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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 1:07 AM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS II: Prenatal/Perinatal Psychology, Mythology, & Your Divine Self* (2022)
Ch 46, p. 21

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The movie Jumanji with Robin Williams employed this idea labori- ously and dramatically, with people going through walls into other times  and places. That film also included perinatal elements such as stampedes of gigantic jungle animals and even floods. Hence, the movie depicts that going back into the womb can be quite negative, as we will see in the next few chapters. In Jumanji we see beasts that can devour or crush one, but also enveloping waters; these are all womb and birth symbols. In fact, when the flooding waters came through the wall, to accompany this element there was even the “mandatory” fight with a toothy beast! “Mandatory” because battles or fights in film always reflect our first “fight” and struggle — that is, to be born. The prevalence of battles, wars, and fights in film only highlights the importance of birth in the psychic “economy” of our societies and cultures.

We have, also, the Stargate series of movies and TV programs. They all depict a round, membrane-like portal through which one goes to another faraway world where dangers are faced and adventures are to be had. In the initial Stargate movie, one plot element that stands out is the trepidation and dread that the journeyers express about going through the membrane barrier for the first time. Much is made of this in the film. For there is no way of knowing what exactly lies beyond that doorway. It is all…

46. HEAVEN

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 10:02 PM

*APOCALYPSE EMERGENCY* Ch 3, p. 44

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MICHAEL ADZEMA

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“That mother.... All those years I had to live with that fuck! ... hope and try and not getting anything back ... my God! ... except ... scorn! Gaaa! Scorn! Scorn and Hate! It’s you who’s face I spit in, you‘re the fuckin’ death, I hate you!... I’m bigger than you. I survive you. I laugh! Ooooh....”

And Spitter Dude broke off crying. 

You’re never gonna win, pal, give it up already.

Well. I did what I could for him...and stayed with him and hung out with him for a while.... Really not a bad guy at all. He seemed to really get it, too, that he didn’t need to do things to prove to his dad anymore, because he could clearly see there was no extreme he could ever go to or ever go through that would make a dent in his father’s attitude of despising him.

I explained that while it is hard to accept that his father really did despise him, that he will find it easier than most, because he at least knew it ... and didn’t try to pretend it wasn’t true.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:56 PM

*FALLS FROM GRACE* CH 4. p 27

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PRE/PERINATAL PSYCHOLOGY AND PHENOMENON OF RE-EXPERIENCE

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…personality and behavior. He produced a notable video in which segments from the widely acclaimed movie “The Miracle of Life,” which shows actual footage of gamete and zygote events, are juxtaposed via a split-screen with actual footage of a person reliving the exact same events in primal therapy — primal events which occurred before such cellular events were ever able to be seen and recorded. The effect is astounding in the detail in which the relivings replicate the actual cellular happenings.

In addition to his emphasis on cellular consciousness, Farrant has stressed the spiritual aspects of these earliest events. He relates incidents of spiritual trauma at the cellular level in which the individual splits off from Divinity — thus setting up a lifelong feeling of loss and yearning and a desire to return to Unity and the Divine.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:46 PM

*EXPERIENCE IS DIVINITY* Ch 8 , p. 41

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So simply by not assuming we are the pinnacle of creation and acknowledging that, for example, a dog really does have more accurate smelling ability and an eagle a greater ability to see, and imagining what that would mean for us or keeping that in mind, we come to an appreciation of ourselves as a part of Nature, not a ruler of Nature; just as in our understandings of the realities-subjectivities-feelings of other humans led us to know that we are not rulers of other people; just as our understanding of other cultures have led us to know that one culture is not better, superior to, or more dominant over another.

The conclusions from all this understanding is that our sciences are important in establishing facts and reality, but the ones they come up with are only relative to our species, not necessarily to any other species, and not necessarily do they give us a true idea of What Really Is.

Scientific Arrogance Is Laughable

You think this is irrelevant to know? Well, to give just one example, think of all our forays into space and our imaginings of other beings from other than this planet. If you take the perspective that I am encouraging here, you will notice how astoundingly…

TRANSCENDING WORLDS

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:40 PM

*APOCALYPSE NO* Ch 3, p. 33

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APOCALYPSE – NO!

