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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:48 AM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022) by M. Adzema

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46. HEAVEN Page 17 Indeed, that kind of precise and perfect unity with others is what dancers seek and re-create in the choreographed dance routines they do with others. Perfectly synchronized marching routines, as band or military members train to do, fit also into this category. These are all, at base, attempted re-creations of that perfect synergy of one’s actions with a mother’s biological processes and emotional states, which characterizes some of the best of our times in the womb. It is even better if it defies gravity, as our experience in the womb seemed to do. Gymnastics and break-dancing are perfect re-creations of blissful womb experience. We can move euphorically in three-dimensional space, overcoming the constraints of gravity. This was precisely our experience in early womb life. We both do these activities as well as are fascinated by others performing them because of early memories of perfection and weightlessness. Plus, we sky-dive. And if we do not, we view with awe and appreciation via the media the videos of the most acrobatic and gravity defying stunts performed in descent by skydivers. We have created machines where we on the ground can force air up strongly enough so we can experience floating in the air above it similar to skydiving.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:54 PM

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxix …influential Veils, distorting our perceptions of reality, still earlier experiences are even more influential. For what happens first lays down the foundation upon which all later prejudices will be constructed. To this end, several theorists in particular — beginning with Otto Rank as long ago as 1929, with his book The Trauma of Birth, and including Nandor Fodor (1949), Frances Mott (1960, 1964), and Michael Irving (1988), but especially coming out in expansive detail with Stanislav Grof (1970, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988a, 1993, 1998) — have noted the cross-over of birth experiences and traumas with religious and mythological beliefs and symbols. Of special relevance is that in Grof’s view they are distinct. That is, pre- and perinatal events are distinct from transpersonal events according to him. Transpersonal in this sense, in line with transpersonal psychology, refers to the spiritual, archetypal, mythological, supernatural, and religious components of experience. Grof’s perspective is that birth events represent a kind of junction spot between the transpersonal and the personal; thus, between the spiritual and the individual aspects of experience, or between the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious, to use Carl Jung’s terminology.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 12:49 AM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022)

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It is understandable that we would create birthdays and bring people to gather around us at birthday parties. Certainly, our births were fraught with discomfort and trauma. But we did make it out. And birthdays and their parties are ways we try to remind ourselves that life is not always the discomfort and struggle of birth (BPM III) or the aloneness and separateness immediately after birth — BPM IV, that’s coming up, also — but can be the blissful love surround of unity with one’s mother as was the case in the early womb state. We try to cover over the struggles and alienation of life — which we are pushed to unconsciously manifest in our lives because of these traumas around the process of coming into the world — with reminders of the most pleasurable time of our lives, our early womb existence, which we intentionally wish to bring about again. People go to dance halls to surround themselves with writhing flesh in a way that they themselves can still move freely and, well, even acrobatically, they would like to think. We want the freedom of blissful, flawless movement. Perfection and precise movement is sought, along with bliss, for our prenatal experience was of a process of biological exactness; excellent and exquisite beyond anything we would later experience. VEIL FOUR. PERINATAL SHOCK ... BIRTH TRAUMA Page 16
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 11:47 PM

#TruthWarriors #D7V2 *Dance of the Seven Veils II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self*

@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:46 PM

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For at this point we border on the truly astounding and mind-blowing. All else may be interesting, is no doubt instrumental, is most of it useful; that is, in a practical psychological or spiritual sense. But here is where we “get real.” That phrase will be seen to never have been so true and profound as it is in its applicability here. This third book of Dance of the Seven Veils pulls to the side the final Veil on Naked Reality. We see the soulular, the No-Form State, the face of Ultimate Divinity. And ... we find ... our Original Face, which is discovered to be part and parcel of all of that. Knowing this thing, one knows everything. So this is where we will go in those books. We will, like Salome, do a Dance of the Seven Veils and find out what Naked Reality is more likely to be like. Book Five, Womb with a View While our births and our species biology — as exhibited in the species congratulation we do of ourselves, which is called anthropocentrism — are… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II Page xxviii
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:22 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self*

