“Lloyd deMause found that natal imagery esp predominates in societies during times of crisis & war, when national purpose & state of affairs are construed as a need to escape or break free from an enclosing & constricting force.” READ/DWL BOOK drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/60

“[Lloyd deMause] also introduced the *suffering fetus* & the *poisonous placenta* as sources of these later metaphors & imagery.” READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/61

“In fact, in studying the imagery in the national media of various countries [Lloyd deMause] has been able to predict political, social, & economic events such as wars & invasions, recessions,& political downfalls.” THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal D7V1 2/62

“[Lloyd deMauses’s] work begins to look at the prenatal influences & imprints & how they related to macrocosmic issues of politics, history, social movements, & issues of war & peace.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth D7V1 2/63

“As importantly, in my opinion, [Lloyd deMause] was the first to stress that prenatal existence, for a good deal of it, is anything but the blissful heavenly time that all earlier researchers assumed of it.” … sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychohistory #consciousness D7V1 2/64

“Referring to studies of in utero events which employed previously unavailable technologies he showed how the prenatal state, beginning at around the seventh month of gestation, was characterized by times of extreme hypoxia…” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psyche D7V1 2/65

“…[prenatal state characterized by extreme hypoxia] & other stresses on the prenate. This became important in helping me to formulate my *prenatal matrices of human evil*, as you will see in Chapt 5, of this book, & in Veil Five of this work.” drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/66

“The actual stimulus for a new field of pre- & perinatal psychology & for its major association, the Association for Pre- & Perinatal Psychology & Health (APPPAH) was Thomas Verny’s work, *The Secret Life of the Unborn Child* (1981).” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… D7V1 2/67

“[Verny’s] book brought together a good deal of the new empirical research that had opened the doors to us on the events in the womb. While himself a practitioner of “holistic primal therapy,”..” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psyche #prenatal #consciousness #birth D7V1 2/68

“…[Verny] integrated the accumulating data from the phenomenon of re-experience with the new information from the more traditional, “objective,” scientific research into the prenatal—made possible by the latest advances in technology.” THREAD drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/69

“One of [Verny’s] conclusions from this combination of lines of inquiry was that “birth & prenatal experiences form the foundations of human personality.” THREAD drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype D7V1 2/70

“Verny’s other conclusions center on the importance of intrauterine bonding in that his research strongly suggests that the prenate, via pathways hormonal & unknown, picks up on the thoughts, feelings, & attitudes of the mother.” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #womb D7V1 2/71

“More importantly, [Verny] asserted, the imprint of these factors on the fetus predetermines the later mother-child relationship.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psyche #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/72

“[Verny] emphasized that positive thoughts & feelings toward the fetus—“maternal love”—acts to cushion the new individual against the normal stresses & unavoidable harshness inherent in birth & early infancy.” THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #womb D7V1 2/73

“Yet all of this cannot be completely avoided. “Birth is like death to the newborn,” writes Verny.” READ &/or dwnl entire BOOK free AT SITE... drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/74

“A follower of Nandor Fodor, Francis Mott’s work is less well known even by this field’s standards, yet it is undeniably impressive.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/75

“Mott’s (1960, 1964) major contribution lies in his focusing on basic patterns of mind & cosmos that correlate with prenatal feelings & states.” READ BOOK… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb D7V1 2/76

“[Mott] traced consciousness back to events around conception & saw these events as instituting patterns affecting all later experience & conceptual constructions.” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal D7V1 2/77

“Through dream analysis [Mott] elicited these “configurations,” & he demonstrated their manifestation as seemingly universal archetypes in myths & universal human assumptions about the nature of reality.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #conception D7V1 2/78

“[Mott’s] work has a lot of congruence with the approach I take in this work.” READ &/or dwl entire BOOK free AT SITE... sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology #spirituality #shaman D7V1 2/79

“In fact, through his study of womb & conception patterns [Mott] claimed to have discovered patterns that underlie & unite all of reality at all levels of manifestation—astronomical, social, personal, cellular, & even nuclear.” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psyche D7V1 2/80

“While this may seem rather grandiose, [Mott’s] work was highly regarded & admired by Carl Jung.” READ &/or dwnld entire BOOK free AT SITE... drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/81

