Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds and

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

The classic follow-up to the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg

â€¢ Explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting â€œcosmic eggâ€ of consensus reality

â€¢ Reveals how our biological development innately creates a â€œcrackâ€ in our cosmic egg--leaving a way to return to the unencumbered consciousness of childhood

â€¢ Explores ways to discover and explore the â€œcrackâ€ 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 â€œcosmic eggâ€ 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 â€œcosmic eggâ€--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 Castanedaâ€™s writings about Don Juan and the sense of â€œbody-knowing,â€ 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 â€œcrackâ€ 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 â€œeggâ€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Park Street Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber BSIMO
Model BSIMO
ReleaseDate 2014-02-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781620552544

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Park Street Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	BSIMO
Model	BSIMO
ReleaseDate	2014-02-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781620552544

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

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