"I am 'The God Father' of New Age Physics in California starting with Esalen in the 70's and the Physics Consciousness Research Grope (pun intended) in San Francisco which at various times included Nick Herbert, Saul Paul Sirag, Time Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Gary Zukav, Fritjof Capra, Fred Alan Wolf, Henry Pierce Stapp, Brian Josephson, Russell Targ, Hal Puthoff, Ralph Abraham, Phillipe Eberhard and many others who had dinner or were our guests at our Palatial quarters at top of Nob Hill 1155 Jones with money provided by Werner Erhard and by Laurence Rockefeller's close friend Jean Lanier who was the widow of the Chairman Of Stone Webster. We also got money from US Air Force Training command via the late spook George Koopman - as well as from CIA sources indirectly via the late Hal Chipman. We were part of the covert psy war op which got high level Soviet officials to Esalen hot tubs where their minds were altered by psychedelics and our boys turned them - hence the fall of the Soviet Empire. Note that Boris Yeltsin came to America with Esalen money before he became President of Russia and that the head of Gorbachev Foundation USA is a former Esalen official."

"As for Feynman, he also took Werner's money and came to Esalen, though not when I was there. I knew Feynman in 60s. We once went driving in my Jaguar (in 1963) flirting with women on Sunset Blvd. He spent a few hours in 1968 with me talking about my thesis problem. He once sent me a funny letter addressed 'To the Great Sarfatti' ..."
     - Jack Sarfatti (sarfatti@netcom.com)

"In view of the present-day Esalen-Erhard-Yeltsin-Gorbachev connections, the 1979 Esalen-UFO connection is significant. Even though I had split with Werner Erhard by late 1977, est's Raz Ingrasci phoned me and asked me to meet with Jenny O Conner. Raz said that Jenny had been sent to Werner by Sir John Whitmore who had funded Andrija Puharich's collaborations with Uri Geller back in 1973. Jenny claimed to be channeling messages from "The Nine" - the same extra-terrestrials that Puharich wrote about..... Jenny and The Nine was promptly installed at Esalen, the New Age seminar and training center near Big Sur, California, for quite some time overlapping with visits by physicist the late Heinz Pagels, Congressman Charlie Rose, Ira Einhorn, and high ranking Russians from Georgy Arbatov's Moscow Institute of US and Canada which was influential during Gorbachev's watch. Soviet Officials at Esalen in late 70's and early 80's:
     Valentin M. Berezhkov
     Yuri A. Zamoshkin
     Andrey A. Kokoshin
     Henrikas Jushkevitshus
     Vladimir M. Kuznetsov
     Victor M. Pogostin
     Vlail P. Kaznacheyev
     Joseph Goldin
"This list is not complete. Vladimir Posner is an important fellow in all this according to Schwartz and Tinkerman. The fact remains, the iron post of observation, that a bunch of stoned California flakes into UFOs and psychic phenomena had wormed their way into the highest levels of the American ruling class and the Soviet Union and today run the Gorbachev Foundation.
"Did these alleged crypto-Nazi KGB agents get high in the hot tubs of Esalen? There certainly were drugs of all kinds in abundance when I was there! Was Jan Brewer telling the truth about the Fourth Reich using Arica to influence the New Age. Brewer was part of the original Esalen group of forty that went to Chile for the first Arica training with Oscar Ichazo1. Arica was big at Esalen at the same time that the Soviets were soaking in the hot tubs....What about Jim Garrison who now runs Gorbachev's Foundation in America? Was he really a conscious KGB agent as Stephen Schwartz believes?"
     - Jack Sarfatti, unpulished memoirs (source: Bob Dunn - via ParaNet)

Dr. John Mack is the Pulitzer Prize winning psychiatrist who has validated UFO abduction experiences using "recovered memories".
"Mack was one of the men who forged Harvard's Cambridge Hospital Department of Psychiatry into a premier teaching hospital...and for four years he was its head. He's been a member of the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, certified as a Child Psychoanalyst and Chairman of the Executive Committee for all five hospital-based departments of psychiatry...He's also a high-profile idealist who's been at the forefront of efforts by his peers for global peace and conservation. He is founding Director of the Center for Psychological Studies in the Nuclear Age and a member of Physicians for Social Responsibility and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. [The list of accomplishments doesn't stop there; Mack has published over 150 articles and books on subjects ranging from nightmares to teenagers who kill their mothers to Russian children's feelings about nuclear weapons.]"

"He was raised in a rationalist, German-Jewish, New York household, where his father read him the Bible, not because he believed in God but because the stories were fascinating...He went on to specialize in child psychoanalysis....Later he began to work on issues of nuclear disarmament, global peace and conservation. He has traveled the world attending conferences on ecology and the Earth, mingling with everyone from scientists to philosophers, philanthropists and economists. He also began to explore alternative approaches to consciousness. In the 1970's Mack was taken with Werner Erhard's est and associated mind altering techniques."
"Mack begs the question of past lives here. He says that at the time he was in Russia as part of an exchange project, sponsored by Esalen, to talk about the impact of the nuclear arms race on children. His consciousness, he told me, 'traveled in time to identify this Russian man. After that experience I felt great empathy for the Russians..."
"Today he calls himself a 'co-investigator and co-creator' in the abduction phenomenon."
     - Jill Neimark, "The Harvard Professor and the UFO's", Psychology Today (Mar/Apr 1994)

