Thread by @sillymickel

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Chapter 3, titled,

“The Farther Reaches of Human Experience:

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

of “Dance of the Seven Veils I”

by Michael Adzema

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D7V1 3/1

“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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D7V1 3/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “In looking at these matrices embedded in us through our cellular & womb & birth experiences, it will be possible to have our best chance to get a look at existence outside of these matrices—the No-Form State.” []

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D7V1 3/3

[] “…if we do not regain our truer & underlying humanity, & instead, coming forth as we normally do, we continue acting out of our pain grids, we are not going to have a ‘human’ experience or even an Earthly life experience…” []

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D7V1 3/4

[] “…[if we do not regain our truer & underlying humanity, we are not going to have a ‘human’ experience or even an Earthly life experience] to be detailing & exploring, in the future, let alone people to hear about them.” []

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D7V1 3/5

[*Chapter 3 text begins:*] “As a theorist & pioneer in this field as well, I need to give an overview of my work.”

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D7V1 3/6

“*A Primal Perspective on Spirituality*

“Having completed primal therapy in Denver, Colorado, I sought, beginning in 1979, to discover whether spirituality & God were real or were results of primal pain, as Arthur Janov contended.”

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D7V1 3/7

“While approaching the project from Janov’s perspective & not entertaining spiritual interpretations in the least, I was shocked to both begin experiencing spiritual experiences in my primaling, which could not have roots in my primal pain,..”

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D7V1 3/8

“…& to come across other primalers who were having spiritual, transpersonal experiences in their inner work as well.”

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D7V1 3/9

“I want to stress that I undertook this research not to justify any need or “drive” I had. Or, for that matter, to make sense out of anything that was happening to me.”

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D7V1 3/10

“In fact, I had no interest at all in looking into this area of spirituality & was really quite satisfied with the “world” I was living in & the life I was having as a reward for my deep experiential work.”

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D7V1 3/11

“I was all set to use my “brain power,” this time, for a university degree that would allow me to get all the “fun coupons” (money) that I could & to enjoy my life in a way far better than I had been able to before therapy.”

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D7V1 3/12

“As I saw it, it was nice to have a world with “no ghosts” in it (I had been brought up Catholic) & in which all that mattered was what happened in physical reality.”

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D7V1 3/13

“If you can believe this (I hardly can), I was actually pursuing a track of computers, accounting, & finance & was on my way to being just like the other folks I saw around me in America. & this, actually, for the first time in my life.”

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D7V1 3/14

“My research into the validity of transpersonal reality, through the lens of primalers, came about because I had to have a thesis for the completion of a university degree & because of discussions I was having with a housemate.”

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D7V1 3/15

“My friend, Steve, was doing primal therapy & had come from a background in meditation & Eastern spirituality; he followed Guru Swami Muktunanda.”

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D7V1 3/16

“Unlike what I, in keeping with Janov, believed, Steve was convinced that the processes were identical—the spiritual & primal processes.”

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D7V1 3/17

“Steve explained that he had come into primal therapy because the one, Primal, according to him, aided the other, the transpersonal.”

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D7V1 3/18

“[Primal aided the spiritual process] by clearing out negative material, unconscious primal trauma & Pain, which otherwise impeded one’s spiritual progress.”

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D7V1 3/19

“Through these talks, & because I needed to have a research project, I decided to make it my goal to find out if spiritual-transpersonal experiences were real, were true...”

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D7V1 3/20

“…or [whether spiritual-transpersonal experiences] were not [real], & were simply experiences rooted in primal pain, were coping mechanisms that were essentially delusional.”

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D7V1 3/21

“*Validity of Some Spiritual/Transpersonal Experiences*

“Subsequently, research into the literature & findings of this new field of primal psychology & into corresponding spiritual literature led me to discover,..”

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D7V1 3/22

“…not only that such spiritual experiences were being encountered in deep experiential psychotherapy...Grof’s work was significant here…”

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D7V1 3/23

“...but also that some primal experiences of the not-so spiritual kind were remarkably like experiences that had been described as being encountered on their spiritual path by enlightened souls both currently & in previous times.“

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D7V1 3/24

“Guru Swami Muktananda’s autobiography (1974) was significant in this respect. Had liberated souls gone through a kind of primal therapy on their way to enlightenment? That seemed to be the case.”

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D7V1 3/25

“Also, I found that scientific measurements of brain wave & other aspects of brain function coincided at advanced levels of both the primal & spiritual processes:”

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D7V1 3/26

“Both kinds of practitioners—primalers & meditators—had extraordinarily easy access to theta & delta wave patterns, for example. Both also showed remarkable right-left brain integration.”

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D7V1 3/27

“Lastly, I was able to show that the terminology—with, at the most, slight adjustments in the perspective—in both spiritual & primal processes corresponded in nearly every case.”

