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JQP's avatar

What about government abuse of its citizens. Any cure for that? They are poisoning us FAST and SLOW. Spraying us like bugs, injecting us like pin cushions, poisoning our food and our water, then they radiate us with 5g. Ignorance is not bliss but it certainly can kill!

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iterating Roger W.'s avatar

In this space of trauma healing there are many ideas and strategies. There is a tendency to overspecialization in just one thing that is supposed to be the most important. I dislike a few things that I've seen or perceived in some therapists, authors, gurus or whatever other name we pick for them. So I just keep what I like or makes sense to me, and I write my own adventure.

What you are commenting is true, but it's unrelated with what the therapy world focuses on. Most therapy ideas focus on personal stuff and completely avoid politics, history, economics or anything intellectual outside the person. I guess it's safe to assume that most therapists probably just *believe* whatever piece of mass propaganda seems to cause the least friction. So we cannot expect them to risk their position as best selling authors by saying outrageous things like "I want to know what is true" or "It would be nice if the servants of the Rockefellers would stop killing people to rob them, wouldn't it?"

Who cares what their political beliefs are. They are uninterested in all of it. They ignore the Anaconda at their own peril.

But you are a free agent, and you can learn to use strategies and techniques to tend to your own issues, and at the same time you can also keep an eye in the overarching problem. This remains in your power even if you disagree with whatever therapist who teaches his doctrine.

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Why should we be listening and "trusting" the "science" of psychology WHEN the sciences of modern medicine, big pharmaceuticals, food science, and all "science 'approved' by the NIH, CDC, FDA...... are all being exposed as fraught with evil and corruption. It is important to focus on the healing aspect of trauma and injury but it is at least as important to focus on how to stop evil so that trauma is prevented and healing is not needed.

Go to the infowars.com website and see todays interview by Alex JOnes of Dr. Judy Mikovits. She does a complete expose' of the vaccine "science" that she was involved in for decades, and blew the whistle and got into a lot of "trouble". She now says "NEVER GET ANOTHER VACCINE." because ALL vaccines since the 1990's are intentionally designed to harm people - "bioweapons."

She also said "Never go into a pharmacy" (there is no reason to use any of its drugs). And she said "NEVER allow yourself to be 'scanned' at an airport security check-center." Why? It triggers cancer. She even said "Never take cough medicine because coughing is part of our immune system response - to get rid of bad stuff - cough medicine is a suppressor OF the immune system response. She says that since the early 1990's EVERY vaccine contained harmful components like the SV40 simian monkey virus that is cancer promoting. EVERY VACCINE has things that effect the immune system, she says, thus one can be diagnosed with AIDS (it isn't acquired immune deficiency it is CAUSED by vaccines SHE SAID) OR with HIV or some other made up illness.

The world will one day soon, maybe in a few months, see POTUS DJT recognizing Ms. Mikovits for being a true super-hero in what she did and what she suffered through. She has stated on camera that her husband was "murdered by COVID (a bioweapon)."

Imagine the trauma to children and adults in the past 4 years as a result of injury from vaccination, death of loved ones, permanent disability, loss of a working parent or spouse, the burden of taking care of the injured and disabled.....

SO WHY SHOULD WE LISTEN TO THE FIELD OF PSYCHOLOGY? And those "experts" And if we do listen, who do we trust. DO the FDA, CDC, NIH, AMA, APA, etc actually stand for anything these days? Not with me - for me they represent corruption and evil at the core.

I recently read an article that indicated there was evidence that Sigmund Freud was a pedophile so he came up with his "theory" of the "Oedipus complex" (children sexually attracted to their parents) because it aligned with his pedophile psycho-pathology. Was he psychologically justifying his pedophilia if he was one. I don't know but look at the world. Epstein. P-Diddy. Pedophiles and Traffickers. Long ago the child star Corey Feldman said about HOllywood that "pedophiles are everywhere". The singer/composer Alanis Morrisette said years ago that pedophilia was worse in the music industry. They are not alone. Let's stop the trauma.

