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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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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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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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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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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 →