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This thread is

Chapter 2, titled,

“The Primal Ground of Being:

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

of “Dance of the Seven Veils I”

by Michael Adzema

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“Dance of the Seven Veils I” by Michael Adzema

is subtitled,

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

“Adult to Toddler, Veils One-Three”

Which is Volume 2 in The Path of Ecstasy Series
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[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…describing the problems of ‘normality’ as rooted in a deprivational & deformational series of traumas from our earliest biological history...holds out the vision of a new person & new society…”

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[] “…[describing psychological problems as rooted in traumas from our earliest biological history holds out the vision of a new person & new society] as an outcome of the efforts directed at the earliest laying down of human experience.” []

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“Prenatal & perinatal psychology is the field that deals with the effects of events occurring prior to (*prenatal*) & surrounding the time of birth (*perinatal*) upon later life & personality.”

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“An ever-increasing amount, though certainly not all, of the information we have about these periods of our lives & their effects is derived through the later & vivid remembering of these events in a phenomenon known as *re-experience*.”

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“All of what are called *regression therapies*, especially primal therapy, & many *breathwork* & shamanistic modalities—in particular, holotropic breathwork—allow re-experience of traumatic events of a person’s life, especially one’s birth,..”

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“…[*regression therapies* allow re-experience of traumatic events of a person’s life, especially one’s birth,] by removing barriers normally in place to repress these events from conscious awareness.”

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“*Entheogens*, meaning “toward God,” such as LSD, have also played significant roles in bringing these events [of our early prenatal & perinatal experience] into consciousness.”

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“Indeed, through these [regression/shamanic] modalities, tens if not hundreds of thousands of folks, to date, have re-experienced aspects of their births & perinatal history. They have integrated these normally unconscious contents,..”

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“…[theses regression experiencers have] been made more whole by the experiences as well as from the connections & insights into one’s life & behavior they expose,.."

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D7V1 2/11

“& [theses regression experiencers in primal, psychedelic, shamanic, breathwork, & regression modalities] have been able to report what the experience of being a neonate is like.”

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D7V1 2/12

“*Prenatal Origins of World*

“However, one significant & as yet little explored or understood phenomenon, arising also from the modalities mentioned, is that of *prenatal* re-experience.”

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D7V1 2/13

“In [the case of prenatal re-experience], the experiencer reports...& observationally appears to be...experiencing events that happened in utero, sometimes going back as far as sperm, egg, & zygote states.”

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D7V1 2/14

“These reports of remembering experiences that occurred before birth are at such variance with Western professional & popular paradigms that they are met with near-universal incredulity &, too often, premature dismissal.”

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D7V1 2/15

“Yet the evidence from the mounting numbers of experiential reports & empirical studies attests that something which is at least unique & interesting is going on here [i.e., prenatally].”

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D7V1 2/16

“Nevertheless, much of this prenatal information had for a long time been unformulated, untheorized, & unintegrated into a coherent structure for making sense of these experiences.”

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D7V1 2/17

“However, my book, *Falls from Grace* (2014), went a long way toward doing just that—making sense of prenatal experiences & exploring the implications & prospects of the knowledge gleaned…”

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D7V1 2/18

“…from this fascinating new area of research & which arises from the vision that an exposure to this material induces.

“Before getting into all of that, let us look for a bit at the history of these latest understandings come to us.”

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“*History of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology*

“While Freud (1927) disregarded major effects of birth on personality, he still saw the birth experience as the prototype of all later anxiety. His overall disregard of birth, however,..”

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“…was largely influenced by the belief—although discredited (see Chamberlain, 1988, & below), still common in mainstream psychology & medicine today—that a newborn does not possess the neurological capacity for consciousness at birth.”

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D7V1 2/21

“Other early psychoanalysts disagreed with Freud on this. Otto Rank is the most notable of these.”

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“Following Freud’s basic psychoanalytic reasoning for personality patterns in early infancy, [Otto Rank] asserted basic patterns of experience & ideas that are rooted in even earlier experience.”

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“Rank (1929) claimed the deepest, most fundamental patterns of these personality constructs originated at the time of birth, which Freud thought was not possible.”

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D7V1 2/24

“Based upon the dream, fantasy, & other patterns of associations arising in his patients in psychoanalysis, Rank postulated a birth trauma,..”

