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Chapter 4, titled,

“The Primal Matrix of Mind:

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

of “Dance of the Seven Veils I”

by Michael Adzema

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D7V1 4/1

“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 4/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…our conception, gestation, & birth… can be seen to form our underlying myths...but much more than that.” []

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D7V1 4/3

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

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D7V1 4/4

[*Chapter 4 text begins:*] “Carl Jung, decades ago, in many thoroughly encompassing works, expressed concepts similar to mine regarding biocultural patterns undergirding reality.”

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D7V1 4/5

“[Jung] saw them as archetypes & cumulatively they comprised our collective unconscious.”

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D7V1 4/6

“Among other things, this collective unconscious was a pattern, common to all humans, underlying & configuring all our thoughts, beliefs, & perspectives on reality. So it is species-specific.”

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D7V1 4/7

“According to Jung, the collective unconscious with its archetypal forms shaping how we think comprises the hereditary remnants of & is the human equivalent of what is called *instinct* in animals.”

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D7V1 4/8

*Our Prenatal & Perinatal Matrix*

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

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D7V1 4/9

“For I believe we biologically determine our view of reality, as a species,

-in the biological structures that comprise us & orient us in a world of *space*;”

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D7V1 4/10

-in the biochemical processes that constitute our changingness & situate us in a world of *time*;

-and, most saliently, in the individual biological *history* that is universal for us & unique to us as a species.”

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D7V1 4/11

“What I am saying is that our biological *structures, processes, & history*—history meaning our past experience as individuals—create the worlds of *space, time, & memory* within which we move & have our existence.“

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D7V1 4/12

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

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D7V1 4/13

“I also mean much more than that our past experiences affect us in ways of which we are unaware, that is to say unconsciously...that we are affected by repressed or forgotten memories. No, I mean to go much farther & deeper than that.”

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D7V1 4/14

“I am saying that our conception, gestation, & birth—in general, our earliest experiences as a biological organism—can be seen to form our underlying myths...but much more than that.”

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D7V1 4/15

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

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D7V1 4/16

“[our conception, gestation, & birth] are the roots of our archetypes & all our mythology.”

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D7V1 4/17

“Another way of saying this is that our archetypes & mythologies symbolically express the early biohistorical events of our lives, especially those occurring at conception, during our womb life, & at our births.”

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D7V1 4/18

“*Vanity of Rational Supremacy*

“How is this idea—that we have biological parameters of structure, process, & events experienced (one’s personal history)—different fr what you already know & why is it important or helpful to know it this way?”

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D7V1 4/19

“Well, we, with our species arrogance, believe we have a mind, intellect, ability to reason & be logical, *which is separate* from all influences...which is somehow detached or transcendent from Reality & Experience.”

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D7V1 4/20

“Sure, we admit this [reasoning] faculty is imperfect. Yet we also believe that we can get it more correct using the methods of science. We believe that its incorrectness lies in faulty logic or faulty data. Both of which are correctible.”

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D7V1 4/21

“Going along with these vanities, we concoct gods with the same characteristics.”

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D7V1 4/22

“Like our supposed reason, the Judeo-Christian-Muslim god is one who is separate from all creation, not immersed in it, & is a kind of grand manager of all events...even as we imagine our intellects & reasoning ability to be.”

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D7V1 4/23

“Hence, we create a god in *our* image, not the reverse as we say in our Western theologies.

“Incidentally, this is not the kind of god we created during the majority of human experience when we were primal humans.”

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D7V1 4/24

“So this egocentric, ratio-centric, if you will, perspective, this ego-aggrandizement is the product of civilized & patriarchal cultures, occurring as our burgeoning controlling fetish came into full bloom.”

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D7V1 4/25

“Indeed, the Age of Reason during our Western European history, which set off the modern version of civilization, was the penultimate of this vanity of the power of our reason & will.”

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D7V1 4/26

“That particular view of ourselves reigned supreme until Freud came along during the first half of the Twentieth Century & dispelled that hubris.”

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D7V1 4/27

“[Freud] let us know we did things very often out of unconscious pushes & pulls that we only after the fact rationalized as being products of our will & reason.”

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D7V1 4/28

“Further expansion of our knowledge in psychology & consciousness research pertaining to our motivations have provided ever stronger affronts to our vanities of reason & will.”