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D7V1 3/28

“*Proof of Soul...God?*

“In the article that resulted from this research—which was published, six years later, in the *Journal of Humanistic Psychology* (1985) & titled “A Primal Perspective on Spirituality”—”

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D7V1 3/29

“—I broke from Janov in asserting a valid spirituality & the possible existence of a God or Spirit beyond our physical confines.”

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D7V1 3/30

“Remember that Peerbolte pointed out that existence of memory from before conception & at conception indicated the existence of a soul. For what mind records these memories otherwise? he said.”

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D7V1 3/31

“As I put it, in words remarkably like his, as quoted from *Falls from Grace* (2014), where this unusually lengthy journal article ended up being published as Section Two, Chapters 6 through 18 of that book of mine:”

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D7V1 3/32

“*“Proof of ‘God.’*

""Some of these experiences, especially in the parapsychological realm (such as ESP, clairvoyance, & ancestral memories), have even found verification with an astonishing degree of accuracy in Grof’s follow-up research.””

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D7V1 3/33

““Even the primal perspective, which points to existence of memory & consciousness at fetal, single cell, & sperm & egg level, certainly would have to acknowledge such awareness to have more subtle underpinnings than the brain & spinal cord.””

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D7V1 3/34

““All of this points to the existence of something that is subtler than the physical body & undergirds the entire length of one’s physical life.””

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D7V1 3/35

““The evidence also seems to suggest that this subtler self permeates much of matter & life in realms outside of the personal domain & therefore can be accurately termed transpersonal.””

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D7V1 3/36

“Subsequently, primalers had the support they needed to go into the early prenatal, the cellular, & the transpersonal regions to which their primal process was taking them.”

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D7V1 3/37

“Previously, because of Janov’s limited paradigm, these experiences were being overlooked or misinterpreted for having prematurely been misclassified as impossible & non-existent, or as having roots in primal pain.”

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D7V1 3/38

“Indeed, having believed Janov’s paradigm for over six years & for the great bulk of the primal work I would do & having complied with Janov’s dictum in my own primal work & that of others who I had facilitated—”

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D7V1 3/39

“—by tracing any seemingly transpersonal experiences to primal pain & clearing it out there—I had a special perspective on this point.”

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D7V1 3/40

“*Primal Process as Spiritual Process*

“While I would agree with Janov—as wells as Fodor who earlier had made the case for certain kinds of paranormal phenomena having psychological roots—that…”

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D7V1 3/41

“…the majority of what are thought to be religious, spiritual, occult, or transpersonal experiences are, indeed, mere products of psychological events, especially those that are traumatic;”

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D7V1 3/42

“still, I was one of those who were enabled in going beyond Janov’s paradigm into actual transpersonal states & experiences by the work & the new paradigm I had asserted in my article.”

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D7V1 3/43

“Since I had, & after I had, carried Janov’s contention to their limits & had actual spiritual experiences beyond the ones rooted in primal pain, & I had experienced healing & growth, as a result of these transpersonal experiences,..”

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D7V1 3/44

“…beyond what Janov knew was possible for his therapy; you can see that I was unusually qualified to assert this correction of Janov’s paradigm, which gave validation to some forms of spiritual experience, tho by no means all.”

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D7V1 3/45

“*The Prenatal Grids on Experience*

“This research & understanding led directly into my conceptualizations of the “second part of The Cure”…”

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D7V1 3/46

“…& to my subsequent postulations of *pain grids*, *joy grids*, & *spiritual grids*, as being three fundamental phases or modes of human experience & perception, which are accessible through deep Primal & experiential work.”

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D7V1 3/47

“*Pain Grids, Joy Grids, Spiritual Grids*

“I called them *grids*, for they were the filters, windows, “frames,” or “grids,” thru which we viewed our reality, other people, & in line with which we interpreted our experience.”

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D7V1 3/48

“They were *grids*, because they were both the frameworks upon which we built our life & experience & all other knowledge that came afterwards & which undergirded our entire lives,..”

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D7V1 3/49

“…but [these grids] were also the screens we looked through & the framework or grids or matrices through which we interpreted our experience, our lives, & others.”

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D7V1 3/50

“You will notice a similarity these modes have with some of the “Veils” I am presenting for view in this work, *Dance of the Seven Veils*.”

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D7V1 3/51

“They certainly function the same way. That is, as layers or veils blocking out clear perception of Reality & distorting it.”

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D7V1 3/52

“The *pain grids*, collectively, as well, make up The Matrix, which is the artificial reality in which we live, determining & delimiting what we do; thereby preventing authentic beingness.”

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D7V1 3/53

“& most assuredly, the pain grids comprise all the painful events that are woven through all overlying Veils down to the level of the prenatal.”

