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12-14-2008 12:57 AM
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einbar says:
there is a palpable difference in someone who has been in space, and he wants to know why
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12-14-2008 1:01 AM
einbar
Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effect :

”He describes being completely engulfed by a profound sense of universal connectedness. Without warning, he says, a feeing of bliss, timelessness, and connectedness began to overwhelm him. He describes becoming instantly and profoundly aware that each of his constituent atoms were connected to the fragile planet he saw in the window and to every other atom in the Universe. He described experiencing an intense awareness that Earth, with its humans, other animal species, and systems were all one synergistic whole. He says the feeling that rushed over him was a sense of interconnected eup...
12-14-2008 1:02 AM
einbar
Rusty Schweikart experienced it on March 6th 1969 during a spacewalk outside his Apollo 9 vehicle:
“When you go around the Earth in an hour and a half, you begin to recognize that your identity is with that whole thing. That makes a change…it comes through to you so powerfully that you’re the sensing element for Man.” Schweikart, similar to what Mitchell experienced, describes intuitively sensing that everything is profoundly connected.
12-14-2008 1:54 AM
einbar
Wow ...
12-14-2008 3:18 AM
chedare
Clear light kinda.
12-14-2008 6:32 PM
Kelika
"bliss, timelessness and connectedness.." How wonderful!
12-17-2008 6:53 AM
Silkweaver
Why take a journey which costs tens of millions of dollars for an experience one can have by taking a little pill which costs almost nothing ?
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