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“Struggling with one’s thoughts is like struggling to get all the chairs in line on the decks of the Titanic”: Know There Is Still Hope

Posted on September 4, 2015 by sillymickel

What you think, you become. What you feel, you think. The cumulative result of all that you’ve experienced in your life, you feel now. That is heavily weighted toward those events that were powerful and traumatic and remain unfelt and … Continue reading →

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Hard to Believe, But We’re Getting Saner: What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide and the Necessary Mess of Transformation

Posted on August 5, 2013 by sillymickel

The Cycle of All Events, the Evolution of Parenting, and Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One Chapter Nine: Regressions in the Service of Society — Messy Healing There Is a Cycle … Continue reading →

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Ego Weak Mystics and Shamans: A Supremely Defended Ego Is the Aim of Modern "Sanitized" Spirituality … the "Holy Fools" of Mystical History Would Be Medicated Today

Posted on July 25, 2013 by sillymickel

High Self Esteem (Positive Thinking) Distorts Reality for Temporary Pleasantness … High Self Regard Involves Openness to the Unpleasant: Stormy Path to Self, Part Three Ego-Weak Mystics and Shamans In a more recent work, John White (1990) continues Ken Wilber’s … Continue reading →

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Approaching the “Source”: Right-Left Brain Integration, Theta Waves … Hypnogogic Experiences, and Delta Waves … A Nightly Return to Our Roots in the Infinite

Posted on February 17, 2013 by sillymickel

The Awareness of a “Larger Reality”: A Primal Perspective on Spirituality, Part Five — Brain Correlates to Primal and Spiritual Experience … Wave and Structure Brain Waves The relations between these levels of growth and the techniques under consideration can … Continue reading →

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Is God a Defense? Is Passion not Spiritual? A Primal Perspective on Spirituality, Part Two — To Travel Unafraid Through All the Rooms of One’s House

Posted on February 13, 2013 by sillymickel

Stopping the “Internal Dialogue”: Meditation and Primal Are Attempts to Experience Aspects of Consciousness That Are Nonverbal, Noncortical, and Non-Neurotic Is God a Defense? This chapter is part of the development in primal in correcting one inaccuracy of the early … Continue reading →

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Rebirthing Rituals, Part Three – Auspicious Collective Regressions: Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One

Posted on September 17, 2012 by sillymickel

People Who Have It All Figured Out Are the Ones to Watch Out For … Emotional “Sickness” Might Indicate More “Wellness”: Rebirthing Rituals, Part 3 Regression in the Service of the Ego With the exposure of the ineffectiveness of the … Continue reading →