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@1000wordphilosophy.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:26 PM

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"The Ship of Theseus: What Makes an Object the Same Object Over Time?" by Chad Vance.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:04 AM

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

Ch 3, p. 26

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Culture is collective psychology, in a sense. It is the obverse of Jung’s collective unconscious, for it is what is known in a culture, not unknown or unconscious. It could be said that culture is the collective consciousness, viewed in its widest possible way and including all possible elements of a culture, of a group. Following that? Okay, then, we can see that this end of the continuum, which we were calling culturally constituted realities, really goes further out from its supposed end point to individually constituted realities. These are realities that are unique to an individual and can only be understood within the context of that individual, and when encountered outside of that individual they are likely to be either misunderstood or not seen at all. For those of you following this, we can see that such personal “cultures,” if you will, comprised of individually constructed realities, are different, individual to individual, and that some of those cultural elements are shared widely, while some of those individuals have personal cultures with elements that are so unique and unshared that we have a special term for those individuals. Of course you know this one. For what if I were to put it another way… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 26
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:12 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 23

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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 “primal therapy” employed a type of fast breathing — again, like Grof’s later technique — 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 actual… PRE/PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHENOMENON OF RE-EXPERIENCE Page 23
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 11:00 PM

*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* Ch 8 , p. 38

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EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY Page 38 We will see shortly that means that the way we come into the world — our conception, womb life, and birth — create the foundations upon which all our other perceptions are built, and these being unique to humans mean that humans will be the only species seeing the world exactly the way we do. Further, while focusing on our biology as a basis for understanding what is fundamental about humanness, we are able to compare cultures in relation to that biology, though not in any other way. What we will see this means is that while we cannot compare cultures for the most part — this is called cultural relativity — we can compare them in terms of certain things all cultures share which have to do with the fact that all humans have the same kind of body and biological history: An example of that would be the way cultures deal with birth, specifically the pain of it.
@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 — 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 negative… WOMB WITH A VIEW Page 57
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:30 PM

*FUNNY GOD*Ch 7, p. 58

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On the other hand, solar theologies divide the world in two — into darkness and light, which are irreconcilable. The world is comprised of the sacred and the profane. Indeed, earthly existence is not just deluded, it is seen as corrupt and foul, even at times evil, in its nature. The only real good or light is separate from it, transcendent, is a heaven with no elements of the veil of darkness that is existence on Earth. Solar theologies therefore seek to repress all darkness within, and they struggle to eliminate and destroy all the darkness and discomforts of life without ... to bring their deluded idea of heaven to earth. They try to live in a world without darkness or shadows, one only of light ... thus a solar one, a daytime one. Their milky white heavens are without contrast ... and boring. Their earths are despised and polluted, tortured and raped to extract their resources, with as little importance to them as a garbage dump, for “in the sweet bye and bye” the Earth will be tossed aside as easily as a Dixie cup after one has drunk up. FUNNY GOD Page 58
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 10:00 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 9

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1. CREATING WORLDS Page 9 …assume that we are “God’s chosen species,” the summit of creation, and magically endowed with a one-in-nine-million — that is to say, one out of the approximate number of other known species, excluding bacteria — uniquely correct number of sensations and perfect accuracy of perception. We have no way of knowing even whether or not we are in the same “space” at the same “time” ... the quotation marks because space and time are sensorally determined in our species’ unique biological way ... as other unperceivable beings, even sentient ones — though with what senses, again, we do not know. There Are an Infinite Number of Worlds It should be supremely clear by now, especially among those of us with a transcultural or anthropological familiarity — wherein we are made distinctly aware of the truth-shrouding nature of ethnocentrism — that any serious attempt at discerning truth is not compatible with any variety of self-serving or egocentric agenda, regardless how invisible it might be to us or how unconscious it might be held. And anthropocentrism — the idea that our species, alone, has the inside track, superior to all creation, on perceiving Reality — is such a self- aggrandizing notion.
@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 Page xxx …saying 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 one’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) — which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth we suffer from, which is radically distinct from all of Nature — 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.
@mekimberlite.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:21 PM

We’ve been approaching manifestation from the wrong angle. #manifestation #psychicmedium #spiritualhealing #metaphysics #mekimberlite

@wectar.comOct 7, 2026, 9:30 PM

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. —Lewis Carroll

#LewisCarroll #logic #meditativewisdom #meditation #metaphysics

lunar delight
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:20 PM

*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* Ch 8 , p. 37

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Only by Leaving Can a Fish Know It Lives in Water: Biologically Constituted Realities Summary and A Call to End Science’s Culture War Biologically Constituted Realities Summary What I am saying here in Part One, “Reality, Human and Otherwise — Biologically Constituted Realities” is that basically our sciences have shown they cannot determine what is real, let alone measure it, because they are extensions of our senses which are themselves imperfect. So we cannot really know what is real. Further, we find that just as culture creates our reality for us, that prior to that our biology creates the reality upon which culture can build. This means that we are able to understand what is human reality at least, though not ultimate reality, by looking at the only reality that all humans share — our biological one. TRANSCENDING WORLDS Page 37
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:05 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 6, p 57

