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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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17 hours ago
PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxxi This is where we will go in these books. This is the melody that will guide us, move us, direct us. And we will, like Salome, do a Dance of the Seven Veils and find out what Naked Reality is more likely to be like. So let the music begin.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxxi This is where we will go in these books. This is the melody that will guide us, move us, direct us. And we will, like Salome, do a Dance of the Seven Veils and find out what Naked Reality is more likely to be like. So let the music begin.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface, p. xxxi

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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18 hours ago
As I have said throughout my works, all the evidence points to a rich and infinite variety of experience, a colorfully profound and interesting mix, as a more fundamental reality and as the essence of Divinity. The reason we so cannot see that experience itself is our one and only reality is that we have experienced Pain at our earliest beginnings in coming into life. We cannot hack the idea of that being fundamental because it would mean that pain is — that pain is an essential, or a Divinely planned aspect of human reality. And what we have tried to do instead is to seek to separate from experience ... calling this split-off state, transcendence ... so as not to have to acknowledge what it feels like inside our bodies. At base, we wish to find a “higher” reality in Mind/mind because it is too painful to find one in body. Whereas as I (2013d) put it, “Experience Is Divinity.” The “mind” of God is no-thing, but hardly nothing! Indeed, quite the opposite! I deal with this last no-veil in the Epilogue of this work, which is in Dance of the Seven Veils III, as well as in Experience Is Divinity, and in Part Three of Funny God. Its most complete exposition will be in the forthcoming — Book Thirteen in The Path of Ecstasy Series — The Cosmic Overstanding. DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxx

As I have said throughout my works, all the evidence points to a rich and infinite variety of experience, a colorfully profound and interesting mix, as a more fundamental reality and as the essence of Divinity. The reason we so cannot see that experience itself is our one and only reality is that we have experienced Pain at our earliest beginnings in coming into life. We cannot hack the idea of that being fundamental because it would mean that pain is — that pain is an essential, or a Divinely planned aspect of human reality. And what we have tried to do instead is to seek to separate from experience ... calling this split-off state, transcendence ... so as not to have to acknowledge what it feels like inside our bodies. At base, we wish to find a “higher” reality in Mind/mind because it is too painful to find one in body. Whereas as I (2013d) put it, “Experience Is Divinity.” The “mind” of God is no-thing, but hardly nothing! Indeed, quite the opposite! I deal with this last no-veil in the Epilogue of this work, which is in Dance of the Seven Veils III, as well as in Experience Is Divinity, and in Part Three of Funny God. Its most complete exposition will be in the forthcoming — Book Thirteen in The Path of Ecstasy Series — The Cosmic Overstanding. DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxx

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by M Adzema

Pref, p. xxx

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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18 hours ago
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxx The last no-veil — existing in no-time and no-place — is one we can choose, even in the No-Form State, and consciously. For as Divinity we wish to be less as well as All, to be a part and separate as well as Unity and One. We wish to be less than the All for the fun of it, for the fun of configuration, for the drama of it, even as souls and No-Forms. For the peek-a-boo joy of continually appreciating beauty joy and love by forgetting it so as to discover it again and again, endlessly. It is the Veil of the no-form configuration of the No-Form Self. It is the chosen configuration of spirit, some might call a soul, that we adopt for the purpose of interacting with ourselves as Divinity within the grand expanse of all Experience. That is the final Veil, the no-veil. And beyond that? Well, that would be the “mind” of God, would it not? The Self of God? Brahman? Yet, one could say that outside our perceptual biases and all our biologically and bioculturally constituted realities, it is nothing. That there is a fundamental nothingness, like some mystical types and their literature profess. However, I contend that is a cop-out. It is easy to say something does not exist — there is “nothing” there — in “places” where we are not able to see at our level of spiritual growth.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxx The last no-veil — existing in no-time and no-place — is one we can choose, even in the No-Form State, and consciously. For as Divinity we wish to be less as well as All, to be a part and separate as well as Unity and One. We wish to be less than the All for the fun of it, for the fun of configuration, for the drama of it, even as souls and No-Forms. For the peek-a-boo joy of continually appreciating beauty joy and love by forgetting it so as to discover it again and again, endlessly. It is the Veil of the no-form configuration of the No-Form Self. It is the chosen configuration of spirit, some might call a soul, that we adopt for the purpose of interacting with ourselves as Divinity within the grand expanse of all Experience. That is the final Veil, the no-veil. And beyond that? Well, that would be the “mind” of God, would it not? The Self of God? Brahman? Yet, one could say that outside our perceptual biases and all our biologically and bioculturally constituted realities, it is nothing. That there is a fundamental nothingness, like some mystical types and their literature profess. However, I contend that is a cop-out. It is easy to say something does not exist — there is “nothing” there — in “places” where we are not able to see at our level of spiritual growth.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface, p. xxx

