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 […]

In patriarchy, everything is toxic 2 September 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments The word ‘patriarchy’ is mostly understood in simplistic terms. Patriarchies are societies where men rule, and women get bashed down. The problem with this view is that it clouds the extent to which such societies […]