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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema PREFACE, p. xv 🧵Click this panel for Thread, complete book or, for free pdf copy: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17MvgfWlle00TeQSM06Ok2izD-MVSRl6y/view?usp=sharing 1/ 🧵👇 💡📚💙 #SLOS ✨☯️💡🪽 #SLOSPreface 📖 #TruthWarriors ❕ #psychology ☮️ #consciousness 💡 #metaphysics ☯️ #transpersonal 🪽 #primal ☮️ #experiential 🐉 #rebirth 🦋 #RainbowWarriors 🦋 PREFACE Page xv “...that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.” Consciousness, Begrudgingly Conceded You will notice a pattern in our acknowledgment of consciousness as existing in the world outside of ourselves — the nonhuman world: Consciousness outside of humans is a gradual and reluctant acknowledgement throughout Western history. Rooted as it is in medieval Christian notions of dominion over Nature and of humans as being uniquely endowed with souls, science is not the least guilty here. Indeed, its crimes in this regard are epic.
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In Part One of this book, “Being Shiva — Destroying and Creating Worlds,” I advance an argument based on taking a look at some assumptions we clearly do make and upon which we build all of our knowledge, our science, and our beliefs about what is real. It comes down to anthropocentrism, which is a species-centrism more disastrous for our understandings of trueness than any of the other centrisms — ethnocentrism, egocentrism, or any other. In doing that I unveil the layers of reality construction upon which we construct that anthropocentrism. This is an epistemological undertaking, for in doing this the intent is, by pulling away the false pillars upon which we build our world, to find out what can be known instead: What might actually be true. What might give us surer footing from which to view our worlds. In Part Two, “Transcending Worlds,” I begin to advance the notions that we might genuinely consider, once the false ones have been swept away. These are panoramas of understanding that open up once the curtain of anthropocentrism has been pulled to the side. We find a flourishing new world revealed. One that borders on wonder. THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii
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PREFACE Page xvii …civilization allowed an exploitation of the natural world, which burden earlier humans hardly desired. Until we arrive at pervasive Western views which begin with an assumption of non-life, non-awareness for everything nonhuman, and as we have seen, often for humans other than what “we” are like. From there, awareness is as begrudgingly conceded, requiring mountains of indisputable and hard-to-obtain evidence, as one was attributing awareness to a machine, to an artificial intelligence. Our assumption, from medieval times, is that the world is non- conscious, while humans are ... well, most of us. The history of science in the last hundred years has amounted to a gradual giving back to Nature of its status as aware and conscious that was initially taken away by Western hubris in regard to Nature. So, we have animal rights, the “secret life of plants,” the “secret life of the unborn child,” and so on, in a gradual procession of acknowledgment. The understandings of consciousness and aliveness in the inanimate world — the world of matter — which are the most recent and necessary conclusions, arising from the findings of quantum physics and modern consciousness research, are the most difficult to arrive at. We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.
September 20, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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Part Five, “Matter Is Message” is the heart of the book. It is a comprehensive look at what we can learn having arrived at the position to which the first four parts of the book have brought us. I will say this about it: You will find more reason for optimism and more levity in your being from what will become you here. It gives back what was taken; it returns to you your rightful and honorable place. I invite you to open your eyes to the aliveness around you. I invite you to join me in a new world. Let me explain.... PREFACE Page xix
September 26, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by M. Adzema

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PREFACE Page xvii …civilization allowed an exploitation of the natural world, which burden earlier humans hardly desired. Until we arrive at pervasive Western views which begin with an assumption of non-life, non-awareness for everything nonhuman, and as we have seen, often for humans other than what “we” are like. From there, awareness is as begrudgingly conceded, requiring mountains of indisputable and hard-to-obtain evidence, as one was attributing awareness to a machine, to an artificial intelligence. Our assumption, from medieval times, is that the world is non- conscious, while humans are ... well, most of us. The history of science in the last hundred years has amounted to a gradual giving back to Nature of its status as aware and conscious that was initially taken away by Western hubris in regard to Nature. So, we have animal rights, the “secret life of plants,” the “secret life of the unborn child,” and so on, in a gradual procession of acknowledgment. The understandings of consciousness and aliveness in the inanimate world — the world of matter — which are the most recent and necessary conclusions, arising from the findings of quantum physics and modern consciousness research, are the most difficult to arrive at. We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.
