Thread by @sillymickel

This thread is

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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of “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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“*PROLOGUE:*

“*Primal Psychology & the Farther Reaches of Experience*

Ch 1:

“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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[*Quotes/highlights:*] “There are few people in our current era who can wrap their minds around this idea, however obvious it appears once considered, that…” []

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[] “…the events occurring to prenates are themselves actually learning events that are as formative as any & all learning events that occur to us after birth & in full view of others.” []

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[] “…we have both a scientific as well as lay insistence that the beginnings of personality are at birth & that they are laid atop a structure of predispositions emanating from our genetic makeup.” []

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[] “Which understanding amazingly leaves out the existences we had in the womb prior to us emerging into the light where we could be seen.” []

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[] “We further add to our disinclination to see our existences before birth, let alone the experiences & memories from that time, with bogus assumptions shrouded in scientific jargon….” []

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D7V1 1/8

[*Chapter 1 text begins:*] “We must confront an amazing assumption.”

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D7V1 1/9

“The basis of all personality, throughout science & for hundreds of years, is thought to be either a product of experiences occurring after birth, from infancy onward, or to be genetic.”

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“Astoundingly, with all our sophisticated science, we drive ourselves into this cul de sac of fog & confusion around this idea that because we cannot view the person before birth,..”

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“…whereas we can observe the individual’s acts & events after birth, that the influences that are not readily viewable do not exist...they simply did not happen. Why, how convenient. Certainly our job is easier now.”

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D7V1 1/12

“*Hiding Origins*

“You might not think that kind of assumption to be so astonishing, but then you have been taught to think that way your entire life. Also, your personal experience jives with this view of science:”

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“Your view, based understandably on the fact we do not usually remember that time in utero, is that what occurs in the womb—that which happens to us as fetuses or prenates, which we cannot see—is not only not very important,it is non-existent!”

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“Yet science is presumed to be truer than our prejudices. Indeed,it has proven to be so in quite a few other areas of knowledge. Still,the fatuous quality of the assumption of the non-existence of events that are out of our view is undeniable.”

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““Out of sight, out of mind” is the stance toward this [prenatal] reality, regardless how unscientific that is.”

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D7V1 1/16

“For this attitude [“Out of sight, out of mind”] is not only inane, childish even, but it is as “convenient” as any rationalization provided by any politician for his or her policies.”

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D7V1 1/17

“You are no doubt so imbued with the incomprehensibility of my position—simply that there are events that happen to us before birth that predetermine & imprint & are precursor to all later experience—that…”

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D7V1 1/18

“[You are no doubt so imbued with the incomprehensibility of my position that]…I feel my task here, right here & right now, in getting you to see the obvious inanity of your position & the clear & simple truth of mine to be daunting.”

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D7V1 1/19

“There are few people in our current era who can wrap their minds around this idea—however obvious it appears once considered—that…”

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“the events occurring to prenates are themselves actually learning events that are as formative as any & all learning events occurring to us after birth & in full view of others. Indeed,these gestational events are more formative, far more so.”

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D7V1 1/21

“Be that as it may, I persevere. Not that I have not tackled this dilemma before this time. Oh, I have. In several of my works—in particular *Wounded Deer & Centaurs* (2016), *Falls from Grace* (2014),..”

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“…*Experience Is Divinity* (2013), & *The Secret Life of Stones* (2016)—I expand upon this curious, almost “instinctive,” or innate, tendency of humans to ignore the most obvious about their beginnings:”

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“[the most obvious about their beginnings:] Which is that human existence begins not at the time adults can first see a baby (duh!) but at a time inside another’s body:”

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D7V1 1/24

“[human existence begins at a time inside another’s body:] That is to say, in a womb. Indeed, as we shall see, it goes back to a time inside our mothers & fathers when we were mere gamete cells—a sperm & an ovum.”

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“*Why We Hide Our Origins*

“The reasons for this innate blindness of humans toward their own consciousness, as I explained much more thoroughly in the works mentioned, have to do with,..”

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“a) The fact that these [pre & perinatal] times are so imbued with pain & trauma that everything in us wants to not know of them, so we forget, we suppress, inevitably we *repress*, all knowledge of them.”

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“We are even more stridently averse to acknowledging them in our sciences—our biology & our psychology—because of the discomfort that looking in the direction of these times of our lives brings up in folks, whether they are aware of it or not.”

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“b) The fact that our biological survivability is aided by, & has therefore been naturally selected for, ignoring the consciousness of the unborn.”

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“Since to give the prenate all the consideration & attention it would justly deserve, & could use, would further burden parents.”

