 Joseph
Chilton Pearce is the author of many books, including Crack In The
Cosmic Egg, The Magical Child, and Evolution's End. For over
thirty years he has lectured internationally on human development. Most
recently he completed The Biology of Transcendence, and co-authored
a book and video series on Nurturing with Michael Mendizza.
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The basic intelligence on which life rests,
the ability to avoid that which is harmful and move for that which is beneficial
to the continuity of life, is possessed by all creatures, from the first
mitochondria right on down. The more complex a creature, the more complex
that intelligence becomes. It is always moving for appropriateness, for
our well-being and continuity. Intelligence is connected with the deepest
intuitive roots of life, the matrix of our being. It is the dark, mysterious
interior of life. And intelligence is essentially feminine in its nature,
if I may use that kind of polarity. It is subjective and interior.
On the other hand, intellect is objective.
It is exterior. It is outwardly driven. Intellect is "brain-centered."
Intellect is analytical: logical, linear, analytical. It is constantly
questioning. It takes things apart and loves to put them together in new
ways. It is inventive. This brain-centered, objective intellect is a highly
specific form of intelligence that is evolution's latest achievement and
has been brought about by the latest additions to our brain structure.
Nature has a scheme in mind for the awakening
and developing of this incredible intelligence and the eventual development
of intellect. Just as with the periodic unfolding of physical development
there is a periodic unfolding of intelligences or abilities. These intelligences,
abilities or capacities, are directly connected with certain areas of
the brain. Every time we move into a new block of intelligences or abilities
there is a brain growth spurt allowing a new block of learning and intelligences
and adaptations to develop.
Nature's agenda is to open up these blocks
of intelligences one at a time as appropriate. There is topology of the
brain, a certain mapping of areas that are devoted to or predisposed to
handling certain types of intelligences, abilities, instincts. These must
be opened, one at a time, according to the needs of the whole system.
Children immediately absorb from their environment everything they need
according to its appropriateness because that is what intelligence is
always doing.
Ego, or sense of awareness, is embedded in
the developmental structure that is currently being developed. If we furnish
an appropriate nurturing environment for each of these systems, they will
unfold automatically, absorb everything appropriate to the system, and
the system just keeps opening and opening and opening.
Development requires a model or event to
trigger the brain to open a capacity. If the model is not there, no development
takes place. The character and nature and quality of the model determines
the character and nature and quality of the developing intelligence to
an indeterminable extent. We must be who we want our children to become.
As the later stages awaken and unfold for
their expression and their focus of development, they will incorporate
the lower structures into their service and profoundly change the lower
structures. The tragedy becomes when the psychic structure remains embedded
in the lower structure and that shift or transformation of the lower into
the higher does not take place. Get rid of the words morality
or ethics or any of these judgmental things and look coldly at
what is happening to this biological system. Heredity accounts for about
65 percent of a young person's capacity, intellect, intelligence, abilities,
but the 35 percent furnished by the environment determines whether or
not the 65 percent gets any chance to unfold. |
brief biography
