Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) is the author of The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of the Spirit, The Biology of Transcendence, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, and Evolution’s End. For more than 35 years, he lectured and led workshops teaching about the changing needs of children and the development of human society. He lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
Foreword by Thom Hartmann
Introduction: Radical Shifts in Viewpoint
Part One
Prelude
1 Stable Sameness
2 Sensory-Mediant-Perception
Building the Semantic Universe
3 Prediction and Control
4 Feeding and Feedback
5 Lying
6 The Death Concept
Fear and Anxiety
7 Guilty!
Until Proven Dead
8 Will to Power
9 Ace Up the Sleeve
Hope
10 Roof-Brain Chatter
The Mature Mind
Part Two
Interlude
11 Double-Mindedness
And Single Vision
12 I-Not-I
13 Mind Engineering
Operation Bootstrap
14 Playful Spirit
15 Reversibility Thinking
16 Embracing Despair
The Acceptance of Death
Notes
Bibliography
Index