J.C. Pearce “Biological and Spiritual Growth”

Optimal development in children is thwarted by a variety of factors from modern hospital delivery methods to the educational system itself. Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and Magical Child, suggests that current problems with child rearing are so immense, that they are virtually insolvable. However, parents who are truly concerned must begin by discovering within themselves the spiritual nature of love.

The Wisdom Series

Joseph Chilton Pearce pioneers the first of the TMI Wisdom Series. Joe is an author of a number of books on child development. Here, he presents the idea of the heart, or compassionate mind, as another categorization of brain function with equal stature as the thalamus, prefrontal cortex, and lower brain. He believes that active, imaginative play is the most important of all childhood activities because that cultivates a mastery of one’s environment. He coins the term “creative competence” to discuss that mastery. Further, children without that form of play develop feelings of isolation and anxiety. He also believes that child-parent bonding is important, and blames both a lack of breastfeeding and modern childbirth as obstructive to that bonding.

Consumer

Humans, as a result of their development over thousands of years, have come to the conclusion that they can have everything and yet have nothing.