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“Parents will already be responsible for the child after birth in a way that cannot be avoided; yet care for the preborn child is optional, however desirable from the perspective of the prenate.”

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“With other survival considerations in the minds of parents, there is disincentive to, & natural selection against, proper acknowledgment of the fully feeling & experiential existence of the child-to-be.”

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“c) The third reason we find it impossible to entertain the notion of prenatal experience is that to do so would be cause for guilt & regret in parents.”

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D7V1 1/33

“Parents commonly disregard the feeling awareness of the prenate, for if the unborn child were to be acknowledged, it would follow that one could have helped & nurtured one’s child, but one failed to.”

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“So we deny that & any knowledge, however true, that would make us uncomfortable.”

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“d) Finally, & perhaps most importantly, is the fact that the prenatal life depicts the feminine role in creation, & this is something that patriarchies have done all in their power to minimize & eliminate.”

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D7V1 1/36

“Yes, I am saying that our current scientific approaches to the psychology of personality are rooted in misogyny. Why not?”

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D7V1 1/37

“Why wouldn’t [our current scientific approaches to personality be rooted in misogyny,] emanating as they do from the pervasive & brutalizing patriarchy of history, incl the Middle Ages & Renaissance Europe, which in fact spawned our science?”

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“I say this might be the more important reason, for in cultures that are not as patriarchal, women are given a prominent role in Creation mythology, at least their role is included.”

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D7V1 1/39

“Whereas with mythologies of patriarchy, as for example that of *Genesis*, the world is a product, only, of a male god’s initiative. Notice what Joseph Campbell—the foremost authority on mythology of the 20th Century—says along these lines:”

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“”In many of the myths of India the cut-up man, the primordial, world-creating sacrifice of whom the visible world was fashioned, is called Purusha, which means simply, ‘Man.’””

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““In the ancient Babylonian epic of creation, the figure was a monstrous female, the goddess-mother of the world abyss, Tiamat.””

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“”In the Australian legend of Karora, this same universal archetype, or elementary idea, of the all-containing primal being has been adjusted to the conditions of the local scene & ceremonial style.””

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““There is no glacial cold, as in Iceland; no reference to the Brahmanic sacrifice, as in India; no mention of the female sex, as in all the others.””

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““The pattern is exclusively masculine—as in the case of the Hebrew Lord God’s unassisted creation of the world & production without female intervention of Adam, his original son.””

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“”The Australian rituals of the circumcision & subincision, with their emphatically patriarchal bias, find their validation in a myth of this kind, where the whole life stage of the child with the mother is simply disregarded,..””

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““[the whole life stage of the child with the mother is simply disregarded,..] & the son is born as the full-grown son of the father in one night.” – Joseph Campbell"

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D7V1 1/47

“Ignorance & an aversion to prenatal & perinatal roots of personality are a product of a patriarchal elimination of women & Nature in general.”

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“[an aversion to prenatal & perinatal roots of personality] is a way of downplaying & disparaging women’s role in the influences that create the adult human & a way of trying to emphasize the masculine role.”

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“This [patriarchal, masculine] emphasis continues right up to—& in a significant way with—rites of passage of adolescence & young adulthood.”

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“In these rites of initiation into adulthood, in the identity of the adult male, but to some extent female, male supremacy is branded upon the psyches & personalities of the young.”

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“I will deal with this [patriarchal emphasis & male supremacy] in more detail in the upcoming part, “Veil Two: Adolescence & Cultural Identity, Diminution...Rites of Passage.””

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D7V1 1/52

“*The Results of Hiding Our Origins*

“The result is we have both a scientific as well as lay insistence the beginnings of personality are at birth & that they are laid atop a structure of predispositions that emanate from our genetic makeup.”

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“You might not believe we so routinely do this. Yet think for a second on how we think of the roots of personality;”

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D7V1 1/54

“& you will recall that any traits or behaviors are studied as to whether, & then how, such emerge from our experiences after birth or—the only other option thought possible—how they are rooted in our genes, in our DNA.”

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D7V1 1/55

“If a trait is there at birth it is genetic, is the way this thinking goes. I have yet to see it otherwise, outside of the field of prenatal & perinatal psychology.”

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“*The Fallacy of Nature versus Nurture*

“This is commonly thought of as the “nature versus nurture” question, & always is it framed around an inquiry as to whether something is the result of after-birth experiences.”

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“& if not [the result of after-birth experiences], then heredity is said to be the root of [a personality trait].”

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D7V1 1/58

“However, this understanding [nature/nurture origins] amazingly leaves out the existence we had in the womb, with all of its profuse, varied, & complex experience, prior to us emerging into the light where we could be seen.”

