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“Listen Better!”: Physical Reality Is as Symbolic as the Images in Dreams… and Can Be as Readily Interpreted for Understanding Oneself and for Guidance on One’s Path

Posted on May 24, 2013 by sillymickel

The Spiritual “Code” That Is Written In Reality: Matter As Metaphor, Part Four — In the Tiniest Details — Mushrooms, Fire, Butterflies, and Morphogenetic Fields “Listen Better!” The physical world and all its events are metaphor for consciousness; they are indirect … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Environment, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, Poetry, psychology, Spirituality | Tagged butterfly, consciousness, culture, death, die, Environment, fire, God, humans, life, matrix, morphogenetic field, mushroom, mystical experience, nature, Philosophy, physical reality, planet, psychology, religion, science, species, spiritual evolution, spiritual perception, spirituality, truth, unconscious | 1 Comment

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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How We Look to the Gods and Prometheus Redux … Building More Nukes and Drilling More Holes – Icarus Keeps Flapping and the Gods Can’t Stop Laughing: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 16

Posted on May 20, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Sixteen: View From the Heavens and Prometheus Redux … Icarus Is Flapping and the Gods Are Laughing as We Build Nukes and Drill Holes Prometheus Redux Before leaving Prometheus for good, let us consider some … Continue reading →

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Real Hope Lies in Pandora’s Jar and Return of the Centaur … Since the Last Time Was 1961, It’s None Too Soon: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 15

Posted on May 19, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Fifteen: Open the Jar, Pandora, and Return of The Centaur … Wherein Lies Real Hope Open the Jar, Pandora In psychological terms, real change lies in peering deep into the Pandora’s jar of the unconscious … 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 →

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A Re-Visioning of “Civilization” in Light of Impending Apocalypse … Prometheus Made us “Civilized” … And Doomed: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 13

Posted on May 15, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Thirteen: On Defiance, Alienation from Nature, “Civilization,” Apocalypse, Marxism, OWS, and Ayn Rand Will “Progress of Man” Be Humanity’s Epitaph? All of the “achievements” of “civilization,” these increases of control over Nature, are traditionally … Continue reading →

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Why Humans Are the Sorriest of Species … Apocalyptic Foretellings Hidden in Myths of Eden, Prometheus, Pandora, Icarus, Cain and Abel: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 11

Posted on May 11, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Eleven: Prometheus, Meat-Eating, Pandora, Eden, the Apple, the Fall, Cain, Abel, and When and Why Human Life Became All About Work Meat-Eating and Apocalypse…First Falls and Last After writing the previous section on fire, meat, … Continue reading →

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Sorry, Billy Joel, But We Did Start the Fire: Why Humans Are So Big on Burning…And Its Apocalyptic Prognosis For Us Today: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 10

Posted on May 8, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Ten: Of Cigarettes, Lucifer, Prometheus, and Icarus—Why Humans Are Addicted to Burning Things…And Its Dire Prognosis Why Humans Are So Big on Burning Humans did not always do things to adversely affect the air … Continue reading →

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Oxygen Hunger, the Greenhouse Effect, and Fetal Malnutrition … The Latent Worldwide Oxygen Panic We Don’t Want to Notice: 21st Century and Its Discontents, Part 8

Posted on April 26, 2012 by sillymickel

Kaleidoscope of Postmodern Life, Part Eight: Prenatal Imprints for Air Pollution and the Greenhouse Effect … Fetal Malnutrition, Oxygen Starvation, and the Global Environment Let us now turn to how we bring this prenatal oxygen struggle, termed fetal … Continue reading →