The Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters, FREE EXPERIENCER.ORG When you see the Earth like this, and the cosmos like this, and ten times more stars, ten times as bright because of no intervening atmosphere, in the full 180-degree view, if you put your face to the windows, it’s magnificent, it’s overwhelming.… What happened was a sudden recognition of heart…. It made me realize that the answers to the ancient questions, “Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going?” within science were certainly incomplete and perhaps flawed. This feeling of unity and connectedness was an ecstatic, blissful experience.
When I came back, I knew my life had changed. I knew that I had to go find out what was this experience I had had. Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut Remarks at PEER’s Star Wisdom conference May 8, 1998
The following describes our organization, The Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters, FREE. The Executive Director of FREE is DR. RUDY SCHILD. Rudy is an emeritus research astronomer at the Harvard/Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, following an extensive career studying Dark Matter, Black Holes, and the fluid mechanical origins of Cosmic Structure and the Physics of Information. Because of his long association with Dr. John Mack he became interested in the formulation of a coherent understanding of the nature of space-time in the Universe, and is a champion of the Edgar Mitchell quantum hologram formulation of the nature of existence and reality. As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cosmology he has 1