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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 46 …they were way, way, way over-budget, over-cost. So much so that it was an increasing financial debacle to continue building them. They were so over-budget they were going to end up costing the people in the Northwest part of the country roughly twelve-thousand dollars per household, over time, of course, through increases in their utility bills.5 That price tag was just to mothball the plants; that is, to put the construction done on them at that point under wraps for a time when the construction might be able to be completed. Keep in mind, this cost to the residents of the Northwest would not get them any electricity for their money. We would be paying to cover the costs of the bad decisions made by those investors and municipal and regional officials who had decided on building them. So, twelve-thousand dollars per household to cover up a huge mistake of investors and officials, and all without getting a kilowatt hour of power out of it. Well, we created an uprising in the early Eighties, in Springfield and Eugene, Oregon, as well as around the state, which resulted in the city of Springfield, in 1983, refusing to shoulder those costs and instead taking the loss in their bond rating that resulted.

PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 46 …they were way, way, way over-budget, over-cost. So much so that it was an increasing financial debacle to continue building them. They were so over-budget they were going to end up costing the people in the Northwest part of the country roughly twelve-thousand dollars per household, over time, of course, through increases in their utility bills.5 That price tag was just to mothball the plants; that is, to put the construction done on them at that point under wraps for a time when the construction might be able to be completed. Keep in mind, this cost to the residents of the Northwest would not get them any electricity for their money. We would be paying to cover the costs of the bad decisions made by those investors and municipal and regional officials who had decided on building them. So, twelve-thousand dollars per household to cover up a huge mistake of investors and officials, and all without getting a kilowatt hour of power out of it. Well, we created an uprising in the early Eighties, in Springfield and Eugene, Oregon, as well as around the state, which resulted in the city of Springfield, in 1983, refusing to shoulder those costs and instead taking the loss in their bond rating that resulted.

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Michael Adzema
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Nuclear When I was canvassing for Oregon Fair Share, we canvassed on that issue, utility rates, lifeline rates, using it as an example, to the folks we’d talk to at the door, of the benefits of strength in numbers ... and how that worked in tackling the large issues. However, the major issue we were working on when I was there was the nuclear one. I don’t need to lay out the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and such to you, I know. Yet keep in mind, nuclear weapons could hardly be tackled as a local issue. Oh, sure, folks could get a stop sign erected at a dangerous intersection in their neighborhood through the power of Oregon Fair Share. People could also change the rate structure on their electric bill to benefit themselves and the environment. But how does one deal with the problem of burgeoning nuclear waste that is poisoning the globe and nuclear proliferation that threatens our existence at any particular moment? There was a way to get at the problem, however. It had to do with the issue of the cost of nuclear energy. At that time, the nuclear power plants that were being built, in Washington State, were the WPPSS plants (Washington Public Power Supply System). They were facetiously called “whoops” plants, because… 2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 45

Nuclear When I was canvassing for Oregon Fair Share, we canvassed on that issue, utility rates, lifeline rates, using it as an example, to the folks we’d talk to at the door, of the benefits of strength in numbers ... and how that worked in tackling the large issues. However, the major issue we were working on when I was there was the nuclear one. I don’t need to lay out the dangers of nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, and such to you, I know. Yet keep in mind, nuclear weapons could hardly be tackled as a local issue. Oh, sure, folks could get a stop sign erected at a dangerous intersection in their neighborhood through the power of Oregon Fair Share. People could also change the rate structure on their electric bill to benefit themselves and the environment. But how does one deal with the problem of burgeoning nuclear waste that is poisoning the globe and nuclear proliferation that threatens our existence at any particular moment? There was a way to get at the problem, however. It had to do with the issue of the cost of nuclear energy. At that time, the nuclear power plants that were being built, in Washington State, were the WPPSS plants (Washington Public Power Supply System). They were facetiously called “whoops” plants, because… 2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 45

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2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 45 …consuming more should reap a reward, which would encourage more consumption. Think about the environmental consequences of this. If you were able to pay less per gallon of gas the more you drove your car ... so that at the end of the month, you could be paying fifty cents a gallon, say ... would you not then drive your car a lot more and waste a lot more gas? On the other hand, if at the end of the month you were paying six bucks a gallon wouldn’t you have significant motivation to restrain yourself? Well, this is how it worked out in the early Eighties with lifeline rates and Oregon Fair Share. It was a small, yet important and long- standing, victory. We were able to cut back the size of the utility bill folks would pay — and it is still a modest amount, even today, I can tell you — while doing something to help the environment by restraining the overconsumption of electricity. I can guarantee you the big operators, who had had it good with cheap electricity, found all kinds of ways to conserve and use less, once they had to pay their fair share.