This article "reveals a man who has never had a spiritual base but has viewed spiritualism as 'stories' throughout his life and career and whom has been affiliated with a plethora of positions where he was associated with mind control experimentation financed by Richard Nixon's LEAA ( Law Enforcement Assistance Administration ) to the tune of some $6 billion from it's inception in 1968 by the Department of Justice and whose moneys were directed at behavior modification research projects. Dr. Mack became 'interested in alternate consciousness' programs around this time and has continued to be involved with programs financed by the military and CIA for use as weapons and behavior modifiers."
     - Chuck Zeps

"Mack's studies are largely funded by a tax-exempt, nonprofit research organization that he founded in 1983, now called the Center for Psychology and Social Change. With headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the center was started as an attempt to study the nuclear arms race in psychological terms. After the cold war ended, the organization started raising money for scholars who want to combine psychology with such topics as ecology and ethnic conflicts. Explains the center's executive director, Vivienne Simon: 'One of our main goals is to challenge current scientific method, which is to deny all things you cannot reduce to statistics.'"
     - "The Man from Outer Space", Time, April, 1994

Center for Psychology and Social Change "founder and board member John Mack has been researching reports of those who have experienced being abducted by intelligent non-human beings, and is completing a book detailing more than a dozen case studies. Funded by a grant from the Human Potential Foundation, the project is under the auspices of the Center for Psychology and Social Change, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School at The Cambridge Hospital in Cambridge, Masachusetts. The Project is entitled PEER or the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research, and will provide support to individuals having these experiences, research the phenomenon and its implications for both the experiencers and the rest of humanity, and educate members of the service professions and the general public."
     - Karen Wesolowski

"As many of us know, the Human Potential Foundation is the organization that is operated by C.B. Scott Jones. I have heard, although this is not verified, that Jones' organization is funded by Senator Claiborne Pell and Rockefeller."
     - Michael Corbin

Donna Bassett, a writer who worked herself into Mack's confidence using fabricated accounts of her family background, underwent three hypnotic-regression sessions with him.
" Bassett, who made extensive tapes and notes of her life in the UFO cult, says Mack provided her with UFO literature to read prior to her sessions -- a practice that medical hypnotists say will almost surely influence hypnotic revelations. "
     - "The Man from Outer Space", Time, April, 1994

"There's a little note on the program which she, it says 'Looking forward to our meeting, here's some materials in advance of that meeting.' She went in to Time magazine, she also said on the Nova program that this was sort of priming her in anticipation of a regression so my beliefs would be put across. Well what was left off in the Nova show? They only showed me writing this to Donna. This note was written - and we have the note - to Ed and Donna, namely to both of them in anticipation of a meeting in the lounge of the Charles Hotel, which I understood was a collegial meeting to exchange papers and ideas about it. It had nothing to do with a regression or anything of the kind. So that was a complete distortion."
     - John Mack on "The Connection", WBUR 90.9FM Boston, Feb 29, 1996

"During the sessions, which Mack held in a darkened bedroom in his house rather than in a neutral office, he asked leading questions that reflected his biases. 'John made it obvious what he wanted to hear,' says Bassett. 'I provided the answers.' Among other recollections, she told of an encounter with John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev on board a spaceship during the Cuban missile crisis. Bassett said Khrushchev was crying and that 'I sat in his lap, and I put my arms around his neck, and I told him it would be O.K.' Hearing her tale, Mack became so excited that he leaned on the bed too heavily, and it collapsed."
     - "The Man from Outer Space", Time, April, 1994

CHRIS LYDON: "Did you hypnotize her and did you feel that she was faking her way through it?"

JOHN MACK: "I worked with her in good faith. She was a troubled person, troubled by what appeared to be these experiences. There's a friend of hers who says she's been troubled about these abduction experiences going back into the eighties. The whole question of her hoaxing, infiltrating, that's really very uncertain. There's a letter to Whitley Strieber going back - who is a very well known experiencer, she wrote to him - going back a year ago saying that abductions have been occurring in her family for generations. This goes back eleven months before she ever contacted me at all. So, you know there's a real question about the whole story. After two meetings, in the Charles lounge, where we talked about some of her and her husband's ideas of government conspiracy and radiation and this and that, damaging our people, and experiments that were going on, it appeared that she herself was troubled and wanted to have some sessions with me so I did meet with her after that. But, again, because she was a troubled person - and I'm not going to talk about details of her case - I have a lot of question about it and have never used any of the materials from my sessions with her in any of my public speaking or any of my written materials. So this notion that I somehow accepted everything she said without any skepticism is also completely false."
     - "The Connection", WBUR 90.9FM Boston, Feb 29, 1996

"I don't know why there's such a zeal to find a conventional physical explanation, I don't know why people have such trouble simply accepting the fact that something unusual is going on here . . . We have lost the faculties to know other realities that other cultures still can know. The world no longer has spirit, has soul, is sacred. We've lost all that ability to know a world beyond the physical . . . I am a bridge between those two worlds."
     - John Mack quoted in "The Man from Outer Space", Time, April, 1994

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