John Mack was born in Somerville, New Jersey and attended the Julliard School of Music, studying with Harold Gomberg and Bruno Labate and then at the Curtis Institute of Music with the legendary Marcel Tabuteau. His first professional experience was with the Sadler Wells Ballet's American tour in 1951-1952. Afterwards he was appointed principal oboist of the New Orleans Symphony, taught briefly at Louisiana State University, and then played with the National Symphony from 1963-1965. He was appointed by George Szell as the principal oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1965 and remained there until his retirement in 2001. 9/11 Memorial and Court House, Somerville, NJ Somerville is a borough located in Somerset County, New Jersey. ... The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ...
Since 1965 he has been the Chairman of Oboe Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music and also serves on the faculty of the Julliard School of Music.
Mack advocated that Western culture required a shift away from a purely materialist worldview (which he felt was responsible for the Cold War, the global ecological crisis, ethnonationalism and regional conflict) towards a transpersonal worldview which embraced certain elements of Eastern spiritual and philosophical traditions.
Mack initially suspected that such persons were suffering from mental illness, but when no obvious pathologies were present in the persons he interviewed, Mack's interest was piqued.
Mack's interest in the spiritual or transformational aspects of people's alien encounters, and his suggestion that the experience of alien contact itself may be more spiritual than physical in nature - yet nonetheless real - set him apart from many of his contemporaries such as Budd Hopkins, who advocated the physical reality of aliens.
John Edward Mack, M.D. October 4, 1929 - September 27, 2004), professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, considered to be a leading authority on the spiritual or transformational effects of alleged alien encounter experiences, sometimes called the Abduction Phenomenon.
Mack was killed by a motorist when walking home from a dinner with friends in London on Monday September 27, 2004.
Mack was a student of Grof Holotropic Breathwork, a meditative technique developed by Stanislav Grof.
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