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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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Open the Jar, Pandora, and Why the Gods Are LOL: We Are the Centaurs, My Friends … We Are the Necessary Heroes for Deluded Promethean “Fathers”

Posted on June 6, 2013 by sillymickel

We’ve Fallen and We Can’t Get Up: Like Chiron, We Need to Take Inside Us the “Sins” of Promethean Fathers to Stop Millennial Cycles of Suffering Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Seven: Return of the Centaur and How We Look … 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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When ALL You Hear Are Lies, You Think It HAS to Be Truth: Money Madness and the Rise of “Obvious Truths” … Around Taxes, the Wealthy, Job Creation, Democrats, Republicans, Generations, Your Life, and You

Posted on August 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Foolin’ the People … About Money, About “Us” (The 1%), About Taxes, About Job Creation, About Democrats, About Republicans, About Generations, About Your Life, About You: Choose the Red Pill Culture War, Class War, Chapter Fifteen: Money Madness Tax the … Continue reading →

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How the 1% Diluted the Progressive Movement by Slandering Boomers to Foster Culture War Between Them and Gen Xers and to Distract from Their Own Looting … Hippies, Yippies, Yuppies

Posted on June 27, 2012 by sillymickel

Money Madness … Foolin’ the People About Money, Part Six: The Yuppies Were Hardly Boomers … But This Idea Supports a Right-Wing Agenda by Pitting Progressives Against Each Other … Try the Red Pill Instead Obvious “Truths”: Yuppies are former … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 15: Real Hope Lies in Pandora’s Jar and Return of the Centaur … Since the Last Time Was 1961, It’s None Too Soon

Posted on June 4, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Fifteen: Open the Jar, Pandora, and Return of The Centaur … Wherein Lies Real Hope Open the Jar, Pandora In psychological terms, real change lies in peering deep into the Pandora’s jar of the unconscious … Continue reading →