Thread by @sillymickel

This thread begins the book,

“Dance of the Seven Veils I:

“Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self

“Adult to Toddler, Veils One-Three”

Which is Volume 2 in The Path of Ecstasy Series
by

MICHAEL ADZEMA

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D7V1 Pr/1

Starting with the PREFACE, titled,

“A Dance of the Seven Veils:

“The Secret Life of Stones, Womb with a View, Cells with a View, Overview...the Quest for Our “Original Face””

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D7V1 Pr/2

[Quotes/highlights:*] “…when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is...infinite.” []

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D7V1 Pr/3

[] “Our earliest experiences form, they create, our prejudices about Reality. So what would we see, what Reality would reveal itself, with those constraints pulled to the side?” []

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D7V1 Pr/4

[*Preface text begins:*] In this Book Two of The Path of Ecstasy Series, titled, *Dance of the Seven Veils I*, I continue the exploration of the screens of distortion across human perception…”

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D7V1 Pr/5

“…[I continue the exploration of the screens of distortion across human perception] begun in Book One, *The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy*.”

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D7V1 Pr/6

“This time I focus on the ways the crucial events & experiences of our lives create our beliefs in life. In doing so, layer by layer, Veil by Veil, I continue bringing greater, truer perceptions into view of everything beyond.”

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D7V1 Pr/7

“I show in particular how our ideas about who to be & what to be, as rooted in culture & mythology; what to do, as rooted in early childhood experience;”

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D7V1 Pr/8

“what to believe, as linked to religion, God, spirituality, mythology, good & evil, & much else, are rooted in the patterns of experiences we universally experience over the course of our lives, leading up to adulthood.”

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D7V1 Pr/9

“Further, I show how peeling back the layers of that onion is ever more liberating, at every step. & where it ultimately leads...what is ultimately true...what is the center of the onion? … ”

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D7V1 Pr/10

“... Well, the image that emerges is your original face. & your original face is all these things—Divine, true, realer than real, more positive & loving than you ever thought you could be, & more wonderful & exciting than you can imagine.”

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D7V1 Pr/11

“In the same vein as William Blake, I am saying that, when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is...infinite.”

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D7V1 Pr/12

“*Book One, *The Secret Life of Stones**

“In Book One, my premise is that there is a secret life in the Universe & that the physical world is an illusion arising from our human perception."

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D7V1 Pr/13

“I propose that the fundamental reality is consciousness; more correctly, it is experiential.”

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D7V1 Pr/14

“[I propose] That matter, the physical world, is a projection of human perception thrown upon the formless is the conclusion of quantum physics & our latest consciousness research.”

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D7V1 Pr/15

“Hence all that exists, really, is Experience. Matter is metaphor of that Experience. It is also message of that particular aspect of Experience that we leave out of our awareness in coming into Form, in becoming human.”

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D7V1 Pr/16

“*The Material Veil*

“What we put into unconsciousness in the process of coming into Form becomes the physical world we experience as unalive & not conscious,..”

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D7V1 Pr/17

“…tho actually [the physical world] is pregnant w experiential Divinity—Subjectivity, Feeling, Awareness, Bliss...& Love. Correspondingly, the essence of the Universe is found in our direct experience of it, which is our essential Divinity.”

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D7V1 Pr/18

“[the essence of the Universe is found in our direct experience of it,] The reality outside of that, which we think of as matter & as unconscious & unalive, is merely the aspect of our own reality from which we are temporarily cut off.”

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D7V1 Pr/19

“[Matter, the physical world] is our own consciousness; however it is the part of which we are unconscious. Or as I often point out, it is the part *we have forgotten*—perhaps even intentionally,..”

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D7V1 Pr/20

“…[matter, the physical world, is the part of our own consciousness *we have forgotten*, perhaps even intentionally,] as a choice made by our inherent Divinity. Which choice also we then forget.”

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D7V1 Pr/21

“That unknown aliveness [in the world of matter, the physical world,] is a secret life in the Universe of matter: So in essence there is a secret life of “stones.””

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D7V1 Pr/22

“Yes, the Universe is alive. And, yes, you are the Universe, you are that aliveness, but you have decided to become less so.

“I show, in that work, *The Secret Life of Stones*, how knowing this changes everything.”

