Yulia Brodskaya. On his way back to Earth, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell had the profound transformative experience that led him to establish the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in 1973. The mission of IONS is to reveal the interconnected nature of reality through scientific exploration and personal discovery thus bridging Science and Spirituality. These two ways — of gaining knowledge through scientific exploration and of gaining deep knowing through direct experience have generally remained separate. It is time to bring them together — allowing each to inform one another, weakening neither, but rather strengthening our understanding of reality. Today this mission is more releva...