2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 45 …consuming more should reap a reward, which would encourage more consumption. Think about the environmental consequences of this. If you were able to pay less per gallon of gas the more you drove your car ... so that at the end of the month, you could be paying fifty cents a gallon, say ... would you not then drive your car a lot more and waste a lot more gas? On the other hand, if at the end of the month you were paying six bucks a gallon wouldn’t you have significant motivation to restrain yourself? Well, this is how it worked out in the early Eighties with lifeline rates and Oregon Fair Share. It was a small, yet important and long- standing, victory. We were able to cut back the size of the utility bill folks would pay — and it is still a modest amount, even today, I can tell you — while doing something to help the environment by restraining the overconsumption of electricity. I can guarantee you the big operators, who had had it good with cheap electricity, found all kinds of ways to conserve and use less, once they had to pay their fair share.

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This is how businesses maximize their return on investment and how consuming people are pushed into the mindset of consumerism ... to buy buy buy as the goal and purpose of life. Yet these ways of doing things are put on their head in an environmental crisis. What do you do when the best thing, the only sane thing, is actually to encourage folks to consume less? Also, this was a public utility, keep in mind. We needed to ask folks, why in hell does a public utility, a monopoly, need to maximize profits? Why not just enough to cover operating expenses and wages? And here we came up against another common notion of a capitalistic society: Which is that the other goal, outside of buying as much as one could, is to make as much as one can ... of money. So greed and consumption are the two and only goals in this capitalist model. What Oregon Fair Share had to do was to get the utility to see things differently and change its rates. But first they had to get the community out of its mindset. Believe me, most folks, regardless of the benefit to themselves in having lower rates, simply could not see the issue outside the box in which they were trained to think: That is, that… PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 44

This is how businesses maximize their return on investment and how consuming people are pushed into the mindset of consumerism ... to buy buy buy as the goal and purpose of life. Yet these ways of doing things are put on their head in an environmental crisis. What do you do when the best thing, the only sane thing, is actually to encourage folks to consume less? Also, this was a public utility, keep in mind. We needed to ask folks, why in hell does a public utility, a monopoly, need to maximize profits? Why not just enough to cover operating expenses and wages? And here we came up against another common notion of a capitalistic society: Which is that the other goal, outside of buying as much as one could, is to make as much as one can ... of money. So greed and consumption are the two and only goals in this capitalist model. What Oregon Fair Share had to do was to get the utility to see things differently and change its rates. But first they had to get the community out of its mindset. Believe me, most folks, regardless of the benefit to themselves in having lower rates, simply could not see the issue outside the box in which they were trained to think: That is, that… PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 44

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 44 …simple — to effect an environmental advantage for us, while making things better for ordinary folks. And how? By taking away the unfair advantage given almost routinely to the big and the powerful. For the utility rate structure had been set up previously so that the more electricity you used, the lower the rate per kilowatt hour you would pay. Kind of like the way you pay less per item when you, say, go to Costco and buy in bulk. It makes sense, you would think, I know, to pay less when you buy more. Yet we are in an environmental crisis where use of electricity should be cut back as much as possible, not encouraged. And, yes, we were well aware of all these environmental issues we talk about today back then in the Eighties ... and even Seventies.... Which shocks me, by the way, to realize how little things have changed in all this time. It is as if the environmental issue just started up recently, the way some folks think. Even worse are climate-change deniers. How silly to think that the government is orchestrating a problem that we have known about for thirty years and which was discovered nearly two hundred years ago.4 Anyway, the way things are normally done, in an economic model geared toward profit, is someone who buys more of something gets a lower price to encourage them to buy even more, and then a lower price at that point to buy even more.

PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 44 …simple — to effect an environmental advantage for us, while making things better for ordinary folks. And how? By taking away the unfair advantage given almost routinely to the big and the powerful. For the utility rate structure had been set up previously so that the more electricity you used, the lower the rate per kilowatt hour you would pay. Kind of like the way you pay less per item when you, say, go to Costco and buy in bulk. It makes sense, you would think, I know, to pay less when you buy more. Yet we are in an environmental crisis where use of electricity should be cut back as much as possible, not encouraged. And, yes, we were well aware of all these environmental issues we talk about today back then in the Eighties ... and even Seventies.... Which shocks me, by the way, to realize how little things have changed in all this time. It is as if the environmental issue just started up recently, the way some folks think. Even worse are climate-change deniers. How silly to think that the government is orchestrating a problem that we have known about for thirty years and which was discovered nearly two hundred years ago.4 Anyway, the way things are normally done, in an economic model geared toward profit, is someone who buys more of something gets a lower price to encourage them to buy even more, and then a lower price at that point to buy even more.

