, I think I had my second - ever - sleep paralysis episode. There were heavy storms in my area. I was woken by the thunder and had difficulty falling back asleep. I was going in and out. At one point I woke up to the din of the thunder and was looking at my cat who was asleep next to my head. Suddenly, this bizarre, aggressive buzzing sound crept up in the room quickly and became an immense cacophony. I completely panicked and tried to get up to try to figure out what the noise was, but couldn't move. It kept getting louder and it was extremely aggressive; almost hostile. I was completely shaken with terror because it was so obviously happening. I was completely convinced that this wasn't just some hypnogogic hallucination and that there really was this malicious sound swarming me and yet I couldn't even move to investigate it.
That's the last thing I remember. Apparently I ended up falling asleep and getting an otherwise pretty decent night of sleep. Woke up for work this morning and that was that lol
God bless men like Dr. John Mack who listen to the person and not a checksheet like a new guy
When someone who believes they saw a UFO thinks you’re gullible… you should really question yourself.
I tend to doubt that all 150+ witnesses of the Ariel school incident (including adults and children of different ages and backgrounds) were coincidentally creative, distrustful and had cluster A personality features.
I remember having my first sleep paralysis episode at 19. Was terrifying but I already didn't believe in anything supernatural, didn't see ghosts or figures just the dread, anxiety and paralysis. Now when I have it, I still try to scream out but can't, but know it'll pass and I'm fine in 5 minutes
Yeah same now. Also did you see what the other guy said about sleep masks?
@@eadweard.i know u are not talking to me, but im one who did not see that. could u share please?
@@CastledarkDweller27 I can't find it now but it basically said a sleep mask solves paralysis cos it only happens when your eyes open slightly and you start seeing the room.
@@eadweard. oh jesus really? thats bloody fantastic! thankyouuuuuu!
gonna tie a tshirt round my eyes tonight and buy a sleep mask tomorrow.
Same for me. I don’t believe that sleep paralysis are good explanations for abduction because some people are abducted during the day 🤦♂️
UFO Physician. Only in America. 😂
He's a board certified UFO doctor. WTF?
To Ricardo... Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one that thought this. Excuse me.... I mean KNEW this . 👽 That ole Cape Cod
eh, there are physicians believing crazier things
like that water has "memory" or that cannabis has no medical purposes.
When I was in graduate school there was a well respected mathematics professor named John Mack. There was no end to the ufo jokes...
I am blown away how many people joking and thinking it’s foolish about extra terrestrials! Why is it so hard to believe that they are exist?
That they could exist: not so hard. That they do, without question, exist: hard. You need more evidence than "some people say so" and some blurry pictures. Especially these days, when it's so easy to fake something electronically, and social media attention can mean big money. But if you look back to so-called "incontrovertible evidence" of UFOs, ghosts, bigfoot, etc. from the 1950s, or even the 1970s, it's obvious, to our eyes, that the pictures and videos are fake. Not so then.
It's actually not very hard to believe anything without proof, how do you think religions form? All you need to do is turn off your brain and not require any evidence.
@@DonPeyote420 True. Believing in the paranormal much proof can be what some people do when they've drifted away from traditional religion.
And some people do both: e.g. belief in ghosts and demons can fill both a religion and a paranormal slot.
I had an experience with sleep paralysis. I dream that I was an ordinary person living an ordinary life. It was totally terrifying.
Any hints on how to snap out of it?
Mack was ahead of his time.
Ok, JFK I can understand but why would the aliens take Khrushchev? He'd make a ruckus on the spaceship, banging his shoe everywhere yelling about corn...
Aliens actually do make the odd horrible mistake from time to time. They struggled with that defiant shoe pounding like you wouldn't believe! At least that's what the voices in my head tell me... 🥴😁
@@Kari.F. maybe they were aiming for a cow that time and have misread Khrushchev's heat signature on their radar.
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Maybe they needed him to assist them in converting their alien political system to communism.
@@chad3232132 I bet Fidel Castro felt really left out when the aliens took JFK and Khrushchev on that space trip and didn't even have the courtesy invite him. Like hey, you're taking the Caribbean Crisis crew aboard, but not the actual Caribbean guy? Maybe they didn't allow cigars in the space ship idk
Have a nice day Dr Grande!!!
I won't be packing my bags for an alien vacation any time soon. Gotta be here everyday to listen to Dr Grande speculate but not diagnose anybody in situations like this.😉😂Thank you for your analysis doc! 💖💖💖
I say good on this fella for being a professional with an actual open mind.
Mack comes across as a decent fellow doing his best to understand and help people but perhaps did them a dis-service by being too open to the abduction stories they told him. I think the human decency he showed to people everywhere is the best way to remember him.
As always an excellent video 👍
PS. Your pronunciation of Totteridge was spot on!
