With a new preface by the author. This enormously popular New Age classic, beautifully written and intellectually challenging, has inspired and guided millions of readers to develop new, creative, inventive modes of thinking.

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Challenging Constructs of Mind and Reality

Politics & Social Sciences

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Philosophy

Julian Press

Asserts our ability to reject the emptiness and alienation of our society and restore the bond with our fundamental selves, providing examples from physics, poetry, and Swami Muktananda's teachings

The Bond of Power

Religion & Spirituality

E.P.Dutton

The classic follow-up to the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg   • Explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting “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 nonordinary 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 “body-knowing,” Pearce explores the varieties of nonordinary 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 reestablish our ability to create our own realities through imagination and biological transcendence.

Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg

Pocket

Self-Help

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg

The classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality.  Defines culture as a "cosmic egg" structured by the mind's drive for logical ordering of its universe.  Provides techniques allowing individuals to break through the vicious circle of logic-based systems to attain expanded ways of creative living and learning. The sum total of our notions of what the world is--and what we perceive its full potential to be--form a shell of rational thought in which we reside. This logical universe creates a vicious circle of reasoning that robs our minds of power and prevents us from reaching our true potential. To step beyond that circle requires a centering and focus that today's society assaults on every level. Through the insights of Teilhard, Tillich, Jung, Jesus, Carlos Castaneda, and others, Joseph Chilton Pearce provides a mode of thinking through which imagination can escape the mundane shell of current construct reality and leap into a new phase of human evolution. This enormously popular New Age classic is finally available again to challenge the assumptions of a new generation of readers and help them develop their potential through new creative modes of thinking. With a masterful synthesis of recent discoveries in physics, biology, and psychology, Pearce reveals the extraordinary relationship of mind and reality and nature's blueprint for a self-transcending humanity.

Exploring The Crack In The Cosmic Egg: Split Minds and Meta-Realities

In this uniquely challenging book, Mr. Pearce demonstrates that man can achieve wholeness and a more expansive and fulfilling existence. Reuniting the self--despite culture's limited and mechanical focus--is the issue.

Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds and Meta-Realities

New Age & Spirituality

Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds & Meta-Realities

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On Raising a Magical Child (Discussion With The Author)

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