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D7V1 Pr/23

“[Knowing the Universe is alive] is the tipping point revealing a new world—one in which each of us is immersed at every moment, like a fish in water, in aliveness, consciousness, experiential units...”

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D7V1 Pr/24

“…[we find we are immersed in an Alive world, like a fish in water, comprising consciousness, experiential units…] & all of it friendly, compassionate, reaching out to us & helping us...even in spite of us.”

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D7V1 Pr/25

“*The Secret Life of Stones* presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders & explores the terrain leading up to & supporting such overstandings.”

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D7V1 Pr/26

“Then [*The Secret Life of Stones*] hovers above those astonishing revelations & glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation fr each other, our Identity as Self & Divinity, & for guidance 4 our lives.”

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D7V1 Pr/27

“In so doing, we peer through a portal wherein we are again one with the Universe. We find ourselves on the edge of a coming together as grand as that which we experienced at conception.”

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D7V1 Pr/28

“We receive the gift of a heritage we long ago & mistakenly repudiated—a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, & once again noble within the world we inhabit.”

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D7V1 Pr/29

“*The Biological Veil*

“Most relevant to this book, in Book One, as well, I establish there are *biologically constituted realities*. These are one of the screens of distortion across our perception of clear Reality.”

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D7V1 Pr/30

“That is to say that reality, for humans, is constructed for us out of our unique biological set from an infinity of everything possible that could be or is in the Universe—something that Aldous Huxley (1954) called, *Mind at Large*.”

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D7V1 Pr/31

“I point out that everything that we experience in life, beginning even before conception, before the coming together of sperm & ovum that created us, are learning experiences & are formative.”

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D7V1 Pr/32

“[These early prenatal & perinatal events, beginning at conception] create imprints that skew all experiences coming afterward; they set templates within which everything that comes after is configured.”

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D7V1 Pr/33

“[These early prenatal & perinatal events, beginning at conception] determine what we will see; how we will see it; how we will interpret it; what our reaction will be to it; & what we will do about it.”

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D7V1 Pr/34

“We are human & have an experiential awareness extending back into a time prior to appearing on Earth. Then, in coming into Form, what we perceive & how we act are determined not so much by genetics but by prior experience.”

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D7V1 Pr/35

“Hence, these periconceptional experiences, these absolute earliest experiences of ours in the Form State, are the first of the Veils across our windows to the world, creating the screen upon which we will view our drama of human life.”

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D7V1 Pr/36

“So it is that our biological & anatomical makeup along with our individual histories prenatally & perinatally, beginning as early as when we were sperm & ova cells inside our parents, determine our human reality.”

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D7V1 Pr/37

“[These prenatal & biological elements & events] create the parameters of our experience in Form. They put down the ground rules of the board game of the human life we will experience & in which we will participate.”

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D7V1 Pr/38

“*The Biocultural Veil*

“I also establish, in *The Secret Life of Stones*, that there are *bioculturally constituted realities*. These are the realities that emanate from our biological experiences as they are modified by culture.”

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D7V1 Pr/39

“[*Biocultural events*] come in most esp during our time in the womb, when events are shaped strongly both by biology but also by culture. For culture, as experienced by the mother, begins to heavily influence experiences the fetus will have.”

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D7V1 Pr/40

“We all experience a time in the womb. What follows from that, which I say in *The Secret Life of Stones*, is that there are universal aspects of that experience which determine the human world view:”

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D7V1 Pr/41

“Our feelings of freedom vying with those of constriction & oppression, for example, emanate from this time. Nonetheless, our womb experiences also vary by culture.”

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D7V1 Pr/42

“Different cultures have different ideas about what the mother should be doing during pregnancy, how she will interact with her unborn child, & so on.”

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D7V1 Pr/43

“These [cultural elements influencing our experience of early biological events] all affect the child in ways at least small, but usually in huge ways. These are aspects of the *biocultural veil across perception*.”

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D7V1 Pr/44

“To make clear this interplay of biology & culture, let me use an example. In the most egregious instance of cultural influence on our biologically constituted worldview, modern culture has created test tube babies.”