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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19 hours ago
We need remove, first, the Veil of vanity and Ego of species, i.e., anthropocentrism (see The Secret Life of Stones and Veil One of this book); second, that of cultural identity (see Veil Two of this book); third, that of personal, primal pain (see Veil Three); fourth, that of prenatal and perinatal pain and their mythological-archetypal correlates (see Veils Four, Five, and Six, which are in the second volume of Dance of the Seven Veils); fifth, that of cellular experience and its Form-ular constructions of world (see Veil Seven, in the third book of this); and sixth, that of our biology itself as a species, human, which determines a human Veil, in distinction to all others (see Veil Seven, Dance of the Seven Veils III as well and my forthcoming work, Cells with a View). Finally, as I explain in The Secret Life of Stones, there remains a Veil, a conscious one. It is another Veil that is not a veil for it is chosen, transparent, and conscious. One can see through it. This is much the same as the way we are able to process through the seven Veils while in life and, afterward, see through them. Hopefully these volumes of Dance of the Seven Veils are helpful, if not instrumental, in that. Though the seven Veils — even with such clarity as I am endeavoring to elicit in you with this work, and which is possible — are in some ways still extant (while in Form); being conscious, no longer are they limiting. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxix

We need remove, first, the Veil of vanity and Ego of species, i.e., anthropocentrism (see The Secret Life of Stones and Veil One of this book); second, that of cultural identity (see Veil Two of this book); third, that of personal, primal pain (see Veil Three); fourth, that of prenatal and perinatal pain and their mythological-archetypal correlates (see Veils Four, Five, and Six, which are in the second volume of Dance of the Seven Veils); fifth, that of cellular experience and its Form-ular constructions of world (see Veil Seven, in the third book of this); and sixth, that of our biology itself as a species, human, which determines a human Veil, in distinction to all others (see Veil Seven, Dance of the Seven Veils III as well and my forthcoming work, Cells with a View). Finally, as I explain in The Secret Life of Stones, there remains a Veil, a conscious one. It is another Veil that is not a veil for it is chosen, transparent, and conscious. One can see through it. This is much the same as the way we are able to process through the seven Veils while in life and, afterward, see through them. Hopefully these volumes of Dance of the Seven Veils are helpful, if not instrumental, in that. Though the seven Veils — even with such clarity as I am endeavoring to elicit in you with this work, and which is possible — are in some ways still extant (while in Form); being conscious, no longer are they limiting. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxix

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by M Adzema

Pref, p. xxix

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
@sillymickel.bsky.social
19 hours ago
PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxix …we have laid — through the experiences we have had there of duality — a foundation for seeing all the rest of the Reality we will experience in life in terms of male and female, separation and union, struggle and peace, pleasure and pain, satisfaction and discontent, inner and outer, and all the rest. But what was Reality before we stamped that particular cookie cutter on Reality? What was the bigger “game” or the larger reality outside the game before those rules of consensual reality, involving dualism, were initiated? At this point we are metaphorically looking for what the “room” looks like that we are sitting in when we are playing the board or virtual reality game of life. What is the “setting” like? What are we like? Who else is there and what are they like? What does it feel like? What is it all about at that “level”? And more — anything else we will find out when we have removed more than just vanity from our prejudices, but also the formative early experiences, many of them painful, which give rise to all the other prejudices on our perception. In my works, we pull back at least these seven Veils across Naked Reality, in order to perceive the Truth ec-static, out of Form, untainted, unsullied, in Itself, non-skewed and unslanted and unprejudiced:

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxix …we have laid — through the experiences we have had there of duality — a foundation for seeing all the rest of the Reality we will experience in life in terms of male and female, separation and union, struggle and peace, pleasure and pain, satisfaction and discontent, inner and outer, and all the rest. But what was Reality before we stamped that particular cookie cutter on Reality? What was the bigger “game” or the larger reality outside the game before those rules of consensual reality, involving dualism, were initiated? At this point we are metaphorically looking for what the “room” looks like that we are sitting in when we are playing the board or virtual reality game of life. What is the “setting” like? What are we like? Who else is there and what are they like? What does it feel like? What is it all about at that “level”? And more — anything else we will find out when we have removed more than just vanity from our prejudices, but also the formative early experiences, many of them painful, which give rise to all the other prejudices on our perception. In my works, we pull back at least these seven Veils across Naked Reality, in order to perceive the Truth ec-static, out of Form, untainted, unsullied, in Itself, non-skewed and unslanted and unprejudiced:

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface, p. xxix

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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19 hours ago
A Dance of the Seven Veils For, in these five books — Dance of the Seven Veils I, II, and III; Womb with a View; and Cells with a View — I will show how we can view even beyond that into what is the Nature of Reality. How? By peeling away not just the Veils of ego and vanity — especially as manifest in our universal and utterly intractable anthropocentrism, as I showed in The Secret Life of Stones — but the Veils also of even more fundamental primal pain and early experience. Our earliest experiences form, they create, our prejudices about Reality. So what would we see, what Reality would reveal itself, with those constraints lifted from our eyes? Whatever it is, it would necessarily be Truth, or truths, far beyond what we come up with enslaved as we are within the boundaries of concepts formed from our early, our profoundly influential, experiences. An example? What is the reality we experience before we have the one of duality when we come into Form as cells, as sperm and ovum? When we experience not just separation, from father and mother, but then duality in the coming together of the two at conception? At that point… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxviii

A Dance of the Seven Veils For, in these five books — Dance of the Seven Veils I, II, and III; Womb with a View; and Cells with a View — I will show how we can view even beyond that into what is the Nature of Reality. How? By peeling away not just the Veils of ego and vanity — especially as manifest in our universal and utterly intractable anthropocentrism, as I showed in The Secret Life of Stones — but the Veils also of even more fundamental primal pain and early experience. Our earliest experiences form, they create, our prejudices about Reality. So what would we see, what Reality would reveal itself, with those constraints lifted from our eyes? Whatever it is, it would necessarily be Truth, or truths, far beyond what we come up with enslaved as we are within the boundaries of concepts formed from our early, our profoundly influential, experiences. An example? What is the reality we experience before we have the one of duality when we come into Form as cells, as sperm and ovum? When we experience not just separation, from father and mother, but then duality in the coming together of the two at conception? At that point… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxviii

