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“We Are What We’ve Experienced & The Perinatal Paradigm:

“Our Conception, Gestation, & Birth Create Our Windows to the World

is Chapter 3

of *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

by M Adzema

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[*Quotes/highlights:*] “Going Beyond Jung...Our Prenatal & Perinatal Experiences Predispose the Nature of Our Mind” []

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[] “You cannot convince a fish it lives in water. You can only give the fish the experience of being in air; then it will understand.” []

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[] “Our conception, gestation, & birth can be seen to form our underlying myths...but much more than that as well; they also create the very foundational templates upon which we build our view of reality—” []

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[] “[Our conception, gestation, & birth can be seen to create the very foundational templates upon which we build our view of reality—physical, social, emotional, spiritual, & philosophical.” []

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ED 3/5

[*Chapter 3 text begins:] “*Our Perinatal Paradigm*

“Carl Jung is one man in particular who decades ago, in many thoroughly encompassing works, expressed similar concepts regarding biocultural patterns as being species-specific for humans—"

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ED 3/6

“[Carl Jung expressed similar concepts regarding biocultural patterns as being species-specific for humans]—the hereditary remnants of what are called *instinct* in animals, as he put it.”

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ED 3/7

“*Beyond Jung*

“Without diminishing the historical importance of [Jung’s] contributions, I need to stress that what I am asserting goes much further than Jung’s contentions.”

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ED 3/8

“For I believe we biologically determine our view of reality, as a species, (1) in the biological structures that comprise us & orient us in a world of *space*;”

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ED 3/9

“(2) [I believe we biologically determine our view of reality, as a species,] in the biochemical processes that constitute our changingness & situate us in a world of *time*;”

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ED 3/10

“(3) [I believe we biologically determine our view of reality, as a species,] and, most saliently, in the individual biological *history* that is universal for us & unique to us as a species.”

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ED 3/11

“So I am saying that our biological *structures*, *processes*, & *history* (experience) create the worlds of *space*, *time*, & *memory* within which we move & have our existence.”

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ED 3/12

“By this last one, however, I mean much more than that our past experience comprises the knowledge base or data bank from which we concoct our life schemes & decisions.”

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ED 3/13

“I also mean much more than that our past experiences affect us in ways of which we are unaware as well, that is to say unconsciously...that we are affected by repressed or forgotten memories.”

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ED 3/14

“No, I mean to go much farther & deeper than that. I mean that our conception, gestation, & birth—in general, our earliest experiences as a biological organism—”

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ED 3/15

“[our conception, gestation, & birth] can be seen to form our underlying myths...but much more than that as well.”

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ED 3/16

“[our conception, gestation, & birth] also create the very foundational templates upon which we build our view of reality—physical, social, emotional, spiritual, & philosophical.”

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ED 3/17

“*Our Biohistorical Experiences Determine Our World*

“*Our Early Events Predispose the Nature of Our Mind*”

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ED 3/18

“Elsewhere I have detailed how our universal but species-specific patterns of biological experience at conception, & throughout gestation, & at birth...and continuing from there but with immensely reduced or nonexistent universality...”

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ED 3/19

“…[our universal but species-specific patterns of biological experience at conception, & throughout gestation, & at birth] conditions & shapes all later experience (Adzema, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1994, 1995, 2014).”

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ED 3/20

“My contentions are that these particular...that is to say, these early, these prenatal & perinatal...experience/memory templates are especially related, but not limited, to the following:

“1. Fundamental constructions in our worldview”..

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ED 3/21

“[1. Fundamental constructions in our worldview]

“For example, sperm/egg leading to perception of duality in the universe

“2. Attitudes towards life

For example, the struggle of sperm alternating with “slothful” egg...

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“…[the struggle of sperm alternating with “slothful” egg] being the basis of the universally proclaimed alternating or cyclic character of personal or spiritual growth; also the predominating work/play dichotomy”

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“Also, the fertilized egg experience: survival/achievement bought at cost of hundreds of millions of others dead leading to primordial guilt as well as prevalent attitude that accomplishment never brings expected rewards; disillusionment”

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ED 3/24

“Also, zygote must continue working, must reproduce itself, must move & implant itself...each time or die, leading to attitude that there is no end to struggle, growth, achievement...”

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ED 3/25

“…[zygote must continue working, must reproduce itself, must move & implant itself...each time or die, leading to] nonsatisfaction (Buddhist dukkha) felt as a fundamental fact of physical existence.”

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“3. Our concepts-feelings about the transpersonal—that is to say, the religious or spiritual

“For example, embryo & fetus grow at an incredible pace with enormous number of biological systems perfectly synchronized leading to…”

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…[embryo & fetus grow at an incredible pace with enormous number of biological systems perfectly synchronized leading to] feelings that there is meaning in all one’s actions—if in tune with the divine;”

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“[embryo & fetus grow at an incredible pace with enormous number of biological systems perfectly synchronized leading also to feeling of] perfect synchronicity of external & internal events in one’s world if so attuned”

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ED 3/29

“Also, fetus nurtured, protected, all needs met—especially through umbilical cord at navel—leading to the feeling that…
“spiritual state is one of perfect harmony, being protected, & the divine providing for all one’s needs;”

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“[fetus nurtured, protected, all needs met—especially through umbilical cord at navel—leading to]…ideas of navel as being “source” of spiritual energy or the place of connection of soul to body;”

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“and, finally, [fetus nurtured, protected, all needs met—especially through umbilical cord at navel] leading to the flow-in <—> flow-out feelings of proper relationship of person to society, the divine, nature, & experience.”

