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The Necessary Hero Dances Above Dissonance, Lightens Up in the Face of Stress, and Sees Divinity Not Demons Behind It All: Loving Warriors and Silly Heroes

Posted on September 5, 2013 by sillymickel

Play Cards with Your Dragons: The New Hero’s Cycle Involves Surrender Not Struggle, Sacrifice Not Slaying, Compassion Not “Toughness,” and Silliness Not Stoicism Apocalypse – No! Chapter Thirteen: Peaceful Warriors and Silly Heroes You Just Can’t Slay a Volcano: The … 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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“Yes, We Can” Proved We Could: In Spite of Dumbness Being a Commodity for the 1% and the Media Become the New Opiate of the Masses, Still, Something Wonderful Can Happen

Posted on November 6, 2012 by sillymickel

To Our Amazement, Charlie Brown Connected, Lucy Apologized, a Man Who Said “Yes We Can,” Would: Anything Is Possible … Means Everything Is Possible Culture War, Class War, Chapter 23: Something Wonderful Can Happen There Are Good Reasons Why Our … Continue reading →

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Dumbness Rises to the Top: There Are Good Reasons Why Our Financial and Environmental Fortunes Careen Wildly About

Posted on November 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Blinded by Their Greed, They Overlook the Obvious: Why Our National Misfortunes Are Greeted with Such Surprise by Authorities and Pundits Voices Never Heard What I’ve been trying to say here is, there are perspectives that are relevant and are … Continue reading →

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The Necessary Hero Jives with the Monsters, Dances Above the Dissonance, and Is Ever Aware of Divinity Everywhere: Silly Heroes and Evolution in Attitudes to the Perinatal

Posted on October 25, 2012 by sillymickel

What the World Needs Now … Is Loving Warriors and Silly Heroes: Jiving with Your Monsters, Dancing Above the Dissonance, and The Universality of Divinity Remembered Responses to the Perinatal Returning now to “Nothing But Trouble,” an aspect of it … Continue reading →

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Rebirthing Rituals, Part 7: Know Thyself … Let the Buck Stop Here! We Could Use More “Narcissistic” Generations.

Posted on September 28, 2012 by sillymickel

Moratorium … Let the Buck Stop Here! Rebirthing Rituals, Part 7: We Could Use More “Narcissistic” Generations “Know Thyself” ~ “Narcissistic”? Self-Discovery, Soul-Searching, Psychological-Mindedness, Self-Analysis – Sixties Generation So, we have taken a look at the need for societies to … 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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Opposing Worlds – The WWII Generation and Boomers: Generational Cultures and Drugs of Choice … Drug Effects – Alcohol, Nicotine, LSD, Pot

Posted on July 9, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War Chapter Three: Drugs of Choice and Generational Cultures – Opposing Worlds Alcohol, Nicotine, and World War Two Generation: Driving–Wars and Culture–”Under the Influence” Culture War, Class War Chapter Three: Drugs of Choice and Generational Cultures – … Continue reading →

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Birth, Death, Hell…Roots of Depression and Fascism…And Freedom’s Just a Membrane Away: Perinatal Media, Part 7

Posted on April 1, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Seven: Aliens, Abductions, Hell, and Fear: Freedom Is Just a Membrane Away This idea of birth trauma has been vigorously resisted in our culture ever since it was first presented by Otto Rank. And we can attribute … Continue reading →