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WOMB WITH A VIEW Page 57 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, 6:35 PM

*FUNNY GOD* Ch 7, p. 58

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FUNNY GOD Page 58 …themselves and the world, only. For they are on their raft made of luggage, indicating the paltry number of things — physical but also emotional “baggage” — that are required to be taken along on the journey of life, or, more accurately, on the stormy and crooked path to self. It is nighttime, and again, dominating the starlit sky there is a huge image of a moon. More about the meaning of this scene in just a little bit, but for now, let us focus on the meaning of a lunar theology that these two striking scenes are indicating. Lunar Theologies, Solar Theologies What is the meaning of lunar in lunar theology? A lunar theology is not in denial of the darkness of life ... it acknowledges, just like a night scene with a full moon, that life is lived in darkness — of our true selves and the nature of reality — but that it contains a guiding light, a reflection of the Divine (the moon). As humans we find ourselves in a deluded state relative to the Divine, in ignorance and separate, but physical reality is metaphor of the Divine, constantly revealing Itself to us and guiding us hOMe. The Divine is immanent in Nature and ready to reveal Itself to us in any of the moments we will allow It to.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:59 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 8

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Would we perceive their existence as human changes in pressure, sound, touch, smell, sight, taste? As atmospheric or environmental “ambiance” changes? As solar activity or astronomical phenomena? As change in mood state, or thought pattern? Or hypothalamic or metabolic or heart or respiratory rate change? As nuemenon, “aura,” Words of God, Music of the Spheres?... Indeed, as leprechauns, ghosts, or elves? Or perhaps as forcible elements in dreams? Inspirational thought or feeling? Poltergeists, angels, “allies,” aliens, psychic phenomena? Our Knowledge Is Limited Then again, would we even perceive this other or these other “species” of beings and/or unimaginable realities at all? Would they be totally out of the domain of detection by anything within our experience — whether sensory, cognitive, affective, intuitive, imaginative, hallucinative? The point is that we have no, absolutely no, way of knowing what is really real, what it “all” real-ly looks like unless we anthropocentrically… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 8
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:38 PM

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

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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 Page xxix
@lmumetaphysik.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 3:53 PM

📣 Metaphysics Colloquium @lmu.de Ludwigstraße 31, Room E21

First talk next week:

📅 Oct 14, 4–6 pm — Elliott Sober (Stanford): The Metaphysics of Fitness

All are welcome! #Metaphysics #Philosophy

@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 1:03 AM

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

Ch 3, p. 25

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Individually Constituted Realities If not, follow this: Do you see that even the term culture is not a category with clear boundaries and that it might pertain to a huge group of individuals, whereas subgroups of that would constitute separate cultures, each slightly different from the rest, so they are themselves considered cultures. These subgroups are sometimes called subcultures. But even they have subgroups and subcultures within them. For a culture is a particular set of understandings or ways of seeing that is held in common by a group. And every group, in that sense, can be considered a culture for, indeed, that is how we define a group: It is a number of people that share a common understanding or way of seeing things, and that might simply be in its intent. But also it usually includes its goals, procedures, and more: special language, sometimes called jargon; group constructions — physical and organizational ones as well as temporal ones, i.e., events; as well as ways of behavior, manners of speaking, rules of courtesy, and the like. 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 25
@dr-beyond.comOct 6, 2026, 11:01 PM

Sitting at my favorite taco place spot and they have no idea. It's global Taco Day. Not cool
#D'lua #GlobalTacoDay
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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:52 PM

*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* Ch 8 , p. 37

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TRANSCENDING WORLDS Page 37 Chapter 8 Occupy Science ... A Call for a Scientific Awakening: In Tossing Away Our Species Blinders, We Approach a Truth Far Beyond Science Only by Leaving Can a Fish Know It Lives in Water: Biologically Constituted Realities Summary and A Call to End Science’s Culture War
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:20 PM

*FUNNY GOD* Ch 7, p. 57

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One accepts the “process” as being what is all important. It is not the goal that is crucial, authorities are not needed, one cannot do it for anyone else. It focuses on Divinity as being inherent, which means that one reaches the truth on one’s own, one is healed by surrender not by fee to a professional. One risks societal standing, luxury, salary, even life and limb, and does not slough off responsibility for the evil of the world to some anonymous organization or to some imagined individuals who, one rationalizes, are “higher up” and “more in the know.” One stands up, oneself, for a cause greater than oneself ... one that is truly important, even necessary. One becomes the necessary hero. This is the crooked path to Self. When one embraces the Mystery of life ... when one seeks to learn from its exigencies not focus all one’s energy on dragon slaying, that is, keeping all risk away ... a moonful of new and exciting possibilities are born. One’s life is renewed, and one has a new appreciation for it. Many Moons Another time the lunar-theological intent of the film is revealed is at the end, in the film’s most important and culminating statement: Again, the couple is in this stripped-down state of self. It is… THE TAO OF FUNNY GOD, MATRIARCHY, AND LUNAR THEOLOGIES Page 57
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