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Apocalypse,  Or New Age?

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PART 1:  SOMETHING'S HAPPENING

Chapter One:  Strange Days

•      Something's Happening
•      Strange Days
•      Heads In the Sand
•      Facing Foursquare

 

Chapter Two:  The Perinatal Unconscious

•      Surrounding Birth
•      Elements of Birth Experience
•              All Needs Met . . . with luck
•                     No-Exit Despair
•                     Birth Wars
•                     Hallelujah! . . . I think. . . .
•                     Heaven and Hell
•      For Dreaming Out Loud!

 

Chapter Three:  Birthing Into the Media

•      Of Toothy Vaginas, Satanic Cults, and Explosions
•      Faces Coming Out of the Walls

 

Chapter Four:  The Scenery of Our Everyday Reality

•      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!"

 

Chapter Five:  Perinatal and Global Situation Mirroring Each Other

•         We Interrupt This Book for a Breaking News Bulletin:

         "Hellacious Births Making Headlines Worldwide!" Film at Eleven
•                     No-Exit Gridlocks
•                     Global "Therapeutic" Carbon-Dioxide Chamber
•                     "Don't Cut Me Off, Man!"
•                     Our Perinatal World
•         Noticing Our Underbellies
•         Life or Death Matters
•                     What It Is That's Happening Here
•                     Apocalypse, Or New Age?

 

PART 2:  WHAT IT IS THAT'S HAPPENING HERE

Chapter Six:  Getting "Sick" In Order to Be Well

•         Getting "Sick" In Order To Get Well
•         Degrees of Disease
•                     Being Really Sick, But Denying It:  World-War-Two Generation
•                     Being "Weller," But Appearing Sicker -- Generations Since
•                                 Baby-Boomer Perinatal Awareness
•                       The Factor of The Angry Electorate
•                       Perinatal Access of "Baby-Boomer Echo Generation"
•                     "Hate Groups":  World-War-Two Mindset in the Extreme
•         A Hierarchy of Healing?
•                     Flaunting One's Sickness Beats Hiding It
•                       Hey, It Was Tough!
•                       Look At What You Did To Me!
•                     Different Levels, Different Defenses
•                     Less Wars, More Suicides
•         Away From Hubris:  Nature Balances HerSelf

 

Chapter Seven:  Through Gaia's Eyes:  Nature Balances HerSelf

•         Things Never Before Seen
•                     "Tinkle-Down" Economics
•                     "Neutron-Bomb Turf"
•                     Budget Cutbacks
•                                 Rest Areas
•                                 Roads
•                                 Signs
•                                 Some Joke
•                                 Some Loss
•                                 State Parks
•                                 Overpopulation
•         Nature Balances HerSelf
•                     How Far Astray
•                     Going Inward
•                       Chastened by the Environment We've Created
•                                 Air Pollution As a Psychedelic
•                                 Global Cabin Fever
•                                 Back to the Drawing Board for Our Species
•                     Down Can Be Up
•                     Death As An Ally
•                     Moratorium
•                     Our Need to Control
•                     Looking Through Gaia's Eyes
•                     Acting Out
•                     Helping Out
•        "Eve of Destruction" or Scenery of Healing?

 

PART 3:  APOCALYPSE?  OR NEW AGE?

Chapter Eight:  Derailing the Cycles of War and Violence

•         What Say We Leave a Planet For Our Offspring?
•         Cycles of War, Cycles of Birth
•                     Our Tendency to Always Screw Up a Good Thing, BPM I
•                     "No Pain, No Gain," Hell, Satan, and Poisonous Placenta; BPM II
•                     Bloody War, Bloody Birth; BPM III
•                     Nothing's Ever Good Enough, BPM IV
•                     Cycles of Birth, Cycles of War
•         Finding the Weakest Spot
•                     Feeling Good Is Not Bad
•         Changing the Patterns of Millennia
•                     Chasing the Mirages of the Future
•                     Becoming Self-Actualizing Instead of Self-Sabotaging
•         Can You Handle Happiness?  (And the Pain That Comes With It?)
•                     Getting By, With a Little Help From Our Nature
•                     Allowing Our Society to Be Honestly, Blatantly "Sick"

 