The long-time Vatican watcher/reporter Leo Zagami, who grew up in the Rome area AND has written 9+ books titled "Confessions of an Illuminati" (he grew up in that evil world) told Alex Jones on camera several years ago that "The Vatican is at the center of child trafficking worldwide." Can't believe that? Well the Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, who was the Nuncio (Vatican Rep) to America under two Popes (current and prior) wrote twice to POTUS DJT around 2018/2019 and said "There is a great evil in the Church." I grew up Catholic (church and schools) and "There IS a great evil in the Church." Pedophilia everywhere. Vigano's letters to DJT were posted on the Internet. Where, you might ask? QANON.PUB --- "Q" - what everyone wanted you to believe was a "conspiracy theory."

What you can do right now is write to 45office.com - that is Trump's and Melania's contact website (that replaced Whitehouse.gov after Trump "lost' in 2020). Tell him/them that you want to follow the words of Christ about what is "better" to do than to harm a child. Have the death penalty as a realistic, fairly certain (not rare) penalty for trauma of any kind to children. After all Christ said it was better to have a rope tied around oneself and tied to a heavy millstone and be thrown into the sea than to harm a child - to cause an innocent child to stray away from Christ's teachings. Evil begets evil and Christ said it was YOUR responsibility to stop evil even if YOU are the evil one. My WWII Marine veteran dad had wisdom in this area: "Don't argue with evil. Stop them." NO NONSENSE. "STOP THEM"

Focusing on healing is critically important. More important is the prevention of trauma to children going forward. Champion "STOP THEM" and the death penalty is how to stop evil against children.

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I was unwittingly involved ,over decades, in the cessation of an international orchestra ,because of Board members ,and few memebers of the orchestra being founding members of Stichting Martijn.The Amsterdam orchestra in question - still has many offshoots.I found it ridiculous that no real nuancing ,except shoving all evidence under the carpet ,is the only dutch norm associated...Real separation of the precious from the vile ' takes grit ,courage ,and planned failure .

The ONLY way to do as your dad suggests - is to stop talking about it ,and just do it.

Meanwhile my ex and I destroyed 3 tandems in deserts ; rainforests much inbetween - around the world.Round 2 was effortless but extremely nasty- with fatal fallout ,decades later.This is not a sunday stroll in the park we're talking.

If it is true that God 'completes our every work' - its the organisational willingness to reach out ,itemise- collate - in this case REVERSING the complete work of chief criminologist & lawgiver in NL Edward Brongersma - for 40 years in his facile determining Yogokarta Principles as the bedrock of european ,if not only NL ,society.

No amount of silence on the Yogokarta Principles will uncover Guyon's ( Kinsey's mentor) horrific holocaust.

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Joy Lucette Garner's avatar

So true. I remember being shocked at how sympathetic a relative was when I told her of a "trauma" (which I shared without emotion). She began to cry as I spoke. She reached for my hand and looked me directly in the eyes, and I actually felt funny that SHE was so sad for me.

Interestingly, I haven't thought of that particular "trauma" since I shared it with her that day. And at this moment, I can't even remember what it was! All I remember, is that day when someone expressed empathy for me and made me feel visible. Wow. It's like my "script" (my story) shifted that very day.

This post shares a VERY valuable sentiment, perhaps a guide for us all when dealing with others who are hurting. They are not always looking for someone to "fix" it for them. (Which might be what we fear when people share their hurts?) Maybe they just need someone to acknowledge something? Allow them to be seen? Let them know they matter, and that someone else on this planet has empathy for them?

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Shona Duncan's avatar

When children are not soothed by their mother after a traumatic experience, or experiences, they often go on to develop what psychiatrists like to call "personality disorders". The experiences are usually sex abuse, and the psychiatric label will diminish the credibility of the victim. Interestingly the victim is behaving normally to an abnormal situation. Psychiatrists are shills for deep state shitfuckery.

