At the core of every trauma and abuse is the violation of human dignity and the encounter with evil. Three psychological mechanisms can be associated with trauma and abuse. Identifying them allows us to come to a deeper understanding of the ramifications implicit in each. 1. Compartmentalization: a way of coping with lifes stresses by separating experiences, feelings and thoughts, as well as isolating one sphere of activity from another. Such a coping style leads us to believe that there is no continuity to life, no past and no future, we become fixed in the present situation. It results in a hardening of our etheric (life)body, rendering any fluidity of the heart impossible. We also become morally rigid and incapable of being flexible in our choices and opinions. 2. Disassociation: an outcome of trauma and intolerable pain. It is a growing reality that many people experience disassociation from their lives, which means that they have no sense of time. They live in an excarnated space with the (traumatised) dead, the spectors and phantoms, feeding on the unfinished karma all around us. The result being we loose our ability for compassion towards fellow beings. Self-hate (rage turned inside out) is fostered which is what drives so much of the violence in the world. 3. Suicidal ideation arises out of the despair of living in such a space. Imagine still having your heart beat, still having your heart perceive all the paralysed attempts to meet your destiny and yet being helpless and enchained by fear. Eventually there is only one course for someone who experiences this in their heart i.e. to long for death. After being manipulated from the other side of the threshold to disempower us, our unused ether (life)forces are stolen. If suicide is carried out we are possibly prevented from fulfilling our destiny. - William Bento.
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 08:49:46 +0000
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