“…& [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