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“…[Rank postulated a birth trauma,] which he saw as a critical event in laying down in each of us particular patterns of thinking, motivation, & emotion for the rest of our lives.”

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“Notable among these prototypes was a feeling of a paradise once known but somehow lost, a separation anxiety caused by the separation at birth,& a resulting futile & lifelong struggle to re-unite w that golden age & that early maternal bliss.”

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“Essentially, these things together, according to Rank, amounted to an underlying—disguised but prevalent—desire of humans to return to the womb.”

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D7V1 2/28

“Another psychoanalyst, & pediatrician as well, Donald W. Winnicott (1958) also held that birth is remembered & is important. He insisted that the birth trauma is real;”

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“[Winnicott] contended that traumatic birth is permanently etched in memory & leaves a lifetime psychological scar. Winnicott also suggested the possibility of prenatal trauma.”

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D7V1 2/30

“David Cheek & Leslie LeCron (1968) used hypnosis to retrieve early memories in their patients. They discovered that memories earlier than what they expected, going back to birth, were possible.”

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D7V1 2/31

“Importantly, a relief of symptoms seemed to follow from the re-experience of these birth memories."

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“[Cheek & LeCron] concluded that a birth imprint occurs, which is induced by the extreme stress of that time & is resistant to fading from later experience.”

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D7V1 2/33

“Further [Cheek & LeCron] asserted that this [birth] imprint could be the cause of a wide spectrum of psychiatric & psychosomatic disorders.”

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“Leslie Feher (1980) sought to extend the Freudian tradition farther back into areas that, she asserts, were until only recently unknowable.”

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“Thus, [Leslie Feher] describes a natal theory & therapy that includes experiences of cutting the umbilical cord, birth, & even prebirth.”

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“In fact, [Leslie Feher] considers the cutting of the umbilical cord to be central in her theory of trauma, calling it the *crisis umbilicus*,..”

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D7V1 2/37

“..& [Leslie Feher] echoes another prenatal theorist, Nandar Fodor (1949), in claiming that [the cutting of the umbilical cord at birth] is the true origin of the castration fears made so much of in psychoanalysis.”

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“[Cutting the umbilical cord would be like castration] because, according to Feher, the cord, with its attached placenta, is an object of security & is considered by the fetus to be part of him- or herself.”

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D7V1 2/39

“Thus, this [umbilical] cutting represents a supreme threat in being a separation from a total life support system, a major organ, a part of oneself.”

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“In these ways, [Leslie Feher] also brings forward for renewed appreciation Rank’s speculations on the element of separation trauma as a crucial element of the birth trauma.”

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“Perhaps the major theorist & popularizer of the phenomenon of re-experience...which he termed *primaling*...Arthur Janov was reluctant to acknowledge the pervasiveness of pre & perinatal re-experience & trauma.”

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“Yet when [Janov] did, it was in a major work on birth trauma, which remains as a touchstone in the field in its depth & detail. *Imprints: The Lifelong Effects of the Birth Experience*, published in 1983,..”

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“…[*Imprints*] among other things places birth as the determining factor in creating basic personality constructs, called *sympathetic* & *parasympathetic*, which roughly coincide with the more common terms *introversion* & *extroversion*.”

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“Janov’s work is more empirical & neurophysiologically rooted than most in the field, & this was especially true of [*Imprints*].”

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D7V1 2/45

“David Chamberlain (1988), for many years the president of APPPAH (the Association for Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health), has further substantiated the claim of consciousness at birth & the accuracy of pre- & perinatal memory…”

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“…in the phenomenon of re-experience. He reported one study he did in which he compared hypnotically retrieved memories of birth from mother & child & found an astonishing degree of conformity in their responses.”

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“Of note was the degree of inner consistency & originality in these memories as reported by the former neonate. They often contained technical details of the delivery & labor unlike what would be expected of the medically unsophisticated,..”

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“…[these birth memories often also included] a perceptive critique of the way the birth was handled, & other details of the event that could not have been known through normal conscious channels.”

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“We see that a substantial body of literature & research—anecdotal, observational, experimental, & empirical—demonstrating the reality of & the importance of birth & its trauma has been going on for almost one-hundred years.”

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“Yet others, in time, went beyond birth & began to uncover prenatal influences & memories. This look into events in the womb & their significance for personality, behavior, & thought is what we deal with next.”

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D7V1 2/51

“*The Prenatal Matrix*

“Also a psychoanalyst, as well as being an associate of Sigmund Freud, Nandor Fodor (1949) focused on the reflections of birth & prenatal material in dreams.”