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by M Adzema

Pref, p. xxviii

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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1 day ago
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxviii …interventions into the processes of fertilization and conception going on, suddenly there are huge influences on its processes emanating from culture. We can only wonder, at this point, what kinds of beliefs and notions about the Universe will be had by those who come from such laboratory origins. However, that to the side, there is a great deal of uniformity in our experiences at and around conception. Whereas, there is far more variability and cultural input with each advance of time in gestation. Thus it is that we live in pretty similar physical worlds because we have rather the same experiences, periconceptionally. These events are part of our species makeup, our biologically constituted realities, as opposed to the bioculturally constituted realities, which are more variable and that come in with the influences of culture in later womb life and at birth. The result and aim of looking at our perceptual prejudices, from birth, womb, and conception, as will be done in the two books — Womb with a View and Cells with a View — is to arrive at something astounding. As I said in The Secret Life of Stones, the way to get a peek outside our biologically-constituted realities, the way to go ec-static, is to drop our vanity and self-congratulation at all levels. But now more.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxviii …interventions into the processes of fertilization and conception going on, suddenly there are huge influences on its processes emanating from culture. We can only wonder, at this point, what kinds of beliefs and notions about the Universe will be had by those who come from such laboratory origins. However, that to the side, there is a great deal of uniformity in our experiences at and around conception. Whereas, there is far more variability and cultural input with each advance of time in gestation. Thus it is that we live in pretty similar physical worlds because we have rather the same experiences, periconceptionally. These events are part of our species makeup, our biologically constituted realities, as opposed to the bioculturally constituted realities, which are more variable and that come in with the influences of culture in later womb life and at birth. The result and aim of looking at our perceptual prejudices, from birth, womb, and conception, as will be done in the two books — Womb with a View and Cells with a View — is to arrive at something astounding. As I said in The Secret Life of Stones, the way to get a peek outside our biologically-constituted realities, the way to go ec-static, is to drop our vanity and self-congratulation at all levels. But now more.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by M. Adzema

Pref, p. xxviii

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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1 day ago
The Cellular-Formular Veil So, prior to religious and spiritual beliefs we have seemingly indisputable assumptions impressed on us related to the existence of duality in the world and the existence of space as well as time. If we accept a mystical position that both of those are illusions, then it is my contention that we can look to our pre- and periconceptional experiences and events as to why we have such deep-rooted assumptions about reality, such “illusions” as to the existence of space and time. This is where — at the periconceptional experiences — we are looking more at the biologically constituted as opposed to the bioculturally constituted realities. For, while our experiences in the womb and at birth are much influenced by the mother’s experience in her culture and thus the way those events are construed in her culture, there is not a lot of influence from culture on the way the conception experiences unfold. Not a lot, but some. Certainly the health of the father and the mother go into the configuration of these primal events, somewhat, and that is affected by culture. Without doubt, the emotional and psychological characteristics of the parents, which are influenced by culture, influence their very cells, including their sperm and ova. And astonishingly, with test tube babies and other high-tech, modern… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxvii

The Cellular-Formular Veil So, prior to religious and spiritual beliefs we have seemingly indisputable assumptions impressed on us related to the existence of duality in the world and the existence of space as well as time. If we accept a mystical position that both of those are illusions, then it is my contention that we can look to our pre- and periconceptional experiences and events as to why we have such deep-rooted assumptions about reality, such “illusions” as to the existence of space and time. This is where — at the periconceptional experiences — we are looking more at the biologically constituted as opposed to the bioculturally constituted realities. For, while our experiences in the womb and at birth are much influenced by the mother’s experience in her culture and thus the way those events are construed in her culture, there is not a lot of influence from culture on the way the conception experiences unfold. Not a lot, but some. Certainly the health of the father and the mother go into the configuration of these primal events, somewhat, and that is affected by culture. Without doubt, the emotional and psychological characteristics of the parents, which are influenced by culture, influence their very cells, including their sperm and ova. And astonishingly, with test tube babies and other high-tech, modern… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxvii

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Pref, p. xxvii

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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1 day ago
PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxvii ….elements of mythology periconceptionally, that is to say, emanating from the events around conception, while introduced here, are taken up in greater detail in the book following this one in the Series, to be titled, Cells with a View. Book Six, Cells with a View The book following Womb with a View in The Path of Ecstasy Series of books is to be Cells with a View. In it I will show how the events around conception, this time — the periconceptional experiences — configure even more of our biocultural matrix even prior to our “beliefs” about things outside the natural. It is my view that our very perception of Form reality is created there. You might say that is where we not just read the rules of the game we will be playing in life, we imprint them on all of what we will perceive ever after in life.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxvii ….elements of mythology periconceptionally, that is to say, emanating from the events around conception, while introduced here, are taken up in greater detail in the book following this one in the Series, to be titled, Cells with a View. Book Six, Cells with a View The book following Womb with a View in The Path of Ecstasy Series of books is to be Cells with a View. In it I will show how the events around conception, this time — the periconceptional experiences — configure even more of our biocultural matrix even prior to our “beliefs” about things outside the natural. It is my view that our very perception of Form reality is created there. You might say that is where we not just read the rules of the game we will be playing in life, we imprint them on all of what we will perceive ever after in life.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by M. Adzema