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D7V1 3/54

“Then it is at that time—when feeling back to & integrating one’s prenatal memories—that truly one can access one’s joy grids.”

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D7V1 3/55

“Most often the *joy grids* emerge when one has felt back to the time in the womb before the pain of late gestation has set in. This is usually experienced as a blissful time; Stanislav Grof terms it, *Basic Perinatal Matrix I* (*BPM I*).”

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D7V1 3/56

“Yet access to that blissful prenatal time & even earlier experience, significantly the period of being a blastocyst—which is oftentimes one of the most euphoric times we know—is a profoundly transformative learning experience…”

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D7V1 3/57

“…[access to that blissful prenatal time & even earlier experience, significantly the period of being a blastocyst is a profoundly transformative learning experience] which teaches one what is truly good & positive.”

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D7V1 3/58

“Experiencing feeling constellations of such harmony, bliss, & euphoria—growing through pleasure this time, not through pain—is something that opens a person’s eyes as to what is possible for them in life, realistically,..”

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D7V1 3/59

“…& most importantly what will make them genuinely happy, for being aligned with what is their deepest desires & joy in coming into this life.”

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D7V1 3/60

“They have had a taste, they sense a direction—which they can take back into their normal life—providing goals, identity, & clarity of purpose.”

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D7V1 3/61

“Yet prior to that, these same people had no felt understanding of what it even meant to go about making something positive *of* or even *in* one’s life.”

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D7V1 3/62

“They were, in a sense, “clueless” about how to really live; instead acting out directives of others, reacting to that emptiness in self-destructive ways, & basically unhappy.”

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D7V1 3/63

“Yes, that sorry condition is what Freud considered the natural state of the human. However, it is at the level of the prenatal that one learns that life does not have to be that way.”

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D7V1 3/64

“Contrary to the existentialists & the Freudians, one learns that one’s life can be happy, good, satisfying, fulfilling, & filled with love, empathy, compassion, unity with others, & peace.”

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D7V1 3/65

“Furthermore, at this womb level, as well as prior to it—the No-Form State, that is, transpersonal experience—are laid the foundation for our spiritual grids.”

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D7V1 3/66

“Our *spiritual grids* are primarily created in us through our extremely formative experiences at the cellular level, however.”

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D7V1 3/67

“These spiritual grids are fundamental patterns or templates of transpersonal convictions or directives, arising from the spiritual-transpersonal experiences occurring at these deep deep parts of the psyche.”

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D7V1 3/68

“As unassailable beliefs which are the product of experience, they act as truly positive channels of growth, directives of how to live one’s life, and, sorta like, “instincts” of how to live spiritually & what that means for one.”

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D7V1 3/69

“In fact, experiencing at this level often brings forth one’s *atmadharma*—that is, one’s spiritual duty, unique destiny, or Divine fate.

“Jungians & other transpersonalists might call it the *Self*.”

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D7V1 3/70

“One experiences the pushes & pulls one was meant to experience in life, is directed in positive actions, & finds the entire Universe participating in one’s growth & actions, synchronistically.”

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D7V1 3/71

“This living is one that is immersed in the magical, the transpersonal, as a matter of course.”

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D7V1 3/72

“Now, in the primal process, these grids—pain, joy, & spiritual—could not be more distinct.

“For in a primal session, after accessing & releasing-integrating material rooted in one’s pain grids, one would often find joy grids rising up.”

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D7V1 3/73

“Put another way, one would begin a primal session looking at everything in a negative light that fit into overall negative matrices that one carried within oneself for most of one’s life.

“However, upon accessing deeper experiences,..”

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D7V1 3/74

“…prenatal ones, in which one experienced euphoric, blissful, or contented events, one would, almost magically, view those exact same seemingly negative elements in a different configuration, one which was positive & life affirming.”

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D7V1 3/75

“This positive viewpoint would, not coincidentally, conform to the pattern of the particular positive event that one had felt back to. If one was, during that particular period, accessing blissful womb experiences of harmony,..”

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D7V1 3/76

“…one would often see one’s life in its pattern of interrelations—with humans as well as one’s environment—in that light & be motivated to make changes to bring that harmony & peace more into one’s life.”

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D7V1 3/77

“One might move residency to one conducive to serenity; seek a supportive circle of friends; find a more fertile & euphoria-inducing fit for one’s occupation, employment, or projects;”

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D7V1 3/78

“or [one might bring that positive template into one’s life by] simply rearranging one’s room, apartment, or daily routine to better facilitate that feeling.”

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D7V1 3/79

“If one was experiencing euphoric blastocyst feelings of sublime & perfect cell multiplication & of being the initiator of the perfect beginnings of worlds—i.e., one’s own self—”

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D7V1 3/80

“—one might be motivated to be a channel of creative energy into the world & might find one’s joy in being an artist or writer.”