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D7V1 4/29

“It follows—& this is something that our science refuses to see—that these early experiences involving our biological events...which are separate & distinct from the early experiences of all other species or types of beings…”

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D7V1 4/30

“…& which shaped all our thoughts afterward...will *determine* how we interpret our findings & conclusions, even in science.”

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D7V1 4/31

“Science clearly does not have a clue about the unconscious forces directing its inquiries & fashioning its findings.”

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D7V1 4/32

“*Arrogance, Reason, & Human Wrong-Gettedness*

“Yet some very few have seen & understood that flaw & so insisted on inner exploration as a concomitant to cultural research.”

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D7V1 4/33

“That this self-inquiry & self-awareness is required for good scholarship is evident in that the field of anthropology, even early on, asserted that researchers needed to do their own therapy, uncover their own biases,..”

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D7V1 4/34

“…before [anthropologists] could hope to interpret other cultures. The idea was that one needed to take back one’s personal unconscious projections to understand another culture.”

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D7V1 4/35

“Which, by the way, is a shallower version of the message of this work that one must pull back all the Veils of projected early experience so as to better approach any overstanding of any larger Reality.”

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D7V1 4/36

“These early anthropologists—Ruth Benedict (1934), for example—were aware how their own cultures & personal histories influenced what they saw in others...in their case, in other cultures.”

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D7V1 4/37

“While they said self-inquiry should be done, it is not done now, if it ever really was. Lacking this self-awareness everything scientists come up with is riddled through with unconscious pain & the seemingly archetypal creations come of them.”

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D7V1 4/38

“Like any other paradigm, these earliest of our experiences will direct & constrain us even in terms of where we will look to explore.”

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D7V1 4/39

“They force us to interpret the data we find into constructions of assumptions which skew & often reverse the interpretations that *should* arise from them.”

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D7V1 4/40

“Yes, that should *logically* arrive from them. Elsewhere I have called this our basic *wrong-gettedness*.”

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D7V1 4/41

“Indeed, from the paradigm I am unveiling in which everything we know & feel flows out of what we once felt & experienced, our reason is discovered to be no more than just a product of them, & not separate, & inherently faulty.”

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D7V1 4/42

“This perspective reveals our vaunted logic & intellect to be riddled through with a species-arrogance—for reasons I detail in those other works—which often overturns our being able to see what would be obvious to any other species..."

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D7V1 4/43

"...[our vaunted logic & intellect to be riddled through with a species-arrogance which often *overturns* our being able to see what would be obvious to any other species] observing the same thing.”

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D7V1 4/44

“Therefore, past experience determines the memory out of which we build our logic & reason. We have no detached reason. We only have a species-arrogance that we do. Which itself emanates from, is determined by, such early experience.”

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D7V1 4/45

“*Biology Bridging Cultures*

“In any case, keep in mind, in asserting all this, that I am having less of a problem crossing cultural & other boundaries than cognitive psychologists or cultural anthropologists.”

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D7V1 4/46

“[cognitive psychologists and cultural anthropologists] are academics who in particular criticized Freud for journeying down this road before me.”

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D7V1 4/47

“They were correct. For Freud’s theories were embedded firmly within the cognitive array put up by a particular culture, his Western European & urban one, which limited his theories & understandings.”

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D7V1 4/48

“Jung went further, in finding species-wide symbols & archetypes, which were related to universal human experiences. Hence, Jung sought to go outside of culture as well as beyond mere concepts.”

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D7V1 4/49

“However, when we get to Arthur Janov, whose findings are rooted in raw experience, emanating from the body & from species-universal facts, we get into theory which can begin to be universally true for humans.”

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D7V1 4/50

“In that tradition of Janov, but taking it further, is where I operate. What I am asserting is rooted in universal human experiences—not just experiences of primal pain, but any & all universal human experience.”

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D7V1 4/51

“Hence, I am not like they—cultural anthropologists & cognitive psychologists—who, being academics & intellectuals, get all bogged down in the fact that *concepts* vary from one entity...from one person or culture...to another.”

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D7V1 4/52

“This is because I am operating not out of shared concepts but common *experiences*, out of which those concepts arise.”

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D7V1 4/53

“I might not know *exactly* what a person from India means when she says *dukkha*, which is a Sanskrit term & which I can translate into English as meaning *suffering*.”

