Monthly Archives: May 2013

Resistance Is Futile … One Doesn’t Have One’s Own Mind … One Takes Up the "Mind" of the “Collective”: The Fourth Fall From Grace — Rites of Passage, Becoming “Adult”

Whence Kitty-Drowners and Butterfly-Mashers: How We Lose Our Selves at Adolescence and Why Conformers and Conservatives in Every Society Hate and Suppress the Rebellious Resistance Is Futile — The Fourth Fall From Grace Wilber (1977) relates the fourth duality to … Continue reading

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Having Become “Them,” We Are Left Forever Asking "Who Am I?" The Third Fall From Grace, The Primal Scene, Part Two — The Philosophic Bands

If Not My Self, Who Then to Be? Surrendering One’s Natural Self and Imprisoning Divinity in a Pandora’s Box Within, One Is Plagued with Wondering Who to Be Philosophic Bands: Who to Be? After the consolidation of the ego, the … Continue reading

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One Gains the World in Exact Proportion to Which a Man Has Relinquished his Soul: The Second Retreat from the Natural Self — Patriarchal Culture

Ritual Is the Attempt to Control Something Symbolically, Indirectly That One Has Split Off from and Is a Poor Substitute for the Real Potential of At-one-ment with Reality It is this attempt to control something symbolically, indirectly that is the … Continue reading

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Blueprints of Human Nature and Prenatal Personalities … Profound Sculpting of Who We Are Occurs at a Time We Cannot See: Four Earliest Roots of War, Bigotry, Capitalism, and Pollution

Prenatal Imprints of “Human Nature”: Four Programs of Human Personality Are Written Into Us in the Womb Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Four: Prenatal Imprints of Our Unnatural Self The Perinatal Pulls of Pollution: Air Pollution and Fetal Oxygen Starvation … Continue reading

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Ritual Is Pseudo Experience — an Avoidance of True Nature, Not an Attunement with It: Matriarchal Is a Split from Primal Consciousness and the Natural Self

Ritual As Shadow: Magic, Ritual, and Superstition Occur with the Beginnings of Ego and the Agrarian Desire to Control Nature — the Matriarchal Consciousness In seeking to … control our lives, we introduce a deathlike pall into normal human experience. … Continue reading

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At the Age of Four or Five, Giving Up, We Become “Them”: Life Is Passed Performing Rituals and Mouthing Incantations in the Service of Others’ Requirements

The Natural Self Slain, the Ego “Is Rewarded for Being Obsequious While the Real Self Seethes in the Prison of Loneliness”: The Third Fall, the Primal Scene, Part One — “Child Sacrifice” The Primal Scene The primal scene occurs at … Continue reading

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Becoming Not Yourself: The Centaur Stage of Infant and Toddler Learning Involves Learning You Are Not OK and Continues the Separation from Innate Divinity

    The Newborn Is the Centaur — Half Human, Half Animal … Half Human, Half Divine: The Second Fall From Grace, Birth, Part Four—The Biosocial Bands … The Cultural Veil To Summarize To summarize, “The breaking of the vessels generated … Continue reading

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The Creation of Loneliness and the Expulsion from Paradise at Birth: The Why and Way of Mind, or Ego, Separating from Universal Consciousness

Ejection from “Eden” Happens to Everyone at Birth: The Second Fall From Grace, Birth, Part Three — Suffering Builds a Character Shoham (1990) provides additional light on this second phase of separation. As mentioned previously, he relates the second phase … Continue reading

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Becoming Separated from Our Bodies at Birth, We Are Separated from Archetypal and Karmic Patterns, from Our Spiritual Selves: An Angel of Death Guards the Gates of Heaven

The Second Fall From Grace, Birth, Part Two — The Creation of Ego: There Is a Separation from the Natural and the Institution of a Substitute Human Nature at Birth Nonetheless, in “labeling” this confinedness in the womb, or “walling-in,” … Continue reading

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We Create Time to Escape from an Insufferable Now … Therein We Create Death: The Beginnings of Diminishing Divinity and of our Becoming Just an Idea

The Second Fall From Grace, Birth, Part One — The Wall: The Creation of Pain, Time, and Death Occurs with the Encounter with the “World-Obstacle” The Secondary Dualism Ontogenetically, the second fall is birth and correlates with Wilber’s secondary dualism, … Continue reading

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