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the Hatred of the Free and Successful by the Sellouts,
the Compromised, and the Zombie Corporate Slaves
- by Michael D. Adzema
- text + audio rendition,
with an added current prologue
Comedy - Monologue - Text + Audio Performance
"I Think It's About Time We All Gave A Big Ol' 'Thank You" to
George W. Bush for all the "Hard Work" He's Done!"
with Admiration for the Great Bush-Paulson-"Filthy Rich" Caper
Audio Rendition on Embedded Clip - written and performed by SillyMickel - Added July 6th, 2009
MULTIMEDIA - SillyMedia Video
"Are You Filming?" -- Video by SillyMickel - Added July 6th, 2009
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Editorial:
"Spirit In Action" Editorial and Prologue for Primal Spirit Magazine, Spring 2004, Vol. 3, No. 2 -- Added April 6th, 2004
MusePaper:
Bush Uses Gas Crunch to Push Apocalyptic "Energy" Bill (Added on April 5th, 2004)
Articles:
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Why I Forgave My Assailant -- Added March 24th, 2004
by NYPD Detective, Steven McDonald
The Therapist's Role - Unconditional Acceptance Versus Enabling - And "Real" Love As Essential in Therapy and Spirituality
(Part Two of "Reunion With the Positive (Self)"
-- Added March 13th, 2004
by Michael Derzak Adzema
The "Primal Scene" in The Bible: Abraham, Isaac, and the "Civilized" Fall From Grace -- Added March 8th, 2004
by Mickel Adzema
"Power and Complexity: Finding Personal Power and At-Home-Ness in the World in the Midst of Technological Alienation, Consumerism, and Specialization" -- Added February 28th, 2004
by Mickel Adzema
"Organic Parenting" -- Added February 26th, 2004
by Geraldine and Gaetano Lyn-Piluso
"Gurus, Shamans, Sacrificial Lambs, and Scapegoats: Is There a Collective Pool of Pain?" -- Added February 27th, 2004
by Mickel Adzema
"The UFO Abduction Phenomenon's Challenge to Consensus Reality" -- Added February 24th, 2004
by John E. Mack, M.D.
"The Seven Stages of Primal Therapy" -- Added February 6th, 2004
by Stephen K. Witty and Stephen K. Khamsi.
Editorial Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology 2(1) - Concerning "The Primal Process" (added March 1st, 2004)
Dedication and Editorial Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology 1(1) - Concerning "Multiple Realities and Primal Visions" and Welcome! ( added February 1st, 2004)
MusePapers:
The Michael Jackson Fiasco . . . "It's the Attack on Uniqueness, Stupid!" (Added on January 29th, 2004)
Howard Dean's "Primal Scream" Part One: The Republican Media, Repression, and the Appeal of Stony-Hearted Presidents (Added on January 25th, 2004)
Howard Dean's "Primal Scream" Part Two: The Scapegoating of Feeling, 2004 Culture Clash, Real Versus Sham News, and "Let's Not Get Fooled Again!" (Added on January 26th, 2004)
by Mickel Adzema, M.A.
The Lord of the Rings, Ego, and Addiction (Added on January 16th, 2004)
by Mickel Adzema, M.A.
Article:
"Nature As Alive: Morphic Resonance and Collective Memory" -- Added January 21st, 2004
by Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.d.
"The Only Important Education" -- Added January 28th, 2004
by Johann Christoph Arnold.
Complete Book:
Falls From Grace: Spiritual and Philosophical Perspectives of Prenatal and Primal Experience
by Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
Abstract and Table of Contents (Added on January 6th, 2004)
Introduction:
The Transpersonal Perspective:
Experience Is Divine; Cognition Is Illusion (Added
on January 7th, 2004)
PART
1: LITERATURE REVIEW AND BACKGROUND
Chapter One: Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience (Added on January 8th, 2004)
Chapter
Two: The Case for the
Legitimacy of Prenatal Spirituality
(Added
on January 9th, 2004)
Chapter
Three: A Foray Into Cellular/ Transpersonal Consciousness
(Added
on January 10th, 2004)
PART
2: FALLS FROM GRACE: A DEVOLUTIONAL MODEL OF
Chapter
Four: Biology As Metaphor and Mythology
(Added
on January 11th, 2004)
Chapter
Five: The First Fall From Grace: Sperm/Egg and Conception
(Added
on January 12th, 2004)
Chapter
Six: The Second Fall From Grace: Birth
(Added
on January 13th, 2004)
Chapter
Seven: The Third Fall From Grace: Primal Scene/ Oedipus
(Added
on January 14th, 2004)
Chapter
Eight: The Fourth Fall From Grace: Puberty
(Added
on January 15th, 2004)
PART
3: IMPLICATIONS FOR CHILD "DEVELOPMENT," SPIRITUALITY,
AND
Chapter
Nine: Can It Be Otherwise?
