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- Ch 1 Strange Days
- Ch 2 “Ain’t Born Typical”
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- Ch 4 – 21st Century, Its Discontents
- Ch 5 Birth Wars, World Woes
- Ch 6 Healing Crisis
- Ch 12 Through Gaia’s Eyes
- Ch 8 Derailing War, Violence
- Ch 9 Regressions in the Service of Society
- Ch 10 Cultural Rebirthing, Where Lies Hope
- Ch 11 Control vs. Surrender
- Ch 12 Atman Projects vs. Surrender Solutions
- Ch 13 Peaceful Warriors, Silly Heroes
- Ch 14 To Move the World
- Afterword: Shamans … Scapegoats
- Wounded Deer and Centaurs – Book 5
- Prologue: For Earth’s Sake, Get Real
- Chapter One: We Are a Fever
- Chapter Two: Ain’t Born Typical
- Chapter Three: Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist
- Chapter Four: 21st Century and Its Discontents
- Chapter Five: Prenatal Imprints of Our Unnatural Self
- Chapter Six: Prenatal Oxygen Hunger and Fire
- Chapter Seven: Civilization and Apocalypse
- Chapter Eight: Return of the Centaur
- Chapter Nine: Prenatal Hunger Games
- Chapter Ten: “Bad Blood”
- Chapter Eleven: Prenatal Irritation-Revulsion
- Chapter Twelve: Toxic Womb ~ Toxic World
- Chapter Thirteen: Perinatal Printouts of Generations
- Chapter Fourteen: Birth Wars ~ World Woes
- Chapter Fifteen: The Unsung Consciousness Revolution
- Chapter Sixteen: Eden Arise, Call to Centaurs
- The Great Reveal – Book 6
- Experience Is Divinity – Book 7
- Falls from Grace – Book 8
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- “Healing Crisis: Prenatal-Perinatal Awareness, Being Weller but Appearing Sicker, Trancing Versus Suffering, & We Shall Overcome”… Ch 22 of Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide by Michael Adzema
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- the opposite of insanity is not normality … at all! The only sane response in an apocalypse emergency — a situation analogous to one’s house on fire — is activism!”
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- “The Twelfth Descent—Accumulation: The “Domestication” of Humans—The Ability to Store Things Changes Everything for Prehistoric Humans…But Not in the Way We Thought It Did—Eden Stormed…The Rich Begin Calling the Tune” … Ch 14 of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man* by Michael Adzema March 24, 2023
- “Healing Crisis: Prenatal-Perinatal Awareness, Being Weller but Appearing Sicker, Trancing Versus Suffering, & We Shall Overcome”… Ch 22 of Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide by Michael Adzema March 2, 2023
- “The Eleventh Descent—Sedentary Life…Homesteading: Breaking with Divine Providence & Going It on Our Own, We Begin the Diminished Living of Civilization” … Ch 11 of *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man* by Michael Adzema February 16, 2023
- *Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, & the Prenatal Roots of Humanicide* by Michael Adzema (2018) Complete book. Free. Downloadable. February 5, 2022
- Just Released, March 2020. *Who to Be: Identity, Authenticity, and Crisis* (2020) by Michael Adzema March 25, 2020
- *Humanicide & Omni-Extinction…& a Sane Response, What I Found Out: Our situation is dire; we are insane; it will be difficult; just *how* crazy is insanity?* February 12, 2020
- *Apocalypse NO: Apocalypse or Earth Rebirth & the Emerging Perinatal Unconscious* (2013) by Michael Adzema. Complete book. Free. Downloadable. March 25, 2019
- belief/religion/ritual *keep real* feeling *from happening*. They also keep truth from happening. They keep spontaneity and authenticity from happening. Therefore, when religion breaks down, all truth is liable to break loose. February 20, 2019
- “your position on the abortion issue is the closest thing to a military uniform indicating on which side of the culture war you have enlisted” and what generation you are most likely from: Sixties & Millennial Generations Versus Gen X, and WWII and Fifties Gens February 18, 2019
- the opposite of insanity is not normality … at all! The only sane response in an apocalypse emergency — a situation analogous to one’s house on fire — is activism!” February 17, 2019
