Primal Renaissance:
The Emerging Millennial Return
by Michael Derzak Adzema, M.A.
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PART ONE: MATTER
AS METAPHOR
The Stuff of
the World is Mind-Stuff
Primitive Philosophy
Ritual
As Shadow
The First Retreat: Matriarchal Consciousness
The Second Retreat: Patriarchal Culture
Summary, Ritual as Symbolic Obfuscation and Addiction to Control
Dream of 14 November 1991: Ritual as Addiction to 'Pretend Experience'
Sure It's Hard! But Always Are We Here Helping You
The Spiritual Quest, For Earth's Sake!
Sure It's Hard
A Cosmic Slap
Journal Entry of 28 June 1980
The Sins of the Father
But Always Are We Here Helping
Initiation: Authentic and Inauthentic
Vision Quests
Brainwashings and Boot Camps
UFO Abductions, Psychedelics, and Psilocybin
Societal Bizarro Initiations
The Psyche Heals Itself
Language As Communication Metaphor
Physical
Realities As Metaphors for Inner Realities
We Are Stars/ Stars Are Us
And Pleiadeans Are Stars Too!
PART TWO: FALLS
FROM GRACE: A DEVOLUTIONAL MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS INCORPORATING PRE-
AND PERINATAL AND SPECTRUM PSYCHOLOGY
The Implications
of Matter As Metaphor
The Revolutionary Import, in Science, of the New-Paradigm Perspective
The lengths to which they go
The elders' "new clothes"
Dire consequences of scientists' closed-mindedness
The revolutionary import
Ostracizing Emanationism in our "intellectually open" society
Debunking Neo-Darwinism and the reemergence of Lamarck
Further New-Paradigm Implications: Child 'Development' As Spiritual Devolution
Biology
As Metaphor
Moving in the Air Without Support
Analyzing Scientific Dream-Weaving
Biological Phases as Levels of Consciousness
The charge of reductionism
The legitimacy of heuristic inquiry into form
The Legitimacy of Cellular Memory
The "Prior Conditions" Theory
Morphogenetic Fields and Morphic Resonance
Mytho-Empiricism and Biology As Mythology
Correlation Between the Ontogenetic and the Phylogenetic
Relative Universality of Myths Correlated with Importance in Ontogeny
Separant-Fusion Personality Dialectic
Stagelike "Degression"
Stages Beginning at Conception, Not Birth
First Fall From Grace
The Breaking of the Vessels and the Scattering
of the Divine Sparks
The Thin Pipe From Infinity
The Scattering of the Divine Sparks
Divine Symbiosis
The Breaking of the Vessels
Mending the Catastrophe
Transpersonal Bands: Womb With a View
Second Fall From Grace
Expulsion from Pantheistic Togetherness
Biosocial Bands: The Cultural Veil
Third
Fall From Grace
Philosophic Bands: Who To Be?
Fourth
Fall From Grace
Kitty-Drowners and Butterfly-Mashers
PART THREE:
LOOKING THROUGH ISAAC'S EYES
Eden
Birth: An Awakening Or a Forgetting?
"Agrarian Revolution" . . . Devolution?
Birth Pain and Culture
Secondary Altriciality and Culture
Pelvic Size
Human Nature
The Result: Plato's Cave
Abraham
Primal Scene
Children As Assets
Freedom to Abuse
Isaac's Eyes
Societal God
How Far
We've Strayed
Patriarchal Pathology
Bumper-Sticker Words of God
Divine Relationships
Misunderstanding God
Coming Home
PART FOUR:
RETURN TO GRACE
Can It
Be Otherwise?
Return to Grace: Birth
Return to Grace: Primal Scene
Return to Grace: Puberty
Return to Grace
PART FIVE:
EGO AND HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS:
THE MYTH AND THE POLITICS OF THE "FULLY FUNCTIONING EGO"
The Way
Forward Is Down
Ego-Weak Mystics and Shamans
The "Fully Functioning Ego"
Control Versus Surrender
An Example of This Mistake
Inconsistency -- Dualism -- Matter and Spirit
Not a New-Paradigm View
Critique of Homo Noeticus
Beware of Skinhead Spirituality
PART SIX:
THE POLITICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTION
A Holotropic
Experience
Politics of Psychology
Freudian Mind-Fuck
New Winds
Consciousness
Expansion
Primal Revolution
Holotropic Beginnings
Spiritual Emergencies
Societal Resistances and Traps
Revolutionary
Aspects
Hopeful Prospects
Copyright © 1999 by Michael Derzak Adzema
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