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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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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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Rebirthing Rituals, Part 7: Know Thyself … Let the Buck Stop Here! We Could Use More “Narcissistic” Generations.

Posted on September 28, 2012 by sillymickel

Moratorium … Let the Buck Stop Here! Rebirthing Rituals, Part 7: We Could Use More “Narcissistic” Generations “Know Thyself” ~ “Narcissistic”? Self-Discovery, Soul-Searching, Psychological-Mindedness, Self-Analysis – Sixties Generation So, we have taken a look at the need for societies to … 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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Evolved Parenting Results in Authenticity Rising and Defeat of the Body Snatchers: “The Awakening” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville”

Posted on July 18, 2012 by sillymickel

Culture War, Class War, Chapter Six: “Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory To Follow or Not Follow “the Script” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville” “Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory: Thinking for Oneself Gets You “Colorized” Not So “Pleasantville” The film, “Pleasantville,” is … Continue reading →

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To Follow or Not Follow “the Script” in America’s Not-So “Pleasantville”

Posted on November 8, 2011 by sillymickel

“Pleasantville” as Culture War Allegory: Thinking for Oneself Gets You “Colorized” Not So “Pleasantville” The film, “Pleasantville,” is a postmodern sociological allegory or fable released in the late Nineties. It begins in then-current time against a backdrop of the usual … Continue reading →