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The organization was an attempt to work on any issue the community deemed it wanted addressed, sort of like a public, non-work-related union ... gathering folks together collectively to have strength in numbers to go up against the large entities in our world determining things for us ... government, corporations, you know what I mean.... Oregon Fair Share worked on the issue of fair utility rates, and it won a major victory in restructuring electricity rates around the state so they no longer favored larger consumers of power and instead benefited ordinary folks, smaller consumers. This example is instructive for how our unthinking ways of doing things — evolved out of a time vastly different from today — are mechanically undermining our lives; how they could be changed to benefit us given a little thought to the matter; and finally, how citizens can use their strength in numbers to take action to effect such necessary change. So let me elaborate a little on this victory of Oregon Fair Share. These utility rates proposed by Oregon Fair Share — “lifeline rates,” as they are called — are still in effect. Notice, their intent was… 2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 43

The organization was an attempt to work on any issue the community deemed it wanted addressed, sort of like a public, non-work-related union ... gathering folks together collectively to have strength in numbers to go up against the large entities in our world determining things for us ... government, corporations, you know what I mean.... Oregon Fair Share worked on the issue of fair utility rates, and it won a major victory in restructuring electricity rates around the state so they no longer favored larger consumers of power and instead benefited ordinary folks, smaller consumers. This example is instructive for how our unthinking ways of doing things — evolved out of a time vastly different from today — are mechanically undermining our lives; how they could be changed to benefit us given a little thought to the matter; and finally, how citizens can use their strength in numbers to take action to effect such necessary change. So let me elaborate a little on this victory of Oregon Fair Share. These utility rates proposed by Oregon Fair Share — “lifeline rates,” as they are called — are still in effect. Notice, their intent was… 2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 43

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2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 43 …conscience. Keep in mind this all happened long before the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns, just as we predicted something like that would happen. We predicted that nuclear plants along shorelines or fault lines would be especially vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis leading to catastrophe. Fukushima’s catastrophic meltdown was the result of a tsunami that was caused by an earthquake. Activism Let me back up a second. I am an author, now, but for most of my life I was a psychotherapist who specialized in primal therapy and holotropic breathwork. As well, I am a prenatal and perinatal psychologist, and a philosopher. I did graduate work in anthropology and history, as well as pre- and perinatal psychology; and indeed this book was helped along in its development as my history thesis in my graduate research course in the early Nineties at Sonoma State University. Most recently, I have been advancing theory in the field of ecopsychology in a number of works.3 However, I am also an activist. For a year and a half, from the fall of 1981 to the spring of 1983, I worked for an organization called Oregon Fair Share. I worked as a canvasser out of the Springfield, Oregon, office.

2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 43 …conscience. Keep in mind this all happened long before the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdowns, just as we predicted something like that would happen. We predicted that nuclear plants along shorelines or fault lines would be especially vulnerable to earthquakes and tsunamis leading to catastrophe. Fukushima’s catastrophic meltdown was the result of a tsunami that was caused by an earthquake. Activism Let me back up a second. I am an author, now, but for most of my life I was a psychotherapist who specialized in primal therapy and holotropic breathwork. As well, I am a prenatal and perinatal psychologist, and a philosopher. I did graduate work in anthropology and history, as well as pre- and perinatal psychology; and indeed this book was helped along in its development as my history thesis in my graduate research course in the early Nineties at Sonoma State University. Most recently, I have been advancing theory in the field of ecopsychology in a number of works.3 However, I am also an activist. For a year and a half, from the fall of 1981 to the spring of 1983, I worked for an organization called Oregon Fair Share. I worked as a canvasser out of the Springfield, Oregon, office.

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What is instructive is that at least one of the other persons involved at one point tried to get the story of what happened published. He was not a writer, and he failed; but it is doubtful his piece would be selected for publication anyway. The end of nuclear plant construction in the United States is one of those stories that you will only hear from our opponents and for most people it will have been chalked up to some confusing, mysterious, and random events. It was not. No Nukes is Good Nukes The cessation of nuclear plant construction was something that was desired, worked for, and hoped for by people who knew the dire consequences of nuclear energy and who understood the motives of the people behind nuclear energy who had no concept of that, or… PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 42

What is instructive is that at least one of the other persons involved at one point tried to get the story of what happened published. He was not a writer, and he failed; but it is doubtful his piece would be selected for publication anyway. The end of nuclear plant construction in the United States is one of those stories that you will only hear from our opponents and for most people it will have been chalked up to some confusing, mysterious, and random events. It was not. No Nukes is Good Nukes The cessation of nuclear plant construction was something that was desired, worked for, and hoped for by people who knew the dire consequences of nuclear energy and who understood the motives of the people behind nuclear energy who had no concept of that, or… PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 42

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PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 42 …unusual for my times. I found few fellow travelers. In my quest for truth, I could feel, and was quite carried along with, the ebbs and flows of the tides of my times. I had a life different from most — one which took me to live, to study, and to participate with groups and in places around and around the country for fifty-odd years. Many of these groups and places and the activities and thinking of them would be considered exotic or alien to most Americans. And when folks heard about these developments, for the average person it was something that was happening far away from them with people they did not know ... and was on top of that reported to them in a way to distort and misinform. I, For One, Can Tell You Why We Stopped Building Nuclear Plants in This Country ... I Helped Make it Happen So many of the events of my life would not be well known, although some of the things I was involved in had major influences on our country. For example, the cessation of the building of nuclear power plants in the early Eighties. Not many people could tell you why or how that happened — that 180-degree reversal in America’s march toward a nuclear nation. I was one of the people involved in bringing that about. I was not one of the major players up front. However, I was involved full- time over a couple year period that led up to the events that stopped nuclear power construction to this day. I can tell you what happened.

PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 42 …unusual for my times. I found few fellow travelers. In my quest for truth, I could feel, and was quite carried along with, the ebbs and flows of the tides of my times. I had a life different from most — one which took me to live, to study, and to participate with groups and in places around and around the country for fifty-odd years. Many of these groups and places and the activities and thinking of them would be considered exotic or alien to most Americans. And when folks heard about these developments, for the average person it was something that was happening far away from them with people they did not know ... and was on top of that reported to them in a way to distort and misinform. I, For One, Can Tell You Why We Stopped Building Nuclear Plants in This Country ... I Helped Make it Happen So many of the events of my life would not be well known, although some of the things I was involved in had major influences on our country. For example, the cessation of the building of nuclear power plants in the early Eighties. Not many people could tell you why or how that happened — that 180-degree reversal in America’s march toward a nuclear nation. I was one of the people involved in bringing that about. I was not one of the major players up front. However, I was involved full- time over a couple year period that led up to the events that stopped nuclear power construction to this day. I can tell you what happened.

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Truth’s Solitary Journey What follows from here in this narrative? This is the story of one person’s informed take on those times. This is the perspective of one person intimately involved in the events of our days. For, Forrest- Gump-like, I found myself caught up in virtually all the major trends over the last sixty years either through first-hand observation or through the fact that as a writer and avid follower of the events of the day — in an era that seemed my whole life to be peppered with national and international surprises and upheavals, some positive; others mostly not — I could not look away. In particular, this is a story of my quest for truth during those times. Through a coincidence of birth, genetics, and upbringing, and because in general a quest for truth requires too much time involvement and is usually not a higher priority over things like family and community; my quest for truth, forgoing family, wealth, and community ties, was… 2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 41

Truth’s Solitary Journey What follows from here in this narrative? This is the story of one person’s informed take on those times. This is the perspective of one person intimately involved in the events of our days. For, Forrest- Gump-like, I found myself caught up in virtually all the major trends over the last sixty years either through first-hand observation or through the fact that as a writer and avid follower of the events of the day — in an era that seemed my whole life to be peppered with national and international surprises and upheavals, some positive; others mostly not — I could not look away. In particular, this is a story of my quest for truth during those times. Through a coincidence of birth, genetics, and upbringing, and because in general a quest for truth requires too much time involvement and is usually not a higher priority over things like family and community; my quest for truth, forgoing family, wealth, and community ties, was… 2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 41

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2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 41 Never again would I look at a story out of the mainstream press, no matter how widely reported and/or held to be fact, without looking for the possible agendas and forces that would affect the veracity of what was being said. Especially I would look at who would benefit financially from the story, if it were true; and who would benefit financially, if it were not reported. There is a less discouraging aspect to this development. The historical record relates that Richard Nixon saw the massive outpouring of resistance at Moratorium Day, 1969. It is said he was impressed and perhaps intimidated by the outpouring of people flooding the mall from one end to the other. We learn that Nixon intended to drop nuclear bombs on Vietnam, in particular, on Hanoi; but he changed his mind after seeing the huge wave of people who came to Washington, D.C., on November 15th, 1969. It is reported Nixon reasoned that if he did use nukes in Vietnam, the outpouring against him would be so huge it would sweep away him and his administration. This is at least small comfort, demonstrating to activists that all our actions in a progressive direction bear fruit, yet often in ways about which we will not know. We have no way of calculating the number of people inspired by such events, the number swayed by such events, the number intimidated, or the way the effects of such massive demonstrations ripple out through the country and the world.

2. TRUTH’S SOLITARY JOURNEY Page 41 Never again would I look at a story out of the mainstream press, no matter how widely reported and/or held to be fact, without looking for the possible agendas and forces that would affect the veracity of what was being said. Especially I would look at who would benefit financially from the story, if it were true; and who would benefit financially, if it were not reported. There is a less discouraging aspect to this development. The historical record relates that Richard Nixon saw the massive outpouring of resistance at Moratorium Day, 1969. It is said he was impressed and perhaps intimidated by the outpouring of people flooding the mall from one end to the other. We learn that Nixon intended to drop nuclear bombs on Vietnam, in particular, on Hanoi; but he changed his mind after seeing the huge wave of people who came to Washington, D.C., on November 15th, 1969. It is reported Nixon reasoned that if he did use nukes in Vietnam, the outpouring against him would be so huge it would sweep away him and his administration. This is at least small comfort, demonstrating to activists that all our actions in a progressive direction bear fruit, yet often in ways about which we will not know. We have no way of calculating the number of people inspired by such events, the number swayed by such events, the number intimidated, or the way the effects of such massive demonstrations ripple out through the country and the world.

