About the Book
There is a secret life in the Universe. The physical world is an illusion arising from our human perception, and the fundamental reality is consciousness; it is experiential. This is the conclusion of quantum physics and our latest consciousness research. There is a secret life of stones.Knowing this changes everything. It is the tipping point revealing a new world-one in which you are immersed, like a fish in water, in aliveness, consciousness, experiential units...and all of it friendly, compassionate, reaching out to you and helping you...even in spite of you. This book presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders and explores the terrain leading up to and supporting such overstandings. Then, it hovers above those astonishing revelations and glories in the implications of them for understanding our Reality, our non-separation from each other, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our lives. In so doing, we peer through a portal wherein we are again one with the Universe. We find ourselves on the edge of a coming together as grand as that which we experienced at conception. We receive the gift of a heritage we long ago and mistakenly repudiated-a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, and once again noble within the world we inhabit.The Universe is at base Consciousness, Absolute Subjectivity, Experience, or mind-stuff. This is the finding of quantum physics and Consciousness research. Does that not imply that matter and stones are, somehow, aspects of that Consciousness, mind-stuff, Experience? This book explains how that is so and reveals the profound implications that has for us and how we live our lives. In so doing, it gives us back a heritage we long ago and mistakenly repudiated - a worldview in which we are seen as belonging, at home, and once again noble within the world we inhabit. Using rediscovered psychotechnologies, people are able to identify with and experience the consciousnesses not only of other planetmates - that is, other species on Earth - but also are able to merge with and experience the consciousness of higher orders of beings: the Earth, individual planets, the galaxy, individual collections of people - such as the women of all time; and even collectives of supranormal beings and realities - archetypal consciousness and its reality. It is possible to experience consciousness of supposedly inanimate, non-living forms and even identify with consciousnesses on the atomic and subatomic levels. So trees bloom for the joy of it. Bees delight in their tasks. The ocean is deep, wise, and comforting. And the Universe is pervaded by love, which we erroneously label gravity. This is what we know because we are part of Reality, part of Nature, part of Divinity and not superior to it as the dominant religions presume.... Or fallen from it like we are some kind of alien fruit that was somehow projected out of a tree, a Nature, that we have no part of, as scientists assume. This book presents a logical philosophical journey that wanders and explores the terrain leading up to and supporting such overstandings. Then, it hovers about that terrain and glories in the implications of that for understanding our Reality, our Identity as Self and Divinity, and for guidance for our life.
About the Author: Michael Adzema is an author, activist, former university instructor, and psychotherapist, now retired, who specialized in primal therapy, breathwork, and rebirthing. He was the editor of Primal Renaissance - a professional journal of primal psychology - and was the first person in the United States to teach prenatal and perinatal psychology at the university level, which he did at Sonoma State University in the early Nineties. In the early Eighties, working as an anti-nuke activist with Oregon Fair Share, he was one of a small group of people whose actions led to the lawsuit that put a stop to nuclear plant construction in the United States. He is a regular contributor to Extinction Radio, broadcast by Activate Media, formerly Occupy Boston Radio. His voice can be heard on other broadcasts, as well, speaking on topics of activism, spirituality, ecopsychology, the environment, prenatal and perinatal psychology, metaphysics, and philosophy. Over the last twenty years, Michael Adzema has managed and authored a number of popular websites and blogs, including Primal Spirit; Becoming Authentic; Culture War, Class War; and Michael Adzema, Author. Currently he publishes prolifically and often on his primary blog, Michael Adzema, Author, at sillymickel.blogspot.com. One can find a number of his videos on youtube, as well, under the name, sillymickel. He teaches and publishes frequently on Facebook under Michael Adzema and on Twitter under Mickel Adzema, @sillymickel. In addition to The Secret Life of Stones, he has authored the books, Wounded Deer and Centaurs; Funny God; Falls from Grace; Planetmates, The Great Reveal; Experience Is Divinity; Apocalypse NO; Culture War, Class War; Apocalypse Emergency, Love's Wake-Up Call; and Primal Renaissance. The book, Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man, is scheduled for release concurrently with this book, in Fall of 2016. His books can be found at Amazon, are available on Kindle as well, and can be ordered through any major book outlet.