Chapter Nine:  The (Sometimes Messy) Scenery of Healing

•         Wedded to Rebirthing Rituals
•         Railing Against the Darkness
•                     Social Progress Requires Regression
•                     "Stop It!" . . . Yeah, That's Gonna Work
•         Regression In the Service of the Ego
•         Auspicious Collective Regressions
•                     Unflinching Belief Related to Total Dissociation
•                     Blatant "Sickness" Related to Being Real
•         Questioning Authority and Oneself Is Good
•                     The Most Advanced Child-Caring
•                     Walking In Another's Moccasins
•         The Perinatal Generation
•                     Blushing Troll-Handlers
•         Better Psychotic Than Waging War
•                     The Price of Pain Is Minuscule
•         Societal Self-Analysis
•                     Talk Show Soul-Searching
•                     We Could Use More "Me Generations"
•                     Let the Buck Stop Here!
•         A Drive To Healing
•         What Might We Expect?
•                     Better Hitler Had Jumped Into Mosh Pits
•                     "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall"
•         Evidence In Our Collective Dreaming

 

Chapter Ten:  Dreaming Out Loud:  "Control" Versus "Surrender" Spiritualities

•         The "Royal Road" to Our Collective Consciousness
•                     Movies As Collective Dreaming
•                     Putting Our Society On The Couch
•                     Something's Happening Here . . . Again
•         Information Avalanche and Pre- and Perinatal Themes
•                     Ego-Eroding Information Deluge
•                     "Consciousness Raising" As "Shoveling It"
•                     The Path to Heaven Leads Through Hell
•                     A Dark and Hideous Shadow World
•                     Pre- and Perinatal Themes in Cinema
•         Control Versus Surrender
•                     "Control Spiritualities" and Patriarchal Cultures
•                     "Surrender Spiritualities" And God As Being Good
•                     "Control" and "Surrender" Psychotherapies
•                     "Hero's Journey" As "Control" Psychotherapy
•                     A Different Heroic Response in "Surrender" Paths
•                     A Shift to "Surrender" As a Corrective to a Western Overweening Ego?

 

Chapter Eleven:  Dreaming Out Loud:  "Nothing But Perinatal"

•         Nothing But Trouble
•                     A Perinatal Flick
•                     The Lure Into the Underworld and Call to Adventure
•                     The Merest Blunder, The Adventure Begins
•         Perinatal Elements
•                     The Junkyard of the Psyche
•                     Stripped of Ego, Perinatal Begins
•                     Big Babies
•                     A Transpersonal Interface
•         Multilevel Feelings
•                     Just When You Thought . . .
•                     But When All Seems Lost . . .
•         Atman Projects Versus Surrender Solutions
•                     How Can You Be Borne Up, If You Won't Let Go?
•                     Say, "Good Night," John Wayne
•                     Trusting In Higher Forces
•         The Message

 

Chapter Twelve:  Dreaming Out Loud:  Peaceful Warriors and Silly Heroes

•         Joe Vs. the Volcano
•                     Volcano-Jumping:  A Different Heroic Response
•                     You Just Can't Slay a Volcano
•                     First Anima, Then Community
•                     Risking It All
•                     Borne Up By a Beneficent Universe
•                     "Away From the Things of Man"
•                     The Universe Is You
•         Responses to the Perinatal
•                     Jiving With Your Monsters
•                     Beware the Tar Baby
•                     Lighten Up!
•                     Silly Heroes
•                     Darkening Down
•                     Evolution In Attitudes to the Perinatal?
•         Dancing Above the Dissonance
•                     The Universality of Divinity Remembered

 

Chapter Thirteen:  Moving the World

•         Apocalypse?  Or New Age?
•                     The Evidence for Change Occurring
•                     Natural Law
•                     Visible and Invisible Allies
•                     Cosmic Law
•         But Is It Enough?
•                     Don't Expect to See It On the Evening News
•                     The Peace Symbol (Moratorium) Reversed
•                     Putting Out Our Hand By Creating Healthy Alternatives
•                     Facing the Monster Is Always Better, Often Beautiful
•         A Race Against Time
•                     "The Leaven In the Dough"

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Copyright © 1999 by Michael Derzak Adzema

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