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The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality
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 a...more
• 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 a...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by Park Street Press
(first published 1971)
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Insightful and well considered. Required reading for anyone exploring reality and our relationship to it.
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Nov 15, 2007
Alison
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Recommends it for:
anyone interested in ideas of reality
I loved this book it's just great and I ended up understanding everything in the end.... Just good stuff... I would suggest it definitely to those with an open mind or at least those who like to read of new ideas or ones that my questions there own pereceptions. I even liked it so much i blogged about it. So lame am i but the book was really that good. "It is our capacity of production, not our products,
that is key."- joseph pearce
"Desire, passion, curiosity, productivity, lust for life,
ecstac...more
This book got me thinking, and that's always a good thing (hence three stars). Described in its rerelease as a "New Age Classic," it purports to show the readers paths out of the "egg of rationality." I read it when it came out, but by then my own cosmic egg had long since cracked.
Probably the single most influential book I read in my teens about the inner mind. I re-read this in 2009 as I finished up the manuscript to Beyond the Will of God. There's a lot more going on in their than you know...have a look.
"I read it in my teens"...I see a few other reviews say the same thing. It didn't totally blow my mind. I should lookk into it it again.
This book changed my life forever. I will alway treasure it. Man has an editorial gift with which to tranform and transcend.
An interesting book and ahead of it's time when it was written
I was 15 and stoned.
This 1971 book I read in the late 1970s, and I have just reread it. The subject is mind and reality. Our consciousness and perceptions shape our reality, Pearce writes. "Our cosmic egg, that cultural milieu into which we were born, is created by the statistical average of consensus," Pearce says in his introduction to the 1988 edition. The book looks at insights, the Eureka! moment of scientific discovery, and creativity in general.
His thoughts on expansive thinking. How the Autistic mind works, how the artist thinks, how scientists have made huge theoretical jumps. He also explains how people can walk on fire and cure themselves from illness.
One of those “new age” type works that argues that there are more connections between our minds and our reality than we think (it’s all about the untapped powers of the mind, isn’t it?)
This book is totally mindblowing! I have read it twice now and will probably read it again. His thoughts are reflected in many books I have read.
You gotta know . . . You gotta know, man!
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“Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.”
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“We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities.”
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