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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 7:49 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 2, p. 10

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 11 CHAPTER 2 Destroying Worlds: Our Reality Is Species Determined and the Relativity of Science ... Culturally Constituted Realities, Biologically Constituted Realities, and Biological Relativity We Cannot Unknow What We Know but We Can’t Know What We Can’t Know
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:29 AM

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

Ch 3, p. 27

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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 27 …and ask you, simply, what do we call individuals who we can see are “living in their own world. Yes, you are correct. The term for that is psychotic. No, don’t go. We’re not done yet. Suprahumanly Constituted Realities Okay, then, let us look at the antipode of that end point, newly seen to be individually constituted realities. On the other end of the continuum, the one we were indicating as biologically constituted realities, we can see that it extends beyond where we thought it ended as well. How, you say? Well, as I said, biologically constituted realities are those realities shared by a species, some of which are shared only by that species and some are shared to varying degrees, but not to every other species. Well, the category, species, also, is not absolute. (I see, a couple of you already were thinking this. Good for you!) There are certainly realities that are unique to entire groups of species that have important qualities in common. We see that the categorization of species itself is not absolute. For we can easily draw a line around groups of species and create other entities, which for all we know create their own “constituted” realities.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 8:11 PM

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

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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. Thus, it is just as essential to throw off the overweening species- centric intellectual baggage of our Judeo-Christian tradition ... which posits “man” as the ruler over nature and as the summit of created species ... as it is essential to strive to drop our ethnocentric blinders. Indeed, making this attempt to view from a neutral, Archimedean, non-anthropocentric “window,” it follows logically that 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.” 1. CREATING WORLDS Page 9
@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, 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, 12:57 AM

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

Ch 3, p. 26

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 26 So who is still with me? Well, if you followed all that, you would see that such groups can be continually broken down ... can be infinitely broken down, you will soon see ... into even smaller subgroups. Neighborhoods can be broken down into separate family cultures, for example. And where from there? Well, we see that, yes, it is true, each and every individual can her- or himself be considered a culture, in that there are understandings, procedures, ways of thinking, and all the rest that are not held in common with anyone else at all but are unique to each individual. That is often referred to as personality, a person’s unique personality, but it goes beyond that to unique facts of each individual that are not even, by other individuals, observable! The difference between individual culture and personality is a matter of emphasis in that individual culture pertains to patterns, realities, facts, and ways of looking at or construing the world primarily from the perspective of the individual, whereas personality usually applies to those things as observed, to the extent they are observed, and referred to by others. Nevertheless, one might say culture, as it pertains to groups and societies, reduced to its foundation, is simply another way of referring to individual psychologies, or personalities, but doing it cumulatively. Culture is collective psychology, in a sense.
@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, 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
@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?
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 2:56 AM

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

Ch 3, p. 25

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3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 25 …biological realities that arise from these different cultures are, therefore, biocultural facts or realities. They are bioculturally determined facts. I will deal with them in more detail in the next three chapters. So there are biologically constituted facts, bioculturally constituted facts, and culturally constituted facts all existing on a continuum. That continuum measures the degree to which those facts are “real” ... or let us say the degree to which those realities are shared. That continuum tells you the number of “individuals” who share those “facts” ... who perceive, hold, and/or engage with those facts, while others do not. Individuals is in quotes in keeping with our analysis that our conceptualization of other members of other species — known and unknown — is based on one of our biologically constituted realities. Separate beings, or “individuals,” itself is a species-relative fact. Getting back to the spectrum, the more astute of you, I know, have already realized that biologically constituted facts and culturally constituted facts are not even absolute ends of that continuum. That continuum extends out at each of its ends beyond those categories. Do you see that? Do you see how that follows from what I was saying in the beginning about many worlds and infinite numbers of perceivers?
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:54 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 7

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Our Knowledge Is Biased Indeed, can we assume, in fairness, that our own senses are capable of perceiving all major aspects of “objective” reality, granting, even, if in limited or distorted fashion? By analogy, it would be ridiculous to suppose that an earthworm or an amoeba ... with apparently few, and more limited, senses ... “knows” of the existence of our species in any ways other than, if anything, a series of obstacles, changes in pressure or temperature, or, well, whatever it is that comprises an earthworm’s or amoeba’s “worldview.” Correspondingly, can we automatically assume that our particular number and set of senses, with their particular ranges, are the endpoint, the pinnacle of what is possible in terms of perceiving “world”? If a sixth, a seventh, an eighth, an nth number of “types” of senses were possible, how would we know of that possibility with our five? Would… 1. CREATING WORLDS Page 7
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 6:50 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 7

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1. CREATING WORLDS Page 7 …and other purposes? Such animals have magnetoreception, which amounts to having compasses built into their cells to point them in the right direction. Amazingly, in addition to migratory animals like sea turtles, this includes fruit flies and even some forms of bacteria. Some snakes can detect infrared light. Bees can detect ultraviolet light. As for plants, you thought them dumb? What scientists have discovered is that, amazingly, some have a sensitivity to touch that is finer and more sophisticated as what we have with our fingers; that they communicate with each other, including about a possible threat from a new pest and overcrowding and other matters. They have hormones similar to our own. That not enough, they have vision, all of them. What is the world as experienced by a plant? On what basis do we say that our world is better or closer to apprehending reality than theirs? Furthermore, what of species whose senses, as nearly as we can determine with our own, are vastly different from ours, such as a mantis shrimp, which have sixteen different types of color receptive cones compared to our mere three. What of species with less in number than ours? What is the “world” of an earthworm like? What, that of an amoeba? Real world, please step forward.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 7:44 AM

