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WHY PRIMAL SPIRIT?

WHY PRIMAL SPIRIT ?

We have noticed two things in the New Age/ progressive movement: First, there is an absolute void when it comes to a forum where information and resources having to do with the cathartic, deep experiential, deep feeling, "shadow" work, birth related, spiritual emergency, shamanistic, radically political, radically spiritual side of the New Age movement can be shared and can cross-fertilize. This part of the consciousness-transformation movement is the one Jung addressed when he wrote, "One does not become enlightened by imaging figures of light, but by making the Darkness conscious." This part of the New Age movement is often the one that people come to when talking doesn’t work, when affirmations don’t work, when "positive thinking" and "creating one’s reality through thinking it" have played themselves out and one is still left ever lured into negative situations, and so on.

While each of these have their place and can be helpful at times, it is a powerful seduction to "think" or delude oneself into superficial change when it is deeper, more difficult, more experiential change that is necessary. Consequently people wed themselves to denial, and the vast majority of New Age prescriptions can be used that way. People often come to the "deeper wave of the New Age" only as a last resort.

Along with this denial of our darker and painful side goes the rejection of the knowledge that comes from it — the facts we would wish not to know.  Witness:  The rejection of deMause’s psychohistory and its discovery that the history of childhood is a history of child abuse, and that it is incest that has been universal, not the incest taboo (see "The History of Childhood As the History of Child Abuse" ).  The rejection of the evidence for birth trauma and the lifelong negative effects of the Western techno-pharmacological birth.  The similar rejection of the evidence of the lifelong negative effects of circumcision and the unconscious role it plays in the creation of killers for the patristic war machine (see Jeannine Parvati Baker’s article, " Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet ").  The rejection of the integration of the body and of Nature as important on the spiritual path.  And the continued widespread rejection of feeling and passion, even in New Age groups, who often envision the new consciousness, the new man/woman as akin to the emotionless, robot-like, and deeply repressed or unspontaneous — like a Spock or a Data.

To the contrary, this deeper wave of the New Age, this primal spirit is the child noticing and expressing that the Emperor has no clothes when it turns out he is naked.  And finally — believe it or not — because it takes serious things so seriously (at times), it is also able to "lighten up" in giddy absurdity and silliness the rest of the time. (Hence, the name SSILLY God*.)  Considering all this — especially the passion and silliness — this component of the New Age movement might be called (with deep respect and sympathetic silliness) the Abbie Hoffman wave of the New Age.  Certainly we are those who would rather be the Yippies than the yuppies of the New Age.

The other thing we noticed about the New Age movement was its tendency to group into factions, like religions.  There are separate publications for holotropic breathworkers, past-lives and regression therapists, primalers, psychohistorians, rebirthers, humanistic psychologists, pre- and perinatal psychologists, shamanism, yoga enthusiasts, transpersonalists, new consciousness and new physics advocates, feminists, pagans and wiccans, midwifes, and so on.  And despite the fact that all are to some extent aligned in that they seek to throw out an old and now dangerous worldview and bring in a new consciousness conducive to harmony with Nature and others, there is very little overlap in these publications.

In addition, we noticed each faction promoting their own and denigrating closely aligned groups.  So we’d hear breathworkers scoffing at primalers, primalers putting down past-lives therapists, psychohistorians repudiating the transpersonal or spiritual, everybody putting down channellers and UFO theorists, and on and on and on!  This is hardly the way for a new-paradigm movement to act!  We need to stop thinking in terms of "us versus them" and instead think in terms of alliances, win-win networking, and "we’re all in this together" ways.  This new-paradigm movement -- all factions of it -- needs to learn how to walk its talk:  It simply is not enough to talk about "interconnectedness," "unity," "one consciousness," and "win-win," -- to mention just a few -- while one is greedily elbowing one's way into prominence and position.

To both of us — who’ve been involved in political movements, with Mickel actually having had a successful albeit short career as a political activist — this tendency in the consciousness-transformation movement to factionalize strikes us as crass commercialism, sometimes as greed, sometimes as evidence of denial and projection, and always as evidence of old-paradigm, old-age, patriarchal "wolves" dressing up in new-paradigm/ New Age sheep’s clothing.  Sometimes we feel the New Age movement should "unionize"! . . .  if it expects to have any real effect on the larger world.

