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The Believer - (Project Book Club)

2025/5/27
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Bryce Zabel: 我认为创建一个UFO书籍的讨论平台很有意义，因为很多人在阅读后找不到可以交流的人。我们希望这个平台能像一个早间节目，轻松愉快，让大家可以一边喝咖啡一边参与讨论。我承认我拥有的UFO书籍中，可能只完整阅读了50本，但我会把多余的书借给朋友，让他们阅读并写下读后感，这样可以传播知识。 Chrissy Newton: 我有很多UFO书籍，喜欢UFO的人不可能没有相关书籍。当你想参考UFO书籍时，拥有一本实体书会带来新奇感，还可以请作者签名并与人讨论。我总是希望有人可以一起讨论UFO相关话题，但喜欢UFO话题的人遍布世界各地，很难找到同时阅读同一本书的人。可能已经有超过5000本UFO书籍了。这是一个很棒的社区活动，可以帮助人们学习和探索。

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Bryce Zabel and Chrissy Newton launch Project Book Club, a morning-show style book club focusing on books related to UFOs and consciousness. They discuss their extensive UFO book collections and how they plan to engage with their audience by reading and discussing a book each month.
  • Launch of Project Book Club podcast
  • Focus on UFO and consciousness books
  • Morning show style format
  • Hosts have extensive UFO book collections
  • Monthly book discussions
  • Audience engagement

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Welcome to the first episode of Project Book Club, where hosts Bryce Zabel and Chrissy Newton launch a fresh kind of conversation around the books that shape the UFO and consciousness landscape. This isn’t your typical late-night podcast. It’s a morning-show-style book club made for readers who want to explore the unknown with a hot drink in hand and curiosity on full blast.

In this episode, Bryce and Chrissy dive into The Believer by Ralph Blumenthal, the biography of Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack. Mack rose to prominence for his Pulitzer Prize-winning work, but his legacy shifted dramatically when he began studying alien abduction phenomena. Bryce and Chrissy unpack the book’s layered portrait of Mack, exploring his courage, contradictions, and the firestorm he faced from Harvard when he chose to publicly validate the experiences of abductees.

The discussion touches on the emotional depth of Mack’s journey, including his personal flaws, academic brilliance, and the spiritual and philosophical questions that guided his work. They examine how Mack challenged the limits of Western scientific thought, his interest in consciousness, and how his openness to Eastern philosophies influenced both his worldview and research methods.

Bryce and Chrissy also reflect on some of the major events in Mack’s life, like his involvement in the Ariel School incident in Zimbabwe, and his controversial interviews on national television. They take time to discuss his critics, his supporters, and the legacy he left behind when he died unexpectedly in 2004.

Through thoughtful insights and a bit of morning humor, this episode sets the stage for what Project Book Club is all about: digging deep into powerful stories, asking big questions, and creating a community where readers can explore the unknown together.

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