Posted for Dianna

While reading what Pearce had to say about the “Cosmic Egg,” I have to say I really don’t agree. He speaks very unsure and unconfident about his feelings. Why would anybody buy into his ideas? Pearce starts the book by journeying off on personal stories, stories of others, thoughts of other writers, his thoughts compared to other writers, his comparisons on religions, leaving a lot of unanswered questions for his audience, and really doesn’t seem like he has a lot to say. It’s like hopping on a never ending marry-go-round of this crack that happened to this cosmic egg.
Here is just one of the areas that prove Pearce’s unconfident about his work. He displays no facts, but sheer opinion. “Perhaps, then, the education of a child is unlearning as well as learning, and perhaps many possibilities are lost through lack of triggering response, possibilities that may have been of worth.” (Page 52) This statement leaves you hanging. Perhaps the sky really isn’t blue, and perhaps the grass really isn’t green. Anybody can make assumptions, but what separates people from being fantastic writers is by giving evidence to support your decisions and ideas.
Not giving support to your own ideas isn’t a good move to explain your thoughts to others, especially when it corresponds with learning about reality, and altered states of consciousness. What triggered his ideas for a cosmic egg?Pearce says “…though our cosmic egg is the only reality we have, and is not to be treated lightly, what I hope to show is that there is available to us a crack in this egg…The crack must be approached with care, however, lest the egg itself be destroyed.” (Page 19) No motive is explained why Pearce feels compelled to show us the way to this egg, what the egg really symbolizes in full detail, and I feel as if Pearce is trying to start a colt of cracked egg followers. Pearce may have a crack in his egg, but also has a crack in his own ideas.