So seeing these things that add up to a void in the New Age movement — the utter lack of a place where deeply serious cathartic (and yet silly) elements of consciousness-change can cross-fertilize with closely aligned modalities, information, resources, and viewpoints — led to the birth of the publication, Primal Spirit Magazine, and to this more comprehensive website, Primal Spirit, of the same intent.  At first we thought of this venture as a kind of Whole Life Catalog of the Deeper Wave, with articles; it is already becoming more than that.  We hope you enjoy this site and that it enriches you; and we invite your participation in it.

Live long and lighten up,

Mickel & Mary Lynn Adzema

Return to Primal Spirit Vol. 2, No. 1 Contents

 

WHY MULTIMEDIA?
Primal Spirit's Multimodal Experiment and How You Can Participate.

Our Use of a Multimodal/ Multisensory Interface to Enhance the Educational and Pleasurable Aspects of the Site.

Visitors can choose to scan the text, or to chill out and wait for the full page to load so as to receive the integrative experience intended.

WHY VISITORS MIGHT WANT TO WAIT 
PATIENTLY WHILE PAGES LOAD SLOWLY; 
WHY THEY MIGHT LOAD SLOWLY THE FIRST TIME; 
AND WHAT EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNICATION THE WEBMASTER OF THIS SITE IS ENGAGING IN FOR YOUR BENEFIT, 
AND HOW YOU MIGHT GET THE MOST ENJOYMENT FROM IT, OR AVOID IT IF PRESENTLY NOT INCLINED FOR IT.

 

Visitors can choose to scan the text, or to chill out and wait for the full page to load so as to receive the integrative experience intended.

WHY VISITORS MIGHT WANT TO WAIT 
PATIENTLY WHILE PAGES LOAD SLOWLY; 
WHY THEY MIGHT LOAD SLOWLY THE FIRST TIME; 
AND WHAT EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNICATION THE WEBMASTER OF THIS SITE IS ENGAGING IN FOR YOUR BENEFIT, 
AND HOW YOU MIGHT GET THE MOST ENJOYMENT FROM IT, OR AVOID IT IF PRESENTLY NOT INCLINED FOR IT.

 

On the one hand, even an broadband you may have to wait up to and over five minutes for some pages to fully load -- you can tell if it is still loading, e.g., a song that will play, by looking to the lower left of your browser; it will tell you if and what might still be loading.

 

Concerning the Multimedia integrated into especially the more recent parts of this website:

This website was founded in 1997 - 12 years ago -- and the technology has much changed. Now it is quite easy to offer video, audio, images and graphics in creative ways, music...what's next?  Used to be just text and graphics, much like what you would find in a book.  It is not only easier to offer multimedia; it is even cheap, most often costing nothing but the time and effort.

I come to this place in my thinking after decades of observing and participating in the fruitless conveyance of information by mere words alone.

Meanwhile, I have grown up in an age that has presented information in more and more understandable ways by including sound, sight, video of the thing itself -- most obviously in movies, but also documentaries, TV news programs, and so on.

I have decided to bring my knowledge of other ways of communicating -- having some background in photography as well as my training in holotropic breathwork and the use of sound -- certain kinds of music, or rhythms -- to effect consciousness.  Adding this to my interest in humor, comedy, and farce as ways to make points which was one thing among many that I learned about communicating/ conveying facts and perspectives/ showing falsity/ and ultimately hoping to raise consciousness of people in ways that they would see more clearly and be more able to see what their interests were, where they were being manipulated, how they could further their ends and those of others like them and not be patsies propagandized into undermining themselves.

So I do not know how many websites are like this one; perhaps none; perhaps a lot.  

For one thing this website's main goal is to educate.  Education in itself can relieve a lot of suffering; because untruths are often inflicted to hurt, control, manipulate, or to take.  Sometimes the purpose of lying and misinformation is to keep people cowed and afraid of change and also attached to strong patriarchal protective symbols.  So the goal here has been education, at least for starters.

