Podbit · The Mel Robbins Podcast
Astronauts who see Earth from space consistently lose their sense of national separation and feel compelled to protect the planet. Dr. Vieten recreated that perspective shift through VR — and Mel described feeling simultaneously tiny and limitless.
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The conversation zooms out to consciousness itself — the biggest umbrella under which imagination, visualization, and manifestation all sit. Dr. Vieten defines it at two levels: small-c consciousness is everything you're aware of; big-C consciousness encompasses the beliefs, values, and assumptions you don't even know you hold. Becoming more conscious means moving from autopilot to intentional — arriving at a meeting with a clear intention rather than just showing up. She then shares how she spent 18 years at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon. On his way back to Earth, Mitchell saw the sun, moon, stars, and Earth simultaneously, and had an epiphany: the molecules in his body were the same as those in the stars and the space capsule — he was not separate from the universe but part of it. This deeper sense of interconnectedness is what the Institute was founded to study: the relationship between the inner world of consciousness and the outer world of observable reality.
Consciousness isn't just what you're aware of — it's your beliefs, intentions, intuitions, and worldview. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell realized in space that his consciousness was connected to the molecules of the stars. Your inner world is as real as the outer one, and it shapes everything.
Dr. Vieten spent approximately 18 years at the Institute of Noetic Sciences studying consciousness and human experience before her work at UC San Diego.
The Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, who had a consciousness epiphany on his return journey to Earth.
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Consciousness isn't just what you're aware of — it's your beliefs, intentions, intuitions, and worldview. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell realized in space that his consciousness was connected to the molecules of the stars. Your inner world is as real as the outer one, and it shapes everything.
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