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@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 12:02 AM

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

INTRODUCTION, p. 22

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• Thirteenth Descent — Hierarchy ... control of others, inequality, domination and submission, class war • Fourteenth Descent — Misogyny ... domination of women, domination and submission brought into the family • Fifteenth Descent — Child Use ... and Abuse ... domination and control of offspring, mistreatment and exploitation of children, family “armies” and work groups • Sixteenth Descent — Work • Seventeenth Descent — Religion ... instead of spirituality, beginnings of impersonal and ritualized practice in relation to Divinity and authority, sycophantic worship instead of connection with Divinity, phantom and transcendent gods • Eighteenth Descent — Culture INTRODUCTION Page 22
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*Who To Be* INTRODUCTION, p.XI

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THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 1 INTRODUCTION The Descents of Man: Descents to “Civilization” — Control ... Human Devolution in Light of the Trauma of Birth; Our Separation from Nature Began When We Stood Up
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 7:03 AM

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

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INTRODUCTION Page 22 The Descents of Man In sum, these descents,3 in relative order of their appearance in time or, if they occurred concurrently, their priority as being causative were as so, • First Descent — Bipedalism • Second Descent — Birth Trauma • Third Descent — Prematurity • Fourth Descent — Fetal Malnutrition • Fifth Descent — Ego • Sixth Descent — Mistrust • Seventh Descent — Hunting • Eighth Descent — Murder • Ninth Descent — Farming • Tenth Descent — Husbandry • Eleventh Descent — Sedentary Life and Storage • Twelfth Descent — Accumulation…
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 9:40 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xxii

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PREFACE Page xxii …insecurity. And the response to fear and insecurity is a drive to control. That drive to control is another way humans are different from all other species. It is also a way humans in the modern era are different from prototypical humans, from primal humans. Let me explain. Let us go back, now, millions of years, to our most ancient of parents. Beginning at the beginning, let us make our way through the descents of “man,”4 which deposit us where we are today.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:21 PM

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

INTRODUCTION, p. 21

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Sociopathy And with this we have the achievement of the heights of “civilization” — the sociopath. All human “evolution,” characterized as it is by increasing control of everything and anyone around, reaches its fruition in the creation of a personality without the ability to empathize, which enables a human to kill, steal, manipulate, bully, destroy the environment, kill off species, and dominate without conscience or remorse — all in the service of narcissistic desires and greed. The sociopath is the logical and inevitable omega point of man’s descent from Nature. Commiserations to Teilhard de Chardin for having gotten it backward, regarding his Omega Point, under the nearly unbreakable spell of the overweening anthropocentrism which arose in tandem to such sociopathy, sharing many of its qualities. Indeed, while this evolutionary “advance” — sociopathy — came into play with civilization, especially among elites and Controllers, these tendencies can be seen to characterize and be at play in the majority of human personalities at this time in history. While mostly recognizing these traits in their most extreme form, most humans will fail to see the reflections of them in their own selves. Unfeeling, insensitive, greedy, narcissistic, anthropocentric, and self-centered people will not know they are that way. And seeing everyone around them as much the same, they will hardly know it can be any different. This is where we are today and why we need to return to our primal personalities, our most authentic identities and ways of being, in tune with Nature and the Divine. THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 21
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*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 6, 2026, 11:58 PM

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

INTRODUCTION, p. 21

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THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 21 Nineteenth Descent — Soul Murder Thus, with the assistance of mind control that was imposed — things akin to morality, propaganda, and religion; augmented by mind control that was self-administered, which would include things like thought control, positive thinking, “creating one’s reality,” “channeling” of one’s drives for fulfillment, and sublimating of one’s desires; along with trivial distractions from one’s experience of self through mindless entertainment, mind- numbing work, and such; and finally with the boost provided by the modern pharmaceuticals serving to put blinders on one’s thoughts and to restrict one’s feelings and emotions and channel them along those “appropriate” lines helpful to the higher-ups ... with all these together we had the ability to achieve a pretty good murder of the conscience, of the soul. Sociopathy And with this we have the achievement of the heights of “civilization” — the sociopath. All human “evolution,” characterized as it is by increasing control of everything and anyone around, reaches its fruition in the creation of a personality without the ability to empathize, which enables a human to kill, steal, manipulate, bully, destroy the environment, kill off species, and dominate without conscience or remorse — all in the service of narcissistic desires and greed. The sociopath is the logical and inevitable omega point of man’s descent from Nature.
@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.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 9:15 PM