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VEIL FOUR. PERINATAL SHOCK ... BIRTH TRAUMA Page 16 In Human Activities However, we do not forget this time of contentment, euphoria, and magical expansion of the world. And we try to return to it through many of the actions of our lives: swimming, meditation, and such. We seek out experiences of floating and weightlessness and freedom of movement to counter the feelings of entrapment that came of the stage of suffering in the womb — described in the next two chapters, “Forgetting” and “Hell” — that comes at the end of gestation. At that time we felt confined in flesh, claustrophobic, with no-exit. Remember that in the early stages of our womb lives, described as BPM I states, we are surrounded by flesh as well, but it is not constricting. It is blissful and euphoric. No doubt we create our parties and festivals out of our desires to re-experience such wonderful, comforting feelings. In these situations and events, one moves freely, with people (flesh) at a comfortable distance. Ideally one wishes to be the “life of the party” — in other words, the reason everyone else is there and the person around whom everything else revolves. For such is the case in the early stages of life inside one’s mother, in general. Everything that was going on at that time, around one’s embryonal and fetal selves, biologically speaking for sure, was about oneself; but more: It was about one’s overall happiness and well-being. As they say, it doesn’t get any better than this.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 6:42 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II* PREFACE, p. xxviii

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II Page xxviii …volumes and all the prior ideas which — one by one — were used to pry back the boards upon which we stand which unthinkingly create our arbitrary platform within Reality. The culmination and purpose of this entire journey approaches its fruition here. In this third book of Dance of the Seven Veils, then, we look at the last Veil, which has to do with our peri-conceptional experiences. That is to say, the experiences around conception. Peri-conception extends back to our emergence into Form with the creation of ovum, first, and then sperm. It continues with the actual events of the coming together of ovum and sperm at conception. It passes on into the events of the fertilized egg, the blastosphere, of implantation, and finally, of early embryonal existence. We find the deepest imprints on our human reality here, peri- conceptionally. Hence it is our first, our deepest, our initial Veil across our ultimate identity as Divinity and our experience in the No-Form State. This Seventh Veil — the first reduction from Cosmic Awareness, the first cookie cutter on the dough of our physical reality — establishes our physical world, in many ways. We find here the creation of duality as perceived in the world, of thing and no-thing, of self and other, of forward and backward. We discover here the philosophical basis of our human reality. These are the things we believe, without any doubt. It will require the removal of all the preceding and overlying Veils to have a chance to grok what is to be gotten here. For at this point we border on the truly astounding and mind-blowing.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 5:01 AM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 46, p. 15

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We see examples of this feelings constellation — that is, BPM I — coming out in films, as well. The movie, Avatar, is set on another planet, whose environment is a near-perfect depiction of a BPM I state. Remember, this state during early womb life is one of uninterrupted and oceanic bliss, contentment, harmony, which is interrupted by the later stages of pregnancy and, again, when forced to endure a mechanized- technological birth. Everything is there in the movie just as in the womb state: There is a perfect harmony with Nature, including the existence of a World Tree symbolizing the life-giving placenta ... meaning harmony with the Mother, who is the World Mother, a Goddess. However, BPM I heaven ends. Much like in Avatar where paradise is spoiled by attacking forces, we also in the womb grow bigger and eventually get to the point where we no longer have a sense of free- floating bliss, we feel more and more hemmed in. We feel attacked by an outside world — our mother’s body in the womb and later a mechanized birth ... represented by the military forces and weapons in Avatar. Eventually we feel claustrophobic and no-exit feelings which ends the time of bliss. I will discuss that in the chapter after next, where we look at basic perinatal matrix II, BPM II. 46. HEAVEN Page 15
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 5:41 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II* PREFACE, p xxvii

