Astronaut-Philosophers on Unity Consciousness, the Preservation of the Planet and a Heightened State of Awareness Which Yogis Call Savikalpa Samadhi
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Overview Effect and the Experience of Savikalpa Samadhi of the Astronauts
http://www.mysticsaint.info/2013/05/Overview-Effect-and-Experience-Savikalpa-Samadhi-of-Astronauts.html
May 10, 2013
Have you heard of the overview effect? When the astronauts first time went into the space and even though their intention was to go beyond the earth, to the moon and to the stars - yet from that outerspace when they looked back at the planet earth itself, there happened an extra ordinary thing to the observers. Looking back at the earth, experiencing this unique place created by the Mysterious Creator, there was a tremendous cognitive shift for the observers, to the astronauts which was equivalent of gnosis of self-awareness of spiritual seekers.
When these astronauts came back to the earth, something in them changed forever. Astronomers and scientists told us about the place of earth in the solar system and how it is positioned in the space, how we are hanging out there in a hostile space, how we are rotating and circling around the sun, yet knowing that and experiencing it by first hand witnessing it is an altogether different thing. One is just knowing with theoretical knowledge, the other is witnessing (shahada). And the effect of that grand witnessing on the mind and hearts of the astronaut was called the overview effect by the very astronauts themselves.