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Quill Cross's avatar

Celia… this is the MK Ultra “learnings” writ large. Global. It never went away; it went underground and mated with Big Tech. Using “The Plan” with fear based trauma - as you stated we are all traumatized - to “break” us and insert that “new” narrative. i.e. “You will own nothing and be happy.”

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Celia Farber's avatar

Yes Quill Cross, I could not agree more. BTW I wanted to thank you for a truly amazing honor you accorded me a few weeks ago.

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Denny H.'s avatar

More on healing trauma - whyisthistrue.com We’ve been at it since Jan 2021 almost full-time without advertising. All word of mouth. The best job I’ve ever had. Developed by Karl Mollison. It works!

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Renee Marie's avatar

Have you read, “Thirty Years Among the Dead”, by Carl Wickland?

Absolutely amazing…

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Denny H.'s avatar

No & thanks for the recommendation. I read A LOT! Need a 12 step program for that!

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Renee Marie's avatar

I LOVE books! I’m a bookworm.

The book is conversations with those that are not able to “crossover”. They’re stuck, and some don’t know they’re “dead”…it’s vey sad, actually. This is from the 1920’s, so some of the language is quite different…almost like a time capsule.

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Denny H.'s avatar

That subject is covered extensively at GetWisdom.com and Karl Mollison's work is partially based on Brent Baum's HMR and William Baldwin's book Spirit Releasement Therapy. I've read Brent's book and trained with him in Tucson, but only skimmed Baldwin's book. Frankly, Karl, and I am admittedly very biased, has surpassed that foundational work by far and we teach people to do it themselves. Best job I've ever had!

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deliz's avatar

Dear Celia, I had an epiphany last night as I sat wondering about how we can bridge the divide between "vaxxed & anti-vaxxed" and all the other divisions that have cropped up in the COVID years. I watched your share of "How Abuse Messes with Your Brain" and it was hard to watch. I have my own yucky feelings from childhood and adolescence--but this little animated lesson stuck with me, and what occurred to me is that All those on the "other side" who bought the Govt Narrative have been abused! They are protecting their abusers and themselves from the awful realization and shame that will accompany it. I am really seeing this with compassion and wishing to be able to help them through the necessary agony of awakening to this awful crime perpetrated on them--and truly on all of us. But AWAKEN they MUST. We cannot bridge the divide between us without their help--their empowered help, The Phoenix rising from the ashes. If they do not go through the necessary step of SEEING "How Abuse Messes with Your Brain" our human race will be forever weakened by our inability to UNITE in making sure that this CRIMINAL ABUSE never happens again. And our part in this awakening is to be infinitely compassionate for what they suffered BUT ABSOLUTE about the need to SEE, gather the WISDOM and move on to RE-UNION. This is essential or--in our weakened condition of disarray--WE will become slaves to those who perpetrated this crime.

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Shawn Pitcher's avatar

I need to heal from the shame of unwittingly allowing all my children to be abused by our Pediatrician and Nurses by following the CDC Childhood Vaccine Schedule. Heal from the shame of feeding them ultra-processed foods. Heal from the shame of neglecting to realize that public education had also become an abuser. Luckily, I am still, now, foolish enough to believe and act with and through Love. Thanks for sharing this. Much appreciated.

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Older and Wiser's avatar

Shawn, as an old man, here is my hard-earned wisdom after 70+ years. Focus on the future. Recently Dr. Peter McCullough ("The Wellness Company") revealed there are some fairly natural cures to some of the effects of vaccines. The other person to follow is Dr. Judy Mikovits who was in vaccine science research for decades but became a whistleblower.

