Perceiving Wisdom in Knowledge (and the Overview Effect)

This reprint from the Institute of Noetic Sciences blog features NextNow Claudia Welss, IONS Chairman, June 2019 “If somebody had said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the Moon?’ I would have said, ‘No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the moon, I cried.” ~ Alan Shepard, Astronaut on Apollo 14 in February 1971. In the upcoming drama/sci-fi feature film Lucy In the Sky, Natalie Portman plays an astronaut (loosely based on real-life astronaut Lisa Nowak) struggling to readjust to life on Earth after experiencing…