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D7V1 2/52

“While Winnicott & some others referred to the prenatal as being significant in development, it is with Fodor, & his follower, Francis Mott, that it is most developed.”

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“Fodor also designed interventions in therapy to release the negative effects of birth & to process prenatal memories. He was the first to mention actual relivings of birth, in which verifiably accurate memories of birth were recovered.”

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“[Fodor] agreed with Rank on many points, however he stressed the origins of consciousness & of trauma being in the prenatal period.”

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“[Fodor] likened birth to death, as he explained that is the way the prenate experiences the drastic change involved in birth; & he claimed that our memory of that death-birth experience is what accounts for our fear of death as adults.”

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“Lloyd deMause (1982, 1987, 2002) was instrumental in establishing the new interdisciplinary field of psychohistory. In his study of historical happenings, he discovered that stages in the progression of public events of national,..”

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“…international scope & of historical importance—including invasions, elections, wars, programs & policies, uprisings, depressions & recessions, & much more—related to stages in the progression of gestation & birth.”

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“Which perinatal stages [of deMause] happened to correspond, by the way, remarkably well with Stanislav Grof’s four stages of birth, his *basic perinatal matrices*, as we shall see.”

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“Lloyd deMause found that natal imagery esp predominates in societies during times of crisis & war, when national purpose & state of affairs are construed as a need to escape or break free from an enclosing & constricting force.”

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“[Lloyd deMause] also introduced the *suffering fetus* & the *poisonous placenta* as sources of these later metaphors & imagery.”

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“In fact, in studying the imagery in the national media of various countries [Lloyd deMause] has been able to predict political, social, & economic events such as wars & invasions, recessions,& political downfalls.”

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“[Lloyd deMauses’s] work begins to look at the prenatal influences & imprints & how they related to macrocosmic issues of politics, history, social movements, & issues of war & peace.”

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“As importantly, in my opinion, [Lloyd deMause] was the first to stress that prenatal existence, for a good deal of it, is anything but the blissful heavenly time that all earlier researchers assumed of it.”

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“Referring to studies of in utero events which employed previously unavailable technologies he showed how the prenatal state, beginning at around the seventh month of gestation, was characterized by times of extreme hypoxia…”

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“…[prenatal state characterized by extreme hypoxia] & other stresses on the prenate. This became important in helping me to formulate my *prenatal matrices of human evil*, as you will see in Chapt 5, of this book, & in Veil Five of this work.”

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D7V1 2/66

“The actual stimulus for a new field of pre- & perinatal psychology & for its major association, the Association for Pre- & Perinatal Psychology & Health (APPPAH) was Thomas Verny’s work, *The Secret Life of the Unborn Child* (1981).”

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“[Verny’s] book brought together a good deal of the new empirical research that had opened the doors to us on the events in the womb. While himself a practitioner of “holistic primal therapy,”..”

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“…[Verny] integrated the accumulating data from the phenomenon of re-experience with the new information from the more traditional, “objective,” scientific research into the prenatal—made possible by the latest advances in technology.”

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“One of [Verny’s] conclusions from this combination of lines of inquiry was that “birth & prenatal experiences form the foundations of human personality.”

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“Verny’s other conclusions center on the importance of intrauterine bonding in that his research strongly suggests that the prenate, via pathways hormonal & unknown, picks up on the thoughts, feelings, & attitudes of the mother.”

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“More importantly, [Verny] asserted, the imprint of these factors on the fetus predetermines the later mother-child relationship.”

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“[Verny] emphasized that positive thoughts & feelings toward the fetus—“maternal love”—acts to cushion the new individual against the normal stresses & unavoidable harshness inherent in birth & early infancy.”

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“Yet all of this cannot be completely avoided. “Birth is like death to the newborn,” writes Verny.”

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“A follower of Nandor Fodor, Francis Mott’s work is less well known even by this field’s standards, yet it is undeniably impressive.”

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D7V1 2/75

“Mott’s (1960, 1964) major contribution lies in his focusing on basic patterns of mind & cosmos that correlate with prenatal feelings & states.”

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D7V1 2/76

“[Mott] traced consciousness back to events around conception & saw these events as instituting patterns affecting all later experience & conceptual constructions.”

