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

Pearce, Joseph Chilton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 162055254X ISBN 13: 9781620552544

Publisher: Park Street Press, 2014

Synopsis

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

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Title: Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg( Split Minds and Meta-Realities) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: JosephChiltonPearce <>Publisher: ParkStreetPress

Review

“...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)

Edition details

• Publisher: Park Street Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 162055254X
• ISBN 13: 9781620552544
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 208