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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 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

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…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.social Oct 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…

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 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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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.social Oct 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.

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 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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…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.social Oct 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…

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Oct 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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“...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.social Oct 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

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@sillymickel.bsky.social Sep 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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