The 4 layers of a porn image 18 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Pornography , 1 Comment “Pile on many more layers and I’ll be joining you there,” Pink Floyd lead singer Roger Waters sang in ‘Shine On, You Crazy Diamond, Parts VI-IX’ which closed their 1975 album Wish You Were Here. […]
The mother wound leaves us feeling unprotected 13 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Mother wound , No Comments I’ve spent the whole of my life looking like the child in this evocative photograph from Jordan Whitt—feeling unprotected. Until recently, I never knew why. In The mother wound – “The dreadful […]
What isn’t expressed gets compressed 12 January 2021 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , News , No Comments We’re all familiar with Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion, otherwise known as the Law of Action and Reaction: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. This law applies to emotional mechanics just […]
Humanity runs on a Patriarchal Operating System 18 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , 4 Comments For the past 6,000 years, ever since the dawn of patriarchy, humanity has been running on a specific psychological paradigm—the Patriarchal Operating System. What do I mean by ‘running’? I mean breathing, feeling, thinking, eating, […]
Mary Wollstonecraft statue reveals our unconscious shame 17 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , News , Shame , No Comments A recently unveiled statue of Mary Wollstonecraft has caused outrage by depicting the pioneering feminist writer naked. The statue depicts a nude woman emerging from an amorphous mound of organic matter. The BBC […]
We have no language for pre-verbal trauma 11 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Ancestral trauma , Generational trauma , No Comments I have long wondered why some people talk about their issues while others don’t. I’ve often mistaken ‘can’t talk’ for ‘don’t want to talk’. More recently I’ve started to explore the […]
The Architect of Desire – generational trauma from the Gilded Age 9 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Generational trauma , History , No Comments On the night of 25 June 1906, architect Stanford White was murdered at the rooftop restaurant of New York’s Madison Square Gardens. The subsequent trial revealed […]
The mother wound = lack of emotional nurturing 4 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments In What is the mother wound? I describe the way that the wound at the core of humanity causes six key separations (or fragmentations). Of these, however, there is only one […]
The ‘hole’ behind humanity’s unsustainable consumption 2 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments I’ve been circling the ‘hole’ for a while now. It’s the black hole behind humanity’s unsustainable urge for acquisition or consumption. Unsustainable consumption Acquisition or consumption of what? Well, pretty much anything and […]
Edward Carpenter and Covid-19 – civilization is the disease 2 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , History , Mother wound , No Comments In 1899, Edward Carpenter wrote a book called Civilization: its cause and cure, in which he argued that civilization is a disease no society has ever survived. Civilization […]