Mother & father wounds – the arrested development of humanity 10 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , Mother wound , No Comments The slightest critical glance at the state of planet earth reveals a human species in physical, emotional, and intellectual decline. This decline is due to a […]
Impostor syndrome – a child asked to do an adult’s job 4 December 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Generational trauma , No Comments While not (yet) clinically recognised, impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern whose effects are increasingly recognised and whose roots predate our own lives. Impostor syndrome is the experience […]
Humans are three-centred beings 3 November 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments In my journey towards wholeness, one of my early lighthouses was British psychiatrist R. D. Laing, who writes in The Politics of Experience (1967): “When our personal worlds are rediscovered… we discover first a shambles… genitals […]
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 […]
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 […]
What is the father wound? 19 November 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , No Comments On this site I’ve written extensively about the mother wound, humanity’s single point of failure—the place where humanity broke ages ago and the only place we, as a species, can be healed to create a sustainable future. […]
Childhood innocence – concealing the mother wound 11 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , No Comments I recently uncovered some trauma around the idea of childhood innocence. This surprised me, as I’d never really thought about the concept. I didn’t realise that by pressing into it I’d encounter […]
How the mother wound externalises our values – and why this is critical 9 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Mother wound , 1 Comment This is the most critical blog I’ve ever written. That’s why I’ve added the tag onto the title. I don’t want to shout or catastrophise, but […]
How the endocrine system created humanity’s core anxiety 5 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , Cornerstones , 1 Comment The British Mental Health Foundation’s statistics for 2022-23 show that 37.1% of women and 29.9% of men reported “high levels of anxiety.” This rose from 21.8% and 18.3% respectively in the period […]
The unconscious – realm of subjective truth 11 January 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , 2 Comments The human unconscious cannot be understood through objective truth and empirical evidence. This fluid domain is a world ruled by subjective truth. The realm of the unconscious In Debugging the Universe, Laura Knight-Jadczyk […]