(Added
on January 17th, 2004)
Chapter
Ten: Is a "Fully Functioning Ego" a Prerequisite to Higher
Consciousness?
(Added
on January 18th, 2004)
BIBLIOGRAPHY for Falls From Grace: Spiritual and Philosophical Perspectives of Prenatal and Primal Experience (Added on January 20th, 2004)
Article:
"Biologically Constituted Realities: An Anti-Anthropocentric (Species-Relative) and New-Paradigm Perspective" -- Added January 5th, 2004
by Mickel Adzema, M.A.
Short Story:
"Birthing, Forgetting" (a short story) -- Added January 4th, 2004
by Michael Derzak Adzema
Articles:
"Reunion With the Positive (Self), Part 1: The Other Half of the 'Cure'" -- Added January 3rd, 2004
"A Primal Perspective on Spirituality" -- Added January 1st, 2004
by Mickel Adzema, M.A.
Article:
"Children Recalling Birth" -- Added September 25th, 2000
by Jeane Rhodes, Ph.D.
Actual Experiential Report:
Gabriela's
Story: My First Reliving of Birth in Holotropic Breathwork:
"When Are We Going to Wake Up?" -- Added September 20th, 2000
by Gabriela Ortiz-Monasterio
Election 2000 Truth
Monitor
Bursting Republicans' Stupidity Balloon du Jour
Keeping It Real: Daily Antidotes to
Corporate/Media/Republicans’
Ongoing Efforts to “Dumb Down” the American
Voter
with Misinformation, Diversions, False
Issues, and Cynical Distortions.
MusePaper:
"Pundits Versus People:
Or, The Real Souces for Voter Apathy and Cynicism" -- Added September 8th, 2000
"Silly God" Humor/Wisdom
-- Ongoing Section, Added August 31st, 2000
Article:
"Primal Process and Higher Personality" -- Added August 29th, 2000
by Barbara R. Findeisen
Election 2000
Forum
The "Deeper Wave" of Politics
Read what others are saying and thinking about this crucial national election.
George Wrongforthecountry Bush
submitted by Alfred Ferencz Marton
Primal Spirit BookStore
(Finally Begun!)
Articles:
"Perinatal Imagery in the Star Wars Trilogy" -- Added October 27th, 1999
by Ron F. Newbold
"Blossoming Withing the Lotus
Wheel of Consciousness":
An Essay Review of Roger J. Woolger's Other
Lives: Other Selves:
A Jungian Psychotherapist Discovers Past Lives -- Added October 16th, 1999
by Mary Lynn Adzema
"A Larger Vision of Relationship and Process" --Added January 23rd, 1999
by Belden Johnson.
"Shamanism and Primal Therapy" -- Added December 21st, 1998
by Belden Johnson.
"The Trauma of Birth" -- Added December 19th, 1998
by John Rowan.
"God Is My Psychotherapist" (Part 3 in the Sai Baba series) -- Added December 5th, 1998
by Mary Lynn Adzema.
"Magical Midwifery: A Mother's Choice"
by Mary Beth Grabowski.
"Why Fear When I Am Here?" (Part 2 in the Sai Baba series)
by Mary Lynn Adzema.
"Tears for Trauma: Birth Trauma, Crying, and Child Abuse"
by Aletha Solter, Ph.D.
"Voices From the
Dreamtime: An Essay Review of Robert Lawlor's
Voices of the First Day: Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime"
by Mary Lynn Adzema
"Prologue:
Why 'Primal Renaissance'?"
by Mickel Adzema.
"Planetary
Survival and Consciousness Evolution:
Psychological Roots of Human Violence and Greed"
by Stanislav Grof, M.D.
"Restaging Prenatal and Birth Traumas in War and Social Violence"
by Lloyd deMause
"The Scenery of Healing: Commentary on deMause's 'Restaging Prenatal and Birth Traumas in War and Social Violence'"
by Michael Derzak Adzema
"The Emerging
Perinatal Unconscious:
Consciousness Evolution or Apocalypse?"
