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Yuri Gagarin, upon his return as the first human in space, marvelled at the planet from orbit in 1961. “''People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it'',” . A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “''an instant treehugger''.” On Christmas Eve 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were aboard Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon. They had spent most of the day photographing the Moon’s surface when Borman turned the spaceship around, and Earth came into view. ‘Oh my God, look at that picture over there. Here’s the Earth coming up,’ shouted Anders. Like the astronauts themselves, the world was awestruck by the first images of the whole Earth from space, which are today widely credited with triggering the birth of the modern environmental movement. | Yuri Gagarin, upon his return as the first human in space, marvelled at the planet from orbit in 1961. “''People of the world, let us safeguard and enhance this beauty — not destroy it'',” . A half-century later, ex-NASA astronaut José Hernández said that the view aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery in 2009 turned him into “''an instant treehugger''.” On Christmas Eve 1968, NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders were aboard Apollo 8, the first manned mission to orbit the Moon. They had spent most of the day photographing the Moon’s surface when Borman turned the spaceship around, and Earth came into view. ‘Oh my God, look at that picture over there. Here’s the Earth coming up,’ shouted Anders. Like the astronauts themselves, the world was awestruck by the first images of the whole Earth from space, which are today widely credited with triggering the birth of the modern environmental movement. | ||
=== Fasting === | |||
Aldous Huxley observed that Medieval Christians often reported "visions" of Heaven and Hell during the winter, a time when their diets were deficient in essential nutrients like vitamin B and vitamin C. These nutritional deficiencies, such as those leading to scurvy, often triggered hallucinations, altering their perception of reality. Huxley further suggested that religious practices like fasting were deliberately designed to induce states of delirium, enabling individuals to access these extraordinary "antipodes of the mind"—a glimpse into altered realms of consciousness that could profoundly shape their beliefs and understanding of the world. | |||
=== Near Death Experience === | === Near Death Experience === | ||