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Spiritual Experience Is Distorted by One’s Birth Trauma … The Necessary Hero Descends Into the Perinatal Below: How Can You Be Borne Up, If You Won’t Let Go?

Posted on September 2, 2013 by sillymickel

When Everything Appears to Be Conspiring Against You, You Might Want to Stop Fighting Rebirth: Atman Projects Versus Surrender Solutions and a Different Hero’s Journey Apocalypse – No! Chapter Twelve: Atman Projects vs. Surrender Solutions The Necessary Hero and Descent … 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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What Say We Leave a Planet For Our Offspring? And Can You Handle Happiness? Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence

Posted on August 3, 2013 by sillymickel

Cycles of War, Cycles of Birth … What Can Be Done: Changing the Patterns of Millennia Requires Learning That Feeling Good Is Not Bad Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence Men Would Rather Be Manly … Continue reading →

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Chastened by the Environment We’ve Created, We Are Forced Inward to Rediscover Our Deeper, More Cooperative Human Nature: Through Gaia’s Eyes, Eden Arise

Posted on August 1, 2013 by sillymickel

The Heart of the Problem, Gaia’s Cure, and Back to the Drawing Board for Humans: It’s a Consciousness Revolution as We Rediscover Our Natural Self Apocalypse No! Chapter Seven: Nature Balances HerSelf We Discovered the Heart of the Problem in … Continue reading →

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It’s a Consciousness Revolution, Aided by Gaia We Are Rediscovering Our Natural Self: Eden Arise and a Message to All Wounded Deer and Centaurs

Posted on July 19, 2013 by sillymickel

Back to the Drawing Board for Our Species and a Call to Centaurs: You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting for … This Is Our Time … And the Time Is NOW Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Fifteen: Eden Arise … 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 →

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Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology Overview — Early Theorists, Psychoanalysis, and Birth: We Are a Fever, Part Two — The Evidence That Life’s Blueprint Is Written at Birth

Posted on November 17, 2012 by sillymickel

The Template for All You Think Was Created at Birth: Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field — Early Theorists, Psychoanalysis, and Birth Overview of the Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Field—Early Theorists: Psychoanalysis and Birth Sigmund Freud — Birth … Continue reading →

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When There’s “Nothing But Trouble,” You Know You’re in The Perinatal Below: The Necessary Hero and Descent Into the Underground

Posted on October 13, 2012 by sillymickel

A Different Kind of Hero’s Journey for Our Times Is Depicted in the Cult Classic, “Nothing But Trouble”: Atman Projects Vs. Surrender Solutions, Part One A Perinatal Flick A film of postmodern times that is bold with revelation for us … Continue reading →

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A Drive to Healing, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and Millennial Promise: Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits. Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8

Posted on October 3, 2012 by sillymickel

A Drive to Healing and What Did You Expect Peace to Look Like? Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8: Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits A Drive to Healing We cannot expect that everyone will heal their birth traumas when they … Continue reading →

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The Four “Colors” of the Perinatal Veils and Why Women Fear Fatness and Men Fear Femininity: Cycles of Birth, Cycles of War

Posted on August 30, 2012 by sillymickel

Four Kinds of Early Experience Color Our Adult Experience in Four Distinct Ways … Cycles of Birth and War: Derailing War and Violence, Part 2 Four Kinds of Experiences in Our First Nine Months Imprint Us for Four Feeling “Flavors” … Continue reading →