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Just Released, March 2020. Who to Be: Identity, Authenticity, and Crisis (2020) by Michael Adzema

Posted on March 25, 2020 by sillymickel

*Who To Be: Identity, Authenticity, & Crisis* by Michael Adzema has just been released at Amazon … … What does one do in a postmodern, complex, multicultural world in which the options are so numerous and enticing as to paralyze … Continue reading →

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How Can You Be Borne Up, If You Won’t Let Go? Spiritual Experience Is Distorted by One’s Birth Trauma … The Necessary Hero Descends Into the Perinatal Below

Posted on June 6, 2013 by sillymickel

When Everything Appears to Be Conspiring Against You, You Might Want to Stop Fighting Rebirth: Atman Projects Versus Surrender Solutions and a Different Hero’s Journey Apocalypse – No! Chapter Twelve: Atman Projects vs. Surrender Solutions The Necessary Hero and Descent … 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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The Necessary Hero and Descent Into the Underground–When There’s “Nothing But Trouble,” You Know You’re in The Perinatal Below

Posted on August 3, 2012 by sillymickel

A Different Kind of Hero’s Journey for Our Times Is Depicted in the Cult Classic, “Nothing But Trouble”: Atman Projects Vs. Surrender Solutions, Part One A Perinatal Flick A film of postmodern times that is bold with revelation for … 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 →