But this website is now different in that I am employing all my ways of communicating and, with my eye on presenting an integrative EXPERIENCE, which always results in a deeper more comprehensive understanding of the communication than mere words, especially if they are just written and contain none of the author's tone, intent, passion, sadness, glee, or whatever...in addition to the myriad subtleties we unconsciously pick up on when we hear the actual author's voice along with the words.

So this website is already offering this.  People will have various opinions as to whether I am at all successful or even helpful in attempting to convey a multi-sensory, multimedia communication.  I am doing this consciously and my years of helping people in therapy I think give me an edge as to what affects people and what messages they get from various things.  Still, I have no idea how well I will be able to communicate to you with these things in play; I can only try. 
 

I hope that people will give me feedback on what works, what doesn't and why, and suggestions of their own that I could try.

HOWEVER, AS THIS EXPERIMENT GOES ON, THERE ARE A FEW TECHNICAL PROBLEMS AND A  FEW THINGS TO MAKE VISITORS AWARE OF TO AVOID UNNECESSARY CONFUSION OR FRUSTRATION.

ONE:  MANY OF THESE PAGES WILL NEED FIVE OR MORE MINUTES TO FULLY LOAD FOR VARIOUS ASPECTS OF WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PAGE TO BE FULLY LOADED INTO YOUR COMPUTER AND TO BEGIN WORKING.  BACKGROUND -- EVEN FOREGROUND -- MUSIC IS BEING USED LIBERALLY, IN AN INTEGRATIVE WAY, AND IT REQUIRES TIME TO FULLY LOAD.  YOU WILL NOT EVEN KNOW, MOST OFTEN, WHAT MUSIC, WHAT MIX, WHAT SEQUENCE WILL BE PLAYING.  AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT TO HEAR THE MUSIC OR TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTEGRATIVE EXPERIENCE THAT I AM ATTEMPTING TO CONVEY.  BUT IF YOU DO WISH TO TAKE IN MORE THAN JUST THE TEXT AND EXPERIMENT ALONG WITH ME TO SEE WHAT IT MIGHT BE LIKE FOR YOU, THEN YOU NEED TO KNOW TO WAIT AND BE PATIENT.  LOOK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE OF THE BROWSER AND IF IT SAYS THE PAGE IS STILL LOADING SOMETHING, THEN YOU KNOW SOMETHING MORE IS COMING.  MORE THAN THAT, I AM HOPING TO PROVIDE THE BEST, MOST PLEASURABLE, AND MOST LUXURIOUS LEARNING EXPERIENCE.  I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU LISTEN TO THE AUDIO OF THE COMMUNICATION (USUALLY THERE'S ONE), KEEP AN EYE ON THE TEXT, KICK BACK AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC MIX THAT I HAVE CHOSEN TO AID THE MESSAGE -- INDEED LET YOURSELF FEEL THE EXPERIENCE -- AS THAT IS THE MOST ENJOYABLE AND MOST MEMORABLE.  ALSO THERE MAY BE VIDEO PLAYERS TO PLAY WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO, TO AUGMENT THE EXPERIENCE -- SEE IF THAT ADDS TO THE EXPERIENCE.  THERE MAY ALSO BE MUSIC PLAYERS WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE MUSIC OR JUST LISTEN TO WHAT COMES RANDOMLY.  AND THERE MAY BE WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN CHOOSE TO REPLAY MUSIC THAT INITIALLY PLAYED ON ITS OWN AT THE BEGINNING.  THIS IS WHERE THE INTERACTIVE PART COMES IN, BECAUSE EVERYTHING INCLUDING HUMOR, MOVING AND STILL IMAGES, MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD AND TEXT FOR THE MOST PART ARE FOR YOU TO PICK, CHOOSE, MIX, MATCH, JUGGLE, REJECT, WHATEVER YOU WISH THAT IS IN LINE WITH YOUR INTENTION.

SO THIS IS WHAT I AM NOTIFYING THE VISITORS OF THIS SITE FOR THE FIRST TIME.  I HEARD THAT SOME PEOPLE'S BROWSERS FROZE UP AND THEY HAD DIFFICULTY WITH SOME PAGES BECAUSE OF THAT.  I HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO CHANGE THAT.  BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE, AGAIN, FEEDBACK, IF SOMETHING IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY OR IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.

