Thread by @sillymickel

This thread is

Ch 51: “Birth—Genesis, the Fall:

of *Dance of the 7 Veils II:

*Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self*

*Infant to Prenate, Veils 4-6*

by Michael Adzema

Which is Vol 3 in The Path of Ecstasy Series*

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Chapter 51 is subtitled,

“The Meanings of the Serpent, the Tree of Life & of Knowledge of Good & Evil…

“Our Prenatal & Perinatal Experiences Predispose Our Beliefs & Disguise Our Revelations”

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“[*Quotes/highlights:*] “The Garden is the womb, God is the mother, the serpent is birth pain, the apple is meat, & the Tree of Life is the placenta.” []

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[] “…in feeling thru our prenatal & perinatal pain & re-establishing our foundation within the joy grids of the early womb experience, we find ourselves, not just aware of our immortality,..” []

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D7V2 51/4

[] “…but also smack up against a fount that seems to emanate all wisdom, all knowledge. That is the Tree of Life, of which it is said we would live forever.” []

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“[ Chapter 51 text begins:] “As you would expect, birth dynamics occur a great deal within creation mythology.”

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“So it is that [birth dynamics are] easily visible within the creation myth most common in the Christian, Jewish, & Muslim worlds—concerning Eden & The Fall as in *Genesis*.”

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D7V2 51/7

“*The Garden Is the Womb*

“Regarding the mythological Veil from birth that is thrown upon our doors of perception, then, we enter thru a familiar gate: Let us recall these words fr *Genesis* concerning our fall fr grace & expulsion from Eden:”

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““And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”””

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“Thereupon, after eating the fruit of that tree, at the urging of the serpent, the consequences are laid out:

“”Unto the woman he said,

“”I will greatly multiply thy sorrow & thy conception;

“”in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;”

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“”and thy desire shall be to thy husband,

“”and he shall rule over thee.

“”And unto Adam he said,

“”Because thou has hearkened unto the voice of thy wife,

“”and hast eaten of the tree,

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“”of which I commanded thee, saying,

“””Though shalt not eat of it:”””

“”…cursed is the ground for thy sake;””

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“”in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life:

“”thorns also & thistles shall it bring forth to thee;

“”and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

“”in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread,””

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“”…till thou return unto the ground;

“for out of it wast thou taken:

“for dust thou art,

“and unto dust shalt thou return.””

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“”And Adam called his wife’s name; because she was the mother of all living.

“”Unto Adam also & to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, & clothed them.””

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“”And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good & evil: & now, lest he put forth his hand, & take also of the tree of life, & eat, & live for ever:””

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“”therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.””

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“”So he drove out the man: & he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubim, & a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.” (Genesis, 3: 16-24)”

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D7V2 51/18

“To start then, of the elements in Eden, what is the serpent? What the Tree of Life? What is the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil? What is God?”

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“For that matter, what is the Garden? That part should at least be clear by now. The Garden represents our time, prenatally—it is a time in the womb characterized by all the qualities of Eden: connection with Divinity,...”

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“…[qualities of Eden: connection with Divinity,] harmony of everything, bliss & happiness, contentment, & all the rest. Looking at the meanings of the other elements brings some astonishing revelations.”

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“*And God Is Mom*

“Beginning with the most obvious, it is clear enough who the God corollary is,which is one’s mother.”

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“It is also Divinity Itself, as we are still, during our womb existence, connected to more expansive & supernatural powers & awareness at the same time as we are connected to our mother & are united with her in feeling & bonhomie.”

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“But what of the others?

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“*The Serpent in Eden*

“Well, the fact that it is a serpent that initiates this foofaraw in the Garden has meaning as well.”

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“*Is Birth Pain*”

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“*Is Birth Pain*

“As Michael C. Irving (1988) has revealed to us & I have related in several of my works, serpents, snakes, & dragons represent our birth pain for many reasons.”

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“Among these are the fact that snakes can be crushing, as was the womb for us in the last stage of gestation & is the case during the birth process; & that their shape represents the birth canal, the birth “tunnel.””

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D7V2 51/26

“I would like to add that the fact that [snakes] are thought of as poisonous is directly connected with our experience in the third trimester of gestation.”

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D7V2 51/27

“As I will explain as we go along, at that time we experience a matrix of feelings involved with being poisoned. & poisoned how?”

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“Well, this poisoning is caused by a backup of waste matter which is not being removed as efficiently as it had previously thru the umbilical cord. Poisoned by who? Why, by the umbilical cord! Which fits even more with a snake shape.”