From what I've read about Dr Mack, one of his defining traits was his empathy and compassion for others. He was a basically good person who just ended up believing some weird stuff.
@@harrysecombegroupie Dr. Mack's knowledge was extremely broad. Some of it might be regarded by some as "weird stuff," .but this man was also the winner of the 1977 Pulitizer Prize for Biography for his work on TE Lawrence. We need to respect his intellect and his breadth of experience which together resulted in him holding views which may be 'alien' to us but are clearly astonishing.
Thanks for doing what you do Dr. Grande, Your analysis is greatly appreciated.
Your cactus game is killing it Doc 🌵
Twenty years on they will realise that Mack was right. Funny its always like that. Children do not lie!!!!
Children are lying dirtbags.
yes either do people in a giant field that spot a large triangular object zoom across the sky the size of 4 football stadiums...and there were a lot of witnesses in Arizona that year!
Can do a discussion on why white people adopt black kids? Including celebs?
Because they love them..
Them, referring to the kids they adopt
According to this guy, dozens of children and some teachers had an acute, simultaneous hallucination of a close encounter of the second or third kind.
FYI, Mack did not try to walk his claims of evidence back. In fact, it was quite the opposite.
Damn.. I’ve dabbled in LSD and theory craft on things myself. I’m convinced there is another dimension that we can not perceive. If there is another intelligent life form, then they must not take on a form of matter and exist among this dimension. I’ve believed this since I was a child. I’m convinced at this point. Imma read up on this dude. It’s gonna be fun.
Yes, most likely Alien visitations are interdimensional.
The physical plane/demension cannot sufficiently hold evolved beings.
goddamn hippies!!!
@@DonPeyote420
I missed out on free love, unfortunately I had to pay for it!
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I'm sure he was killed whilst on his way to meet the author Graham Hancock who was researching his book supernatural.... it was strange timing considering the topic of the book
i often experience sleep paralysis and i always see a demon looking at me above my head 😩
Do you genuinely think it's a demon? You know you're asleep right? I think Grande is wrong about this.
@@shittyfattits807 ... 😂😂😂
I've seen them demon looking entities too look like hooded cloaked monks in black. He shouldn't completely dismiss. Their are ways this guy speaking wouldn't agree with to deal with these beings as he has no belief in them
While you were talking, the sunlight entered my room flashing on my ceiling fan. It appeared you had a UFO circling your head! I had a great laugh! Thanks Dr Todd Grande for your dedication providing UFO and alien lizard quackery.
I used to experience sleep paralysis pretty frequently. I learned to relax my body and then I could wake up. It was pretty scary. Now I think it was caused by sleep apnea when I would stop breathing. A special pillow has minimized the sleep apnea, so I don’t experience sleep paralysis anymore.
With Mack’s credentials I remember few challenged his research when he was alive but mostly turned the other way or ridiculed him.
Usually in life, when a person is on to somthing new most will ridicule the individual until the new material is processed and accepted by science.
Then they are concidered a genius and everyone ends up kissing there Ass!🤣🤣🤣
This is usually the case with all major scientific breakthroughs!
Science is a wierd animal.
Science in general is not open to new concepts.
"Science" is dedicated to what is "known"
Science fights hard to reject new theories but eventually compitichulates when the new theory gains traction. 🤷♂️☺🤪
Waking up paralyzed with a sense of a person being in the room? Couldn't be sleep paralysis, must be aliens!
Many are in their cars or out and about not in their beds asleep.
@@kayhawkins5925 well that's just irresponsible on the part of the aliens, plucking a driver right out of their vehicle not even allowing them to pull over. And does the car continue moving on its own for sometime until full stop after the driver is pulled out and into the UFO? What if the car rolls into the oncoming traffic and collides with another vehicle? In other words, this is yet another case of aliens not respecting traffic codes at all. One would think that the advanced civilization would at least give the driver some kind of warning like "Please pull over, you're about to be sucked into the UFO, be sure to lock your car" or something.
@@DonPeyote420 no they actually take the car with occupants
@@kayhawkins5925 would be nice if the alien mechanics could change the oil while their medical guys are experimenting on the abductees but I guess that was never the case. So much for technical advancement.
Hello Dr Grande, would you please do a video on Tania Head (who faked being a 9/11 survivor)? I find her case fascinating and would love to hear your thoughts!
Yes...we definitely need an analysis of her. I am fascinated by her story.
As a life long sufferer of sleep paralysis I have yet to meet an alien or experience any type of visual hallucination. Yes a humming noise can occur but even as a child was aware I was in sleep paralysis. I completely disagree with you over this being an explanation.
Scientist are very arrogant in thinking they know everything about the existence we live in.