- We learned, early in our lives, the world could not be relied on. We began an ever-increasing mistrust of it, which manifested, critically, in our relation to Nature. Control came in to fill the gap of mistrust that lay between need and satisfaction. February 17, 2019
- the Universe has already experienced such apocalypse, now just a red planet…. It was much more fun, filled with life, creative divine noises, and manic whacky Chaplinesque movements, sounds, color, laughter… Instead,why not a hero’s tale, billions of heroes… February 16, 2019
- Republicans’ intention is to cobble the ordinary person’s power to get out from under the inexorable increase in their clearly felt suffering as the years go by. For this suffering and the helplessness about it is crucial to the directors’ success. February 16, 2019
- And so it began, with the blissful knowledge of Unity with All That Is turning psychotically into “I AM the Unity, I am all that is.” So it went. I don’t know why. But then there is that thing about it all being about greater wisdom… February 16, 2019
- People *Are* Dying from Oxygen Deprivation … even the minute changes in our global atmosphere on the whole are having pervasive and dire consequences… February 15, 2019
- this idea of getting more power at the cost of others’ suffering — whether a “beast,” an enemy, a slave, a prisoner of war … or one’s own son — is rooted deeply in our cultural practices from the times of early civilization. February 15, 2019
- Our situation in the womb had portents of death and seemed a dire threat if it were to continue. We received blood, but it was felt to be degraded, to be “bad blood.” … *Prenatal Matrix of Human Evil 3* February 14, 2019
- These joy-prints would be … and can be … our foundation, our template, for living. However, almost invariably we grow our lives and actions out of the soil of our pain grids — the pain templates, if you will… February 14, 2019
- Chapter 16: Prenatal “Poisoning” Become Paranoia and Intolerance, PME 3: Prenatal Matrix of Human Evil 3 … “Bad Blood,” Disgust, Nauseated, Sickening Become Homophobia, Smoking, Sadism-Masochism, Addictions, Money Fetish, Air and Food Pollution, Propaganda… February 14, 2019
- I’d rather see people becoming the best humans that have ever lived on this planet at one time. And working together, not knowing even if they would make it, but knowing that the laughter of children depended on it… February 14, 2019
- *God Invents Joy by Forgetting* … becoming human is the way we, as God, play. It is the way we magnify delight and bring joy into existence. And to do that God needs to forget, to forget who She is… February 14, 2019
- FUNNY GOD: THE TAO OF FUNNY GOD AND THE MIND’S TRUE LIBERATION is a composition in three movements. It is activism, a prophecy, and a vision — integrated by the idea of Funny God… February 13, 2019
- Roszak called for a psychology that would start with humans as rooted in Nature, belonging to Gaia. This is that book. This and my other pertinent works, *Planetmates* and *Prodigal Human*… February 13, 2019
- This book, *Funny God*, will leave you changed and smiling, at least. Some will taste enlightenment; others will sense liberation; and many will feel inspired and enthusiastic about participating in some of the grand undertakings of our age… February 13, 2019
- The imprints from our experience of birth are driving us to kill ourselves. For our birth is unique in Nature in both the amount of trauma attending it and the prematurity of its occurrence…. February 12, 2019
- our normal sanity is just another version of insanity … we call it “human nature” though it is not … we do not recognize the sickness…. February 12, 2019
- We need to be compassionate toward those we disagree with, remembering that we are the worst as well as the best of what we see in others… February 11, 2019
- Americans’ power was monkey wrenched away through policies directed at them & sustained by “obvious truths” pushed by Republicans whose purpose is to diminish people, to reduce their power… February 11, 2019
- The timelessness of prenatal experience when not getting enough air is horrific, an unending nightmare, contributing to human ideas like hell… February 11, 2019
- the patriarchal and religious messages, arising with “civilization,” are the same: kill the feelings, murder the “feminine” within oneself, & inevitably despise & hate women February 11, 2019
