Art Bell speaks with Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon during Apollo 14, covering topics from lunar exploration to consciousness research. Mitchell describes the difficulty of navigating the moon's deceptively undulating surface and reveals he secretly conducted a telepathy experiment during the flight, transmitting Zener card symbols to four receivers on Earth. The results showed odds of one in three thousand against chance, consistent with decades of laboratory findings.
Mitchell shares his conviction that the 1947 Roswell incident involved a genuine crash and coverup, noting approximately 130 witnesses have come forward. He flatly denies Richard C. Hoagland's claims of glass structures on the moon, calling them pseudoscience. The conversation turns to zero-point energy research and the possibility that the speed of light might be locally modified. Mitchell describes how viewing Earth from space triggered a profound epiphany about the interconnectedness of all matter, launching his 25-year investigation into consciousness.
Mitchell discusses his dyadic model of reality, which integrates quantum physics with mystical experience, and recounts how his mother was healed of glaucoma by a Buddhist shaman only to reject the healing when she learned he was not Christian. He argues that awareness is a fundamental attribute of nature rather than merely a product of biological evolution and that science must expand to accommodate first-person subjective experience.
