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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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Always Are We Helping You — Ritual As Shadow Experience, Part Eight: “Don’t Despair. There Are Others Doing It With You, and We’re Here, Too”

Posted on June 29, 2013 by sillymickel

Sins of the Father and Cosmic Encouragement: What Real and Unritualized Spiritual Experience Looks Like — “But Always Are We Here Helping.” I wish now to provide another example of real, unritualized spiritual experience … this time from my own … Continue reading →

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“Sure It’s Hard! But Always Are We Here Helping You,” Part One: For Earth’s Sake, Get Real Already

Posted on November 1, 2012 by sillymickel

“Sure It’s Hard! But Always Are We Here Helping You,” Part One: The Spiritual Quest, For Earth’s Sake! Summary of “Sure It’s Hard But Always Are We Here Helping You”: This details the spiritual experience I had in 1980 which … 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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Rebirthing Rituals, Part Three – Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One

Posted on September 17, 2012 by sillymickel

People Who Have It All Figured Out Are the Ones to Watch Out For … Emotional “Sickness” Might Indicate More “Wellness”: Rebirthing Rituals, Part 3 Regression in the Service of the Ego With the exposure of the ineffectiveness of the … Continue reading →

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Crazy-Making Social Processes, Stolen Elections, and Your Mind Made Fertile for Planting Lies … The Rise of “Obvious Truths” in Creating a (Not So) American Life

Posted on July 28, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Nine: Creating an American Life Power vs. Passion, Money vs. Authenticity – Opposing Ways of Changing America Opposing Ways of Changing America – Passion vs. Power, Authenticity vs. Money In the last half century, Americans … Continue reading →

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Your Mind Made Fertile for the Planting of Lies: Creating a (Not So) American Life, Pt 3

Posted on April 3, 2012 by sillymickel

Creating a (Not So) American Life, Part Three: Your Mind Made Fertile For the Planting of Lies Going back, I was saying we all have these prejudices regarding what is deemed powerful and important. We all have stuff from childhood … Continue reading →