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Where There Is Hope and What Did You Expect Awakening to Look Like? Look Hard Enough, You Just Might See the Seeds of Light Amidst the Darkness Surrounding.

Posted on May 31, 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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What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide and the Necessary Mess of Transformation: Hard to Believe, But We’re Getting Saner

Posted on May 29, 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 Primal Screen: The Doors of Perception Stormed and The Perinatal Rising — A Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life

Posted on October 26, 2012 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 →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Arab Revolution, Arts & Entertainment, Environment, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, History, psychology, Spirituality | Tagged 21st Century, abyss, Alien, alien abduction, aliens, Alvin Lawson, apocalypse, aviation, baby, birth, birth trauma, birthday, bliss, body consciousness, BPM, BPM I, BPM II, break dancing, city, claustrophobia, collective, consciousness, creativity, crowd, crushing, culture, current-events, dance, dancing, doors of perception, entertainment, Environment, euphoria, explosion, explosions, fear, feelings, fetus, fireworks, flashing, flesh, floating, flsh, Fox Mulder, freedom, freedom and suffering, gag, gravity, grow, guitar, gymnastics, heal, hell, hot tub, In Untero, Jacob's Ladder, Kurt Cobain, life, light, mask, Mayr and Boederl, Media, microphones, midwife, mikes, mosh pit, mosh pits, mother ship, mouth, mouth suctioning, movement, music, newborn, Nirvana, nuclear, obstetrician, overpopulation, pacifier, parties, perfection, perinatal, placenta, pleasure, politics, pollution, population, population explosion, postmodern, precise, primal, probe, progression, psyche, psychohistory, rapture, re-experience, rebirthing, reborn, regression to the womb, religion, research, ritual, rock concert, science, screen, sensation, sky dive, skydiving, space walk, spirituality, struggle, suffering, surgical mask, swim, swimming, the rapture, transcendance, transformation, transportation, trauma, troll, trolls, umbilical, ungentle, unity, vagina dentata, vagina dentate, weightlessness, womb, X-files, youth, zero gravity | 12 Comments

Rebirthing Rituals, Part Five – 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 →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Arab Revolution, Economics, Education, Environment, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, History, News and politics, occupycollege, occupywallstreet, psychology, Spirituality, WeThePeople | Tagged 60s, act-out, acting out, activist, alienation, Alvin Lawson, America, American Revolution, apathy, apocalypse, beliefs, birth, birth ritual, birth trauma, Chairman Mao, colony, consciousness, culture, death, defenses, delusion, democracy, die, ecocide, ego, elections, emotionally disturbed, emotions, enemy, Environment, extinction, fantasy, fear, fight, fighting, generation, greed, health, Ho Chi Minh, Holocaust, humanicide, humanticide, Jane Fonda, Jews, Kenneth Keniston, libya, life, little red books, lives, Lloyd Demause, Mayr and Boelderl, memories, middle-east, mosh pit, nature, neurosis, overexamined life, pain, parents, peace, perinatal, personal growth, planet, politics, prenatal, price, primal pain, primal therapy, psychoclass, psychodynamics, psychological mindedness, psychologists, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, psychotic breakdown, puppet ruler, question authority, reality, rebirth, rebirthing, red books, regression, regression in the service of the ego, rite of passage, ritual, science, self-analysis, self-righteousness, selfishness, Sixties, society, suffering, The Uncommitted, trauma, troll handlers, trolls, truth, unconscious, Vietnam War, vietnamese flags, vietnamese perspective, violence, war, womb, young radicals, youth | Leave a comment

The 21st Century and Its Discontents … The View From Everyday: Profound Sculpting of Who We Are Occurs at a Time We Cannot See

Posted on August 21, 2012 by sillymickel

Dangling Above an Abyss and Everyday Rebirthing: The Perinatal Is Rising … The Doors of Perception—Stormed! Dangling Above the Abyss and Perinatal Aliens, Pretty Much Dangling Above an Abyss and Pervasive Perinatal Aliens Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment … Continue reading →

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Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits. Rebirthing Rituals, Part 8: A Drive to Healing, the Hard Rain Fallin’, and Millennial Promise

Posted on July 23, 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 →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Arab Revolution, Economics, Education, Environment, Health and wellness, History, News and politics, occupycollege, occupywallstreet, psychology, Spirituality, WeThePeople | Tagged 60s, Adolf Hitler, Alvin Lawson, America, apocalypse, Arthur Janov, baby-boomer, birth, birth trauma, birth traumas, Bob Dylan, Carl Jung, child-caring, cinema, climate, collective regression, consciousness, craziness, culture, death drive, death instinct, disease, dissociation, dreams, dynamics, echo generation, ecology, Environment, Europe, extinction, fetus, film, filthy rich, fukushima, generation, healing, healing crisis, health, infancy, integrity, matrix, Mayr and Boelderl, Millennial Generation, modalities, mosh pit, mosh pits, movies, mystical quest, nature, nonordinary state of consciousness, occupy wall street, orgy, overpopulation, pacifier, pain, parents, peace, perinatal, planet, politics, pollution, prenatal, prenate, projective systems, psychodynamics, psychology, psychosis, quantum leap, rebirth, rebirthing, regression, regression in the service of the ego, researcher, ritual, rock concert, scenery of healing, science, Self, self-destruction, sigmund freud, Sixties, social rituals, society, spiritual quest, suggestion, symbol, trauma, truth, unconscious, understanding, violence, war, womb, youth | 14 Comments