I AM ALWAY REACHABLE AT mickel@primalspirit.com

I thank you for visiting; I know you are hear to find out things that you do not know.  

On the other hand, my intention is to bring here lots of things that people would be  better off knowing, but more than that, I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE MOST ENJOYABLE, PLEASURABLE, TRANSFORMATIVE, AND MEMORABLE/ EDUCATIONAL/ INSIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE THAT I CAN in helping you to get what you want.  I will do the best I can; and I will need the reactions and impressions of others who try out what I am offering, so that I can improve -- no doubt I can improve, who can't?  I do think that you will enjoy what I have arranged so far.

Thanks for reading this... I hope you will choose to participate and even to give some feedback.  But in any case, I hope you will enjoy and benefit from my efforts.

SillyMickel Adzema

I am pointing this out because I have had a long-standing involvement in communication through the written and spoken word.  I received the majority of my official education largely through words - text.  Yet, as a primal therapist, I was well aware how even people in the highest echelons of academia could not seem to hear each other, and the discussions thus took on the qualities of monkey poo-flinging.  There was no attempt to find or discover truth -- as in a Socratic dialogue -- rather people seemed to have preconceived notions of the truth; thus their only attempt would be to proselytize and influence -- using all kinds of slick and not so slick rhetorical gambits -- and thus be seen as the "winner."  The champion poo-flinger.

Obviously what was lacking was a status of non-attachment to the ends of a quest into the true nature of anything.  We see that this has become a pattern that now takes over our country from Town Hall meetings to Congress, as of the past summer and the past week.

In primal terms, it became clear to me that education at the highest levels, relying on written reports from flawed human beings, having biases and preconceptions and smart enough to cover them up and even better to convince oneself that they don't exist inside oneself.  Well, it didn't work; and I happened to be in a doctoral program in psychological anthorpology at UC San Diego at a time when more and more women and natives of cultures were doing ethnographies.  The startling and revolutionary upshot came about in the stark realization that women and natives of cultures would produce vastly different ethnographies about the same cultural or primatologogical elements than had been produced for sometimes hundreds of years by men.

So we not only see things vastly differently because of our different early experiences, traumas, and the defenses and life agendas that arise from them; but we also can interpret things in wildly disparate ways depending upon whether we see through feminine or masculine eyes, or whether we grew up in the culture or it was totally alien to us.  

The sad idea that dominated much of the bad ethnography and thus untruth about what humans are like centered around such old-fashioned notions as that a person completely unaware of a phenomenon can be more "objective" - meaning see it more accurately, clearly, more in lines with what could be expressed as truthful than could a person who had intimate knowledge of a phenomenon. Certainly we are biased by being close to a subject; but total ignorance of the phenomenon is not better.  Besides it lacks the native's insight that can only come from total immersion and produce insights so subtle that they could never be seen, approached, or apprehended without years of intimate involvement in the object of investigation. 

 

 


WHY VISITORS MIGHT WANT TO WAIT 
PATIENTLY WHILE PAGES LOAD SLOWLY; 
WHY THEY MIGHT LOAD SLOWLY THE FIRST TIME; 
AND WHAT EXPERIMENT IN COMMUNICATION THE WEBMASTER OF THIS SITE IS ENGAGING IN FOR YOUR BENEFIT, 
AND HOW YOU MIGHT GET THE MOST ENJOYMENT FROM IT, OR AVOID IT IF PRESENTLY NOT INCLINED FOR IT.

Concerning the Multimedia integrated into especially the more recent parts of this website:

This website was founded in 1997 - 12 years ago -- and the technology has much changed. Now it is quite easy to offer video, audio, images and graphics in creative ways, music...what's next?  Used to be just text and graphics, much like what you would find in a book.  It is not only easier to offer multimedia; it is even cheap, most often costing nothing but the time and effort.

I come to this place in my thinking after decades of observing and participating in the fruitless conveyance of information by mere words alone.

Meanwhile, I have grown up in an age that has presented information in more and more understandable ways by including sound, sight, video of the thing itself -- most obviously in movies, but also documentaries, TV news programs, and so on.

