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IONS 2003 IONS Conference Video
with Joseph Chilton Pearce:
Transcendence and The Roots of Violence
Date: Monday, Aug. 23
Time: 7:15 - 9:15 PM
Locaton:
East Shore Unitarian (I-90 & Richards RD)
www.eastshoreunitarian.org/directions.htm
Description: Video from 2003 IONS Conference Breakout: Joseph Chilton
Pearce (author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and others) powerfully
describes the hardwiring of the brain and its relationship to the heart in
whole person development. Citing research, he presents a case for the new
imperative for our culture. What is transcendence? What could
transcendence have to do with curving the roots of violence? How does this
relate to the development of the brain and to the progress of human
evolution?
Indigenous cultures for years have known of the importance of biological
nurturance from conception onward in the development of whole person. They
have known of the importance of a mother's emotional state to the
development of the child, starting right at embryo. Pearce says, "The
mother's emotional state during pregnancy determines the quality, nature,
character, capacity, and even size of her infant's neural system."
In this video, Pearce cites research which supports the need for
entrainment of various neural systems (thought, feeling, action,
relationship, emotional control) offering evidence for the need for
biological and neural re-patterning through behavioral change. He says we
need to transcend i.e., learn how to shift into a unified state of
entrainment which integrates brain and heart neurocircuitry as fundamental
to the evolution of the brain and humanity.
Moving toward valuing a unified state of emotional security and love is a
way to influence not only personal well-being and the development of the
whole person but to create a resultant widespread shift in consciousness
within the dominant culture. Given this research, he shows us how a
concerted effort to advance human evolution through brain changes is
necessary. He says this can come about by simply caring for each other in
a context of wholeness, love, and inter-relationship from a unified state
of mind/body.
This 1.5 hour video discusses the impact the shift toward this value of
wholeness will have on the individual body/mind connection and on
collective consciousness, moving away from a culture of violence to one
that embraces synergy and respects human relationship.
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Susan Burns
Institute of Noetic Sciences (www.noetic.org)
Local Community (www.ionsnw.org)
425 881-9000
sburns@ionsnw.org |
