“We're not on a sustainable path in civilization. We're on an exponential growth curve, on which we perhaps always have been, but it has turned up sharply at the beginning of the 20th century.” Has BeensGrowthPathCenturyCivilization20th CenturyCurvesExponential Growth Author:Edgar Mitchell
“At the beginning of the 20th century, there were less than 3 billion people on the earth, closer to 2 billion. By all measures that we can come up with right now,. with the lifestyle and consumption pattern of the Western industrial civilization, we can probably sustain about 2 billion people on this earth. We already have over 6 billion. China and India are aspiring to come on as industrial nations, aspiring to the lifestyle of the Western world, and it simply can't happen.” PeopleWorldHappensEarthNationsCenturyCivilizationRight NowIndiaWesternPatternsCome UpChinaBillionsLifestyleConsumption20th CenturyWestern WorldChina And India Author:Edgar Mitchell
“It's starting to catch hold, and in large measure it's because we're starting to understand that much of what we have talked about in ancient mythology and mystical experience and so forth can pretty well be modeled within the world of quantum physics. That's a 20th century phenomenon also.” WorldWellsCenturyStartingAncientPhysicsMythologyPhenomenonQuantumMystical20th CenturyQuantum PhysicsMystical Experiences Author:Edgar Mitchell
“The downside was that for 400 years, science has grown up, has arisen and developed as a purely materialist concept and avoided the subject of mind and consciousness, leaving it to the realm of religion. Only with the founding of quantum science in the early part of the 20th century have we realized that the Cartesian Duality is wrong, that body, mind, physicality do interact and they're interrelated.” YearsMindBodyConsciousnessSubjectsCenturyConceptsLeavingRealmsQuantum20th CenturyFoundingAvoidedDualityPhysicality Author:Edgar Mitchell
“Most 20th century academic physicists, and academia as a whole, simply did not want to touch the subject of consciousness. We have seen psychology grow up, and we've seen the development of neurophysiology and other much more sophisticated science, but only in the recent years have the tools of quantum mechanics been applied to anything representing human scale size.” WantYearsHumansWholeGrowsConsciousnessGrowing UpPsychologySubjectsCenturyDevelopmentToolsSizeScalesAcademicQuantumSophisticated20th CenturyMechanicPhysicistRepresentingQuantum MechanicsAcademia Author:Edgar Mitchell
“It was a dogma throughout most of the 20th century that quantum science only applied to subatomic matter, and we now know that not to be true. One of the major discoveries was Quantum Holography.” KnowsMatterCenturyMajorsDiscoveryBeing TrueDogmaQuantum20th CenturyTrue Ones Author:Edgar Mitchell
