Frank White is a philosopher of space. In 1987 he coined the term "the overview effect," referring to the life-altering experience astronauts received upon witnessing our planet from outer space. His work, as his life, bring this transformation of perspective into sharper focus, presenting an alternative perception of ourselves, our world, and our future.

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Show Notes:

• The Overview Effect & The Cosma Hypothesis(03:00)
• Being a part of something larger than yourself (06:30)
• The overview effect as an experience (13:00)
• Gerard K. O'Neill and the Space Studies Institute (14:00)
• Hope in the Darkby Rebecca Solnit (23:40)
• Holonomy: A Human Systems Theory by Jeff Stamps (27:30)
• Nurturing a movement (29:00)
• "The further out human beings look the further inward we see" (30:00)
• Pale blue dot (30:00)
• Overview Institute (31:00)
• Space Frontier Foundation (31:10)
• 'boundary objects' (38:00)
• Institute of Noetic Sciences (40:00)
• Human Space Program (40:30)
• Edgar Mitchell and virtual reality (41:20)
• William James and noetical quality (43:00)
• Bring indigenous thinking to the conversation (47:00)
• Dan Hawk (47:00)
• Orbital Assembly Corporation (48:00)
• Danielle Wood (51:00)
• Atul Gawande "What Matters in the End" (51:00)
• From Age-ing to Sage-ing by Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald Miller (52:00)
• Maria Popova on the supreme art of living (56:00)
• Lightning Round (56:00)
  • Book: The High Frontier by Gerald K O'Neill
  • Passion: spirituality
  • Heart sing: artificial intelligence
  • Screwed up: not getting PhD
• Find Frank online:
  • Twitter: @fwhite66
  • Website: https://frankwhiteauthor.com/about
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  
  • Frank’s playlist