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Constance
6th October 2015, 21:12
This is probably the best interview I have seen in a while. Joe can really hold his own.

This is the introduction to the video:

"We interviewed Joseph Chilton Pearce at The Monroe Institute in Favor, Virginia as part of the 40 Days and 40 Nights Video Tour in October 2011. For nearly half a century, Joe has been probing the mysteries of the human mind. Author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power, and Evolution's End, one of his overriding passions remains the study of what he calls the "unfolding" of intelligence in children.
He is a self-avowed iconoclast, unafraid to speak out against the myriad ways in which contemporary American culture fails to nurture the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual needs and yearnings of our young people. Part scholar, part scientist, part mystic, part itinerant teacher, Pearce keeps in close touch with the most brilliant men and women in each field. He creates a unique synthesis of their work and translates the results into a common language.
His most recent book, Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart (2007), is critically important for where we are now. Our organized religions are stuck in centuries of a particular way of thinking that makes it very difficult to address the changes going on the world of thought today.
Over and over on this tour we met brilliant thinkers and scientists who are making the journey from the intellect to the heart along an unchartered and unmapped path. In our interview, Joe shows us the importance of living from the heart, regardless of what the mind says."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExDCFlARrlk

TraineeHuman
7th October 2015, 00:40
The notion of "the cosmic egg" within each of us, and even of different levels of it, was traditionally found in Sikkhism and sometimes Sufism and also in some shamanic traditions. It's also almost implied by the concept of "Big Mind" in Mahayana Buddhism. What I understand it's ultimately referring to is the physical and energetic implications of the fact that the relationship between the individual self and the universe is very, very different from what most people believe.

On a conceptual level, that difference was as far as I know first described by Krishnamurti. He pointed out that for each of us the entire universe is identical with our consciousness of it; but that consciousness is entirely contained within our own individual consciousness. Because of this, the whole distinction between the individual and the universe is ultimately incoherent and spurious.

How does this have physical implications? As Drunvalo Melchizedek mentioned in one of the most recent videos of his that I've seen on this Forum, for each individual, information about, and a representation of, any detail of the entire physical universe can in principle be experienced within an energetic "egg" of a few feet or so around the physical body.

Pearce isn't talking directly about the cosmic egg in this video. Rather, I take it the cosmic egg is his underlying metaphor for reality, and I assume the "crack" in it is a metaphor for individuality. Pearce seems very interested in the extraordinary (and universal) implications of individuality, such as the significance of our inner child.

Journeyon
7th October 2015, 04:06
Breal, thank you so much for sharing this beautiful interview. I was captivated by Josephs words and spirit. I feel like I want to read all his books!

Thanks for introducing this great man here.

Journeyon

Constance
7th October 2015, 04:32
Breal, thank you so much for sharing this beautiful interview. I was captivated by Josephs words and spirit. I feel like I want to read all his books!

Thanks for introducing this great man here.

Journeyon

You are more than welcome Journeyon :heart:

He is a great soul isn't he? :dog:

He has so much good work to share and he has such conviction in and around his ideas; I know what you mean when you say that you want to read all his books!

I have often found his books in libraries...