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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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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 →

Posted in 60s, Anthropology, Art/Poetry, Environment, Health and wellness, History, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged 2001, abductee, abduction, Ace Ventura, age regression, airplane, akin to death, Alice in Wonderland, alien, aliens, altar, Amityville, anonymous, antique, apocalypse, Ark, art, Arthur Janov, asparagus, assault, automobile, Avatar, baby, Back to the Future, barrier, basic perinatal matrix, Batman, biologically constituted realities, birth, birth experience, birth fluid, Birth Without Violence, Birthing, boat, body memory, Borg, born, BPM I, BPM II, bpm III, Brainstorm, Brazil, bus, C.S. Lewis, Carl Jung, castle, cave, cesarean, child abuse, claustrophobia, Close Encounters, close encounters of the third kind, Cocoon, cocoon the return, collective dreams, compression, constrict, Contact, control, counselor, cube, culture, death, death rebirth, deepest roots, dentist, Different Doorway, Dorothy, dragon, dreams, dungeon, E.T., earth, egg, Ego, ego strength, elastic, enclosure, engulf, entertainment, Erich Neumann, escape, Escape from Alcatraz, excess, experience, explosion, face, fear, feeling, fetal malnutrition, fetus, film, Fire in the Sky, fireplace, force, forest, Forgetting, Frederick Leboyer, freedom, gag, genital mutilation, goddess, greys, Hannibal Lector, Harry Potter, haunt, health, heart, hearth, hell, hollywood, home, horrible truths, horror, house, House of Usher, Howl's Moving Castle, ignorance, imagery, imprint, Independence Day, insensitive, Iron Maiden, Jacob's Ladder, jail, jail cell, Jaws, Jim Carey, joe vs the volcano, Jonah, Jumanji, killer, Lathe of Heaven, Lion, Longoliers, Look Who's Talking, looking glass, love, mad scientist, magic, magic mirror, magical realm, Man in the Iron Mask, mask, matrix, meat grinder, mechanical, media, medical, medical table, medicine, membrane, mental-health, metaphor, Michael J. Fox, Michael Jackson, miraculous, monster, Moonlighting, mother ship, motorhome, mouth, movie, movies, Narnia, nature, neonate, newborn, newborn star, nick of time, obstetrician, octopus, Otto Rank, overwhelming feelings, oxygen, pain, parallel, parallel universes, passage, perinatal, Peter Jackson, Pink Floyd, placenta, planet, Pleasantville, pregnancy, prenatal, primal, prison, problem, procedure, process, pubic hair, push, rapist, reality, realm, rebirth, regiment, regression, regressive, rhino, robe, Robocop, routine, Satanic cult abuse, satanic cults, school, schoolroom, science, science fiction, Secret Life of the Unborn Child, secret passage, sensation, serial, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual perversion, shark, Sliders, space travel, spaceship, species, sperm, squid, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, stimulate, straight jacket, struggle, submarine, Suckerpunch, suffer, suffocation, surround, survival, swaddle, symbol, symbolism, Tangled, teeth, television, tentacle, Terminator, Terra Nova, The Abyss, The Frighteners, The Hole, The Shining, The Wall, The X Files, therapy, thing, thingify, Thomas Verney, threaten, time travel, Torture, Total Recall, Toto, toxin, train, transformation, transition, trap, trauma, travel, truth, tv, ufo, umbilical cord, umbilicul cord, unconscious, ungentle, universe, vagina, vagina dentata, vampire, vegetable, violence, wall, wardrobe, water boarding, whale, Witch, Wizard of Ox, womb, Womb with a View, Woody Allen, World Mother, World Tree, X-files, Young Frakenstein | Leave a comment

Worse Homes and Gardens – Houses, Prisons, Schools, Dungeons, UFOs and Spaceships…and Their Obstetricians: Perinatal Media, Part 5

Posted on March 26, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Five: Worse Homes and Gardens – Houses, Prisons, UFOs and Spaceships, Dungeons…and Their Obstetricians House, Cave, Squids Anyway, this portrayal of a house that gobbles up its victims, bizarre as it sounds and as it looked, can … Continue reading →

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ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born

Posted on March 18, 2012 by sillymickel

ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Perinatal Media, Part 1 With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at some of the forces and elements, unprecedented and otherwise, that characterize our … Continue reading →