June 26, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it. The Book’s Structure To that end, this book is in several parts, some quite different from the rest. They lay out a pattern of progression from what we commonly think to the majestic flights of insights arrived at with Western blinders removed. In the first four parts, I establish the logical philosophical foundation for the rest of the book, which is Part Five, “Matter Is Message.” For this is meant not to be some visionary, poetic book, full of inspiration and spiritual insight, merely. It is also a serious argument for the actual state of Reality. It has a rational basis — rooted in the most expanded circles of our understandings in science — undergirding the wide-ranging soarings of thought following. So, if you have no interest in what is, or why it is, and you already think life to be poetic; and you do not want or need a rational basis for… PREFACE Page xvii
June 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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PREFACE Page xvii …civilization allowed an exploitation of the natural world, which burden earlier humans hardly desired. Until we arrive at pervasive Western views which begin with an assumption of non-life, non-awareness for everything nonhuman, and as we have seen, often for humans other than what “we” are like. From there, awareness is as begrudgingly conceded, requiring mountains of indisputable and hard-to-obtain evidence, as one was attributing awareness to a machine, to an artificial intelligence. Our assumption, from medieval times, is that the world is non- conscious, while humans are ... well, most of us. The history of science in the last hundred years has amounted to a gradual giving back to Nature of its status as aware and conscious that was initially taken away by Western hubris in regard to Nature. So, we have animal rights, the “secret life of plants,” the “secret life of the unborn child,” and so on, in a gradual procession of acknowledgment. The understandings of consciousness and aliveness in the inanimate world — the world of matter — which are the most recent and necessary conclusions, arising from the findings of quantum physics and modern consciousness research, are the most difficult to arrive at. We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi …earlier perpetrated The Burning Times and the murder of nine million women at the stake. Not to be disregarded, flawed scientific understanding of consciousness and feeling awareness attributable to our youngest has resulted in modern high-tech obstetrical birthing procedures, which have brutalized neonates and laid a foundation of horror at the roots of modern personalities. This has had incalculable results, as we see for one thing only, in the random and thoughtless eruptions of violence in modern societies and the abilities of organized violence, by nations and terrorist groups, to perpetrate wars, genocides, and other atrocities. Only reluctantly and gradually are newborns not being brutalized, slapped, wrapped, and isolated — as “modern” practices have heretofore dictated — and humane birthing and infancy methods been implemented. The persistence of the notion that newborns are not conscious, supported as it was in the beginning by science, is hard dying. For its part, feeling awareness and memory in the prenate — established now beyond any question — fails to put to rest other archaic thinking such as mistaken speculations about a link between myelination and memory. So ideas about an unconscious existence for fetuses, convenient as they are in facilitating our nonchalance about nurturing our babies while still in their womb, simply refuse to die the death they are due.
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PREFACE Page xix In Part Three, “Science as Myth,” I begin, first of all, to touch upon the ways these newer awarenesses have been thought of in the past. And surprisingly, with some of the deconstruction done in the first two parts, we find that science has made some gross misassumptions and thrown away some bathwater that has a viable life in it. I help to resuscitate those ideas, and I show how they actually integrate with some of the outermost rings of our findings from science at this time. Part Four begins the advance down the freeway to the new world, the new paradigm, the one where matter is discovered to be alive. In “The Consciousness of Stones,” I explain how that position is not just plausible, it is the only rational one left, all things considered. I bring forth some of the reasons — some anthropocentric, some simply habits of thought that are correctible — for why this new cosmic overstanding has not been unveiled before, as well as why significant parts of it, which would have revealed the rest, were historically cast aside.
September 24, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xviii

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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii …your stance — for such a stance in life — then you could easily go directly to the second half of the book, “Matter Is Message.” It is a long book, and I can understand some might want to do that, if only to cut down on their reading. I need mention this because I want all readers to know of the second part of the book and not to miss it. I consider it the most profound, inspirational, and relevant part for these times and the people living in it. Still, I have constructed the book to be read front to back. It follows a logical order, creating a rational, thoroughgoing, and comprehensive vision, which the latter parts are that much sweeter by. I think you will miss out a little at least by skipping over the earlier chapters. Whichever of these ways you read it, or some other way — perhaps you are one to have your dessert first and then get your meat and potatoes later, maybe to have dessert then again — my wish for you is that you receive the blessing of reading it with the same joy, and fun, in which I wrote it. I hope the reverence and gratitude I felt as it came through me is sensed by you as well.
