Editorial Reviews
Jean Houston, author of A Passion for the Possible and Jump Time
Here, in brilliant and incisive words is the foundation for a new mind and a new world.
Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Riveting, insightful, and penetrating, Pearce has laid out one of the most startling and powerful visions of our future.
Carla Hannaford, Ph.D., author of Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All in Your Head and Awakening the Child Heart
Joseph Chilton Pearce has profoundly altered my view of religion and culture.
Book Description
Uses the insights and research of a new wave of biologists and neurologists to explore how we can transcend our current cultural and societal crises.
* Explains new biological understanding of the human organism having five brains, the fifth of which is located in the heart.
* Explains that transcendence of our current modes of behavior, thinking, and believing require the dynamic interaction of our fourth and fifth brains (intellect and intelligence).
* Explores the idea of Jesus, Buddha, and other historical great beings as models of nature's possibility and our ability to achieve transcendence.
How is it that we as humans 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, Buddha, Lao-tzu, and many others who have walked among us and yet cannot 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 transcend our current evolutionary capacities and limitations. This latest research identifies our five neural centers--or brains--and establishes that our fourth and most recently developed brain is located in the head while the fifth is located in the heart. It is the dynamic interaction of this head brain (intellect) and heart brain (intelligence), of biology and spirit, that allows transcendence from one evolutionary place to the next--we are, quite literally, made to transcend. Conversely, it is the breakdown of this interaction through the effects of cultural dictates surrounding us from the time we are children that keeps us where we are, mired in the current crises of violence among people and between people and the planet.
But Pearce reminds us that we are not stuck for good. Transcendence is our biological imperative, a state we have been moving toward for millennia.
About the Author
Joseph Chilton Pearce is the author of Crack in the Cosmic Egg, The Magical Child, and Evolution's End. For the past 25 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. |
