The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joseph Chilton Pearce

non-logical potential. William

Blake claimed that "anything capable of being imagined is an image of

truth." We openly shape reality when we diligently apply every ounce

of our logical process to a given desire. We are subject to the same

effect on less conscious levels. Our confused, conflicting, and inchoate

assumptions also enter as shaping forces in reality, and happen to us

as a random, confused fate.

It takes an ultimate commitment to damp out and exclude other

possibilities so that one possibility might formulate and be

realized. Autistic thought can synthesize and break into consciousness

with anything desired, if the conscious desire is strong enough to

win the struggle for dominance. Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of

reality. This capacity of mind is remote, elusive, whimsical, but it

can catalyze and synthesize ideas, notions, desires, and quests drawn

from or suggested by a realized world of events. From this catalytic

synthesis we have presented back an enhanced mirror of our concepts that

can enlarge our reality itself. This is the way in which "eternity is

in love with time."

Next I will explore the shaping of a world view, our set of concepts

built from infancy and childhood, its structure determining the kind of

world then available to the mind so shaped.

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blueprints and viewpoints

A social world view, one shared with other people, is structured from our

infant minds by the impingements on us from, and the verifying responses

to us by, other people. A mind finds its definition of itself not by

confrontation with things so much as other minds. We are shaped by

each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world but to the reality

of other thinkers. When we have finally persuaded and/or badgered our

children into "looking objectively" at their situation, taking into

consideration those things other to themselves, we relax since they are

being realistic . What we mean is that they have finally begun to mirror

qur commitments, verify our life investments, and strengthen and preserve

the cosmic egg of our culture.

Occasionally we hear of people found chained in attics and such places

from infancy. Their world view is either scanty or different for they

are always feeble minded at best. In 1951 a child was found in an

Irish chicken-house, having somehow survived there with the chickens,

since infancy. The ten-year old's long hair was matted with filth; he

ate at the chicken trough; roosted with the flock; his fingernails had

grown, fittingly, to semicircular claws; he made chicken-like noises,

not surprisingly; he had no speech and showed no promise of learning

any in the time he survived his rescue.

Forty years ago there was interest in two feral children found in

India. They had apparently been raised by wolves. They were taken from

an actual wolf den along with some cubs, the older wolves scattering

or being killed. One of the children, Kamala they called her, survived

for nine years. Only with difficulty was she taught table manners and

such niceties as walking on the hind legs. Nevertheless she exhibited a

growing awareness of the reward system of her new group, and displayed a

strong drive toward such orientation. As with the chicken-child, however,

she had missed the formative period of human infant development, and

there was no easy or complete going back to retrace the steps. Kamala

had formed according to the pattern eliciting response around her

during her mirrorhag period. For her first two years of captivity ---

or rescue -- she howled faithfully at ten, twelve, and three at night,

as all Indian wolves do. She would also, in spite of precautions,

manage to get at the chickens, rip them apart alive and eat them raw.

Only when the new social reward system grew strong enough to outweigh

the earlier rewards did she abandon her early training.

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There has been an accepted disparaging of the reports by Kellog,

Gesell, Singh, and others