September 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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PREFACE Page xv “...that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it.” Consciousness, Begrudgingly Conceded You will notice a pattern in our acknowledgment of consciousness as existing in the world outside of ourselves — the nonhuman world: Consciousness outside of humans is a gradual and reluctant acknowledgement throughout Western history. Rooted as it is in medieval Christian notions of dominion over Nature and of humans as being uniquely endowed with souls, science is not the least guilty here. Indeed, its crimes in this regard are epic.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi …earlier perpetrated The Burning Times and the murder of nine million women at the stake. Not to be disregarded, flawed scientific understanding of consciousness and feeling awareness attributable to our youngest has resulted in modern high-tech obstetrical birthing procedures, which have brutalized neonates and laid a foundation of horror at the roots of modern personalities. This has had incalculable results, as we see for one thing only, in the random and thoughtless eruptions of violence in modern societies and the abilities of organized violence, by nations and terrorist groups, to perpetrate wars, genocides, and other atrocities. Only reluctantly and gradually are newborns not being brutalized, slapped, wrapped, and isolated — as “modern” practices have heretofore dictated — and humane birthing and infancy methods been implemented. The persistence of the notion that newborns are not conscious, supported as it was in the beginning by science, is hard dying. For its part, feeling awareness and memory in the prenate — established now beyond any question — fails to put to rest other archaic thinking such as mistaken speculations about a link between myelination and memory. So ideas about an unconscious existence for fetuses, convenient as they are in facilitating our nonchalance about nurturing our babies while still in their womb, simply refuse to die the death they are due.
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*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

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Wherever you look, the refusal to acknowledge consciousness or feeling awareness to an entity or thing allows unrestrained brutality and exploitation there. Hence, just as the civil rights of minorities, indigenous peoples, women, and children have been only gradually and reluctantly acknowledged over the centuries, so also the awareness and consciousness of the nonhuman world is not the place we start when thinking of it, however much that was the case for our original humans. Remember, for primal humans, the world is alive; consciousness and nobility is awarded planetmates; Nature itself, animate and inanimate, is intentional and aware. This is the way we humans saw the world around us for virtually ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of our history as a species. With civilization, however, and the burgeoning of an overweening ego and a controlling addiction, all of that changed drastically ... and conveniently. For the domestication of plants and animals that began… THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi
June 26, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii …your stance — for such a stance in life — then you could easily go directly to the second half of the book, “Matter Is Message.” It is a long book, and I can understand some might want to do that, if only to cut down on their reading. I need mention this because I want all readers to know of the second part of the book and not to miss it. I consider it the most profound, inspirational, and relevant part for these times and the people living in it. Still, I have constructed the book to be read front to back. It follows a logical order, creating a rational, thoroughgoing, and comprehensive vision, which the latter parts are that much sweeter by. I think you will miss out a little at least by skipping over the earlier chapters. Whichever of these ways you read it, or some other way — perhaps you are one to have your dessert first and then get your meat and potatoes later, maybe to have dessert then again — my wish for you is that you receive the blessing of reading it with the same joy, and fun, in which I wrote it. I hope the reverence and gratitude I felt as it came through me is sensed by you as well.
