Source: WTUFO youtube
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Karin Austin leads both the Center for the Impossible at Rice University and the John Mack Institute.
In the 1990's, Karin worked with the late Harvard psychiatrist, John E. Mack, M.D., contributing her own experiences to his research into the abduction phenomenon, and eventually transitioning into the role of his personal assistant.
After Dr. Mack's death in 2004, Karin was pivotal in helping Dr. Mack's family close his estate, an effort that eventually led to collaborating with Wilson Research Center's Head of Special Collections, Amanda Focke, and Rice University's Dr. Jeff Kripal, to transfer and digitize a major donation of Dr. Mack's phenomenon-related materials.
The archives of the Center for the Impossible have grown to include collections from more than a dozen UFO researchers. Karin is leading the effort to digitize these materials, preserving them for future investigation and making them increasingly accessible for scientifically rigorous data analysis.
The specific nature of this work makes up the bulk of our conversation. We also discuss Karin's views of the phenomenon and her perspective on how humanity should proceed as we steadily learn more about it.
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Karin Austin | Neon Galactic EP85 | Mar. 3, 2025
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Source: Neon Galactic w/James Faulk youtube, impossiblearchives.rice.edu
Description:
On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Karin Austin of Archives of the Impossible and the John Mack Institute about her experience at Sol this year, and her work to help make experiencer metadata accessible to researchers.
Karin Austin is an experiencer who participated in John Mack’s research into the alien encounter phenomenon during the late 1990s. She later evolved into a role as his personal assistant. After John’s passing, she helped the Mack family with the closing of his estate and was directly responsible for preparing John’s home-based archives for storage.
She has spent the last years working to make the metadata available from Mack’s years of research, clinical sessions, and correspondence available for deeper study.
We discuss how the subject of contact fits into the larger political dynamics of the United States, and how the messages long received by abductees and experiencers have been predicting a collapse. Are we upon that moment?
How do we move forward as a topic under these social stressors?
We also discuss how the nature of contact has changed over the years, and what that might mean.
To learn more about the archives:
https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu
Description:
On this episode of Neon Galactic, we interview Karin Austin of Archives of the Impossible and the John Mack Institute about her experience at Sol this year, and her work to help make experiencer metadata accessible to researchers.
Karin Austin is an experiencer who participated in John Mack’s research into the alien encounter phenomenon during the late 1990s. She later evolved into a role as his personal assistant. After John’s passing, she helped the Mack family with the closing of his estate and was directly responsible for preparing John’s home-based archives for storage.
She has spent the last years working to make the metadata available from Mack’s years of research, clinical sessions, and correspondence available for deeper study.
We discuss how the subject of contact fits into the larger political dynamics of the United States, and how the messages long received by abductees and experiencers have been predicting a collapse. Are we upon that moment?
How do we move forward as a topic under these social stressors?
We also discuss how the nature of contact has changed over the years, and what that might mean.
To learn more about the archives:
https://impossiblearchives.rice.edu