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D7V1 3/81

“Experiencing the euphoria of achievement of the sperm being the one chosen by the ovum might, without trying, flow into one’s life as a basis of supreme confidence upon which to build worthwhile achievements.”

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D7V1 3/82

“More on this topic later, especially in Veils Two & Six.

"However, the point is that this joy-grid configuration beyond the pain-grid viewpoint gives one hints of different, more positive & workable, strategies for living…”

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D7V1 3/83

“…& for arranging & following through on the details of one’s life which would trigger one again & again back into the blissful, harmonious, or euphoric feelings that truly were at the foundation of one’s self.”

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D7V1 3/84

“& this was quite a change from the usual pattern prior to that in which one—whether earlier in therapy or prior to therapy—unconsciously & unerringly brought to oneself negative scenarios emanating from later & more traumatic events,..”

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D7V1 3/85

“…which triggered one back into the same old Pain loops, endlessly. Poetically speaking, in going back further in one’s life, prior to the Pain, & delving deeper into one’s self, one was approaching the Divine.”

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D7V1 3/86

“One was realizing one’s truest, rooted in one’s Divinity, intentions for this life. Which is why I call this deepest of all personalities, the *Divine Self*.”

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D7V1 3/87

“Indeed, in one session of a couple hours, the switch in the way one viewed the world would be drastic...and wonderful. One could say that each experience of transformation was another death-rebirth.”

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D7V1 3/88

“For [primal sessions] always begin with the trepidation of going into the unknown, which is followed by surrendering to the process, & then being renewed, or given something positive & unexpected.”

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D7V1 3/89

“Essentially the primal process amounted to multitudes of death-rebirths, occurring sometimes several times a day & every day, & at other times, with weeks in between.”

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D7V1 3/90

“Yet each of those events of tapping into one’s positive matrices by re-experiencing positive pre-birth events was far more healing & growthful than merely accessing one’s pain grids & releasing the stored energy around them…”

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D7V1 3/91

“…while making the connections that one might use to make better choices in one’s life, as in traditional primal therapy as presented by Janov.”

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D7V1 3/92

“*Second Half of “The Cure”*

“For, in fact, what we found out was that when primal people released thr underlying Pain, re-experienced the events that had caused them, & made the connections as to how those events were determining one’s life;”

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D7V1 3/93

“still, virtually no one knew what better decisions could be made. Sure, these folks were free, but what to do with that freedom.”

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D7V1 3/94

“Wishing to make choices different from the counterproductive ones that had been driven by one’s Pain opened one to an entire world of possible choices.”

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D7V1 3/95

“I described how the process of making better choices was attempted by primal folks. This began, first, with trying to do the opposite of what one’s early experience had led one to do, naturally.”

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D7V1 3/96

“If what one did was seen to be an act-out, well, like any “bad habit,” it was deemed a good thing to replace it with its opposite or to simply not do it.”

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D7V1 3/97

“However, that tactic would be only another extreme act-out which then itself, in a reverse fashion, triggered one back into the same painful event.”

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D7V1 3/98

“Think of that as being analogous to the alcoholic constantly struggling between the poles of drinking & trying not to, with either choice keeping one focused on & immersed in that feverish dynamic.”

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D7V1 3/99

“Or the result of that maneuver of reacting to the earlier counterproductive pattern of action would have one do nothing. No change in one’s life. No joy or direction, either.”

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D7V1 3/100

“In either case, [primal] folks often felt like they were a “boat without oars”—as one person phrased it to me—or directionless. Many wondered, “Well, now what do I do?””

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D7V1 3/101

“Removing the “devil one knows” from consideration did not automatically conjure the “angel” that could guide one. Not at first & actually not for a long time.”

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D7V1 3/102

“So one was left in a tricky situation. For one familiar with the hero’s cycle as put forth by Joseph Campbell...we’ll get into that in great detail in coming chapters...where there is a cycle of retreat from society & its reality;”

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D7V1 3/103

“then a liminal state of inner journey to discover a newer self for going forward; then return to society in a way to bring one’s new self & what one learned back to it—well, primal folks were often left in that liminal state.”

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D7V1 3/104

“Having cleared their old selves from consideration, they lacked the spiritual or transpersonal insight or vision around which to build a newer better person.”

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D7V1 3/105

“This might also have been due to the fact that Janov’s prescribed route of primal therapy eliminated, even ridiculed, transpersonal or spiritual experience.”

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D7V1 3/106

“As I was saying above, it required my reconceptualization of Janov’s theory, as presented in my writing, for some to have the Primal framework that acknowledged their transpersonal experiences & supported them in going forward into them.”

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D7V1 3/107

“What some of us, outside of Janov’s institute, discovered was that it was only when one accessed deeper experiences that were positive...and it did require one to continue the process *until* those more positive experiences were accessed...”