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Prison, Jail Cell, Schoolroom = Womb

In the category of womb symbols that are places that enclose or “house” one that are uncomfortable, constricting, limiting of one’s ability to move around and in which one is made to suffer, even be tortured, we need to add prisons, dungeons, jail cells, and schoolrooms. Breaking out of prisons, being rescued from tight, enclosing places or situations in which one is not free — that is, cannot “move freely” — are specific portrayals of the birth process itself. Contemporary film is flooded with plots and scenes depicting such escapes and/or rescues. Any constricting surround is a womb symbol, including oppressive social and political conditions from which one cannot escape and under which one is not able to move freely, to enjoy “freedom”; especially regimented ones under which one is tortured, processed, and treated anonymously and in an unfeeling, insensitive manner.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:33 PM

*WOUNDED DEER & CENTAURS* Ch 6, p. 61

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WOMB WITH A VIEW

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Later Theorists: Dream Analysis, Archetypes, Philosophy, and the Devolutional Theory of Consciousness and Spiritual Awareness

Francis Mott — Conception and Gestational Basis of Myth, Archetype, all Patterns of Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Realities and the Nature of Reality; Devolutional Model of Development

A follower of Nandor Fodor, Francis Mott’s work is less well known even by this field’s standards, yet it is undeniably impressive. Mott’s (1960, 1964) major contribution lies in his focusing on basic patterns of mind and cosmos that correlate with prenatal feelings and states. He traced consciousness back to events around conception and saw these events as instituting patterns affecting all later experience and conceptual constructions. Through dream analysis he elicited these “configurations,” and he demonstrated their manifestation as seemingly universal archetypes in myths and universal human assumptions about the nature of reality.

The template for all you believe was written in the womb.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:21 PM

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

PART ONE, p. 26

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Nonetheless, the basis even of these goes further back. It all begins in infancy, even as a neonate, where one, upon coming out of the womb, discovers one’s needs are not going to be adequately attended to. They will not be very well noticed. You will not be all that important to “them.” Not as important as you should be, if you were to get your needs satisfied and to thrive. Since the definition of being loved is having one’s needs taken care of, you will not feel loved for who you are. Yes, going back even to the time of birth this is true. And even prior to that — in the womb and especially during the time of fetal malnutrition, where we found ourselves suffocating and starving — we feel an outside world has turned on us and is attacking us, hardly supporting and “loving” us for who we are.

With that deprivation and those feelings of being unseen and unloved in place already by the time of infancy, it is only a matter of more time, then, before one will begin to turn that into, “I cannot be loved for who I am, so who should I be, then?” These are the philosophic bands that arise at birth, importantly including the prime directives of life — “Who am I?” and “Who to be?” One’s earlier human nature and innate Divinity were forgotten in the trauma of birth, leaving one an Ego — one that is blank, a tabula rasa.1 And upon that blank slate will be imprinted the behaviors and the messages from those behaviors that one gets from one’s parents, especially one’s mother. 

I. INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD, THE SPLIT ... THE PRIMAL SCENE

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 9:13 PM

To understand where Adzema fits philosophically, it helps to compare him to three thinkers who also diagnosed deep civilizational sickness:

Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Jung.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:55 PM

*FUNNY GOD* Ch 8, p. 62

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“Away from the Things of Man,” Away from the Ego and Its Puerile Catacomb Pathways of Darkened Experience: Borne Up by a Beneficent Universe ... The Universe Is You 

“Away From the Things of Man”

And the result, the happy outcome of the Tao of Funny God? Perhaps not immediately but in time, it leaves open the possibility of a radically new mode of engagement with life and the world, a new paradigm of experience, if you will. As symbolized in the movie about Joe, for example, in the end, Joe and Patricia are floating in the middle of a wide open sea — signifying the immensity of potentiality that is now open. They are facing that gigantic moon on the horizon — symbolizing the beneficent nature of the Universe to which they are opening, that is, it is beautiful and lit with possibilities.

