Hieroglyphics, hemispheric dominance, and polarised thinking 3 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , No Comments In the 1820s, French philologist and orientalist Jean-François Champollion made a critical breakthrough in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics. This mostly forgotten event provides us with a clear example of the effect of hemispheric dominance—the pre-eminence of left-brain, […]
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 […]
Disgrace – the deepest form of shame 1 November 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Shame , No Comments For many years I’ve been excavating the unconscious—the place where, as Laura Knight-Jadczyk writes, “are found unfathomable depths of the rejected, the unacknowledged, the unrecognised, the unknown and undeveloped elements of our existence.” Through consistent […]
The car of your life – are you in the driving seat? 30 October 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , How-to & step-by-step , No Comments Imagine the journey of your life as a 2-seater sports car, like this Chevrolet Corvette at the Cayman Motor Museum. You’re speeding down the road. […]
7 Divine truths about the energy of sex 26 October 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , No Comments Sex is the most maligned aspect of human existence. It’s also the most necessary—we wouldn’t be here without it. The notion that sex is a divine aspect of our being—and thus subject to divine […]
Nostalgia – a longing for past emotional anaesthetics 24 October 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Karl Zuckerberg recently posted on my Facebook feed an image of an Alien Interceptor spacecraft from the 1970 TV series UFO. It’s a series I’d long forgotten about. The image brought memories of […]
When men become emotionally available their sexual demons emerge 6 September 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , No Comments In a blog titled Is there a hole at the heart of your relationship? I describe a situation I see in a growing number of relationships: one partner (usually the woman) is emotionally […]
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 […]
The woodlot – using early sexual memories to heal trauma 19 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Sexuality , No Comments I recently recovered an early sexual memory, from a woodlot in Switzerland aged 10 or so—around the same time as my first experience of porn. Recovery of this memory shows that I’m […]
The 1960s Sexual Revolution – breaking mass sexual repression 18 August 2023 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , Sexuality , No Comments My attention has recently been drawn to the 1960s Sexual Revolution, an event that has largely receded out of memory and is mostly remembered through the occasional popular song on the […]