Earth, Moon, Sun and The Stars

Fringe-ology, an excellent read. In the part on Astronaut Edgar Mitchell epiphany in space the following quote spoke to me:

Returning to Earth from the Moon, "He felt the Earth, the moon, the Sun, and the stars. He felt his own relationship to all these things. He even felt the blackness in between them. The borders of flesh and bone disappeared. He felt the sensational tremor in his own being extending out into space. He felt no distinction between himself and the nothing of black space. He suddenly experienced life - with no distinctions at all."

Astronaut Mitchell was not the only astronaut to experience this but he is the only one who pursued it and still does today well past 80 years of age. Remember the two movies, "The DaVinci Code and The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown?" In The Lost Symbol the organization at the start of the Noetic Sciences is based on Mitchell's actual creation of such a place called, "IONS or Institute of Noetic Sciences."

Here a person actually experiences the effect and state of being we all talk about but seldom walk in that state, "one with the Universe." It is a state we can achieve and one method that is being tested by Dr. Andrew Newberg of Penn State Medical in his "Neurotheology" teachings by testing those who have achieved that kind of state through "Meditation."

It is coincide (do-n-side) or coincidental that I came across this particular subject and quote while readying myself to write an eBook on Smashwords about the ken-po goku-i which in its own right touches on this "oneness or wholehearted" enlightened state we strive for in the martial arts or any such singular practice.

Personally, I plan on doing some more academics on IONS and Neurotheology for my practice and meditation. Yes, I will be posting on this but you already know that, yes :-)