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“Now, what does this have to do with the Veils of perception as found in mythology?”

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D7V1 1/60

“Well, here as well the thinking has been that whatever is universally existing as patterns of human myth & belief—if not a product of our lives after we are born—are attributable to “instinct” & their expression as archetypes,..”

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“…[archetypes,] as Jung would have it; to “isomorphs,” as gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Kohler would see it; to “elementary ideas,” as put forth by Adolf Bastian (1868); or to supernatural causes, as religious folks would have it.”

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D7V1 1/62

“Similar theories about inherited “engrams” & sociobiological factors in personality & behavior are plastered about our fields of both personality & developmental psychology & even transpersonal psychology, to at least some extent.”

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D7V1 1/63

“It is the assumed position, never questioned.

“All these theories arise out of a massive, intricate, & comprehensive scientific matrix of hundreds of years of understanding & research which—again, utterly unbelievably—"

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D7V1 1/64

“—[All these theories arise of a massive, intricate, & comprehensive scientific matrix of 100s of years of understanding & research which] leaves out of consideration the time before we were born when we grew inside our mother’s womb.”

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“Hence, what we can actually *see* the infant (and the child afterward) doing & happening to it is the basis for learning, for virtually *all* of it—this we assert with all the conviction in us.”

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D7V1 1/66

“Yet, what that same organism did & had done *to* it prenatally—i.e., what it experienced prior to birth—is *to this day* excluded from that massive matrix of scientific theory & understanding...*totally* excluded.”

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D7V1 1/67

“Oh, yes, some of you are thinking that what I am saying is so unfair & silly because *we know*, supposedly, that humans do not have consciousness before birth. We know this without a doubt.”

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“Why, it is clear as a bell that consciousness is magically “turned on,” like a switch, upon release into the midwife’s or doctor’s hands; perhaps upon the smack on a butt, which flicks on the screen of awareness;”

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“perhaps the first agonizing breath or the cutting of the umbilical cord, which opens the previously dormant mind. & clearly we do not see how silly it is to think such things.”

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D7V1 1/70

“*The Vanity of Human Consciousness*

“We further add to our disinclination to see our existences before birth, let alone the experiences & memories from that time, with bogus assumptions shrouded in scientific jargon:”

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“Science once affirmed that consciousness was not possible before birth, for the myelination of the neurons in the brain had not been completed.”

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D7V1 1/72

“Why we would think that is anyone’s guess, for when we actually checked to see if that was true, we discovered it was not. The only thing myelination of nerves does is speed up the transmission of nerve impulses.”

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“Sure looks like an assumption was jumped to, & then universally accepted, because it fit a pervasive prejudice as well as a desire to beat back knowledge of that time of our lives.”

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D7V1 1/74

“For that matter, even that idea of myelination is based upon the idea that we have to have the thinking & rational kind of consciousness that we think we have as adults in order for learning to happen.”

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D7V1 1/75

“Again, another prejudice & self-congratulating-to-intellectuals presumption. Quite ridiculous it is to assume that, when we know that even one-celled animals & inch worms are able to learn from their experience; clearly they have memory.”

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D7V1 1/76

“Yet we do not go putting [inch worms] to the test of whether they are myelinated or not. *sarcasm*

“Nonetheless, we insist on this ignorance about our awareness in the womb because, hell, we do not remember it! So it must not have happened.”

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“This [“reasoning”] manages to forget that just about everyone wakes up in the morning & immediately forgets their dreams, thereby making them inaccessible.”

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“Yet when we remember [our dreams], we know that not only were we conscious & problem-solving during those dreams, but we had memory in them that caused some of the events in them to be decided out of events that happened earlier in them.”

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D7V1 1/79

“More clearly, we thought & made decisions in our dreams based on earlier events in them.”

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D7V1 1/80

“Despite this, & being the rational & aware beings we are...ahem!...we most certainly remember the events we experience when we are conscious. This, we, nevertheless, insist to ourselves.”

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D7V1 1/81

“No memory of the time in the womb...so there must not be any conscious awareness when it occurred. We maintain this despite the fact that we do not remember our childhoods, usually, before the age of around five.”

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D7V1 1/82

“Yet, when we began uncovering the unconscious traumas that inhibit our conscious awareness, which began with Freud, & we discovered that such folks who did so actually began remembering their childhoods,..”

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D7V1 1/83

“…still that did not change our prejudices toward the time before birth. You would think the same rationale would have been applied to that time, too. But, no.”