My general-health layman's advise as a parent is that of the science of Dr. Satchin Panda of the Salk Institute. His findings around 2016-2018, changed all of my health problems. I am the envy of men even 10 to 20 years younger - a freak of health. But 7 years ago I was "getting my affairs in order." Dr. Panda (see youtube interviews by Dr. Rhonda Patrick around 2016-2018) proved that "WHEN we eat is more important than WHAT we eat." AND this shocker: "Sadly it is better to eat an unhealthy meal DURING THE DAY because eating later in the evening turns even HIGHLY NUTRITIOUS food into junk" NOTE he was not promoting eating unhealthy food but showing how bad late eating is. He explained that the "excess circulating glucose (ECG) present in the blood AS THE SUN IS SETTING causes inflammation ("the root of all illness" ALL THRU THE NIGHT. ) I made this one change and my horrible health (what a psychiatrist deemed as "what a prisoner of war goes through with chronic pain, the certainty of pain, chronic sleep deprivation and hopelessness FOR 25 years) was all healed in weeks/months with this ONE change.

Inflammation from late eating WAS the cause of 25 years of POW-like suffering. If you have trouble, like I do, "trusting the science" at this point and if you have faith then follow the similar words of wisdom of Christ Himself. In the little known ancient documents (two of them) titled "The Essene Gospel of Peace" (see amazon) which is the FIRST-PERSON written words of Christ by his fellow Essene people, Christ said "Don't put death into your body. Put life." - no meat and no cooking. Granted that is stringent but "hear Him out." since "Fear not for I am God.". He said a 7 day fast would "cure you of all of the sins against your body." I did such a fast recently. It is not easy. It is not painful but a tough mental challenge of "Eat!" vs "Don't eat". MOST important is that Christ said we should eat two meals a day. "The first with the sun at its highest. And the 2nd (final) with the setting of the sun."

Christ's wisdom about when to eat was centered on the position of the sun - what Dr. Panda eventually proved.

I told the above to a stranger on a golf course. I assessed he wasn't listening. Four weeks later he saw me and with great excitement and tears told me this: "I listened to what you said. I am 73 years old and a type II diabetic for 20 years, taking insulin often. I have tried every diet, fad, gimmick, etc. all to no avail. When I got home that day I figured "What do I have to lose. I'll try what that man (me) says he does." After one week he realized that his daily AM glucose test scores had been in a slight but steady downward trend EACH DAY. THAT MOTIVATED HIM to keep going (he was healing and not causing nighttime inflammation). He then said in tears "I am here to tell you (4 weeks later) that my glucose this morning was 78 (normal is <80). I can't tell you how long it has been since I have seen such a LOW number. I now believe I will be living a much better life than I had feared." True story and there are others.

Christ said don't sin against the laws-of-life from our Earth Mother. And He said "All sins" can be addressed with fasting. Not eating too close to sundown is thus a "fast" of about 12 hours. NOTE that meat takes 6 hours or more to fully digest and it results in ECG which causes inflammation ALL THRU THE NIGHT. So meat is for breakfast or early lunch.

To your health and that of your family.

IN 2018 I was getting my affairs in order. Today I am a freak of health and the envy of my peers and those much younger. In the running community I used to be in, my performances are now a shock to others who ask me how many miles are you training per week. When I tell them barely 5 miles PER WEEK (which is nothing) they are in shock. "How can this be that you run so well at your age?" I tell them: "Every morning I wake up with no inflammation thus the exchange of oxygen from lungs to blood to organs/tissue/brain, etc. is NOT IMPAIRED. And in return, the exchange of waste products (CO2, lactic acid, etc) for removal is NOT IMPAIRED. Since my body is not causing inflammation EVERY NIGHT it is thus HEALING from the days activities. I now know what a truly healthy body can do."

I have learned what God's natural design of our bodies can do and it is shocking. Hard to believe. I'm like a different species that "normal" people cannot comprehend. God's design.

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Shawn Pitcher's avatar

Thank you very much for these kind words. Very much appreciated. I am reading through Dr. Jason Fung’s work right now. The recommendation to “focus on the future” is worth investigating. Relating back to the topic of trauma recovery, I can see now from my original reply, that I’ve got to figure out how to digest and metabolize all the regret I’ve been consuming over the years.