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“Through dream analysis [Mott] elicited these “configurations,” & he demonstrated their manifestation as seemingly universal archetypes in myths & universal human assumptions about the nature of reality.”

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D7V1 2/78

“[Mott’s] work has a lot of congruence with the approach I take in this work.”

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D7V1 2/79

“In fact, through his study of womb & conception patterns [Mott] claimed to have discovered patterns that underlie & unite all of reality at all levels of manifestation—astronomical, social, personal, cellular, & even nuclear.”

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“While this may seem rather grandiose, [Mott’s] work was highly regarded & admired by Carl Jung.”

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“That, in itself, is surprising in that his work would provide, in many cases, for experiential explanations for the archetypes that Jung has attributed to “instinct,” or as it is considered more appropriate to say nowadays, to “genes.””

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D7V1 2/82

“Thus, the universality of Jung’s archetypes can be attributed to universal patterns of experience humans undergo from conception to birth, not to genetics.”

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D7V1 2/83

“It is a tribute to Jung that he would acknowledge such work, threatening as it is to his own work, simply on its own merits.”

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“At any rate, Mott carried forward the intimations of earlier prenatal theoreticians, notably Rank & Fodor, on the gestational basis of archetypes. While he does not address or seek to discredit the range of, supposedly genetic, archetypes…”

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D7V1 2/85

“…[while Mott does not seek to discredit genetic archetypes,] postulated by Jung, his work is highly suggestive of an experiential, specifically, pre- & perinatal, as opposed to genetic basis for many of these archetypes.”

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D7V1 2/86

“*Prenatal Mythology*

“In this book, I make exactly that claim for the gestational origins of not only all mythology, religion, & archetypes, but even fundamental assumptions about physical reality, such as duality & separation,..”

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“…& [in this book I make exactly that claim for the gestational origins of even fundamental assumptions about physical reality, such as duality & separation,] about life, such as the creation & perception of time. More later.”

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D7V1 2/88

“Finally, Francis Mott made the postulation that our original expanded capacity to feel is diminished, as he says, “divided,” by experience not increased by it.”

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D7V1 2/89

“The idea is that there is a reduction in awareness as a result of early traumatic events, beginning around conception & then on, & not the buildup of consciousness & feeling we assume from the mechanistic paradigm..."

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D7V1 2/90

“…the mechanistic paradigm] that sees consciousness as a byproduct of increasing physical, specifically brain, activity during our early years.”

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D7V1 2/91

“This is the position I came up with, independently of & unaware of Mott’s work, & which I published in my book,*Falls from Grace: The Devolution & Revolution of Consciousness* (2014).

“I wish also to point out that…”

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D7V1 2/92

“…this idea of reductions of consciousness over time, in early human development, & not the buildup due to cell growth normally assumed, has remarkable consistency with Bergson’s (1896, 1934) theory of “brain as reducing valve.”

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“The reducing valve theory of brain function was supported by experiences in psychedelic states, and, specifically, it was proposed by Aldous Huxley (1954) in his famous work (famous because the Sixties rock phenomenon, The Doors,..”

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“[The Doors] used its title as inspiration in naming themselves),*The Doors of Perception*, as a way of understanding how psychedelics can open one up to consciousness & awareness quite beyond what one could possibly know thru normal channels."

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““The doors of perception” as a title of Aldous Huxley’s work came from a poem by William Blake. The line goes, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, the world would appear as it is, infinite.””

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“Still, Huxley’s essay, *The Doors of Perception*, along with its companion essay, *Heaven & Hell* (1956) was an icon of counterculture mythology in the 1960s, & it was Huxley’s work which inspired the musicians, The Doors.”

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“According to Huxley, expansion of mind beyond the normal can be a result of consciousness-altering methods, psychedelic drugs being one of them..."

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“…due to the fact that the “reducing valve,” the brain, is inhibited from performing its function of blocking out the majority of an otherwise overwhelming Reality.”

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“I continued along those lines, elaborating & speculating on the idea, in my articles, titled, “The Doors of Perception: Each of Us Is Potentially Mind at Large… When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen”…”

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“…& “Occupy Science...A Call for a Scientific Awakening: In Tossing Away Our Species Blinders, We Approach a Truth Far Beyond Science.”

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“A pioneer in this prenatal & perinatal area is Stanislav Grof. His many works, providing a framework for conceptualizing pre & perinatal & transpersonal experiences,are a profound & useful starting point for an investigation into this area.”

