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This is a threaded version of Chapter 12:

“The Eleventh Descent—Sedentary Life...

"Sickness & Suffering:”

of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

by Michael Adzema.

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PH 12/1

Chapter 12 is subtitled,

“Eden Scorned—

“With Sedentary Living & Its Restricted Options for Sustenance, We Forego Perfect Assistance for Health of Body & Mind,

"Which Has Horrible Consequences”

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PH 12/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “Human Instinct, Comfort Feeding, & the Suffering Ape:

"Why would we “eat the apple”...

"that is, go it on our own with agriculture?

"Why would we defy Divine Providence in making our lots more painful or difficult?”

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PH 12/3

[Chapter 12 text begins:] *Diet & Disease*

“The second purpose of Divine Benevolence relates to its quality of being perfect guidance.”

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PH 12/4

“Divinity’s direction fosters our optimal physical & mental health...in ways we cannot approach using mere reason alone.”

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“*Defying Divine Assistance...Human “Sickness”

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PH 12/5

“Whereas, because of our birth pain & the crazed, backwards thinking resulting from it, we of all Nature insist on controlling our own diet, as well as destinies, in defiance of the Divine & refusing Di¬vine Assistance.”

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PH 12/6

“Regardless how much more difficult that makes life for us, we as humans do all in our power to avoid the Divine lessons brought to us through the adventures & exigencies of life—which we call hardships & suffering.”

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PH 12/7

“One of the purposes of Divine Assistance has to do with its quality of being beneficial in our lives; so resisting it invariably has unfortunate consequences.”

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PH 12/8

“The other purpose of Divine Providence, which serves all planetmates, has to do with its being perfect providence, in ways that no one can see ahead of time.”

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PH 12/9

“The Divine provides guidance in life, for physical as well as emotional-spiritual needs, far better than we could ascertain on our own.”

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PH 12/10

“In controlling our diet—reducing the bounty of Nature down to the meager few items that could be managed by ourselves—we not only over-rode our actual desires…”

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PH 12/11

“[In controlling our diet we not only over-rode our actual desires] for varied sustenance, thus putting pleasure in this aspect of life at a lower priority to more certainty in it, here as well.”

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PH 12/12

“Not only did we diminish the ability of our inner proclivities—Divine Assistance—to aid us in being fully alive, not just existing...in mind & soul, not just body. But we created new physical diseases for ourselves as well.”

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PH 12/13

“*The Wisdom of the Body*

“Furthermore, Divine Providence, not only directs & corrects us, so as to make better decisions, but assists us *in spite of ourselves*.”

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PH 12/14

“This is related to the idea of *instinct*, which exists in all planetmates, tho we are...the vast majority of humans are...woefully numb to its inner prompts at this point.”

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PH 12/15

“No one in Form is or can be aware of the All, so imperfection is inherent in all beings playing this game of physicality.”

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PH 12/16

“Yet in Nature one can *feel* the directions from the Divine, the All. The wisdom of Nature, & the All That Is beyond that, comes through in the wisdom of the body.”

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PH 12/17

“Not the wisdom of the body just in healing, but in everything we feel when we are connected with it, in tune with it, *feeling* it, experiencing life in & through it.”

“In planetmates other than humans, we call this *instinct*.”

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PH 12/18

“& as we discussed earlier, planetmates are so attuned with it they are able, not just to be perfect in Nature & to provide for themselves in Nature, but to be unbelievably miraculous in Nature.”

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PH 12/19

“[Planetmates] are able to perform incomprehensibly difficult, “miraculous,” actions, which appear to operate outside the laws of physics in ways or through means that science, as yet, has not a clue on...”

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PH 12/20

“…& unfortunately roundly ignores so as to protect the sanctity of scientists’ cherished beliefs, which they call their theories.”

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PH 12/21

“However, as early humans, in the very beginning, prior to & while being aquatic apes, & even for the long time afterward when we were gatherers, we were in tune with & guided by our instincts in all the practical matters of life,..”

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PH 12/22

“…as well as the spiritual. & in following these Divine directions, without knowing it ahead of time, we discovered they were perfect.”

