Astronaut Experiences…
Over at Cabinet of Wonders (an excellent site that covers a wealth of unsolved mysteries and Fortean puzzles), there is a new and insightful piece on Apollo astronaut, Edgar Mitchell.
Here’s an extract from the article:
“For astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the defining moment of his life was not the moment when, on February 9, 1971, he became the sixth man to walk on the surface of the Moon. Rather, it was something that happened to him on the way back from the Moon - something he would later describe as a ’spontaneous epiphany experience’.
“As the Apollo 14 Command Module barrelled homewards, Mitchell, during a rare idle moment, looked out through the window. His gaze took in the stars, the Sun, the approaching Earth, all seeming to gracefully revolve about him (though in fact it was the spacecraft itself that was rotating).
“And then it happened. Suddenly, Mitchell was no longer experiencing himself as a detached observer looking out at the Universe. Instead, he was truly in the Universe. And so was everything, and everyone, else. Everything was connected. Everything was joined in a unified whole in which matter, time and space were merely different aspects of an all-pervading universal consciousness.”
And here’s the link to the rest of the piece. Read and enjoy.
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Oct 05 2007 
October 5th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
…How might the course of history be altered were we to send - for example - George W. Bush on a quick trip into space?
Well, that depends…
Does he have to RETURN?
I’m kidding (sort of). I only wish we could experience that wonderful sense of epiphany, of oneness, if only for once in our lifetimes.
October 6th, 2007 at 12:45 am
I think head a satori or kensho experience. Common in buddhist meditation. He just didn’t know what to call it……..
October 6th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Yeah the “overview effect” is what was earlier termed “cosmic consciousness” in the West. When you go into true samadhi, as you sit in full-lotus with your body filled full of electromagnetic bliss — the room starts spinning around you.
I had this happened to me and it totally freaked me out — I even stopped practicing so my energy channels closed up. Now thanks to this report back from about Edgar Mitchell I realize that my consciousness or spirit was actually spinning — not the room.
My first feedback on this experience was when I “randomly” opened a Sri Chimnoy book at a used bookstore (just a day or so after the room kept spinning around me) and “randomly” was instantly at a page asking about this specific meditation experience. Never have I before or after come across that description as a question. Chimnoy just answered:
“oh that’s just the cosmic energy” to whomever was having the room spin around them.
Well that wasn’t a good enough answer for me so I read a book a day from then on looking for more answers. Finally I came across Peter Kingsley’s “In the Dark Places of Wisdom” book wherein he states that even the ancient Greeks knew that before true samadhi is entered a vortex is experienced.
By the way Nick — Taoist Master Ni states not to sleep on your back at night because little dead spirit lights suck off your life force energy near your stomach.