Mickel Adzema's Writings
 
MICHAEL DERZAK ADZEMA (aka Mickel Adzema) is a free-lance scholar, who has written for a variety of international and regional magazines and journals.  He has been published in a number of fields, with articles in The Journal of Humanistic Psychology, The Journal of Psychohistory, Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal, The Anthropology of Consciousness, Aesthema: The Journal of the International Primal Association, The Inner Door: The Publication of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International, and Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology.  He also writes for the popular/lay public in magazines that have ranged from The Rose Garden and Spirit of Change (with a number of articles in each) to Let's Live and Bestways magazines, and many others.  He has published three books on this site -- Falls From Grace: Spiritual and Philosophical Perspectives of Prenatal and Primal Experience, Apocalpyse, Or New Age?  The Emerging Perinatal Unconscious and Primal Renaissance: The Emerging Millennial Return (they are each available here, free of charge, in their entirety), and he is nearing publication on several others, including one which is expected to begin being uploaded on this website in the near future titled The Once and Current Generation:  Regression, Mysticism, and "My Generation."  He specializes in writing about psychology and spirituality; but has written extensively on their interrelation with topics such as the environment, consciousness, politics, health and nutrition, and metaphysics, as well as psychohistory. 

Mickel is also a transformational facilitator, offering individual primal process facilitation; and with his wife, Mary Lynn, he conducts regular workshops in primal breathwork (based on the Holotropic Breathwork™ of Stanislav Grof).  They have recently opened the Primal Spirit Center for Human Evolution, offering authentic primal process sessions, among other offerings (see Primal Spirit Center), and they are offering their facilities as the basis of a possible spiritual-therapeutic community for those committed to the primal-holotropic path of spiritual growth  (See Primal-Holotropic Community in California.)  

He has received university education at a number of universities, including Franklin and Marshall College, East Stroudsbug State University, King's College, University of Colorado at Denver, University of California at San Diego, World's University in Ojai, California, and Sonoma State University; and he has studied and been enrolled in the fields of humanistic psychology, anthropology -- focusing on psychological anthropology, philosophy, religious studies, transpersonal psychology, and economics.  He holds a Master's degree in "Spiritual Aspects of Prenatal Re-Experience," which he received from Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California.  At the same university, both as a student and afterwards, he was a university instructor, each semester teaching a course in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology -- in fact, he has been cited by the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), in their newsletter, as being the first person in the United States to teach a course in Pre- and Perinatal Psychology at the university level.

He is the founder of SSILLY God Ventures and AHPPI (Alliance for Holotropic, Primal, Pre/Perinatal, and Psychohistorical Insight and Information).  He is the publisher and editor of AHPPI’s magazine, Primal Spirit: The Deeper Wave of the New Age, and webmaster of its site on the Internet (this one, at http://www.primalspirit.com).  He also serves as the editor of Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology.  He can be contacted at (707) 869-9008; or he can be reached by e-mail at mickel@primalspirit.com.

BOOKS:

Falls From Grace:
Spiritual and Philosophical Perspectives of Prenatal and Primal Experience  (Complete Book, on-line.  Fully uploaded as of January 20th, 2004.)

Apocalypse,  Or New Age?
The Emerging Perinatal Unconscious  (Complete Book, on-line)

Primal Renaissance:  The Emerging Millennial Return  (Complete Book, on-line)

 

ARTICLES:

MusePapers:

 

Bush Uses Gas Crunch to Push Apocalyptic "Energy" Bill  (added 4/5/2004)

The Michael Jackson Fiasco . . . "It's the Attack on Uniqueness, Stupid!"  (added 1/29/2004)

Howard Dean's "Primal Scream":

Part One: The Republican Media, Repression, and the Appeal of Stony-Hearted Presidents  (added 1/25/2004)

Part Two: The Scapegoating of Feeling, 2004 Culture Clash, Real Versus Sham News, and "Let's Not Get Fooled Again!"  (added 1/26/2004)

The Lord of the Rings, Ego, and Addiction  (added 1/16/2004)

Move Over, World War Two Generation, the Sixties Generation Has Arrived!
An Essay Review of the Movie, "Pleasantville"
Part One:  The King Must Die -
Part Two:  "Pleasantville" As Historical Allegory 
Part Three:  The Changing of the Generational "Guard"

Pundits Versus People:  Or, The Real Sources for Voter Apathy and Cynicism 

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

Are Some "Sick" People More Healthy Than Normals?

What's So Bad About Doing Good?
An Essay Review of "The Rainmaker"

It's the Attack on Privacy, Stupid!
What Republicans and Pundits Don't Get About Clinton's Support

Why We Needed Clinton to Lie

The Perinatal Appeal of Ally McBeal

Birthing, Forgetting  (added 1/4/04)

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