Christianity’s ‘original sin’ is generational trauma 8 July 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Generational trauma , No Comments It’s that simple, folks. Christianity’s doctrine of ‘original sin’ is generational trauma; destructive patterns of behaviour inherited at birth (conception, actually) which originated at the Fall. The whole theology boils down to two simple equations: […]
3 Effects of left-brain hemispheric dominance 7 February 2024 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments While effects of mental health in general and generational trauma in particular attract increasing attention, one piece of the wellness puzzle remains under-recognised—left-brain hemispheric dominance. I’d go as far as saying that hemispheric dominance is […]
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, […]
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 […]
Feeling your family’s past 21 October 2022 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , Generational trauma , No Comments Genealogy is big business. We all know that family member constantly immersed in online research or rushing off to visit old battlegrounds or musty parish records. Over the years, the facts pile up in […]
Humanity runs on a Patriarchal Operating System 18 December 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , 4 Comments For the past 6,000 years, ever since the dawn of patriarchy, humanity has been running on a specific psychological paradigm—the Patriarchal Operating System. What do I mean by ‘running’? I mean breathing, feeling, thinking, eating, […]
Self-healing requires accepting responsibility 18 September 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Have you ever wondered why some people rave about self-help books, yet others dismiss the same books as useless garbage? Same book, different people: the key factor is the people, not the book. The common denominator of […]
How to penetrate the unconscious 28 August 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , No Comments There’s only one way to effect powerful, permanent healing in the human psyche: penetrate the unconscious and release the pain it contains. This is not something we choose to do. It’s something we do when […]
What is hemispheric dominance? 7 August 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Cornerstones , Patriarchy , No Comments Neuropsychologist Roger W. Sperry first proposed the theory of hemispheric dominance in 1960. In my own simplistic terms, hemispheric dominance boils down to three interlocking principles: Brain functions are specialised between the left and right hemispheres […]
Solve problems at their source – mental, emotional or sexual 6 August 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments As a left-brain, masculine-dominant society we tend to assume that our intellect is the only diagnostic tool at our disposal. We solve problems by thinking, regardless of their nature. Yet the […]