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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 10:13 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* by Michael Adzema

Ch 3, p. 23

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:50 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 5

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1. CREATING WORLDS Page 5 …particular set of stimuli is “objectively” neutral until “interpreted” by an organism relative to its physiological makeup, its species. This, of course, makes perfect sense. There is nothing inherently painful in a stimulus that is produced by something whose molecules are moving at such a speed and manner that one would measure its temperature at, say, two hundred degrees Fahrenheit. That degree of heat is not “objectively” painful. It would be painful to us, to humans, however. Yet, one could easily imagine a species for which that particular vibrational rate would be within its tolerance range. The quality of pain ... the very existence of pain, even ... is relative to the perceiving organism, its species. It is determined by the species physiology, and in humans this determination is made for us during the journey of the neural firing through interior areas of the brain, far out of our conscious awareness. Let us take a more subtle example. There is nothing inherently comforting or even pleasurable in a caress — that is, the pattern of stimuli involving the moving of one particular organism’s surface against another’s, in a particular way. Those “particulars,” along with other aspects, are what go into defining caress by means of a complex communication among billions of neural cells and their components inside the brain.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:34 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p 22

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 22 …do not exist or are not perceived or understood the same from other cultural perspectives — in other words, by people from other cultures. And there are biologically constituted realities: That is, there are those supposed “brute facts” that either do not exist or are not perceived or understood the same from other biological perspectives — in other words, by species, beings, or entities other than the human one. These last are as biologically relative as the first ones are culturally relative.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 9:06 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 4

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That is to say that the organism does not detect the outside world through its senses, it determines the outside world through them. Or at least it interprets that outside world in a way that is determined by its biological makeup. Whatever is in Reality is being scanned, sorted through: In the process of our perceiving, our senses are picking through an infinity of possibilities of what could be detected to select what will be “sensed,” perceived. After that, it is concocted: What the senses have chosen out of everything possible is then determined in terms of its relation to the biology of the organism, meaning what species it is. Then it is interpreted: An understanding of the experience is arrived at which sees it in the context of the culture one is given by one’s society. A sensation does not discern anything initially, at the moment of sensing. The sensation is interpreted later. The organism does not even distinguish between pleasure and pain — to use one crude but useful example — until later. The pattern of neural firings created by any… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 4
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:52 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 21

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This is biological relativity, and what it adds to our understanding when seen as analogous to the other relativities is that it tells us: a) Our realities can only be understood within the context of our species ... other species could not understand them ... and we cannot really understand the realities of other species ... lower or higher, if in fact there are such categories for species in Ultimate Reality. In some way, large or small, species will misunderstand each other. In fact, in that species are actually distinct from each other, whereas cultures are not ... see Note 6 of this chapter ... there is much more to biological relativity than there has ever been to cultural relativity. b) Many elements of our human reality will be invisible to or not even exist within the realities of other species — they are biologically constituted realities. Some things, maybe many or all things, which exist within the perceived and understood realities of other species will be invisible to us or not even exist within our possible world: They are species-specific, biologically constituted realities for them, as well. Bringing this all together, we now see that there are culturally constituted facts: That is to say, facts that are cultural creations and either… 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 21
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 7:12 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 4

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 4 …brain where they are then interpreted. Therefore, in a purely psychophysiological way, the world “out there” is not defined in and of itself. Cultures Create Worlds In fact, ultimately our world is defined in the part of the person that stores cultural information — the cerebral cortex. What this is saying is that cultures create worlds. One’s view of the world, arrived at through the process of enculturation in a person’s development, is determined by one’s culture, by the knowledge and experiences one has had in interaction with one’s society. The experience of hearing a particular sound is not known to be that of hearing someone talking to us, until the cortex defines those sounds as words. Biology Creates Worlds However, notice that before any cultural interpretation, those “messages” have had a journey through areas of the brain that define them prior to or outside of culture. Before any stimuli are interpreted as words, for example, a part of us determines that they are sounds.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 12:23 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 21

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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 21 especially the Judeo-Christian ones, which assert humans to be superior in Nature and having dominion over all others in Nature. I call anthropocentrism or human superiority to Nature a flat earth assumption because it is equally as obviously true yet ultimately wrong, as well as relative to a perceiver, as is a notion the Earth is flat. Not to mention that seeing Reality outside that assumption of anthropocentrism and acknowledging this species relativity instead would be as momentous and world-changing as was the discovery of the heliocentric nature of our solar system. Incidentally, this assumption of species superiority — species centrism — is also a central component of the Unapproved and Hidden I describe in others of my works.7 To understand species relativity, we can use those same understandings, discussed above, in regard to time, space, and culture relativity. We will see that all of those understandings are true, as well, for the realities created or constituted by our specific physical constitution, our biology, separate as it is for each species. This is biological relativity, and what it adds to our understanding when seen as analogous to the other relativities is that it tells us: a) Our realities can only be understood within the context of our species ... other species could not understand them ... and we cannot really understand the realities of other species ...
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 8:15 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p 3