I just saw an old 60 Minutes Australia segment in which one of Dr Mack's Harvard colleagues trashed his work and said he should be dismissed. He also said science already understood people who make such claims and used the example of men who think they're women, whom he said they try to help. Ironically, Dr Mack would today be the accepted one, while his colleague who thought trans men needed help would be run out of the profession.
I have had an experience akin to alien abduction, with the same hallmarks of common description of one, I did wake up to find a wound corrospinding to the experience, however what I believe is that while awake before the dream I must've noticed the wound wondered how I got it ( it was a perfect triangle of 3 needle like pricks) and not thought much of it then had a very lucid dream that subconsciously tried to explain it to me in the fantastical way that dreams to be
I had a dream once where I could control time but I couldn’t stop myself from being stoned to death so I kept dying over and over again I woke up in pain
@@joelle4226 oh, sweetpea =[ I hope you don't have horrible dreams like that anymore =[ I hope you have beautiful dreams now
I used to get those (pin prick triangles under the skin that eventually vanish yet reappear other times id find upon waking near the knees) when I was a child, they seemed to stop at age 10. This is the 2nd time today I've come across someone discussing this too.. I've had many what we refer to as paranormal experiences consciously aware of them from age 25. I don't agree with this guys analysis of what sleep paralysis is. I think his thinking is rather rigid and to dismiss this stuff as hallucinations etc is comforting for people who have no first hand experience of them 🤔
So? Is it kinda like if a medical doctor decides to go all natural? And the medical board tells them that it’s irresponsible? Then fire you? And remove your license as well?
I appreciate your balanced and insightful analysis of this man.
One of the encounters John explored was the sighting of aliens at a school in Zimbabwe which you referred to as mass hysteria. I’m a Zimbabwean myself and have heard numerous stories from people all over the country who saw strange beings which they concluded to be ghosts of spirits of dead relatives. I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe those people saw things which they thought were souls of dead people. We can debate what name to give to the things they saw, but we can’t say all those people are making things up. This may be difficult for a mainstream scientist like yourself to believe, but there are things that happen in this world that Eurocentric science will never understand. These things are common in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa, unless you’re saying these people all need to be diagnosed. There’s so much we don’t know about this universe.
The good Doctor is certainly saying something about the eye witnesses but he wont dare say it out loud!
Your conclusion from 62 children that had an experience with aliens from a UFO, most of them through telepathy, letting them know their concern on how we treat our planet, being mass hysteria, really!?!
Had to listen to that twice. " Explore personality angles before packing one's bags for an alien vacation." May I steal that? It applies to so many things.
This wrong side of the road is very dangerous in first few days, until you get used to it.
Dr. Grande what do you think of Congressional hearings on UFO/UAP ?
WE 👏 NEED 👏 MORE 👏 CASE 👏 STUDIES.
Thanks for your hard work, Dr. Grande!
💯!!!!!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Give me serial killers or case studies! 😅
I have literally never binged so hard on someone’s videos lol
Swing and a miss on that Zimbabwe case. 60-plus people saw it and they'll all tell you today it happened. Also, there was a scholarly paper done on mass hysteria cases in Africa and it specifically discounted it in that event. Look at the drawings those kids made of what they saw - they're all so similar. How could 60 kids draw the same thing that wasn't there?
'Mass hysteria' is a simplistic explanation, ref to the school landing in Africa. I write this as an open minded agnostic about the UFO phenomenon.
Hey Dr.,
I think it would be interesting if you did a series of personality profiles on the ancestors of psychology like Freud, Jung, Adler, Horney, Erikson and even those from the Frankfurt school of psychoanalysis. Maybe a thought for future content. Keep up the good work!
Agree!
You forgot Maslow and his scale, that can lead to self-actualization.
I believe this man. He was a hero in my eyes. Stood his ground even though the world laughed and said he was crazy. Needless to say, UFO hearing just ended in us congress. Ty for. Your opinion doc.
I'm sure he had his fair share of fakers. Some of them surely told the truth.
Actually Dr. Mack sounds awesome considering the issues of Mental health clinicians disregard spiritual and cultural beliefs outside of "Western science". To this day, this is problematic for clients of diverse backgrounds.
i love the respect you shown for him here
I've had sleep paralysis twice. It's very weird. You see and hear stuff that isn't there while paralysed and fully conscious. It's very easy to see how people with a screw lose think there is something alien or supernatural going on.
These people were not crazy. I can tell you didn’t even read the damn book…
Come back to me when you have read the book and we’ll talk ☺️
Dr. Grande's explanation of sleep paralysis with illusions as the cause of abduction reports omits the cases where the experiencers are fully awake, or driving a car, or doing other non-somnolent actions when they are abducted. Picking and choosing cases do reinforce explanations or beliefs, while ignoring others that don't fit, is a huge credibility error in his analysis.