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 […]

The Authority Quadrant 16 May 2025 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments Some years ago, in a blog titled The spine of patriarchy – lack of inner authority, I described a lack of personal authority as one of the building blocks of patriarchal society. Patriarchy functions on the simple premise that […]

What is the divinity-mortality split? 3 December 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments Michael Picucci, author of The Journey toward Complete Recovery, coined the term ‘sexual-spiritual split’ to identify “a deep psychic schism” endemic in human culture. I’d like to expand on Picucci’s vision by recognising another psychic […]

The missionary position is a trauma response 15 August 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , Patriarchy , Sexuality , No Comments In Sex in patriarchy – how the past shapes sex today I describe the ‘3 M’s’—married, monogamous, missionary (position)—as the bedrock of modern sexuality. At the time, I attributed the […]

Normal – the non-existent patriarchal standard 2 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , 1 Comment When exploring feelings of unconscious shame and disgrace, it’s important to remember that these feelings always exist in response to judgment. Judgment, in its turn, is always against a standard. In our patriarchal society that standard […]

The god of patriarchy is an effigy of the Bronze Age nomadic warrior 1 September 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Patriarchy , No Comments The Book of Genesis tells us that “God created man in his own image” (1:27). The historical and psychological reality is diametrically opposite: man created God in […]

Our ‘inner child’ is the product of arrested development 11 May 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Patriarchy , No Comments The ‘inner child’ is a popular concept in pop-psychology to describe a wounded aspect of us, trapped like the child above in the fishbowl of adult life with no way to navigate that […]

Clearing the unconscious – a framework for healing 19 April 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Mother wound , Patriarchy , No Comments There are many different healing modalities to choose from. Regardless of how they work, the aim of all healing modalities—stated or otherwise—is clearing our unconscious. That’s because all […]

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 […]

Tentacle Manga – Japan’s victim/victimizer dynamic in comics 3 November 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Arts , Patriarchy , Pornography , No Comments In a blog titled The Alien inside us – the lower masculine victimizer, I used Ridley Scott’s mandible and tentacle armed creature as a metaphor for patriarchy’s structural dynamic where […]