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“In [Grof’s] use of LSD beginning in 1956 for psychotherapy, called *psycholytic therapy*, Grof discovered four levels of experience of the unconscious: the *sensory*, the *biographical*, the *perinatal*, & the *transpersonal*.”

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“[Grof] noted a tendency for growth & healing to occur in a progressive way through these levels.

“The *sensory band* is the level of expanded sensory awareness & is usually initially encountered by participants.”

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“The *biographical band* is the realm of the personal unconscious wherein unintegrated & traumatic memories & material from childhood & one’s personal history are retrieved, often relived,& integrated.”

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“The *perinatal* level of experience usually follows after dealing with the biographical material & involves the remembering, re-experiencing, & integrating of material that is related to the time prior to & surrounding birth.”

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“The transpersonal band, the level of spiritual experience, is usually reached only after dealing with the other three levels.”

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“*Four Modes of Experiencing—the Basic Perinatal Matrices*

“Grof also delineated four matrices of experience, four general experiential constructs, which he called *basic perinatal matrices* (BPMs).”

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“[Stanislav Grof] discovered that experiences at all levels of the unconscious often group themselves in four general ways that are roughly related to four stages of birth.

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“Thus, *Basic Perinatal Matrix I* (*BPM I*) is related to the generally blissful or “oceanic” feelings which often characterize the fetus’s state in the womb in early & middle pregnancy.”

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“*BPM II* is characterized by “no exit,” hellish feelings which are related to the situation of the fetus in late pregnancy, just prior to birth, when the confines of the womb become ever more apparent to the prenate...”

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“…[just prior to birth, the confines of the womb] become “pressing” concerns...but there is as yet no indication of any possibility of relief.”

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“*BPM III* relates to the birth process itself, the birth struggle, which is still characterized by feelings of compression & suffering but in which there is movement & change & thus hope of relief through struggle.”

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“If BPM II can be compared to hell, where there is no hope, BPM III is more like purgatory.”

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“Finally, *BPM IV* relates to the actual entry into the world, the termination of the birthing process, & is characterized by feelings of triumph, relief, & high, even manic, elation.”

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“In [Grof’s] descriptions of the levels of psychedelic experience & the matrices of perinatal experience, Grof has provided useful maps of the unconscious & of experience in nonordinary states,..”

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“…which [maps provided by Grof] have incredible heuristic value in our understanding of cross-cultural religious & spiritual experience, psychopathology, personal growth, & consciousness & personality in general.”

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“[Grof’s maps of psychedelic states] have been utilized successfully in providing a context & guide for many tens of thousands of participants in his psycholytic & holotropic therapies.”

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“However, while Grof is exhaustive in his descriptions of fetal & perinatal experience, he says very little about the earlier experiences in the womb, the first trimester,..”

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“…& [Grof says] even less about conception & the experiences of sperm & egg—of that which is known as *cellular consciousness*.”

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“Still, this area—the early prenatal & cellular—is being experienced & is beginning to be discussed among [Grof’s] followers. I am one & am not the only one.”

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“Currently, through [Grof’s] nondrug modality, called *holotropic breathwork*, people are accessing these areas & beginning to give word to them.”

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“*Cellular-Soulular Ground of the Human Being*

“Michael C. Irving (1988) is a primal therapist whose contributions include his relation of these earliest events from sperm & egg thru the birth experience to fundamental mythological motifs…”

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“…& images across cultures. The originator of a way of interpretation that he calls *natalism*,...”

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“…[Irving] has brought together a host of artistic & artifactual images from a wide range of time periods & cultures which relate, with an astonishing degree of accuracy, to actual pre- & perinatal events.”

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“In particular, [Irving] has traced the universal serpent/dragon motifs & mythology to birth & sperm experience, noting, among other things, that the serpent/dragon shape represents the birth canal or tunnel,..”

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“…that the fire-spewing characteristics of dragons relate to the consuming pain experienced at birth, & that the constricting characteristics of certain snakes correspond to the constriction of the birth canal.”

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“Clearly, the shape of snakes & their mode of travel mimic as well that of sperm. Of great interest is Irving’s deduction that the widely prevalent snake & dragon cults, which were especially popular in prehistory,..”

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“…[the widely prevalent snake & dragon cults] indicate an attempt to deal with such unfinished birth & prenatal trauma material as we are only now, in postmodern times, rediscovering the importance of doing.”

