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“This experience has been described by shamans down through the millennia…”: Becoming the Greater Self

Posted on September 3, 2015 by sillymickel

“…when one is reversing that trance state … indeed, right now, for you, this might be occurring … and this message is the equivalent of the red pill for you … one goes through a shock, as the crutch of … Continue reading →

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“Just give up!”: “…in order to realize and reconnect again with your Self, you must surrender your frantic ‘trying to figure it out.’”

Posted on August 30, 2015 by sillymickel

The Process of Becoming the Real Self: What It’s Really Like: “…in order to realize and reconnect again with your Self, you must surrender your frantic “trying to figure it out.” You must stop believing in the demons that you have … Continue reading →

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The Beginning of Change

Posted on December 14, 2013 by sillymickel

The Beginning of Change by Debbie Condon [This is a review of the book Apocalypse NO: Apocalypse or Earth Rebirth and the Emerging Perinatal Unconscious] Reading Apocalypse No is the answer to all of the questions I’ve had about what … 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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Ego Weak Mystics and Shamans: A Supremely Defended Ego Is the Aim of Modern "Sanitized" Spirituality … the "Holy Fools" of Mystical History Would Be Medicated Today

Posted on July 25, 2013 by sillymickel

High Self Esteem (Positive Thinking) Distorts Reality for Temporary Pleasantness … High Self Regard Involves Openness to the Unpleasant: Stormy Path to Self, Part Three Ego-Weak Mystics and Shamans In a more recent work, John White (1990) continues Ken Wilber’s … Continue reading →

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Why There Is Less Violence but More Depression…. And What’s Good About That: Psychology of Generations —The Changing of the Generational Guard

Posted on July 14, 2013 by sillymickel

Consciousness Evolution from the WWII to the Millennial Generations: A Hierarchy of Healing, a Global Healing Crisis, and the Unseen Revolution Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Fourteen: Psychological History of Today’s Generations and Changing of the Guard Healing Crisis Means … 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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Ritual As Shadow Experience, Part Six, and What Real Spiritual Experience Looks Like: Love’s Comforting Surround and the Beauty of It All Behind the Pain

Posted on June 9, 2013 by sillymickel

“God Is So Merciful” … Let Go, Let God: An Example of Unritualized Primal Spirituality, A Primal Re-Experience after Birth Part Two of a Primal Re-Experience after Birth: God’s Omnipresent Comforting Surround In the first part—“Excerpt from Actual Primal Re-Experience … 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 →