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PH 12/23

“We found, unfailingly, that we were guided, in spite of ourselves, to our healthiest states of well-being & felicity of mind as well as our highest realizations & spiritual fulfillments.”

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PH 12/24

“We felt what was true in our bones & muscles, so to speak, just like planetmates, to this day, do. But our lives continually affirmed its rightness back to us.”

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PH 12/25

“With age & in time, we found that in the prods & pulls of the exigencies of events—in these frequent “course corrections” provided through the patterns of what we today mistakenly consider to be random & undesirable events—”

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PH 12/26

“—[we found that in the prods & pulls of the exigencies of events] we were navigated successfully, indeed magnificently, through the shoals & channels of life.”

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PH 12/27

“We discovered also that in following through on the pushes & pulls of our inner selves we were similarly set in perfect attunement with our lives & purposes & health.”

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PH 12/28

“*Eating the “Apple”*

“But in our ever widening separation from Divine Providence through increasing resistance to naturally provided food resources…”

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PH 12/29

“…& the establishment of human-created or manipulated food sources with the intent of pleasing the palate & ignorant of nutritional needs,..”

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PH 12/30

“…we not only forgo Divine Providence, as provided toward our spiritual evolution & our happiness in life, we defied The All’s Assistance regarding our health & well-being.”

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PH 12/31

“Rebellious as can be, we laid in our plans for providing for ourselves along the lines of greatest control & least variability of routine.”

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PH 12/32

“& within the parameters of the hugely diminished possibilities that came of that, we sought to satisfy an increasingly crazed & distorted appetite.”

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PH 12/33

“How & why that happened relates to this: In our crazed state of deprivational trauma, rooted in infancy, we developed cravings quite apart from what was actually good for us & which were very often self-destructive.”

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PH 12/34

“Our ego & control addictions thus bore fruit in myriad other addictions of palate & mind, which over-shouted & thus sounded out our subtler inner directives & instincts.”

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PH 12/35

“Indeed, though we sought control above everything else, in doing so we became more out of control. Defying Divine Guidance, we were at the mercy of raw appetites & perverted tastes—"

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PH 12/36

“[we were at the mercy of raw appetites & perverted tastes—] the end products of early deprivation & pain, as well as being the ways of fleeing in the present from the tense, fearful, & impatient state that would characterize us normally.”

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PH 12/37

“We would often choose foods that would please the palate & not necessarily nourish us.”

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PH 12/38

“*Human Instinct*

“Let me explain that in more detail: Previously we had a perfect alignment between what was desirable & pleasurable & what was most beneficial to our health.”

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PH 12/39

“We were, like planetmates, more “instinctual” in our choices. If we want to see how that could possibly be & what that was like, we need only look around us to our planetmate relatives.”

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PH 12/40

“There is hardly a house-planted citizen who is not aware that when their pet cat is sick, you might find it chewing on grass in a wise & natural remedial way. That is a trite, yet familiar, example.”

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PH 12/41

“However, a study of planetmates, of “animals,” reveals how their diets, along with their entire lives, are guided in ways similar to that...in ways we can only observe, not fully understand.”

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PH 12/42

“Still, that this guidance exists for planetmates—regardless what we call it so as to not have to notice its miraculous quality—is something we cannot doubt.”

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PH 12/43

“From that, we need to make the connection to us, keeping in mind that we once were *exactly like that* & so still have some of that in us.”

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PH 12/44

“Indeed, when you look at the evolution of this idea that humans have no instinct, *at all*, you notice it resonates perfectly with & emanates out of the same medieval place:”

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PH 12/45

“That is, the rabid fundamentalism of a Judeo-Christian, prescientific time awash in ideas of humans’ unique distinction on Earth superior to all other life forms & with dominion over all planetmates.”

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PH 12/46

“So, again, this idea that we have no instinct is just another way we, in another pathetic attempt, congratulate ourselves for our shortcomings & use mythical & phantom resources to buttress our bravado.”

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PH 12/47

“Whereas, in fact, instinct is in us, however repressed.”

