123 Quotes by Edgar Mitchell

The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn’t lose it’s experience, that the information accumulated was available forever.

We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it’s creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all the pieces together. We haven’t done that yet. Not as a civilization.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don’t need laws, you have “morality!” You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Undoubtedly we will go on to Mars in due course, provided we don’t blow ourselves up with our stupidities in the short run. That’s a possibility, too.

You get out there in space and say to yourself: that’s home. That’s the only home we have, and the only one we’re going to have for a long time.

We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don’t, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive, going back the other way.

Science is methodology. As a belief system it’s disastrous.

I call it “the big picture effect.” Getting to see earth as a small planet and to see it in that perspective, seeing it in the heavens as a planet as opposed to being down here among it, most of the people, in fact, I guess all of the people who have had that experience, shift their thinking.