Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Joseph Chilton Pearceis an American author of a number of books on human development and child development and is best known for his books, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Childand The Bond of Power: Meditation and Wholeness. He prefers the name "Joe"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
latin position-of-power comfort
The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.
metaphor capacity full-life
One's capacity for metaphor is one's capacity for a full life.
children learning parent
The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.
children self-esteem play
All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.
reality world thinker
We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers.
ideas realization
Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.
spiritual teacher children
Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now at this time of childhood crisis and educational breakdown. Waldorf Education nurtures the intellectual, psychological and spiritual unfolding of the child. The concerned parent and teacher will find a multitude of problems clearly addressed in this practical, artistic approach.
creative pulse calming
We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.
reality notion
Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions
children want teach
What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.
knowing years intuition
Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.
growing-up children learning
We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.