Edgar Mitchell - American astronaut and mystic - founder of the Neotic Institute

A typical mystical experience

Traveling back to Earth, having just walked on the moon, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell had an experience for which nothing in his life had prepared him. As he approached the planet we know as home, he was filled with an inner conviction as certain as any mathematical equation he'd ever solved. He knew that the beautiful blue world to which he was returning is part of a living system, harmonious and whole—and that we all participate, as he expressed it later, "in a universe of consciousness."
Trained as an engineer and scientist, Captain Mitchell was most comfortable in the world of rationality and physical precision. Yet the understanding that came to him as he journeyed back from space felt just as trustworthy—it represented another way of knowing.
This experience radically altered his worldview: Despite science's superb technological achievements, he realized that we had barely begun to probe the deepest mystery of the universe—the fact of consciousness itself. He became convinced that the uncharted territory of the human mind was the next frontier to explore, and that it contained possibilities we had hardly begun to imagine. Within two years of his expedition, Edgar Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1973.

Nice post Eniad.

xo
Lana

Taking such a tour probably alters consiousnes and the way we percieve things.
Thus opening our mind to see new things that we rationally normally dosent see or believe because our mind tells us it dosent exist. Or that we cant percieve it, looking from the angle we are currently looking from.

I was watching the movie, what the bleep do we know yesterday. Cant say i got all but it was interesting. It was mentioned when early explorers came in contact with people who had always lived on islands. Since the concept of a ship armada wasent anyway near their reality they couldent see the ships. Tought, the shaman could see a blurr out on the ocean. After staring for days on it he could finally see the ships out there and thus showing the other inhabitants.

Yes, I wanted to blog about that movie and the sequel that I haven't seen ...on the character Amanda...and the fact that though we are concretely in one spot we are at the same time everywhere in the universe through our vibrational...stand-alone wave nature.
There is an hypothesis that the brain is actually programmed to filter out information of a psychic nature, making it everyday while the ones that escape are the shamans and the ones we consider mentally disturbed and would have been trained as shamans.

I simply wonder how blind we are and I think that we are totally as we go our everyday life in a sea of marvels navigating our thigh little corridors. Sometimes I catch amused feelings about our little lives.
As a matter of fact, we are referred to as the "walking dead" by spirits. Looking Beyond by James Van Praagh, p. 24.
There are just so many dimensions in one spot, often dipping through and linking. We - me and the roommate - can feel them.

This is something I would like to write about, maybe in a science fiction /parable form to make it easy to grasp and as a way to express that "reality" but I am working all the time …more later

I've always been a scifi addict, but I've recently come to believe that the true path to the stars can be found by turning inward. The gateways to the universe can be found deep within our consciousness.

Ingo Swann travels there all the time. He even told Nasa and Hubble what to watch for and was right on every count.
Funny how everything, absolutely everything is inside us.

Nice story

R