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How We Lose Our Souls, How It is Stolen: In Patriarchal Cultures, the Young Need Be Pared Down to the Level of Its Controlling Adults … Rituals of Diminution and Control

Posted on March 4, 2018 by sillymickel

How We Lose Our Souls, How It is Stolen: In Patriarchal Cultures, the Young Need Be Pared Down to the Level of Its Controlling Adults … Rituals of Diminution and Control — Which is Chapter 27 of *Dance of the Seven Veils I* by … Continue reading →

Posted in 60s, Anthropology, book, breathwork, consciousness, culture, experience, metaphysics, Michael Adzema author, parents, Philosophy, pre and perinatal psychology, primal, primal therapy, Psychology, science, shamanism, Spirituality, therapy, transpersonal, transpersonal psychology | Tagged adolescence, adulthood, Aminah Raheem, authenticity, book, chapter, civilization, culture, Dance of the Seven Veils, dreams, elite, exceptionalism, fourth fall from grace, identity, initiation, matriarchal, matriarchal mistake, Mbuti, Michael Adzema author, nkumbi, No-Form State, parenting, patriarhal, periconceptional, pre- and perinatal psychology, primal, primal scene, projection, Pygmy, rites of passage, ritual, Self, shamanism, soul, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, Turnbull, Veils, Wilber | 8 Comments

“Trying the idea there is a benevolent Universe, one receives experiences that prove it…. Reality does not require of you blind obedience and sycophantic worship”

Posted on June 3, 2014 by sillymickel

Give the Universe a chance; synchronicity; shamans and priests. The Planetmates reveal religion, mysticism, and spirituality; meaning of Prasad: “…you think that you “please” this Phantom — which you mistakenly call “God” but who is not (for it is not … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged atonement, benevolent, benevolent universe, blessing, denied Self, Divine, Divine Being, divinity, faith, guidance, higher power, mysticism, Phantoms, prasad, prayer, priests, religion, ritual, role, script, shamans, spirituality, synchronicity, the Universe | Leave a comment

“You would deem this Divine to be blown-up versions of your infant caregivers — mothers and fathers become Mother and Father.”

Posted on April 27, 2014 by sillymickel

The Planetmates reveal on obsession and the evolution of “man”; on ritual, prayer, worship, your Phantoms…. “You see that your so-called evolution in consciousness has been largely to do with an expanding obsession to bring everything under control of your … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Environment, Health and wellness, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | Tagged adult caregivers, caregivers, children caregivers, conforming underling, consciousness, control, death, devotion, Divine Will, Ego, evolution, experience, faith, God, misery, nature, obsession, Phantom, planetmates, prasad, prayer, reality, relief, religion, ritual, spirituality, sycophancy, worship | Leave a comment

Correcting the Arrogant Modern Ego … Religions Are About Control … Spirituality, Surrender: The Journey to Light Leads Through Perinatal Darkness

Posted on August 11, 2013 by sillymickel

Will We Survive? Putting Our Society “On the Couch”: Control vs. Surrender, Death vs. Life … The Path to Heaven Leads Through Hell Apocalypse – No! Chapter Eleven: Control Versus Surrender … Heaven Leads Through Hell Does It Look Like … Continue reading →

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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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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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Creeped Out in the Womb, The Itches We Cannot Scratch, and the Deepest Roots of OCD, Bigotry, and Holocaust: Prenatal Revulsion and Loss of the “Golden Age”

Posted on June 11, 2013 by sillymickel

Why We Tattoo, Sun-Bathe, Hate Hippies and Immigrants and Jews, and Obsessively Clean Our Homes: The Roots of the Tea Party and Nazi Narratives of Loss of a Golden Age in Prenatal Irritation-Revulsion Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Ten: Prenatal … Continue reading →

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One Gains the World in Exact Proportion to Which a Man Has Relinquished his Soul: The Second Retreat from the Natural Self — Patriarchal Culture

Posted on May 25, 2013 by sillymickel

Ritual Is the Attempt to Control Something Symbolically, Indirectly That One Has Split Off from and Is a Poor Substitute for the Real Potential of At-one-ment with Reality It is this attempt to control something symbolically, indirectly that is the … Continue reading →

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The Doors of Perception Stormed and The Perinatal Rising: The Primal Screen — A Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life

Posted on March 26, 2013 by sillymickel

The Perinatal Veil: Dangling Above an Abyss and Everyday Rebirthing — The Perinatal Predilections of Everyperson Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Three: Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents—The Primal Screen Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment media, it seems perinatal … Continue reading →