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D7V1 Pr/45

“[Test tube babies] are individuals whose early experiences as cells do not even follow the pattern of experience—of sperm traveling to ovum, & so on—that humans have experienced for all our existence…”

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D7V1 Pr/46

“…[test tube babies do not follow the pattern of experience—of sperm traveling to ovum, & so on—humans have experienced for all our existence] & upon which all of what is considered human & human reality has been built.”

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D7V1 Pr/47

“Someday, someone will have to do a study comparing the basic worldviews & mythologies of test-tube conceived humans to those of the rest of us with the normal human beginnings. I predict there will be astonishing differences.”

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D7V1 Pr/48

“However, in the most common example of bioculturally constituted realities emanating from our early lives, every culture determines the way birth will be experienced by the neonate.”

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D7V1 Pr/49

“Thus, in what is the most studied biocultural of all influences, birth has an impact on our lives in vastly different ways depending upon whether it is harsh, or gentle; induced, or spontaneous; & in every other conceivable way.”

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D7V1 Pr/50

“Prenatal & perinatal psychologists from Arthur Janov—with his definitive & ground-breaking book, *Imprints* (1983)—to Frederick Leboyer (1975, 2009), to Thomas Verny (1981), to David Chamberlain (1988) have detailed the way our birth…”

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D7V1 Pr/51

[Pre & perinatal psychologists have detailed the way our birth] & *that* our birth affects us ever after in life...often in ways that are irreversible & untouchable by any & all later experience & techniques.”

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D7V1 Pr/52

“Before that, even, Otto Rank (1929), Nandor Fodor (1949), Donald Winnicott (1958), David Cheek & Leslie LeCron (1968), & Leslie Feher (1980) added much to our knowledge of how birth creates our underlying feelings & our perceived realities.”

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D7V1 Pr/53

“*Books Two through Four, *Dance of the Seven Veils*
“It is in this book—divided into three volumes—that I do the grand overview of what that all means…”

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D7V1 Pr/54

“…[I do the overview of what all that pre-& perinatal perspective means] for understanding our reality & liberating ourselves from limiting perspectives, unconscious prejudices,& denials of the reality b4 us which would otherwise be obvious.”

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D7V1 Pr/55

“These books [*Dance of the Seven Veils] are meant to open your mind to what you are standing upon in your stance in life.”

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D7V1 Pr/56

“[*Dance of the Seven Veils] takes you back, layer by layer, like an archaeological dig, to the foundations of your being. Just a hint, you will find Divinity there. You will also sense the path to be free, the way of ecstasy.”

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D7V1 Pr/57

“*Book Five, *Womb with a View*

“While our births & our species biology—as exhibited in the species congratulation we do of ourselves, which is called *anthropocentrism*—are influential veils, distorting our perceptions of reality,..”

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D7V1 Pr/58

“…still earlier experiences [than birth & our species biology] are even more influential. For what happens first lays down the foundation upon which all later prejudices will be constructed.”

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D7V1 Pr/59

“To this end [earlier, more influential prenatal events], several theorists in particular—beginning with Otto Rank as long ago as 1929, with his book *The Trauma of Birth*, & including Frances Mott (1960, 1964) & Michael Irving (1988),..”

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D7V1 Pr/60

“…but especially coming out in expansive detail with Stanislav Grof (1970, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988a, 1993, 1998)—have noted the cross-over of birth experiences & traumas with religious & mythological beliefs & symbols.”

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D7V1 Pr/61

“Of special relevance is that in Grof’s view [birth experiences & traumas] are distinct. That is, pre- & perinatal events are distinct from *transpersonal* events according to him.”

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D7V1 Pr/62

“*Transpersonal* in this sense, in line with *transpersonal psychology*, refers to the spiritual, archetypal, mythological, supernatural, & religious components of experience.”

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D7V1 Pr/63

“Grof’s perspective is that birth events represent a kind of junction spot between the transpersonal & the personal;”

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D7V1 Pr/64

“thus, [according to Grof, birth events represent a kind of junction spot] between the spiritual & individual aspects of experience, or between the *collective unconscious* & the *personal unconscious*, to use Carl Jung’s terminology.”

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D7V1 Pr/65

“Seen Grof’s way, mythological events have an *a priori* standing; *a priori* meaning they are not reducible to life events such as the traumas of birth.”

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D7V1 Pr/66

“They arise “of themselves” & have an independent or self-contained quality, not a derived one. According to Grof, transpersonal events are not *a posteriori* events; they do not “come after.””

