On the doorstep of an apocalypse of our own making, a revisioning of human's presumed role as "crown of creation" and "pinnacle of evolution" is not just warranted but required. We are the prodigal daughters and sons of Nature and the Divine, no doubt about it. Prodigal Human reveals exactly that twistedness and how we can get back what we lost.This retreat from harmony with Nature, along with an incisive exposition of the resulting state of falleness, as it built up over time, is detailed in this book. The devolution involved in our, so-called, "evolution" is explained as to how it began, all the way back with bipedalism; how it proceeded-in a step-by-step process of descent occurring over the course of millions of years, including the emergence of birth trauma, the agrarian revolution, hierarchical societies, classism, child use and abuse, the oppression of women and rise of patriarchy, and the diminishment of self and feeling; and how it gradually coalesced into what we call human ... into what we mistakenly think is our human nature. In Prodigal Human, we see how we came to be estranged and discover that state to be one less than what we are potentially: We are prodigal or fallen ... therefore we do not have to be. This book uncovers the dark side of civilization and, by contrast, reveals the bright side of human potential, within Nature. The prodigal human will be welcomed back into the fold of Nature, if and when we have finally had enough and decide to make the journey home. In Prodigal Human, we learn exactly how what we left behind could be again embraced and how that redeems us as a species and liberates us as individual humans.
About the Author: Michael Adzema is an author, activist, prenatal and perinatal psy¬cholo¬gist, philosopher, and ecopsychologist. He has been a univer¬sity instructor, a journal editor, and a psychotherapist, specializing in primal therapy, breathwork, and rebirthing. Michael 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 ended 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, pre- and perinatal psychology, metaphys¬ics, and philosophy. In addition to *Prodigal Human*, he has authored, most recently, *The Secret Life of Stones: Matter, Divinity, and the Path of Ecstasy*. Also this year, 2016, he published *Wounded Deer and Centaurs: The Necessary Hero and the Prenatal Matrix of Human Events*. He has authored and produced eight other books, which are currently in print. They are, in order from most recent to least, *Funny God* (2015); *Falls from Grace* (2014); *Planetmates, The Great Reveal* (2014); *Experience Is Divinity* (2013); *Apocalypse NO* (2013); *Culture War, Class War* (2013); and the companion volume to *Apocalypse NO*, titled *Apocalypse Emergency - Love's Wake-Up Call*. His books can be found at Amazon, are available on Kindle as well, and can be ordered through any major book outlet. 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 pseudonym, sillymickel. He teaches and publishes frequently on Facebook as Michael Adzema, and on Twitter under the name, Mickel Adzema, @sillymickel.