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The Pearce reading proved to be pretty good reading. I particularly enjoyed the preface when Hartman was stating that when he gets an idea it is like being pregnant. It takes a while to get the idea complete and form it. This is true for many writers. I know that it takes me a while to figure out what topic I want to write about much less what I want to write about from that topic. I have to sit down and figure it out and let it formulate and grow before I can actually put anything on paper.

I thought that, when Pearce explained his experience when he passed out one day and while he was unconscious he saw his girl writing him a letter, this was a particularly interesting part because I have never heard of that happening. When I read that this letter, with exactly what he read in it, arrived I kind of got shivers. I thought that was really odd but really cool at the same time. I have never had an experience like this and I would imagine it to be frightening when you learn it to be real like when the letter came.

Meditation and Yoga are a way of being able to enter an autistic state. The ability to reach this state obviously is very hard. It takes years of training and meditation to even begin to crack this state of mind. Being able to make something real to you, like Pearce’s son making his G.I. Joe alive, can be fun for a little while but then it must lose its magic when you realize that nobody else can see the same thing that you do. They don’t even realize what you are doing and how you are doing it.

Pearce did a good job in bringing all of these things together in a way to make you understand how they are all connected. All of these ideas are like the egg you are pregnant with. It takes a while for the idea to actually take hold and grow into something that can be understood by the masses.