- loving your neighbor in the face of their hurtfulness is part of the paradigm of new understanding & the new template of activism & resistance… February 11, 2019
- The Earth Speaks Out on Love, Death, & Liberation: Breadcrumbs from Divinity, & Matter Is Message February 11, 2019
- at the rites of passage into adulthood, the self … is required to give up even “its own mind,” … February 10, 2019
- We have *had* mothers insisting their daughters be silent, be submissive, be non-obtrusive, be quiet & unassuming, … February 10, 2019
- “Curious God, Infinite Poignancy, & the Mind’s True Liberation” … Which is Chapters 35 thru 43…complete, downloadable February 10, 2019
- the hardest lesson of all…we are both the worst as well as the best of what we see in others February 10, 2019
- APOCALYPSE EMERGENCY: LOVE’S WAKE-UP CALL. by Michael Adzema. Complete book. Free. Downloadable. April 25, 2018
- PRENATAL EARTH: Our “Prenatal” Air; Life in Gaia’s Womb; Gaia’s Weeping, Toxic Womb ~ Toxic Earth. Which is chapters 19 through 21 of *Psychology of Apocalypse April 11, 2018
- The Descents of Man: Descents to “Civilization” — Control … Human Devolution in Light of the Trauma of Birth; Our Separation from Nature Began When We Stood Up March 22, 2018
- On Sanity, Insanity, and Ecopsychology… “The only sane response to an emergency is activism … and the sanest response is heroism.” January 6, 2018
- There are lives “when the grand vision is wanted, even if it is more painful”: What does that say about us who have reincarnated on this brink of human extinction? October 23, 2015
- Extinction Radio (Activate Media, formerly Occupy Boston Radio) interview of Michael Adzema on extinction, activism, and the cosmic significance of our lives in these times October 18, 2015
- “The 1% were one election away, in 2012, from installing a charter member as leader of the Western world: We start by looking at beginnings of this culture war, class war September 29, 2015
- “We are fields overlapping, intermixing, potentially expanding, in an instant, to include all of Reality … and to have the experience of ‘God'”: The Nature of Us and God September 25, 2015
- Sure It’s Hard and an Insane Society: But the path to bliss leads through despair; egos must be “destroyed” before new worlds can be born September 19, 2015
- what defines us as being human. how we became separate from all other Earth Citizens…. in the Eighth Prasad from the Planetmates September 15, 2015
- The Crisis and Opportunity of Impending Extinction: Interview with Michael Adzema, with Peter Melton. September 12, 2015
- “when one is reversing that trance state … one goes through a shock”: The Process of Becoming the Greater Self September 7, 2015
- “Why Not Create a Story Together That Would Thrill God Herself?” If you don’t read anything else by me, you should at least read this…. September 5, 2015
- “we are embraced by arms of Divinity … and find ourselves as fingers of God Herself…. September 4, 2015
Dandified Little Pups: The Media, Status, and the Great Suck UP
Reality Transplant, The Media, Part One: Dandified Little Pups
The Puppet Strings (The Media)
But the Republicans had their help; believe me they had their help. Ok, so who helped them? Well, like I was saying… The first thing is you have politicians with the Big Lie, and they’re repeating it endlessly. And that persistence is so extremely effective and comprehensive.
Lying Down on the Thinking Job…or…Thinking Is Down on the Lying Job
The next thing is the paid pundits. You would think a pundit’s job would require more than the exposure to facts and the time allotted for that, but also some time for thoughtful consideration and analysis of those facts. Isn’t part of their job to think? Don’t they have that duty, and get that privilege, unlike a lot of people, who might be working two jobs and taking care of the kids and such and so don’t have time to ponder anything? But these are pundits who are supposed to give opinions. And you would think that their salaries includes time both to be on TV and also to study issues and to think about them. But why is it then that they are so complicit, even cooperative?
