Transcendent Attunement – Joseph Chilton Pearce And The Model Imperative

Direct, embodied, full spectrum perception implies a quality of knowing that is infinitely wider, deeper and more complex than thought’s abstracted metaphors. Attunement defines how this embodied intelligence resonates and the meanings revealed. Transcendence, play in its original form, is creation’s blueprint. Being open-ended, embedded, woven in the human design are latent capacities, infinite potentials, epigenetically activated by environmental signals, the model given. No model, no activation of hidden potential. That, according to Pearce, is the Model Imperative. Into this immutable dynamic each new human being is spawned and marinates. Like nested Russian Dolls the developing human is embedded in the body and psyche of the mother. The psyche and body of mother is embedded in the body of the living earth. And so it was for 95% of our species development, until perhaps 100,000 years ago, when the human brain exploded, and with it the capacity to create abstract mental images. Suddenly, unexpectedly, for there was no precedent for this powerful new toy, not in this new abstracted symbolic form, the model imperative flipped. Like a thief or magician, mental concepts grabbed and enchanted humanities attention, leaving precious little for direct
embodied full spectrum perception and its infinite, often hidden, potential. Steadily, relentlessly, similar to the way digital screens have sucked our attention into their dead, virtual world, there emerged a conflict between embodied intelligence and culture, culture being born of machinelike intellect and its mental images. Unlike any of the 1.3 million species on earth, humans began living in environments sculpted and defined, not by nature, rather by their imagination, living in artificial worlds, in machines, and increasingly enchanted by technologies. In this brief paper, drawing upon Joe’s descriptions, we will explore how Joseph Chilton Pearce viewed pregnancy and birth as a rite of passage, a critical fork in the road that awakens, in the mother of the species, embodied transcendent attunement with her own nature, or a devolutionary acceptance of machines and machinelike artificial intelligence as the new and future mother of the species. A Transhumanist utopia.

A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE SPEAKER
NAME: MICHAEL MENDIZZA
AFFILIATION: TOUCH THE FUTURE, USA
Michael Mendizza is an entrepreneur, author, educator, documentary filmmaker, the father of two adult homeschooled children and Carly, his daughter, seven years young. He is the founder of Touch the Future, a nonprofit learning design center focusing on optimizing human potential beginning with the parentchild relationship. He is the author of six books; Magical Parent-Magical Child, the Art of Joyful Parenting, coauthored with Joseph Chilton Pearce, applying what athletes call The Zone to parenting and to education, Playful Wisdom, exploring the critical role fathers play during the early and explosive first two years of a child’s life, Always Awakening: Buddha’s Realization Krishnamurti’s Insight with Rinpoche Samdhong, the first Prime Minister of Tibet in Exile, Flowering, a collection of dramatic floral and seascape images with quotes by Krishnamurti. The Life and Insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce, Astonishing Capacities and Self Inflicted Limitations, and Unconditional Free, the Life and Insights of J. Krishnamurti.