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@kevinnovak.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:01 PM

How Do You and Your Organization Master the Art of Storytelling?

#transformation #lifestages #cxo #customerexperience #sharedexperience #heroes #villains #birth #death #narrative #businessstrategy #work

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@20forty.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:01 PM

How Do You and Your Organization Master the Art of Storytelling?

#transformation #lifestages #cxo #customerexperience #sharedexperience #heroes #villains #birth #death #narrative #businessstrategy #work

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@humanfactorpodcast.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 3:01 PM

How Do You and Your Organization Master the Art of Storytelling?

#transformation #lifestages #cxo #customerexperience #sharedexperience #heroes #villains #birth #death #narrative #businessstrategy #work

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@knowledgezone.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 4:23 AM

#OnThisDay #Birth Anniversary of John Lennon (1940) - English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the #Beatles.

Today is World #PostDay.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:12 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 23

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๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #FlG โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒˆ #FallsFromGrace โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒˆ #FLGCH4 ๐Ÿ“– 4 #TruthWarriors โ• #psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธโ˜ฎ๏ธ #metaphysics โ˜ฏ๏ธ #birth ๐Ÿ‰ #perinatal ๐Ÿ‰ #rebirth ๐Ÿฆ‹ #transpersonal ๐Ÿชฝ #RainbowWarriors ๐Ÿฆ‹

Lake began his investigation of re-experience in 1954. Like Stanislav Grof, he did this using LSD, initially, in the psycholytic therapy that was being developed at that time to facilitate therapeutic abreaction. Later he, again like Grof, developed a nondrug modality to accomplish the same thing. His method of โ€œprimal therapyโ€ employed a type of fast breathing โ€” again, like Grofโ€™s later technique โ€” to access theta-wave brain levels, which are levels of consciousness that he saw as crucial to accessing and integrating these memories.

His thirty-year research led him to the realization of the importance of ever earlier experience. Thus his earlier stress on the importance of birth gave way to his later emphasis on the first trimester in 1981 (Tight Corners in Pastoral Counselling) and in 1982 (The First Trimester).

He stressed the maternal-fetal distress syndrome, beginning at around implantation, as a major time of trauma. He also described a blastocystic stage of relative bliss just prior to that.

His one other major disagreement with Grof was his belief that the mythological and symbolical elements described by Grof were a product of LSD and that the first trimester events were the actualโ€ฆ

PRE/PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHENOMENON OF RE-EXPERIENCE

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:54 PM

*APOCALYPSE NO* Ch 3, p. 29

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๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #AN ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿšซ #ApocalypseNO ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿšซ #TruthWarriors โ• #climate ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”ฅ #ecopsychology ๐ŸŒโ˜ฎ๏ธ #Primal โ˜ฎ๏ธ #Psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธ #ecocide ๐Ÿ”ฅ #rebirth ๐Ÿฆ‹ #birth ๐Ÿ‰ #perinatal ๐Ÿ‰ #humanicide โฐโ›” #environment ๐ŸŒŽ

He becomes engaged in a desperate need to get out. Interestingly, the fan โ€” the source of comfort in the rhino (womb) โ€” stops working after a while. This is exactly analogous to the way, when we are fetuses, the nurturing elements of the motherโ€™s womb โ€œturn off,โ€ in the last stage of gestation, making the womb quite an uncomfortable place indeed.

We see him pushing his face against the elastic, membrane surface of the rhinoโ€™s posterior in a way graphically suggesting perinatal emergence. The tourists watching this explicitly state that they see it as the rhino giving birth. 

We witness the actual โ€œbirthโ€: Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura) struggles to make the opening larger and to come out. Finally, he falls, naked wet and curled up fetal- or baby-like, to the ground. Theโ€ฆ

APOCALYPSE โ€“ NO!

