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The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality QUOTES

The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality QUOTES

1 " Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

2 " As for myself, however, today is the day, and I dare not wait for some slow cultural drift finally to pave the way that I might easily float into some nebulous social salvation. I cannot depend on 'them' 'out there' to order into coherency this small sphere of my only present now. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

3 " We are limited by our agreements on possibility. Agreement is a common exclusion of alternate possibilities. Agreement is the cement of social structure. Two or three gathered together, agreeing on what they are after, may create a subset in which their goals can be achieved, even though folly in the eyes of the world. The world in this case means a set of expectancies agreed upon, a set excluding other possibilities. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

4 " Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

5 " Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

6 " There is no logical, rational, pre-structured criterion "out there" with a divine plan. There is no truth "out there" which our weak minds or souls eventually run across. There is this casual, haphazard, amoral process that leaps the logical gaps and brings about newness. And the procedurés only demand is that given talents be invested, risked, doubled, the possibilities explored. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

7 " An enormous force bends all lines into circles. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality

8 " Smythies, you recall, considered hallucination to be a normal part of every child's psychological life. "

― Joseph Chilton Pearce , The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality