In this classic follow-up to his bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting "cosmic egg" of consensus reality. Laying the groundwork for his later classic Magical Child, Pearce shows that we go through early childhood connecting with the world through our senses. With the development of language and the process of acculturation not only do our direct experiences of the world become much less vivid but our innate states of non-ordinary consciousness become suppressed. Trapped in a specific cultural context-a "cosmic egg"-we are no longer able to have or even recognize mystical experiences not mediated by the limitations of our culture. Motivated primarily by a fear of death, our enculturation literally splits our minds and prevents us from living fully in the present. Drawing from Carlos Castaneda's writings about Don Juan and the sense of "bodyknowing," Pearce explores the varieties of non-ordinary consciousness that can help us return to the unencumbered consciousness of our infancy.
He shows that just as we each create our own cosmic egg of reality through cultural conditioning, we, also, innately create a "crack" in that egg. Ultimately certain shifts in our biological development take place to offset acculturation, leaving an avenue of return to our primary state. Pearce examines the creation of the "egg" itself and ways to discover its inherent cracks to restore wholeness to our minds, release us from our fear of death and re-establish our ability to create our own realities through imagination and biological transcendence. * Explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our selflimiting "cosmic egg" of consensus reality * Reveals how our biological development innately creates a "crack" in our cosmic egg - leaving a way to return to the unencumbered consciousness of childhood * Explores ways to discover and explore the "crack" to restore wholeness to our minds and reestablish our ability to create our own realities
In this classic follow-up to his bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting "cosmic egg" of consensus reality. Laying the groundwork for his later classic Magical Child, Pearce shows that we go through early childhood connecting with the world through our senses. With the development of language and the process of acculturation not only do our direct experiences of the world become much less vivid but our innate states of non-ordinary consciousness become suppressed. Trapped in a specific cultural context-a "cosmic egg"-we are no longer able to have or even recognize mystical experiences not mediated by the limitations of our culture. Motivated primarily by a fear of death, our enculturation literally splits our minds and prevents us from living fully in the present. Drawing from Carlos Castaneda's writings about Don Juan and the sense of "bodyknowing," Pearce explores the varieties of non-ordinary consciousness that can help us return to the unencumbered consciousness of our infancy.
He shows that just as we each create our own cosmic egg of reality through cultural conditioning, we, also, innately create a "crack" in that egg. Ultimately certain shifts in our biological development take place to offset acculturation, leaving an avenue of return to our primary state. Pearce examines the creation of the "egg" itself and ways to discover its inherent cracks to restore wholeness to our minds, release us from our fear of death and re-establish our ability to create our own realities through imagination and biological transcendence. * Explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our selflimiting "cosmic egg" of consensus reality * Reveals how our biological development innately creates a "crack" in our cosmic egg - leaving a way to return to the unencumbered consciousness of childhood * Explores ways to discover and explore the "crack" to restore wholeness to our minds and reestablish our ability to create our own realities
Foreword by Thom Hartmann Introduction: Radical Shifts in Viewpoint Part One Prelude 1 Stable Sameness 2 Sensory-Mediant-Perception Building the Semantic Universe 3 Prediction and Control 4 Feeding and Feedback 5 Lying 6 The Death Concept Fear and Anxiety 7 Guilty! Until Proven Dead 8 Will to Power 9 Ace Up the Sleeve Hope 10 Roof-Brain Chatter The Mature Mind Part Two Interlude 11 Double-Mindedness And Single Vision 12 I-Not-I 13 Mind Engineering Operation Bootstrap 14 Playful Spirit 15 Reversibility Thinking 16 Embracing Despair The Acceptance of Death Notes Bibliography Index
Joseph Chilton Pearce is the author of several books, including The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child and The Biology of Transcendence. Since the early 1970s, he has been teaching at universities throughout the world about the changing needs of our children and the development of human society. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
"...Pearce's transcendent work still motivates us to explore the true nature of ourselves and creation, and is as relevant today in a world dominated by a sociocultural mata-program as it was when it was first written about in 1971." Ruth Parnell, Nexus, June 2014
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