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:38 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 6, p. 57

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Later Theorists: Societal Implications, Psychohistory, Birth and Prenatal, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child 

Nandor Fodor โ€” Dreamwork, Birth and Prenatal Processing and Relivings, Prenatal Origins of Consciousness and Trauma, Validity of the Paranormal

Also a psychoanalyst, as well as being an associate of Sigmund Freud, Nandor Fodor (1949) focused on the reflections of birth and prenatal material in dreams. While Winnicott and some others referred to the prenatal as being significant in development, it is with Fodor, and his follower, Francis Mott, that it is most developed.

He also designed interventions in therapy to release the negativeโ€ฆ

WOMB WITH A VIEW

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:52 PM

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

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II

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โ€ฆsaying that they would not occur except for the birth traumas, and to that they do not agree. 

The Mythological-Archetypal Veil

I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth-like mythological and archetypal symbols. Nonetheless, I view the actual events of oneโ€™s life as having strong determination on the way one views and interprets everything that comes after them. That would include these transpersonal and archetypal realities as being at least shaped, if not caused, by our early experiences. 

My difference lies in two things: One, that these events shape or they  configure our religious and spiritual understandings, especially our re- ligious ones, is what I elaborate upon, especially in this book and the three  following it. However, I do not know the extent to which these events create or originate these transpersonal realities. Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, Planetmates (2014) and Prodigal Human (2016) โ€” which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth we suffer from, which is radically distinct from all of Nature โ€” it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:41 PM

*PSYCHOLOGY OF APOCALYPSE* Ch 1, p. 14

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๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #PA โ˜ฎ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒก๏ธโ˜ข๏ธ #PACH1 ๐Ÿ“– #TruthWarriors โ• #Psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธ #Climate ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒ #ecopsychology ๐ŸŒโ˜ฎ๏ธ๐ŸŒˆ #rebirth ๐Ÿฆ‹ #birth ๐Ÿ‰ #perinatal ๐Ÿ‰ #RainbowWarriors ๐Ÿฆ‹ #FBR ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿคโ€๐Ÿง‘ #resistโœŠ

However, scientists and the educated public are not supposed to be like that. It is our job to be looking squarely into the face of these forces of denial and potential apocalypse and to be seeking to understand the human condition and human psychology in light of them. It is our duty then to inform the rest of us about what we see so that we might have a chance of reversing our self-destructive tendencies.

Whether the educated public and the multitude of scholars actually are fulfilling their mission in these times is debatable. 

Regardless, my thesis is that when we do this, when we look foursquare into the face of the global crisis and its accompanying denial, we find that  these unprecedented global factors contribute to a unique and unprec- edented human condition and psychology. I have seen a bumper sticker  proclaiming, โ€œIf youโ€™re not angry, youโ€™re not paying attention!โ€ It could as easily say, however, โ€œIf youโ€™re not alarmed,โ€ fearful, anxious, depressed ... you name it, โ€œYouโ€™re not paying attention!โ€ 

I. APOCALYPSE AND INSANITY

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@arty-san.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:45 AM

How are baby bats born without falling to the ground?

And note how their wings are tiny when they're small.

#science #nature #bats #rodents #mammals #wildlife #birth #animals #DavidAttenborough #mothers #motherbats #babybats

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 12:29 AM

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

Ch 46, p. 17

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12/ ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #D7V2 โ˜ฎ๏ธ๐Ÿ‰ #TruthWarriorsโ•#D7V2CH46 ๐Ÿ“– #psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธ #birth๐Ÿ‰

No doubt, activities such as gymnastics, flying, and skydiving are reactions to these uncomfortable feelings. Such pastimes are attempts to run away from the discomfort of entrapment and no-exit โ€” which feelings continue to plague us as adults, as we ever re-create that which we did not integrate and โ€œprocessโ€ at the time of initially experiencing it โ€” which claustrophobic-like feelings superseded and overlaid the earlier bliss state. Thus, we seek to re-create and re-stimulate those earlier blissful feelings in us through adult experiences of weightlessness, swimming, dancing, surfing, hot tubbing. I need to add loving sexuality to that โ€” particularly in its re-stimulating blissful memories of re-union with an Other who is all-accepting, all-embracing, and eminently kind. I need to include also the seduction of the experience of being religiously reborn.5 

I cannot leave the topic of floating without pointing to the most obvious and frequent activity of humans to re-create the weightless  experience of BPM I โ€” swimming. Being in water simulates the gravity- free state of our earliest life. It is one of the commonest activities of  humans. Naturally, in that same category would be bathing.