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

INTRODUCTION, p 20

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Indeed, one did keenly feel an unfairness in one’s life. Though it would not do for it to be acknowledged; it was another “inconvenient” feeling requiring repression. For we retained, in our needs and desires at least, a knowledge of what we really wanted. And what we longed for desperately were the same things we had been having while in Nature, over the course of millions of years, which were now being denied, supremely, over the course of the last five-to-ten-thousand-some years. Eighteenth Descent — Culture The amalgamation of all these Ego tendencies — which included con- trolling traits, conforming and sycophancy tendencies, and separation from the Divine and Nature and the loss of connection to feeling or to a life lived with “felt experience” — is culture. Culture developed, in civilizations, in concert with the loss of Divine connection. It created a mesmerizing maze in which to get lost and to hide from oneself one’s lost experience of life. Culture is a weed without roots; it is the fury we create to block out our emptiness. Ignorance of the Divine made for some pretty a-mazing (i.e., leading us back to the maze) untruths and empty rituals. INTRODUCTION Page 20
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 4:56 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xx

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There is new material here as well, as fits the topic; additional research directly related to its topic has been done; and the previous material is expanded, restructured, and elaborated, as befits this particular work. Still, faithful readers of my work will notice some repetition, though I daresay will come away with a new appreciation and new insights in their journeying through this material put together in this different way and focused on such a primary concern of all of us at any stage of life and especially amidst the extraordinary worldwide changes in just about everything (environmental, cultural, societal, and personal) which are going on right now. The fact that chapters are taken from both the Return to Grace Series and The Path of Ecstasy Series of my books is also the reason it is a stand-alone book, not included in the two series of books I have been developing and publishing since 2013. Descents from Grace, Human Devolution PREFACE Page xx
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 3:23 AM

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

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INTRODUCTION Page 20 …ceremony, half-time at any high school football game to see how this kind of total non-individuality is put out as the ideal, as the paragon of total repression of self, which is desired in a patriarchy. All so its elites can wield control and power maximally. Propaganda, Positive Thinking, and Pharmaceuticals Hence, methods of mind control developed, ever modified and perfected. It took the form of things similar to the positive thinking and the pharma- ceutical suppression we see in modern times. For both serve to aid one in running away from the trauma and pain within and to delude oneself that everything is different than it really is. Such a delusional trance of fake happiness — “just put on a happy face,” “smile, though you feel like crying, smile, what’s the use of sighing” — was needed to avoid the huge loss of self-esteem, and thus effectiveness (“use”) that would come with a knowledge of all that one was enduring ... and all unfairly ... if one compared oneself with Nature. Indeed, one did keenly feel an unfairness in one’s life. Though it would not do for it to be acknowledged; it was another “inconvenient”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 6:34 PM

*Who To Be* PREFACE, p xx

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PREFACE Page xx …worthy of one’s efforts and attention in life. Similarly, it shines a light on proper and harmful ingredients in child-caring, so it would be invaluable to any parent. Most of the material in the foregoing has been included in other works. Specifically, they are Prodigal Human, Planetmates, Psychology of Apocalypse, Dance of the Seven Veils I, and the forthcoming (expected sometime in 2021) Back to the Garden. I have focused on this topic somewhat in Wounded Deer and Centaurs, as well, where I related it to the changing personality structures coming of postmodern times and their relation to pre- and perinatal influences, the environmental crisis, and activism. Others of my books have traveled through this terrain at times, too. Nonetheless, it seemed a good idea to bring all this material together around this theme of Identity, to re-slant them, and to see what would come of it. The issue of who to be is one of the primary concerns of humans; it is vitally important to address it now and at this time in history with the stakes so high and the need to bring forth a new vision of who to be in line with what we need if we are to survive patriarchy, environmental collapse, and the rising worldwide fascism coming up as a direct reaction to the fear come of multiculturalism, identity loss, and identity confusion.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 2:40 AM