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D7V1 3/108

“…that one could have a basis for building a better life & making better decisions. Thus, this phase of the primal process amounted to “the second part of The Cure,” as I termed it.”

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D7V1 3/109

“Keep in mind how this relates to the Veils. For as we peel away the overlying layers of obfuscation of truth, as we undo the blocking of Reality that the reducing-valve of the brain brings about,..”

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D7V1 3/110

“…it is the early templates that provide better foundations for the choices one makes & the patterns of lifeway & life experience one can create.”

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D7V1 3/111

“At any rate, along with these grids I proposed a revision to the primal therapy as advanced by Janov. Arthur Janov’s program involved only the experiencing of painful events from one’s past—the *pain grids*.”

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D7V1 3/112

“Mine, however, included discovering & re-experiencing aspects of one’s life that were blissful & happy & workable—the *joy grids*.”

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D7V1 3/113

“These were patterns & personal protocols, prev unimagined, which—once accessed & reclaimed—could be brought forward as workable alternatives to the client’s prev self-destructive & maladaptive strategies emanating out of the *pain grids*.”

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D7V1 3/114

“As I like to quote, “The best way to combat evil is to make energetic progress in the good.” That advice from the *I Ching*, valuable enough in itself, can be applied to the primal process.”

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D7V1 3/115

“As long as one was caught in the dynamic of old personality patterns—doing or not doing them,seen now as counterproductive, self-sabotaging or self-destructive,as anti-life, thr4 “evil” as in the opposite of *live*—one made little progress.””

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D7V1 3/116

“Yet when a template for what is truly “good” becomes available—is seen, understood, & is committed to … in identification & “energetic progress” of it—one truly is lifted out of or past the old dynamic.”

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D7V1 3/117

“Eventually the unhelpful patterns fade into insignificance for lack of interest in them. In the example of the alcoholic, this would be the phase wherein the new sober life—with its new patterns of social interaction,..”

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D7V1 3/118

“…new routines of sober activity, & new passions & directions—is arrived at & implemented in one’s life, leaving little interest in retreating into drugs anymore.”

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D7V1 3/119

“The major difference between the Primal evolution I am describing & that kind of development in a 12-step program is that through the primal process one can access one’s truest, one’s deepest & strongest, guidance & passions as to what…”

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D7V1 3/120

“…that new life will be like. Being our deepest & most desired self, when realized, it is much easier to adhere to its patterns. It is, indeed, the source of all the positive passions a person can manifest in one’s life.”

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D7V1 3/121

“Janov would not know of this even truer self—deeper even than the real self, it being the Divine Self—or these deeper patterns of personal being for his paradigm did not include the possibility of these experiences;”

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D7V1 3/122

“& his framework did not allow for the deep experiences required or the time needed to access them. For one thing, to access these kinds of experiences one typically had to continue the primal process…”

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D7V1 3/123

“…past the integration of childhood & birth traumas & to begin opening up to experiences that occurred before one’s birth & to the relatively contented state of early womb experience.”

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D7V1 3/124

“One might need to re-member one’s euphoric blastocyst experience even further back, & sometimes, even, need to tap in to events & experiences before sperm experience,..”

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D7V1 3/125

“…sometimes to connect with egg (ovum) experiences going all the way back to when one was a cell within the ovarian sac within one’s mother, in order to access these truly transformative reorientations to one’s world.”

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D7V1 3/126

“Furthermore, beyond these joy grids I postulated *spiritual grids*, which were spiritual & philosophical ways of living & perceiving reality & looking at the world, beyond the joy grids in both quality of beneficence & scope & in thr access.”

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D7V1 3/127

“What I discovered was that living the joy grids led to earlier primal experiences at the cellular level—specifically, sperm, egg, zygote, & blastocyst—which had characteristically spiritual components…”

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D7V1 3/128

“…& that [these earlier primal experiences at the cellular level] coincided with life experience naturally arising which brought those spiritual perspectives into practice & use & expanded & deepened them.”

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D7V1 3/129

“*Unconditional Regard & the Primal Process*

“As for how one accessed these deeper levels of the primal process, I discovered that a radical unconditional acceptance...”

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D7V1 3/130

“…an unconditional regard bordering upon, if not actually, love...beyond even that advanced by Janov, was crucial in facilitating them. & I proposed to other therapists that this be employed.”

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D7V1 3/131

“Certainly, Janov employed a radical “client-centered” therapy, using the words of Carl Rogers.”

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D7V1 3/132

“Primal states simply cannot be accessed without a radical acceptance by the therapist of all possible feelings & feelings-states that can arise in the client.”

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D7V1 3/133

“The facilitator had to be more than just “okay” with the emergence of this widely varied material. That acceptance had to be authentically embodied in the facilitator.”

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D7V1 3/134

“Still, Janov retained a small bit of an authoritarian model in that his version of therapy used “busts”—interpretations inserted by the therapist that are meant to stimulate the therapeutic process & possibly precipitate breakthroughs.”

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D7V1 3/135

“Often useful, they come with a caveat: For the therapist must always be correct in such interpretations. Wrong input into the therapeutic process can do significant damage to the healing-growth of the primal process.”

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D7V1 3/136

“For busts involve bringing in an authoritarian tone with all the baggage that carries from childhood & the usual experiences one has of know-it-all, judgmental, order-issuing parents.”

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D7V1 3/137

“Sure, a misapplied “bust” could lead to more processing & clearing of painful issues, down the line. All experience is helpful to that end.”

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D7V1 3/138

“Yet—with issues now projected onto the therapist & the lack of confidence in & disrespect of the facilitator accompanying that—who to lead the client to & through that?”

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D7V1 3/139

“The primary job of the therapist is to be authentic & real & to model that to clients who have no clue as to what that is like or even looks like.”

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D7V1 3/140

“This sometimes, though infrequently, involves the therapist deciding correctly what confrontation is therapeutic & necessary...so as not to participate in enabling the client, for one thing.”

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D7V1 3/141

“Truth is first & foremost a characteristic of authenticity, & the therapist must provide clear & honest “reflecting back,” although as deftly kind & regardful as possible.”

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D7V1 3/142

“However, who leads one “around” a counselor who is him- or herself in the dark & acting out, even if only subtly? It stymies the process. Dead stop. Swirling.”

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D7V1 3/143

“Furthermore, such direction by the therapist-facilitator can lead the client away from where they need to & are able to go—possibly into areas that fit more with the therapists’ paradigm,..”

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D7V1 3/144

“…that fit more with the facilitator’s preconceptions of what is possible & how the client’s process is “meant” to unfold, & not where the client needed or could go.”

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D7V1 3/145

“This would not be helpful at all in allowing a therapeutic endeavor that could discover anything new, anything beyond what had been conceived beforehand by Janov.”

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D7V1 3/146

“As mentioned above, this would lead clients away from the interpretation of valid spiritual states or the joy grids. They would not happen with Janov’s clients because they would not be thought to be able to happen.”

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D7V1 3/147

“*The Tao of Therapy*

“What I saw that allowed access to these deeper states—access to the joy & spiritual grids—was more along the lines of what was proposed by Janov’s one-time head of training, Jules Roth,..”

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D7V1 3/148

“…& his wife & co-therapist, Helen Roth, & their followers & trainees at the Certified Primal Therapists’ Center in Denver, Colorado.

“This is where I experienced the bulk of my Primal work & training.”

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D7V1 3/149

“& there, instead of directing ourselves to an elusive primal “moment” with the aid of the therapist, we were allowed to simply “be” more fully where we were already “at.” In doing so we found that feeling states deepened.”

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D7V1 3/150

“As was said at the Center, “a feeling, is a feeling, is a feeling.””

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D7V1 3/151

“Meaning that whatever the client was feeling *was* the correct process, there was no “big primal” to get to, & that the present state, in every Now, was the correct one & was where one needed to be.”

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D7V1 3/152

“We understood that all feelings were equally important & that, as for that dramatic big “primal”—imagined as necessary out of a common misinterpretation of Janov’s wording in his first book—”

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D7V1 3/153

“—what happened is that when one allowed whatever was going on to happen, those experiences deepened in intensity, in meaning, in insight & connections made, & in healing power.”

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D7V1 3/154

“So those deepest, most intense experiences were *primals*, but all of it was “feeling one’s feelings.” & *that*—feeling whatever feelings came up—was the crucial & important thing.”

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D7V1 3/155

“This *tao of therapy* (my term, not Denver’s) was expressed in Denver as, “the best way to get to where you are going is to be most fully exactly where you are.””

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D7V1 3/156

“Alongside this radical acceptance & honoring of the “Now,” was a radical acceptance & empathy, from the facilitator, of *whatever* came up in the client in the course of a session & in whatever form.”

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D7V1 3/157

“Certainly we directed clients to go “deeper,”with whatever was going on, but we did not “bust”—thus we retained a certain degree of humility regarding our supposed therapeutic powers & wisdom, in that respect—”

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D7V1 3/158

“—& we required of ourselves to have gone far & deep in our own process so we would not, even unconsciously,seek to direct or derail or channel any feelings of the client’s onto routes more intellectually or more emotionally satisfying to us.”

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D7V1 3/159

“If you think about this kind of radical unconditional regard & you compare it with some of the techniques used on spiritual paths...some of which might involve a truly all-accepting & profoundly loving guru...”

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D7V1 3/160

“…and you bring to mind the kind of euphoric, all-encompassing acceptance & contentment many of us have experienced in our early womb states—what Grof calls BPM I experience—"

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D7V1 3/161

“—you might see why our way in Denver might be more conducive than Janov’s in making possible access to earlier states.”

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D7V1 3/162

“With those states related, specifically, to joy & to spiritual grids, you can understand how a different & more positive type of “post-primal” person, from that described as resulting from Janov’s method alone, could be brought forth.”

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D7V1 3/163

“*Constructing the Matrix—the Four Stages of Forgetting*

“Following upon these discoveries I realized that there were definite stages in the buildup of these grids & they corresponded to significant events in one’s life:”

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D7V1 3/164

“The events are conception, birth, the primal scene, & the Identity stage of life. I called these the *four falls from grace*.”

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D7V1 3/165

“Each event represented a diminution of Self or authentic beingness & a retreat from an innate spirituality & patterns of bliss & expanded perception, which characterizes us all at our beginnings & can actually be called *Divine*.”

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D7V1 3/166

“Without being aware of the theories of Mott, Shoham, or Wasdell, & based only on personal experience of deep Primal states & observing & facilitating others in these states,..”

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D7V1 3/167

‘…along with relevant real life experience of my self & others & pertinent, salient research, I realized that life was a process of reduction of awareness from an original omniscient, omnipresent, & omnipotent state—”

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D7V1 3/168

“—a Divinity, a Divine state, a Godhead, a Source—which sets up the process of Ego construction & human experience.”

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D7V1 3/169

“However, this process of *forgetting*, as I called it—this “descent” through the four falls from grace, which creates a person’s ego—is essentially a neurotic one.”

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D7V1 3/170

“It is neurotic, bc it is essentially maladaptive & self-destructive & creates an *unreal self* (using Janov’s term) which is inauthentic & which ultimately desires its own revolution or destruction in a spiritual process of re-membering…”

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D7V1 3/171

“…& which inevitably, whether in one lifetime or many, brings that about. It is *neurotic* also in that it is a derailment of one’s healthy unfolding of personality & a deflection of that natural process onto substitute pathways.”

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D7V1 3/172

“Which alternate pathways are, for the person, ever more inauthentic, increasingly more self-sabotaging, & pathetically more trivial, at each stage of descent from “grace.””

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D7V1 3/173

“As I put it, the end result of the neurotic process of diminishment of consciousness thru the 4 falls from grace which creates the Ego & is responsible for the much talked about “ego strength” proposed by Ego psychologists...”

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D7V1 3/174

“…the end result of all this was an insensitive sort—the *kitty-drowners* & *butterfly-mashers* of the world. I feel pretty sure I do not need to define that sort of personality for you.”

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D7V1 3/175

“Thus, the purpose of life was to experience what one would as ego—as seemingly imperfect, muddled, & often out & out seemingly wrong, as that necessarily would be—in order to, by pain & unhappiness, be prodded into a path of return,..”

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D7V1 3/176

“…[the purpose of life was to experience what one would as ego in order to, by pain & unhappiness, be prodded into a path of return,] spiritual return, primal spiritual return, back to Divinity, wholeness, & Grace.”

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D7V1 3/177

"You’re born, you become less, you create an ego, separate from the All, you have experiences.

"These experiences enrich you, though they seem to be mistakes at the time.

"You seek your own destruction through them, as well,.."

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D7V1 3/178

["These experiences enrich you, though they seem to be mistakes at the time.

["You seek your own destruction through them, as well,]

"so that in this lifetime or many, you return to the All."

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D7V1 3/179

“*An Experiential Metaphysical—*Experience Is Divinity* & *Funny God*

“Subsequent to these discoveries & their eventual postulations as theories, frameworks for understanding, & paradigms, came a further elaboration…”

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D7V1 3/180

“…[elaboration ] that involved a description of Reality as essentially *Experience*, with matter being metaphor for true existence—which was coincident w the findings of quantum physics & Idealistic & panentheistic perspectives of all times.”

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D7V1 3/181

“This I did in *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor* (2013). In it, I addressed the metaphysical basis of reality.”

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D7V1 3/182

“As I put it, the data from consciousness research calls for an *existential metaphysical*, one that takes as the basic unit of Reality to be one’s immediate *Experience* in any moment, with all its components of experience—”

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“—cognitive, emotional, sensations, feelings, & experiences even subtler, for which there might as yet be no words.”

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“I also put forth an understanding of spiritual or metaphysical reality & the corresponding life program & goals that come from it in *Funny God: The Tao of Funny God & the Mind’s True Liberation* (2015).”

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“Additionally, I introduced the notion of the *No-Form State*—as being the state outside of all falls from grace, both prior to Form...that is, before the creation of sperm & egg...and *after* Form, which is to say, after death.”

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“Based on empirical data of several kinds, I speculated that such a state was an “alive” state, & it was one into which we transitioned after death & is where we exist prior to being reborn.”

