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“the path to bliss leads sometimes through despair and hopelessness”: Wounded Deer and Centaurs, on relationships

Posted on September 26, 2015 by sillymickel

…on relationships, Sure It’s Hard….” to think that it is easy is probably to be an impostor (p. 134). He asserts that the people who are really making the changes in male-female relationships and becoming fuller human beings, you can … Continue reading →

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We can’t help but do the best we can. So there will always be progress….

Posted on May 3, 2014 by sillymickel

In spiritual rebirth, and life in general, when it comes to the difficult parts we have the choice to block, accept, and surrender … and even run away … and to vary and alternate and tweak our responses. … So … 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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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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Societal Self-Analysis and Talk Show Soul-Searching for Peace … Sorry, I Know You Wanted to Hate Reality Shows: Rebirthing Rituals, Part – 6

Posted on September 26, 2012 by sillymickel

The Price of Peace Is Inner Sight: Rebirthing Rituals, Part – 6: Societal Self-Analysis, an Internet Reformation, and Talk Show Soul-Searching for Peace Societal Self-Analysis Culture War Replaced Cold War We see the workings of these opposing tendencies to look … 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 →