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by Frank White
Rating: 3.2 ⭐
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Using interviews with and writings by 30 astronauts and cosmonauts, Frank White shows how experiences such as circling the Earth every 90 minutes and viewing it from the moon have profoundly affected our space travelers' perceptions of themselves, their world, and the future. He shows how the rest of us, who have participated imaginatively in these great adventures, have also been affected psychologically by them.
As a follow-up to the seminal work, The Overview Effect, Frank White explores life's destiny in the universe and a compelling new hypothesis.
In The New Camelot, Frank White explores the relationship between the Camelot myth and the Overview Effect (a term he coined in his book by the same name). He focuses on the relationship between the stories told of King Arthur's court and the administration of President John F. Kennedy, with particular emphasis on the Apollo lunar program. White suggests that the Apollo astronauts were modern "Grail Knights," and that the Overview Effect is the modern "Holy Grail" that is needed to take the next steps in human evolution.
This is an exploration of a classic description of the "Zen mind." It ranges far afield, into space exploration and early Christianity, but comes back to the simple Zen reality that "The Great Way is not difficult for those with no preferences."
by Frank White
Rating: 3.7 ⭐
Discusses NASA's new SETI project, and speculates on the impact of contacting extraterrestrials or learning that we are probably alone in the universe
Part 1 of the autobiography of Rhodes Scholar, space philosopher and author of "The Overview Effect," Frank White.
by Frank White
A band of young outlaws/revolutionaries known as the Barrah Gang struggles to survive in an America that is undergoing violent and revolutionary change. They are college kids for the most part, dedicated to peaceful change, but forced to fight for their lives against adversaries like the Vets, and with uneasy allies like the Guevaras. Fleeing from attacks by the Vets in South Dakota, Mark Jefferson, Eric Adams and their fellow fighters begin a long and dangerous trek to Missouri. Along the way, they learn a great deal about themselves and the new world in which they are forced to make a stand for their principles.