Edgar Mitchell Quotes

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

The purpose of sealing the records was not to conceal them or to conceal the facts from the American people.

When I was a child, I was certain that I could remember what it was like to live on Venus; I could remember what it was like to live in the American Plains. I could remember. And it's ancient memory. We all have it. It's just that some of us access it more than others.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

This is our chance to one up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people in the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time…

Before books, nothing got saved. We don’t know what the cavemen thought about caves even though they tried to write on the walls.

… science may implement the ways in which man produces, stores, and consults the record of the race....

Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

I have seen the truth. It is not as though I had invented it in my mind. I have seen it, SEEN IT and the living image of it has filled my soul forever.

Colour has taken hold of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of this blessed moment

There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is.

The quantum hologram is a mechanism to explain this concept of the ancients of the Akashic Records. It also explains Rupert Sheldrake's work among animals [his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, leading to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory].

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.

Of course, mysticism is very hard to isolate because, given the kind of consciousness that I was sort of instructed in as religious consciousness; that borders on mysticism so closely that it's hard to know whether you qualify or not, or whether mysticism is artificially isolated when it is treated as a separate thing from experience. Obviously, mysticism can be a form of madness, but then consciousness can be a form of madness.

Of course, before the internet people found records, too. You can still do it. It's just that people like to make the least amount of effort as possible.

Wars might come and go, but the seven o'clock news lives forever.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a species with amnesia; that we've lost the record of our story going back thousands of years before so-called history began, and I think that if we could go back to that dark epoch, we would discover many astounding things about ourselves.

If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.