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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:33 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 23

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PRE/PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHENOMENON OF RE-EXPERIENCE Page 23 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, 7:20 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, 6:26 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p. 26

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PRODIGAL HUMAN Page 26 Thus, there are measurable differences between women and men in their desires for protection versus for risk-taking; for nesting as compared to wandering; for family-home life as against adventure and a shackle-less existence; and finally, for analytical detached pur- suits of a solitary nature versus social, people-oriented, playful, and family pursuits. That hardly means the potential for both tendencies does not exist equally in both. Yet, statistics indicate that secondary altriciality with its demands for mothering had an effect on male and female behavior, needs, and desires. Women have stronger desires for, and more actual need for, security. Whereas men are more likely to feel relatively more unattached to relationship, to family, and even to nurturing and providing ... despite what men say. Social Structure As a consequence of secondary altriciality, humans have a distinct social structure in the family and the group. Indeed, the natural social configuration has women at the center, dispensing care and nourish- ment, and men on the peripheries, doing whatever they can find to do when they are absolutely not needed for reproduction, defense, or nonessentials and luxuries like meat and “entertainment” — that is to say, ritual, religion, and performance.
@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 W’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 “filthy rich.” They did this fully aware that these folks would not spend it to create jobs, but instead would buy yachts and — one big rage of the Reagan era — 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: “Great idea, Ron baby. Now you just tell me how money locked up in art will somehow create jobs and tinkle down on the poor?” PLANETMATES: THE GREAT REVEAL Page 8
@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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:30 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xxi

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Clearly, with our planet on the brink of worldwide ecocide, and our species permitting an odd hara- kiri of itself — for no reason other than being truly demented about the major things of life, like survival — there is something awry in who we have become. How else do we explain our modern materialistic and consumer-oriented style of being that would value drinking out of plastic bottles, even as it contributes to the deaths of our children? How did we become “suicidal ape”?3 Indeed we find there are factors arising of our evolution that have compelled us to turn on our own existence. Furthermore, those devel- opments have determined our status as the philosophical ape, forever uncertain of our status in Nature, our role in the Universal scheme, and the optimal activities of human life. Our fall from grace has made us varied, confused, and trying to figure it out, as well as humanicidal. Yet we were not always that way. We were planetmates once, too, and we participated in a natural not cultural stream of events. However, from that Edenal time there was a step-by-step descent from that state of grace till we arrive at our situation of industrial civilization today. There were developments that increased our split from Nature. It happened over time, gradually, imperceptibly. This supposed evolution, actually a devolution, is related to birth pain ... indeed, they are all direct results of birth trauma. For that trauma results in fear and… THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE Page xxi
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:22 PM

*PSYCHOLOGY OF APOCALYPSE* Ch 1, p 14

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I. APOCALYPSE AND INSANITY Page 14 …attention, 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 — impotent in the face of them and dependent upon other’s actions for the result. If you are one, know we’re trying to save you, too. Assuming you are not one of them — a good bet, if you are reading this — 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 — 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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 10:56 PM

*APOCALYPSE EMERGENCY* Ch 3, p 39

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“This is me! I’m expressing me! What else is there to do?” “Ok, thank you. That explains a lot. But something comes to me. May I?” “Sure,” says he. “You say that, ‘this is me.’ Number one. Right?” “Right.” Annoyed again. “Ok. Now, you know there are not a lot of people watching. But your intention is not to influence any people. Number two, right?” “Yep, that’s right.” “But you wouldn’t be putting up a website if you didn’t want somebody to know who you are. I mean, you could say it in the mirror, or in your bedroom. You wouldn’t be making it available… APOCALYPSE EMERGENCY Page 39
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 10:52 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p. 22

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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 — the first trimester — and even less about conception and the experiences of sperm and egg — 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 Page 22
@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, 9:31 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 5, p 56

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WOMB WITH A VIEW — THE PRENATAL AND PERINATAL UNCONSCIOUS Page 56 …these memories as reported by the former neonate. They often contained technical details of the delivery and labor unlike what would be expected of the medically unsophisticated, a perceptive critique of the way the birth was handled, and other details of the event that could not have been known through normal conscious channels. Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Overview — Next, the Womb Experience We see that a substantial body of literature and research — anecdotal, observational, experimental, and empirical — demonstrating the reality of and the importance of birth and its trauma has been going on for almost one-hundred years. But others, in time, went beyond birth and began to uncover prenatal influences and memories. This look into events in the womb and their significance for personality, behavior, and thought is what we deal with next, in Chapter 6, “Womb with a View.”
@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
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 9:09 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 3, p. 25

