Joseph Chilton Pearce

Explains the phenomenon of shaktipat, the spiritual transmission of power from a teacher to a devotee. Shows how technology has eroded personal power and how insight and awareness can play a higher role in our lives. Reveals how insight is the vehicle for profound self-transformation. Shakti is the creative force, the bonding power, that holds the universe together. Shaktipat is...

In this classic follow-up to his bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains the process of acculturation and the mechanisms that create our self-limiting "cosmic egg" of consensus reality. Laying the groundwork for his later classic Magical Child, Pearce shows that we go through early childhood connecting with the world through our senses. With the development...