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*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema.

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Meditation Is Often Emotionally “Messy” Wilber’s theory strikes me as a curiously dualistic way of interpreting a nondichotomous reality. And although his reasoning is tight and internally consistent, it excludes the evidence of transpersonal experience as exhibited in the spiritual, psychedelic, and ethnographic literature, as well as the evidence of meditation research. For, as Epstein and Leiff, (1981, p. 140) wrote in commenting on Wilber’s distinctions between supposed pre- and transpersonal experience: “In fact, meditation experiences embody all of the above. Confusion arises when meditation is analyzed as one discrete state, rather than as a developmental process.” Spiritual Growth Is Not a Linear Path, It Is an Expanding Outward Thus, I differ with Wilber in that I do not see pre-egoic influences as counter to a transcendental path; rather, I see them as distortions to be worked through. THE LEGITIMACY OF PRENATAL SPIRITUALITY Page 41
September 29, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema.

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*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema. CHAPTER 7, p. 40 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or for free pdf copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iaJCFLRRNfBlZPMMlCdF_DQptwB4z3Gb/view?usp=sharing 1/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #FlG ☯️🧟🐉🌈 #FallsFromGrace ☯️🧟🐉🌈 #FLGCH7 📖 7 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️ #primal ☮️ #consciousness 💡 #experiential 🐉 #metaphysics ☯️ #birth 🐉 #perinatal 🐉 #rebirth 🦋 #transpersonal 🪽 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 FALLS FROM GRACE Page 40 Chapter 7 Is God a Defense? Is Passion Not Spiritual? To Travel Unafraid Through All the Rooms of One’s House Stopping the “Internal Dialogue”: Meditation and Primal Are Attempts to Experience Aspects of Consciousness That Are Nonverbal, Noncortical, and Non-Neurotic
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*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema

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THE LEGITIMACY OF PRENATAL SPIRITUALITY Page 41 Is Catharsis Anti-Spiritual? Attacking from the other side we have Wilber (1982) claiming that preverbal experiences are to be distinguished from transpersonal experiences. He claims that “because both pre-X and trans-X are, in their own ways, non-X, they may appear similar, even identical, to the untutored eye,” whereas in reality they are profoundly different (p. 5). He posits a structure of linear development in which one conceivably could “regress” to pre-X, to prepersonal experience, and mistake it for transpersonal experience. Therefore he would claim that such experiences as we undergo in the phenomenon of re-experience are actual “regressions” on the spiritual path and are antithetical to a true spiritual quest. He would also claim a spiritual meditative practice is antithetical to one of re- experience or “regression therapy.” Meditation Is Often Emotionally “Messy” Wilber’s theory strikes me as a curiously dualistic way of interpreting a nondichotomous reality. And although his reasoning is tight and internally consistent, it excludes the evidence of transpersonal experience as exhibited in the spiritual, psychedelic,
September 21, 2026 at 6:51 AM
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Stopping the “Internal Dialogue”: Meditation and Primal Are Attempts to Experience Aspects of Consciousness That Are Nonverbal, Noncortical, and Non-Neurotic Is God a Defense? This section is part of the development in primal in correcting one inaccuracy of the early “primal scream,” which is Janov’s attitude regarding the relation between feeling one’s feelings and the spiritual process. Janov would claim that religion and the belief in a God are defenses, and that spiritual experiences employ the energy of repressed material, as in sublimation, or are reaction formations to such pain. Specifically, Janov has stated that meditation is “anti-Primal.” FALLS FROM GRACE Page 40
August 29, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema.

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Stopping the “Internal Dialogue”: Meditation and Primal Are Attempts to Experience Aspects of Consciousness That Are Nonverbal, Noncortical, and Non-Neurotic Is God a Defense? This section is part of the development in primal in correcting one inaccuracy of the early “primal scream,” which is Janov’s attitude regarding the relation between feeling one’s feelings and the spiritual process. Janov would claim that religion and the belief in a God are defenses, and that spiritual experiences employ the energy of repressed material, as in sublimation, or are reaction formations to such pain. Specifically, Janov has stated that meditation is “anti-Primal.” FALLS FROM GRACE Page 40
August 27, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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*FALLS FROM GRACE: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness* (2014) by Michael Adzema. CH 7, p 40

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FALLS FROM GRACE Page 40 Chapter 7 Is God a Defense? Is Passion Not Spiritual? To Travel Unafraid Through All the Rooms of One’s House Stopping the “Internal Dialogue”: Meditation and Primal Are Attempts to Experience Aspects of Consciousness That Are Nonverbal, Noncortical, and Non-Neurotic
August 28, 2026 at 12:32 AM