June 29, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Wherever you look, the refusal to acknowledge consciousness or feeling awareness to an entity or thing allows unrestrained brutality and exploitation there. Hence, just as the civil rights of minorities, indigenous peoples, women, and children have been only gradually and reluctantly acknowledged over the centuries, so also the awareness and consciousness of the nonhuman world is not the place we start when thinking of it, however much that was the case for our original humans. Remember, for primal humans, the world is alive; consciousness and nobility is awarded planetmates; Nature itself, animate and inanimate, is intentional and aware. This is the way we humans saw the world around us for virtually ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of our history as a species. With civilization, however, and the burgeoning of an overweening ego and a controlling addiction, all of that changed drastically ... and conveniently. For the domestication of plants and animals that began… THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi
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We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it. The Book’s Structure To that end, this book is in several parts, some quite different from the rest. They lay out a pattern of progression from what we commonly think to the majestic flights of insights arrived at with Western blinders removed. In the first four parts, I establish the logical philosophical foundation for the rest of the book, which is Part Five, “Matter Is Message.” For this is meant not to be some visionary, poetic book, full of inspiration and spiritual insight, merely. It is also a serious argument for the actual state of Reality. It has a rational basis — rooted in the most expanded circles of our understandings in science — undergirding the wide-ranging soarings of thought following. So, if you have no interest in what is, or why it is, and you already think life to be poetic; and you do not want or need a rational basis for… PREFACE Page xvii
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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii …your stance — for such a stance in life — then you could easily go directly to the second half of the book, “Matter Is Message.” It is a long book, and I can understand some might want to do that, if only to cut down on their reading. I need mention this because I want all readers to know of the second part of the book and not to miss it. I consider it the most profound, inspirational, and relevant part for these times and the people living in it. Still, I have constructed the book to be read front to back. It follows a logical order, creating a rational, thoroughgoing, and comprehensive vision, which the latter parts are that much sweeter by. I think you will miss out a little at least by skipping over the earlier chapters. Whichever of these ways you read it, or some other way — perhaps you are one to have your dessert first and then get your meat and potatoes later, maybe to have dessert then again — my wish for you is that you receive the blessing of reading it with the same joy, and fun, in which I wrote it. I hope the reverence and gratitude I felt as it came through me is sensed by you as well.
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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi …earlier perpetrated The Burning Times and the murder of nine million women at the stake. Not to be disregarded, flawed scientific understanding of consciousness and feeling awareness attributable to our youngest has resulted in modern high-tech obstetrical birthing procedures, which have brutalized neonates and laid a foundation of horror at the roots of modern personalities. This has had incalculable results, as we see for one thing only, in the random and thoughtless eruptions of violence in modern societies and the abilities of organized violence, by nations and terrorist groups, to perpetrate wars, genocides, and other atrocities. Only reluctantly and gradually are newborns not being brutalized, slapped, wrapped, and isolated — as “modern” practices have heretofore dictated — and humane birthing and infancy methods been implemented. The persistence of the notion that newborns are not conscious, supported as it was in the beginning by science, is hard dying. For its part, feeling awareness and memory in the prenate — established now beyond any question — fails to put to rest other archaic thinking such as mistaken speculations about a link between myelination and memory. So ideas about an unconscious existence for fetuses, convenient as they are in facilitating our nonchalance about nurturing our babies while still in their womb, simply refuse to die the death they are due.
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Consciousness, Begrudgingly Conceded You will notice a pattern in our acknowledgment of consciousness as existing in the world outside of ourselves — the nonhuman world: Consciousness outside of humans is a gradual and reluctant acknowledgement throughout Western history. Rooted as it is in medieval Christian notions of dominion over Nature and of humans as being uniquely endowed with souls, science is not the least guilty here. Indeed, its crimes in this regard are epic. The denial of consciousness in planetmates, which is embedded in science from its Newtonian beginnings, is the basis for our modern ability to thingify all of Nature as resources and items of consumption; thus allowing the torture and abuse of all planetmates to our ends — as food, as ingredients in manufactured items, as brutally treated and bloodily used test subjects, and worse. Pseudo-scientific notions regarding relative levels of consciousness in humans has supported the Nazi holocaust and slavery, as well; just as faux religious notions of the diminished status of females and the nonhuman world of Nature… PREFACE Page xv