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“*The Wombular & Cellular Veils of Perception*

“And now what is at hand, though I have been sharing these ideas widely for decades in both professional & nonprofessional circles,..”

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“…[now what is at hand] is an understanding of the bases of our understandings of reality as formed by our early experiences, most importantly those in the womb & as cells.”

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“This points to a provocative inquiry into the nature of Reality beyond the confines of physical life, beyond the templates laid down in us of early, prenatal, & cellular human experience...beyond the “seven Veils.””

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“In *Dance of the Seven Veils*, this work laid out in three books, I describe how our personalities, & especially our basic mythologies, theologies, & beliefs, are laid down in us through our earliest experiences—”

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“—adolescence, infancy, birth, the womb, & cellular existence, with each stage of development incorporating & reframing the conceptualizations previous.”

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“In the next book in this Path of Ecstasy Series, *Womb with a View*, I will expand on the very important topic, introduced in this work, of womb experiences, which create our world of seemingly irrefutable beliefs,..”

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“…[womb experiences,] which therefore guide everything we do. Its explication begins, however, in this project in Veil Six.”

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“Then, in *Cells with a View*, which is the book to follow that in the Series, I will detail how our basic metaphysical assumptions about Reality, especially in its physical aspect, e.g., duality, space & time, being & becoming, & so on,..”

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“…are imprinted upon us through our cellular experiences in coming into the world. It also is introduced in this work of *Dance of the Seven Veils* under the part, “Veil Seven.””

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“In looking at these matrices embedded in us, especially thru our cellular & womb & birth experiences, it will be possible to have our best chance to get a look at existence outside of these matrices—the No-Form State.”

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“Just as in the primal process, where each connection allows us the freedom to look at the world differently, & *not*, for a change, to have to see it through the lenses of our primal pains;”

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“so also I hope to show you how the most profound understandings of Reality can come out of removing *all* matrices of prenatal & perinatal life. What is left is What Really Is.”

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“*The Prenatal Roots of Evil & the New Person*

“In *Wounded Deer & Centaurs* (2016), I focused specifically on two areas—the roots of evil in the late prenatal experiences of humans & the “necessary hero.””

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“I explained how our imprints from our time of prenatal hell during the third trimester have manifested in the evils of all human times and, most importantly, are bringing about a life-eliminating apocalypse in our lifetimes.”

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“I defined the *necessary hero* as the person required, in our current time of impending apocalypse.”

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“I focused on these prenatal influences—especially the imprint of the time in the late stages of pregnancy—on consciousness, society, historical events,& the evil & atrocities of humans.”

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“I made the point that a deeper & more positive human nature exists in all of us prior to that & was crucial to be manifest on a massive scale for the very survival, not just of the human race, but of all life on Earth.”

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“Alongside this I stressed the requirement—emanating from this conjunction of an impending apocalypse & the discovery of a more positive, more cooperative, wiser, & more environmentally protective human nature—”

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“—[I stressed the requirement ] that people re-discover that more primal human nature. This nature is akin to the *real self* of Janov & the *true self* of Winnicott & is the one emanating from our joy grids & spiritual grids.”

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“For, as I am pointing out, if we do not regain our truer & underlying humanity, & instead, coming forth as we normally do, we continue acting out of our pain grids, we are not going to have a “human” experience,.."

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“…or even an Earthly life experience, to be detailing & exploring, in the future, let alone people to hear about them.”

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“In another current work, *Falls from Grace* (2014), & in upcoming ones, I zero in on the influences of the first trimester & sperm/egg & cellular events, on womb events, & on late gestation events in more detail.”

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“In particular, those works forthcoming include *Cells with a View*, *Womb with a View*, & *The Prenatal Matrix of Human Evil*, all forthcoming, as of this date.”

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“Though prenatal influences, especially those of the third trimester, are dealt with in considerable detail in my book, *Wounded Deer & Centaurs*; now, in these books, *Dance of the Seven Veils*,..”

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“…I deal with the influences, in particular, that exist in our views of Reality, which come from a more expanded developmental time—adolescence to cellular experience, conception to the Identity stage of life.”

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“In this Prologue, we are getting an overview of the territory across which we will journey throughout the rest of these books.”

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“To that end, next, here are some things not generally known about our *perinatal experience*...the events we experience at & surrounding the time of our births."

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This has been the entire Chapter 3,

“The Farther Reaches of Human Experience:

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

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:

Paperback: amazon.com/Dance-Seven-Ve…

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&

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

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Up next,

in “Dance of the Seven Veils I”

by Michael Adzema, is

Chapter 4, titled,

“The Primal Matrix of Mind:

“We Are What We’ve Experienced—Our Birth, Gestation, & Conception Create Our Windows to the World”

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