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Ancestral trauma/patterns is real? bullshit?
I've been working with a healer the past year that holds a more ancestral trauma frame being transmitted down the line. To believe such a thing, you kinda have to believe there's either (A) a non-material way of transmitting such trauma across generations or (B) we simply don't... - Tomo...
I've not really read the mentioned book very thoroughly, but I'm familiar with the ideas these authors share. I've had chronic pains in my body that when worked on and with (by varying traditional and new-age methods), have burst into imagery, thoughts and emotion that form a... thanks, good to hear this. I hope questioning the explanatory framework around this stuff doesn't feel invalidating of powerful healing experiences you've had, or the value you and others are getting from practice inspired by these writings and concepts.... I liked this Slate Star Codex review of the book for the kinds of things it could have done better. I mostly remember the review because of this part, late in the review: [Update, written a few weeks after the rest of this post: maybe it is all wizardry.... is "The Body Keeps the Score" misleading, or even flat out disproven?
I think this is an extremely important topic. So many people's ideas about trauma rest on the writings of Peter Levine and Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score author)—but what if they just don't hold up to scrutiny, and the "science" they reference doesn't exist or is... - david...
How timely?! I have been studying collective and ancestral trauma with Thomas Hubl for the past 8 months, and I'm uncovering a woundedness that lives in me through my culture that I wasn't even consciously aware of previously.... - fra...
I have listened to the first of the two tracks. I did not like it but thanks for sharing. Not a word on childhood trauma, no understanding of the natural path we are designed for as children. A magical reassuring belief that we are on a path of spiritual evolution....