ISBN The Biology of Transcendence

A Blueprint of the Human Spirit_x000D_
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Uses new research about the ain to explore how we can transcend our current physical and cultural limitations _x000D_
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• Reveals that transcendence of current modes of existence requires the dynamic interaction of our fourth and fifth ains (intellect and intelligence) _x000D_
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• Explores the idea that Jesus, Lao-tzu, and other great beings in history are models of nature’s possibility and our ability to achieve transcendence _x000D_
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• 17,000 sold in hardcover since April 2002 _x000D_
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Why do we seem stuck in a culture of violence and injustice? How is it that we can recognize the transcendent ideal represented by figures such as Jesus, Lao-tzu, and many others who have walked among us and yet not seem to reach the same state? _x000D_
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In The Biology of Transcendence Joseph Chilton Pearce examines the current biological understanding of our neural organization to address how we can go beyond the limitations and constraints of our current capacities of body and mind--how we can transcend. Recent research in the neurosciences and neurocardiology identifies the four neural centers of our ain and indicates that a fifth such center is located in the heart. This research reveals that the evolutionary structure of our ain and its dynamic interactions with our heart are designed by nature to reach beyond our current evolutionary capacities. We are quite literally, made to transcend. _x000D_
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Pearce explores how this “biological imperative” drives our life into ever-greater realms of being--even as the “cultural imperative” of social conformity and behavior counters this genetic heritage, blocks our transcendent capacities, and eeds violence in all its forms. The conflict between religion and spirit is an important part of this struggle. But each of us may overthrow these cultural imperatives to reach “unconflicted behavior,” wherein heart and mind-ain resonate in synchronicity, opening us to levels of possibility beyond the ordinary.