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D7V2 51/29

“Sure enough, as I explained in detail in my book, *Prodigal Human* (2016) & as I have elaborated on, as well, in *Planetmates* (2014), it is our primal pain—specifically our prenatal & perinatal trauma—that pushes the discomfort…”

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D7V2 51/30

“…& the “fevered brain” that causes humans to do the abominable things we end up doing in our “evolution” (our devolution, actually).”

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“It is the “serpent” of the repressed & potent traumas of our birth that speaks to us in the middle of the night casting doubt in our minds.”

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D7V2 51/32

“It is the snake of perinatal pain that drew Eve & then Adam (metaphorically speaking) to stray from our state of never-ending bliss.”

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“In actuality, a serpent of anxiety & mistrust of Nature, it was, who seduced our hominid ancestors to lose faith in the Divine Providence that we & the rest of Nature had relied on for millions of years.”

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“A fear coiled within pushed them to expand the boundaries of the bounty already provided by Nature & the Divine into darker means of sustenance—the flesh of our “cousins,” specifically, our mammal planetmates.”

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“*The Apple Is Meat*

“For, as it happens, we did that Edenal original “sin”...over the course of our millions of years of devolution...when humans began hunting, forgoing the ease & plenty attendant to foraging alone.”

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“Then, in as radical...tho imperceptible & profoundly gradual...a turn as that depicted 4 Adam & Eve after they ate the apple, the rest of the horrible & unthinkable actions of humans—abominable fr the perspective of the rest of Nature—began.”

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“They were set into motion with the killing of planetmates. Hunting results in our straying from Nature & losing our connection with Divinity—being cast out of the Garden. The “serpent” made us do it; our perinatal pain did push us.”

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“Let me be clear: The serpent, which is our birth trauma—specifically our prenatal & perinatal pain—caused anxiety in us & mistrust of Nature, & the Divine, to provide for us.”

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“Hence, we disdained being merely foragers & began eating flesh that resembled our own—meat. This was the fruit of the tree of which we were warned not to eat. Meat was the apple in the Garden of Eden.”

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“It was our birth pain, the serpent, that pushed us to begin hunting & eating planetmate flesh like our own. We began standing upright as long as ten million years ago.”

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“When we did, it resulted in birth pain for the infant along with prematurity of births. This caused the anxiety & basic mistrust that made hominids feel they needed to augment their diet with meat.”

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“We began hunting approximately one & a half million years ago.

“Thus, we lived in Eden until about one & a half million years ago, when humans began hunting.”

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“The serpent—our prenatal & perinatal pain—began showing up in “Eden” somewhere between twelve million years ago & one & a half million years ago.”

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“For that is the time during which we gradually began our doubt about our existence, specifically about our survival—our ability to be sustained by the Universe, the Divine—& began to mistrust Divine Providence, the Great Mother.”

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D7V2 51/45

“Eventually that resulted in us “eating the apple” (meat); & we left Eden. Indeed, approximately 1 1/2 million years ago our ancestors began consuming planetmate flesh like our own—mammalian flesh, red & bloody meat.”

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“*The Trees in Eden*

“This leads us to ponder the question, then, what do we make of the two trees mentioned in Genesis—the one with the forbidden fruit & the one which would allow us to “live forever”?”

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“*The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil*”

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“The forbidden tree I have said involves the eating of meat, devolutionally, species-speaking; as well as it is about the beginning of prenatal trauma in attachment to a toxic placenta, individually speaking, in each of our lives.”

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“For this, then, what exactly is this Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil referred to in the biblical text? Why is it described as a tree?”

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“Okay. Well, in eating the apple it is said we were “knowing good & evil.” We already knew “good” in the Garden. However, consuming planetmate flesh was“knowing evil.” Eating meat was evil, for eating flesh like our own is evil by definition.”

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“Partaking of bloody flesh is the opposite of *live* (*evil* is *live* spelled backwards) for it requires death (the opposite of *live*, also) of something psychologically like us, so it is like killing ourselves or our kin.”

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“You might think it unusual to consider that our primate progenitors would have such propensity for guilt about killing planetmates.”

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“We have been taught that the further we go back in our species history, the more “savage” & insensitive we were. This is not true, & it is one of the things we need to correct in our thinking to be able to see through the Veils thus far.”

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“[The fallacy that the further we go back in our species history, the more “savage” & insensitive we were] is linked up with the anthropocentrism we needed to overturn, which was Veil One. (Refer back to *Dance of the Seven Veils I*.)”

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“Why? Because we have throughout history this notion that beasts are savage,..”