I have decided to bring my knowledge of other ways of communicating -- having some background in photography as well as my training in holotropic breathwork and the use of sound -- certain kinds of music, or rhythms -- to effect consciousness.  Adding this to my interest in humor, comedy, and farce as ways to make points which was one thing among many that I learned about communicating/ conveying facts and perspectives/ showing falsity/ and ultimately hoping to raise consciousness of people in ways that they would see more clearly and be more able to see what their interests were, where they were being manipulated, how they could further their ends and those of others like them and not be patsies propagandized into undermining themselves.

So I do not know how many websites are like this one; perhaps none; perhaps a lot.  

For one thing this website's main goal is to educate.  Education in itself can relieve a lot of suffering; because untruths are often inflicted to hurt, control, manipulate, or to take.  Sometimes the purpose of lying and misinformation is to keep people cowed and afraid of change and also attached to strong patriarchal protective symbols.  So the goal here has been education, at least for starters.

But this website is now different in that I am employing all my ways of communicating and, with my eye on presenting an integrative EXPERIENCE, which always results in a deeper more comprehensive understanding of the communication than mere words, especially if they are just written and contain none of the author's tone, intent, passion, sadness, glee, or whatever...in addition to the myriad subtleties we unconsciously pick up on when we hear the actual author's voice along with the words.

So this website is already offering this.  People will have various opinions as to whether I am at all successful or even helpful in attempting to convey a multi-sensory, multimedia communication.  I am doing this consciously and my years of helping people in therapy I think give me an edge as to what affects people and what messages they get from various things.  Still, I have no idea how well I will be able to communicate to you with these things in play; I can only try. 
 

I hope that people will give me feedback on what works, what doesn't and why, and suggestions of their own that I could try.

HOWEVER, AS THIS EXPERIMENT GOES ON, THERE ARE A FEW TECHNICAL PROBLEMS AND A  FEW THINGS TO MAKE VISITORS AWARE OF TO AVOID UNNECESSARY CONFUSION OR FRUSTRATION.

ONE:  MANY OF THESE PAGES WILL NEED FIVE OR MORE MINUTES TO FULLY LOAD FOR VARIOUS ASPECTS OF WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PAGE TO BE FULLY LOADED INTO YOUR COMPUTER AND TO BEGIN WORKING.  BACKGROUND -- EVEN FOREGROUND -- MUSIC IS BEING USED LIBERALLY, IN AN INTEGRATIVE WAY, AND IT REQUIRES TIME TO FULLY LOAD.  YOU WILL NOT EVEN KNOW, MOST OFTEN, WHAT MUSIC, WHAT MIX, WHAT SEQUENCE WILL BE PLAYING.  AND YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT TO HEAR THE MUSIC OR TO PARTICIPATE IN THE INTEGRATIVE EXPERIENCE THAT I AM ATTEMPTING TO CONVEY.  BUT IF YOU DO WISH TO TAKE IN MORE THAN JUST THE TEXT AND EXPERIMENT ALONG WITH ME TO SEE WHAT IT MIGHT BE LIKE FOR YOU, THEN YOU NEED TO KNOW TO WAIT AND BE PATIENT.  LOOK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE OF THE BROWSER AND IF IT SAYS THE PAGE IS STILL LOADING SOMETHING, THEN YOU KNOW SOMETHING MORE IS COMING.  MORE THAN THAT, I AM HOPING TO PROVIDE THE BEST, MOST PLEASURABLE, AND MOST LUXURIOUS LEARNING EXPERIENCE.  I WOULD SUGGEST THAT YOU LISTEN TO THE AUDIO OF THE COMMUNICATION (USUALLY THERE'S ONE), KEEP AN EYE ON THE TEXT, KICK BACK AND LISTEN TO THE MUSIC MIX THAT I HAVE CHOSEN TO AID THE MESSAGE -- INDEED LET YOURSELF FEEL THE EXPERIENCE -- AS THAT IS THE MOST ENJOYABLE AND MOST MEMORABLE.  ALSO THERE MAY BE VIDEO PLAYERS TO PLAY WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO, TO AUGMENT THE EXPERIENCE -- SEE IF THAT ADDS TO THE EXPERIENCE.  THERE MAY ALSO BE MUSIC PLAYERS WHERE YOU CAN CHOOSE MUSIC OR JUST LISTEN TO WHAT COMES RANDOMLY.  AND THERE MAY BE WAYS IN WHICH YOU CAN CHOOSE TO REPLAY MUSIC THAT INITIALLY PLAYED ON ITS OWN AT THE BEGINNING.  THIS IS WHERE THE INTERACTIVE PART COMES IN, BECAUSE EVERYTHING INCLUDING HUMOR, MOVING AND STILL IMAGES, MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD AND TEXT FOR THE MOST PART ARE FOR YOU TO PICK, CHOOSE, MIX, MATCH, JUGGLE, REJECT, WHATEVER YOU WISH THAT IS IN LINE WITH YOUR INTENTION.