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

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This practice continues right up to modern times where we see, as some kind of goal or achievement, the control and orchestration of individuals and groups and their every tiny movement, every action, to be in “lock step” with others, with absolutely no individuality or non- conformity at all. Clearly we see this in boot camps, where they march in formation, stand at attention, frozen, only moving in a way that is in complete synchrony with the others in the group. In ways like this we are told we are nothing ... we are on the level of a tool, or a thing. It has its beginnings even with the marching to and from class in grade school ... to and from lunch ... to and from the lavatory.... Do not get out of line! We are told our lives only have value as determined and put into action by higher-ups. For only with such complete conformity, such machine-like regi- mentation, did Controllers feel that they could be safe from insurrection. Only with it could they feel that they could elicit actions from their subordinates in which the underlings would put their lives at risk for the ends of the elite. Or do any other thing, however disagreeable, that the Controller would not want to do. Look to any parade, any military… THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 19
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*Who To Be* PREFACE, p. xix

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“What is our most fundamental and unshakeable self, the one upon which we can build a life that is strong, purposive, loving, and satisfying?” “What needs to change for us to have the lives of aliveness, belonging, purpose, satisfaction, and fulfillment that humans lost once we began living in settled groups, where hierarchies meant all lower on the totem pole would need to constrain their felicity to benefit those higher up?” “How important is committing to a cause or doing service work in making decisions about what to do?” “How does one balance ‘idealism’ and practicality in making one’s decisions?” “How does one prioritize the multiple aims of life?” Simply, “What is important, generally speaking?” As for what is important to you in particular, this book provides the perimeters and layout of the garden of experience you cultivate through your major life decisions. You will find a trove of information here related to those questions. In addition to this book’s value in the information itself that is provided — regarding a new-paradigm overstanding of human development, enriched by the understandings coming out of the new fields of consciousness research, prenatal and perinatal psychology, transpersonal psychology, quantum physics, and the new biology — this is a good work to have in an “existential crisis,” a spiritual emergency, a mid-life crisis, between jobs-careers-marriages, and especially for young adults making their way through their Identity process, deciding on paths and goals… THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE Page xix
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 8:55 PM

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

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THE DESCENTS OF MAN Page 19 …to choose an authentic way of being or an identity in line with its soulular patterns and duties, its atmadharma. Repression of Individuality The extent to which overlords wished to drive all individuality and feeling out of their underlings is exemplified in a sight we see everywhere in all patriarchal societies, and pretty much only in patriarchal cultures. That sight is of the soldier, guard, attendant standing at attention and unmoving, often near at hand to the Controller — the king, royalty, military or political personage, or tyrant. What better way to indicate that person in attendance is not a person or alive but is only a tool to be used at the overlord’s whim. Notice how no amount of movement is allowed. For any such action arising out of the volition of the underling would indicate an individuality, separate from the Controllers, that was wanted to be beaten out and removed from the personality of the soldier or guard. The message is clear: “Your life is not your own. It is mine. Don’t even think of having an idea of your own, let alone an independent action. No. Your body is mine to direct and manipulate. Keep it in the corner, quiet and unmoving, until I tell you what to do with it.” The thinking here is no different from that of storing one’s guns in a locker, keeping one’s car in the driveway.
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THE CRISIS OF HUMANITY AND THE NEW HERO’S AND HEROINE’S CYCLE Page xix However it is doubtful any one reading this is in either of those camps. For this book makes it more likely you will not make such mistakes. Which is another way of saying that those reading this are more likely to be in lives where they are here to learn the benefits of authenticity of identity, success in one’s life mission not failure. Let’s put it this way: This book will make it harder to screw up in your decisions in life of who to be. Resources and Helpful Things This book addresses the question, “Who to be?” Meaning, “What should I do with my life?” “How do I decide?” “What are the most important and satisfying goals in life?” “How do I live a life that I will not regret at the end of it?” “How do I live wisely and happily in these most unusual of all times?” “What factors should guide me in choosing a fulfilling path in life?” “Why have humans since civilization been so unhappy and unfulfilled in life, as Freud said, humans live lives ‘of quiet desperation?” “What is our most fundamental and unshakeable self, the one upon which we can build a life that is strong, purposive, loving, and satisfying?” “What needs to change for us to have the lives of aliveness, belonging, purpose, satisfaction, and fulfillment that humans lost once we began living in settled groups, where hierarchies meant all lower on the totem pole would need to constrain their felicity to benefit those higher up?”
@sillymickel.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 8:06 PM

