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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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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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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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Better Psychotic Than Warring: What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide – Peace Is Painful

Posted on September 21, 2012 by sillymickel

Ending War and Humanicide—Peace Is Worth its Price of Suffering: Rebirthing Rituals, Part Five—Better “Emotionally Disturbed” Than “Healthily” Fighting in War Walking In Another’s Moccasins It is obvious that these Sixties youth did not have the same unflinching and unqualified … Continue reading →

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Rebirthing Rituals, Part Four – I Know It’s Hard to Believe But We’ve Been Getting Saner: The Most Evolved Parenting … Boomers and Millennials … and The Cyclical Nature of History

Posted on September 20, 2012 by sillymickel

Thanks to You We’re Getting Saner: Rebirthing Rituals, Part Four – The Most Evolved Parenting … Boomers and Millennials … and The Cyclical Nature of History Arthur Janov was also the first to note that the acting-out and overt neurotic … 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 →

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The Impotence of Reason, The Vanity of Will, Progress Requires Regress, and Healing Is Nothing if Not Messy: Railing Against the Darkness

Posted on September 14, 2012 by sillymickel

Rebirthing Rituals, Part Two: Railing Against the Darkness, The Vanity of Will, The Impotence of Reason, and Social Progress Requires Regression The Vanity of Will, The Impotence of “Reason” What we absolutely don’t have, yet arrogantly think we do, is … 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 →