"Atavistic Withdrawal" refers to the concept of "basic perinatal matrices" (BPM) by Czech-born psychiatrist Stanislav Grof. BPM I, called "The Amniotic Universe" is the original symbiotic unity of the fetus with the maternal organism. Elements of this state can be accompanied with, or alternate with, experiences of a lack of boundaries and obstructions, such as the ocean and the cosmos. The extreme expression of the sacred and spiritual quality of BPM I is the experience of cosmic unity and the unio mystica.
According to Brazilian occultist Marcel Ramos Motta, the fetus in the prenatal period repeats the evolutionary journey from a single cell to "homo sapiens" - recreating, in the first three months after fertilization, the structures of insects, fish, amphibians, birds and mammals.
Recorded in July 2022.
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"Everything has been arranged in the body by fire, in a manner suited to itself, in imitation of the whole, from small to large and from large to small (mikra pros megala kai megala pros mikra). Dry and wet, giving to everyone and taking from everyone, with the force of the sea, the creatures that suit it, killing the ones that don't. Cold and wet water is arranged around it, a passage for cold breath and hot breath, an imitation of the earth, which alters everything that falls on it."
Corpus Hippocraticum
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Recorded in July 2022.
Originally released by The Church of Noisy Goat:
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