The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce
Released in February 2021
A comprehensive guide to social visionary Joseph Chilton Pearce’s work on the transcendent and magical potential of the human mind
• Explores Pearce’s most influential books, including Magical Child, sharing his life-changing insights into why we have become what we are, contrasted with the miracle nature intends us to be
• Features essential passages interwoven with Pearce’s own commentary, drawn from personal conversations and unpublished material
• Shows how Pearce’s key insights build across his books and break down core assumptions about reality and human potential
An expert in child development, Joseph Chilton Pearce (1926-2016) devoted his life to exploring the optimum development and astonishing capacities within each individual human being. Across his 12 visionary books and thousands of lectures, he blended cutting-edge science with spirituality and explored the amazing power of imagination for both children and adults--the space where we are able to play with our reality--inspiring millions to discover the human birthright of a more magical world.
In this guide to Pearce’s complete vision of transcendent human potential, Michael Mendizza explores 7 of his most influential books, sharing insights and expertise from Pearce’s full range of interests, from child development and conscious parenting to psychic phenomena and altered states to the power of the mind to shape reality.
Offering essential passages interwoven with Pearce’s own commentary, drawn from personal conversations and unpublished material, this book shows how Pearce’s key insights build across his books, breaking down core assumptions about reality and human potential. We see the importance of imagination and empathic, non-verbal forms of wisdom, which have been long overshadowed--to the peril of humanity--by verbal-intellectual skills with their abstract concepts and ideological perspectives.
Presenting Pearce’s vision of human potential from the 1950s until the end of his life, this book shares Pearce’s life-changing insights into why we have become what we are, contrasted with the miracle nature intends us to be, allowing each of us to break through our self-inflicted limitations and realize our amazing and magical potential.
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Works, Library, Biography, Glossary, Reviews
Joe's Books
Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
In over a dozen books over forty years, Joe fearlessly and passionately pointed out our near limitless human potential and our self-imposed limitations. Discover his books, and many he contributed to over his lifetime.
Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
Visit the largest collection of Joe's teachings, complete with insights and quotes from a treasure trove of video and audio archives at the Joseph Chilton Pearce Library housed at Touch the Future.
Video and Audio Recordings
Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
Video and Audio Recordings
Discover Joe's lectures, interviews, classroom teachings, television and documentary appearances on this page.
Biography
Glossary of Terms
Video and Audio Recordings
Meet Joe: father of five, humanities teacher, and social visionary who pointed to a way beyond our "self-limiting beliefs" and toward our "amazing capacities."
Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
Joe's work produced a plethora of new insights that required new language. Discover his world in the New Story Lexicon on Kindred Media.
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About Joe
Joseph Chilton Pearce, January 14, 1926 - August 23, 2016
Joseph Chilton Pearce is original, unique. No one has done what Joe has done; passionately and incisively exploring a view of near limitless human potential and the self-imposed limitations that inhibit and block that unfolding, describing both and how they relate.
Joe had a number of para-normal experiences that are impossible given our accepted notions about reality, fire not burning, spontaneous remissions, precognition, telepathic communion, bending spoons like a corkscrew and many others, all manifestations of what he calls unconflicted behavior. These direct experiences represent cracks in our identity-reality-structure, the Cosmic Egg, which became the title of his first book.
Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality… Mind over matter is a misleading notion, and not the issue here. I have, however, traced the relation of mind and reality, as complementary poles of a continuum.
When the Hindu walks through a pit of white-hot charcoal, or the scientist experiences his Eureka! that opens new levels of reality each uses the same reality-shaping function of mind. This book traces the pattern of development underlying this function.
The crack contains an enormous, indeed romantic, optimism, however, by which I hope to counter our current passion for nihilistic self-doubt… The reality-shaping function operates automatically in spite of us, but this breath of life that structures all things is also the deepest level of our very minds, and available to any of us, even now.
-- Michael Mendizza, curator of the Joseph Chilton Pearce Library
Learn more about Joe's work, read his essays and view his teaching videos at the Joseph Chilton Pearce Library housed at Touch the Future.
Joe passed on August 23, 2016. His legacy is carried forward through the nonprofit initiatives of Touch the Future and Kindred World, as well as a devoted following worldwide. Visit his Facebook page to encounter stories of his impact.