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D7V1 1/84

“*The Prenatal Frontier*

“Then, when folks began, in the 50s—coincident with the use of LSD in therapeutic settings & later thru all kinds of non-drug modalities such as primal therapy & holotropic breathwork—to remember the time b4 birth,..”

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“…well we responded, as the scientific community, by simply ignoring the facts that did not fit our prejudices...the facts [such as that we can remember the time before birth] that were “inconvenient.””

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“Regardless that the latest research in biology & psychology...especially pre- & perinatal & transpersonal psychology...revealed veridical memory extending back not only to birth, not only into the womb, but even to the cellular level;”

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D7V1 1/87

“we simply ignored these facts [that veridical memory extending back not only to birth, not only into the womb, but even to the cellular level existed] rather than have our precious beliefs be upset.”

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D7V1 1/88

“However, including these new facts [about human consciousness before birth] has profoundly expanded our understandings of not just consciousness but the nature of ourselves as entities & even the nature of Reality & the Divine.”

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D7V1 1/89

“For this [profound expansions or our understandings of not just consciousness but the nature of ourselves as entities & even the nature of Reality & the Divine], see my *The Secret Life of Stones* (2016) & my *Wounded Deer & Centaurs* (2016).”

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D7V1 1/90

“And I will continue that exploration of the implications of the astonishing facts about consciousness & identity derived from our new understandings of our existence, consciousness, memory, & such, here in this book.”

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D7V1 1/91

“This work, indeed, will survey extensively what those early [birth & womb] experiences do to us...through what we learn from them & carry with us ever afterward...in terms of what beliefs we will have related to the supernatural…”

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“…as well as to the overriding understandings of our role in life & our proper behavior in it—which is to say, our mythologies.”

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“So it is that we will lift the lid of denial laid upon our prebirth lives & we will see what experiences we have there & what learning we derive from them which have laid within us a foundation of what we will think to be true…”

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“…& will believe ever after & will express in all of our creative productions, our dreams, our myths, our rituals, our religions, our art & cultural productions, our spiritual assumptions,..”

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“…our beliefs about the supernatural & the paranormal, & much else that we are not directly able to know & about which we will have assumptions.”

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“Indeed, such inquiry as in this book is so valuable just *because* it addresses those things we assume to be true & in finding out they have roots within our early experience we are able to see beyond them.”

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“That is, these ideas-archetypes-assumptions-myths-and-mythologies are derivative, not fundamental. They are a result of learning; they are [all] *a posteriori* ideas, not *a priori* ones:”

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“[These ideas-archetypes-assumptions-myths-and-mythologies] are not innate, instinctive, elementary, Divinely given, or anything else which would assign them a status akin to that of Plato’s iconic Ideas.”

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“In doing this clearing away of the derived & variable, we open upon a Universe in which we might actually know what exists prior to the experiences of our lives. We might know what actually *is* true...or truer.”

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“If there *are* inherent human ideas or, better, actual truths about the Universe outside our prejudices that we are capable of knowing once the Veils of prejudicial events have been removed, it is here that we might approach them.”

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“So that is the purpose of this work—to find the experiences of our earliest times & to see what ideas we assume that have sprung from them; & to look beyond them, then, to what might *actually* be true outside ourselves.”

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“Remember, as long as we are forming our beliefs based on experiences we have had, whether collectively or uniquely, we are only crafting a visage of ourselves in the process, nothing outside of ourselves.”

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“It is only when we can go behind the *a posteriori* elements of our beliefs—meaning those arising as a result of our experience—*”

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“—[It is only when we go behind the *a posteriori* elements of beliefs] that we can clear a screen upon which the *a priori* elements...which are those existing prior to any influence or arising “of themselves”...if there are any, can emerge.”

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“So, how do we begin? We must review the perinatal imprints on our personality & remember how we are affected, indeed, pushed & pulled, by forces those early events have set in motion.

“That we do next, beginning with the chapter coming up.”

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“Only then can we speculate what might be true outside our prejudices, outside the particular assumptions put into us by our prior experiences in life, in this case, our earliest & most formative ones.”

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“Only then can we have a chance of learning what is really true.”

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This has been the entire Chapter 1 of my book,

“Dance of the Seven Veils I:

"Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, and Your Real Self” (2017)

“Adult to Toddler, Veils One-Three”

by Michael Adzema

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Chapter 1 is 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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The complete book is available online at the links

you can read the book, posted on blog, or you can follow the 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

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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.

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Up next,

in “Dance of the Seven Veils I:

"Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self”

by Michael Adzema, is

Chapter 2, titled,

“The Primal Ground of Being:

“Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & the Mythological Matrix of World”

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