John Mack founds the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research

Name: John Mack founds the Program for Extraordinary Experience Research
Start: 1993
Location: Cambridge, MA

When: 1993
Where: Cambridge, MA
Sources: 2 public sources

Harvard psychiatrist John Mack (with Budd Hopkins) in 1995 Becket01, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Harvard psychiatrist John E. Mack started PEER through his Center for Psychology and Social Change, with funding from Laurance Rockefeller, to study how reported alien encounters affected people's lives and worldviews, without trying to prove or disprove them. It ended in 2002.

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FirsthandProgram for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER) (opens in a new tab)John E. Mack Institute
FirsthandHistory (opens in a new tab)John E. Mack Institute

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