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PH 12/48

“Studies have been done where human infants were allowed, over a period of time, to choose from a variety of foods & to thereby determine their own diet, with no parental, or adult, interference whatsoever.”

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PH 12/49

“Contrary to what one would assume—which is that [babies] would invariably choose sweets or something else more pleasing to the palate & nutritionless—they actually chose what would be considered, by dieticians, a complete & optimal diet.”

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PH 12/50

“We need to remember that our supposed separation from Nature was an incredibly long & gradual process, occurring over the course of millions & hundreds of thousands of years.”

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PH 12/51

“Although most abruptly since the “agrarian revolution” did we split away, still, the process was *gradual* of losing sensitivity to those promptings, those *feelings*, emanating from our bodies.”

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PH 12/52

“[Instincts] are still within us, in fact. & some people, through processes that facilitate reconnection with the body—notably involving facing & processing the traumas of birth, womb, & infancy, which are the root causes of the separation—”

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PH 12/53

“—[some people] are able to re-access this bodily wisdom [these "instincts'"] & to feel these promptings, just like we are all able to do in infancy, as in the experiment described.”

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PH 12/54

“*Comfort Food, Comfort Dining to Soothe the Suffering Ape*

“However, with our increasing split from our own feelings & inner promptings, our crazed brains sought foods that satisfied imaginary, not real physical, desires.”

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PH 12/55

“Suffering as we were, then, because of our prenatal, perinatal, & infancy traumas more than all other planetmates, we sought to find in food the comfort & satisfaction we could not get in our early life…”

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PH 12/56

“…in the fulfillment of those earliest needs & desires. We know that without a doubt even today as adults when we seek out “comfort food” over nutritional food.”

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PH 12/57

“We know even in using those terms [“comfort food”] that we are seeking to console, caress, & solace our early deprivations with what we eat in the present.”

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PH 12/58

“But the root of that goes back to infancy. In particular, as a baby we needed to be fed & there was a gap between our need & our caregiver’s ability or desire to fill it.”

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PH 12/59

“So we determined we would never again feel a lack such as that. “Never again!” echoes through the collective unconscious of humans regarding that. & we sought increasing control of our food acquisition as adults.”

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PH 12/60

“In those earliest times, in infancy, along with food, we needed comforting, soothing, care from & bonding with our caregivers as well.”

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PH 12/61

“With the gap between that need & our caregiver’s ability or desire to fill it, we would seek later as adults to use our times of dining as substitutes for those aches of not getting what we needed in infancy, which we still carry with us,..”

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PH 12/62

“…throughout our lives, never fading away. For, indeed, we see that we not only have “comfort foods.” But consider all our elaborate rituals of dining & the sociability we design around it: We have “comfort dining” as well.”

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PH 12/63

“Again, we are the only planetmates who do that; who have manifested those detailed, pervasive behaviors & activities taking up so much of our lives having to do with one & only one thing—equating dining with human connection,..”

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PH 12/64

“…feeding with being consoled like one would a baby, eating with love.

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PH 12/65

“*The Suffering Ape*

“Now, why would we be so much more likely than planetmates to have this problem of needing to be comforted with our food?”

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PH 12/66

“Let us look deeper & review what happened before & around the time of birth.”

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PH 12/67

“Remember from earlier in the book that roughly half of our development, especially of our brain, in early life was happening outside the womb & at the discretion of our fully growns.”

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PH 12/68

“Meanwhile all planetmates are experiencing that same relative period of development under the near perfect guidance & precise orchestration of the Divine through the workings of their species’ particular biology.”

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PH 12/69

“So [planetmates] would experience no gap between need & fulfillment during that time [in the womb or before being born].”

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PH 12/70

“*Frustration at Our Roots, Craving Is Where We Live*

“However, we, with our unusual beginnings, are the only species that does as a matter of course have that gap & hence that feeling of frustration & craving.”

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PH 12/71

“We would be set up to feel deprived during the first year of our lives, especially. Then we would feel that lack in mitigated form throughout our lives.”

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PH 12/72

“These differences between other planetmates & us weighed in strongly in our decisions to break with the Divine around food & our receiving satisfactions of our needs.”

