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Primal
Spirit Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring, 2004
"Spirit In Action"
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Editorial: "Spirit In Action"
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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."
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- 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.
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- 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.
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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.
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- 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
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In Progress:
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"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"
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"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:
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"Organic Parenting"
by Geraldine & Gaetano Lyn-Piluso
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"Gurus, Sacrificial Lambs, Shamans, and
Scapegoats: Is There a Collective Pool of Pain?" by Mickel Adzema
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"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
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"Holotropic Breathwork
and the Politics of Consciousness Revolution" by Mickel Adzema
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"The History of Childhood as
the History of Child Abuse" by Lloyd deMause
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"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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"‘Why Fear When I Am Here?" (Part
2 of Sai Baba series) by Mary Lynn Adzema
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Why Primal Spirit?
by Mickel Adzema
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"Ending Circumcision: Where Sex
and Violence First Meet" by Jeannine Parvati Baker
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"Egg and Sperm Memory: Universal
Body Movements in Cellular Consciousness and What They Mean" by Terry
Larimore & Graham Farrant
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"Voices From the Womb . . . and
Before" by Mary Lynn Adzema
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"Cellular/Spiritual Experiences
in Holotropic Breathwork: A Foray Into Cellular Consciousness" by
Mickel Adzema
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"‘Independence Day’: Pre- and
Perinatal Adventure in Film" by Anne Marquez
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FORTHCOMING:
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"About the Cover"
by Peter Radford
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