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President Al Gore. Sorry, I Was Dreaming About a Democratic America Dan Rather’s version, if it had not been undermined, would most likely have led to Al Gore, not George W. Bush, getting the Presidency in 2000. That is to say, even with “filthy rich” and Supreme Court support at that time to begin “installing” our presidents. That is another thing to think about when you think that we have a free press in this country; or if you should think that any ownership involvement in the news has little or no consequences. Back to my story, this incident has to do with my understanding of the truth and of history as it relates to the media and their coverage. Properly reported on, Moratorium Day, 1969, should have been one of the major historical events on American public record. It would arguably have been influential in the course the war would take after that day. Yet with the corrupted news coverage of it and in the days following, my belief in America’s premier role — because of its supposed rights, such as “freedom of the press” — in being the most reliable in getting to the real story and reporting events as close to actuality as humans are capable of was shattered forever. PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 40

President Al Gore. Sorry, I Was Dreaming About a Democratic America Dan Rather’s version, if it had not been undermined, would most likely have led to Al Gore, not George W. Bush, getting the Presidency in 2000. That is to say, even with “filthy rich” and Supreme Court support at that time to begin “installing” our presidents. That is another thing to think about when you think that we have a free press in this country; or if you should think that any ownership involvement in the news has little or no consequences. Back to my story, this incident has to do with my understanding of the truth and of history as it relates to the media and their coverage. Properly reported on, Moratorium Day, 1969, should have been one of the major historical events on American public record. It would arguably have been influential in the course the war would take after that day. Yet with the corrupted news coverage of it and in the days following, my belief in America’s premier role — because of its supposed rights, such as “freedom of the press” — in being the most reliable in getting to the real story and reporting events as close to actuality as humans are capable of was shattered forever. PART ONE: CULTURE WAR — TRUTH Page 40

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Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, Planetmates (2014) and Prodigal Human (2016) — which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth from which we suffer, which is radically distinct from all of Nature — it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans. While this might mean that they are rooted in a kind of collective unconscious that exists prior to and independent of any individual’s experience, still, that collective unconscious is humanly derived; it is distinctly and only human. In which case, we might wonder about the components of any Reality separate from the human: That is to say, what it is that might be true for humans as well as all other beings in existence, the other planetmates, any life forms on other planets or in other dimensions. In that light, in my endeavor here, in peeling back the pre- and perinatal overlays on human experience — even if they are rooted in some overarching reality, independent of any individual events, like a collective unconscious — I am still aiming for a peek at the reality that… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv

Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, Planetmates (2014) and Prodigal Human (2016) — which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth from which we suffer, which is radically distinct from all of Nature — it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans. While this might mean that they are rooted in a kind of collective unconscious that exists prior to and independent of any individual’s experience, still, that collective unconscious is humanly derived; it is distinctly and only human. In which case, we might wonder about the components of any Reality separate from the human: That is to say, what it is that might be true for humans as well as all other beings in existence, the other planetmates, any life forms on other planets or in other dimensions. In that light, in my endeavor here, in peeling back the pre- and perinatal overlays on human experience — even if they are rooted in some overarching reality, independent of any individual events, like a collective unconscious — I am still aiming for a peek at the reality that… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv …reality than the realities that emanate from our events as humans. In fact, the term biological materialism has been used by those in Grof’s camp to describe the idea that birth-like mythological and archetypal symbolism and experiences are derived from birth events. Saying they are derived is saying that they would not occur except for the birth traumas, and to that they do not agree. The Mythological-Archetypal Veil I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth- like mythological and archetypal symbols. Nonetheless, I view the actual events of one’s life as having strong determination on the way one views and interprets everything that comes after them. That would include these transpersonal and archetypal realities as being at least shaped, if not caused, by our early experiences. My difference lies in two things: One, that these events shape or they configure our religious and spiritual understandings, especially our religious ones, is what I elaborate upon in the relevant portions of this book and especially the four following it. However, I do not know the extent to which these events create or originate these transpersonal realities.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv …reality than the realities that emanate from our events as humans. In fact, the term biological materialism has been used by those in Grof’s camp to describe the idea that birth-like mythological and archetypal symbolism and experiences are derived from birth events. Saying they are derived is saying that they would not occur except for the birth traumas, and to that they do not agree. The Mythological-Archetypal Veil I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth- like mythological and archetypal symbols. Nonetheless, I view the actual events of one’s life as having strong determination on the way one views and interprets everything that comes after them. That would include these transpersonal and archetypal realities as being at least shaped, if not caused, by our early experiences. My difference lies in two things: One, that these events shape or they configure our religious and spiritual understandings, especially our religious ones, is what I elaborate upon in the relevant portions of this book and especially the four following it. However, I do not know the extent to which these events create or originate these transpersonal realities.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by M. Adzema