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We find it nearly impossible to see the world as alive, as our ancestors did, regardless what our sciences now tell us. Yet, that is what this book attempts — the returning to the inanimate world of the status of awareness, aliveness, and intention that Western hubris has stolen from it. The Book’s Structure To that end, this book is in several parts, some quite different from the rest. They lay out a pattern of progression from what we commonly think to the majestic flights of insights arrived at with Western blinders removed. In the first four parts, I establish the logical philosophical foundation for the rest of the book, which is Part Five, “Matter Is Message.” For this is meant not to be some visionary, poetic book, full of inspiration and spiritual insight, merely. It is also a serious argument for the actual state of Reality. It has a rational basis — rooted in the most expanded circles of our understandings in science — undergirding the wide-ranging soarings of thought following. So, if you have no interest in what is, or why it is, and you already think life to be poetic; and you do not want or need a rational basis for… PREFACE Page xvii
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In Part One of this book, “Being Shiva — Destroying and Creating Worlds,” I advance an argument based on taking a look at some assumptions we clearly do make and upon which we build all of our knowledge, our science, and our beliefs about what is real. It comes down to anthropocentrism, which is a species-centrism more disastrous for our understandings of trueness than any of the other centrisms — ethnocentrism, egocentrism, or any other. In doing that I unveil the layers of reality construction upon which we construct that anthropocentrism. This is an epistemological undertaking, for in doing this the intent is, by pulling away the false pillars upon which we build our world, to find out what can be known instead: What might actually be true. What might give us surer footing from which to view our worlds. In Part Two, “Transcending Worlds,” I begin to advance the notions that we might genuinely consider, once the false ones have been swept away. These are panoramas of understanding that open up once the curtain of anthropocentrism has been pulled to the side. We find a flourishing new world revealed. One that borders on wonder. THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii
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PREFACE Page xix In Part Three, “Science as Myth,” I begin, first of all, to touch upon the ways these newer awarenesses have been thought of in the past. And surprisingly, with some of the deconstruction done in the first two parts, we find that science has made some gross misassumptions and thrown away some bathwater that has a viable life in it. I help to resuscitate those ideas, and I show how they actually integrate with some of the outermost rings of our findings from science at this time. Part Four begins the advance down the freeway to the new world, the new paradigm, the one where matter is discovered to be alive. In “The Consciousness of Stones,” I explain how that position is not just plausible, it is the only rational one left, all things considered. I bring forth some of the reasons — some anthropocentric, some simply habits of thought that are correctible — for why this new cosmic overstanding has not been unveiled before, as well as why significant parts of it, which would have revealed the rest, were historically cast aside.
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In Part One of this book, “Being Shiva — Destroying and Creating Worlds,” I advance an argument based on taking a look at some assumptions we clearly do make and upon which we build all of our knowledge, our science, and our beliefs about what is real. It comes down to anthropocentrism, which is a species-centrism more disastrous for our understandings of trueness than any of the other centrisms — ethnocentrism, egocentrism, or any other. In doing that I unveil the layers of reality construction upon which we construct that anthropocentrism. This is an epistemological undertaking, for in doing this the intent is, by pulling away the false pillars upon which we build our world, to find out what can be known instead: What might actually be true. What might give us surer footing from which to view our worlds. In Part Two, “Transcending Worlds,” I begin to advance the notions that we might genuinely consider, once the false ones have been swept away. These are panoramas of understanding that open up once the curtain of anthropocentrism has been pulled to the side. We find a flourishing new world revealed. One that borders on wonder. THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xviii
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Wherever you look, the refusal to acknowledge consciousness or feeling awareness to an entity or thing allows unrestrained brutality and exploitation there. Hence, just as the civil rights of minorities, indigenous peoples, women, and children have been only gradually and reluctantly acknowledged over the centuries, so also the awareness and consciousness of the nonhuman world is not the place we start when thinking of it, however much that was the case for our original humans. Remember, for primal humans, the world is alive; consciousness and nobility is awarded planetmates; Nature itself, animate and inanimate, is intentional and aware. This is the way we humans saw the world around us for virtually ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of our history as a species. With civilization, however, and the burgeoning of an overweening ego and a controlling addiction, all of that changed drastically ... and conveniently. For the domestication of plants and animals that began… THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi
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Part Five, “Matter Is Message” is the heart of the book. It is a comprehensive look at what we can learn having arrived at the position to which the first four parts of the book have brought us. I will say this about it: You will find more reason for optimism and more levity in your being from what will become you here. It gives back what was taken; it returns to you your rightful and honorable place. I invite you to open your eyes to the aliveness around you. I invite you to join me in a new world. Let me explain.... PREFACE Page xix
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