Wah.
Obit/biography.
Memoriam from the institute he founded.
Space does things to your brain, man.
"NASA needed astronauts to go plant a flag on the moon. For obvious reasons, the astronauts ended up being the most reliable type of man America makes: white, straight, full-starch protestant, center-right, and spawned by the union of science and the military. Every last one of them was the heart of the heart of the tv dinner demographic. But then
they get shot into space, tossed from the gravity of this planet, across a quartermillion miles of nothing, to be snagged by the moon after three days. Eighteen guys did this and twelve descended further to find out that moon dust smells like gunsmoke. Every single one of them came back irrevocably changed. America had sent the squarest motherfuckers it could find to the moon and the moon sent back humans. Armstrong became a teacher, then a farmer. Alan Bean became a painter. Edgar Mitchell started believing in UFOs."
And well, gets you to talk about your ESP experiments and aliens.
"But the press seemed more interested in the headline, “Astronaut Does ESP Experiment on Moon Flight.” Somehow word got out that it turned out to be without significance when in reality the results were completely in keeping with experiments conducted before and after in laboratories around the world. It appears that even great distances -- hundreds of thousands of miles -- do not alter this mysterious communication. When we compared my four sets of data -- two on days outbound, and two returning from the moon -- with the six data sets of individuals participating on Earth, we saw we’d achieved a “psi missing” result for the days I did the experiment and “chance” results for the other days. The psi missing statistics were such that there was only a 1-in-3,000 probability that our results were random!
After my space flight, I was contacted by some descendants of the original Roswell observers, including the person who delivered the child-sized coffins to the Air Force to contain the alien bodies. Another was one of the children of the deputy sheriff who was patrolling traffic around the site back then. There was also a military officer who was a friend of the families not involved in that particular operation, but who did share office space there. They all seemed credible with their stories that the bodies were alien."
Or hanging with Uri Geller:
"So I came back and started studying the mystical traditions, Uri Geller, and the inner religious experiences of humans. Because of my epiphany in space, I have come back and spent 30 years trying to explain what mind-brain is.
How did you meet Uri Geller?
The gentleman who was originally doing work with him, Dr. Andrija Puharich, called me and asked me if I was interested in meeting him. Geller has been investigated many times all over the world by scientists and magicians who are trying to debunk him. You have to work with these people on their terms. You find out what their shtick is, so to speak, and you set up a science protocol that works within the parameters that they are comfortable with. We did not set up a controlled experiment to do teleportation, for example. We didn't really know how to do that.
But you did ask him if he could teleport a camera you forgot on the moon?
That was really more of a joke, because I was annoyed with him. We were trying to get work done in the laboratory, and it wasn't working, and Geller said that he was good with teleportation. So I said "OK, teleport back the camera I left on the moon." He didn't get the camera back but he did get two lost tiepins of mine back. A piece of one of them showed up in Geller's mouth as he was eating ice cream, to the surprise of all of us. The other tiepin and the rest of the first one then showed up in the laboratory. One piece turned up right in front of Dr. Puthoff when he was with a group of people, and the other dropped to the floor between Dr. Puthoff and me when we were in the laboratory alone. "