Everybody has one…except those paid to.
Backing up, being handsomely paid to do so, you’d think TV commentators and pundits would bring some thoughtful consideration and analysis to the issues. You would think they would have some understanding and therefore conclusions and therefore opinion on these issues, for isn’t that what they as pundits are required to have? They’re called pundits, they are opinion-makers, they are opinion havers.
Everybody needs a little understanding…
Perhaps we can understand their complacency and complicity by considering their situation. They are immersed in this barrage of irrationalities that is coming out constantly from the Republicans over all kinds of airways, radio, TV, what have you.
And don’t forget a pundit’s job requires they take it in; they can’t just tune out; they have to be on top of these things. They have to be on top of what people are saying, including and perhaps especially the Republicans.
How long could you maintain your sanity if…?
So perhaps they’re more brainwashed than others. Perhaps they are since they hear the lies more than the rest of us. I don’t know. That’s a kind way of saying that they didn’t do their job, too, though…the one about seeking out the the truth behind the barrage of lies, if they still remember it.
I need also point out that they’re working for huge corporations, virtually all of them these days. Only on the internet is there the possibility of unbiased thought. And we know who owns the corporations…it ain’t me or you or the average jane. So I don’t think it accidental they’re unlikely to speak for us.
The Ladder of Status
So whose view is being rained upon us by these storm-clouds of “obvious truths”?
The great suck UPward
Well, there’s a tendency, like I said, going right down the line: The wishes of the upper echelons are sycophantically served by those just below them. For those a step down are repelled by the idea of losing their lives of moneyed comfort and becoming, god forbid, like the “unwashed” below. They also, like everyone, have a craving to be “liked” and approved of by someone above.
Take my word for it, this jonesing is something in each of us, even those of very high status. It is an urge we all carry forward from our earliest experiences of life. So even those sitting smugly above us are cravingly desirous of the approval of those above them. And so it goes right down the ladder of status. Those of each level sucking up pathetically to those above them while patronizing those just below.
Dandified little pups
And at one of those levels are the pundits and journalists. You have to remember that they, also, from a certain perspective, can be seen as the pathetic little boys and girls they are, still wanting daddy’s approval. They don’t have a clue that they are coming across as smiling tail-wagging pets eager to please in the foppish performance of their cultivated tricks.
Dancing to a long ago tune
So I’m not sure, but maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s why the pundits shy from the cool light of truth. Maybe it’s part of it. Maybe they can’t see it because they are become one with it, not seeing the forest for the trees. Maybe it’s that they’re dancing to a long ago tune, accepting approving smiles as payment for their jig.
Or maybe it’s some of both… and perhaps something more? Who knows? What matters is they were not doing their job, as we see now.
Continue with The Corporate Feast: When you’re feeling pissed on, they’d like you thinking it’s really money raining down.
Return to Culture War, Class War, Chapter Ten: Erosion of Reason, Self-Confidence
The Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths,” Part Two
– an Audio Reading by SillyMickel Adzema
Here is an audio of the author’s impassioned reading of this part. Though it is of the first, unedited and unpolished version, and it does not contain all the detail of its current form below, it does capture the flavor of it all. I offer it here for your listening pleasure. For the reading of this part, “The Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths,’ Part Two,” click on the link to the audio site above or click the link to the audio player below.
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The Rise and Fall of Obvious Truths, Part 2. by SillyMickel Adzema
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Activist, psychotherapist, pre- and perinatal psychologist, author, and environmentalist. I seek to inspire others to our deeper, more natural consciousness, to a primal, more delightful spirituality, and to taking up the cause of saving life on this planet, as motivated by love.