DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv Book Five, Womb with a View While our births and our species biology — as exhibited in the species congratulation we do of ourselves, which is called anthropocentrism — are 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 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 individual aspects of experience, or between the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious, to use Carl Jung’s terminology.
*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by Michael Adzema
Preface, p. xxiv
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