FUNNY GOD

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:46 PM

*PRODIGAL HUMAN* Ch 4, p. 30

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PRODIGAL HUMAN

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…development of greatest import, with the greater impact on the ones that follow, before the ones that are a consequence of the one before or they are of lower importance in their effect on our “descents.”

Prenatal Suffocation and Starvation ... Fetal Malnutrition

Fetal malnutrition is one such development that happened concurrently with birth trauma and prematurity, with its resulting secondary altriciality.

Andre Briend (1979) brought this to our attention relatively recently as our evolutionary science goes.1 What it basically means is  that during the last month of gestation the growth of the prenate, as measured by its weight, slows down, levels off.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:39 PM

*PLANETMATES* KEYNOTE 1, p. 12

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“So sad. I hear your kind saying, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix  it.’ Well you have no idea what a knock down, roll-on-your- belly howler that is for us to hear. I mean, this species, humans,  ha! That is seriously as funny as what you’ve recently been telling me about these political sorts — you called them Republicans — only a few months after the election of a Democrat and even less after a huge giveaway of treasure to your kind — you and your rich friends — well, here these ‘republicans’ are decrying such help to an incredible number of people who actually really need it, many more than was helped at the end of the Bush’s reign.

“And these sorts are blaming Democrats, finally in power after being left to stew in silence on the peripheries of government for eight long years, and only to be brought in on any issues of importance when these lackeys of the rich, the Republicans, wanted cover for what they suspected or knew was wrong ... the Iraqi war, for example. And these powerless representatives of the not-well-heeled, Democrats, were treated like servants, only let into the dining room when the food was questionable and what was needed was someone to be the…

PLANETMATES: THE GREAT REVEAL  

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:29 PM

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* Prol, Ch 4, p 49

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4. THE PRIMAL MATRIX OF MIND

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…reality which I have had. It is not just a mere concept connecting other concepts in my mind. That goes for my experience of an emotion or other biological experience, but it can be expanded to mean the experience of the physical world that we share. So when you point to a chicken’s egg and say huevos, I can understand you because I have, in my experience of the world, also the experience of eggs. When you say rojo and you indicate an item that is the color red, I also share an understanding with you.

The same kind of understandings about common biological experiences occur across cultures as well. Having experienced birth, child-“rearing,” pain, death and loss of loved ones, joy of achievement, pleasure of sexuality, friendship, separation and love, and so on, I have a common ground with another human ... with any other human. For we have all, more or less, experienced these things. It is on the basis of experience, held in common by all humans, that I build my theories. Those are the closest to any brute facts which might exist in our human reality. They are biologically constituted realities for humans, mixing with culture to create our bioculturally constituted facts.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:15 PM

*PSYCHOLOGY OF APOCALYPSE: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide* (2018) by Michael Adzema

Ch 4, p 40

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“Aw, what the hell. If I were to die, so what? What’s so great about life anyway?” Or, with less clarity, simply said, “Well nobody lives forever!”

Do they sound like the pronouncements of a species that has a tremendous will to live? No, in fact, alongside our Will to Live, we have not only a Will to Die but even a will to self-destruction.

Right about now, it might be occurring to you how this makes sense of so much, seemingly insane, human behavior we’ve seen of late. This Will to Die explains why we continue nonchalantly our march to armageddon. It shines light on how we can suck up air in cities that gives us raging allergies, clogs our lungs as bad as chronic smoking would, and will kill off the children we raise there long before their times. It reveals how we could drink poisoned water; blithely go about our business as the globe fills up with nuclear radiation and makes its way into our food supplies and as our government refuses even to test for it; and turn our backs as the oceans die, and killer tornadoes, floods, firestorms, hurricanes, “ice bombs,” earthquakes, mudslides, and tsunamis chalk up thousands in the kill column.

I. APOCALYPSE AND INSANITY

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 8:00 PM

To understand where Adzema fits philosophically, it helps to compare him to three thinkers who also diagnosed deep civilizational sickness:

Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Jung.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:46 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 2, p. 12

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Culture is Our Template for Understanding

So, you see, culture is the set of understandings and everything related to them that is shared in common by a group. It is the way a particular group sees, creates, and “furnishes” the world. It is the matrix, grid, or framework that is projected onto Reality determining what one perceives and then interprets it. It creates the understandings of our perceptions and experiences, as they are configured within the context created by that culture. It is a group’s “window” on the world; it is the template stamped upon Reality; it is the blueprint out of which our perceptions and understandings arise.

