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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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Moving the World – A Race Against Time: A Smaller Number of Us Can Make All the Difference in the World, Literally, by Tipping Our Course One Way as Opposed to Another

Posted on January 1, 2014 by sillymickel

Apocalypse? Or Earth Rebirth? A Smaller Number of Us — Standing in the Right Place and With a Lever Big Enough — Might Be All That Is Needed to Move the World Apocalypse – No! Chapter Fourteen: To Move the World … Continue reading →

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Experiences of Overwhelming Energy and Joy Have Been Described: A Primal Perspective, Part Six — Four Levels of Psychedelic Experience and a Primal Spirituality

Posted on July 29, 2013 by sillymickel

Levels of Pain, Levels of Bliss and the First Shutdown: “I Went from Birth to an Intrauterine State to Conception to Floating in the Icy Vastness of Space.” LSD Therapy The strongest support for the alternative explanation, however, comes from … Continue reading →

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The Narrative of Life Is Written in the Womb: The Field of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience

Posted on July 11, 2013 by sillymickel

Birth and Before: The Vision of Human Nature Arising from Research Into Our Earliest Experiences Is the Most Important One for Saving Our Planet and Us Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter One: We Are a Fever … Human Nature Is … Continue reading →

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Primal Perspective on Spirituality, Part One — Primal Therapy: In Resolving Buried Tensions, One Sees Clearly, Feels Freer, and Turns Cycles of Pain Into Cycles of Joy

Posted on July 10, 2013 by sillymickel

How Valid Are Spiritual Experiences? Psychedelic Research and Deep Experiential Psychotherapy Have Intensified the Exploration of Spiritual Aspects of the Unconscious The debate about the status we should ascribe to spiritual experience has been going on for a long time … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, anthropology, Education, globalrevolution, Health and wellness, psychology, Spirituality | Tagged 60s, America, Arthur Janov, biological roots, birth, consciousness, culture, current-events, experiential psychotherapy, fetus, health, holotropic breathwork, medicine, mental-health, pain, perinatal, personal elements, prenatal, psychology, science, Sixties, Stanislav Grof, trauma, truth, unconscious, womb | Leave a comment

Your Map of Reality Was Written in the Womb: Falls from Grace, Chapter One — Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience

Posted on July 2, 2013 by sillymickel

Everything You “Know” About Life You Learned as a Fetus: Foundations of Myth and Mind and my Personal Involvement with This Research into Our Actual “Human Nature” Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and the Phenomenon of Re-Experience Prenatal and perinatal psychology … 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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Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence: What Say We Leave a Planet For Our Offspring? And Can You Handle Happiness?

Posted on May 23, 2013 by sillymickel

Cycles of War, Cycles of Birth … What Can Be Done: Changing the Patterns of Millennia Requires Learning That Feeling Good Is Not Bad Apocalypse No! Chapter Eight: Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence Men Would Rather Be Manly … Continue reading →

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Eden Arise and a Message to All Wounded Deer and Centaurs: It’s a Consciousness Revolution, Aided by Gaia We Are Rediscovering Our Natural Self

Posted on December 11, 2012 by sillymickel

Back to the Drawing Board for Our Species and a Call to Centaurs: You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting for … This Is Our Time … And the Time Is NOW Wounded Deer and Centaurs, Chapter Sixteen: Eden Arise … Continue reading →

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Psychology of Generations —The Changing of the Generational Guard: Why There Is Less Violence but More Depression…. And What’s Good About That

Posted on December 7, 2012 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 Fifteen: Psychological History of Today’s Generations … the Unsung Consciousness Revolution Healing Crisis Means … Continue reading →