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“While not strictly a pre- & perinatal psychologist, I include this too little-known theoretician & criminologist, S. Giora Shoham, because of the close relationship & influence his work has had upon my own work,..”

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“…viz,*Falls from Grace* (1994/2014). *Falls from Grace* & other devolutional models of consciousness postulate that during life & over time, beginning at conception, we actually are reduced in consciousness & awareness, not increased in it.”

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“[the devolutional postulate that during life & over time, beginning at conception, we actually are reduced in consciousness & awareness] corresponds nicely with a “brain as reducing valve” theory of consciousness, as I was detailing above.”

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“Shoham (1979a, 1979b, 1990, 2012) starts his devolutional model at birth & carries it through an oral phase of occasional deprivation in infancy, then to weaning, toilet training,& the Oedipal periods of development.”

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“Tho I disagree with [Shoham's] model by beginning mine at the creation of sperm & egg—as does other devolutional theorists such as Francis Mott & David Wasdell—in virtually all other major instances his model corresponds to my own…”

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“…[Shoman’s model corresponds to my own] if one simply...in keeping with a normal trend in child development in general as it begins to integrate the new pre- & perinatal evidence...places everything back a little farther in time.”

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“In this case, that would involve, viz., taking it one stage back (or 3 Veils) to conception & the formation of the sperm & the egg.

“The deepest reaches of human experience & the fundamental patterns of our human nature, we now know,..”

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“…[the fundamental patterns of our human nature, we now know,] based on research only possible in the last fifty or so years, occur at the cellular level of consciousness & our earliest womb experience, the first trimester.”

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“This makes [my devolutional model of human consciousness] consistent with the *Tibetan Book of the Dead*, incidentally. In this spiritual classic, the *bardos*, which are stages of experience between lives,..”

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“…[the *bardos*] overlap in a provocative way with the stages I propose as occurring at around conception (*periconceptionally*), & then in the womb—both its earlier blissful & its later hellacious varieties of experience.”

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“Lietaert Peerbolte (1954) was one of the earliest theorists to relate spirituality to conception & sperm/egg dynamics.”

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“In addition to claiming that a regression to conception is the inevitable result of all prenatal states, [Peerbolte] traced the sense of “I”—the “I-function”—back to the egg, existing even in the mother’s ovaries.”

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“[Peerbolte] further postulated that the spiritual self was invisibly present within the field of attraction between the egg & the sperm.”

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“Correspondingly, [Peerbolte] was the first to point out that the existence of conception, preconception, & even ovulation symbolism in dreams indicates the existence of a soul. For, he asked, what mind records these events otherwise?”

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“Frank Lake, though less well-known again, has probably been the premier theoretician on the topic of prenatal events during the first three months of gestation.”

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“Just prior to his death in the early 80s, [Frank Lake] wrote a culmination of his 30-year investigation into pre- & perinatal influence in two works titled *Tight Corners in Pastoral Counselling* (1981) & *The First Trimester* (1982).”

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“In these works, [Frank Lake] goes beyond his other works—in particular *Clinical Theology* (1966)—in placing the roots of all later experience, & in particular, distress, at the first three months of physical existence.”

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“Lake began his investigation of re-experience in 1954. Like Stanislav Grof, he did this using LSD, initially, in the psycholytic therapy that was being developed at that time to facilitate therapeutic abreaction.”

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“Later [Lake], like Grof, developed a nondrug modality to accomplish the same thing. His method of “primal therapy,” also called *primal integration*, employed a type of fast breathing—again, like Grof’s later technique—”

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“[Lake developed a nondrug modality which employed a type of fast breathing] to access theta-wave brain levels, which are levels of consciousness that he saw as crucial to accessing & integrating these memories.”

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“[Lake’s] thirty-year research led him to the realization of the importance of ever earlier experience.”

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“Thus [Lake’s] initial stress on the importance of birth gave way to his later emphasis on the first trimester in 1981, with *Tight Corners in Pastoral Counselling*, & in 1982, with *The First Trimester*.”

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“[Lake] stressed the *maternal-fetal distress syndrome*, beginning at around implantation, as a major time of trauma. He also described a blastocystic stage of relative bliss just prior to that.

“His one other major disagreement w Grof was…”

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“…[Lake’s] belief that the mythological & archetypal elements described by Grof were a product of LSD & that the first trimester events were the actual roots of much of such symbolism & supposed transpersonal & mythological scenarios.”