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“…whereas as I have shown in the book previous to this, it is part of our species Ego, arising of our neurotic separation from Nature, which has us putting ourselves up on this throne above all of the “wild” world.”

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“Actually, however, we see much more in the way of compassion, empathy, & fellow feeling among our relatives in Nature & our earliest humans than exists in ourselves. Much of this has to do with the empathy that is natural to all species.”

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“All species care for their young & that requires empathy. Furthermore, except for the instances where they need to kill so as to eat, all species interact peacefully...even charmingly, lovingly...with other species.”

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“This is something we know—indeed, our very description of Eden shows that we know what Nature untainted by us is like—yet we never voice it. We do not acknowledge this truth of the relatively far more peaceful & compassionate life of Nature;”

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“in truth we push it further from our minds with mythologies of natural wildness & savagery as well as of corresponding human superiority & “civility.””

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“We end up then not seeing this empathy & caring of the planetmates due to the fact that our species superiority has us projecting onto the natural world our worst qualities.”

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“This is the same as how we civilized folk, going back as far as we can in our literary history—by that I mean it was extant in the earliest literary masterpiece, *The Epic of Gilgamesh*—”

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“*—[This is the same as how we civilized folk] project onto the people of nature...“natural” humans...that which we refuse to see in ourselves.”

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“However, that ability to feel for others in view of the analysis I am presenting should not be so hard to see. It comes about from the fact that we are naturally, inherently one with All;”

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“& the less we are separated from that awareness, the more we are able to feel & have access to the minds & emotions/feelings of others—others of our species & others of other species.”

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“We lose this ability to “feel with” others, like & not so alike, in our “evolution” more than any species. Planetmates & earlier humans are more aligned with the Divinity inherent in Reality than we are.”

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“Hence our early less-devolved humans had more, not less, empathy for other species. This is not just speculation. We can see it in the many rituals, legends, myths, & beliefs of our most “primitive” humans…”

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“…[in the many rituals of our most “primitive” humans] where much is done & said around feelings of regret for the taking of planetmate lives, fear of the blood of planetmates,& terror that the murdered (hunted) might return to seek revenge.”

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“It follows that our most sensitive selves—that which lies deep inside us & is coincident with the selves of our earliest humans—would be abhorred by spilling the blood of creatures seen as not much different from ourselves, from humans.”

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“And since death is anti-life, & the opposite of *live* is *evil*, this hunting & murdering of planetmates was felt to be evil for much of our prehistory.”

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“Even now, our more sensitive, less defended,& most “evolved” humans feel this supreme guilt & regret about taking or eating planetmate flesh. So we were uneasy w taking mammalian life,& it was done as under a cloud of darkness, akin to evil.”

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“It was also done compulsively, arising of our unfelt perinatal feelings of mistrust of the world brought about through our first experiences of the world, at birth, which hardly lent themselves to feelings of reassurance. To put it mildly.”

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D7V2 51/73

“Regardless, in “knowing” this evil, as it is said in *Genesis*, we began the godlike determination of life & death for planetmates who were similar to us; which had till then, & more correctly, been the purview of the Divine.”

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“In so doing, we began the “knowledge of good & evil”—which was the knowledge of killing, the determination of death of others. We became “as one of them,” the gods...exactly as said in the biblical rendering of the matter.”

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“*Is also the third-trimester placenta, the toxic womb.*

“However on the individual, the ontogenetic, not the devolutional, the phylogenetic, level, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil is birth trauma.”

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“Most specifically [the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil] is the placenta in the third trimester, at the very beginnings of our birth trauma,..”

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“…which [Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil] has gradually become toxic & which initiates our descent from the Divine knowledge of bliss & goodness, which was our state prior to the beginnings of Pain at that time.”

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“It is the tree, the placenta, which has now become both life-enhancing (good)—it still nourishes us, providing us w oxygen & nutrients—& life negating (evil) in that it is the source of the toxicity which has us feeling poisoned & irritated.”

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“[Our wombular relationship with our placenta] was our earliest experience of being in a love-hate toxic relationship. Which we would then replicate endlessly & compulsively in our love lives,..”

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D7V2 51/80

“…wondering why we “never learn” & always seem to pick partners who are bad for us. As one book title explains it, *Smart Women/Foolish Choices*. (1986).”

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“More about this last part—the dual feelings toward everything that arises of our conflicted & dual relationship to the placenta—in Veil Five. Coming next, by the way.”

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“Furthermore, I contend the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil represents the knowledge of our prenatal & perinatal traumas, as I am laying out in this book & in several of my others.”

