Apocalypse, Or New Age?
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PART 1: SOMETHING'S
HAPPENING
- Something's
Happening
- Strange Days
- Heads In the
Sand
- Facing Foursquare
- Surrounding
Birth
- Elements of
Birth Experience
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All Needs Met . . . with luck
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No-Exit Despair
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Birth Wars
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Hallelujah! . . . I think. . . .
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Heaven and Hell
- For Dreaming
Out Loud!
- Of Toothy
Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions
- Faces Coming
Out of the Walls
- Dangling Above
an Abyss
- Aliens . .
. Ooooo . . . Sca-ry. . . .
- Rock Concerts
(For Some, Ditto)
- Pacifiers,
Trolls, Crushing Populations, and Global Suffocation
- Digging One's
Way Under Ground
- Drugs . .
. Ooooo . . . Sca-ry. . . .
- "Most Peculiar,
Mama!"
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We Interrupt This Book for a Breaking News Bulletin:
"Hellacious Births Making Headlines Worldwide!" Film at Eleven
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No-Exit Gridlocks
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Global "Therapeutic" Carbon-Dioxide Chamber
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"Don't Cut Me Off, Man!"
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Our Perinatal World
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Noticing Our Underbellies
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Life or Death Matters
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What It Is That's Happening Here
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Apocalypse, Or New Age?
PART 2: WHAT
IT IS THAT'S HAPPENING HERE
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Getting "Sick" In Order To Get Well
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Degrees of Disease
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Being Really Sick, But Denying It: World-War-Two Generation
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Being "Weller," But Appearing Sicker -- Generations Since
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Baby-Boomer Perinatal Awareness
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The Factor of The Angry Electorate
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Perinatal Access of "Baby-Boomer Echo Generation"
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"Hate Groups": World-War-Two Mindset in the Extreme
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A Hierarchy of Healing?
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Flaunting One's Sickness Beats Hiding It
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Hey, It Was Tough!
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Look At What You Did To Me!
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Different Levels, Different Defenses
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Less Wars, More Suicides
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Away From Hubris: Nature Balances HerSelf
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Things Never Before Seen
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"Tinkle-Down" Economics
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"Neutron-Bomb Turf"
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Budget Cutbacks
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Rest Areas
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Roads
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Signs
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Some Joke
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Some Loss
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State Parks
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Overpopulation
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Nature Balances HerSelf
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How Far Astray
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Going Inward
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Chastened by the Environment We've Created
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Air Pollution As a Psychedelic
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Global Cabin Fever
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Back to the Drawing Board for Our Species
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Down Can Be Up
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Death As An Ally
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Moratorium
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Our Need to Control
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Looking Through Gaia's Eyes
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Acting Out
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Helping Out
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"Eve of Destruction" or Scenery of Healing?
PART 3: APOCALYPSE?
OR NEW AGE?
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What Say We Leave a Planet For Our Offspring?
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Cycles of War, Cycles of Birth
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Our Tendency to Always Screw Up a Good Thing, BPM I
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"No Pain, No Gain," Hell, Satan, and Poisonous Placenta; BPM II
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Bloody War, Bloody Birth; BPM III
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Nothing's Ever Good Enough, BPM IV
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Cycles of Birth, Cycles of War
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Finding the Weakest Spot
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Feeling Good Is Not Bad
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Changing the Patterns of Millennia
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Chasing the Mirages of the Future
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Becoming Self-Actualizing Instead of Self-Sabotaging
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Can You Handle Happiness? (And the Pain That Comes With It?)
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Getting By, With a Little Help From Our Nature
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Allowing Our Society to Be Honestly, Blatantly "Sick"
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Wedded to Rebirthing Rituals
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Railing Against the Darkness
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Social Progress Requires Regression
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"Stop It!" . . . Yeah, That's Gonna Work
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Regression In the Service of the Ego
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Auspicious Collective Regressions
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Unflinching Belief Related to Total Dissociation
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Blatant "Sickness" Related to Being Real
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Questioning Authority and Oneself Is Good
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The Most Advanced Child-Caring
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Walking In Another's Moccasins
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The Perinatal Generation
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Blushing Troll-Handlers
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Better Psychotic Than Waging War
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The Price of Pain Is Minuscule
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Societal Self-Analysis
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Talk Show Soul-Searching
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We Could Use More "Me Generations"
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Let the Buck Stop Here!
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A Drive To Healing
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What Might We Expect?
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Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits
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"A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall"
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Evidence In Our Collective Dreaming
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The "Royal Road" to Our Collective Consciousness
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Movies As Collective Dreaming
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Putting Our Society On The Couch
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Something's Happening Here . . . Again
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Information Avalanche and Pre- and Perinatal Themes
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Ego-Eroding Information Deluge
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"Consciousness Raising" As "Shoveling It"
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The Path to Heaven Leads Through Hell
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A Dark and Hideous Shadow World
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Pre- and Perinatal Themes in Cinema
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Control Versus Surrender
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"Control Spiritualities" and Patriarchal Cultures
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"Surrender Spiritualities" And God As Being Good
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"Control" and "Surrender" Psychotherapies
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"Hero's Journey" As "Control" Psychotherapy
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A Different Heroic Response in "Surrender" Paths
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A Shift to "Surrender" As a Corrective to a Western Overweening Ego?
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Nothing But Trouble
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A Perinatal Flick
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The Lure Into the Underworld and Call to Adventure
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The Merest Blunder, The Adventure Begins
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Perinatal Elements
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The Junkyard of the Psyche
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Stripped of Ego, Perinatal Begins
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Big Babies
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A Transpersonal Interface
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Multilevel Feelings
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Just When You Thought . . .
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But When All Seems Lost . . .
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Atman Projects Versus Surrender Solutions
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How Can You Be Borne Up, If You Won't Let Go?
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Say, "Good Night," John Wayne
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Trusting In Higher Forces
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The Message
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Joe Vs. the Volcano
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Volcano-Jumping: A Different Heroic Response
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You Just Can't Slay a Volcano
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First Anima, Then Community
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Risking It All
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Borne Up By a Beneficent Universe
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"Away From the Things of Man"
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The Universe Is You
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Responses to the Perinatal
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Jiving With Your Monsters
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Beware the Tar Baby
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Lighten Up!
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Silly Heroes
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Darkening Down
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Evolution In Attitudes to the Perinatal?
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Dancing Above the Dissonance
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The Universality of Divinity Remembered
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Apocalypse? Or New Age?
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The Evidence for Change Occurring
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Natural Law
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Visible and Invisible Allies
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Cosmic Law
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But Is It Enough?
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Don't Expect to See It On the Evening News
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The Peace Symbol (Moratorium) Reversed
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Putting Out Our Hand By Creating Healthy Alternatives
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Facing the Monster Is Always Better, Often Beautiful
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A Race Against Time
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"The Leaven In the Dough"
Copyright © 1999 by Michael Derzak Adzema
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