reading of neil armstrong's death today, I remembered a book written by some of the astronauts

[niyad]

talking about how seeing the earth from space (the famous "earthrise", for example&quot in many cases changed their entire worldview. alas, I cannot now remember the name of the book, and googling isn't helping. does anybody know the book I mean?

thanks in advance

[LunaSea]

1. The Overview Effect

By Frank White
1987

[LunaSea]

2. See also

http://www.overviewinstitute.org/

[niyad]

4. great, thank you

[niyad]

3. thank you so much.

[LongTomH]

6. I remember that book sadly but fondly!

I was active in the National Space Society, formerly The L5 Society. We were expecting a 'New Renaissance' resulting from the space age. I don't know if we were overly optimistic or just premature! A quarter century later and we don't seem to be moving.

[gateley]

5. Thanks for asking this question (I'd not heard of the book) and thanks

to LunaSea for the response and link!

[Brother Buzz]

7. Edgar Mitchell had, possibly, the largest life changing experience

The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronant's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds by Dr Edgar Mitchell

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.

Today, Dr. Mitchell serves on the board of directors of the institution.

[niyad]

8. thank you for sharing this one

[Brother Buzz]

9. Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Sciences runs the Earthrise Retreat Center, Petaluma, CA

My Godfather was a mover and shaker at the institute until he retired in his eighties. They're kinda kooky in many ways, but they convinced me there just may be some there there. I'm still waiting.