Thanks to Kathleen. Excerpted from:
Thomas Hübl on the Collective Trauma Online Summit
https://thomashuebl.com/collective-trauma-online-summit/
The World is Traumatized
We are all born into a traumatized world. That is why we only know it this way and it seems normal to us at first. Many individual traumatizations therefore, do not come into conflict with the surrounding group and society. The individual trauma in the life of an individual human being is not a separate and isolated event, but is embedded in thousands of years of traumatization, and also in the approaches to healing it.
Thomas Hübl, Gabor Maté
When we look at the world, our society, and ourselves, we often say: “Yes, that’s life.” Much seems to have always been like this, and has condensed into “practical wisdom.” But that is often the wounded life! The effect of traumatization is part of it. This is an important difference that needs to be recognized.
Both, conditioned behaviour and many structures in our society are not just like that, but they are like that because we are traumatized and therefore, created them in this way.
Kosha Joubert, Visolela Rosa Namises
More and more research results are being made available from the side of science which prove the existence of transgenerational trauma, and show the ways in which it is transmitted through the generations.
It is becoming increasingly clear that we carry the tendencies and wounds of the past within us and suffer from them.
If you become aware that you are hurt, then you can take care of it with the right measures.
The Challenges of Today’s World
Many issues that are currently acute, including climate change, are affected. The climate crisis in particular has the potential to cause even more collective trauma in the coming decades.
We also see the effects of collective trauma in the economy, in the financial system, in how technology develops, in education, in healthcare, and in many other social issues.
And in the fact that military and armaments spending is rising worldwide. A huge part of our resources is used for fighting and destroying each other and not for cooperation.
The time has come for a joint development of high competence and awareness in dealing with collective traumas and for the development of resilience, so that we can become sustainable for the future and master the challenges of today with creativity, with with a sense of global community and in relation to reality!
Closing Panel: Thomas Hübl, Christina Bethell, Monica Sharma, William Ury, Robin Alfred
However, many people are tempted to think that we can deal with the massive changes in the world that will take place in the coming decades from the present perspective, since things still seem “relatively normal” to us today.
The fact is, that when more panic and insecurity arise in a society, it can easily happen that we lose the higher functions of our humanity, such as compassion, multi-perspectivity, creativity, and rootedness, and find ourselves in fear of survival and the feeling of separation and against one another.
The Root of Separation
That is why it is so important that we illuminate and integrate the root of the separation, as far as possible beforehand, and make it a regular practice. This has been described well in many spiritual traditions.
Any serious spiritual practice must deal with the traumatizations and their effects in the individual and the collective, and show practical ways in which we can integrate the wounds of the past into the present state. This cannot be done through intellectual teachings and advice, nor through self-help recipes.
What has been hurt in relationship can only heal in relationship. This is only possible in communities that dedicate themselves to it with all their strength and intention. And to establish a practice where we deal with each other and also with the help of trained professionals to become whole human beings and to reduce the degree of separateness.
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