Pref, p. xxvii

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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1 day ago
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxvi Consistent with what I said there, my aim will be to show how by wiping away the distortive effects of biocultural experiences at birth, in the womb, and around conception, we might come closer to purer perception. This is how, indeed, we cleanse the doors of perception; that is, by clearing away the personal pain and pre- and perinatal trauma imbuing and slanting them, if not out and out creating them. In doing this clearing away of fear- and pain-laden prompts to our perception and interpretations of it, we might approach that view ec- static, that cosmic overstanding that is normally denied us out of the fact that we have such powerful determinants on our perception at the beginnings of our lives as the traumas prenatally and perinatally. So it is that in Book Five, Womb with a View, I continue the exploration of the Veils across our perception of clear Reality begun in The Secret Life of Stones and continued in these volumes, Dance of the Seven Veils I, II, and III. Specifically, I do this regarding the perceptional configurations arising from our experience in the womb. I touch as well upon some of those emanating from our experience of birth and the events around conception. However, the elements of mythology surrounding birth are addressed already with thoroughness by Stanislav Grof, so I leave that to him, and I bring his insights forward with appropriate credit. And the

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxvi Consistent with what I said there, my aim will be to show how by wiping away the distortive effects of biocultural experiences at birth, in the womb, and around conception, we might come closer to purer perception. This is how, indeed, we cleanse the doors of perception; that is, by clearing away the personal pain and pre- and perinatal trauma imbuing and slanting them, if not out and out creating them. In doing this clearing away of fear- and pain-laden prompts to our perception and interpretations of it, we might approach that view ec- static, that cosmic overstanding that is normally denied us out of the fact that we have such powerful determinants on our perception at the beginnings of our lives as the traumas prenatally and perinatally. So it is that in Book Five, Womb with a View, I continue the exploration of the Veils across our perception of clear Reality begun in The Secret Life of Stones and continued in these volumes, Dance of the Seven Veils I, II, and III. Specifically, I do this regarding the perceptional configurations arising from our experience in the womb. I touch as well upon some of those emanating from our experience of birth and the events around conception. However, the elements of mythology surrounding birth are addressed already with thoroughness by Stanislav Grof, so I leave that to him, and I bring his insights forward with appropriate credit. And the

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface, p. xxvi

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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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1 day ago
DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxvi …exists outside them. It seems to me there is a huge amount to be gained by an attempt at revealing what is Real, what exists, outside the peculiar human perspective on everything that is so taken up, for humans, with our births and prenatal experiences. The second aspect of my difference with the Grofians’ view lies in that those events that configure our species worldview go all the way back to conception, way before birth. So it is that in Womb with a View I bring out the mythological, psychological, and archetypal elements and relate them to underlying womb, and to some extent birth, events. Yet, in the book following this one in the Series, Cells with a View (expected publication, 2020), I do the same regarding cellular events, our experiences around conception, that is, periconceptionally. In both cases, wombular and cellular events, my view is that they overlay and configure the way we will view what might be considered truly non-Formular events or entities. What I will say is consistent with what I have laid out in The Secret Life of Stones related to biologically- constituted realities, in particular the bioculturally-constituted realities.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxvi …exists outside them. It seems to me there is a huge amount to be gained by an attempt at revealing what is Real, what exists, outside the peculiar human perspective on everything that is so taken up, for humans, with our births and prenatal experiences. The second aspect of my difference with the Grofians’ view lies in that those events that configure our species worldview go all the way back to conception, way before birth. So it is that in Womb with a View I bring out the mythological, psychological, and archetypal elements and relate them to underlying womb, and to some extent birth, events. Yet, in the book following this one in the Series, Cells with a View (expected publication, 2020), I do the same regarding cellular events, our experiences around conception, that is, periconceptionally. In both cases, wombular and cellular events, my view is that they overlay and configure the way we will view what might be considered truly non-Formular events or entities. What I will say is consistent with what I have laid out in The Secret Life of Stones related to biologically- constituted realities, in particular the bioculturally-constituted realities.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface, p. xxvi

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Alisa K. Michaels, YA Author
Alisa K. Michaels, YA Author
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1 day ago
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Michael Adzema
Michael Adzema
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Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, Planetmates (2014) and Prodigal Human (2016) — which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth from which we suffer, which is radically distinct from all of Nature — it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans. While this might mean that they are rooted in a kind of collective unconscious that exists prior to and independent of any individual’s experience, still, that collective unconscious is humanly derived; it is distinctly and only human. In which case, we might wonder about the components of any Reality separate from the human: That is to say, what it is that might be true for humans as well as all other beings in existence, the other planetmates, any life forms on other planets or in other dimensions. In that light, in my endeavor here, in peeling back the pre- and perinatal overlays on human experience — even if they are rooted in some overarching reality, independent of any individual events, like a collective unconscious — I am still aiming for a peek at the reality that… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv