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Seen Grof’s way, mythological events have an a priori standing; a priori meaning they are not reducible to life events such as the traumas of birth. They arise “of themselves” and have an independent or self- contained quality, not a derived one. According to Grof, transpersonal events are not a posteriori events; they do not “come after.” They are not derived from earlier experience. Which is to say, their existence is not dependent upon — let alone, caused by — the early pre- and perinatal experiences they so express. While some might say we have the mythologies we do because we all have these early experiences and that is why myths are so similar across different individuals and cultures, proponents of Grof’s view would say that our mythologies are not attributable to our early events and that they exist independently of human life. They are seen as archetypes in the Jungian sense of being outside of and prior to human events. Much like Plato’s Forms, or iconic Ideas, they have a kind of prior and greater… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv

Seen Grof’s way, mythological events have an a priori standing; a priori meaning they are not reducible to life events such as the traumas of birth. They arise “of themselves” and have an independent or self- contained quality, not a derived one. According to Grof, transpersonal events are not a posteriori events; they do not “come after.” They are not derived from earlier experience. Which is to say, their existence is not dependent upon — let alone, caused by — the early pre- and perinatal experiences they so express. While some might say we have the mythologies we do because we all have these early experiences and that is why myths are so similar across different individuals and cultures, proponents of Grof’s view would say that our mythologies are not attributable to our early events and that they exist independently of human life. They are seen as archetypes in the Jungian sense of being outside of and prior to human events. Much like Plato’s Forms, or iconic Ideas, they have a kind of prior and greater… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv

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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 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

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Books Two through Four, Dance of the Seven Veils It is in this book — divided into three volumes — that I do the grand overview of what that all means for understanding our reality and liberating ourselves from limiting perspectives, unconscious prejudices, and denials of the reality before us which would otherwise be obvious. This book is meant to open your mind to what you are standing upon in your stance in life. It takes you back, layer by layer, like an archaeological dig, to the foundations of your being. Just a hint, you will find Divinity there. You will also sense the path to be free, the way of ecstasy. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii

Books Two through Four, Dance of the Seven Veils It is in this book — divided into three volumes — that I do the grand overview of what that all means for understanding our reality and liberating ourselves from limiting perspectives, unconscious prejudices, and denials of the reality before us which would otherwise be obvious. This book is meant to open your mind to what you are standing upon in your stance in life. It takes you back, layer by layer, like an archaeological dig, to the foundations of your being. Just a hint, you will find Divinity there. You will also sense the path to be free, the way of ecstasy. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii …biologically constituted worldview, modern culture has created test tube babies. These are individuals whose early experiences as cells do not even follow the pattern of experience — of sperm traveling to ovum, and so on — that humans have experienced for all our existence and upon which all of what is considered human and human reality has been built. Someday, someone will have to do a study comparing the basic worldviews and mythologies of test-tube conceived humans to those of the rest of us with the normal human beginnings. I predict there will be astonishing differences. However, in the most common example of bioculturally constituted realities emanating from our early lives, every culture determines the way birth will be experienced by the neonate. Thus, in what is the most studied biocultural of all influences, birth has an impact on our lives in vastly different ways depending upon whether it is harsh, or gentle; induced, or spontaneous; and in every other conceivable way. Prenatal and perinatal psychologists from Arthur Janov — with his definitive and ground-breaking book, Imprints (1983) — to Frederick Leboyer (1975, 2009), to Thomas Verny (1981), to David Chamberlain (1988) have detailed the way our birth and that our birth affects us ever after in life ... often in ways that are irreversible and untouchable by any and all later experience and techniques. Before that, even, Otto Rank (1929, 1952), Nandor Fodor (1949), Donald W. Winnicott (1958), David Cheek and Leslie LeCron (1968), and Leslie Feher (1980) added much to our knowledge of how birth creates our underlying feelings and our perceived realities.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii …biologically constituted worldview, modern culture has created test tube babies. These are individuals whose early experiences as cells do not even follow the pattern of experience — of sperm traveling to ovum, and so on — that humans have experienced for all our existence and upon which all of what is considered human and human reality has been built. Someday, someone will have to do a study comparing the basic worldviews and mythologies of test-tube conceived humans to those of the rest of us with the normal human beginnings. I predict there will be astonishing differences. However, in the most common example of bioculturally constituted realities emanating from our early lives, every culture determines the way birth will be experienced by the neonate. Thus, in what is the most studied biocultural of all influences, birth has an impact on our lives in vastly different ways depending upon whether it is harsh, or gentle; induced, or spontaneous; and in every other conceivable way. Prenatal and perinatal psychologists from Arthur Janov — with his definitive and ground-breaking book, Imprints (1983) — to Frederick Leboyer (1975, 2009), to Thomas Verny (1981), to David Chamberlain (1988) have detailed the way our birth and that our birth affects us ever after in life ... often in ways that are irreversible and untouchable by any and all later experience and techniques. Before that, even, Otto Rank (1929, 1952), Nandor Fodor (1949), Donald W. Winnicott (1958), David Cheek and Leslie LeCron (1968), and Leslie Feher (1980) added much to our knowledge of how birth creates our underlying feelings and our perceived realities.

