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4. THE PRIMAL MATRIX OF MIND

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Our Prenatal and Perinatal Matrix

Without diminishing the historical importance of Jung’s contributions, I need to stress that what I am asserting goes much further than Jung’s contentions. For I believe we biologically determine our view of reality, as a species,

1) in the biological structures that comprise us and orient us in a world of space;

2) in the biochemical processes that constitute our changingness and situate us in a world of time;

3) and, most saliently, in the individual biological history that is universal for us and unique to us as a species.

What I am saying is that our biological structures, processes, and history — history meaning our past experience as individuals — create the worlds of space, time, and memory within which we move and have our existence.

By this last one, memory, however, I mean much more than that our past experience comprises the knowledge base or data bank from which we concoct our life schemes and decisions. I also mean much more than that our past experiences affect us in ways of which we are unaware, that is to say unconsciously ... that we are affected by repressed or forgotten memories. No, I mean to go much farther and deeper than that.
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Seen Grof’s way, mythological events have an a priori standing; a priori meaning they are not reducible to life events such as the traumas of birth. They arise “of themselves” and have an independent or self-contained quality, not a derived one. According to Grof, transpersonal events are not a posteriori events; they do not “come after.” They are not derived from earlier experience. Which is to say, their existence is not dependent upon — let alone, caused by — the early pre- and perinatal experiences they so express.

While some might say we have the mythologies we do because we all have these early experiences and that is why myths are so similar across different individuals and cultures, proponents of Grof’s view would say that our mythologies are not attributable to our early events and that they exist independently of human life. They are seen as archetypes in the Jungian sense of being outside of and prior to human events. Much like Plato’s Forms, or iconic Ideas, they have a kind of prior and greater reality than the realities that emanate from our events as humans. In fact, the term biological materialism has been used by those in Grof’s camp to describe the idea that birth-like mythological and archetypal symbolism and experiences are derived from birth events. Saying they are derived is…

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

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a very vibrant underwater diner! There's a mermaid at the jukebox, she has pink hair, wearing a cloud shirt with angels on it, has a sweet crab bag, and has a teal tail. In the back, shrimp boy is serving squid icecream to an orange tailed mermaid with a french bun hairdo
A Púca: Espírito da Natureza Irlandesa e Sua Dança Mágica
Silver Branch of Avalon: Echoes of Faerie Across Cultures
The Divine Feminine, or Goddess, Is the Divinity We Lose Through Pain of Birth.

Both Genders Need to Re-Unite with a Feminine Within

Heroines, Not Damsels. Rise of the Goddess Resets the Playing Field

In Brazil, along with an increasing number of other movies of modern times, the feminine shows itself as heroine, not damsel. Contemporary culture has integrated an understanding of female as equal and as strong. In doing so, the male’s heroic quest with its saving of the damsel is quaint and an anachronism ... however furiously our reactionary sectors seek to resuscitate it. Meanwhile the rise of the Goddess, among women and men, resets the playing field. How?

COMMON MADNESS AND THE DIVINE FEMININE

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A Púca: Espírito da Natureza Irlandesa e Sua Dança Mágica
Camaxtli: O Caçador Divino de Toltecas e Tlaxcala – Uma Jornada de Coragem e Destreza
Echoes of Shadow: Unraveling Tuju Tuju - A Malay Legend for the Modern Explorer
A blue-white seven headed horse named Uchchaihshravas that belongs to Indra from Hindu Mythology, depicted within a square shape on a peach background.
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