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D7V1 4/54

“For the person in India, that word might have connotations that I would not get. Yet someone else in that same culture, India, might have a similar problem in not fully understanding exactly what the first person meant by it.”

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D7V1 4/55

“The point is that I know the experience of suffering, & that is common between us.”

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D7V1 4/56

“If additionally, I see that person after her loved one has died & she is visibly distraught—which is something I know & comprehend because I act similarly at times & I know how that *feels*—& she says to me “Life is dukkha,””

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D7V1 4/57

“…[& she says to me “Life is dukkha,”] I believe I might know what she is expressing by that on a deep level that compares with & might perhaps even exceed the understandings of that by someone else in her culture.”

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D7V1 4/58

“This would be true, especially, if that other person has not had such tragedy or similar experiences in their lives.”

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D7V1 4/59

“You see, I know what the word *denotes*—what it means, not relative to other concepts & in a context of the abstract, which would be *connotation*, but relative to *experience*...experience which is shared between humans.”

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D7V1 4/60

“The word for me is connected to an experiential reality which I have had. It is not just a mere concept connecting other concepts in my mind.”

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D7V1 4/61

“That goes for my experience of an emotion or other biological experience, but it can be expanded to mean the experience of the physical world that we share.”

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D7V1 4/62

“So when you point to a chicken’s egg & say *huevos*, I can understand you because I have, in my experience of the world, also the experience of *eggs*.”

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D7V1 4/63

“When you say *rojo* & you indicate an item that is the color *red*, I also share an understanding with you.

“The same kind of understandings about common biological experiences occur across cultures as well.”

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D7V1 4/64

“Having experienced birth, child-“rearing,” pain, death & loss of loved ones, joy of achievement, pleasure of sexuality, friendship, separation & love, & so on, I have a common ground with another human...with *any* other human.”

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D7V1 4/65

“For we have all, more or less, experienced these things. It is on the basis of experience, held in common by all humans, that I build my theories.”

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D7V1 4/66

“Those are the closest to any brute facts which might exist in our human reality. They are *biologically constituted realities* for humans, mixing with culture to create our *bioculturally constituted facts*.”

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D7V1 4/67

“*Our Biohistorical Experiences Determine Our World*

“Elsewhere I have detailed how our universal but species-specific patterns of biological experience at conception, & throughout gestation, & at birth...”

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D7V1 4/68

“…and continuing from there but with immensely reduced or nonexistent universality...conditions & shapes all later experience.”

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D7V1 4/69

“*The Past Affects the Present*

“First, though, do not forget that you already know, & you have no doubt about it, that experiences you have had in the past contribute to what you know, think, & the way you see things in the present.”

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D7V1 4/70

“I am not presenting anything strange by looking further back in time to our earliest experiences in Form & unraveling for you how”

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D7V1 4/71

“…what you learned in your experience at that time has influenced everything you knew & thought, & the way you saw everything, afterward.”

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D7V1 4/72

“You do not remember these experiences, & you think you know & see what you know & see within the context of your memory of what you are consciously aware of.”

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D7V1 4/73

“You see your mind as a kind of library of memory from which you choose items to bring to bear in making your decisions. You do not know that there is no “you” separate from those items, nor that that library contains information…”

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D7V1 4/74

“…[information] that is way outside of a person’s ability to access, normally, & that you make your decisions as predictably from earlier experience—both conscious & unconscious—as does a flower in emerging from its stalk.”

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D7V1 4/75

“Freud dispelled the delusion of a separate, “objective,” & unaffected entity of reason, a transcendent Ego, a long time ago.”

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D7V1 4/76

“[Freud] showed us, in ways that are obvious to us now, how what we experienced early in our lives taught us things that influenced us ever afterward, *in spite of the fact* we do not remember them.”

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D7V1 4/77

“[Feud] showed how we are *unconsciously* influenced by such forgotten experiences.”

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D7V1 4/78

“*Our Earliest Events Predispose the Nature of Our Mind*

“So, when I take this back even further, showing how even earlier experiences than Freud acknowledged have even greater influence on us, for they occurred earlier…”

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D7V1 4/79

“…& all later “Freudian” events were seen through the “knowledge” or template established already by *them*, I am not doing anything unusual & am operating in such a strong tradition of psychology as well as what we commonly know to be true:”

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D7V1 4/80

“Which is that past experience & learning plays greatly into, if not outright determines, what we will see & how we will interpret the present.”