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The Biocultural Veil I also establish, in The Secret Life of Stones, that there are bioculturally constituted realities. These are the realities that emanate from our biological experiences as they are modified by culture. They come in most especially during out time in the womb, when events are shaped strongly both by biology but also by culture. For culture, as experienced by the mother, begins to heavily influence the experiences the fetus will have. We all experience a time in the womb. What follows from that, which I say in The Secret Life of Stones, is that there are universal aspects of that experience which determine the human world view: Our feelings of freedom vying with those of constriction and oppression, for example, emanate from this time. Nonetheless, our womb experiences also vary by culture. Different cultures have different ideas about what the mother should be doing during pregnancy, how she will interact with her unborn child, and so on. These all affect the child in ways at least small, but usually in huge ways. These are aspects of the biocultural veil across perception. To make clear this interplay of biology and culture, let me use an example. In the most egregious instance of cultural influence on our… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii

The Biocultural Veil I also establish, in The Secret Life of Stones, that there are bioculturally constituted realities. These are the realities that emanate from our biological experiences as they are modified by culture. They come in most especially during out time in the womb, when events are shaped strongly both by biology but also by culture. For culture, as experienced by the mother, begins to heavily influence the experiences the fetus will have. We all experience a time in the womb. What follows from that, which I say in The Secret Life of Stones, is that there are universal aspects of that experience which determine the human world view: Our feelings of freedom vying with those of constriction and oppression, for example, emanate from this time. Nonetheless, our womb experiences also vary by culture. Different cultures have different ideas about what the mother should be doing during pregnancy, how she will interact with her unborn child, and so on. These all affect the child in ways at least small, but usually in huge ways. These are aspects of the biocultural veil across perception. To make clear this interplay of biology and culture, let me use an example. In the most egregious instance of cultural influence on our… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii …within which everything that comes after is configured. They determine what we will see; how we will see it; how we will interpret it; what our reaction will be to it; and what we will do about it. We are human and have an experiential awareness extending back into a time prior to appearing on Earth. Then, in coming into Form, what we perceive and how we act are determined not so much by genetics but by prior experience. Hence, these periconceptional experiences, these absolute earliest experiences of ours in the Form State, are the first of the Veils across our windows to the world, creating the screen upon which we will view our drama of human life. So it is that our biological and anatomical makeup along with our individual histories prenatally and perinatally, beginning as early as when we were sperm and ova cells inside our parents, determine our human reality. They create the parameters of our experience in Form. They put down the ground rules of the board game of the human life we will experience and in which we will participate.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii …within which everything that comes after is configured. They determine what we will see; how we will see it; how we will interpret it; what our reaction will be to it; and what we will do about it. We are human and have an experiential awareness extending back into a time prior to appearing on Earth. Then, in coming into Form, what we perceive and how we act are determined not so much by genetics but by prior experience. Hence, these periconceptional experiences, these absolute earliest experiences of ours in the Form State, are the first of the Veils across our windows to the world, creating the screen upon which we will view our drama of human life. So it is that our biological and anatomical makeup along with our individual histories prenatally and perinatally, beginning as early as when we were sperm and ova cells inside our parents, determine our human reality. They create the parameters of our experience in Form. They put down the ground rules of the board game of the human life we will experience and in which we will participate.

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Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives. In so doing, we peer through a portal wherein we are again one with the Universe. We find ourselves on the edge of a coming together as grand as that which we experienced at conception. We receive the gift of a heritage we long ago and mistakenly repudiated — a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, and once again noble within the world we inhabit. The Biological Veil Most relevant to this book, in Book One, as well, I establish there are biologically constituted realities. These are one of the screens of distortion across our perception of clear Reality. That is to say that reality, for humans, is constructed for us out of our unique biological set from an infinity of everything possible that could be or is in the Universe — something that Aldous Huxley (1954) called, Mind at Large. I point out that everything that we experience in life, beginning even before conception, before the coming together of sperm and ovum that created us, are learning experiences and are formative. They create imprints that skew all experiences coming afterward; they set templates… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi

Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives. In so doing, we peer through a portal wherein we are again one with the Universe. We find ourselves on the edge of a coming together as grand as that which we experienced at conception. We receive the gift of a heritage we long ago and mistakenly repudiated — a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, and once again noble within the world we inhabit. The Biological Veil Most relevant to this book, in Book One, as well, I establish there are biologically constituted realities. These are one of the screens of distortion across our perception of clear Reality. That is to say that reality, for humans, is constructed for us out of our unique biological set from an infinity of everything possible that could be or is in the Universe — something that Aldous Huxley (1954) called, Mind at Large. I point out that everything that we experience in life, beginning even before conception, before the coming together of sperm and ovum that created us, are learning experiences and are formative. They create imprints that skew all experiences coming afterward; they set templates… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi …which we are temporarily cut off. It is our own consciousness; however it is the part of which we are unconscious. Or as I often point out, it is the part we have forgotten1 — perhaps even intentionally, as a choice made by our inherent Divinity. Which choice also we then forget.2 That unknown aliveness is a secret life in the Universe of matter: So in essence there is a secret life of “stones.” Yes, the Universe is alive. And, yes, you are the Universe, you are that aliveness, but you have decided to become less so. I show, in that work, The Secret Life of Stones, how knowing this changes everything. It is the tipping point revealing a new world — one in which each of us is immersed at every moment, like a fish in water, in aliveness, consciousness, experiential units ... and all of it friendly, compassionate, reaching out to us and helping us ... even in spite of us. The Secret Life of Stones presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders and explores the terrain leading up to and supporting such overstandings. Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi …which we are temporarily cut off. It is our own consciousness; however it is the part of which we are unconscious. Or as I often point out, it is the part we have forgotten1 — perhaps even intentionally, as a choice made by our inherent Divinity. Which choice also we then forget.2 That unknown aliveness is a secret life in the Universe of matter: So in essence there is a secret life of “stones.” Yes, the Universe is alive. And, yes, you are the Universe, you are that aliveness, but you have decided to become less so. I show, in that work, The Secret Life of Stones, how knowing this changes everything. It is the tipping point revealing a new world — one in which each of us is immersed at every moment, like a fish in water, in aliveness, consciousness, experiential units ... and all of it friendly, compassionate, reaching out to us and helping us ... even in spite of us. The Secret Life of Stones presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders and explores the terrain leading up to and supporting such overstandings. Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by M. Adzema

Preface, p. xxi

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Hence all that exists, really, is Experience. Matter is metaphor of that Experience. It is also message of that particular aspect of Experience that we leave out of our awareness in coming into Form, in becoming human. The Material Veil What we put into unconsciousness in the process of coming into Form becomes the physical world we experience as unalive and not conscious, though actually it is pregnant with experiential Divinity — Subjectivity, Feeling, Awareness, Bliss ... and Love. Correspondingly, the essence of the Universe is found in our direct experience of it, which is our essential Divinity. The reality outside of that, which we think of as matter and as unconscious and unalive, is merely the aspect of our own reality from… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx

Hence all that exists, really, is Experience. Matter is metaphor of that Experience. It is also message of that particular aspect of Experience that we leave out of our awareness in coming into Form, in becoming human. The Material Veil What we put into unconsciousness in the process of coming into Form becomes the physical world we experience as unalive and not conscious, though actually it is pregnant with experiential Divinity — Subjectivity, Feeling, Awareness, Bliss ... and Love. Correspondingly, the essence of the Universe is found in our direct experience of it, which is our essential Divinity. The reality outside of that, which we think of as matter and as unconscious and unalive, is merely the aspect of our own reality from… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface, p. xx

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx I show in particular how our ideas about who to be and what to be, as rooted in culture and mythology; what to do, as rooted in early childhood experience; what to believe, as linked to religion, God, spirituality, mythology, good and evil, and much else, are rooted in the patterns of experiences we universally experience over the course of our lives, leading up to adulthood. Further, I show how peeling back the layers of that onion is ever more liberating, at every step. And where it ultimately leads ... what is ultimately true ... what is the center of the onion?... Well, the image that emerges is your original face. And your original face is all these things — Divine, true, realer than real, more positive and loving than you ever thought you could be, and more wonderful and exciting than you can imagine. In the same vein as William Blake, I am saying that, when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is ... infinite. Book One, The Secret Life of Stones In Book One, my premise is that there is a secret life in the Universe and that the physical world is an illusion arising from our human perception. I propose that the fundamental reality is consciousness; more correctly, it is experiential. That matter, the physical world, is a projection of human perception thrown upon the formless is the conclusion of quantum physics and our latest consciousness research.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx I show in particular how our ideas about who to be and what to be, as rooted in culture and mythology; what to do, as rooted in early childhood experience; what to believe, as linked to religion, God, spirituality, mythology, good and evil, and much else, are rooted in the patterns of experiences we universally experience over the course of our lives, leading up to adulthood. Further, I show how peeling back the layers of that onion is ever more liberating, at every step. And where it ultimately leads ... what is ultimately true ... what is the center of the onion?... Well, the image that emerges is your original face. And your original face is all these things — Divine, true, realer than real, more positive and loving than you ever thought you could be, and more wonderful and exciting than you can imagine. In the same vein as William Blake, I am saying that, when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is ... infinite. Book One, The Secret Life of Stones In Book One, my premise is that there is a secret life in the Universe and that the physical world is an illusion arising from our human perception. I propose that the fundamental reality is consciousness; more correctly, it is experiential. That matter, the physical world, is a projection of human perception thrown upon the formless is the conclusion of quantum physics and our latest consciousness research.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by M. Adzema

Preface, p. xx

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