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PH 12/73

“& these compulsion-obsessions of ours would be flavored with our desire for comforting & soothing—of which we felt a similar lack at that time.”

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PH 12/74

“Indeed, because of our carried-over tension & anxiety from those lacks, as adults we truly could use some comforting & soothing, additionally.”

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PH 12/75

“Further, in our former nomadic & foraging ways, we were led, like our brother-and-sister planetmates, to satisfy our needs through a wide expanse of varieties of nutritional sources.”

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PH 12/76

“In those times, for us, with this incredible variety of food products—the bounty of magnificent forest & field, shore & stream—”

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PH 12/77

“—we would be drawn to those [foods] that we would need or were better for us, health-wise, exceedingly more often than those that would not serve us well.”

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PH 12/78

“We still had some of that “instinct” other planetmates had; we could still feel in our bodies the promptings it gave us for what it truly needed.”

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PH 12/79

“Our appetites & palate coincided with our actual bodily needs, indeed with our real spiritual needs as well. We, like all planetmates, partook of Divine Providence through Nature’s ways of sustenance.”

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PH 12/80

“*We Narrowed Our Options*

“However, with our change to sedentary ways, we narrowed our range of foods drastically. In fact, most often we would seek to satisfy our¬selves in reliance on as little as one to four foodstuffs.”

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PH 12/81

“They themselves would be of the easier & cheaper to produce starchy quality. We received cheap calories—as many folks do today as evidenced by the obesity epidemics in modern cultures—but poor nutrition.”

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PH 12/82

“The Paleo diet, rich in variety of plant & protein sources—all kinds of meat, fish, fowl, insects, shellfish, & myriad kinds of vegetation of complex, not simple, carbohydrates—was reduced to & reliant on grain crops—”

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PH 12/83

“—[The Paleo diet was reduced to & reliant on grain crops] predominantly wheat, rice, & corn. Each of these grains is deficient in protein as well as particular amino acids & vitamins necessary for health.”

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PH 12/84

“Furthermore, with dependence on one or a couple crops as the mainstay of the diet, compared to gatherer-hunter days, famines & starvation became much more likely—when the weather would turn & cause crops to fail,..”

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PH 12/85

“…or insect or plant-disease blights would destroy all for which one had worked so hard.

“Therefore, the majority of our diet, post-agrarian, almost always would be variations on one or a handful of ingredients.”

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PH 12/86

“This is not speculation. This is what we actually know from the early records of our lives in civilizations, living in population centers at that point—towns & cities—& not in Nature.”

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PH 12/87

“*Which Had Dire Consequences*

“The producers of these items, the farmers living in the countryside, were a little better off in terms of the variety of their sustenance, but not by much.”

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PH 12/88

“[These earliest farmers] could do some gathering in some of the wild still about them; they could have gardens with a certain amount of variety—in no way comparing with what is abundantly produced in the cornucopia everywhere around in Nature.”

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PH 12/89

“Still, farmers were dependent, primarily, upon those few minimal mainstays of the diet that they would provide to the town & city folk around them.”

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PH 12/90

“Of course, we could not hope to satisfy the multitude of bodily needs for vigor & to avoid illness from such a diminished array of sources. We became unhealthy.”

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PH 12/91

“Our paleontological & historical records, especially the study of skeletal remains, evidence that we lost height from what we were in Nature, as I said, but also that the bodies we created were weaker & more likely to fail.”

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PH 12/92

“We are able to determine that farmers, compared to the gatherer-hunters before them, had almost a 50% increase in enamel defects, which indicates malnutrition; along with a 400% rise in anemia;”

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PH 12/93

“a 300% increase in bone lesions, indicative of infectious diseases; & far more incidence of degenerative conditions of the spine, probably having to do with an incredible increase in hard, back-breaking labor come of agriculture.”

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PH 12/94

“Mothers would more often die in childbirth & our children would quite a bit more than previously die then, at birth, or in the first few years of life.”

