Whenever I’ve seen pictures of our small blue planet set like a gem in the blackness of space, I have been touched by how we all exist in the Mind of God, how small we really are, and a whole host of other images and experiences that are so transcendent of everyday reality that they can be called spiritual.
I recall the first lunar orbital mission of Apollo way back in the 1960’s when the astronauts read the first chapter of Genesis as the lunar landscape rushed by under the window of their spacecraft. I had to check, it was December 24, 1968, and despite the small sliver of grainy lunar landscape visible on our flickering black and white TV screens, the experience was deeply spiritual. Videos of the Apollo 8 mission, some artistically rendered and some historically accurate, are widely available on YouTube.
Flight, especially space flight, has always been evocative of approaching the Divine, and an at-once exhilarating and deeply humbling experience.
