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 , No Comments 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 , No 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 […]
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 […]