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PH 12/95

“Most importantly, this abnormal control of our diet in defiance of Nature’s designs for us led to lives of illness unlike any other seen in Nature.”

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PH 12/96

“This [greater sickness in humans than planetmates] was totally an offshoot of our ego-designed diet. Our lives were not just less adventurous, less happy, less satisfying; they were plagued with fatigue & sickness.”

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PH 12/97

“Our lifestyles with sedentary & urban living might have allowed us to fend off big predators better, but it left the humans of early history wide open to malnutrition & the little predators of germs.”

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PH 12/98

“Additionally, when we deter¬mined our much less diverse & unhealthy diet—because of our insistence on our own ideas for sustenance over the sustenance perfectly provided by Nature for our nomadic foraging—”

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PH 12/99

“—[when we determined our much less diverse & unhealthy diet] we created diseases of which humans had not suffered previously. With these new ailments hounding & afflicting us, our life spans diminished.”

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PH 12/100

“*We Once Lived Longer*

“Yet before we wrested from Nature control of what we would eat, & we let our Mother in Nature lead us in our diet, we indeed had the potential for much longer lives.”

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PH 12/101

“It is for this reason of greater physical health that we have myths of very early ancestors living to ages of hundreds or thousands of years, being immortal, like gods, or semi-immortal.”

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PH 12/102

“In these myths our forebears are depicted as vigorous & tall, long-lived & noble...& even god-like. Such myths of noble & long-lived or immortal ancestors are found throughout the world,..”

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PH 12/103

“…from Western civilization with its foundation of myths from ancient Greece & Rome to the creation stories of the most “primitive” aboriginal societies of modern-day Australia.”

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PH 12/104

“Why? For this long-livedness of our earliest ancestors, the ones living in Nature, generally speaking, was true. This greater stature & profile of nobility for them is true as well.”

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PH 12/105

“Relative to today & prior to our falls into sedentary ways of horticulture & husbandry, we were healthier, more in tune with principled & invisible ways—more “spiritual.””

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PH 12/106

“We were more harmonious with Nature’s designs, & we had longer life spans, which could easily, life circumstances allowing, exceed considerably over one hundred years.”

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PH 12/107

“Although, for reasons that I get into elsewhere, such extreme long-livedness was not as desirable as one would think.

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“*Summary, Eden Scorned*”

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PH 12/108

“To sum up, greater health & well-being & longer lives overall...exceptionally long lives for some...at one time in our history is a product of the fact that, during that period, humans’ diet was still Divinely provided through Nature.”

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PH 12/109

“This was occurring in the time prior to when human Ego wrested this control away & began its own ideas of sustenance, built around the twisted desires of the palate—itself made crazed…”

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PH 12/110

“…[the palate, itself made crazed] in being swept up in the attempt to artificially fill emotional shortcomings stemming from humans’ half-born status & resultant crazed, over-amped brain & consciousness.”

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PH 12/111

“All the rest of planetmates are not only taught & guided toward their ultimate life fulfillment by Divine Providence, as was our early ancestors,..”

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PH 12/112

“…but even [planetmates’] physical forms are most perfectly sustained in heeding Divine Guidance, in following bodily wisdom.”

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PH 12/113

“Both our existential & physical needs are most perfectly provided by following Divine Providence & its promptings—both outside, in terms of happenstance, but inside, in terms of instinct & feeling.”

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PH 12/114

“Regarding the physical: Physical needs for food, water, shelter, & so on, are more perfectly provided by Nature in ways that are most beneficial to the health of both our minds & bodies.”

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PH 12/115

“Providence is perfect for all planetmates, beyond anything anyone could come up with themselves. When we separated from the Divine, even defied Divine Assistance,..”

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PH 12/116

“…when we decided it would be us who would con¬trol our diet, we dismissed Divinity’s perfect banquet...perfect in the sense of its effects on our primary purposes in being alive, not just existing.”

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PH 12/117

“And with this insistence on our own ideas for provisions over the sustenance perfectly provided by Nature for our nomadic, foraging forebears, we added the misery of unnecessary physical illnesses & earlier loss of strength,..”

