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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

Posted on February 16, 2013 by sillymickel

The Second Retreat from the Natural Self — Patriarchal Culture: One Gains the World in Exact Proportion to Which a Man Has Relinquished his Soul It is this attempt to control something symbolically, indirectly that is the basis of ritual…. Ritual … Continue reading →

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We Are the Centaurs, My Friends: We Are the Necessary Heroes for Deluded Promethean “Fathers,” Open the Jar, Pandora, and Why the Gods Are LOL

Posted on November 14, 2012 by sillymickel

We’ve Fallen and We Can’t Get Up: Like Chiron, We Need to Take Inside Us the “Sins” of Promethean Fathers to Stop Millennial Cycles of Suffering Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Eight: Return of the Centaur and How We Look … Continue reading →

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Enter the Centaur: Wherein Lies Real Hope – Sixties and Millennial Generations Are Shamans for Deluded Promethean “Fathers”: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 14

Posted on May 17, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Fourteen: Blind Hope vs. Real Hope … Chiron Is Martyr for The Sins of the Fathers Prometheus Brought Us Blind Hopes Another aspect of this is that Prometheus is said to have “caused blind hopes … Continue reading →