“It wasn’t until after we had made
rendezvous with our friend Stu Roosa in the Kittyhawk command module and were
hurtling earthward at several miles per second that I had time to relax in
weightlessness and contemplate that blue jewel-like home planet suspended in
the velvety blackness from which we had come.
“What I saw out the window was all
I had ever known, all I had ever loved and hated, longed for, all that I once
thought I had ever been and ever would be. It was all there suspended in the
cosmos on that fragile little sphere.
“I experienced a grand epiphany
accompanied by exhilaration, an event I would later refer to in terms that
could not be more foreign to my upbringing in West Texas, and later, New
Mexico. From that moment on, my life was irrevocably altered.
“What I experienced during that
three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness.”
— Dr. Edgar Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo
Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material and Mystical Wolrds
A/k/a, kenshō
in outer space.
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