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PH 12/118

“…& even of physical form itself, to our unhappy lot. So, in our decisions to separate from the Divine Benevolence & instead to seek to control our own fates we created unparalleled unhappiness for ourselves, among all Earth beings.”

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PH 12/119

“You could say, essentially & metaphorically, we did not just leave Eden or be evicted from Eden, we *scorned* “Eden.””

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PH 12/120

“*The Suffering Ape*

“Added to our new diseases was, of course, the constant ill-at-ease psychological & emotional states that characterize us because of our unnatural beginnings, riddled with trauma.”

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PH 12/121

“Relative to planetmates & especially to humans in Nature, we endured an underlying & constant uncomfortable, unhappy state, poisoned with our early birth & deprivational traumas, as they were,..”

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PH 12/122

“…& now burdened with lesser strength, fatigue, & persistent debilities of mind & body.”

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PH 12/123

“Our attempt to better our fates beyond what had been set for us by Divine Providence—which at one time had us living ebullient lives within the flows of a Divinely-ordained Nature—was beginning to have disastrous results…”

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PH 12/124

“…[Our attempt to better our fates beyond what had been set for us by Divine Providence was beginning to have disastrous results] in terms of our overall well-being beyond our mere physical survival, therefore.”

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PH 12/125

“The end result of all our separations from Nature—from premature births & fetal malnutrition through to the decisions to separate from Divine Providence & seek to control our fates around issues of food & location—”

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PH 12/126

“—[The end result] was the creation of lives of fundamental suffering. In acting out our fears in a mania of attempting to control everything around us so as to better our circumstances, we brought ourselves near unmitigated misery, instead.”

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PH 12/127

“*The Will to Die*

“As it happened, then, in our descent into ill health & these new diseases, we were seeking, however unconsciously, to bring to an end our denied state of basic unhappiness. That is to say, yes, we wished to die.”

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PH 12/128

“We are the only planetmates who kill ourselves—through suicide, war, & now environmental murder. Think about it. Though people will jump from bridges & take guns to their heads, have you ever seen a planetmate throw itself from a cliff?”

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PH 12/129

“How unhappy & brutish can [planetmates’] lots possibly be? Yet we are not uncommonly feeling our lives too unhappy & too much to bear. We “fall on our swords” in all kinds of conscious & unconscious ways.”

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PH 12/130

“Yes, we see that death wish exhibited today in its most extreme form with the apocalypse we are bringing upon ourselves. & through¬out history we manifested it in our propensity for warring.”

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PH 12/131

“Violence & murder were substitute responses to our compression & misery in the womb—replacing the inconvenient & elusive, however natural, actual facing, feeling, & resolution of them in some psycho-emotional way—”

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PH 12/132

“—& these aggressions became act outs of our brutal births as well. However on a collective scale, as war, such bloody ferocity brought with it the welcome relief of a purging of miserable elements through infliction of it on others…”

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PH 12/133

“…and, if nothing else, the promise of the end of the nagging unease & ongoing misery of life through death.”

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PH 12/134

“A romantic quality became associated with death, especially through battle for the sake of the group or through something else that could be rationalized as a “higher cause”—honor, love, religious ritual involving sacrifice, & the like.”

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PH 12/135

“However these supposedly noble rationales [for warring & institutionalized murder] were mere justifications for wanting simply to end the misery of living & were a mirror image, instead—reversed & perverted—”

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PH 12/136

“—of what is our actual & deeper destiny...our truer purpose which arises authentically in our more fundamental & natural desire for re-union with the Divine through life experience & immersion in Nature.”

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PH 12/137

“Thus, [with civilization and the descents from Grace, Nature, & Divine Providence] we began seeing our reunion with Divinity as being through death, when formerly it had been through life.”

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PH 12/138

“We went to war, death, & killing instead of to vibrant & meaningful lives, to spirituality, & to ecstatic experiences of compassion & re-union...of expanded & empathetic oneness with human others, with the planetmates in Nature, & the All.”

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PH 12/139

“*Having Children Was Substituted for Aliveness*

“We acted out this will to die, or *Thanatos*, with our children as well. Our offspring became our immortality projects, substituting for authentic life experience.”

