From Magical Child to Magical Teen:
A Guide to Adolescent Development
by Joseph Chilton Pearce
A Profound Documentation Of Our Human Birthright
A groundbreaking perspective on Natures plan for full human creativity and
intelligence during the teen years. * Shows what is at the core of todays
serious social and psychological problems. * Explores the sexual and
spiritual stage of adolescent development. * Details the connection
between adolescent brain and heart development and the issue of nature
vs. nurture. * By the author of Magical Child (250,000 copies sold).
Something is supposed to happen during the adolescent years-something
greater than MTV, video games, and the Internet. Joseph Chilton Pearce
describes this something as the natural mandate for post-biological
development-the development of the sexual and spiritual senses and
expansion of our growth process outside of our bodies and into the
physical world that surrounds us. Though first written in the mid 1980s,
the message of From Magical Child to Magical Teen is even more
compelling and helpful today-especially for those who live with and work

with adolescents. Drawing on the stages of development outlined by Swiss
biologist Jean Piaget and the brain research of neuroscientist Paul
MacLean, Pearce demonstrates how nature has built into us an agenda for
the intelligent unfolding of our lives. He offers a powerful critique of
contemporary child-rearing practices and a groundbreaking alternative to
existing perspectives on adolescence so we can unleash our greatest
potential, as well as that of our children, in order to experience our fullness
in the manner nature intended all along.
Personal Review: From Magical Child to Magical Teen: A Guide
to Adolescent Development by Joseph Chilton Pearce
From Magical Child to Magical Teen is major step in the documentation of
the overwhelming potential hidden within the human heart. Author Joseph
Chilton Pearce has spent a lifetime developing the evidence for our
magnificent human birthright, which few of us achieve and many do not
understand. Many of my associates consider Pearce to be the world's
number one interdisciplinary authority on human development. From
Magical Child to Magical Teen is another step in Pearce's documentation
of the barriers in most cultures to the unfolding of our inherent human
potentials and gifts. Pearce began his literary endeavors over 40 years
ago with Crack in the Cosmic Egg The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New
Constructs of Mind and Reality, followed by Exploring the Crack in the
Cosmic Egg Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds & Meta-
Realities, best seller Magical Child Magical Child (Plume), and Magical
Child Matures (republished as From Magical Child to Magical Teen)
Magical Child Matures: 2. Each of these books sought to explicate the
mystery of what it could mean to be truly human. The greatest challenge
to our understanding of who we are is the effect of our culture, and Pearce
has carefully documented the negative effects of many of our major
institutions - education, medicine, churches, the television, and media in
general - which over time have become self serving rather than serving of
humankind. Because we are all products of our culture, the truth about our
culture is often very confusing and frightening. Readers of Joseph Chilton
Pearce will confront this resistance in the process of reading his works.
From Magical Child to Magical Teen is not a how-to-do-it book offering
easy answers. Rather, it challenges us to the very core of our
understanding of who we are. One reviewer of this book took Pearce's
statement that "by 1980, sixty to seventy percent of all American children
under the age of four were in day-care centers for periods up to twelve
hours a day, seven days a week", and then concluded by stating that "to
imply that 60 - 70% are in day-care for 72 hours a week is just
irresponsible and misleading." Our resistance to truth is often the source of
logical fallacies. Stating, for example, that a thing is occurring "up to" a
certain limit in no way implies that all occurrences are at that limit. From
my own experience of watching our culture, daycare is one of the most
destructive forces in our society because of its profound negative effect on
child development, and Pearce recognized over 30 years ago that changes
in the nurturing of children were creating catastrophic damage to the
human species. This damage has been thoroughly explored by Pearce in

his other books: The Bond of Power (republished as Spiritual Initiation and
the Breakthrough of Consciousness) Spiritual Initiation and the
Breakthrough of Consciousness: The Bond of Power, Evolution's End
Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence, The Biology of
Transcendence The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human
Spirit, and The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit The Death of
Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit: A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart.
When From Magical Child to Magical Teen was initially published as
Magical Child Matures, it received rave reviews "A rich book.... I hope it will
help people to open the narrow aperture of their frightened, logical, rational
minds." - Frederick Leboyer. "Brilliant.... This is the provocative human
synthesis we've been waiting for." - George Leonard. The future of
civilization truly requires that we use the help of Pearce and others to
"open the narrow aperture".
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