A thinker, naturalist, writer, and expert in the field of evolutionary methods of child education, Joseph Chilton Pierce specializes in a whole range of disciplines - psychology, anthropology, biology, physics. Peirce creates an amazing synthesis of knowledge and observations obtained in these areas, and the resulting result makes it extremely understandable for non-specialists - a wide range of readers. Over the thirty years of his life that he devoted to studying the phenomenon of human consciousness, several unique books were published that gained worldwide fame: The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical Child Matures, Bond of Power, Evolution's End. One of the latest works - The Biology of Transcendence - explores the fine organization of the human nervous system from the point of view of modern biology and neurophysiology, the possibility of overcoming its natural limitations and expanding its capabilities. Peirce's first book in Russian contains striking observations and generalizations about the physiological nature of transcendental states of the human brain and psyche, about the dynamic interaction of the mind of the brain and the mind of the heart. This is a masterpiece of science and spirit, their love without rules; this is stunning biological evidence of the presence of the beyond in each of us. Jean Houston, PhD, founder of the Brain Research Foundation, USA, author of the book “Possible Man”