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PH 12/140

“Yes, we did not want to live, & we were no longer noble & fulfilled, so we conceived children in another substitute & perverted attempt to bring that about by having someone do it for us.”

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PH 12/141

“Put it this way: We did not want to live, but we did not want to fail in life, either. Or at least we did not want to know we were losers in the life game.”

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PH 12/142

“So we produced offspring—as many as possible & equal to the degree of our emptiness—to carry forward our failed life designs.”

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PH 12/143

“We assigned [our children] the task of carrying out & living the lives & experiencing the aliveness we knew we had failed in achieving ourselves.”

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PH 12/144

“We “pass the buck” down to our children to live the lives we lost when we left Nature. For a part of us knows, however far we are from our lives in Nature, what our true state of life enjoyment & life fulfillment should be.”

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PH 12/145

“Then, in a vicious cycle, each generation would pass on these “aliveness projects”to their children at the point in the parents’ lives when they were beginning to feel defeated in their own plans of fulfilling the wishes of their own parents.”

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PH 12/146

“Which is—the application of one’s life toward the parents’ immortality projects & intentions—sadly, about as far as most humans would dare to dream in our post-sedentary days.”

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PH 12/147

“We would no longer even approach the idea of the application of one’s life to the deepest knowings of oneself...to the visions & dreams uniquely & authentically one’s own. Yet we had, at one time.”

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PH 12/148

“All these things combined, we presented ourselves a sorry figure on Nature’s stage.”

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PH 12/149

“For these so called “improvements” to our physical circumstances along with our social & cultural “evolutions” come of controlling & sedentary ways were had at great cost.”

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PH 12/150

“We were able to greatly expand our numbers, but our flourishing was like that of a cancer upon the Earth, for it did not bring with it increased vitality.”

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PH 12/151

This has been a threaded version of Ch 12

“The Eleventh Descent—Sedentary Life...Sickness & Suffering:”

of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

by Michael Adzema

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PH 12/152

Chapter 12 is subtitled,

“Eden Scorned—

“With Sedentary Living & Its Restricted Options for Sustenance, We Forego Perfect Assistance for Health of Body & Mind,

"Which Has Horrible Consequences”

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PH 12/153

*Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man* by Michael Adzema is a devolutional look at human’s splitting away from Nature in the creation of a human nature at war with the natural.

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PH 12/154

The book, *Prodigal Human*, shows how in our creation of civilization, we locked in a human status that has us either as Controllers, Conforming Underlings, or Authentics.

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PH 12/155

We see how that change from our primal, prehistoric profile, has led us to the kind of personality today of folks who are able to end life on this planet, with hardly a second thought.

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PH 12/156

In doing so, *Prodigal Human* presents a new devolutional theory in anthropology. The book also explains how our deeper human nature, cooperative with Nature, can be regained and our world saved from apocalypse.

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PH 12/157

This devolutional theory of evolution demonstrates how bipedalism & the resulting birth trauma led to descents of humans from an original natural state, leading to misogyny, class war, hunting, sedentary living, farming, religion, & more.

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PH 12/158

The complete book is available online at the links.

you can read the book, which is posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*.

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PH 12/159

This is the completed document for *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*

It is a pdf file & looks exactly as the book looks.

To read and/or download a copy, click link:

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PH 12/160

Feel free to download the book, pass it around, use it to help get word out to save the planet to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

Unless major actions by the world's governments happens fast, it is all over for life on planet Earth.

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PH 12/161

& 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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PH 12/162

Finally, if what you prefer are paperback or ebook/Kindle versions, you may acquire them at the links below.

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PH 12/163

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

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PH 12/164

Up next,

in *Prodigal Human:

*The Descents of Man*

is Chapter 13, titled,

“The Eleventh Descent—Sedentary Life...Drudgery & Labor:

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PH 12/165

Chapter 13 is subtitled:

“In Nature We Played & Had Ease;

“No One’s at Fault for Our Falls But We Are Now Responsible...

“The Fearful Planetmate"

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PH 12/166

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