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Chapter 6

of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

by Michael Adzema, is titled,

“The Sixth Descent—Mistrust:

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PH 6/1

Chapter 6 is subtitled,

“Mistrust of Nature, Mistrust of Divine Providence...

“Our Experience of Birth Determines Ever Afterward Our View of the World”

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PH 6/2

“[*Quotes/Highlights:*] “The cold, hard fact is that our experience of our birth—that is, the amount of pain & discomfort we experience in the process of delivery added to those first crucial moments & hours...” []

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PH 6/3

[] “of our ‘introductory’ experience of the world outside the womb—[our experience of our birth] determine ever afterward in our lives the degree of positivity or negativity with which we will view the world & other people.” []

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PH 6/4

“[*Chapter 6 text begins:*] *Our Devolutionary Path to Ego & Away from Nature*

“*The Descent of Our Earliest Humans*

“However, our early humanoid/hominid forebears were still much different from what we call *human* today.”

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PH 6/5

“From our perspective, we would call [our early humanoid/hominid forebears] “animals,” however unfairly to both, & see them as no different from the planetmates of Nature.”

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PH 6/6

“Early humans, protohumans, were nomadic foragers who did not hunt or eat meat & were relatively peaceable, living harmoniously in Nature.”

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PH 6/7

“This long period of tranquility changed as gradually the effects of premature birth built up anxiety & stress in successive generations to greater degrees.”

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PH 6/8

“*Fear & Control*

“Humans behaved more & more in ways at odds with Natural ways, becoming more twisted & backwards.”

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PH 6/9

“Birth pain & trauma & pain from having needs insufficiently met by caregivers in the first years of life, while primarily dependent, caused tension, anxiety, overstimulated brains & states of consciousness to be common among humans.”

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PH 6/10

“Yet the core of that craziness was this increasing obsession about control. & the need to control arose from an overblown fear of uncertainty, which was rooted in an absolute, however unjustified, terror of the unforeseen & unknown.”

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PH 6/11

“Our human state of omnipresent fear caused our earliest progenitors to lose faith in the goodness of Nature/the Divine as it is. They became increasingly fearful of what would happen in any future time…”

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PH 6/12

“& so [our earliest progenitors] spent their time seeking to determine that future through fervid controlling activities in the present, which both consumed their consciousness & became their lived existence.”

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PH 6/13

“One way of looking at this process is that pain caused us to be self-reflective, self-conscious, & introverted...inordinately so.”

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PH 6/14

“You might say that so much of our lives at its beginnings—that is, prenatally, perinatally, & in infancy—involved being confronted with things we did not want or expect, experiencing the lack of things we did want but could not find...”

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PH 6/15

“…& we were so often left in pain or aching because of these things...that it caused humans to begin “overthinking” things in a problem-solving attempt.”

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PH 6/16

“In the pain that rose up in the gap between need & its fulfillment arose fear, thus timidity about acting, thus a tendency to pull back from immersion in the moment & its process of movement & activity...out of fear,..”

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PH 6/17

“…but also [this tendency to pull back fr our experience] as a way to attempt to foresee events b4 we would go forward or take action. That’s right, part of what makes us human is founded on humans being more introverted than any other species.”

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PH 6/18

“& with this pulling back, this overthinking, we made ourselves an object, or a factor, amid the other factors in the problem to be solved.”

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PH 6/19

“Pain caused self-consciousness. *Self-consciousness* is a state arrived at by anxiety—by fear of being in a threatening uncertainty, which causes an incessant self-scrutiny in hopes of better managing & controlling present & future events.”

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PH 6/20

“[Pain/self-consciousness] took us out of the world, out of actual Reality, & put us into mind, a substitute world, a Plato’s cave.”

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PH 6/21

“& in [one's] mind, the most glorious angels of creative possession as well as the most horrific monsters of fearful obsession were born.”

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PH 6/22

“*Uncertainty—Cons & Pros*

“Life is uncertain because we do not know the future consequences of our present actions. However, that lack of surety does not have to be seen in a negative way.”

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PH 6/23

“Indeed, one could as easily see that unplanned aspect of life as part of a joyous adventure, as our pre-birth-pain ancestors & our planetmates today might see it.”

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PH 6/24

“One could be delighted, or at least enthralled & not bored, by being continually surprised by life’s exigencies.”

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PH 6/25

“Think of the way one experiences a game, say a video game, that one is involved in. There is no end of fascination, anticipation, involvement, interest, excitement, enjoyment...fun.”

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PH 6/26

“So much so that one is pulled to become addicted to it. And, by the way, consider that addictive quality of us as perhaps the reason we spirits keep coming back to this world of Form.”

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PH 6/27

“The point is that one might live in a state of curiosity & anticipation as to what will be presented by fate. However, that fact of uncertainty instead caused the pre-humans dread.”

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PH 6/28

”So our natural state is one of being, awareness, & bliss; & our lives could be ones full of surprises; they could be playful & always interesting. However, because of our pain of birth,..”

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PH 6/29

“[bc of our birth pain,] our lives became ones of impatience, mistrust, defiance toward Nature/the Divine in all its forms, & became set toward fighting imaginary threats in a state of fervid, obsessive controlling of things inside & outside us.”