SO THIS IS WHAT I AM NOTIFYING THE VISITORS OF THIS SITE FOR THE FIRST TIME.  I HEARD THAT SOME PEOPLE'S BROWSERS FROZE UP AND THEY HAD DIFFICULTY WITH SOME PAGES BECAUSE OF THAT.  I HAVE DONE SOMETHING TO CHANGE THAT.  BUT I WOULD APPRECIATE, AGAIN, FEEDBACK, IF SOMETHING IS NOT WORKING CORRECTLY OR IS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE.

I AM ALWAY REACHABLE AT mickel@primalspirit.com

I thank you for visiting; I know you are hear to find out things that you do not know.  

On the other hand, my intention is to bring here lots of things that people would be  better off knowing, but more than that, I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE MOST ENJOYABLE, PLEASURABLE, TRANSFORMATIVE, AND MEMORABLE/ EDUCATIONAL/ INSIGHTFUL EXPERIENCE THAT I CAN in helping you to get what you want.  I will do the best I can; and I will need the reactions and impressions of others who try out what I am offering, so that I can improve -- no doubt I can improve, who can't?  I do think that you will enjoy what I have arranged so far.

Thanks for reading this... I hope you will choose to participate and even to give some feedback.  But in any case, I hope you will enjoy and benefit from my efforts.

SillyMickel Adzema

I am pointing this out because I have had a long-standing involvement in communication through the written and spoken word.  I received the majority of my official education largely through words - text.  Yet, as a primal therapist, I was well aware how even people in the highest echelons of academia could not seem to hear each other, and the discussions thus took on the qualities of monkey poo-flinging.  There was no attempt to find or discover truth -- as in a Socratic dialogue -- rather people seemed to have preconceived notions of the truth; thus their only attempt would be to proselytize and influence -- using all kinds of slick and not so slick rhetorical gambits -- and thus be seen as the "winner."  The champion poo-flinger.

Obviously what was lacking was a status of non-attachment to the ends of a quest into the true nature of anything.  We see that this has become a pattern that now takes over our country from Town Hall meetings to Congress, as of the past summer and the past week.

In primal terms, it became clear to me that education at the highest levels, relying on written reports from flawed human beings, having biases and preconceptions and smart enough to cover them up and even better to convince oneself that they don't exist inside oneself.  Well, it didn't work; and I happened to be in a doctoral program in psychological anthorpology at UC San Diego at a time when more and more women and natives of cultures were doing ethnographies.  The startling and revolutionary upshot came about in the stark realization that women and natives of cultures would produce vastly different ethnographies about the same cultural or primatologogical elements than had been produced for sometimes hundreds of years by men.

So we not only see things vastly differently because of our different early experiences, traumas, and the defenses and life agendas that arise from them; but we also can interpret things in wildly disparate ways depending upon whether we see through feminine or masculine eyes, or whether we grew up in the culture or it was totally alien to us.  

The sad idea that dominated much of the bad ethnography and thus untruth about what humans are like centered around such old-fashioned notions as that a person completely unaware of a phenomenon can be more "objective" - meaning see it more accurately, clearly, more in lines with what could be expressed as truthful than could a person who had intimate knowledge of a phenomenon. Certainly we are biased by being close to a subject; but total ignorance of the phenomenon is not better.  Besides it lacks the native's insight that can only come from total immersion and produce insights so subtle that they could never be seen, approached, or apprehended without years of intimate involvement in the object of investigation. 

 

 


 

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Alien Abductors: Angelic Midwives or Hounds From Hell?
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