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How We Lose Our Souls, How It is Stolen: In Patriarchal Cultures, the Young Need Be Pared Down to the Level of Its Controlling Adults … Rituals of Diminution and Control

Posted on March 4, 2018 by sillymickel

How We Lose Our Souls, How It is Stolen: In Patriarchal Cultures, the Young Need Be Pared Down to the Level of Its Controlling Adults … Rituals of Diminution and Control — Which is Chapter 27 of *Dance of the Seven Veils I* by … Continue reading →

Posted in 60s, Anthropology, book, breathwork, consciousness, culture, experience, metaphysics, Michael Adzema author, parents, Philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, primal, primal therapy, Psychology, science, shamanism, Spirituality, therapy, transpersonal, transpersonal psychology | Tagged adolescence, adulthood, Aminah Raheem, authenticity, book, chapter, civilization, culture, Dance of the Seven Veils, dreams, elite, exceptionalism, fourth fall from grace, identity, initiation, matriarchal, matriarchal mistake, Mbuti, Michael Adzema author, nkumbi, No-Form State, parenting, patriarhal, periconceptional, pre- and perinatal psychology, primal, primal scene, projection, Pygmy, rites of passage, ritual, Self, shamanism, soul, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, Turnbull, Veils, Wilber | 8 Comments

“The huge structures of civilization are monuments to, and are equal in size to, the size of the freedom lost”

Posted on April 16, 2014 by sillymickel

The Planetmates reveal why civilization equals suffering, Marxism, free life and human misery, enslavement: “The huge structures of civilization are monuments to, and are equal in size to, the size of the freedom lost”: “…with hired, coerced labor, we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Environment, Health and wellness, History, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged capitalism, civilization, creativity, economics, Ego, enslavement, free will, human misery, injustice, instinct, labor, life, Marxism, misery, monuments, nature, Planetmate, pleasure, skylines, spirituality, suffering, surplus value, work, worker, wrong-gettedness. | Leave a comment

“All the things Nature does automatically, effortlessly in the creation of its bounty, you increasingly took upon yourselves”: The Planetmates reveal the origins of work, the quality of planetmate life, control, and the suffering humans brought to Nature

Posted on March 27, 2014 by sillymickel

“The more you added to your survival burden by controlling your food sources rather than accepting Nature’s bounty and providence, the more work you created for yourself. All the things Nature does automatically, effortlessly, and joyously in the creation of … Continue reading →

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We Once Had the Run of the Forest and the “Original Affluent Society”: Early Human Savagery Is a Patriarchal Myth Rationalizing Our Descent Into Civilization

Posted on August 29, 2013 by sillymickel

Out of Eden, Part Two — Agrarian Revolution … or Devolution? The Adoption of Agriculture Brought Drudgery for Humans … And So We Cast Ourselves Out of the Garden A Fall from Grace? The Switch from Hunter-Gatherer to Horticultural Lifeways … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Environment, Health and wellness, History, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged affluent society, Agrarian Revolution, agriculture, basic mistrust, basic trust, civilization, Colin Turnbull, conformity, devolution, domestication of animals, Eden, fall from grace, God, hunter-gatherer, hunter-gatherers, Marshall Sahlins, nature, Politics, society, The Forest People, the Garden | 3 Comments

Look Hard Enough, You Just Might See the Seeds of Light Amidst the Darkness Surrounding: Where There Is Hope and What Did You Expect Awakening to Look Like?

Posted on August 7, 2013 by sillymickel

Rebirthing Rituals, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and the Value of Popular Culture in Awakening: The Price of Peace Is Inner Sight … Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits Chapter Ten: Where There Is Hope, Cultural Rebirthing Societal Self-Analysis and … Continue reading →

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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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Rebirthing Rituals, Part 7: Know Thyself … Let the Buck Stop Here! We Could Use More “Narcissistic” Generations.

Posted on September 28, 2012 by sillymickel

Moratorium … Let the Buck Stop Here! Rebirthing Rituals, Part 7: We Could Use More “Narcissistic” Generations “Know Thyself” ~ “Narcissistic”? Self-Discovery, Soul-Searching, Psychological-Mindedness, Self-Analysis – Sixties Generation So, we have taken a look at the need for societies to … Continue reading →

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Rebirthing Rituals, Part Four – I Know It’s Hard to Believe But We’ve Been Getting Saner: The Most Evolved Parenting … Boomers and Millennials … and The Cyclical Nature of History

Posted on September 20, 2012 by sillymickel

Thanks to You We’re Getting Saner: Rebirthing Rituals, Part Four – The Most Evolved Parenting … Boomers and Millennials … and The Cyclical Nature of History Arthur Janov was also the first to note that the acting-out and overt neurotic … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 13: A Re-Visioning of “Civilization” in Light of Impending Apocalypse … Prometheus Made us “Civilized” … And Doomed

Posted on May 27, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Thirteen: On Defiance, Alienation from Nature, “Civilization,” Apocalypse, Marxism, OWS, and Ayn Rand Will “Progress of Man” Be Humanity’s Epitaph? All of the “achievements” of “civilization,” these increases of control over Nature, are traditionally seen … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 12: Deep Thoughts on The Fall – On Sacrifice, Dominion Over Death, Meat, and Murder … Beginning Our Apocalypse

Posted on May 26, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Twelve: Deep Thoughts on The Fall – On Sacrifice, Dominion Over Death , Meat, and Murder… How We Started Our Slide Into Savagery Deep Thought on the Falls – Meat, Sacrifice, and the Determination of … Continue reading →