Exploring the Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce

Perhaps the greatest obstacle we each face is the open-ended nature of true intelligence and wisdom, as opposed to knowledge and imagination. Real development is not the accumulation of knowledge. He or she with the largest flash drive is not the most developed, the best human possible.

What does it mean to be a human being? What are the astonishing capacities that make being human unique in all the world, perhaps in all the worlds? What are the self-inflicted limitations that prevent those capacities from unfolding? Is there anything that can be done to take the lid off of our own, and our children’s, true development? Why, after millennia haven’t we become more than we are? Is it becoming even harder, with each new development, to discover, awaken and develop the miraculous gifts nature has hidden in each of us? Which side is winning; the dark or the light?

Each of us is, as the title of one of Joe’s books describes, Evolution’s End. We are each that tip of living essence, like a blade of grass pushing through concrete slab of our conditioning, habitual and reflexive behavior. There is little or no intelligence in a reflex, David Bohm notes. We have 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts each day and nearly all are replicas of what we thought yesterday. Krishnamurti describes us as second-hand human beings.

Actualizing our astonishing capacities demands that we transcend our self-inflicted limitations. Transcendence is not a concept, imagining a new something. Transcendence is a state, not an idea.

“The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce, edited by Michael Mendizza, reveals how Pearce, a modern-day sage, endowed with the courage, strength, and perseverance to challenge conventional world views, offered humanity original and penetrating insights into our transcendent nature and vast creativity. Joe’s brilliant and original works represent a profound and important contribution toward healing our global dysfunction and ensuring the healthy development of future generations.”

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., stem cell biologist, epigenetic science pioneer,
and author of The Biology of Belief, The Honeymoon Effect, and many others.

“Pearce was an inspirational figure, a small giant.
He soared higher than I aspire, or most people can.”

Dr. Gabor Maté

A dream that began in 2010, weaving together in one volume the themes that inspired Joseph Chilton Pearce for a lifetime, is now available.

Joseph Chilton Pearce His Life and Insights, Astonishing Capacities and Self-inflicted limitations.

I share without hesitation that Joe’s passion, his direct experience, childlike wonder, and incisive questioning lead to original insights; a deep and penetrating blend of developmental biology, the epigenetic role society, and culture plays in human development, personal revelations that quantum scientists are just now perusing, practical Vedic wisdom, and a vision of self and reality that explains and even makes assessable what most consider to be miracles. He opened the doors of perception for more than his generation, in ways that can, if understood and applied, radically change the future for us all.

Sometimes it takes a lifetime to embody an insight our teachers share. Joe (Joseph Chilton Pearce) was like an idealized father, ideal in the sense of sharing together one’s passion. It is, I believe, every parent’s wish that their children see the light that illuminates our journey in the same way that every child wishes to be seen for whom they really are and not as an image to be compared.

The ‘mists are rising’ is a phrase that describes the transition from a quality of consciousness/awareness that is embodied to a dimension that is not in or of the body. From a body perspective we call this transition death, and it is. The body comes to an end. From a consciousness/awareness perspective this transition may be similar to what unfolds between life in utero and the infinitely vaster planet earth that unfolds at child birth. The nature and quality of consciousness/awareness that served in utero ends and something completely different opens, perfectly suited to the emerging new realm. Reality changes.

Joseph Chilton Pearce turns 90 today!
With his distinctive turning up of his nose Joe reminded me in a recent conversation that he dreaded getting ‘old.’ Then he said, “It isn’t as bad as I thought.”

Most of us worry and fret about our day to day affairs and this dominates our feelings about what life is all about. Beginning at a remarkably early age Joe realized that the game of life is all about discovering and developing capacity. We are creation and creation is a completely open-ended affair. The meaning of life therefore, is what we make of it! And yet, what we make of it is often predetermined by the environment, predominantly the virtual reality we call culture.