Evolution's End

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Harper Collins, Oct 22, 1993 - Self-Help - 288 pages
It's time for the way we think about our families, our schools, and our lives to evolve.

This passionate and provocative critique of the way we raise our children and undermine our society's future delineates the ways in which we thart our creative progess, and reveals a new landscape of possibilities for the next step in human evolution.

Brilliantly synthesizing twenty years of research into human intelligence, Joseph Chilton Pearce -- author of the bestsellers The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and Magical Child -- show how:

• contemporary childbirth and daycare create a dangerous sense of alienation from the surrounding world
• TV impedes vital neurological development
• synthetic hormones in our foods foster premature sexual development, increasing the likelihood of pregnancy and rape
• premature schooling contributes to potentially explosive frustration and rebellion

These everyday aspects of modern life have a cumulative effect, contributing to violence, child suicide, and deteriorating family and social structures. Proposing crucial yet simple solutions, Pearce persuasively argues that we have the power to get out of our own way and unleash, instead, our "unlimited", awesome, and unknown" human potential as the culmination of three billion years of evolution.

 

Contents

IdiotEnigma
3
Fields of Neurons
15
Mind and Matter
25
Fields of Intelligence
38
The Mind of Three Minds
42
Images of Wake and Dream
52
Sight
61
Sound
70
Cycle of Competence
138
Will and the Terrible Two
144
Seeing Within and Beyond
148
Play
154
Plays End
164
Concrete Operations
172
Formal Operations
180
Great Expectations
189

Body to Match
80
Who Remembers?
89
DEVELOPING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD
97
HeartMind Bonding
103
MotherChild Bonding
110
Bond Breaking
119
Name and Thing
130
Compensation and Dying
195
PostOperations
205
Access to the Field
215
Notes
227
Bibliography
245
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Joseph Chilton Pearce speaks to government officials and educators worldwide on human intelligence, creativity, and learning.

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