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What actually is Naked Reality? Who were you before you were you as you think you are? What is your “original face”? Well that is what we look at in the next book. Book Four, Dance of the Seven Veils III: Transpersonal/Peri-Conceptional Psychology, Mythology, and Your Origi- nal Face ... Cellular to Soulular, Veil Seven and Beyond. In the third book of Dance of the Seven Veils, which is Volume 4 in The Path of Ecstasy Series, I take on the most profound of all human questions, which has to do with what is really really real. What is Reality? That is a question that lies deep at our roots, and deep in our souls. It is no coincidence its discovery might arise through a consideration of those deepest parts of our selves. Indeed, having removed six overlying Veils upon Reality — Veils which were projected out onto our screens of perception and understanding as a result of prior experience, especially traumatic and deeply affecting ones — this is our best chance to remove the last Veil. That is exactly the purpose of all the preceding pages in these…. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxvii
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:22 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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46. HEAVEN Page 15 …endless possibilities. This is significant, for later experience will have the majority of people feeling fearful of new beginnings. We will see that in the way they are traumatized at birth, so not wanting to achieve again; and in the way after the period of blissful expanse in the womb, in the later stages, it becomes claustrophobic and hellacious, leaving an imprint that growth is dangerous. These are just examples; there are other experiences leading one astray as well. Whereas if one is lucky or has cleared away enough of the residual primal pain and trauma from one’s beginnings, one can stand upon a more blissful and euphoric foundation. These are aspects of what I call the “joy grids,” which underlie one’s Pain and create our deeper human nature. In this case, one experiences new beginnings as ecstatic. There is a reason that I have labeled this entire series of books, which has been stimulated by the discovery of these underlying joy grids, The Path of Ecstasy Series. In any case, this example of ecstatic experience at the time of descent through the fallopian tube I can personally liken to my experience of leaving “the nest” and going off to college — which began as one of the happiest and most magical times of my life. We see examples of this feelings constellation — that is, BPM I — coming out in films, as well. The movie, Avatar, is set on another planet, whose environment is a near-perfect depiction of a BPM I state.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 6:32 PM

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxvii …substratum which gets ever and over again reflected in our basic beliefs, which we conceptualize and narrate in our mythologies. In terms of the sequence being laid out in Dance of the Seven Veils, the time of birth itself — including the postnatal period, with its graces or horror ... depending — is what I term Veil Four. The time of prenatal malnutrition and our experience of third trimester hell, with its four aspects, the PMEs, comes under the heading of Veil Five. Lastly, the time of, optimally, early blissful womb experience, connection with Divinity, and experience of harmony and buoyant optimism, confidence, and delight is what I call Veil Six. All of these, whatever their experiential qualities — pleasureful or painful — are Veils. They are films across our comprehension because they are imprints about what Reality is that arises of our unique human experience — either individually or collectively. Thus, being a conse- quence of early, quite variable, quite unique (in comparison to other species) events, they cannot truly be considered accurate about what exists outside the parameters they most definitely inscribe. They comprise hard and fast prejudices about what is True and Real. So, what is Real, then? What is Reality prior to the events which skewed our understandings of What Is so that It is a particular thing, not any other things. What actually is Naked Reality?
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 8:41 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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This experience as a growing, cell-multiplying blastosphere and embryo is something like that. This is one of our first, if not the first, experiences of euphoria. That is a euphoria that is only augmented by the joy — happening to a large or small extent, depending — that many of us experience during the blissful womb time. So while much of BPM I, womb experience might be described as happiness, or “oceanic bliss,” this earlier BPM I experience of the early embryo, fetus, and blastosphere can have more of the characteristics of expansive euphoria as compared to passive extreme contentment, also known as bliss. Another particularly blissful-euphoric time is our experience as the egg cell, the ovum, after it has left the “sisterhood” of the mother’s ovarian sac. A therapist described a hypnotic regression she gave one of her clients: “I suggested that she go to the time of conception. She immediately reported that she was having fun rolling down the fallopian tube. Suddenly she saw little swimmers coming up toward her and then swimming all around her. She laughed and described the spermatozoa all bumping into her and felt one get really strong and attach itself and then enter through the skin of the egg. She began to multiply, feeling joyous and happy....” 4 Descent down the fallopian tube is often ecstatic at the time, and it creates a foundation for experiencing life as euphoric new beginnings with… VEIL FOUR. PERINATAL SHOCK ... BIRTH TRAUMA Page 14
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 5:21 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II* PREFACE, p. xxvi

