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ASTRONAUT REVEALS THE MOMENT HE REALIZED WE WERE LIVING A LIE

Published: 2024-11-17 18:23:17 Last Updated: 2024-11-18 08:57:20

This amazing insight from a former astronaut explains why he believes that everyone on Earth is living a complete lie. Ronald Garan, a former NASA cadet, had a "lightbulb" moment after being able to observe our world without interruption.
The 63-year-old travelled more than 71 million miles in 2,842 orbits of the Earth during his career, spending a total of 178 days in space. This also includes four spacewalks totalling 27 hours and 3 minutes of EVA (doing things outside the spacecraft).
He made his first flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2008, and he returned for a five-month stay in 2011.Naturally, Ronald experienced the 'overview effect'—the 'unexpected and overwhelming emotion' astronauts experience when they gaze down at Earth from space—multiple times.
Ronald stated in a 2022 interview with Big Think: "I saw dancing curtains of auroras that seemed so close that we could reach out and touch them when I looked out the window of the International Space Station. I also saw paparazzi-like flashes of lightning storms."
"And I saw the unbelievable thinness of our planet's atmosphere."
In that moment he was suddenly 'hit with the sobering realisation that that paper-thin layer keeps every living thing on our planet alive'.

"I saw an iridescent biosphere teeming with life," the former astronaut continued. The economy was invisible to me. However, it's clear from space that we're living a lie because our human-made systems treat everything—including our planet's life-supporting systems—as a fully owned subsidiary of the global economy. We must shift our perspective from one of planet, economy, and society to one of planet, economy, and society. We will then proceed with our evolutionary process.

"They suddenly realize how interdependent and interconnected we are all," the statement reads."On Christmas Eve, 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 came out from behind the far side of the moon on their fourth orbit. They took a famous colour photograph, and that photo is called 'Earthrise.'" A little more than 50 years ago, humanity as a whole experienced a collective out-of-body experience.

"Earthrise is the first colour photograph to see the whole planet hanging in the blackness of space, and the first to capture that for the rest of us, and this image revolutionised how we see the world, how we see ourselves. "There is no such thing as them. There's only us."

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