There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance. Edgar Mitchell More Quotes by Edgar Mitchell More Quotes From Edgar Mitchell In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that. Edgar Mitchell islam opinion christian We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level. Edgar Mitchell emotional reality people Dr. Lipsenthal is a profound explorer of our inner and outer worlds. Enjoy Every Sandwich will help you heal your fear of death and embrace the true joy of life's extraordinary journey. Edgar Mitchell true-joy journey profound I've been devoted to that, to exploration, education, and discovery since my earliest years, and that's what kept me going. Edgar Mitchell us-news Looking at Earth from space and seeing it was a planet in isolation ... that was an experience of ecstasy, realizing that every molecule in our bodies is a system of matter created from a star hanging in space, the experience I had was called Samadhi in the ancient Sanskrit, a feeling of overwhelming joy at seeing the Earth from that perspective. Edgar Mitchell top-news We are not alone in the universe, we are just one grain of sand on a huge beach. Edgar Mitchell top-news It's not just military. It's a cabal of organizations primarily for a profit motive. Edgar Mitchell top-news None of those statements were originated by me. Edgar Mitchell top-news At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military. Edgar Mitchell professional end duty sea Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time. Edgar Mitchell mission moon time science I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real. Edgar Mitchell planet happen real enough You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell you politics people world Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form. Edgar Mitchell consciousness may life death I theorize that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to human beings. At one end is material consciousness. At the other end is what we call 'field' consciousness, where a person is at one with the universe, perceiving the universe. Just by looking at our planet on the way back, I saw or felt a field consciousness state. Edgar Mitchell looking end universe way We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there. Edgar Mitchell beyond reach find ready I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base. Edgar Mitchell value back think moon We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. Edgar Mitchell need first mars different We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation. Edgar Mitchell future community space sun My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator. Edgar Mitchell myself me wife home I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth. Edgar Mitchell system star about astronomy