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One of the major points of the book is that in any growth — spiritual, personal, or psychotherapeutic — the goal is to go through the pain grids, by facing, acknowledging, experiencing, and reliving them, and tapping into the joy grids beneath them. Which “joy grids” I liken to our deeper human nature. This deeper self or personhood is interconnected with and interacting with the Divine — which is a state of beingness that is the experience of that time as well as is a quality of everyday consciousness that embraces one when one reconnects with these repressed experiences in the process of personal growth as an adult. Dance of the Seven Veils II also lays out, for consideration and integration into the larger overstanding being presented, the aspects of the perinatal matrices of experience. These are matrices that have been discovered and presented to our collective understandings by Stanislav Grof. Another aspect of this book is that it brings out the truly amazing coincidence of the events of these times with the religious ideas, theologies, iconographies, and beliefs of all cultures of all times. We discover the roots of many of the archetypes here. We can discern the imprints of that time playing into both the positive and negative proclivities of religious behavior. Naturally, these early prenatal-perinatal matrices all together — both Grof’s and mine — are the patterned… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II Page xxvi
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 9:46 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022)

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VEIL FOUR. PERINATAL SHOCK ... BIRTH TRAUMA Page 14 ***themselves. For we are anything but split off from our bodies at this point. Similarly, we are not very much removed from identity with the universal creative principle itself — God or Divinity — which is the decider and initiator ... the true doer and actor in everything we do ... including in our forgetting and our corruptions from our primal Divinity. You heard me correctly. Now, there is something fruitful to ponder. (next book Regardless, at this time we are not cut off from deep awareness of our biological processes and intents, its experience, its movements and changes right down to the very cells that are multiplying. “People have stated in regression that they can feel the multiplication of cells; others describe the growth of the embryo in great detail.” 3 That is the way one pre- and perinatal psychologist put it. I’m trying to think of how to explain that feeling and what comes to my mind is the feeling of accomplishment and success folks into fitness or body-building feel as they continue thriving, reaching and surpassing their goals. They feel almost superhumanly confident that they can achieve anything in that respect, through their own actions, and that there is virtually no end or limit to what they are becoming. This experience as a growing, cell-multiplying blastosphere and embryo is something like that. This is one of our first, if not the first, experiences of euphoria.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:41 PM

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II Page xxvi …unable to do anything about it. No exit. One might liken it to a tea pot or pressure cooker, stopped up and not allowed to vent. Then, because of the inefficiency of the blood flow in bringing nutrients to the fetus, which includes, most importantly of all, oxygen; it is characterized by feelings of suffocation along with the cramped feelings. Next, because the reduced blood flow means the toxic byproducts of food conversion will not be removed as efficiently, we routinely experience feelings of being force-fed toxins, waste matter, and “poisons.” This is accompanied by feelings of nausea, sickness, and — because it seems to come from all around and yet from nowhere in particular — paranoia, the sense of a dire threat which can come from anywhere at any time and is directed in particular at oneself. Finally, also consequent to this buildup of toxins in the amniotic surround is a feeling of burning or irritation on the surface of the skin. These feelings are the basis of the human evil of all times, and I call them the prenatal matrices of human evil, or the PMEs. Comprising, as they do, the greatest amount of the trauma and pain of our early lives, they are pretty much congruent with what I call the pain grids.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 2:32 AM

