The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit Paperback - 2004
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
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NEW SCIENCE / PHILOSOPHY "The Biology of Transcendence will transform your worldview and change forever your understanding of our past, present, and future. Riveting, insightful, and penetrating, Pearce has laid out one of the most startling and powerful visions of our future. . . . You won't be able to put this book down, and when you've read it, you won't be able to stop talking about it with everybody you know." --Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight "This is a masterpiece of science and spirit, love over law, and the stunning biological truth of the capacity for transcendence that the universe has placed within us. Here, in brilliant and incisive words, is the foundation for a new mind and a new world." --Jean Houston, author of A Passion for the Possible and Jump Time: Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change Why do we seem stuck in a culture of violence and injustice? How is it that we can recognize the transcendent ideal represented by figures such as Jesus, Lao-tzu, and many others who have walked among us and yet not seem to reach the same state? In The Biology of Transcendence Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can go beyond the limitations and constraints of our current capacities of body and mind--how we can transcend. Recent research in the neurosciences and neurocardiology identifies the four neural centers of our brain and indicates that a fifth such center is located in the heart. This research reveals that the evolutionary structure of our brain and its dynamic interactions with our heart are designed by nature to reach beyond our current evolutionary capacities. We are quite literally, made to transcend. Pearce explores how this biological imperative drives our life into ever-greater realms of being--even as the cultural imperative of social conformity and behavior counters this genetic heritage, blocks our transcendent capacities, and breeds violence in all its forms. The conflict between religion and spirit is an important part of this struggle. But each of us may overthrow these cultural imperatives to reach "unconflicted behavior," wherein heart and mind-brain resonate in synchronicity, opening us to levels of possibility beyond the ordinary. JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE is the author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and Evolution's End. For the past twenty-five years, he has taught about the changing needs of children and the development of human society. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
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- Title The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit
- Author Joseph Chilton Pearce
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 279
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Park Street Press, Rochester, Vermont, U.S.A.
- Date 2004-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9781594770166 / 1594770166
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.11 x 6.04 x 0.77 in (23.14 x 15.34 x 1.96 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Brain - Religious aspects, Spirituality - Psychology
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002002530
- Dewey Decimal Code 128
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