Evolution's End : Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence

Author: Joseph C. Pearce
List Price: $15.95
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ISBN: 006250732X
Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco (22 October, 1993)
Sales Rank: 81,891
Average Customer Rating: 3.7 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
A book for today
The Kirkus reviewer of this book has missed the real issues.If he had read carefully he would have seen that Pearce condemns all aspects of modern, man controlled birthing methods, which cause trauma to the baby and prevent deep bonding with the mother, both for blacks and whites.I see no racism in this book.Pearce estimates that 70 percent of white children are uneducable due to the modern developments that he discusses.About two thirds of the population have grown up with these factors that prevent full human development.Most of the people concerned would not be aware of their arrested development.A very disturbing fact that Pearce discusses is the way television prevents the higher brain from developing in children.Television engages only the lower or reptilian brain, not allowing the higher brain to develop.At age 11 the brain destroys many unused neurons, so that arrested development is permanent.This book and "The Sibling Society" by Robert Bly show that very negative things have been happening to human nature in modern society, causing the general breakdown which is going on all around us.

Rating: 5 out of 5
What's Up with these Kirkus Reviews????
C'mon Amazon, These kirkus review guys or gals display an incredible amount of cynicism and a barbaric disposition to misrepresent certain author's work! In this case, Joseph Chilton Pierce is the victim. I have never read a more pathetic, disrespectful "review in my life". Who ever wrote it barely read this magnificent book, if they did at all. I imagine them coming home from work with the assignment to read the book, in a foul mood(perhaps he or she drank 50 cups of coffee that day) and paging through the enire book within 5 minutes, all the while projecting their unfufilled life onto this labor of Pierce's love. Folks, I am amazed at the blatant misrepresentation, disimformation and condescending bitterness of that particular reviewer. The writer would do better to write smut on soap opera stars in some cheap tabloid. The only thing this review reveals with any accuracy is what a bitter, shut down person the reviewer is. Buy this book! it's better than alot of stuff out there, and right or wrong, Pierce keeps things fresh in a spirit of what I call, Radical Enquirey! C'mon Amazon, Hire me, I'd at least read the book and could provide reviews that have INTEGRITY! I could do it in my sleep!

Rating: 1 out of 5
Babbling in the shadows
Joseph Pearce "lectures worldwide on human intelligence, creativity, and learning." If you don't believe it, just read the inside cover for this personal promo. These lectures, though, are probably not discussions of RNA, DNA, proteins and memory, random or leapfrog evolution or any of a number of worthy topics.

No, Mr. Pearce stays on the high ground and delivers such claptrap as "So the supra-implicated is all-power conceivable, the implicate is all-power manifesting, and the explicate is the contracted end-result so manifested." ("Mind and Matter") I, for one, do not have the slightest idea what he is talking about except that it sounds like mumbo-jumbo about physical vs mental vs conceptual, blah blah blah.

More hocus pocus on such subjects as sight, sound, day care,the hazards of television, raising kids for the future, learning, school, world peace. He manages to state a few good points between all the squawking - some children are not educable and this should be recognized, children should be raised by parents in their home, and we have the potential to affect evolution today through artificial means. But then we hear again about how we use only a small portion of our brain (absurd - we use it all only at different times). A discussion of the Bhagavad Gita about human potential and belonging brings these dreary essays to an appropriate ending. Awful as it sounds!

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