“If we change our heads about who we are—and can see ourselves as creative, eternal beings creating physical experience, joined at that level of existence we call consciousness—then we start to see and create this world that we live in differently.”

—Edgar Mitchell, NASA astronaut and pilot of Apollo 14

Are you one of those who are speechless with awe when you look up at the sky on a clear moonless night?

Generally, when someone asks us what...