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

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In this scheme, the subdued and the server classes were viewed as no more than props in the dramas the elite would concoct. They were not more important, often even less so, than the planetmates who had earlier been enslaved, similarly to be used at will by humanity. And sexuality for the underlings, like it was for planetmates, was an unpredictable variable, arising from “messy” biology and human feeling, which was inconvenient to the Controllers in the attainment of their ends. It would not at all benefit the Controllers for their underlings to be happy or satisfied. In fact, messy emotion would work against the higher-ups’ desire to have those below attend to their needs, not the person’s own. It was an element of life that would be out of their control Hence, pleasure in general, sexual pleasure in particular, was increasingly devalued, downplayed, moralized against, even demonized, and therefore suppressed, using religion as the tool, in favor of values that benefited those at the top — values which were centered upon hard work and obedience. This repression of sexuality, love relationship, and tender human feeling was added to the piles of hurt that humans carried, which needed to be suppressed so that ordinary folks could even function ... and most definitely so they could act in the productive manners beneficial to and demanded by their dominators. We were on the road to soul murder. We were setting up the context within which it would be difficult… INTRODUCTION Page 18
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The Challenge Making wise choices implies that wrong ones are also possible. Hence there is the question of neurosis and of lost or misdirected lives. They are the Scylla and Charybdis of this journey. They are the rock shoals and whirlpools to avoid lest one’s destiny be merely to fail. Which, by the way, is a needful life trajectory for some and in some lives, if we consider the reincarnational nature of life. That is to say, in some lives we are meant to grow by experiencing failure and the consequences of wrong decisions. How else to appreciate making correct and happy life choices in other lives? More frequently even than that, we may find ourselves in lives caught up in the limitations and proclivities of dominant others. No doubt we need to learn the miseries of domination and enslavement to better understand the value of freedom and free choice and authenticity of self in other lives and circumstances. PREFACE Page xviii
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*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema.

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INTRODUCTION Page 18 Sexual and Pleasure Repression Hugely important amid the thought-and-emotion control was that of sexual behavior. Religion and the Controllers embraced the notion that even sexuality was a source of uninhibited expression of emotion, outside the control of the elite, so sexuality became demonized ... at least for the lowly. Sexuality was both a reminder of our erstwhile belongingness in Nature as well as it was a powerful source of potential defiance, thus requiring repression. The quality of life of the dominated, including love, was more than just not important to the Controllers, which was true. On a level so fundamental it could not even be seen, the personal feelings, motivations, and individual ends of those lower in status got in the way of the ends the Controllers had in mind. Human feeling, intention, and choice were thought to be arenas designated only for them. Those who controlled deemed themselves risen to the heavens, at times thinking they were gods, at times demanding they be thought of that way. In this scheme, the subdued and the server classes were viewed as no more than props in the dramas the elite would concoct. They were not more important, often even less so, than the planetmates who had earlier been enslaved, similarly to be used at will by humanity.
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PREFACE Page xviii …unique abilities, and other positive proclivities of the individual. For potential determines actualization. As Maslow emphasized, if one has a strong ability to do something, one has a powerful motivation to do that thing; and one’s rewards for doing that, not something else, are overflowing. Character is not destiny as much as ability is. This is a central point in this endeavor of who to be. Hence, this new and expansive take on Identity, as presented in this work, is related not just to “who one is” or simply “being myself,” it is related to one’s inmost potentials, talents, and proclivities. It is related to this new child-caring emerging out of the Sixties and throughout the world embracing these radical new parenting notions of “I just want you to be happy.” “I will love you regardless of what you choose.” And simply supporting the young in being “who they are.” Interestingly this can be compared to the traditional goal of education, whose root words indicate it is about “bringing out what is inside.” Secondly, one needs to look at how these choices of who to be are differently configured at the various stages of life and in relation to its multitudinous exigencies. For indeed these requirements change as one traverses the stations of the life cycle and as one encounters distinctive life events, such as unexpected deaths and divorces, tragedies and the calamities that befall one, fickle fame and unforeseen fortune, and so on. This book addresses that as well.
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