Even our depictions of release from the constraints of physical existence are viewed through this BPM I veil of blissful weightlessness โ€” whether it is the evangelical Christian idea of โ€œthe rapture,โ€ where peopleโ€ฆ

46. HEAVEN 

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@birth-suit.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 9:17 PM

โ€ข #movie.birth-suit

Angel Heart Movie (1987)
#angelheart #angel #heart #eminent #amazing #talent #picoftheday #birth-suit

โ€ข #movie.birth-suit

Angel Heart Movie (1987)
#angelheart #angel #heart #eminent #amazing #talent #picoftheday #birth-suit
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:33 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 23

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๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #FlG โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒˆ #FallsFromGrace โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒˆ #FLGCH4 ๐Ÿ“– 4 #TruthWarriors โ• #psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธ #primal โ˜ฎ๏ธโ˜ฏ๏ธ #birth ๐Ÿ‰ #perinatal ๐Ÿ‰ #rebirth ๐Ÿฆ‹ #transpersonal ๐Ÿชฝ #RainbowWarriors ๐Ÿฆ‹

PRE/PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHENOMENON OF RE-EXPERIENCE

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Frank Lake

Breathwork, First Trimester, Early Experience as Foundation for Myths

Frank Lake, though less well-known again, has probably been the premier theoretician on the topic of prenatal events during the first three months of gestation. Just prior to his death in the early eighties, he wrote a culmination of his thirty-year investigation into pre- and perinatal influence in two works titled Tight Corners in Pastoral Counselling and The First Trimester. In these works he goes beyond his other works (for example, 1966) in placing the roots of all later experience, and in particular, distress, at the first three months of physical existence.

Lake began his investigation of re-experience in 1954. Like Stanislav Grof, he did this using LSD, initially, in the psycholytic therapy that was being developed at that time to facilitate therapeutic abreaction.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:12 PM

*APOCALYPSE NO* Ch 3, p. 29

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๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #AN ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿšซ #ApocalypseNO ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿšซ #TruthWarriors โ• #climate ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ”ฅ #ecopsychology ๐ŸŒโ˜ฎ๏ธ #Primal โ˜ฎ๏ธ #Psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธ #thanatos #birth ๐Ÿ‰ #perinatal ๐Ÿ‰ #humanicide โฐโ›” #environment ๐ŸŒŽ

APOCALYPSE โ€“ NO!

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โ€ฆwell as that of it emerging from the mouth โ€” as examples, the โ€œvolcano-new-speciesโ€ episode of The X Files and the dance hall scene in โ€œJacobโ€™s Ladderโ€ โ€” indicating fetal emergence mixed with ungentle neonatal mouth clearing, as mentioned above.

Membrane Walls

But this new variation of โ€œfetal emergenceโ€ has human faces pushing through membrane-like elastic walls!

Ventura Out of the Womb

A good example of this occurs in the movie, โ€œAce Ventura, Pet Detective, When Nature Calls.โ€ In the Ace Ventura movie, Jim Carrey emerges from inside a mechanical rhino with virtually all birth elements evident.

