This short movie by Planetary Collective provides beautiful images of planet earth from an astronaut’s perspective.  The documentary explores the effect of experiencing earth from space.  Several interviews with astronauts, philosophers and an author are shown nicely balanced with the imagery of space.  The overview effect is the big picture effect in which the world is a shared home without boundaries.

OVERVIEW from Planetary Collective on Vimeo.

What we like

• The scientific and spiritual aspects of the movie
• That we are evolving to a larger perspective
• The self and the world are interconnected

Soul experience

• Fascinated by the experience Edgar Mitchell explained we contacted his offices and they gave reference to the name and description of Savikalpa Samadhi.  Dr Edgar Mitchell explains:  “The experience in space was so powerful that when I got back to Earth I started digging into various literature 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.”  Have you ever experienced this feeling?  We believe we have one particular time that we were on a mountain top at night and the stars opened up as if we could touch and float in them

To reflect on

• Edgar Mitchell – Apollo Astronaut
  The molecules in my body and the molecules in my partner’s body and the space craft had been prototyped in some ancient generation stars.  In other words it is pretty obvious from those descriptions we are star dust

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