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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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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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The Hierarchy of Healing, An Inconvenient Revolution, and Flaunting One’s Sickness Is Healthier Than Hiding It: Wounded Deer and Centaurs

Posted on September 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Healing Crisis Means Needing to Get “Sicker” Before We Can Be “Weller” and Making It When You DON’T Fake It: Centaurs, Wounded Deer, and the Consciousness Revolution, Untold Apocalypse No! Chapter Eleven: Healing Crisis – Getting “Sick” To Be Well … Continue reading →

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Healing Crisis, Part 6: The Consciousness Revolution They Don’t Want You to Notice. It’s Inconvenient for Them, Initially Hard for Us, and Hopefully Not Too Late

Posted on July 30, 2012 by sillymickel

Getting Sick to Be Well, Part Six: The “Inconvenient” Revolution – Unacknowledged Consciousness Evolution from the WWII Generation to the Millennials … More Suffering, Less Killing Different Levels, Different Defenses It is instructive at this time to note that Arthur … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 16: How We Look to the Gods and Prometheus Redux … Building More Nukes and Drilling More Holes – Icarus Keeps Flapping and the Gods Can’t Stop Laughing

Posted on June 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Sixteen: View From the Heavens and Prometheus Redux … Icarus Is Flapping and the Gods Are Laughing as We Build Nukes and Drill Holes Prometheus Redux Before leaving Prometheus for good, let us consider some … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 13: A Re-Visioning of “Civilization” in Light of Impending Apocalypse … Prometheus Made us “Civilized” … And Doomed

Posted on May 27, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Thirteen: On Defiance, Alienation from Nature, “Civilization,” Apocalypse, Marxism, OWS, and Ayn Rand Will “Progress of Man” Be Humanity’s Epitaph? All of the “achievements” of “civilization,” these increases of control over Nature, are traditionally seen … Continue reading →