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“For when we know good & evil, ie, we make mistakes in life—initially eating a forbidden apple, which is the symbolic expression of the adoption of killing for food (hunting) & the eating of meat—we begin being pestered w a guilty conscience.”

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“Such mental agony would lead us eventually to the knowledge of our prenatal & perinatal origins...& more...if we were to follow it down into our feelings.”

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“Why would the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil be our prenatal & perinatal pain? Well, this is indicated by the fact that it is a *tree* of the knowledge of good & evil.”

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“This is the placenta of the 3rd trimester, for many reasons, which I go into in detail in other places. But simply put, the placenta even *looks* like a tree in its spreading of arteries & veins which resemble the expanding limbs of a tree.”

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“*The Tree of Life Is the BPM I Placenta*

“Now, what about the other tree? Because of these Edenal developments we are told we are banished from The Garden so that we do not also take of the Tree of Life, in which case we would live forever.”

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“We will see as well (Veil Six) how the Tree of Life is specifically related to our earlier-in-the-womb experience of the first two trimesters which are characterized by bliss & feelings of immortality.”

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“That it is “of life” is true in that it, the placenta, was our source of nourishment in the womb, without which we would have died. It was, literally, a *tree of life*.”

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“When you think about it, if you accept what I was saying at the outset about Eden representing our time in the womb, then it follows necessarily.”

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“The only “tree of life” anywhere around for us at the time in the womb was exactly that: the life-giving placenta.”

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“Therefore the two trees represent the placenta at different times in the womb—the first two trimesters when it was “of life” & was bountiful,..”

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“…& the third trimester when it has a dual quality, is discomforting along with being life-giving & necessary & upon which we were dependent...unable to extricate ourselves from the bad situation.”

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“Thus, we have the two trees representing two vastly different times in the womb, both prior to & during the “poisonous placenta” arising in the third trimester with prenatal malnutrition.”

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“*How the Trees Are Related*”

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“And beyond that, the way to process that Pain—emanating from eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil, actually being dependent for our survival in the womb on a toxic third-trimester placenta—is to release it in an emotive way.”

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“This Primal processing of our Pain, we have found, opens us to all the knowledge & bliss of the Universe—the Tree of Life, incl The Unapproved & Hidden—which our Pain has kept outside us in the same way moats keep out enemies from castles.”

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“Or veils & curtains block the sun.”

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“Noteworthy it is that in feeling thru our prenatal & perinatal pain—in one of the deep experiential, Primal, shamanic, entheogenic, or breathwork-related modalities—we eventually encounter the Tree of Life.”

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“Which [Tree of Life] represents remembering our time in proximity to & connected to that placenta, a time in which we remembered our immortality.”

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“So, the Tree of Life, as said in the *Bible*, represents immortality as it is written, “lest he put forth his hand, & take also of the tree of life, & eat, & live for ever.””

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“*The Tree of Life is The Unapproved & Hidden, is “the Everything.”*

“Looking at this, I believe adds another provocative speculation:”

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“Which is that in feeling through our prenatal & perinatal pain & re-establishing our foundation within the joy grids of the early womb experience, we find ourselves, not just aware of our immortality,..”

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“…but also smack up against a fount that seems to emanate all wisdom, all knowledge. That is the Tree of Life, of which it is said we would live forever.”

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“A succinct way of defining the Tree of Life, then, is to say that it is the contents of the Unapproved & Hidden, which is our species unconscious...& beyond that All Knowledge.”

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“[the Tree of Life, as the contents of the Unapproved & Hidden] is first & foremost knowledge of what we did in separating from Nature. It is the knowledge of our actual place in the array of living beings—i.e., planetmates.”

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“It is what I am laying out in this book, in *Prodigal Human* & *Planetmates* preceding this...& in my other books on prenatal & perinatal psychology.”

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“Yes, you read that correctly. My attempt in several of my works—in particular, *Prodigal Human* & *Planetmates*—is to reveal the Unapproved & Hidden. & I continue that here.”

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“In those works, I have shown how it is the sorrow & travail of life, including that of a guilty conscience, incidentally, that triggers our deeper primal pain.”

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“For sorrow & mental anguish lead us...if we follow them, if we “feel” them...to their roots in our primal, our prenatal & perinatal pain. That is to say, if we process them, integrate them. How? Primarily by emoting them...e-moat-ing them.”

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“*E-moat* (i.e., e-mote) is the combining of ex meaning “out” (out of, to go out) plus *moat*, which is a watery barrier of defenses around a castle.”