by Michael Derzak Adzema
"The History of Childhood As the History of Child Abuse"
by Lloyd deMause
Primal Spirit Forum
Special Section, Psychohistory Dialogue:
Re: Endless Abortion Debate, Consciousness, Primal Renaissance,
Falls From Grace, Nature of Reality, Etc. -- Latest Contribution
Added February 24th, 1999
In Primal Spirit Forum
Complete Book:
Primal Renaissance: The Emerging
Millennial Return
(book, table of contents)
by Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
Chapter One: "A New-Paradigm Context of 'Primitive' Philosophy
Chapter Two: "Culture As Moonview"
Chapter Three: "Matter As Metaphor"
Chapter Four: "Science As Myth: The Modern Dream-Weavers"
Chapter Five: "Biology As Metaphor and Mythology"
Chapter Six: "The First Fall From Grace: Sperm/Egg and Conception"
Chapter Seven: "The Second Fall From Grace: Birth" -- Added December 5th, 1998
Chapter Eight: "The Third Fall From Grace: Primal Scene/ Oedipus" -- Added January 25th, 1999
Chapter Nine: "The Fourth Fall From Grace: Puberty" -- Added January 26th, 1999
Chapter
Ten: "Revolution Or Devolution, Birthing Or Forgetting
. . . The Result Is Still Plato's Cave!" -- Added January
26th, 1999
Chapter Eleven: "Children As Assets: Isaac's Eyes" -- Added January 27th, 1999
Chapter Twelve: "Postmodern Perspective: Heading Home" -- Added January 30th, 1999
Chapter Thirteen: "Can It Be Otherwise?" -- Added January 30th, 1999
Chapter
Fourteen: "Is a 'Fully Functioning Ego'
a Prerequisite to Higher Consciousness?" -- Added January
30th, 1999
Chapter Fifteen: "The Politics of Psychology" -- Added January 31st, 1999
Chapter Sixteen: "Revolutionary Techniques and Societal Resistance" -- Added January 31st, 1999
Chapter Seventeen: "Revolutionary Implications of Prenatal Re-Experience" -- Added January 31st, 1999
Chapter Eighteen: "Are We Entering A 'Primal Renaissance'?" -- Added January 31st, 1999
Complete Book:
Apocalypse, Or New Age? The Emerging Perinatal Unconscious
by Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: "Strange Days"
Chapter Two: "The Perinatal
Unconscious"
Chapter Three: "Birthing into the
Media"
Chapter Four: "The Scenery of Our
Everyday Reality"
Chapter Five: "Perinatal and Global
Situation Mirroring Each Other"
Chapter Six: "Getting Sick In Order
To Be Well" -- Added January 7th, 1999
Chapter Seven: "Through Gaia's
Eyes: Nature Balances HerSelf" -- Added
January 12th, 1999
Chapter Eight: "Derailing the
Cycles of War and Violence" -- Added January 13th, 1999
Chapter Nine: "The (Sometimes
Messy) Scenery of Healing" -- Added January 14th, 1999
Chapter Ten: "Dreaming Out
Loud: "Control" Versus "Surrender" Spiritualities
--Added January 15th, 1999
Chapter Eleven: "Dreaming Out
Loud: 'Nothing But Perinatal'" -- Added
January 16th, 1999
Chapter Twelve: "Dreaming Out
Loud: Peaceful Warriors and Silly Heroes" --Added January 16th, 1999
Chapter Thirteen: "Moving the
World" -- Added January 17th, 1999
MusePapers:
by Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
"Why We Needed Clinton To Lie" -- Added January 18th, 1999
"The Perinatal Appeal of Ally McBeal" -- Added January 15th, 1999
"'It's the Attack on
Privacy, Stupid!'
What Republicans and Pundits Don't Get About Clinton's Support -- December 17th, 1998
Move
Over, World War Two Generation, the Sixties Generation Has Arrived!
An Essay Review of the Movie, "Pleasantville"
"Part One: The King Must Die"
-- November 18th, 1998
"Part Two: 'Pleasantville As
Historical Allegory" -- December 12th, 1998
"Part Three: The Changing of
the Generational 'Guard'" -- December 15th, 1998
"Are Some 'Sick' People More Healthy Than Normals?"
"Drugs,
Consciousnesses, and Generational Cultures"
Part One: "Generational
Cultures"
Part Two: "Drugs and
Consciousnesses"
"Primal
and AntiPrimal: Truth and Consolation."
