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The Perinatal Zeitgeist in Film: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born … Playing Now, in Theaters Near You!

Posted on January 21, 2013 by sillymickel

Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist: Everything You’ve Managed to Forget About Being Born Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Two: Everything You’ve Forgotten About Birth … Projecting the Perinatal Zeitgeist With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born But Were Afraid to Ask: Birthing Into the Media and the Perinatal Zeitgeist of Postmodern Culture

Posted on September 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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“We Are a Fever … We Ain’t Born Typical”: Apocalypse, Human Nature, and the Perinatal Imprint

Posted on August 31, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse – No! Chapter Seven: “We Ain’t Born Typical”” “We Ain’t Born Typical”: A Closer Look at the “Human Nature” Pushing Us to Humanicide – The Perinatal Unconscious “Perinatal” = “Surrounding Birth” “We Are a Fever” How are we to … Continue reading →

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ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born

Posted on March 18, 2012 by sillymickel

ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Perinatal Media, Part 1 With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at some of the forces and elements, unprecedented and otherwise, that characterize our … Continue reading →

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“We Ain’t Born Typical”: A Closer Look at the “Human Nature” Pushing Us to Humanicide – The Perinatal Unconscious

Posted on March 16, 2012 by sillymickel

“We Are a Fever…We Ain’t Born Typical”: Apocalypse and the Perinatal Unconscious “Perinatal” = “Surrounding Birth” “We Are a Fever” How are we to characterize these strangest of days and the current unprecedented global condition? As I have said, they … Continue reading →

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Becoming Self-Actualizing Instead of Self-Sabotaging – The Hierarchy of Healing

Posted on August 29, 2011 by sillymickel

War, Violence, Earth .. and Our Tendency to Always Screw Up a Good Thing What’s So Bad About Good? Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence The question posed at the end of the last chapter was whether we would … Continue reading →