Yet, in view of the findings brought out in my works, Planetmates (2014) and Prodigal Human (2016) — which detail the way humans evolved (devolved) the peculiar kind of birth from which we suffer, which is radically distinct from all of Nature — it is curious to think what it might mean for these events, specifically resonating with our unique birth experiences, to have an existence independent of humans. While this might mean that they are rooted in a kind of collective unconscious that exists prior to and independent of any individual’s experience, still, that collective unconscious is humanly derived; it is distinctly and only human. In which case, we might wonder about the components of any Reality separate from the human: That is to say, what it is that might be true for humans as well as all other beings in existence, the other planetmates, any life forms on other planets or in other dimensions. In that light, in my endeavor here, in peeling back the pre- and perinatal overlays on human experience — even if they are rooted in some overarching reality, independent of any individual events, like a collective unconscious — I am still aiming for a peek at the reality that… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv …reality than the realities that emanate from our events as humans. In fact, the term biological materialism has been used by those in Grof’s camp to describe the idea that birth-like mythological and archetypal symbolism and experiences are derived from birth events. Saying they are derived is saying that they would not occur except for the birth traumas, and to that they do not agree. The Mythological-Archetypal Veil I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth- like mythological and archetypal symbols. Nonetheless, I view the actual events of one’s life as having strong determination on the way one views and interprets everything that comes after them. That would include these transpersonal and archetypal realities as being at least shaped, if not caused, by our early experiences. My difference lies in two things: One, that these events shape or they configure our religious and spiritual understandings, especially our religious ones, is what I elaborate upon in the relevant portions of this book and especially the four following it. However, I do not know the extent to which these events create or originate these transpersonal realities.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxv …reality than the realities that emanate from our events as humans. In fact, the term biological materialism has been used by those in Grof’s camp to describe the idea that birth-like mythological and archetypal symbolism and experiences are derived from birth events. Saying they are derived is saying that they would not occur except for the birth traumas, and to that they do not agree. The Mythological-Archetypal Veil I have a different take on it, however. I do not dispute that some of their view is true. I really do not know the ontological status of these birth- like mythological and archetypal symbols. Nonetheless, I view the actual events of one’s life as having strong determination on the way one views and interprets everything that comes after them. That would include these transpersonal and archetypal realities as being at least shaped, if not caused, by our early experiences. My difference lies in two things: One, that these events shape or they configure our religious and spiritual understandings, especially our religious ones, is what I elaborate upon in the relevant portions of this book and especially the four following it. However, I do not know the extent to which these events create or originate these transpersonal realities.

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Seen Grof’s way, mythological events have an a priori standing; a priori meaning they are not reducible to life events such as the traumas of birth. They arise “of themselves” and have an independent or self- contained quality, not a derived one. According to Grof, transpersonal events are not a posteriori events; they do not “come after.” They are not derived from earlier experience. Which is to say, their existence is not dependent upon — let alone, caused by — the early pre- and perinatal experiences they so express. While some might say we have the mythologies we do because we all have these early experiences and that is why myths are so similar across different individuals and cultures, proponents of Grof’s view would say that our mythologies are not attributable to our early events and that they exist independently of human life. They are seen as archetypes in the Jungian sense of being outside of and prior to human events. Much like Plato’s Forms, or iconic Ideas, they have a kind of prior and greater… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv

Seen Grof’s way, mythological events have an a priori standing; a priori meaning they are not reducible to life events such as the traumas of birth. They arise “of themselves” and have an independent or self- contained quality, not a derived one. According to Grof, transpersonal events are not a posteriori events; they do not “come after.” They are not derived from earlier experience. Which is to say, their existence is not dependent upon — let alone, caused by — the early pre- and perinatal experiences they so express. While some might say we have the mythologies we do because we all have these early experiences and that is why myths are so similar across different individuals and cultures, proponents of Grof’s view would say that our mythologies are not attributable to our early events and that they exist independently of human life. They are seen as archetypes in the Jungian sense of being outside of and prior to human events. Much like Plato’s Forms, or iconic Ideas, they have a kind of prior and greater… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv Book Five, Womb with a View While our births and our species biology — as exhibited in the species congratulation we do of ourselves, which is called anthropocentrism — are influential veils, distorting our perceptions of reality, still earlier experiences are even more influential. For what happens first lays down the foundation upon which all later prejudices will be constructed. To this end, several theorists in particular — beginning with Otto Rank as long ago as 1929, with his book The Trauma of Birth, and including Frances Mott (1960, 1964) and Michael Irving (1988), but especially coming out in expansive detail with Stanislav Grof (1970, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988a, 1993, 1998) — have noted the cross-over of birth experiences and traumas with religious and mythological beliefs and symbols. Of special relevance is that in Grof’s view they are distinct. That is, pre- and perinatal events are distinct from transpersonal events according to him. Transpersonal in this sense, in line with transpersonal psychology, refers to the spiritual, archetypal, mythological, supernatural, and religious components of experience. Grof’s perspective is that birth events represent a kind of junction spot between the transpersonal and the personal; thus, between the spiritual and individual aspects of experience, or between the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious, to use Carl Jung’s terminology.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxiv Book Five, Womb with a View While our births and our species biology — as exhibited in the species congratulation we do of ourselves, which is called anthropocentrism — are influential veils, distorting our perceptions of reality, still earlier experiences are even more influential. For what happens first lays down the foundation upon which all later prejudices will be constructed. To this end, several theorists in particular — beginning with Otto Rank as long ago as 1929, with his book The Trauma of Birth, and including Frances Mott (1960, 1964) and Michael Irving (1988), but especially coming out in expansive detail with Stanislav Grof (1970, 1979, 1980, 1985, 1988a, 1993, 1998) — have noted the cross-over of birth experiences and traumas with religious and mythological beliefs and symbols. Of special relevance is that in Grof’s view they are distinct. That is, pre- and perinatal events are distinct from transpersonal events according to him. Transpersonal in this sense, in line with transpersonal psychology, refers to the spiritual, archetypal, mythological, supernatural, and religious components of experience. Grof’s perspective is that birth events represent a kind of junction spot between the transpersonal and the personal; thus, between the spiritual and individual aspects of experience, or between the collective unconscious and the personal unconscious, to use Carl Jung’s terminology.

