Written by: Dr. Edgar Mitchell with Dwight Williams
With both astronauts and hippies, this book has two elements of the holy trinity. It’s neat and does have several worthwhile points of universal connectedness, with lots of details about the founding and goings on at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (not to be confused with the storied halls of Poetic Sciences, birthplace of the “man from Nantucket”) . Again, lots of interesting philosophical points though wanders a bit far into the reaches of the hippyverse, extolling the miracles of alleged spoon bender Uri Geller (for the thousandth time, THERE IS NO SPOON!) and exhibiting a habit of over-simplification and lack of critical thinking. It does, however, lead the reader to other more discerning folks like Ken Wilbur who have written some pretty awesome stuff.
Length: 3.75 hrs
6/2002: This was an early foray into some fairly out there stuff inspired by books on Chaos Theory and other similar revelations at how the extremes of Western and Eastern culture tend to end up in the same place just with different vocabularies, one wearing lab coats and one in robes. This one wasn’t gold, but did provide a bridge to several others and help define the line (for me at least) between mind blowing and just blowing.