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ED 3/32

“Many more examples could be given & for a more comprehensive understanding I refer the reader to my book, *Falls from Grace: The Devolution & Revolution of Consciousness*…which follows this volume in the Return to Grace series.”

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“However, the point I am making is that those early, universal [prenatal] events predispose the very nature of our mind.”

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“[early universal, prenatal events predispose our mind] both in determining the kinds of thoughts & images we will have as well as in modeling the patterns & the connections, associations, & networks among such elements of consciousness.”

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“*Our Early Events Shape Our Social, Cultural, & Physical Worlds, Which We Create With Our Minds*”

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“Those biohistorical events consequently end up configuring our sociocultural structures, which we conceive & modify with less deeply-rooted thoughts & images emanating from idiosyncratic later events.”

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“Likewise, these foundational events shape & inform the myths by which we live, the motives that inspire us, the feelings & emotions that move us, & the attitudes that are our thickly matted screens across our windows to the world, & much else.”

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“Indeed, in my conceptualization, these biohistorical experiences delineate the very paradigms within which we live;”

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“therefore, there is very little of experiential reality that is not in some way linked, modeled, or bounded by the effects of these [prenatal & perinatal] events.”

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ED 3/40

“*Other Biocultural Determiners*

“*Biology*

“There *are* other things, however, that are crucial in the creation of our biological worldview. These include, of course, anatomical, biochemical,..”

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“…& other biological shapers & formers of our reality as we generally perceive it as a species, which have to be seen as even more fundamental—representing more pervasive yet subtler determiners & modelers of all above them.”

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ED 3/42

“As I was saying above, these [biological determiners] are what create the very “hardware” of space & time within which this “software” of experience & memory—culture & unconscious—runs its “programs” & “applications.””

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“*Transpersonal*

“Then there are the other universal determiners and/or directors of experience that fall under the rubric of *transpersonal* & are truly outside our biological parameters.”

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“But there is a completely different “board” for that “game”[the transpersonal or spiritual one] than the one on which we are working.”

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“Specifically, [the transpersonal or metaphysical “board game”] amounts to “bumping” the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm that I am working off of in making this argument about biologically constituted realities…”

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“…& adopting instead the holonomic perspective that I discuss further on, especially in “Section Seven—Transpersonal Perspective.””

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ED 3/47

“*Our Biohistorical Experiences & Biology Determine Our Thoughts, Attitudes, & Actions*

“At any rate, it follows that within our societies & cultures, themselves modeled inside these parametric, experientially based outlines,..”

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“…[within our societies & cultures,] we are also influenced concerning the very things we write about, investigate, study, & then discuss...& the manner in which we do so.”

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“In sum, in all these ways—conscious & unconscious & unknowable—we create our human “world.””

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This has been a threaded version of the entire Ch 3, titled,

“We Are What We’ve Experienced & The Perinatal Paradigm:

“Our Conception, Gestation, & Birth Create Our Windows to the World”

of my book *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

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*Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

which is

a pantheistic perspective on Reality & Nature that asserts logically & in line with quantum physics that the basic unit of Existence is Experience.

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ED 3/52

Experience, shared, is the nature of Existence & the grand total of minds in the Universe is 1. As quantum physicist, Erwin Schrödinger phased it, “The total number of minds in the universe is one.”

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ED 3/53

"Schrödinger phased it, “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.”

"That one Mind, or singularity, in all Existence can only be what we refer to as "God" or "Divinity."

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& since we are all aspects of that one Mind or Divinity & our participation in that Divinity is the fractal of experience we call our life, then our very experience is our Divinity and the combined total of all Experience, all of that One Mind,..

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ED 3/55

…[our very experience is our Divinity & the combined total of all Experience, all of that One Mind,] is God, or Divinity. Thus, Experience Is Divinity.

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ED 3/56

and Experience, indeed…as our experiences in the experiential modalities & spirituality in general show…our very experience is indeed our Divine guiding self.

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That our very experience is Divinity, is Experience, has profound implications for spiritual growth, psychotherapy, philosophy, quantum, & metaphysics.

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ED 3/58

The book, *Experience Is Divinity*, shows how in our coming into being as individuals of the species human, we repressed our innate connection with Divinity.

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This repression of our innate connection with Divinity was done as part of the Game of humanness, wherein God (gods, Divinity) becomes less than Itself to set off the glorious ad-venture of Existence. Of Experience.

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This book rests on the latest findings of research into nonordinary states. It is informed by the research of Stanislav Grof, of the author & his wife’s own nonordinary experiences, of quantum physics, & of primal & other experiential modalities.

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ED 3/61

Ch 3 is titled,

“We Are What We’ve Experienced & The Perinatal Paradigm:

“Our Conception, Gestation, & Birth Create Our Windows to the World”

The complete book is available online at the links

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ED 3/62

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 *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*.

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This is the completed document for *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*

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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ED 3/64

If you like & agree with these ideas & want more attention & thought brought to them, feel free to download the book & pass it around, as you wish; use it to spread these ideas.

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“It is time now for humans to regain the primal legacy of belongingness in Divinity & Nature, which we lost when we put ourselves up as the crown of creation & at the peak of some evolutionary pyramid, with “dominion” over all the rest.”

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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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ED 3/68

Up next,

in *Experience Is Divinity:

"Matter As Metaphor*

by Michael Adzema

is Ch 4, titled

“The Doors of Perception:"

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ED 3/69

Ch 4 is subtitled,

“Each of Us Is Potentially Mind At Large...

“When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen

“Why Everything Appears Infinite when the Doors of Perception Are Cleansed: “Mind at Large” & The Awakening”

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