Home cooked eggs...

I enjoyed reading the forward and the preface by Thom Hartman. I thought it was very clever that Hartman wanted to give you a view of his own describtion of, "The Crack in the Cosmic Egg" in the preface. Hartman described, " I discovered in this book that the way I write and the way others create is simlar, that we become aware of the egg, and then a small crack in it, and then - by serendipity or magic or the grace of God- the crack suddenly opens enough that the light of understanding flows in and it's all just so clear and easy to express."

Pierce-
I really liked the words of Pierce when he said, " Our world view is a cultural pattern that shapes our mind from birth. It happens to us as fate." That is true because the world that we live in we become accustomed to it at birth and it is hard to move and adapt to another countries customs later on in life because the one's we were born with have been plantented in us by God. I also like Pierce's stories that involve the ones he loves, like his wife's and how he coped with her dying from cancer and how his next door neighbor found a key to the wonders of the egg, that inspired Pierce to go into further investigation of the egg. I also liked how he told of philosophers and anthropologist.
I enjoy and was amazed that he gave the story of his friends muscial peformance and how it captivated him in the moment and the thought for once he was Mozart. When Pierce climbed up in the tree with his children he seen something more than tree leaves, and green grass, he seen the truth of existance. I was surprised to see that he made reference to the hypnagogic state when he tatlked about juicy red strawberries and how he ties it into the climbing a tree story with his children. Also one thing that captured my attention is when he talked about drugs, LSD, hallucinogens, psychedelics and how they form over time as a mental disease and thats how people can for one form a hard to break habbit. I aggreed with his quote, " The universe, like nature, is a conceptual framework that changes from culture to culture and age to age." That is owe so true everyday something is reflected as NEW and the next day it can be old, different techniques of cooking, worshiping, technology are vastly changing to. But we learned the way we are from ancient times and those are the times that will never change.
In the third chapter of the reading I was captured by the stories of the little boy who was raised with chickens and how he not knowing he was different looking acted as chickens did and survivied as they did. Another intersting story was of the two children who were raised by a pack of wolves, and how the one only survived and she would walk on heind legs and growl at the moon at sevelral hours of the night. It was a very interseting story cause I would of never known that if taken out of your norm at a young age you can adapt to an animal environment. This chapter was also learning because it taught you how childrens minds develope and how language and culture relfect who we are.