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Probing abductions

IMPOSSIBLE ARCHIVAL RESEARCH

In what promises to be the first of its kind in terms of methodology, scope and scale, the Archives of the Impossible based at Rice University has announced it is conducting a two-year meta-data research study in collaboration with the John Mack Institute.

Karin Austin, an experiencer who participated in Dr Mack’s research, officially became the project manager of the archive in April 2024. Nearly two decades after Mack’s untimely death in September 2004, she began working with Jeff Kripal,

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