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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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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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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 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 →