Michael Adzema's thought-provoking book, "Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, and the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide," reveals how prenatal experiences shape human behavior, influencing perceptions, behaviors, and sociocultural dynamics significantly.
Prenatal imprints of discomfort manifest in personal interactions, leading to misogyny, bigotry, violence, and political divisions.
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Uncomfortable late-stage womb experiences imprint lasting effects, contributing as well, to pressing societal issues like culture war, fascism, pollution, and wars between nations, while also influencing cultural behaviors like racism and intolerance.
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The author argues that human nature is significantly influenced by the discomfort and pain experienced in the womb, giving rise to emotions of claustrophobia, entrapment, and deprivation.
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He categorizes these prenatal feeling complexes into four main types - crowded, suffocated, disgusted, and irritated - which play a pivotal role in shaping human nature and actions.
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These early imprints shape human behavior, societal structures, environmental attitudes, and interpersonal relationships, ultimately contributing to societal issues like violence, bigotry, and pollution.
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The book delves into the profound concept that prenatal suffering serves as the foundational cause of human evil, itself, manifesting in behaviors such as greed, war, torture, and pollution.
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On the upside, Adzema's work reveals the author's activist experience, calling out the profound impact of activism, and he issues an urgent and personal appeal to avert potential global devastation due to environmental threats.
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Perinatal dynamics, arising particularly among Baby Boomers, positively influenced movements against war, pollution, and overpopulation.
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The contrasting generational responses to perinatal pain, the importance of resolving unconscious conflicts, and the impact of early experiences on beliefs and actions are highlighted.
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Therapeutic strategies like primal therapy and holotropic breathwork are explored to address birth traumas and societal aggression.
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Furthermore, the book explores the symbolic representations of enclosed spaces as reflections of the womb, emphasizing how early traumas significantly influence our perceptions and decision-making processes.
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The book delves into ancient mythology, contrasting figures like Athena and Medusa to illustrate patriarchal norms and societal expectations imposed on women.
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It explores the concept of facing evil with nonviolence and humor, the perinatal themes in popular culture, and the necessity of surrendering to higher forces.
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The importance of integrating the Divine Feminine for spiritual growth and societal change is discussed, along with the emergence of a primal renaissance offering hope for a more cooperative future.
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Get your free copy for a deep understanding of what is going on and what you, and we together, can do about it.
Not only to survive, but to become the evolved humans the Earth and its planetmates require of us in this moment.
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FUNNY GOD: THE TAO OF FUNNY GOD AND THE MIND’S TRUE LIBERATION is a composition in three movements. It is activism, a prophecy, and a vision — integrated by the idea of Funny God.
“these times are the coming together of heaven and earth…."
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“we walk in realms of the mythical, the archetypal….
“we are embraced by arms of Divinity … and find ourselves as fingers of God Herself…"
In “Dance of the Seven Veils II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology,& Your Divine Self,” Michael Adzema embarks on a profound exploration of the human psyche, unraveling the intricate web of societal conditioning & personal illusions shaping our perceptions & behaviors.
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This book is a deep dive into the core of our collective and individual consciousness, challenging readers to confront the deeply ingrained beliefs and narratives that limit our potential.
*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS* presents the grand overview for understanding your reality & liberating yourself from limiting perspectives, unconscious prejudices, & denials of the reality before you which would otherwise be obvious.
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The first volume answers the question, What is the real self? The second, What is the Divine Self? The third, What is Naked Reality?
“Dance of the Seven Veils II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, and Your Divine Self” by Michael Adzema is a profound exploration into the depths of our being, blending psychology, mythology, and spirituality in a way that is both enlightening and transformative.
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In this third volume of “The Path of Ecstasy” series, Adzema delves into the concept of the Divine Self. He poses intriguing questions:
Do we possess an inner core that is inherently positive, blissful, and interconnected with the universe?