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We see the differences in male and female tendencies in that regard even today. First of all, however, throughout our history this extra assistance needed by mothers has pushed for single male-female units — monogamy — with exceptions to the contrary pushing through only occasionally and to various degrees in only some cul- tures, but if so, especially among the well-to-do in those societies. For in some societies, men with excess resources have the luxury of time for such dalliances, the resources to facilitate them, along with, importantly, the power to keep from being pressured by others in the group to do otherwise and to be like the rest in the group, for example, through moralizing. They are above such restrictions as falls upon the rest of their group, and in such a situation, we see the tendencies of men to manifest as they would. The point is we have polygamy and polyandry as human potentials, but polygamy — that is, one man with two or more women — vastly trumps polyandry in terms of its occurrence. Furthermore, and just ask any woman, it is the man who is more likely to cheat. That is more than just a complaint or criticism from women, it is actually the case, statistically, and in virtually all cultures. Whether it is considered “cheating,” however, is culturally variable. THE THIRD DESCENT — PREMATURITY Page 25
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*PLANETMATES* KEYNOTE 1, p. 8

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PLANETMATES: THE GREAT REVEAL Page 8 …interviewer about his take on the scary and unprecedented retreat from stocks and those days of multihundred point losses, one after the other. This elderly obviously seasoned personality seemed to balloon out several sizes of his suit in his sheer incomprehension and his near perfect confusion. Still, raising his voicing, a little more squeaky and almost embarrassed, puffer-fish guy held forth, as if written on tablets, first, how “all the traders have lost money” and then, “Nobody’s doing okay.... .” But his afterthought hit me like a spear: He pleaded, “I mean who last year at this time foresaw anything like this coming.... I mean,” he said “anything at all, at all, like this coming up?” At home, there was no way to restrain the howl of laughter that last comment triggered in me. While at the exact same time, I experienced this sharp pain in my belly, like I’d been stuck, well and good, by a spear. I couldn’t believe this “expert’s” comment.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 7:18 PM

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

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 8 …we not be in a situation analogous to that of the earthworm to us? And how would we know what would be perceived with those senses? Why would we bother to, how could we, even, measure the referents in the “out there” corresponding to such hypothetical senses in a way that they would somehow be included in our science? Furthermore, keeping in mind that earthworm, we can assume, for the sake of argument, that it perceives a Homo sapiens as something earthwormo-centrically akin to pressure, an obstacle, or earthwormo- molecular vibrations, in other words, earthworm hot-or-coldness. That is how it might perceive us. Are there any among my readers who believe it would perceive us the way we do? I doubt it. Now, understanding that our senses are not omniscient either — they are limited — how would we perceive beings or entities that are outside of or not sufficiently perceived by our limited senses? Indeed, how would we even know of the existence of such other sentient beings — not to mention other even more unimaginable realities — who or which could hypothetically be outside of the range and/or number of our biologically unique senses?
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*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II* PREFACE, p. xxix

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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, 6:26 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xxi

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THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE Page xxi Descents from Grace, Human Devolution Before wandering into these lanes and byways, peeking into these corners, and digging below ground to the foundations of our existence — upon which we can make a proper stand and experience an ecstatic, fulfilled life — let us take a look at the long trajectory of human evolution. This is an evolution which I deem to be a devolution from our natural state and our fundamental self within Nature. A devolution which has gotten us into such a complicated and confusing state on the proper way to be in life ... and the worthwhile things to do ... as to require such a book as this.2 For we find that our fall from grace in Nature, leaving us forever after uncertain of our proper place within it or the optimal trajectory of a human as opposed to a planetmate life, began when we were still apes — prehomonids is the usual way of saying it — and still living harmoniously with the rest of the world. So yes, we are starting at the real beginning — not just of you, but of our species — for insight into and a foundation upon which to construct the most fulfilling and unshakeable of identities, the most authentic of selves, the happiest and most ecstatic of life journeys, and the most satisfying and purposive of things to do in life. Clearly, with our planet on the brink of worldwide ecocide, and our species permitting an odd hara- kiri of itself — for no reason other than being truly demented about the major things of life, like survival — there is something awry in who we have become.
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