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Books Two through Four, Dance of the Seven Veils It is in this book — divided into three volumes — that I do the grand overview of what that all means for understanding our reality and liberating ourselves from limiting perspectives, unconscious prejudices, and denials of the reality before us which would otherwise be obvious. This book is meant to open your mind to what you are standing upon in your stance in life. It takes you back, layer by layer, like an archaeological dig, to the foundations of your being. Just a hint, you will find Divinity there. You will also sense the path to be free, the way of ecstasy. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii

Books Two through Four, Dance of the Seven Veils It is in this book — divided into three volumes — that I do the grand overview of what that all means for understanding our reality and liberating ourselves from limiting perspectives, unconscious prejudices, and denials of the reality before us which would otherwise be obvious. This book is meant to open your mind to what you are standing upon in your stance in life. It takes you back, layer by layer, like an archaeological dig, to the foundations of your being. Just a hint, you will find Divinity there. You will also sense the path to be free, the way of ecstasy. PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii …biologically constituted worldview, modern culture has created test tube babies. These are individuals whose early experiences as cells do not even follow the pattern of experience — of sperm traveling to ovum, and so on — that humans have experienced for all our existence and upon which all of what is considered human and human reality has been built. Someday, someone will have to do a study comparing the basic worldviews and mythologies of test-tube conceived humans to those of the rest of us with the normal human beginnings. I predict there will be astonishing differences. However, in the most common example of bioculturally constituted realities emanating from our early lives, every culture determines the way birth will be experienced by the neonate. Thus, in what is the most studied biocultural of all influences, birth has an impact on our lives in vastly different ways depending upon whether it is harsh, or gentle; induced, or spontaneous; and in every other conceivable way. Prenatal and perinatal psychologists from Arthur Janov — with his definitive and ground-breaking book, Imprints (1983) — to Frederick Leboyer (1975, 2009), to Thomas Verny (1981), to David Chamberlain (1988) have detailed the way our birth and that our birth affects us ever after in life ... often in ways that are irreversible and untouchable by any and all later experience and techniques. Before that, even, Otto Rank (1929, 1952), Nandor Fodor (1949), Donald W. Winnicott (1958), David Cheek and Leslie LeCron (1968), and Leslie Feher (1980) added much to our knowledge of how birth creates our underlying feelings and our perceived realities.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxiii …biologically constituted worldview, modern culture has created test tube babies. These are individuals whose early experiences as cells do not even follow the pattern of experience — of sperm traveling to ovum, and so on — that humans have experienced for all our existence and upon which all of what is considered human and human reality has been built. Someday, someone will have to do a study comparing the basic worldviews and mythologies of test-tube conceived humans to those of the rest of us with the normal human beginnings. I predict there will be astonishing differences. However, in the most common example of bioculturally constituted realities emanating from our early lives, every culture determines the way birth will be experienced by the neonate. Thus, in what is the most studied biocultural of all influences, birth has an impact on our lives in vastly different ways depending upon whether it is harsh, or gentle; induced, or spontaneous; and in every other conceivable way. Prenatal and perinatal psychologists from Arthur Janov — with his definitive and ground-breaking book, Imprints (1983) — to Frederick Leboyer (1975, 2009), to Thomas Verny (1981), to David Chamberlain (1988) have detailed the way our birth and that our birth affects us ever after in life ... often in ways that are irreversible and untouchable by any and all later experience and techniques. Before that, even, Otto Rank (1929, 1952), Nandor Fodor (1949), Donald W. Winnicott (1958), David Cheek and Leslie LeCron (1968), and Leslie Feher (1980) added much to our knowledge of how birth creates our underlying feelings and our perceived realities.

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The Biocultural Veil I also establish, in The Secret Life of Stones, that there are bioculturally constituted realities. These are the realities that emanate from our biological experiences as they are modified by culture. They come in most especially during out time in the womb, when events are shaped strongly both by biology but also by culture. For culture, as experienced by the mother, begins to heavily influence the experiences the fetus will have. We all experience a time in the womb. What follows from that, which I say in The Secret Life of Stones, is that there are universal aspects of that experience which determine the human world view: Our feelings of freedom vying with those of constriction and oppression, for example, emanate from this time. Nonetheless, our womb experiences also vary by culture. Different cultures have different ideas about what the mother should be doing during pregnancy, how she will interact with her unborn child, and so on. These all affect the child in ways at least small, but usually in huge ways. These are aspects of the biocultural veil across perception. To make clear this interplay of biology and culture, let me use an example. In the most egregious instance of cultural influence on our… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii

The Biocultural Veil I also establish, in The Secret Life of Stones, that there are bioculturally constituted realities. These are the realities that emanate from our biological experiences as they are modified by culture. They come in most especially during out time in the womb, when events are shaped strongly both by biology but also by culture. For culture, as experienced by the mother, begins to heavily influence the experiences the fetus will have. We all experience a time in the womb. What follows from that, which I say in The Secret Life of Stones, is that there are universal aspects of that experience which determine the human world view: Our feelings of freedom vying with those of constriction and oppression, for example, emanate from this time. Nonetheless, our womb experiences also vary by culture. Different cultures have different ideas about what the mother should be doing during pregnancy, how she will interact with her unborn child, and so on. These all affect the child in ways at least small, but usually in huge ways. These are aspects of the biocultural veil across perception. To make clear this interplay of biology and culture, let me use an example. In the most egregious instance of cultural influence on our… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii …within which everything that comes after is configured. They determine what we will see; how we will see it; how we will interpret it; what our reaction will be to it; and what we will do about it. We are human and have an experiential awareness extending back into a time prior to appearing on Earth. Then, in coming into Form, what we perceive and how we act are determined not so much by genetics but by prior experience. Hence, these periconceptional experiences, these absolute earliest experiences of ours in the Form State, are the first of the Veils across our windows to the world, creating the screen upon which we will view our drama of human life. So it is that our biological and anatomical makeup along with our individual histories prenatally and perinatally, beginning as early as when we were sperm and ova cells inside our parents, determine our human reality. They create the parameters of our experience in Form. They put down the ground rules of the board game of the human life we will experience and in which we will participate.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xxii …within which everything that comes after is configured. They determine what we will see; how we will see it; how we will interpret it; what our reaction will be to it; and what we will do about it. We are human and have an experiential awareness extending back into a time prior to appearing on Earth. Then, in coming into Form, what we perceive and how we act are determined not so much by genetics but by prior experience. Hence, these periconceptional experiences, these absolute earliest experiences of ours in the Form State, are the first of the Veils across our windows to the world, creating the screen upon which we will view our drama of human life. So it is that our biological and anatomical makeup along with our individual histories prenatally and perinatally, beginning as early as when we were sperm and ova cells inside our parents, determine our human reality. They create the parameters of our experience in Form. They put down the ground rules of the board game of the human life we will experience and in which we will participate.

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Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives. In so doing, we peer through a portal wherein we are again one with the Universe. We find ourselves on the edge of a coming together as grand as that which we experienced at conception. We receive the gift of a heritage we long ago and mistakenly repudiated — a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, and once again noble within the world we inhabit. The Biological Veil Most relevant to this book, in Book One, as well, I establish there are biologically constituted realities. These are one of the screens of distortion across our perception of clear Reality. That is to say that reality, for humans, is constructed for us out of our unique biological set from an infinity of everything possible that could be or is in the Universe — something that Aldous Huxley (1954) called, Mind at Large. I point out that everything that we experience in life, beginning even before conception, before the coming together of sperm and ovum that created us, are learning experiences and are formative. They create imprints that skew all experiences coming afterward; they set templates… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi

Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives. In so doing, we peer through a portal wherein we are again one with the Universe. We find ourselves on the edge of a coming together as grand as that which we experienced at conception. We receive the gift of a heritage we long ago and mistakenly repudiated — a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, and once again noble within the world we inhabit. The Biological Veil Most relevant to this book, in Book One, as well, I establish there are biologically constituted realities. These are one of the screens of distortion across our perception of clear Reality. That is to say that reality, for humans, is constructed for us out of our unique biological set from an infinity of everything possible that could be or is in the Universe — something that Aldous Huxley (1954) called, Mind at Large. I point out that everything that we experience in life, beginning even before conception, before the coming together of sperm and ovum that created us, are learning experiences and are formative. They create imprints that skew all experiences coming afterward; they set templates… PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi

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PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi …which we are temporarily cut off. It is our own consciousness; however it is the part of which we are unconscious. Or as I often point out, it is the part we have forgotten1 — perhaps even intentionally, as a choice made by our inherent Divinity. Which choice also we then forget.2 That unknown aliveness is a secret life in the Universe of matter: So in essence there is a secret life of “stones.” Yes, the Universe is alive. And, yes, you are the Universe, you are that aliveness, but you have decided to become less so. I show, in that work, The Secret Life of Stones, how knowing this changes everything. It is the tipping point revealing a new world — one in which each of us is immersed at every moment, like a fish in water, in aliveness, consciousness, experiential units ... and all of it friendly, compassionate, reaching out to us and helping us ... even in spite of us. The Secret Life of Stones presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders and explores the terrain leading up to and supporting such overstandings. Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives.

PREFACE. A DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS Page xxi …which we are temporarily cut off. It is our own consciousness; however it is the part of which we are unconscious. Or as I often point out, it is the part we have forgotten1 — perhaps even intentionally, as a choice made by our inherent Divinity. Which choice also we then forget.2 That unknown aliveness is a secret life in the Universe of matter: So in essence there is a secret life of “stones.” Yes, the Universe is alive. And, yes, you are the Universe, you are that aliveness, but you have decided to become less so. I show, in that work, The Secret Life of Stones, how knowing this changes everything. It is the tipping point revealing a new world — one in which each of us is immersed at every moment, like a fish in water, in aliveness, consciousness, experiential units ... and all of it friendly, compassionate, reaching out to us and helping us ... even in spite of us. The Secret Life of Stones presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders and explores the terrain leading up to and supporting such overstandings. Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives.

