The Heart-Mind Matrix: How the Heart Can Teach the Mind New Ways to Think Paperback – Illustrated, August 22, 2012

I read Crack and the Cosmic Egg and Magical Child many years ago ... and they "cracked my cosmic egg :)." This new book is amazing in it's observations and insights. It is great to see how far Joseph Chilton Pearce has come, and how far I have come as I follow his mind-heart logic. The author loves his run-on sentences as he masterfully convey's the leaps in awareness he and others have made. Wait until you get to his startling "strange loop" and feel your own "ah hah." His observations of "these days we're in" are both helpful and a little startling. The hope that he offers as he invites us to make "The Heart-MInd Connection" is wonderful.

Although Pearce isn't always as clear or transparent as one would like him to be, it is obvious he is a genius at work. We get to sense the yearning of a man who has sought for at least 6 decades to find what it means to open your heart to life . . . from the scientific as well as the mystical dimension. Any moment he can drop in some unique way of seeing the world that I had never considered. There is a certain breathless quality to reading Pearce . . . what will he say, what has he discovered, can I see the world as he does? A brilliant mind who cares far more about moment-by-moment heartfulness than anything else.

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Enlightened. Brilliant. Clear.Granted, I have been a Joseph Chilton Pearce fan for a long time. But, this book really pulls together the essence of why nurturing lost must be regained through the compassionate intelligence of the heart.Joe Pearce draws from many sources (running the gamut from evolution, through spiritual, to neuro-biological). Here, he pulls it all together in one clear argument which might just save our species from the disastrous trajectory on which we find ourselves.Read this book. It may be the most valuable tome you've ever laid your hands on.

Joseph Chilton Pearce was an expert in child development and a great mystic and in this, his last book he brings all his ideas together about the dire consequences of our failure in the nurture of children and his hopes for the evolution of man by reconnecting to heart-based intelligence. He writes:"This book has described some of the many ways in which humankind has cut itself off from its original matrix of the heart, and thus no longer serves as the heart’s new way of thinking any more than it serves as nurturing caretaker of Sophia, Earth’s Spirit—both of which we are designed to do."The coherent heart resonates with the earth's and sun's fields maximizing our creativity. Our ability to develop, evolve and transcend depends on nurture which fosters (and is also fostered by) love and altruism.Pierce is at his best when he describes the double-bind of American children who are urged to explore the world and at the same time. on average, every seven minutes, are given prohibitive commands like "Don't do that!". This leads to split attention,doubt and anxiety encumbering the development of the brain.When it comes to solutions for these predicaments in adulthood, I think the book falls shortPierce's hope is that our natural curiosity will propel man's development and enable him to dare to transcend all limitations.He says: "Mind, as self-awareness, must now further develop the capacity to imagine and project beyond its present physical “embedment.” If the resulting imaginal state is entertained over time, it can set up a strange loop, mirroring between image and its object, beginning early on, which is in process today."But given that we have" a fundamentally flawed logical worldview", we can't rely on "our razor-sharp" intellect which has created atom bombs and environmental destruction while we have lost our connections to heart-based intelligence, because of failures in brain-heart development and nurture, what are we to do?Pierce points to the transcendence of the physical body by Judith von Halle and some others who claim to be able to survive on very little food and water. He fails to mention the many people who have starved to death in trying to emulate these feats.So how do we reclaim our heart-based intelligence?

Excellent ideas suggesting realistic solutions that might help resolve the entrapment potentials of technology. If the nurturing component in human interaction is compromised by the encroaching computer program, survival of human compassion is at great risk. The science-fiction movie trilogy "The Matrix" could become science-reality. I highly recommend this reading for anyone interested in preservation of the creative human spirit.

Peace offers truly insightful information about the heart/mind connection, but his prose is difficult to parse. I find myself having to read sentences more than once to understand his point.

awesome book, very scientific (not my strong point), but what i like about this book is that science and modern technology has finally caught up with an ancient wisdom of intelligence, that can be validated.