Acknowledgments -- Introduction: a mirror of the universe -- The fall of man -- Emotion in evolution -- The great conflict -- Cultural default and intentional evolution -- Ancient heart-knowledge in the twenty-first century -- Scientific perspectives of mind-heart and resonant fields -- Nature's plan and culture's conniving -- Darwin's evolution -- Darwin II: death and the evolution of the mind -- Mind, spirit, and creative fields -- The problem of God -- "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here" -- Appendix A: Mind: the last to know -- Appendix B: A brief summary of the research of James Prescott and Michael Odent -- Notes -- Bibliography.

"Expanding the revolutionary theories of mind explored in the bestselling The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Biology of Transcendence, Joseph Chilton Pearce explains how the heart provides the balancing intelligence to the brain?s calculating intellect, an innate system of emotional-mental coherence lost generations ago through a breakdown of the nurturing culture of our ancestors. By severing ourselves from our heart intelligence, we are left with our selfish, survival-oriented reptilian brains, which create and reinforce ?strange loops? between potential and actual reality, leading to our modern world?s endless cycle of self-inflicted disasters and societal crises. Pearce explains that in order to break these cycles and transcend a life focused solely on surviving the results of our own reactive patterns, we must reconnect with the compassionate intelligence of the heart. Offering a rich variety of evidence, Pearce explores neurological research, lost and enduring nurturing cultures, personal experiences, and accounts from the lives and writings of modern sages such as Jane Goodall, Maria Montessori, and Rudolf Steiner. He shows that by activating the original matrix of the Heart-Mind--the engine of our spiritual evolution and our innate connection to the universe--we can teach our brains new ways to think, amend our destructive behavior loops, and enter into a future of peace, spiritual connection, and conscious evolution." -- Back cover

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