An Astronaut's Spiritual Revelation

Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut and the sixth person to walk on the moon. During the trip home, this scientifically learned and formally educated man had an epiphany…a spiritual revelation and transformation seemingly downloaded from the Divine Consciousness. Dr. Mitchell described it thusly:

“The spacecraft was oriented perpendicular to the plane that contains the Earth, the Moon and the Sun…we saw the Earth, the Moon and the Sun as they passed by the window. heavens were awesome and the stars are ten times as bright and, therefore, ten times as numerous than you could ever see on a high mountaintop on a clear night. It was overwhelmingly magnificent. I realized that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft had been manufactured in an ancient generation of stars. It wasn’t just intellectual knowledge – it was a subjective visceral experience accompanied by ecstasy – a transformational experience. The experience in space was so powerful that when I got back to Earth I started digging into various literatures to try to understand what had happened. I found nothing in science literature but eventually discovered it in the Sanskrit of ancient India. The descriptions of samadhi, Savikalpa samadhi, were exactly what I felt: it is described as seeing things in their separateness, but experiencing them viscerally as a unity, as oneness, accompanied by ecstasy.”


Many of us (far too infrequently, in my case) have experienced similar moments of profound consciousness, often only fleeting, wherein our perceptions of reality are elevated to the level of what we might describe as an “ascended being”, or the “Divine mind”, wherein we are able to glimpse a higher purpose, as it were. Simply put, this is the state of consciousness which is said can be attained through the continued practice of meditation, as well as by a plethora of other means.
Dr. Mitchell came away from his experience a changed man with new imperatives for his remaining time on earth:

“Part of my epiphany in space was recognizing that beneath the blue and white cover of Earth, we humans were behaving like juveniles. We are a juvenile species. By and large, we are so consumed with greed and self-service that we miss the larger point. This is what the great mystics in all religions have tried to get us to see. No one who has had such an experience could be violent.
”The problem is, those who have not had those transcendent, transformational experiences continue to operate just like we’re seeing the world operate right now – ignoring the message of unity and the greater good. My life has been devoted since that time to pursuing the issue of helping move global civilization toward a sustainable future. Clearly we are not there yet.”

If we, as humans struggling together on this planet could see, going forward, this one simple truth, there could indeed be hope for us both individually and collectively. In the days to come, consider this, and ask yourself if it is not worth it to you and those who will follow you to consider a different way of thinking and living…one that could indeed save our planet, our civilization, and our very souls.

For those interested, I will also post a video presentation by Dr. Mitchell deals with the advanced study of our reality.

May God bless you all with Peace, Love, Forgiveness, and Understanding.