"Dance of the Seven Veils II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self" (2023) by Michael Adzema is free September 2nd thru 6th, 2024
“Dance of the Seven Veils II” by Michael Adzema is a profound exploration into the depths of human psychology and spirituality. This book is not just a read; it’s an experience that invites you to journey into the very core of your being.
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Adzema masterfully intertwines prenatal and perinatal psychology with mythology, offering a unique perspective on how our earliest experiences shape our lives and our connection to the Divine.
*To indigenous and “primal” peoples of all kinds everywhere.*
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*SOUL AND CELL AND THE DEVOLUTIONAL MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE RECONCILIATION OF PRENATAL-PERINATAL AND TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY*
Prenatal spirituality and the devolutional model of consciousness compelled by it envision a revolution in child development, parenting, mental health, and spirituality. Falls from Grace presents such a radical theory of consciousness, evolution, stages of life, purpose of life, human nature, and the human species.
Reporting on the latest understandings from consciousness research and experiential explorations into the human mind, it discloses awareness extending into womb and cellular states — sperm, egg, zygote, and blastocyst, for example — and even before conception. It is a comprehensive understanding, which basically turns everything we think is true on its head. Still, in doing so, it reveals previously unacknowledged positive and joyful possibilities of our human potential and indicates exactly where we need to apply our efforts to realize them ... to transform ourselves and the societies and world we live in.
While Falls from Grace is a radical view, it is in line with mystical beliefs, Platonic thought, and even much of primitive or primal-like views of the world and Nature.
In the end, Falls from Grace suggests a new renaissance on the horizon - a primal renaissance - as formerly discarded views are re-understood and integrated in light of new paradigm discoveries.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS for Part 3:
PART 3: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD “DEVELOPMENT,” SPIRITUALITY, AND PERSONAL GROWTH — EGO AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND CAN IT BE OTHERWISE
SECTION NINE: RETURN TO GRACE — CAN IT BE OTHERWISE?
Chapter 43. Civilization, Culture, and the History of Our Falls from Grace in Nature … Primal Peoples Had a Nobleness We Don’t Know
Chapter 44. Changing the Human Condition Starts with Birth: The Most Precocious, Brilliant, and Advanced Children Were Treated Differently as Newborns
Chapter 45. The Primal Scene and the Divine Child: Hierarchical Societies Demand Conformity All the Way Down the Line
Chapter 46. By Adolescence “Civilized” Children Are Programmed … Whereas in Primal Societies Inner Experience Is Cultivated: Puberty, Becoming Adult
Chapter 47. What Does the Natural Self Look Like? The State of Not Losing the Soul Is Emotional Openness and Joy, Being Equally Free in Tears and Laughter
SECTION TEN: CORRECTING THE “CIVILIZED” EGO — THE STORMY PATH TO SELF
Chapter 48. Is the Supernatural Terrifying? The Idea of a Shamanistic, Stormy Spiritual Path Is Too at Odds with Our Religious Anti-Body Culture to Be Easily Accepted
Chapter 49. “Crazy” and Transcendent Are Not Opposite as Ego Psychologists Conveniently Proclaim: Have Western Puritanical Beliefs Infected Transpersonal Psychology?
