"Twilight Between the Worlds" (Pearce)...Laying the egg.

This book reminds me of Thanksgiving....(bare with me)... so much to eat but you can't come to conclusions on what you will pick first. So I will pick a little into the meat then work my way down the table.

I would have to say that reading this book has fed me and left me without words (whether I am confused or enlightened.) It is full of details and "OH, I see what he means by that"!? Lots to digest but nonetheless very good fulfilling reading. I would like to start of with my interpretation of the crack in the cosmic egg: It is a way that one can go beyond the broad, routine way of which we live. It is an eye opener and a largely unexplored way of truth. Pearce talks about how "It is that, "twilight between the worlds," the Yaqui Indian sorcerer do Juan explored in his "way of knowledge" reported year ago by the anthropologist Carlos Castaneda." Pearce goes on saying how, "The crack is similar to the "narrow gate" of Jesus' way of truth, whose way is still as novel and largely unexplored as is the way of don Juan." To this is true because I used to belong to a Catholic church and I was taught to recite and go to Sunday school but after a while, when I grew older and I can decide for myself what my faith should be; I went on and converted to Christianity (Evangelistic) and I found this faith more rewarding simply because I saw the unexplored truth through my new faith. In fact, At the beginning when I went to the service meeting there was an event in which you had to choose to go through "the darker path and narrow path" or "the nicely light and wide path". It is not always easy to get through that narrow path but when one gets across all seems clear.

On another note I enjoyed reading Carolyn's blog and how she put one and two together using the movie "The Village". I couldn't agree with her more on her interpretation to how this group of people who live deep in the woods have created a set of laws ( or ways...if you can say) so to influence the way of thinking of these characters. Carolyn blogs, how in the movie the leaders enforce the rules about "things we do not speak of". We can relate to that in the reading in which Pearce says, " that the world we see is far from an exact image of the physical world."( 58) We know what we see and what we are told. This way of thinking is influenced by those around us and our culture.

I will like to end with this quote because I think is brilliant, " If we believe our social view sacred and made is heaven, we tend to shut off a deep potential in which many of the terrors and shortcomings of our logic and reason might be averted." (Pearce 55)