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“With castle representing us, i.e., our defended self, then to get out (ex) the moat, or to go out beyond the moat, means to get rid of the defenses (the moats) keeping out what is around & outside us.”

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“What is outside, beyond our personal unconscious even, is The Unapproved & Hidden, the species unconscious."

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“Beyond that, outside even that, is *Everything*. It is the whole universe of Knowledge & Awareness we separate from in coming into Form.”

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“Therefore, “sinning”—by partaking of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil—leads us to knowledge of our primal Pain & to The Unapproved & Hidden & then to *Everything* beyond even that.”

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“Why? Well, *“sin” leads us to our Pain, for it is our Pain that causes us to “sin” in the first place*.”

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“It is the serpent, which is our prenatal & perinatal pain, which pushes us to go astray, to “sin”...which in the first instance for our species, that which got us ejected from Eden, was hunting, killing, the eating of meat.”

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“Why, again, would the 2 trees be related to our prenatal & perinatal pain? Well, let us look at that more closely. The Tree of Life & the Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil are the 2 trees in Eden that are mentioned in *Genesis*.”

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“The Tree of Life is the good placenta, is associated with a knowledge of immortality, & is what we are blocked from approaching after being ejected from Eden.”

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“The Tree of the Knowledge of Good & Evil, on the other hand, is the tree from which Adam & Eve plucked their famous fruit, which got them “arrested” & “deported.” But what is the meaning of this “knowledge of good & evil”?”

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“Looking into this we find that the phrase, “good & evil,” in Hebrew is טוֹב וָרָע, *tov V’ra*. It is translatable as “good & evil,” however it is said to be an example of a type of literary device known as *merism*.”

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“This figure of speech pairs opposite terms together, in order to create a general meaning. Thus, the phrase “good & evil” is another way of saying, “everything.””

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“This can be compared with the Egyptian expression evil-good, which is used in a way, normally, to mean, “everything.” We see this in Greek literature as well. “I know all things, the good & the evil” writes Telemachus.”

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“So this tree in the Garden imparts knowledge of *tov V’ra*, “good & bad,” & whereas that is traditionally translated to mean “good & evil” it is actually a fixed expression with the meaning of “everything.””

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“All this together, then, it is more understandable how in feeling back to that state of prenatal bliss-joy, immortality, & connection to Divinity one gets the feeling that one has access to all knowledge as well...knowledge of *everything*.”

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“[one gets the feeling one has access to knowledge of *everything*.] As easy as turning on a faucet, as easy as being a river at its head, bubbling up from out of the earth. Mystics such as Sathya Sai Baba know that of which I speak.”

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“Any of a great number of other spiritual teachers of a shamanistic bent I could name in the same way.”

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“As a consequence of my years of work clearing away the detritus of traumatic events & finding a foundation on a deeper level of the psyche characterized by harmony & bliss, I know something of the feeling, as well.”

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“As I continue to draw from that fount, I am ever amazed at the comprehensive vision that becomes clear & sheds light on so much that is otherwise inexplicable or confused.”

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“Both of the Edenal tragedies mentioned—in our individual lives, the birth trauma, & in our species devolution, the hunting—kept us from the Tree of Life,..”

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“…for [both Edenal tragedies—birth trauma & hunting—] kept us from experiencing our prenatal bliss, in conjunction with the placenta of our first two trimesters. The placenta of the first two trimesters is the Tree of Life.”

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This has been a thread of the entire Ch 51,

“Birth—Genesis, the Fall:

“The Meanings of the Serpent, the Tree of Life & of Knowledge of Good & Evil…

“Our Prenatal & Perinatal Experiences Predispose Our Beliefs & Disguise Our Revelations”

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of *Dance of the Seven Veils II* by Michael Adzema

My book is subtitled,

*Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self*

*Infant to Prenate, Veils Four-Six*

& it is Volume 3 in The Path of Ecstasy Series

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*Dance of the Seven Veils II* by Michael Adzema is to be released in paperback & ebook in March, 2023. This is a complimentary chapter from the book.

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The complete chapter is available online at the links

you can read the chapter, posted on the blog, or you can follow the directions there & download a free copy of Ch 51, “Birth—Genesis, the Fall” of *Dance of the 7 Veils II* by M. Adzema
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This is a pdf copy of Chapter 51, “Birth—Genesis, the Fall” of *Dance of the Seven Veils II*

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

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The book itself, *Dance of the Seven Veils II* will be out in a matter of weeks. So this is a sample chapter.

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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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“…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 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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If you like & agree w these ideas & want more attention on them, feel free to download the chapter & pass it around,as you wish; use it to share this perspective.

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

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