Death of religion and the rebirth of spirit : a return to the intelligence of the heart

By:

Pearce, Joseph Chilton

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Park Street Press US 2007Description: x,261p 23 cm ; HardISBN:

978-1594771712

Subject(s):

Love--Religious aspects Religion Spirituality--Psychology Violence--Religious aspects Human evolution--Religious aspects

DDC classification:

200 PEA

Contents:

1. Culture and darkness of mind 2. Culture and war 3. Marghanita Laski and the tautology of field phenomena 4. Mind and fields of mind 5. Mind and intuitive perception 6. Penfield and Steiner 7. Nature's biological plan 8. Bonding : nature's imperative 9. The biology of relationship 10. Imperatives in conflict 11. The death of play and the birth of religion 12. Life's strange loops of mind and nature 13. Brain change 14. Voices in the wilderness 15. Eureka! moments and cracks 16. Origin and field.

Summary: Social visionary Joseph Chilton Pearce’s indictment of cultural imprinting as the cause of humankind’s cruel and violent behavior • Refutes the Neo-Darwinist assumption that violence is inherent in humanity • Identifies religion as the sustaining force behind our negative cultural imprinting • Shows how infant-adult interactions unconsciously block the creative spirit We are all too aware of the endless variety of cruel and violent behavior reported to us in the media, reminded daily that in every corner of the world someone is suffering or dying at the hands of another. We have to ask: Is this violence and cruelty endemic to our nature? Are we, at our foundation, really so murderous? In The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit, Joseph Chilton Pearce, life-long advocate of human potential, sounds an emphatic and convincing no. Pearce explains that beneath our awareness, culture imprints a negative force-field that blocks the natural rise of the spirit toward its innate nature of love and altruism. Further, he identifies religion as the primary cultural force behind this negative imprinting. Drawing from recent neuroscience, neurocardiology, cultural anthropology, and brain development research, Pearce explains that the key to reversing this trend can be found in the interaction between infants and adults. The adult mind-set effectively compromises the infant’s neural and hormonal interactions between the heart and the higher evolutionary structures of the developing brain, thus keeping us centered primarily in our most primitive and defensive neural foundations, generation after generation. Pearce shows us that if we allow the intelligence of the heart to take hold and flourish, we can reverse this unconscious loss of our true nature.

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1. Culture and darkness of mind
2. Culture and war
3. Marghanita Laski and the tautology of field phenomena
4. Mind and fields of mind
5. Mind and intuitive perception
6. Penfield and Steiner
7. Nature's biological plan
8. Bonding : nature's imperative
9. The biology of relationship
10. Imperatives in conflict
11. The death of play and the birth of religion
12. Life's strange loops of mind and nature
13. Brain change
14. Voices in the wilderness
15. Eureka! moments and cracks
16. Origin and field.

Social visionary Joseph Chilton Pearce’s indictment of cultural imprinting as the cause of humankind’s cruel and violent behavior

• Refutes the Neo-Darwinist assumption that violence is inherent in humanity

• Identifies religion as the sustaining force behind our negative cultural imprinting

• Shows how infant-adult interactions unconsciously block the creative spirit

We are all too aware of the endless variety of cruel and violent behavior reported to us in the media, reminded daily that in every corner of the world someone is suffering or dying at the hands of another. We have to ask: Is this violence and cruelty endemic to our nature? Are we, at our foundation, really so murderous? In The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit, Joseph Chilton Pearce, life-long advocate of human potential, sounds an emphatic and convincing no.

Pearce explains that beneath our awareness, culture imprints a negative force-field that blocks the natural rise of the spirit toward its innate nature of love and altruism. Further, he identifies religion as the primary cultural force behind this negative imprinting. Drawing from recent neuroscience, neurocardiology, cultural anthropology, and brain development research, Pearce explains that the key to reversing this trend can be found in the interaction between infants and adults. The adult mind-set effectively compromises the infant’s neural and hormonal interactions between the heart and the higher evolutionary structures of the developing brain, thus keeping us centered primarily in our most primitive and defensive neural foundations, generation after generation. Pearce shows us that if we allow the intelligence of the heart to take hold and flourish, we can reverse this unconscious loss of our true nature.

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