Forwar,Preface Chaps1-3 a crack in the egg

In the forward by Thom Hartman he talks about he he can relate to the book The crack in the cosmic egg by Joseph Pearce and his reaction after reading the book. I liked that he related the reading to his childhood days and how he remembered when his grandma passed that he would look at the mirror that they both liked to look at and imagine her ghost appear. This highlights that sometimes what one thinks is reality in their consciousness might or might not be for all.

I found the read for this week to be both enciteful and engaging. I thought he did a good job in trying to distinguish what we perceive to be reality and what other possible ends of reality are outside the realm of our consciosness. He tries to explain how our minds process what we perceive as reality and challenges that aspect abit. I found that as I read I bumped into phrases or quotes that made me think deep into the philosophical realm. One particular relevant quote that I found mind boggling was that"reality is not a fixed entity. It is a contigent interlocking of moving events". What do we perceive reality to be, is it just our own or that of every living species in the universe. Do we share one common reality that bonds us together. Could Imagination or dreams be perceived as a reality in our conscious realm?I felt personally connected to the second chapter where he talks about the "autistic thinking". Usually we perceive autism to be of a mental illness that strikes one from their very early childhood. but one characteristic of autistic kids is that they can be very gifted in the creative aspects. Drawing, music etc. What the author conveys as A-thinking he decsribes it as "unstructured, nonlogical (but not necessiraly illogical), whimsical thinking that is key to creativity. He saying that this is an area that is in everybody that when tapped into releases the best of our full potential. I liked the title and he conveyed a "crack in the cosmic egg". Our minds and what we perceve reality is the egg. How we construst what we take in is the crack in the egg.