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PH 6/30

“Whereas early humans might have seen the basic needs of physical existence, like sustenance, food, & so on, as gifts from God, our crazed state has caused us to seek to control this aspect of existence, to make it less uncertain.”

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PH 6/31

“*Basic Trust, Basic Mistrust, & Birth*

“As I have said, the worldview of our hominid & even to some extent our gatherer-hunter existences, & especially that of our protohuman, was trusting of Nature.”

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PH 6/32

“The world was felt to be good, not antagonistic, so dependence on it was not seen as a problem. That sense of being cared for made life overall easier than what we know beginning with the agrarian revolution & the rise of “civilization.””

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PH 6/33

“Our primal forebears had a “basic trust” in regards to Nature.

“But the agrarian revolution & all “advances” after that imply a “basic mistrust.””

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PH 6/34

“Ego occurs concurrently with the buildup of mistrust. For how we handle mistrust is to say, “You’re not going to take care of me. So I have to do it all by myself.””

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PH 6/35

"“I have to split off from you & control & manage everything...if it is going to get done at all correctly.”

"Hence the Ego is the beginning of the control of everything that has led to the crisis today.”

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PH 6/36

“What happened to make us more fearful, more anxious about our human condition? These differences of basic trust versus basic mistrust are fascinating considering their possible relation to birth trauma.”

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PH 6/37

“*Our Experience of Birth Determines Ever Afterward Our View of the World*

“Erik Erikson (1950, 1968) proposed that the earliest relation of the infant with the mother sets the foundation of the later attitude toward the world.”

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PH 6/38

“A caring, sensitive, & responsive environmental & caregiver response—in particular, the mother’s—can be the basis for an attitude of basic trust toward the world...a fundamental faith in its goodness.”

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PH 6/39

“Meanwhile a harsh & insensitive early experience—wherein the child begins to feel it cannot get its needs met—becomes the basis for a feeling of unshakeable mistrust toward the world.”

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PH 6/40

“However, with our understanding of the influence of our first experiences of the world—that is, postnatally, usually in a delivery room & hospital nursery—on our basic attitudes toward that world,..”

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PH 6/41

“…we realize these fundamental orientations are formed much earlier. Importantly, birth is a huge influence on that primary stance of trust or mistrust. First impressions are hard to overcome, as they say. Sure enough, if the first encounter…”

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PH 6/42

“…with the world outside the womb...immediately after birth...is painful, & characterized by harshness, insensitivity, & unresponsiveness to one’s needs, then the infant comes to view the world mistrustfully & feels it to be a hostile place.”

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PH 6/43

“What also of the pain of birth itself in setting up an attitude of trust toward the world or mistrust of it? The cold, hard fact is that our experience of our birth—i.e, the amount of pain & discomfort we experience in the process of delivery…”

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PH 6/44

“…added to those first crucial moments & hours of our “introductory” experience of the world outside the womb—determine ever afterward in our lives the degree of positivity or negativity with which we will view the world & other people.”

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PH 6/45

“And this is where it gets interesting in seeing how we became humans & different from all other species.”

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PH 6/46

This has been the entire Chapter 6 of my book,

*Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

which is

a devolutional look at human’s splitting away from Nature in the creation of a human nature at war with the natural.

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PH 6/47

The book shows how in our creation of civilization, we locked in a human status that has us either as Controllers, Conforming Underlings, or Authentics.

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PH 6/48

We see how that change from our primal, prehistoric profile, has led us to the kind of personality today of folks who are able to end life on this planet, with hardly a second glance.

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PH 6/49

In doing so, *Prodigal Human* presents a new devolutional theory in anthropology. The book also explains how our deeper human nature, cooperative with Nature, can be regained and our world saved from apocalypse.

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PH 6/50

This devolutional theory of evolution demonstrates how bipedalism & the resulting birth trauma led to descents of humans from an original natural state, leading to misogyny, class war, hunting, sedentary living, farming, religion, & more.

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PH 6/51

Ch 6 is titled,

“The Sixth Descent—Mistrust:

“Mistrust of Nature, Mistrust of Divine Providence...

“Our Experience of Birth Determines Ever Afterward Our View of the World”

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PH 6/52

The complete book is available online at the links

you can read the book, which is posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*.

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PH 6/53

This is the completed document for *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

It is a pdf file, & it looks exactly as the book looks.

To read and/or download a copy, click link:

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PH 6/54

Feel free to download the book, pass it around, use it to help get the word out to save the planet.

Unless major actions by the world's governments happens fast, it is all over for life on planet Earth.

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PH 6/55

Unless major actions by the world's governments happens fast, it is all over for life on planet Earth.

You can use your copy of *Prodigal Human* to get word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

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PH 6/56

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[e-mail]

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

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PH 6/57

Finally, if what you prefer are paperback or ebook/Kindle versions, you may acquire them at the links below.

Paperback: amazon.com/Prodigal-Human…

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Ebook/Kindle: amazon.com/Prodigal-Human…

All my books are priced at cost or the minimum Amazon allows.

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PH 6/58

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