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We can’t help but do the best we can. So there will always be progress….

Posted on May 3, 2014 by sillymickel

In spiritual rebirth, and life in general, when it comes to the difficult parts we have the choice to block, accept, and surrender … and even run away … and to vary and alternate and tweak our responses. … So … Continue reading →

Posted in Health and wellness, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged faith, fear, growth, life, pain, perfection, personal growth, progress, rebirth, sackcloth and ashes, spirituality, strength | Leave a comment

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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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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Before Voting Romney, Remember, We Knew This Before: Forgetting the Past, We Were Doomed to Repeat It … The Revolution That Wasn’t Televised

Posted on November 5, 2012 by sillymickel

If Freedom of the Press Was Repealed, How Would You Know? Dire Vision, Revelation … Words a Decade Old Come Back to Haunt Culture War, Class War, Chapter Seventeen: Freedom Repealed Dire Prediction: Before Voting for Romney, Remember, We Knew … Continue reading →

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Will We Continue Shooting Ourselves in the Foot? Dire Prediction … Before Voting for Romney, Remember, We Knew This Before.

Posted on November 3, 2012 by sillymickel

Forgetting the Past, We Were Doomed to Repeat It … A Message Arrives from Twelve Years in the Past Predicting Today’s Events: Freedom Repealed, Part One A Message Arrives from Twelve Years in the Past Predicting Today’s Events We are … Continue reading →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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There Is a Cycle to All Events … The Spiral Dance, Why We Can’t Get No Satisfaction, and Where There Is Real Hope: Rebirthing Rituals, Part One

Posted on September 11, 2012 by sillymickel

The Spiral Dance – The Cycle of All Events: Wedded to Rebirthing Rituals, the Inevitability of Disappointment, and Where There is Real Hope Wedded to Rebirthing Rituals At the point when the perinatal unconscious arises, individuals — and collectively, society … Continue reading →

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Changing the Patterns of Millennia Requires Learning That Feeling Good Is Not Bad: What to Do to Stop War and Violence

Posted on September 3, 2012 by sillymickel

To Derail War and Violence, Replace Self-Sabotaging With Self-Actualizing … We Can No Longer Afford Our Delusional Ways What Can Be Done? So knowing this, how can we use it? In previous chapters, I explained how and why we see … Continue reading →

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Becoming Self-Actualizing Instead of Self-Sabotaging – The Hierarchy of Healing

Posted on August 29, 2011 by sillymickel

War, Violence, Earth .. and Our Tendency to Always Screw Up a Good Thing What’s So Bad About Good? Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence The question posed at the end of the last chapter was whether we would … Continue reading →