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D7V1 4/81

“The only reason this has not been explored this way before is that it was thought that such early experiences as I describe—conception, womb, birth, early infancy, the prenatal & perinatal, events—could not be remembered…”

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D7V1 4/82

“…or “recorded” by us in a way to influence what comes afterward. It would seem that Freud would have done what I am now doing if our sciences had not already precluded such a possibility for his theoretical base.”

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D7V1 4/83

“Even with that, I mentioned in Chapter 2 how theorists, notably Otto Rank, did this extrapolation of psychoanalytic theory that I am now taking up.”

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D7V1 4/84

“Which attempt of mine comes with the addition that I am not just surmising or deducing these possibilities, I have experienced them. I have been there. I have made the connections. I have tread the road I am here laying out.”

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D7V1 4/85

“So Freud’s thinking that no learning or consciousness was related to the time at or before birth was a mistaken notion. It is widely known to have been wrong, at this point.”

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D7V1 4/86

“For a long time, there was misinformation about myelin sheaths being necessary for memory to occur, by now long debunked.”

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D7V1 4/87

“Furthermore, there was an assumption that memory & knowledge needed a substrate of physicality, that is, a brain, in order for events to be“recorded” or remembered. My field of prenatal & perinatal psychology has upended that notion, as well.”

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D7V1 4/88

“I say a lot about what we now know in science in this regard in many of my books in which I focus on what we have learned in the field of prenatal & perinatal psychology. But this book is not the one to do that. See my others for that.”

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D7V1 4/89

“For here, though, & based on the knowledge that early experiences even at the cellular level of sperm & ova are remembered, we have had revealed to us some astonishing discoveries about fundamental constructions of reality…”

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D7V1 4/90

"we have had revealed to us some astonishing discoveries about fundamental constructions of reality that have thr roots that far back [cellular—sperm, ova]. Now, let us look at some of them. In this ch & the next several, we will do just that.”

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D7V1 4/91

“*The Perinatal Matrices*

“In the next chapter we will dive deeply into the details of the late-gestation prenatal influences on our times & in the creation of our distinctively human Shadow, using Jung’s term.”

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D7V1 4/92

“These, in Grof’s terminology, as mentioned in Chapter 2, would come under the events of his *BPM II*. In my framework they comprise the *prenatal matrices of human evil*, the *PMEs*. Which I introduced in Ch 3 & will expound upon, shortly.”

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D7V1 4/93

“However, first, we need to bring into view the pervasive overall perinatal gestalt, centered firmly on the events of the actual time of birth.”

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“For that we must have a better understanding of the *perinatal matrices* put forth by Stanislav Grof. This is what we look at now.”

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“*Unconscious Matrices = “Human Nature”*

“The elements I here describe are near universally accepted among perinatal psychologists as unconscious forces, factors, matrices that exist in us all as a result of a human birth that is unique,..”

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“…[matrices that exist in us all as a result of a human birth that is unique,] by comparison to *all* other species, in its degree of trauma & hence of its impact or imprint on what we might call our—dare I say the words—“human nature.””

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“These perinatal elements of the unconscious have been described most thoroughly be three figures in particular: Stanislav Grof, Arthur Janov, & Lloyd deMause.”

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“Arthur Janov brings a revolutionary & expansive look into the effects of the birth experience upon all later personality.”

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“Stanislav Grof & Lloyd deMause add to our understanding there; also they conceptualize a structure to these experiential events. In Grof’s terms, he brings forth *constellations of experience* arising out of our human birth trauma.”

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“There is much overlap between the models of Stanislav Grof & Lloyd deMause. There are, however, differences in emphasis between the two frameworks for understanding.”

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“Grof’s schema focuses on the stages & patterns of our early experiential events as they relate to psychological & archetypal elements.”

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“Whereas deMause relates these early templates to historical events & the macrocosmic movements of groups, nations, societies, & their leaders.”

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“Comparing them we see that Grof’s perinatal matrices coincide with the societal matrices of deMause. Understandable, that is, for the perinatal matrix creates the societal matrix as well as configures the events therein.”

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“We will go more deeply into both of these schema under Veils 4 & 5, dealt w in the next volume of this work. In introducing them here, however, we see that thr is more elaboration on the part of Grof. So let us use Grof’s schema as a basis.”