He is holed up in a hot and suffocating โ€œwombโ€ โ€” that is, he is inside the rhino.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:05 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 6, p 57

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WOMB WITH A VIEW

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Chapter 6  

Womb with a View:  

Everything You Believe, You Learned as a Fetus ... Overview of Prenatal and Perinatal  Psychology, Part Two  

Later Theorists: Societal Implications, Psychohistory, Birth and Prenatal, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 6:17 PM

*PLANETMATES* KEYNOTE 1, p. 8

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Economics to Piss on You

I pondered, is it funny, or horrible, that I had been making money hand over fist as I kept shorting the market, buying only puts, having  fully expected this crash ever since Bush had put in his tax-cuts-for- the-rich policy in his first year of office?3 

I expected this crash to come near the end of the Wโ€™s second term, like had happened to Reagan who had employed the same asinine throw-money-at-the-rich policy. Both presided over huge transfers upward to the already โ€œfilthy rich.โ€ They did this fully aware that these folks would not spend it to create jobs, but instead would buy yachts and โ€” one big rage of the Reagan era โ€” expensive art, which they bid through the roof, making headlines in those days, as one art object after another would break a new record. At the time, we all thought: โ€œGreat idea, Ron baby. Now you just tell me how money locked up in art will somehow create jobs and tinkle down on the poor?โ€

PLANETMATES: THE GREAT REVEAL

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:22 PM

*PSYCHOLOGY OF APOCALYPSE* Ch 1, p 14

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I. APOCALYPSE AND INSANITY

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โ€ฆattention, put out, published, and promulgated by the best scientists of our time, mixed in with the more mundane messages of our daily newspapers and nightly newscasts, though we mostly turn our ears from them. Still, you are aware of them, else you would not have this book in your hands right now.

There are other types of folks, however, the ones who will never see a book like this. There will always be those that will have their heads in the sand and will be cast about like flotsam upon the waters by the events swirling around them โ€” impotent in the face of them and dependent upon otherโ€™s actions for the result. If you are one, know weโ€™re trying to save you, too.

Assuming you are not one of them โ€” a good bet, if you are reading this โ€” there is much to say about the current apocalyptic trends.

But even those of us aware of this crisis hardly think of it. Of course it is our normal psychic defenses that operate to keep this huge awareness out of our daily minds. We must do this in order to be able to function. But perhaps, for some of us, our defenses work too well โ€” so much so that we unthinkingly participate in and contribute to our own demise. This is classic neurotic self-sabotaging, self-destruction on a macro scale.
@hiphopultimate.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:00 PM

A UK woman gave birth to a baby boy while walking out to an ambulance. An unexpected and dramatic birth moment that left everyone stunned!

#UK #BabyBoy #Birth #BreakingNews #Amazing

๐Ÿ”— Get the full update โ€“ www.hypefresh.com/uk-woman-giv...

@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

Ch 46, p. 17

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46. HEAVEN 

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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 oneโ€™s actions with a motherโ€™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, 10:52 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 22

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๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™ #FlG โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒˆ #FallsFromGrace โ˜ฏ๏ธ๐ŸงŸ๐Ÿ‰๐ŸŒˆ #FLGCH4 ๐Ÿ“– 4 #TruthWarriors โ• #psychology โ˜ฎ๏ธ #FBR #birth ๐Ÿ‰ #perinatal ๐Ÿ‰ #rebirth ๐Ÿฆ‹ #transpersonal ๐Ÿชฝ #RainbowWarriors ๐Ÿฆ‹

In his descriptions of the levels of experience and the matrices of perinatal experience, Grof has provided useful maps of the unconscious and experience in nonordinary states, which have incredible heuristic value in our understanding of cross-cultural religious and spiritual experience, psychopathology, personal growth, and consciousness and personality in general. And they have been utilized successfully in providing a context and guide for many tens of thousands of participants in his psycholytic and holotropic therapies.

However, while Grof is exhaustive in his descriptions of fetal and perinatal experience, he says less about the earlier experiences in the womb โ€” the first trimester โ€” and even less about conception and the experiences of sperm and egg โ€” what is known as cellular consciousness. Still, this area is beginning to be discussed among his followers. And through his current nondrug modality, called holotropic breathwork, people are accessing these areas and beginning to give word to them (e.g., Carter, 1993). 

FALLS FROM GRACE

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