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Hence all that exists, really, is Experience. Matter is metaphor of that Experience. It is also message of that particular aspect of Experience that we leave out of our awareness in coming into Form, in becoming human. The Material Veil What we put into unconsciousness in the process of coming into Form becomes the physical world we experience as unalive and not conscious, though actually it is pregnant with experiential Divinity — Subjectivity, Feeling, Awareness, Bliss ... and Love. Correspondingly, the essence of the Universe is found in our direct experience of it, which is our essential Divinity. The reality outside of that, which we think of as matter and as unconscious and unalive, is merely the aspect of our own reality from… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx

Hence all that exists, really, is Experience. Matter is metaphor of that Experience. It is also message of that particular aspect of Experience that we leave out of our awareness in coming into Form, in becoming human. The Material Veil What we put into unconsciousness in the process of coming into Form becomes the physical world we experience as unalive and not conscious, though actually it is pregnant with experiential Divinity — Subjectivity, Feeling, Awareness, Bliss ... and Love. Correspondingly, the essence of the Universe is found in our direct experience of it, which is our essential Divinity. The reality outside of that, which we think of as matter and as unconscious and unalive, is merely the aspect of our own reality from… DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx

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DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx I show in particular how our ideas about who to be and what to be, as rooted in culture and mythology; what to do, as rooted in early childhood experience; what to believe, as linked to religion, God, spirituality, mythology, good and evil, and much else, are rooted in the patterns of experiences we universally experience over the course of our lives, leading up to adulthood. Further, I show how peeling back the layers of that onion is ever more liberating, at every step. And where it ultimately leads ... what is ultimately true ... what is the center of the onion?... Well, the image that emerges is your original face. And your original face is all these things — Divine, true, realer than real, more positive and loving than you ever thought you could be, and more wonderful and exciting than you can imagine. In the same vein as William Blake, I am saying that, when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is ... infinite. Book One, The Secret Life of Stones In Book One, my premise is that there is a secret life in the Universe and that the physical world is an illusion arising from our human perception. I propose that the fundamental reality is consciousness; more correctly, it is experiential. That matter, the physical world, is a projection of human perception thrown upon the formless is the conclusion of quantum physics and our latest consciousness research.

DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I Page xx I show in particular how our ideas about who to be and what to be, as rooted in culture and mythology; what to do, as rooted in early childhood experience; what to believe, as linked to religion, God, spirituality, mythology, good and evil, and much else, are rooted in the patterns of experiences we universally experience over the course of our lives, leading up to adulthood. Further, I show how peeling back the layers of that onion is ever more liberating, at every step. And where it ultimately leads ... what is ultimately true ... what is the center of the onion?... Well, the image that emerges is your original face. And your original face is all these things — Divine, true, realer than real, more positive and loving than you ever thought you could be, and more wonderful and exciting than you can imagine. In the same vein as William Blake, I am saying that, when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is ... infinite. Book One, The Secret Life of Stones In Book One, my premise is that there is a secret life in the Universe and that the physical world is an illusion arising from our human perception. I propose that the fundamental reality is consciousness; more correctly, it is experiential. That matter, the physical world, is a projection of human perception thrown upon the formless is the conclusion of quantum physics and our latest consciousness research.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by M. Adzema

Preface, p. xx

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Michael Adzema
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PREFACE p. xix A Dance of the Seven Veils: The Secret Life of Stones, Womb with a View, Cells with a View, Overview ... the Quest for Our “Original Face” “...when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is ... infinite.” “Our earliest experiences form, they create, our prejudices about Reality. So what would we see, what Reality would reveal itself, with those constraints pulled to the side?” In this Book Two of The Path of Ecstasy Series, titled, Dance of the Seven Veils I, I continue the exploration of the screens of distortion across human perception begun in Book One, The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, and the Path of Ecstasy. This time I focus on the ways the crucial events and experiences of our lives create our beliefs in life. In doing so, layer by layer, Veil by Veil, I continue bringing greater, truer perceptions into view of everything beyond.

PREFACE p. xix A Dance of the Seven Veils: The Secret Life of Stones, Womb with a View, Cells with a View, Overview ... the Quest for Our “Original Face” “...when the Veils across perception are pulled to the side, everything appears as it is ... infinite.” “Our earliest experiences form, they create, our prejudices about Reality. So what would we see, what Reality would reveal itself, with those constraints pulled to the side?” In this Book Two of The Path of Ecstasy Series, titled, Dance of the Seven Veils I, I continue the exploration of the screens of distortion across human perception begun in Book One, The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, and the Path of Ecstasy. This time I focus on the ways the crucial events and experiences of our lives create our beliefs in life. In doing so, layer by layer, Veil by Veil, I continue bringing greater, truer perceptions into view of everything beyond.

*DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS I: Primal/Identity Psychology, Mythology, & Your Real Self* (2017) by Michael Adzema

Preface

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Alisa K. Michaels, YA Author
Alisa K. Michaels, YA Author
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Solo: Book Four of The Siren Series by Alisa K Michaels (Preface)
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Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations (2022) by Michael Adzema

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