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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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What Say We Leave a Planet For Our Offspring? And Can You Handle Happiness? Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence

Posted on August 3, 2013 by sillymickel

Cycles of War, Cycles of Birth … What Can Be Done: Changing the Patterns of Millennia Requires Learning That Feeling Good Is Not Bad Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence Men Would Rather Be Manly … 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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Everything You “Know” About Life You Learned as a Fetus: Foundations of Myth and Mind and my Personal Involvement with This Research into Our Actual “Human Nature”

Posted on February 9, 2013 by sillymickel

Your Map of Reality Was Written in the Womb: Falls from Grace, Chapter One — Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Prenatal and perinatal psychology is the field … Continue reading →

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Perinatal Psychology, the Phenomenon of Re-Experience, and my Personal Involvement with This Research into Our Actual “Human Nature”: We Are a Fever, Part One

Posted on November 14, 2012 by sillymickel

The Vision of Ourselves Arising from This New Research Is the Most Important One for Understanding Our Humanicidal, Ecocidal Plunge and for Doing Something to Reverse It How do we go about changing the patterns of millennia? How do we … 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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Changing the Patterns of Millennia Requires Learning That Feeling Good Is Not Bad: What to Do to Stop War and Violence

Posted on September 3, 2012 by sillymickel

To Derail War and Violence, Replace Self-Sabotaging With Self-Actualizing … We Can No Longer Afford Our Delusional Ways What Can Be Done? So knowing this, how can we use it? In previous chapters, I explained how and why we see … 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 →