“That, in itself, is surprising in that his work would provide, in many cases, for experiential explanations for the archetypes that Jung has attributed to “instinct,” or as it is considered more appropriate to say nowadays, to “genes.”” THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… D7V1 2/82

“Thus, the universality of Jung’s archetypes can be attributed to universal patterns of experience humans undergo from conception to birth, not to genetics.” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psyche #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype D7V1 2/83

“It is a tribute to Jung that he would acknowledge such work, threatening as it is to his own work, simply on its own merits.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb #anthropology D7V1 2/84

“At any rate, Mott carried forward the intimations of earlier prenatal theoreticians, notably Rank & Fodor, on the gestational basis of archetypes. While he does not address or seek to discredit the range of, supposedly genetic, archetypes…” sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… D7V1 2/85

“…[while Mott does not seek to discredit genetic archetypes,] postulated by Jung, his work is highly suggestive of an experiential, specifically, pre- & perinatal, as opposed to genetic basis for many of these archetypes.” THREAD… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology D7V1 2/86

“*Prenatal Mythology* “In this book, I make exactly that claim for the gestational origins of not only all mythology, religion, & archetypes, but even fundamental assumptions about physical reality, such as duality & separation,..” THREAD… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/87

“…& [in this book I make exactly that claim for the gestational origins of even fundamental assumptions about physical reality, such as duality & separation,] about life, such as the creation & perception of time. More later.” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psyche D7V1 2/88

“Finally, Francis Mott made the postulation that our original expanded capacity to feel is diminished, as he says, “divided,” by experience not increased by it.” READ BOOK… wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal D7V1 2/89

“The idea is that there is a reduction in awareness as a result of early traumatic events, beginning around conception & then on, & not the buildup of consciousness & feeling we assume from the mechanistic paradigm..." READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psyche D7V1 2/90

“…the mechanistic paradigm] that sees consciousness as a byproduct of increasing physical, specifically brain, activity during our early years.” READ BOOK> sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb D7V1 2/91

“This is the position I came up with, independently of & unaware of Mott’s work, & which I published in my book,*Falls from Grace: The Devolution & Revolution of Consciousness* (2014). “I wish also to point out that…” THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psyche #prenatal D7V1 2/92

“…this idea of reductions of consciousness over time, in early human development, & not the buildup due to cell growth normally assumed, has remarkable consistency with Bergson’s (1896, 1934) theory of “brain as reducing valve.” READ/DWL BOOK drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… D7V1 2/93

“The reducing valve theory of brain function was supported by experiences in psychedelic states, and, specifically, it was proposed by Aldous Huxley (1954) in his famous work (famous because the Sixties rock phenomenon, The Doors,..” READ BOOK sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… D7V1 2/94

“[The Doors] used its title as inspiration in naming themselves),*The Doors of Perception*, as a way of understanding how psychedelics can open one up to consciousness & awareness quite beyond what one could possibly know thru normal channels." wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ D7V1 2/95

““The doors of perception” as a title of Aldous Huxley’s work came from a poem by William Blake. The line goes, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, the world would appear as it is, infinite.”” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #consciousness D7V1 2/96

“Still, Huxley’s essay, *The Doors of Perception*, along with its companion essay, *Heaven & Hell* (1956) was an icon of counterculture mythology in the 1960s, & it was Huxley’s work which inspired the musicians, The Doors.” THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… #psychology D7V1 2/97

“According to Huxley, expansion of mind beyond the normal can be a result of consciousness-altering methods, psychedelic drugs being one of them..." THREAD wp.me/pwJJl-1bZ #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal #perinatal #archetype #womb D7V1 2/98

“…due to the fact that the “reducing valve,” the brain, is inhibited from performing its function of blocking out the majority of an otherwise overwhelming Reality.” READ/DWL BOOK… drive.google.com/file/d/1poVJ7I… #psychology #prenatal #consciousness #birth #anthro #primal D7V1 2/99

“I continued along those lines, elaborating & speculating on the idea, in my articles, titled, “The Doors of Perception: Each of Us Is Potentially Mind at Large… When Perception Is Cleansed, All Kinds of Nonordinary Things Happen”…” THREAD… sillymickel.blogspot.com/2022/11/dance-… D7V1 2/100