Michael Adzema

Michael Adzema is an author, ecoactivist, philosopher, psychologist, former university instructor, and psychotherapist, now retired, who specialized in primal therapy, breathwork, and rebirthing. He is a pioneer in the field of pre- and perinatal psychology and was the editor of *Primal Renaissance: The Journal of Primal Psychology* — a professional journal of psychology. He 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; he was one of the first in the United States to receive a graduate degree in pre- and perinatal psychology. Michael also did doctoral work in psychological anthropology at the University of California, San Diego; as well, he did graduate work in history, philosophy, Eastern philosophy, religious studies, and humanistic psychology. He served for years on the Board of the International Primal Association; he contributed by giving workshops and lectures at their conventions and conferences; and he was on the Board of Editors of the journals, *Anthropology of Consciousness*, published by the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness; and *Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal*, put out by the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. 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 has been 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, politics, primal psychology, and philosophy. Over the last twenty years, Michael Adzema has managed and authored a number of popular websites and blogs — with posts numbering upward of five thousand — including *Primal Spirit*; *Becoming Authentic*; *Culture War, Class War*; *The Great Reveal by SillyMickel and the Planetmates*; *Apocalypse—NO!*; *SillyMickel’s Blog of the Obvious Unspoken Things*; and *Funny God*; among others. Currently, he publishes prolifically and often on his primary blog — titled *Michael Adzema, Author, Pre/Perinatal & Primal Psychologist, Ecoactivist* — 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 *Dance of the Seven Veils I*, he has authored the books *The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, and the Path of Ecstasy*; *Prodigal Human: The Descents of Man*; *Wounded Deer and Centaurs: The Necessary Hero and the Prenatal Matrix of Human Events*; *Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation*; *Falls from Grace: The Devolution and Revolution of Consciousness*; *Planetmates: The Great Reveal*; *Experience Is Divinity: Matter As Metaphor*; *Apocalypse NO: Apocalypse or Earth Rebirth and the Emerging Perinatal Unconscious*; *Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of “Obvious Truths”*; *Primal Renaissance: The Emerging Millennial Return*; and *Apocalypse Emergency: Love’s Wake-Up Call*. The books, *Psychology of Apocalypse: Ecopsychology, Activism, and Prenatal Roots of Humanicide*; *Who To Be; Identity, Authenticity, and Crisis*; and *Back to the Garden: The Psychology and Spirituality of Humanicide and the Necessary Future* are scheduled to be in print in 2018, with *Dance of the Seven Veils II* to be released at the end of 2018; and *Dance of the Seven Veils III*, the end of 2019. Since 2008, Michael has been disseminating, on social media, the results of his forty-seven years of research. Since 2013, he has been encapsulating that research in the books mentioned — eleven, to date — with dozens more still in the queue. Concerning Michael Adzema’s life and work, the most recent and informative interview, available online, can be watched on youtube at https://youtu.be/2mm9OBbYjRE (titled “Michael Adzema talks to Michael Harrell ~ Unfolding our Primal Gifts,” if you need to google it). His books can be found at Amazon, are available on Kindle as well, and can be ordered through any major book outlet. For any published or forthcoming works by Michael Adzema, one can peruse this Author’s Page at Amazon, for current listings and information.