Joey Madia, New Mystics Reviews

    (Self-published, 2023). ISBN: 979-8-871896-14-3 I have to begin this review by saying this is one of the most compelling, convincing narratives of ET abduction I have ever read. This is no small compliment: over the past 15 years, after my own experience with missing time and strange occurrences, I have studied this field intensively, reading many books, interviewing abductees and contactees, and carefully considered the evidence. Although UFOlogists lament the lack of attention paid to your “everyday person,” and I have long been skeptical of the assumption that being a police officer or airline pilot makes that person’s report of an experience automatically more accurate and credible, there is something encouraging about the increasing numbers of medical professionals and scientists taking a serious look at UFOlogy. Dr. John Mack, Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard psychiatrist, nearly lost his position in the university medical school because of his study of abductees. ...

  (Toronto: Prometea Press, 2021). ISBN: 9781777135133 Several weeks ago I reviewed Wes Roberts’s first book, Intersections , cowritten with Lesley Mitchell-Clarke, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist who helped the author retrieve memories from numerous abductee/contactee experiences he has had over the course of his life. Written three years later, An Experiencer’s Garden is a different type of book, and my focus here will therefore be different as well. While Intersections details Roberts’s experiences (both remembered on his own and through a series of hypnotic regression sessions), the follow-up is even more personal and intimate. At its core are Roberts’s theories and realizations about what has been happening to him since childhood and possible reasons why. In a time of dangerous, misleading “disclosure” by the military–industrial–intelligence complex (most likely to fatten the budget of the “new” Space Force and private defense contractors not answerable to Congress...