Easter Service

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Outreach 'Your Source for Church Communication and Outreach Tools' promotes Cracked Egg Inivitation Cards and Banners to advertise church services.

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When an egg cracks open, new life emerges. It?s a fitting Easter symbol: On Easter morning, the tomb cracked open and out walked a newly alive Jesus, leaving behind an empty grave. Use this unusually theme as an eye-catching, thought-provoking invitation this Easter.

So true!

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Buddha and the Cracked Egg
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Crack in the Cosmic Egg

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Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Split Minds & Meta-Realities by Joseph Chilton Pearce "An investigation of non-ordinary reality." 1975. You can buy it second hand from Biblio.com But then again you might not want to after reading this review:

Just started reading this one last night. It has sat on my shelf for about two years, and I think I know why. Big words. The book is written in a style that is one of my pet peeves: the author uses complex and relatively difficult words to create complex and relatively difficult sentences to get across a point that could be said in much simpler language. Perhaps the book should have been entitled: Exploring the Crack in My Cosmic Ego Trip. Ultimately an interesting book, I'm not sure if I will be able to read it due to series of sentences like:

"In the following chapters I will show how culture forces each of us to create this 'pseudoreality' structured around the semantic effect of language, and how culture 'substitutes' a semantic reality for a direct reality interaction. Culture's word-built world acts as a stimulus substitute that replaces, changes, curtails, or mutates stimuli from a real world. What we experience as acculturated people is never the free interaction with our life flow, that for which we are designed by our 'primary programming.' Rather, we experience a life flow filtrered through an ideation scheme sharply altering our real world."

I mean, damn. Why not just say: "We are disconnected from true, immediate reality by the constructs of culture." He'd still get to use some big phrases and get his point across in a more concise way. Egghead.
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Pathless, from Pullman, WA, USA

The author also wrote The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: New Constructs of Mind and Reality in 2002 Amazon Book Description writes: This enormously popular New Age classic is finally available again to challenge the assumptions of a new generation of readers and help them develop their potential through new creative modes of thinking. With a masterful synthesis of recent discoveries in physics, biology, and psychology, Pearce reveals the extraordinary relationship of mind and reality and nature's blueprint for a self-transcending humanity.
The classic work that shaped the thought of a generation with its powerful insights into the true nature of mind and reality. 

The sum total of our notions of what the world is--and what we perceive its full potential to be--form a shell of rational thought in which we reside. This logical universe creates a vicious circle of reasoning that robs our minds of power and prevents us from reaching our true potential. To step beyond that circle requires a centering and focus that today's society assaults on every level. Through the insights of Teilhard, Tillich, Jung, Jesus, Carlos Castaneda, and others, Joseph Chilton Pearce provides a mode of thinking through which imagination can escape the mundane shell of current construct reality and leap into a new phase of human evolution.