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Kilquor's avatar

I was unimpressed with Levine- because he infantilises- just as he 'stuffed' (historically) till admitting his own gang rape.The far better approach is John Bradshaw's 'Healing Toxic Shame'- where the hidden addiction to victim mentality is adressed as addiction.Levine misses this by several barn doors - because his is speaking FROM fragmentation- instead of 'status quo ante' - the goal of ANY and EVERY therapy.

Bruce Chatwin's Utz is a very funny response to Bidens toxic forever pardon for Fauci .

Which is the only doublethink we adress today,in practice.

The character in Utz has the world's most priceless pre soviet Czech minature porcelain collection ,every soviet attempt to snitch it failed,ditto every 'democratic' attempt ..

Not only figurative forerunner of Biden's forever pardon encapsulated in (western) Sotherby's avarice being spiritually akin to Fauci's own finacial vacuuity presenting as 'a whitewashed pigsty'.

Remember Chatwin was Sotherby's/Christies chief 'salesman' for decades.

Chatwin's last book ,completed while he was dying of aids -portrays narratives of cultural appropiation ( that every native tribe in the world will understand ) .Starmer's CCDH is simply cultural appropiation ,black ops merely the attempt to narritive shame as addiction.

AND that Fauci NEVER will do - because he is Lord Temporal and Lord Spiritual,according to Biden.

politico link bypassing paywall

https://archive.is/WIn1f

So Utz ends with nobody ,except the cleaning lady -having any idea where this Smithsonian beating minature porcelain collection 'went'.

Just as it should.

'Let them be accursed' is the best mode of 'separating the precious from the vile'

whenever confronted with hippocampus shrinkers ,aliens ,or any fallen angel.

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Celia Farber's avatar

The world's most priceless pre-soviet Czech miniature porcelain collection.

shame as addiction.

hippocampus shrinkers.

died of aids. (?!)

the cleaning lady….knew...

…I just want brain improvement so it doesn't keep getting worse. It feels like the Cask of Amontillado. I understand the concept of this "addiction" but surely the word is masochism? To seek out abuse because it's all one knows?

I ought to have read this book Utz . it sounds phenomenal. and funny is also going extinct. We need other people for funny to survive it can't be done alone too well. it makes me sad you hate Peter Levine. I was just about to do everything he says.

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Kilquor's avatar

Hey ,you're the writer -I'm just tagging along...tension between Hannah Arendt's 'Banality of Evil' which essentially describes congealed 'stasis'- a mathematical approach to life - ie life =(optical) vector minus 1.

It's the 'blob' we are fond enough of to even allow it to make itself comfortable.

A solidly incremental week of that 'll suffice to clone any any Bibi into a Napoleon..tho a Hitler into a Stalin is harder but a Blair into a Hussein is not.

First up - share more of your take- Levine is not bad - just 3 dimensional - whereas we are poly vectored.

Addiction ,in the sense there is nothing worse than a 'dry' drunk..

Masochism is mostly conscious - rarely unaware of self gratification.Addiction is the use of any created object ,as if it were divine,instead of 'being Godded"..

I had Paula Shields lead me through several very early - to teen repressed memories - because Christ is the same yesterday Today and forever.Re-invent the imagination by asking the form of Christ to transform the 'substance'.

IE ask to become God's lie.

'Father take this myth and make it Thine

Peg my soul out on the line

It drips a bit ,hung out to dry

an escapee from DIY.'

This is NOT foolproof,maybe that's the issue.

To be an effective fool ,one must abandon the 'for Christ' memorandom.Dangerous ,freaky ,but eventually mirthful.

Here's another quote from the inimitable Chatwin UTZ .

(It's Baron UTZ ,who the soviets forgot to liquidate- his miniature ,obsessive

porcelain figurine collections in Vienna ,and the soviet east -were so unbelievably stellar - that all trace would be lost- his intention and survival..)

