"People Call Me A Mirror. And If A Mirror Looks Into A Mirror What Does It See?"

Phewww... lots of reading. Usually the connections in the readings jump out at me but this time it required a bit more thought. In the Pearce chapters, he is again just regurgitating everything he has said before. Yes dude we get it. We have the power to "crack" the "cosmic egg". However in this chapter he starts to talk about how we as humans belittle ourselves by comparing us to the apes which we perhaps may have come from. I think he is saying that we are not related to them because we are on a completely different plane of existence. It's almost as if we have this ability to advance, or "crack" the "egg", but we continue to look into the past. This is where I connected the Hughes reading - Pearce's Eureka! to Hughes' Aha! We all have the ability to dive into our mind's worlds and we all have our own creative processes. Whatever it is, this is the way to a higher understanding. This is the way to connect on a deeper level with our fellow humans. Not through our bumbling human language, but through our senses and our born abilities. Pearce talks about losing these born abilities as we continue through society while Hughes shows us how people have made names for themselves writing and developing ideas based off of children's experiences. Society puts all of these limitations on us and we have the ability to ignore them - to bring back some of Huxley's ideas, we must turn down that reducing valve and let EVERYTHING in no matter how lovely or gruesome it may seem. These are all factors that we can take into account in order to produce something that will help us enter a new age of wisdom and a new paradigm. Unfortunately it seems as if those in power know this already and use it to their advantage.