ABSTRACT
Written just as billionaire Richard Branson ascended in a rocket passenger plane to just below the official boundary of space, this chapter explores the Overview Effect, the oneness of everything, psychedelic drugs, and the idea of landscape. Both the experience of users of LSD and of astronauts viewing the Earth from space commonly lead to cathartic understandings of the interconnectedness of all things and the fragility of the web of life. This essay argues that the idea of landscape similarly opens up new horizons for an ecology of mind. Branson here serves as the counterexample, of a ‘techno-monster’ mindset that indulges in the ‘god trick.’