Part One: "Truth and Authenticity
Versus 'Containers,' Consolation, Codependency"
"What's So Bad About Doing Good? An Essay Review of 'The Rainmaker'"
"Deeper Wave" Poetry Section
Holotropic Breathwork Section
Primal Renaissance:
The Journal of Primal Psychology Section
Psychohistory Section
Primal Spirit Forum: Letters, Dialogue
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Complete Book: Apocalypse, Or New Age? The Emerging Perinatal Unconscious
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Site Overview
This site is currently undergoing a great deal of change -- both in terms of content and aesthetics (special thanks for the contributions of talented artist, Peter Radford). The Latest Additions to This Site that follow give an idea of that recent activity, but it is a small sample of the contents only. For Featured Articles, scroll past the Latest Additions, and for the complete offerings of this site, click on the underlined Features above. These underlined Features above are links to established sections, including a great deal of written and scholarly material of all kinds – from poems and humorisms, to a professional journal of psychology, to an e-zine, to scores of articles and essays, to three full-length books. Browse freely to get an idea of the expanse of ideas and visions, offered by the authors of this website along with major theorists and visionaries in the fields headlined. Even more full-length timely articles and books are also waiting in line for publication here. Of special interest are the three free on-line books, including the one described further down. Following that is the "vision statement" for this site titled, "Why Primal Spirit?" We encourage you to enjoy, become inspired, and to drink fully of what we have so far. And if we bring a smile to your face along the way, then we are doing it the way we intend. We welcome your comments, submissions, letters as well as longer commentaries for the Primal Spirit Forum, and suggestions. Email us at marylnn@primalspirit.com or mickel@primalspirit.com
Latest Additions to This Site:
Primal Spirit Magazine Spring 2004 Editorial: "Spirit In Action" (Editorial added April 6th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
Bush Uses Gas Crunch to Push Apocalyptic "Energy" Bill (MusePaper added April 5th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
Drilling For Dollars: Bush- Cheney and the Apocalyptic "Energy" Bill (Notice added April 2nd, 2004) by John Kerry and Democrats for John Kerry for President
Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Why I Forgave My Assailant (article added March 24th, 2004) by NYPD Detective, Steven McDonald
Re:
Your Paper on Spirituality and Primal Perspective -
In Primal
Spirit Forum (Letter
added March 22nd, 2004)
Reunion With the Positive (Self), Part Two: The Therapist's Role - Unconditional Acceptance Versus Enabling - And "Real" Love As Essential in Therapy and Spirituality (added March 13th, 2004) by Michael Derzak Adzema
by Mickel Adzema. (added March 8th, 2004)
Editorial: Concerning "The Primal Process" (added March 1st, 2004) by Mickel Adzema.
"Power and Complexity: Finding Personal Power and At-Home-Ness in the World in the Midst of Technological Alienation, Consumerism, and Specialization" (article added February 28th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema.
"Gurus, Sacrificial Lambs, Shamans, and Scapegoats: Is There a Collective Pool of Pain?" (article added February 27th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema.
"Organic Parenting" (article added February 25th, 2004) by Geraldine and Gaetano Lyn-Piluso.
"The UFO Abduction Phenomenon's Challenge to Consensus Reality" (article added February 24th, 2004) by John E. Mack, M.D.
"The Seven Stages of Primal Therapy" (article added February 6th, 2004) by Stephen K. Witty and Stephen K. Khamsi
On Service by Sathya Sai Baba (Addition to "Silly God" Humor/Wisdom on 2/05/04)
Being Here (Addition to "Silly God" Humor/Wisdom on 2/05/04)
In Sunshine or Storm, Remember and Give Your Best . . . Anyway by Mother Theresa (Additions to "Silly God" Humor/Wisdom on 2/04/04)
The Michael Jackson Fiasco . . . "It's the Attack on Uniqueness, Stupid!" (MusePaper added January 29th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
Dedication and Editorial Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology 1(1) - Concerning "Multiple Realities and Primal Visions" and Welcome! (added February 1st, 2004)
"The Only Important Education" (article added January 28th, 2004) by Johan Christoph Arnold
"A Gift, Daily" (quote, added 1/26/04)
Howard Dean's "Primal Scream" Part One: The Republican Media, Repression, and the Appeal of Stony-Hearted Presidents (MusePaper added January 25th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
Howard Dean's "Primal Scream" Part Two: The Scapegoating of Feeling, 2004 Culture Clash, Real Versus Sham News, and "Let's Not Get Fooled Again!" (MusePaper added January 26th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
"Nature As Alive: Morphic Resonance and Collective Memory" (article added January 21st, 2004) by Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.d.
"The Lord of the Rings, Ego, and Addiction" (MusePaper added January 16th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
Advertising in Primal Spirit - How to (Added January 20th, 2004)
Falls from Grace: Spiritual and Philosophical Perspectives of Prenatal and Primal Experience (on-line book, completely uploaded as of January 20th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
"Biologically Constituted Realities " (article added January 5th, 2004) by Mickel Adzema
"Birthing . . . . Forgetting " (short story added January 4th, 2004) by Michael Derzak Adzema
"Reunion With the Positive (Self), Part 1: The Other Half of the 'Cure' " (article added January 3rd, 2004) and
"A Primal Perspective on Spirituality " (article added January 1st, 2004)
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"Sathya
Sai Baba, Avatar"
By Mary Lynn Adzema, A.B.D.
"Tears
For Trauma: Birth Trauma, Crying, and Child Abuse"
By Aletha Solter, Ph.D.
Move Over,
World War Two Generation, The Sixties Generation Has Arrived! An Essay
Review of the Movie, "Pleasantville"
By Mickel Adzema, M.A.
"The
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By Lloyd deMause
"Reunion
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By Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
"Primal Process and Higher Personality"
By Barbara R. Findeisen, MFCC
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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
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