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

Ch 3, p. 24

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Bioculturally Constituted Realities How are bioculturally constituted realities defined? Well, they are cultural facts that exist because of the common biology we as a species share, each and every one of us. These are facts that are relative to the pain and pleasure humans experience and the way and degrees in which we experience them. These are facts relative to the birth and death humans experience and the ways we experience and construe them. These are facts relative to the life cycle and stages of life that are uniquely human and the ways we experience and understand and configure them. Thus, these common biological things and events are facts for the species we call human — they are biologically constituted realities for humans — for they are shared by all humans. Yet they are perceived, construed, interpreted, configured, manifested, acted out, dealt with, responded to, and created around differently by each and every culture, at least slightly differently. These bioculturally constituted realities are cultural constructions built on and around our biological facts (constructions). The constructions, or “facts,” about or related to our common… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 24
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 5:51 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p 6

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Can we even imagine what that kind of world is like? And, jumping ahead, tell me exactly how we, humans, are superior to that. Elephants can hear infrasound, as low as one hertz; dolphins as high as one hundred-thousand hertz. Keep in mind that our range is approximately twenty hertz to twenty-thousand hertz. What of the abilities of echolocation that dolphins and bats have. For that matter, what do we make of the ability of fish and amphibious animals, including sharks, bees, dolphins, and platypuses, to sense electrical fields. This is called electroreception. With this sensory ability they are able to sense the electrical impulses of other animals. What is it like living in that world? While I’m sure it is nothing like this, just imagine what our world would be like if we could see the fields of wifi around us. Do humans have anything like the ability of some planetmates to detect the Earth’s magnetic field and use it to navigate for migratory… I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 6
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 9:52 PM

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

Ch 3, p. 24

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 24 “...space, including size, is relative to the perceiver.... At the ultimate tiniest [atomic, subatomic], consciousness might come around ... and present itself as the hugest consciousness, the Cosmos.... So, literally anything can be.” “Ultimately our physics ... is going to demonstrate that essentially there is no such thing as matter. All there is, is mind and motion.” — Armand Labbe The Spectrum of Realities Furthermore, we can see that these realities exist on a continuum with culturally constituted realities on one end and biologically constituted realities on the other, for there are many in-between facts, which would have to be called bioculturally determined facts or bioculturally constituted realities.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 6:40 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 6

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 6 …“lower” parts of the brain, in a complex intercommunication once again, define them as such: Vibratory rates “out there” are not patterns of neural firings. And to suppose that there is, in some magical- mystical sort of way, a kind of authentic, exact replication of the “out there” by our particular sensory apparatus is not only to state more than is conceivably possible to be stated ... and to reveal an adherence to a kind of “faith” that is more reminiscent of religion than true science ... it is also indisputably anthropocentric. For even our thus limited sensory apparatus informs us of other sentient creatures whose sensory systems are different than our own, indeed, vastly different in some cases. Even among the species that we perceive as having the major five senses as we do, we observe differences: An eagle sees farther and better; its vision is two to four times more acute than humans — certainly its world does not look like ours. A dog hears a much wider range of auditory waves — certainly its world does not sound like ours. The sense of smell in canines is particularly telling. What can we make of a species whose ability in that regard is one thousand to ten million times better than us humans. One thousand times better than ours at the low end. Using this ability they can even “see” back in time. They can detect for example who passed by a certain area the previous day, what direction they were moving, and other details.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 9:04 PM

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

Ch 3, p. 23

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“Authentic and convincing experiences of conscious identification with animals, plants, and even inorganic materials and processes make it easy to understand the beliefs of animistic cultures that see the entire universe as being ensouled.” — Stanislav Grof “...such transpersonal experiences dramatically change our understanding of the nature of everyday material reality ... others reveal dimensions of existence that are ordinarily completely hidden to our perception. This ... includes discarnate entities, various deities and demons, mythological realms, suprahuman beings, and the divine creative principle itself.” — Stanislav Grof 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 23
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 1, p. 5

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One can conceive of some biological organisms who would interpret such touching as a dire threat. Again, the interpretations of external stimuli are relative to the biological makeup of the perceiver and are decided upon outside of conscious awareness. The qualities of pleasure and all other experience, sensations, and feelings are relative to the perceiver, its biological makeup ... generally speaking, its species. Different perceivers, different perceived (experienced) realities. Our Knowledge Is Anthropocentric Our examples emphasize that prior to any cultural interpretation — which comes later, during that neural message’s continued journey and now through cortical areas of the brain — a “species” interpretation is made based upon the biological “hardware” of the organism. That is to say that these “vibrational rates” of molecules — using once more the example of temperature — are not in and of themselves even “stimuli” except that certain neurons throughout the body, including… 1. CREATING WORLDS Page 5
@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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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema Ch 3, p. 23 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or, for free pdf copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MvgfWlle00TeQSM06Ok2izD-MVSRl6y/view?usp=sharing 1/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #SLOS ✨☯️💡🪽 #SLOSCH3 📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️ #consciousness 💡 #metaphysics ☯️ #transpersonal 🪽 #primal ☮️ #experiential 🐉 #rebirth 🦋 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 3. INFINITE WORLDS Page 23 Chapter 3 Infinite Worlds: The Spectrum of Realities ... Individually, Bioculturally, and Suprahumanly Constituted Realities, and Ultimate Relativity “Authentic and convincing experiences of conscious identification with animals, plants, and even inorganic materials and processes make it easy to understand the beliefs of animistic cultures that see the entire universe as being ensouled.” — Stanislav Grof
@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.
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