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D7V1 Pr/67

“[According to Grof, transpersonal/mythological events] are not derived from earlier experience. Which is to say, their existence is not *dependent upon*—let alone, caused by—the early pre- & perinatal experiences they so express.”

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D7V1 Pr/68

“While some might say we have the mythologies we do *because* we all have these early experiences & that is why myths are so similar across different individuals & cultures,..”

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D7V1 Pr/69

“…proponents of Grof’s view would say that our mythologies are not attributable to our early events & that they exist independently of human life.”

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D7V1 Pr/70

“They are seen as archetypes in the Jungian sense of being outside of & prior to human events. Much like Plato’s Forms, or iconic Ideas, they have a kind of prior & greater reality than the realities that emanate from our events as humans.”

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D7V1 Pr/71

“In fact, the term *biological materialism *has been used by those in Grof’s camp to describe the idea that birth-like mythological & archetypal symbolism & experiences are derived from birth events.”

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D7V1 Pr/72

“Saying [birth symbolism & experiences] are derived is saying that [such motifs in myth & archetypes] would not occur except for the birth traumas, & to that they do not agree.”

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D7V1 Pr/73

“*The Mythological-Archetypal Veil*

“I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth-like mythological & archetypal symbols.”

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D7V1 Pr/74

“Nonetheless, I view the actual events of one’s life [esp birth & prenatal events] as having strong determination on the way one views & interprets everything that comes after them.”

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D7V1 Pr/75

“That would include these transpersonal & archetypal realities as being at least *shaped*, if not *caused*, by our early [prenatal & birth] experiences.

“My difference lies in two things:”

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D7V1 Pr/76

“One, that these events *shape* or they configure our religious & spiritual understandings, especially our religious ones, is what I elaborate upon in the relevant portions of this book & especially the four following it.”

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D7V1 Pr/77

“However, I do not know the extent to which these events *create* or originate these transpersonal realities. Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, *Planetmates* (2014) & *Prodigal Human* (2016)—”

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D7V1 Pr/78

“[*Planetmates* (2014) & *Prodigal Human* (2016)] —which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth from which we suffer, which is radically distinct from all of Nature—”

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D7V1 Pr/79

“—[in view of the findings brought out in my works] it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans.”

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D7V1 Pr/80

“While this might mean that they are rooted in a kind of collective unconscious that exists prior to & independent of any individual’s experience, still, that collective unconscious is humanly derived; it is distinctly & *only* human.”

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D7V1 Pr/81

“In which case, we might wonder about the components of any Reality separate from the human…[we might wonder what they are]:”

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D7V1 Pr/82

“That is to say, what it is that might be true for humans as well as all other beings in existence, the other planetmates, any life forms on other planets or in other dimensions.”

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D7V1 Pr/83

“In that light, in my endeavor here, in peeling back the pre- & perinatal overlays on human experience—even if they are rooted in some overarching reality, independent of any individual events, like a collective unconscious—”

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D7V1 Pr/84

“—[In that light, in my endeavor here, in peeling back the pre- & perinatal overlays on human experience,] I am still aiming for a peek at the reality that exists outside them.”

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D7V1 Pr/85

“It seems to me there is a huge amount to be gained by an attempt at revealing what is Real, what exists, outside the peculiar human perspective on everything that is so taken up, for humans, with our births & prenatal experiences.”

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D7V1 Pr/86

“The second aspect of my difference with the Grofians’ view lies in that those events that configure our species worldview go all the way back to conception, way before birth.”

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D7V1 Pr/87

“So it is that in *Womb with a View* I bring out the mythological, psychological, & archetypal elements & relate them to underlying womb, & to some extent birth, events.”

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D7V1 Pr/88

“Yet, in the book following this one in the Series, *Cells with a View* (expected publication, 2025), I do the same regarding cellular events, our experiences around conception, that is, *periconceptionally*.”

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D7V1 Pr/89

“In both cases, wombular & cellular events, my view is that they overlay & configure the way we will view what might be considered truly non-Formular events or entities.”

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D7V1 Pr/90

“What I will say is consistent with what I have laid out in *The Secret Life of Stones* related to biologically-constituted realities, in particular the bioculturally-constituted realities.”