Chapter 50. Ego Weak Mystics and Shamans: A Supremely Defended Ego Is the Aim of Modern “Sanitized” Spirituality … the “Holy Fools” of Mystical History Would Be Medicated Today
Chapter 51. A Mystical Machismo Has Invaded Spiritual Thinking: Whereas Surrender Spiritualities, Believing in Ultimate Goodness, See Controlling as the Problem
Chapter 52. The “Patriarchal Mistake” Involves Struggling to Keep Out “Negative” Thoughts: For “There Is No Coming to Consciousness Without Pain” — Carl Jung
Chapter 53. It’s Pure Egoism to Think We Are Evolving to a New Consciousness. If We’re Lucky We’ll Regain the One We’ve Lost
Chapter 54. Planet of the Apes? Thunderdome? No. But Only If We Are Lucky: Our Primal Return May Indeed Be a Primal Renaissance
EPILOGUE: Are We Entering a Primal Renaissance? The Earliest Yuppies, 25,000 Years Ago, Cast Us Out of the Garden. We Are Returning
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
About the Author
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Also by Michael Adzema
From the Return to Grace Series:
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Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth and Generations. Volume 1. (2022)
Apocalypse NO: Apocalypse or Earth Rebirth and the Emerging Perinatal Unconscious. Volume 4. (2013)
Wounded Deer and Centaurs: The Necessary Hero and the Prenatal Matrix of Human Events. Volume 5. (2016)
Planetmates: The Great Reveal.Volume 6. (2014)
Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation. Volume 7. (2015)
Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor. Volume 8. (2013)
Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness. Volume 9. (2014)
Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man. Volume 10. (2016)
Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, and the Prenatal Matrix of Human Events. Volume 11. (2018)
Back to the Garden: The Psychology and Spirituality of Humanicide and the Necessary Future. Volume 12. (scheduled 2023)
The Necessary Revolution. Volume 2. (forthcoming)
Primal Return: Renaissance and Grace. Volume 13. (forthcoming)
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From The Path of Ecstasy Series:
The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, and the Path of Ecstasy. Volume 1. (2016)
Dance of the Seven Veils I … Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, and Your Real Self … Adult to Toddler, Veils One-Three. Volume 2. (2017)
Dance of the Seven Veils II ... Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, and Your Divine Self ... Infant to Prenate, Veils Four-Six. Volume 3. (2023)
Dance of the Seven Veils III … Peri-Conceptional/ Transpersonal Psychology, Mythology, and Your Original Face … Cellular to Soulular, Veil Seven and Beyond. Volume 4. (scheduled 2024)
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Other:
The Dangers of Mysticism for Modern Youth. (1970)
Primal Renaissance: The Millennial Return. (1995)
Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths.” Volume 1. (2013)
Who to Be: Identity, Authenticity, and Crisis. (2020)
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FM/1 of PART THREE of *Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema
Which is titled: *IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD “DEVELOPMENT,” SPIRITUALITY, AND PERSONAL GROWTH — EGO AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND CAN IT BE OTHERWISE*
PART 3. IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD “DEVELOPMENT,” SPIRITUALITY, AND PERSONAL GROWTH — EGO AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS AND CAN IT BE OTHERWISE
SECTION NINE. RETURN TO GRACE — CAN IT BE OTHERWISE?
Chapter 43 of *Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema
*Civilization, Culture, and the History of Our Falls from Grace in Nature: Primal Peoples Had a Nobleness We Don’t Know*
[*Quotes/highlights*:] Yes, We Can Improve the Human Condition … and We Have: The Necessary Wound … We Should Make It Better
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Chapter 43/1 of *Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema
Of PART THREE, titled, *Implications for Child “Development,” Spirituality, and Personal Growth — Ego and Higher Consciousness and Can It Be Otherwise*
[*Chapter 43 text begins*:] *History of Falls from Grace*
In three other works of mine — Planetmates, The Great Reveal 2014); *Primal Renaissance* (1993); and the forthcoming, *Prodigal Human* — I delineate what I believe are some of the factors in creating the present state of consciousness as described as being the endpoint of the process of devolution in the last chapter. I trace it back millions of years to bipedal locomotion, an increasing skull size, greater pain in childbirth, increased psychological repression, changes in pelvic size in the female, the forces of natural selection on the length of gestation, comparative prematurity of human newborns, secondary altriciality, increased pain in infancy and birth for humans, increased repression, increased neocortical capacities, the beginnings of culture, and increased skull size again. I also trace this current patriarchal pathology back thousands of years to the “agrarian revolution” and the rejection of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
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Chapter 43/2 of *Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema
Of PART THREE, titled, *Implications for Child “Development,” Spirituality, and Personal Growth — Ego and Higher Consciousness and Can It Be Otherwise*