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A Smaller Number of Us — Standing in the Right Place and With a Lever Big Enough — Might Be All That Is Needed to Move the World: Apocalypse? Or Earth Rebirth?

Posted on September 12, 2013 by sillymickel

A Smaller Number of Us Can Make All the Difference in the World, Literally, by Tipping Our Course One Way as Opposed to Another: Moving the World – A Race Against Time Apocalypse – No! Chapter Fourteen: To Move the … 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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The “Patriarchal Mistake” Involves Struggling to Keep Out “Negative” Thoughts: For “There Is No Coming to Consciousness Without Pain.” – Carl Jung

Posted on August 5, 2013 by sillymickel

Grof Versus Wilber and the Frantic Thinking Between Paradigms: The Stormy Path to Self, Part Five: “Healthy-Mindedness” and the “Sick Soul” “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to … 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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Chastened by the Environment We’ve Created, We Are Forced Inward to Rediscover Our Deeper, More Cooperative Human Nature: Through Gaia’s Eyes, Eden Arise

Posted on August 1, 2013 by sillymickel

The Heart of the Problem, Gaia’s Cure, and Back to the Drawing Board for Humans: It’s a Consciousness Revolution as We Rediscover Our Natural Self Apocalypse No! Chapter Seven: Nature Balances HerSelf We Discovered the Heart of the Problem in … Continue reading →

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A Mystical Machismo Has Invaded Spiritual Thinking: Whereas Surrender Spiritualities, Believing in Ultimate Goodness, See Controlling as the Problem

Posted on July 30, 2013 by sillymickel

Patriarchal Cultures Carry Their Advance and Conquer Tactics Into the Inner World: Correcting the “Civilized” Ego … Stormy Path to Self, Part Four — Control Versus Surrender Spirituality Is Self-Actualization Not Ego-Actualization What people like White and Wilber simply do … Continue reading →

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Ego Weak Mystics and Shamans: A Supremely Defended Ego Is the Aim of Modern "Sanitized" Spirituality … the "Holy Fools" of Mystical History Would Be Medicated Today

Posted on July 25, 2013 by sillymickel

High Self Esteem (Positive Thinking) Distorts Reality for Temporary Pleasantness … High Self Regard Involves Openness to the Unpleasant: Stormy Path to Self, Part Three Ego-Weak Mystics and Shamans In a more recent work, John White (1990) continues Ken Wilber’s … Continue reading →

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It’s a Consciousness Revolution, Aided by Gaia We Are Rediscovering Our Natural Self: Eden Arise and a Message to All Wounded Deer and Centaurs

Posted on July 19, 2013 by sillymickel

Back to the Drawing Board for Our Species and a Call to Centaurs: You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting for … This Is Our Time … And the Time Is NOW Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Fifteen: Eden Arise … Continue reading →

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“Crazy” and Transcendent Are Not Opposite as Ego Psychologists Conveniently Proclaim: Have Western Puritanical Beliefs Infected Transpersonal Psychology?

Posted on July 18, 2013 by sillymickel

The Linear Fallacy and Ken Wilber’s Fall from Grace: Spiritual Growth Is Hardly Linear … You Can’t Put “Enlightenment” on Your To-Do List The Linear Fallacy Cybernetic Dreaming Even in the field of transpersonal psychology, for example, there seems an … 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 →