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D7V1 Pr/91

“Consistent with what I said there, my aim will be to show how by wiping away the distortive effects of biocultural experiences at birth, in the womb, & around conception, we might come closer to purer perception.”

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D7V1 Pr/92

“This is how, indeed, we cleanse the doors of perception; that is, by clearing away the personal pain & pre- & perinatal trauma imbuing & slanting them, if not out & out creating them.”

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D7V1 Pr/93

“In doing this clearing away of fear- & pain-laden prompts to our perception & interpretations of it, we might approach that view *ec-static*,...”

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D7V1 Pr/94

“…[we might approach that view *ec-static*] that cosmic overstanding that is normally denied us out of the fact that we have such powerful determinants on our perception at the beginnings of our lives as the traumas prenatally & perinatally.”

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D7V1 Pr/95

“So it is that in Book Five, *Womb with a View*, I continue the exploration of the Veils across our perception of clear Reality begun in *The Secret Life of Stones* & continued in these volumes, *Dance of the Seven Veils I, II, & III*.”

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“Specifically, I do this regarding the perceptional configurations arising from our experience in the womb. I touch as well upon some of those emanating from our experience of birth & the events around conception.”

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D7V1 Pr/97

“However, the elements of mythology surrounding birth are addressed already with thoroughness by Stanislav Grof, so I leave that to him, & I bring his insights forward with appropriate credit.”

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D7V1 Pr/98

“& the elements of mythology periconceptionally, i.e., emanating from the events around conception, while introduced here, are taken up in greater detail in the book following this one in the Series, to be titled, *Cells with a View*.”

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“*Book Six, *Cells with a View*

“The book following *Womb with a View* in The Path of Ecstasy Series of books is to be *Cells with a View*.

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“In [*Cells with a View* ] I will show how the events around *conception*,this time—the *periconceptional* experiences—configure even more of our biocultural matrix even prior to our “beliefs” about things outside the natural.”

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D7V1 Pr/101

“It is my view that our very perception of Form reality is created there [at & around conception].

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D7V1 Pr/102

“*The Cellular-Formular Veil*

“So, prior to religious & spiritual beliefs we have seemingly indisputable assumptions impressed on us related to the existence of duality in the world & the existence of space as well as time.”

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D7V1 Pr/103

“If we accept a mystical position that both of those are illusions, then it is my contention that we can look to our pre- & periconceptional experiences & events as to why we have such deep-rooted assumptions..."

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D7V1 Pr/104

“…[we can look to our pre- & periconceptional experiences & events as to why we have such deep-rooted assumptions] about reality, such “illusions” as to the existence of space & time.”

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D7V1 Pr/105

“This is where—at the periconceptional experiences—we are looking more at the biologically constituted as opposed to the bioculturally constituted realities.”

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D7V1 Pr/106

“For, while our experiences in the womb & at birth are much influenced by the mother’s experience in her culture & thus the way those events are construed in her culture,..”

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D7V1 Pr/107

“…there is not a lot of influence from culture on the way the conception experiences unfold.

“Not a lot, but some.”

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D7V1 Pr/108

“Certainly the health of the father & the mother go into the configuration of these primal events [viz., conception], somewhat, & that is affected by culture.”

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D7V1 Pr/109

“Without doubt, the emotional & psychological characteristics of the parents, which are influenced by culture, influence their very cells, including their sperm & ova.”

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D7V1 Pr/110

“& astonishingly, with test tube babies & other high-tech, modern interventions into the processes of fertilization & conception going on, suddenly there are huge influences on its processes emanating from culture.”

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D7V1 Pr/111

“We can only wonder, at this point, what kinds of beliefs & notions about the Universe will be had by those who come from such laboratory origins [test tube babies].”

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“However, that to the side, there is a great deal of uniformity in our experiences at & around conception. Whereas, there is far more variability & cultural input with each advance of time in gestation.”

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D7V1 Pr/113

“Thus it is that we live in pretty similar physical worlds because we have rather the same experiences, periconceptionally.”

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“These events are part of our species makeup, our biologically constituted realities, as opposed to the bioculturally constituted realities, which are more variable & that come in with the influences of culture in later womb life & at birth.”

