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Spiritual Experience Is Distorted by One’s Birth Trauma … The Necessary Hero Descends Into the Perinatal Below: How Can You Be Borne Up, If You Won’t Let Go?

Posted on September 2, 2013 by sillymickel

When Everything Appears to Be Conspiring Against You, You Might Want to Stop Fighting Rebirth: Atman Projects Versus Surrender Solutions and a Different Hero’s Journey Apocalypse – No! Chapter Twelve: Atman Projects vs. Surrender Solutions The Necessary Hero and Descent … Continue reading →

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Correcting the Arrogant Modern Ego … Religions Are About Control … Spirituality, Surrender: The Journey to Light Leads Through Perinatal Darkness

Posted on August 11, 2013 by sillymickel

Will We Survive? Putting Our Society “On the Couch”: Control vs. Surrender, Death vs. Life … The Path to Heaven Leads Through Hell Apocalypse – No! Chapter Eleven: Control Versus Surrender … Heaven Leads Through Hell Does It Look Like … Continue reading →

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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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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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When All Seems Lost…. You Might Want to Stop Fighting Rebirth: Trusting Higher Forces … Say “Good Night,” John Wayne, and How Can You Be Borne Up If You Won’t Let Go?

Posted on October 20, 2012 by sillymickel

When It Appears the Whole World Has Been Conspiring Against You, You Might Want to Let Yourself Be Blessed: Atman Projects Vs. Surrender Solutions, Part Two Multilevel Feelings Just When You Thought…. However an important element in this movie, “Nothing … Continue reading →

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When There’s “Nothing But Trouble,” You Know You’re in The Perinatal Below: The Necessary Hero and Descent Into the Underground

Posted on October 13, 2012 by sillymickel

A Different Kind of Hero’s Journey for Our Times Is Depicted in the Cult Classic, “Nothing But Trouble”: Atman Projects Vs. Surrender Solutions, Part One A Perinatal Flick A film of postmodern times that is bold with revelation for us … Continue reading →

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The Information Tsunami, Ego Erosion, and Movies Are Collective Dreaming: Exploring Our Chances of Escaping Apocalypse

Posted on October 4, 2012 by sillymickel

Dreaming Out Loud, Part 1: Are the Changes Needed to Avoid Apocalypse Occurring? The “Royal Road” to Our Collective Mind, Putting Our Society “on the Couch” Is there any evidence that the changes that need to happen for us to … Continue reading →

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A Drive to Healing, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and Millennial Promise: Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits. Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8

Posted on October 3, 2012 by sillymickel

A Drive to Healing and What Did You Expect Peace to Look Like? Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8: Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits A Drive to Healing We cannot expect that everyone will heal their birth traumas when they … 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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Through the Looking Glass Into Parallel Universes…But “There’s No Place Like Home”: Perinatal Media, Part 6

Posted on March 27, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Six: Through the Looking Glass Into Parallel Universes, But “There’s No Place Like Home” Origins of Parallel Universes But this idea of something coming through the walls, membrane walls, is both fascinating and telling in the extreme. … Continue reading →