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“...the probabilities are enormous that there are, in fact, other beings, unperceivable entities, unknown and unimaginable realities, and other and different senses ... and, yes, as one new physics proposition puts it, an infinite number of ‘worlds.’” Our Knowledge Is Biologically Relative Looking first to science, the findings of research from neurophysiology and neuropsychology are that neural “firings” from external stimuli, after they shoot through interior areas of the brain that deal with fundamental physiological processes, arrive in the cortical areas of the… 1. CREATING WORLDS Page 3
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 6:15 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, pp. 1, 3

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1. CREATING WORLDS Pages 1, 3 PART ONE BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Chapter 1 Creating Worlds: Many Beings, Many Worlds … While Our Science Is Built on an Assumption, Rooted in Religion, That Humans Are "God's Chosen Species"
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 26, 2026, 2:11 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p xix

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Part Five, “Matter Is Message” is the heart of the book. It is a comprehensive look at what we can learn having arrived at the position to which the first four parts of the book have brought us. I will say this about it: You will find more reason for optimism and more levity in your being from what will become you here. It gives back what was taken; it returns to you your rightful and honorable place. I invite you to open your eyes to the aliveness around you. I invite you to join me in a new world. Let me explain.... PREFACE Page xix
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 3:14 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 20

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 8:00 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xix

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PREFACE Page xix In Part Three, “Science as Myth,” I begin, first of all, to touch upon the ways these newer awarenesses have been thought of in the past. And surprisingly, with some of the deconstruction done in the first two parts, we find that science has made some gross misassumptions and thrown away some bathwater that has a viable life in it. I help to resuscitate those ideas, and I show how they actually integrate with some of the outermost rings of our findings from science at this time. Part Four begins the advance down the freeway to the new world, the new paradigm, the one where matter is discovered to be alive. In “The Consciousness of Stones,” I explain how that position is not just plausible, it is the only rational one left, all things considered. I bring forth some of the reasons — some anthropocentric, some simply habits of thought that are correctible — for why this new cosmic overstanding has not been unveiled before, as well as why significant parts of it, which would have revealed the rest, were historically cast aside.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 12:56 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 20

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 20 Biological Relativity At any rate, getting back to culturally constituted facts and those nasty brute facts, again, I was saying there is nothing “brute” about what humans would call brute facts. Rather, they are biologically determined facts. They are facts relative to our species. These “facts” or truths are biologically relative. They are true, with surety, only in relation to our species. They might exist for other species as well, certainly they are shared by many, but a) they are not shared by all, and b) we must conclude they are not even facts the way we know them, for they are necessarily perceived differently by each and every species. That is to say, if they, indeed, even show up as elements or “facts” in their realities, their perceived realities. Yes, we have another relativity — species relativity — to include with the others we have been coming up with in the sciences. Einstein let us know that our space and time were relative, not absolute. Franz Boas and all anthropologists after him helped us to see that our cultural realities were relative, as well. That means that all that we conceive and create as cultural elements can only be understood within the context of the culture they exist within.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 5:53 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p xviii

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In Part One of this book, “Being Shiva — Destroying and Creating Worlds,” I advance an argument based on taking a look at some assumptions we clearly do make and upon which we build all of our knowledge, our science, and our beliefs about what is real. It comes down to anthropocentrism, which is a species-centrism more disastrous for our understandings of trueness than any of the other centrisms — ethnocentrism, egocentrism, or any other. In doing that I unveil the layers of reality construction upon which we construct that anthropocentrism. This is an epistemological undertaking, for in doing this the intent is, by pulling away the false pillars upon which we build our world, to find out what can be known instead: What might actually be true. What might give us surer footing from which to view our worlds. In Part Two, “Transcending Worlds,” I begin to advance the notions that we might genuinely consider, once the false ones have been swept away. These are panoramas of understanding that open up once the curtain of anthropocentrism has been pulled to the side. We find a flourishing new world revealed. One that borders on wonder. THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 23, 2026, 1:58 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 19

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Are we sure that the way we chop up Reality into parts — separate things, separate beings, and so on — so that we might name them and analyze them separate from our perception of them is anything but a product of our biological programming? Does all possible perceptors see the world in terms of parts? How can we say that is the case? Perhaps, indeed, that separation of ourselves from Reality and dissecting of it is just some neurosis or illness ... some delusion ... that is particularly human to do so. Or at least that it is unique to humans. But going off on that tack is jumping ahead. For this book will, indeed, take us there and past that point as well. In fact such considerations are specifically addressed in the chapter titled, “The Radical Rational View of Us And It,” Chapter 15. Hang on, and congratulations on your forethought, by the way. 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 19
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 4:22 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xviii