Consequently, culturally constituted realities are realities or facts that are created by individual cultures and which exist only for them. They are distinct from brute facts, which can be said to be realities that exist in all cultures: Brute facts can be said to exist outside of cultures, independent of them, regardless that cultures determine the interpretation or meaning of them.

Some basic culturally constituted realities are the different languages; the various religious notions with their supernatural realities and the cultural items and artifacts they impel; specific but commonly…

I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:32 PM

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* (2022) by Michael Adzema

Ch 8, p. 126

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Not So “Happy Days”: The War-Born Generation — Fifties, Eisenhower Generation 

The media tends to focus on the big trends and to ignore or miss the lesser ones. The way our recent history was portrayed, you would think that just because there was a huge number of babies born in the decade  and a half after World-War-Two’s end — the much discussed Baby- Boomer Generation — that there were no babies born during the War ...  almost as if every man in America was overseas fighting or that, when home on leave or whatever, they simply would not or could not conceive!

Marinated in the Womb of War Fears

However, of course these ridiculous notions are not true, so there is a pre–Baby-boomer Generation who happened to be born during or in the decade leading up to WWII, that is to say, between about 1925 and 1942. And the Yuppies were predominantly the sons and daughters of this — let us call it — Fifties Generation. Marinated in the womb with Great Depression and war fears and born around the time of the war, the Yuppies’ parents then had their formative adolescence and young adulthood during the Fifties.

PART TWO: CULTURE WAR — GENERATIONS

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:27 PM

To understand where Adzema fits philosophically, it helps to compare him to three thinkers who also diagnosed deep civilizational sickness:

Rousseau, Nietzsche, and Jung.

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 7:16 PM

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

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Whatever it is, it would necessarily be Truth, or truths, far beyond what we come up with enslaved as we are within the boundaries of concepts formed from our early, our profoundly influential, experiences. An example? What is the reality we experience before we have the one of duality when we come into Form as cells, as sperm and ovum? When we experience not just separation, from father and mother, but then duality in the coming together of the two at conception? At that point we have laid — through the experiences we have had there of duality — a foundation for seeing all the rest of the Reality we will experience in life in terms of male and female, separation and union, struggle and peace, pleasure and pain, satisfaction and discontent, inner and outer, and all the rest. 

But what was Reality before we stamped that particular cookie cutter on Reality? What was the bigger “game” or the larger reality outside the game before those rules of consensual reality, involving dualism, were initiated? At this point we are metaphorically looking for what the “room” looks like that we are sitting in when we are playing the board or virtual reality game of life. What is the “setting” like? What are we like? Who else…

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 15, 2026, 6:51 PM

*Who To Be* INTRODUCTION, p 4

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INTRODUCTION

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And for long periods of time. Considering the reasons — food acquisition and safety from predators, which both involve survival and with one of them being extra motivating to endure long periods of uprightness so as to avoid a ghastly and brutal end — there was huge incentive to stay out in the water for extensive lengths of time, standing. And to avoid being eaten as well as to get the best things for eating, oftentimes it was the most benefit to be standing as far out in the water as could be, with only one’s head above the surface.

At first we were practicing our new skill of keeping our “chins up” (old chum) only in water. Eventually, for other reasons we found it helpful to be bipedal on land as well. These included keeping one’s hands and arms available for carrying an infant, for with our loss of hair ... oh, did I fail to mention that? ... yes, we lost our hair like all other mammals who go out to sea ... and I assure you, we were not the first. Anyway, with our loss of hair, infants could no longer hold onto fur, as our primate relatives do. Furthermore, with humans being born more helpless than our cousins and staying that way for a longer period of time after birth, our very young ones were not developed enough to cling anyway. We’ll get into that shortly, with prematurity of birth and secondary altriciality.
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