Here goes:-

He cut a cube of meat ,impaled it ,held it in the air,and adressed me ,pedantically:

‘Each time I see apiece of “pork” on my fork ,I must remind myself that “pork” and porcelain” are the

same word’’

‘Really?’ I said.’How’s that?’

-‘Really,you dont know it?’

‘Really not.’

-‘So I will explain.’

He reached for one of the shelves and handed me a small white cowrie shell,an ordinary specimen of ‘Cyprae moneta’.Did its shape ,by any chance,remind me of a pig?

‘Why not’

-’Good,’ he said.’We agree on that one also.’

Cowries,he went on,were used as currency in Africa and Asia where they were traded for ivory,gold ,slaves or other marketable commodities.

Marco Polo called them ‘porcelain shells’ : ‘porcella’ in italian was the word for ‘little sow’.

He let out a perfect hiccough,probably caused by the saurkraut.

--’I apologise’ he said.

‘Dont mention it.’

He then produced ,as if from nowhere ,a bottle of translucent white porcelain which dated from the epoch of Kublai Khan.

He had bought it in Paris before the war (WW2)

Wouldn’t I agree that its glaze resembled that of a cowrie?

-’I would.’

‘Thank you.’

His next exhibit was the photo of an almost identical bottle in the Treasury of St Mark’s: an object which was said to have arrived in Venice in the bags of Marco Polo himself.

‘So now you understand about “pork’ and “porcelain”?’

‘I think so ,’ I said.

Chinese porcelain , he continued, was one of those legendary substances,like unicorn horn or alchemical gold,from which men hoped to drink the Fountain of Youth.

A porcelain cup was said to crack or discolour if poisen were poured into it.

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Eileen Schrader's avatar

Peter Levine is brilliant especially his work understanding the body storing and releasing trauma.

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Frank's avatar

Thank you for the excellent article.

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edward's avatar

Good one. I add thank you Celia for being who and what you are.

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matt Arnold's avatar

I meditate on proverbs 3:5&6

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Marilyn F's avatar

So so true!

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alison's avatar

I became familiar with the work of Peter Levine from his book Waking the Tiger in the early 2000s after 9/11. I think its aim was to help the victims of the 9/11 murders in NYC twin towers. I spent some time after trying to understand trauma in its varied forms because I realized my own problems were the result of traumas as a very young child. I found that I was not ready to go as deep as needed; it was too painful. Since the trauma of the Covid scamdemic has affected so many, many people in ways that seem unfathomable and so many more know they are not alone in their grief and pain. I finally think I have found a place among people I can be open about my thoughts about trauma. Celia, I wonder if you came into this world as a purpose to facilitate a wave of healing from the Divine. You are blessed with human talent for others to see it and increase the wave.

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Celia Farber's avatar

dear Alison, you have helped me find the footpath, helped me understand this is needed. I'm always thinking about our minds (PTSD/Covid) which really means our hearts.

They designed it to shatter every heart. Is my place in all this to not shut up about that? I certainly can't. compete about "the science." It was the same with aids and I was told I was useless by our own side. then again he was probably a gov. plant.

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alison's avatar

Indeed, many saboteurs. Even the very sick, desperate for a cure, did not want to see the truth; they would have had to take responsibility for their actions in making themselves sick. You worked tirelessly to bring evidence to them they were being lied to. Take into your heart that millions of people have gained from your work, not just about the lies about AIDS

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Sepp Hasslberger's avatar

This brings to mind the work of Hamer, a German doctor who showed that cancer and most other diseases arise because of an unconfronted traumatic shock event, and that healing is dependent on bringing the traumatic experience from the unconscious to the conscious knowing of our mind ...

https://germanische-heilkunde-dr-hamer.com

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Kilquor's avatar

Yet Mikovits names every cancer as HIV immunity issue,no more,no less.

