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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 →

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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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Our Reality Is Species Determined and the Relativity of Science: We Can’t Know What We Can’t Know but We Cannot Unknow What We Are

Posted on November 19, 2012 by sillymickel

Biologically Constituted Realities, Part Two: Our Reality Is Species Determined: Relativity of Science Summary: What I’m saying in this part is that basically our sciences have shown they can not determine what is real, let alone measure it, because they … Continue reading →

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The Hierarchy of Healing, An Inconvenient Revolution, and Flaunting One’s Sickness Is Healthier Than Hiding It: Wounded Deer and Centaurs

Posted on September 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Healing Crisis Means Needing to Get “Sicker” Before We Can Be “Weller” and Making It When You DON’T Fake It: Centaurs, Wounded Deer, and the Consciousness Revolution, Untold Apocalypse No! Chapter Eleven: Healing Crisis – Getting “Sick” To Be Well … Continue reading →

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born But Were Afraid to Ask: Birthing Into the Media and the Perinatal Zeitgeist of Postmodern Culture

Posted on September 5, 2012 by sillymickel

Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: The Perinatal Media ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at … Continue reading →

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Getting Sick to Be Well, Part Two: Perinatal Boomers and Beyond—We Know THAT We Don’t Know…We Could Be Wrong.… But You Certainly Are

Posted on July 17, 2012 by sillymickel

Wounded Deer and Centaurs – Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker – Perinatal Awareness of Boomers and Beyond: Healing Crisis, Part 2 Being “Weller,” But Appearing Sicker—Generations Since As I said, contrasted with being completely split off — dissociated — from … Continue reading →

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21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 18: Hunger Games – Vampires and Culture Wars … Fetal Roots of Racism, Bigotry, Anti-Semitism … Blood Libel

Posted on June 8, 2012 by sillymickel

Hunger Games – Vampires and Culture Wars … Fetal Roots of Racism, Bigotry, Anti-Semitism … Blood Libel: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 18 We Needed “Fresh” Blood to Stay Alive, to Breathe The driving force of this adult behavioral … Continue reading →

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All in All, It’s Just Another Face in the Wall – Threatening Enclosures From Which One Wishes to Push Out or Escape: Perinatal Media, Part 4

Posted on March 23, 2012 by sillymickel

Perinatal Media, Part Four: All in All, It’s Just Another Face in the Wall–Enclosing, Threatening Things That One Wishes to Push Out or Escape From Faces Coming Out of the Walls I would like to refer to one final perinatal … Continue reading →

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ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Being Born

Posted on March 18, 2012 by sillymickel

ET, Phone Mom – Of Aliens, Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions: Perinatal Media, Part 1 With these elements of birth experience in mind, let us look at some of the forces and elements, unprecedented and otherwise, that characterize our … Continue reading →