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D7V1 Pr/115

“The result & aim of looking at our perceptual prejudices, from birth, womb, & conception, as will be done in the two books—*Womb with a View* & *Cells with a View*—is to arrive at something astounding.”

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D7V1 Pr/116

“As I said in *The Secret Life of Stones*, the way to get a peek outside our biologically-constituted realities, the way to go ec-static, is to drop our vanity & self-congratulation at all levels. But now more.”

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D7V1 Pr/117

“*A Dance of the Seven Veils*

“For, in these five books—*Dance of the Seven Veils I, II, & III*; *Womb with a View*; & *Cells with a View*—I will show how we can view even beyond that into what is the Nature of Reality.”

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D7V1 Pr/118

“How [view into the Nature of Reality]? By peeling away not just the Veils of ego & vanity—especially as manifest in our universal & utterly intractable anthropocentrism, as I showed in *The Secret Life of Stones*—"

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D7V1 Pr/119

“...[how to view into the Nature of Reality]?

"[By peeling away not just the Veils of ego & vanity] but the Veils also of even more fundamental primal pain & early experience.”

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D7V1 Pr/120

“Our earliest experiences form, they create, our prejudices about Reality. So what would we see, what Reality would reveal itself, with those constraints lifted from our eyes?”

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D7V1 Pr/121

“Whatever it is, it would necessarily be Truth, or truths, far beyond what we come up with enslaved as we are within the boundaries of concepts formed from our early, our profoundly influential, experiences.”

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D7V1 Pr/122

“An example? What is the reality we experience before we have the one of duality when we come into Form as cells, as sperm & ovum?”

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D7V1 Pr/123

“When we experience not just separation, from father & mother, but then duality in the coming together of the two at conception?”

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D7V1 Pr/124

“At that point we have laid—through the experiences we have had there of duality—a foundation for seeing all the rest of the Reality we will experience in life in terms of male & female, separation & union, struggle & peace,..”

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D7V1 Pr/125

“…pleasure & pain, satisfaction & discontent, inner & outer, & all the rest.

“But what was Reality before we stamped that particular cookie cutter on Reality?”

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D7V1 Pr/126

“What was the bigger “game” or the larger reality outside the game before those rules of consensual reality, involving dualism, were initiated?”

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D7V1 Pr/127

“At this point we are metaphorically looking for what the “room” looks like that we are sitting in when we are playing the board or virtual reality game of life. What is the “setting” like?”

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D7V1 Pr/128

“What are we like? Who else is there & what are they like? What does it feel like? What is it all about at that “level”? & more—”

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D7V1 Pr/129

“—anything else we will find out when we have removed more than just vanity from our prejudices, but also the formative early experiences, many of them painful, which give rise to all the other prejudices on our perception.”

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D7V1 Pr/130

“In my works, we pull back at least these seven Veils across Naked Reality, in order to perceive the Truth ec-static, out of Form, untainted, unsullied, in Itself, non-skewed & unslanted & unprejudiced:”

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D7V1 Pr/131

“We need remove, first, the Veil of vanity & Ego of species, i.e., anthropocentrism (see *The Secret Life of Stones* & Veil One of this book); second, that of cultural identity (see Veil Two of this book);”

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“third, that of personal, primal pain (see Veil Three); fourth, that of prenatal & perinatal pain & their mythological-archetypal correlates (see Veils Four, Five, & Six, which are in the second volume of *Dance of the Seven Veils*);”

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D7V1 Pr/133

“fifth, that of cellular experience & its Form-ular constructions of world (see Veil Seven, in the third book of this);”

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D7V1 Pr/134

“& sixth, that of our biology itself as a species, human, which determines a human Veil, in distinction to all others (see Veil Seven, *Dance of the Seven Veils III* as well & my forthcoming work, *Cells with a View*).”

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D7V1 Pr/135

“Finally, as I explain in *The Secret Life of Stones*, there remains a Veil, a conscious one. It is another Veil that is not a veil for it is chosen, transparent, & conscious.”

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D7V1 Pr/136

“One can see thru it. This is much the same as the way we are able to process thru the seven Veils while in life &, afterward, see through them. Hopefully these volumes of *Dance of the Seven Veils* are helpful, if not instrumental, in that.”

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D7V1 Pr/137

“Though the seven Veils—even with such clarity as I am endeavoring to elicit in you with this work, & which is possible—are in some ways still extant (while in Form); being conscious, no longer are they limiting.”

