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Primal Spirit: 

The Deeper Wave of the New Age

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Holotropic Breathwork      Primal Therapy
Pre- & Perinatal Psychology      Metaphysics 
Cellular Consciousness                Shamanism  
Childbirth & Parenting                      Healing  
Regression Therapy        Past-Lives Therapy 
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Exploring the Interrelation Between Early Experience, Spirituality, Culture, Current Events, and Metaphysics

  • Primal Spirit Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring, 2004 
    "Spirit In Action"

  • Editorial: "Spirit In Action"

    • With all that is going on at this beginning of the millennium, a mere four years into it, it is becoming clear that this century will present challenges as serious, if not more so, than what the last one has seen.  And while deep-feeling therapy and spiritual practice are helpful at all times, it is important to keep in mind what one mystic once said when asked the question:  "If everything is perfect the way it is, why then do you make efforts to make it better?"  The mystic responded, "The World is Perfect, including my efforts to make it better."  Even Sai Baba devotees, who acknowledge Sathya Sai as the Ultimate Doer and Actor in this Human Drama, follow his dictum that "Life Is a Challenge, Meet It."

    Hence we devote this issue to actions that we can take to make this world a better place, through what we do in our relationships, our families, and our society, including - I should say especially, considering this to be a year in America where Presidential Politics will have such a huge effect on the future of this globe - in our political actions.

    Thus we start off with a title, "Bush Uses Gas Crunch to Push Apocalyptic 'Energy' Bill," to make it clear immediately that people can do more than simply read, meditate, pray, process, feel, and primal.  People can make their voices heard; people need to make their voices heard, when Gaia's very life - our very life - is at stake.  So this article says a little something about why and how, without breaking a sweat, one can do a little something.  As Sai Baba admonished the meditator (paraphrasing now) who was annoyed by the cries of someone nearby who was in pain and was "disrupting" his ability to meditate:  "Go help!  Your meditation is useless if it doesn't lead you to love enough to take action to help when you can!"

    Next, we have an article by a retired New York City Police Detective.  I never thought I would be publishing an article by such a person, for never did I think I would ever receive a submission from someone like him.  But his article, "Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Why I Forgave My Assailant," had my face wet with tears by the time I finished it.  When I receive an article that has that effect on me - guaranteed . . . hands down . . . it gets published!  What the author has to say about forgiveness gave me a glimpse into what humans are capable of at their noblest.  

    So along with looking at what people are doing out of their Pain, as in the first article on Bush and his "Energy" (Oil) plan, which is causing harm to others and the environment, and which we should point out and take action against, it seems right, as in the second article, to take a look at what people are capable of at their best - actions and feelings that seem so beyond our normal ability to realize them that it seems correct to ascribe God's Grace, the inspiration of a Holy Spirit . . . something outside of ourselves . . . to be able to comprehend them.  Or it could just be the allowance of our own Inner Divinity to manifest itself.  

    At any rate, I have been ever more aware, as our society has witnessed increasing and more violent cycles of violence at all levels of society, of the lack of role models, of truly noble responses to these tragedies.  In the movies and on TV and even in the policies of Nations (ours included), we see the better fighter being the answer to evil.  We glorify "action figures," "action-adventure movies," and macho men and women; sometimes we even make them the governor of California.  The article, "Breaking the Cycle of Violence: Why I Forgave My Assailant," presents us with a radically different response to being hurt.  You should read it.  Seriously.  Just last night I realized that something that always makes me cry is when I see the deepest in someone breaking through, and that what it is that is breaking through is love.  And though we have been told it many times by mystics, hippies, theologians, saints, and avatars - "Love is all there is" - my heart confirms what my head dismisses as a cliché.  You might want to let this article remind you of your heart's wisdom as it did me.

     
    Having started this issue on "Spirit In Action" this way - something for the "hands" and something for the "heart" - this issue feels to me to have a strong foundation.  The next article, on The "Primal Scene" in The Bible, gives us pause to think about how we have come to this pass where so much seems to be needing doing - the Kali Yuga, as the Hindus call it - the era where things are the most "out of kilter," so to speak.
     
    Following this, in upcoming articles, we will go more deeply into what we can do - socially, politically, environmentally, and in our families - to bring into our World the refined sense of truly right and truly wrong things that are going on; to encourage the former and to lay out what can be done about the latter. Stay tuned.  
     
    The articles so far:

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  • Bush Uses Gas Crunch to Push Apocalyptic "Energy" Bill   by Mickel Adzema

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  • Breaking the Cycle of Violence:  Why I Forgave My Assailant   by NYPD Detective, Steven McDonald

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  • The "Primal Scene" in The Bible: Abraham, Isaac, and the "Civilized" Fall From Grace   by Michael D. Adzema

    • In Progress:

  • "Apocalypse, Planetary Survival, and Lord of the Rings:  Why Robert Redford's Appeal is Critical to Primal Spirit's Mission"
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    • "Drumming Our Way to Healing"
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    • "The Failure of Tax Cuts For the Rich to Stimulate the Economy:  The Simple Missing Psychological Factor That Will Forever Leave Economists Confused"
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  • "My Journey to Healing:  After a Terrorist Killed My Only Daughter"
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  • "Ritual and Rescripting, Brainwashings and Bootcamps: Pseudo-Experience in Patriarchal Culture"
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  • "Sure It's Hard!  But Always Are We Here Helping You"
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  • "The Cowardly Response of Mean-Spiritedness"

  • "Nature Balances Herself:  The Darkeness Before the Dawn?"
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  • "The Art of Quarreling"
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  • "The Once and Current Generation"
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  • "Human Nature and Birth"
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  • And Lots More on the Most Important Presidential Election of Our Lifetime
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  • Previous Issues of Primal Spirit Magazine and Their Contents:

    • Primal Spirit Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter, 2004 

  • "Organic Parenting"   by Geraldine & Gaetano Lyn-Piluso

  • "Gurus, Sacrificial Lambs, Shamans, and Scapegoats: Is There a Collective Pool of Pain?"  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"  by Mickel Adzema

    • "Holotropic Breathwork and the Politics of Consciousness Revolution"  by Mickel Adzema
  • "The History of Childhood as the History of Child Abuse"    by Lloyd deMause
  • "Blossoming Within the Lotus Wheel of Consciousness"  An Essay Review of Roger Woolger's Other Lives, Other Selves"    by Mary Lynn Adzema
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  • Primal Spirit Magazine,  1997, Vol. 2, No. 1

  • Why Primal Spirit?  by Mickel Adzema
  • "Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet" by Jeannine Parvati Baker
  • "Egg and Sperm Memory: Universal Body Movements in Cellular Consciousness and What They Mean"  by Terry Larimore & Graham Farrant
  • "Voices From the Womb . . . and Before"  by Mary Lynn Adzema
  • "Cellular/Spiritual Experiences in Holotropic Breathwork: A Foray Into Cellular Consciousness"  by Mickel Adzema
  • FORTHCOMING:
  • "About the Cover"   by Peter Radford
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    • Primal Spirit Magazine,  1996, Vol. 1, No. 1

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