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“Others have speculated on the origins of myth & archetype in womb experience. However, beginning with Lake we have the idea that such symbolism might have some origins even earlier, & even at the cellular level of experience.”

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“Indeed, this is something I advanced myself in my *Falls from Grace*,& is what I focus on in the parts of this work, upcoming, having to do with Veils Six & Seven; as well as in my forthcoming books,*Womb with a View*, & *Cells with a View*.”

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“Graham Farrant, a psychiatrist & primal therapist from Australia, is probably the most influential & well-known of those discussing the phenomena that occur at the earliest times of our lives.”

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“[Farrant] has found trauma from these earliest events to influence lifelong patterns of personality & behavior. He produced a notable video in which segments from the widely acclaimed movie, The Miracle of Life—which shows actual footage…”

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“…[segments from the widely acclaimed movie, The Miracle of Life—which shows actual footage] of gamete & zygote events—are juxtaposed via a split-screen with actual footage of a person reliving the exact same events in primal therapy.”

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“Importantly,these were primal events for his clients which had occurred before such cellular events were ever able to be seen & recorded. The effect is astounding in the detail in which the relivings replicate the actual cellular happenings.”

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“In addition to his emphasis on cellular consciousness, Farrant has stressed the spiritual aspects of these earliest events.”

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“[Farrant] relates incidents of spiritual trauma at the cellular level in which the individual splits off from Divinity—thus setting up a lifelong feeling of loss & yearning & a desire to return to Unity & the Divine.”

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“Paul Brenner (1991), a biologist & obstetrician, has presented at conferences & workshops on the idea of the biological foundations of myth. For example, he relates basic biological, cellular events to biblical events described in *Genesis*.”

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“[Brenner] also links male & female adult behavior to basic patterns of sperm & egg behavior & to events prior to & surrounding conception. He has said that male & female behavior are just sperm & egg activity grown up!”

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“Elizabeth Noble was an educator in the field of pregnancy & childbirth & a student of Farrant’s. She published a comprehensive overview of this new field, titled Primal Connections (1993),..”

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“…[*Primal Connections*] in which [Noble] does not hesitate to stress the issues of cellular consciousness & the spirituality that appears to coincide with the re-experience of these earliest events.”

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“[Noble] provides empirical & theoretical avenues for understanding how memory can occur at such early times”

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“Some of these [theories explaining prenatal memory] are consistent with mainstream physicalist science; while others coincide with the cutting-edge, new-paradigm discoveries in fields such as biology, physics, & neuroscience.”

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“One of the more exciting theoreticians in this already provocative field is David Wasdell. Wasdell’s major contribution lies in his relating these earliest events to social & cultural patterns.”

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“[Wasdell] describes a process of devolution of consciousness beginning at around conception & proceeding through other reductions caused by traumas at implantation, in the womb, & at birth.”

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“Wasdell does for periconceptional imprints what deMause does for the prenatal & perinatal. Both show how these imprints manifest in the events of history & contemporary life, culture, & human behavior in groups.”

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“Most importantly, Wasdell delineates how the result of this diminution of potentiality is projected outwards into the problems & crises of violence, wars, & the mediocrity of modern personality on the scale of the masses]…”

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“..[the result of this diminution of potentiality is projected outwards into the problems & crises of violence, wars, & the mediocrity of modern personality on the scale of the masses] & the macrocosms of the group, society, & global events.”

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“In describing the problems of “normality” as rooted in a deprivational & deformational series of traumas from our earliest biological history, Wasdell emphasizes that this gives us the possibility to change that tragic social & personality…”

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“…[personality] outcome by focusing on the prevention & healing of such traumas. Thus, [Wasdell] holds out the vision of a new person & new society as an outcome of the efforts directed at the earliest laying down of human experience."

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“The work in this field of prenatal & perinatal psychology, described in this very brief overview, led up to my own work in this field. We look at that next.”

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This has been the entire Chapter 2,

“The Primal Ground of Being:

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

of my book…

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…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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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.

Also, these are the Amazon links where you could comment on the book:

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Up next,

in “Dance of the Seven Veils I”

by Michael Adzema, is

Chapter 3, titled,

“The Farther Reaches of Human Experience:

“The Prenatal Matrix, the Wombular & Cellular Veils, & Unsullied Experience—Experience Is Divinity”

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