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D7V1 Pr/138

“The last no-veil—existing in no-time & no-place—is one we can choose, even in the No-Form State, & consciously. For as Divinity we wish to be less as well as All, to be a part & separate as well as Unity & One.”

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D7V1 Pr/139

“We wish to be less than the All for the fun of it, for the fun of configuration, for the drama of it, even as souls & No-Forms.”

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D7V1 Pr/140

“For the peek-a-boo joy of continually appreciating beauty joy & love by forgetting it so as to discover it again & again, endlessly. It is the Veil of the no-form configuration of the No-Form Self.”

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D7V1 Pr/141

“It is the chosen configuration of spirit, some might call a soul, that we adopt for the purpose of interacting with ourselves as Divinity within the grand expanse of all Experience.”

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D7V1 Pr/142

“That is the final Veil, the no-veil. & beyond that? Well, that would be the “mind” of God, would it not? The Self of God? Brahman?”

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“Yet, one could say that outside our perceptual biases & all our biologically & bioculturally constituted realities, it is nothing. That there is a fundamental nothingness, like some mystical types & their literature profess.”

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D7V1 Pr/144

“As I have said throughout my works, all the evidence points to a rich & infinite variety of experience, a colorfully profound & interesting mix, as a more fundamental reality & as the essence of Divinity.”

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D7V1 Pr/145

“The reason we so cannot see that experience itself is our one & only reality is that we have *experienced* Pain at our earliest beginnings in coming into life.”

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D7V1 Pr/146

“We cannot hack the idea of that being fundamental because it would mean *that pain is*—that pain is an essential, or a Divinely planned aspect of human reality.”

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“& what we have tried to do instead is to seek to separate from experience...calling this split-off state, *transcendence*...so as not to have to acknowledge what it feels like inside our bodies.”

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D7V1 Pr/148

“At base, we wish to find a “higher” reality in Mind/mind because it is too painful to find one in body.

“Whereas as I (2013d) put it, “Experience Is Divinity.” The “mind” of God is no-thing, but hardly nothing!”

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D7V1 Pr/149

“Indeed, quite the opposite! I deal with this last no-veil in the Epilogue of this work, which is in *Dance of the Seven Veils III*, as well as in *Experience Is Divinity*, & in Part Three of *Funny God*.”

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D7V1 Pr/150

“Its most complete exposition will be in the forthcoming—Book Thirteen in The Path of Ecstasy Series—*The Cosmic Overstanding*.”

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D7V1 Pr/151

“This is where we will go in these books. This is the melody that will guide us, move us, direct us. & we will, like Salome, do a Dance of the Seven Veils & find out what Naked Reality is more likely to be like.

“So let the music begin.”

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This has been the Preface of my book,

“Dance of the Seven Veils I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, and Your Real Self” (2017)

by Michael Adzema

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The Preface is titled,

“A Dance of the Seven Veils:

The Secret Life of Stones, Womb with a View, Cells with a View, Overview...the Quest for Our “Original Face””

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The complete book is available online at the links

you can read the book, posted on the blog, or you can follow directions there & download a free copy of *Dance of the Seven Veils I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self*.

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This is the completed document for “Dance of the Seven Veils I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, and Your Real Self”

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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If you like & agree w these ideas & want more attention on them, Feel free to download the book & pass it around, as you wish; use it to share this perspective.

If you like it, I encourage you to comment on it at Amazon, for others’ benefit.

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It is time now to regain the primal legacy of belongingness in Divinity & Nature which we lost when we claimed ourselves “crown of creation” & peak of the evolutionary pyramid. This book is a powerful aid in regaining one’s authentic self.

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

Paperback: amazon.com/Dance-Seven-Ve…

&

Ebook: amazon.com/Dance-Seven-Ve…

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

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Up next,

in “Dance of the Seven Veils I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, and Your Real Self”

by Michael Adzema, is

PROLOGUE, titled,

“Primal Psychology & the Farther Reaches of Experience”

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PROLOGUE begins with Chapter 1, titled,

“*The Hidden Land of Origin:

“Our Astonishing Inability to Acknowledge Our Earliest Experiences & the Surprising Vista of Knowledge That Doing So Reveals”

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