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Kilquor's avatar

The issue is one of universalism - assuming that there is no apparent sheep OR goats..Results in idealising trauma as the collecting of 'angers' ,commodifying them ,reselling them - as western democratic 'newspeak'.However christianised .Is why Steiner is a plonker,incidentally-in that he sought to incidentalise trauma - as a means of re-ifying - ie making grandiose projections -about the attraction of the universal whole,purely mythical.

In this he was every bit as occult as Alistair Crowley,with whom he - along with Andre Breton (Dadaists) ,Anias Nin,agreed.

Rechanneling is the term ,fractionalism the effect.

To overfocus on trauma - is ,according to the exellent Lianne Payne ,to repeat it.

She dealt with the cannabilism that followed the urges to repeat deep ,forgotten trauma in specifically sexual abuse.

Levin falls flat on the issue of his own fractionalism.'Re traumfication' is the issue Payne ,as CS Lewis expert and healer -seeks to 'bypass'.IE she took on those who were repeat pedosexuals- and went through ALL the steps to prevent re-traumatisation - thereby healing them

The obfscuration of any universal assumption of logical 'disincarnative' literal recapitulation is at the heart of Levine and followers philosophy.

Yet Christ called us to 'tear down strongholds' beyond the castles in the air and ground that prevent you ,your neighbor ,or myself from getting a mere cup of clean water.

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Celia Farber's avatar

I have wondered for years about Steiner. Crowley way worse than people seem to know. Anais Nin seemed very traumatized. I never focus on trauma, no therapy, nobody has ever asked me about the early stuff. I just work here.

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Kilquor's avatar

I almost liked Steiner's 'Self -Doubt ' ,

Harold Hass' 145 page compilation on *threshold experiences,crises of the soul & healing on the anthroposophical path- applied Steiner ,if you will.

*Threshold experiences are the blind spot perceptions that Steiner argues 'remaining partially blind to' actually stimulate the path of healing,by ignorance.

Its what separates a certain somatic feeling of gut knowledge -that there is a practical way out- from under the compulsion to repeat patterns of fear...

But when 'nouthesis' is being practiced- ie Galation 6's 'bear one another's burdens,and so fulfill the law of Christ '

- simply diametrically apposite to prolonguing blind spots 'till spiritually ready' ,in certain contexts... (nouthesis is 'bearing',in the sense of mirroring -and mirthful 'tough love' - zero judgement allowed)

Chief proponent Jay Adams has his seminal 'Competent to Counsel' taking on the actuality of why any psych patient stagnates.

He saw stagnation as not doing that tax return; not breaking that draining contract ,or relationship -etc.

The chief reason nouthesis fails is because it is too judgementally applied ,by mediocre observers

-Welby the soon to be ex Archbishop of Canterbury ,is convincing 'midde manager' case in point.

No amount of 'structures of conviviality' actually loosens a person's inner ability to 'go it alone'.As the 2013 hard knowledge that Welby had of 40 years of Smyth's sexual molestation of many ,many public school camp victims suggests.

And that is where Steiner goes slightly wonky- he idealises unified experience into a presumed experience of shared 'Nirvana'

which is light years ,in questions of compassionately preventing anyone from falling ,at what ever age.

One thing I like about Anias Nin- Alistair Crowley could not look ever into her eyes- because of her threateningly 'ancient wisdom'.

If he'd learnt to vocalise taboos in the same fashion that Nin's longterm admirer Miller managed ,even through decades of his only recently (un)banned books -which are simply a distilled light touch,the 'monster of Inverness' might actually have achieved humanity,instead of appearing on the cover of Beatle's Yellow Submarine

record sleeve as apotheosis.

Miller understood that repeating the same taboo expletive ,say 20 -50 times vaxxinates the auditor ,not unlike the phonetic perceptural excercises ,per day that Older and Wiser attests to the healing power of .

This connects with the point made by Bonhoeffer - that it is only the true Christian - who actualises the secular world 'AS ' enjoyment.

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