What’s Involved in Stopping War and Ecocide – Peace Is Painful: Rebirthing Rituals, Part Five – But Better Psychotic Than Warring

Posted on July 20, 2012 by sillymickel

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Environment, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, History, News and politics, occupycollege, occupywallstreet | Tagged 60s, act-out, acting out, activist, alienation, Alvin Lawson, America, American Revolution, apathy, apocalypse, beliefs, birth, birth ritual, birth trauma, Chairman Mao, colony, consciousness, culture, death, defenses, delusion, democracy, die, ecocide, ego, elections, emotionally disturbed, emotions, enemy, Environment, extinction, fantasy, fear, fight, fighting, generation, greed, health, Ho Chi Minh, Holocaust, humanicide, humanticide, Jane Fonda, Jews, Kenneth Keniston, life, lives, Lloyd Demause, Mayr and Boelderl, memories, mosh pit, nature, neurosis, overexamined life, pain, parents, peace, perinatal, personal growth, planet, politics, prenatal, price, primal pain, primal therapy, psychoclass, psychodynamics, psychological mindedness, psychologists, psychology, psychosis, psychotherapy, psychotic breakdown, question authority, reality, rebirth, rebirthing, red books, regression, regression in the service of the ego, rite of passage, ritual, science, self-analysis, self-righteousness, selfishness, Sixties, society, suffering, The Uncommitted, trauma, troll handlers, trolls, truth, unconscious, Vietnam War, violence, war, womb, young radicals, youth | 17 Comments

Being Crazy in an Insane World Might Mean You’re the Sane One: Rebirthing Rituals, Part Three – Auspicious Collective Regressions

Posted on July 18, 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 →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Environment, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, History, Music, News and politics, occupycollege, occupywallstreet, Poetry, psychology, Spirituality, WeThePeople | Tagged 60s, abreaction, act-out, affirmation, alternative, Alvin Lawson, America, apocalypse, archetype, Arthur Janov, baby, behavior, bioenergetics, birth, Carl Jung, consciousness, control, crazy, culture, cycle, darkness, death, death rebirth, dissociation, ego, emotional sickness, emotions, enemy, Environment, existentialism, experiential, experiential psychotherapy, fear, feelings, healing, health, higher self, holotropic breathwork, humanistic psychology, hypnotherapy, insane, integration, light, Lloyd Demause, Mayr and Boelderl, Media, meditation, mosh pit, nature, neo-Jungian, neoFreudian, neurosis, New Age, occupy wall street, ows, pacifier, pain, perinatal, perinatal psychology, planet, politics, pre- and perinatal psychology, prenatal, primal root, primal therapy, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychodynamics, psychohistory, psychology, re-experience, reality, rebirthing, regression, regression in the service of the ego, Reichian, release, reliving, resolution, ritual, rock concert, sane, school, science, Self, shadow, sickness, sigmund freud, Sixties, society, spirituality, Stanislav Grof, strategy, symptom, transcendence, transpersonal, trauma, truth, unconscious, violence, Vipassana meditation, war, Wayseer, wayseer manifesto, wellness, world | 18 Comments

Rock Concert Rebirthing, Mosh Wombs, and the Doors of Perception…Stormed: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 2

Posted on April 8, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Two: Fleshy Mosh Wombs, Rock Rebirthing, Trolls, and the Doors of Perception…Stormed The Perinatal Veil: Rock Concerts (For some, ditto) Lawson has also described perinatal elements in rock concerts. [Footnote 1] Mosh … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Environment, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, History, Music, psychology, Spirituality | Tagged Alvin Lawson, baby, birth, BPM, collective, consciousness, creativity, crushing, culture, doors of perception, entertainment, explosions, feelings, fetus, fireworks, flashing, flsh, freedom, guitar, In Untero, Kurt Cobain, life, light, Mayr and Boederl, microphones, mikes, mosh pit, music, newborn, Nirvana, pacifier, perinatal, placenta, progression, psychohistory, rebirthing, reborn, regression to the womb, ritual, rock concert, sensation, struggle, trauma, troll, trolls, umbilical, womb, youth | 76 Comments

Dangling Above the Abyss and Perinatal Aliens, Pretty Much: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 1

Posted on April 6, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part One: Dangling Above an Abyss and Pervasive Perinatal Aliens Dangling Above an Abyss Beyond the entertainment media, it seems perinatal themes and elements are showing up everywhere else in our surrounding … Continue reading →