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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii …your stance — for such a stance in life — then you could easily go directly to the second half of the book, “Matter Is Message.” It is a long book, and I can understand some might want to do that, if only to cut down on their reading. I need mention this because I want all readers to know of the second part of the book and not to miss it. I consider it the most profound, inspirational, and relevant part for these times and the people living in it. Still, I have constructed the book to be read front to back. It follows a logical order, creating a rational, thoroughgoing, and comprehensive vision, which the latter parts are that much sweeter by. I think you will miss out a little at least by skipping over the earlier chapters. Whichever of these ways you read it, or some other way — perhaps you are one to have your dessert first and then get your meat and potatoes later, maybe to have dessert then again — my wish for you is that you receive the blessing of reading it with the same joy, and fun, in which I wrote it. I hope the reverence and gratitude I felt as it came through me is sensed by you as well.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 22, 2026, 1:05 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by M Adzema

Ch 2, p. 19

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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 19 …those stars, or suns — and infinite numbers of dimensions is still only the cosmos that we — we lowly, humble, and limited perceptually humans — are able to perceive. So how can it not be true that there even more possibilities for ways of perceiving Reality, more possibilities of realities, than even the infinite numbers of them we are able to deduce with our limited senses at this particular time with its limited knowledge as well!!?? And, yes, I realize that some of you readers are jumping ahead and even questioning the reality of entities, beings, perceptions, perceptors, perceivers, percepters, senses, and all else, which I have been leaning on in making my case, and would like to challenge me on that.5 For you will say that they — any being, beings, or entities — also are deduced from what we know from our limited apprehension of the world. So they, too, might be no more than human projections. Thinking this way, you might say that my theory is empty or insubstantial for it, also, is deduced from our perception of realities, which I am acknowledging to be unspecial and infinitely variable. You might say that even our perception of different and separate perceivers — what I am terming, perceptors — is questionable. How do we know any entities or beings exist, outside of our own one — oneself — if all that we perceive is determined by what we expect and project? Are there even numbers of things — as when D’Andrade asserted numbers were “brute” — let alone beings?
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xvii

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We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it. The Book’s Structure To that end, this book is in several parts, some quite different from the rest. They lay out a pattern of progression from what we commonly think to the majestic flights of insights arrived at with Western blinders removed. In the first four parts, I establish the logical philosophical foundation for the rest of the book, which is Part Five, “Matter Is Message.” For this is meant not to be some visionary, poetic book, full of inspiration and spiritual insight, merely. It is also a serious argument for the actual state of Reality. It has a rational basis — rooted in the most expanded circles of our understandings in science — undergirding the wide-ranging soarings of thought following. So, if you have no interest in what is, or why it is, and you already think life to be poetic; and you do not want or need a rational basis for… PREFACE Page xvii
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 10:55 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 18

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Yet how could physicists even define these invisible worlds as “other dimensions”? Think about it, are dimensions not also relative to our species, with some other species conceivably apprehending the Cosmos in a completely different way? Is it not possible there are species whose perceptions of Reality — equal to or more valid than ours — would in no way involve those dimensions ... perceptions where those dimensions do not exist, as they are overridden by or subsumed within some other perceptual array vastly different from ours? Or, accepting the reality of those dimensions, how can we say with any certainty at all that the brute facts we have in our dimension qualify as brute facts in those dimensions as well?! At any rate, I am going to leave to the side, for now, the complicating factor of the infinite number of beings and possibilities of existing and perceiving that would exist in each of those different dimensions. I will not even get into the fact that this incredible cosmos with these billions of galaxies — an estimated one hundred billion galaxies with an average of two hundred to four hundred billion stars per galaxy and god-only-knows how many planets coinciding with all… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 18
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xvii

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PREFACE Page xvii …civilization allowed an exploitation of the natural world, which burden earlier humans hardly desired. Until we arrive at pervasive Western views which begin with an assumption of non-life, non-awareness for everything nonhuman, and as we have seen, often for humans other than what “we” are like. From there, awareness is as begrudgingly conceded, requiring mountains of indisputable and hard-to-obtain evidence, as one was attributing awareness to a machine, to an artificial intelligence. Our assumption, from medieval times, is that the world is non- conscious, while humans are ... well, most of us. The history of science in the last hundred years has amounted to a gradual giving back to Nature of its status as aware and conscious that was initially taken away by Western hubris in regard to Nature. So, we have animal rights, the “secret life of plants,” the “secret life of the unborn child,” and so on, in a gradual procession of acknowledgment. The understandings of consciousness and aliveness in the inanimate world — the world of matter — which are the most recent and necessary conclusions, arising from the findings of quantum physics and modern consciousness research, are the most difficult to arrive at. We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.
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