Body shaming – bringing the penis into the light 2 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Sexuality , Shame , No Comments The penis is a difficult thing. Like anything difficult, we tend to sweep it under the carpet and deal with it by not dealing with it. This unspoken, unconscious […]
The mother wound – humanity’s single point of failure 1 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Every civilization has a fault line—a hidden weakness that quietly erodes its foundations. In human society, that weakness isn’t economic, political, or technological. It’s relational. It lives in the emotional body, in […]
Depravity – how humanity vents the mother wound 3 October 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments “If it wasn’t for bad, you’d be good,” Elton John sings on the opening track of The Union, his alt-country collaboration with Leon Russell. What’s that got to do with depravity? And why […]
The mother wound constellation 25 September 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , No Comments Do you recognise this constellation of wounded beliefs and behaviours, in your life? Some of these elements or terms may not be familiar, but the overall pattern may be. It’s a toxic web of deeply embedded self-reinforcing […]
Jean-Léon Gérôme – Truth emerges from her well to shame mankind 24 September 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Shame , No Comments Late in his life, classical French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) painted a series of canvases on the topic of truth, depicted as a nude woman, trapped in or emerging […]
Statue rubbing – a quest for life energy? 22 September 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , No Comments A line of research recently led me to some ritualised human behaviour I wasn’t previously aware of—the practice of statue rubbing. What is statue rubbing? We know it’s a thing because it’s in Wikipedia: […]
Porn addiction does not exist in isolation 13 August 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Mother wound , Pornography , 1 Comment Ever since the 1970s Japanese electronics revolution swamped the world with easily made, easily distributed and easily consumed porn, we’ve been treating porn addiction as if it exists in isolation. It’s easy […]
How the collective unconscious rules humanity 14 July 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments Forget the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, and the 1%. Much as it seems like they do, they do not hold the reins of human destiny. Humanity’s true ruler is its own morass of […]
‘Mental health’ is a misleading term 27 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments It’s June, and here in Britain another Mental Health Awareness Week has passed. In America, where everything is done on a larger scale, it lasts a whole month. A lot of digital column-inches have been […]
Vocal intonation – a secret giveaway of trauma 21 June 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments In Character Analysis, Wilhelm Reich writes: “It is not what the patient says and does that is indicative of character resistance, but how he speaks and acts” (Reich’s italics). Here are three ways […]