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However, if that does not happen, or to the extent that does not happen, this time in our lives creates in our deepest memories a knowledge of a state of “heaven.” It is harmony, peace, bliss, unity with the mother. My own research has added that it is a time when we retain a connection with Divinity or a higher reality than what we will know ever afterward.1 Which goes to explain the fact we have awareness of our past lives at this time. Furthermore, my own experience, added to research of other prenatal researchers — Frank Lake,2 in particular — reveals there are specific milestones related to this state. For example, the time of connection with the uterine wall, as a blastosphere, a bundle of cells, is a particularly euphoric time. The period of growth in general — from zygote through the embryonic state — is likely to be experienced as a bedrock of innate competence, confidence, and mastery. We participate in the bodies we are growing at that time. If not through actually willing their development and the proliferation of cells, then more like through our immersion in the biological processes… 46. HEAVEN Page 13
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Just as fresh to the field, it adds to that discipline by exploring the influences from our time of “prenatal hell,” during late gestation. That is something never really dealt with before and only written about by one other.3 So it is that this book has to do with the time after birth — the newborn and infancy periods — yet it extends back to the time before birth, the prenatal. However, the prenatal is divided into two separate Veils, which could not be more contrasting. There is the time of blissful existence during the first two trimesters of gestation. This is the basis of much of what I call the joy grids — which is the substratum of each human’s personality having to do with what gives them pleasure, joy, fulfillment, ecstasy, and bliss. It is our deepest self in this lifetime, and it is interconnected with the Divine. From which we had only a little time earlier separated, keep in mind. It also expands on what happens, generally speaking, during the third trimester, when the fetus’s larger mass, in conjunction with the bipedal stance of humans, results in constriction of the blood vessels going to the prenate. The extreme compression experienced by the unborn baby at this time already causes pressure from all sides on the body and increasingly more difficulty in movement. This crowdedness in the womb brings forth claustrophobic-like feelings in the prenate of wanting to explode yet being… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:23 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

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46. HEAVEN Page 13 Basic Perinatal Matrix I To begin with, Grof’s Basic Perinatal Matrix I, or BPM I, involves the experiences and feelings related to the sometimes, or at least relatively, undisturbed prenatal period. The prenatal period is that time in the womb sometimes characterized by feelings of peace, complete relaxation, and a feeling of all needs met, or “oceanic bliss.” BPM I corresponds to deMause’s societal periods of “prosperity and progress,” which he claims are accompanied by feelings and fears of being “soft” and “feminine” — understandably here, for in BPM I, that is, prenatally, the fetus is largely identified with his or her mother and is very much “soft,” that is to say, undefended. This time in the womb may also be disturbed by toxic substances that the mother ingests — drugs, chemical additives, and so on — as well as by disturbing emotions that the mother experiences, which release stress hormones into the mother’s bloodstream, which then cross the placental barrier and affect the fetus. For these reasons, BPM I is also sometimes characterized as feelings of being surrounded by a polluted environment and being forced to ingest noxious substances, toxins, and poisons, which sickens the fetus.
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*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II* PREFACE, p. xxv

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv Book Three, Dance of the Seven Veils II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, and Your Divine Self ... Infancy to Prenate, Veils Four-Six. The Series continues with this book in your hand, which is the second of three parts of Dance of the Seven Veils. This book, the third volume in The Path of Ecstasy Series, answers the questions, what is the Divine Self? Do we have such an inner core of being that is positive, interactive with the Universe beyond us, helpful and healing, confident, powerful, blissful, and eminently loving? Indeed, do we have such a Self that might be categorized in the Hindu fashion as Satchitanda — meaning Being, Awareness, Bliss? If so, how did we lose it, so that we think we do not? And, how can we get it back? This book is concerned with the time of our lives around birth; however it traces the psychological imprints from that time back into the womb. This work’s elucidation of the experiential realms of the prenatal is, in fact, that which distinguishes it from what has been said about this time around birth, previously, in the field of prenatal and perinatal psychology.
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*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022) by Michael Adzema.

Ch 46, p. 12

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“...we do not forget this time of contentment, euphoria, and magical expansion of the world. And we try to return to it through many of the actions of our lives: swimming, meditation, and such. We seek out experiences of floating and weightlessness and freedom of movement to counter the feelings of entrapment that came of the next stage of suffering in the womb....” Grof outlines four of these complexes or matrices of experience ... four different ways we view our lives and our world and react to it. They relate to four different times during our births, which are tied up with four different sets of feelings. VEIL FOUR. PERINATAL SHOCK ... BIRTH TRAUMA Page 12
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