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“*The BPMs*

“Grof’s first matrix—which he calls *basic perinatal matrix I* or *BPM I*—concerns the events & the transpersonal & archetypal elements reflecting our experiences in the womb, prior to the onset of birth.”

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“[BPM 1] might be characterized as having all needs met...with luck. For this time is usually characterized by peace, belongingness, & even euphoria.”

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“Yet hellacious experiences can occur out of the feelings of the mother toward the fetus—if the baby is not wanted, for example—or because of what the mother ingests.”

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“The mother’s use of alcohol, other recreational drugs, pharmaceuticals of many kinds, excessive caffeine, & even environmental pollutants & food additives affect the mother’s psychological state—which is then conveyed to the fetus.”

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“However these noxious ingestions also very often cross the placental barrier. Compared to the way the mother experiences them, these substances are even more strongly felt by the prenate, who is more sensitive to such substances.”

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“This wombular, if you will, matrix [BPM I] is, strictly speaking, part of the *perinatal* matrices, as Grof denotes. For these early to middling womb events, too, comprise events “surrounding birth.””

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“Specifically, that is, those before birth, the prenatal events. However, I focus on the prenatal events—including that of fetal malnutrition, womb experience, & cellular experience—individually over the next four chapters.”

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“[these prenatal events—fetal malnutrition, womb experience, & cellular experience] constitute separate Veils of obfuscation in my theoretical model—Veils Five through Seven, actually.”

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“As for Grof’s *basic perinatal matrix II* (*BPM II*), it is characterized by no-exit despair, frustration, hopelessness, & pain.”

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“This is related, by Grof, to the time just before the onset of labor, before the cervix opens & allows the hope of escape into birth.”

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“I unveil this aspect of birth in the next chapter & then go into detail about it in the part, Veil Four, in the next book.”

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“In doing so, we see the reflection of virtually all human evils & atrocities. We look into the face of horror there, but in doing this we remove its power over us.”

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“*Basic perinatal matrix III* (*BPM III*), in Grof’s schema, has to do w the constellation of experiences related to the time of actual birth.”

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“These involve struggle, an all-encompassing fight having a life-or-death urgency to it, strong sexual arousal, & anger. This will be explored in the part, Veil Four, which also is covered in the volume following this one.”

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“*Basic perinatal matrix IV* (*BPM IV*) follows this. It is all about the experience of actual emergence at birth. Initial relief & joy upon accomplishing birth is paramount.”

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“However, often—especially in modern times with technologically driven methods, ignorance of the needs & consciousness of the neonate, & hurried medical personnel—it is followed by elements of horror.”

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“These include the pain of separation from the mother, insensitive “processing” by attendants, tight swaddling, isolation in maternity wards, lack of physical contact & comfort, an overwhelming onslaught of sensation upon entering the world..”

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“…& many other agonizing elements. The initial “Hallelujah!” upon release, thus, is often counteracted by the events immediately after birth, which put the kibosh on one’s happy feelings.”

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“This has a lifelong effect, for one thing, in terms of how one will feel ever after about achievement & change in general.”

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“Birth coincides, societally, with deMause’s period of the ending of a war. This matrix, as well, will have its time to shine in these volumes in the part regarding the Fourth Veil.”

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“*Heaven & Hell*

“In summary, we have

“ - euphoric, oceanic, blissful feelings, sometimes feelings of being poisoned or being in a toxic or polluted environment;”

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“ - followed by crushing, no-exit, depression, claustrophobia, compression, strangulation, & suffocation;

“ - followed by struggle, violence, war scenarios, birth/death fantasies, sexual excess;”

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“ - and finally release, triumph, feeling of renewal or rebirth & a new golden age, but also possibly of being abandoned, tortured, ritually sacrificed, probed medically, & assaulted by sensations.”

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“These are some of the elements which pertain to the experience of the perinatal unconscious.”

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This has been the entire Chapter 4,

“The Primal Matrix of Mind:

“We Are What We’ve Experienced—Our Birth, Gestation, & Conception Create Our Windows to the 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 the directions there & download a free copy of *Dance of the 7 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 &/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: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, and Your Real Self”

by Michael Adzema, is

Chapter 5, titled,

“The Prenatal Matrix of “Human Nature”:

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Chapter 5 is subtitled,

“Third Trimester Experience Configures Our “Evil”...the Roots of War, Bigotry, Pollution, & Our “Oliver Twist” Economies”

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