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Hard to Believe, But We’re Getting Saner: What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide and the Necessary Mess of Transformation

Posted on August 5, 2013 by sillymickel

The Cycle of All Events, the Evolution of Parenting, and Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One Chapter Nine: Regressions in the Service of Society — Messy Healing There Is a Cycle … Continue reading →

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The Impotence of Reason, The Vanity of Will, Progress Requires Regress, and Healing Is Nothing if Not Messy: Railing Against the Darkness

Posted on September 14, 2012 by sillymickel

Rebirthing Rituals, Part Two: Railing Against the Darkness, The Vanity of Will, The Impotence of Reason, and Social Progress Requires Regression The Vanity of Will, The Impotence of “Reason” What we absolutely don’t have, yet arrogantly think we do, is … Continue reading →