Toward a World that Works for Everyone
We know that our incompletions are being raised at this time. Mine are up big time. Just as I did at Porteau Cove maybe forty years ago, I look around for a safe haven from the discordant flood of feelings. At Porteau Cove campsite, near Vancouver, there was so much external noise around me that […]
Secondary traumatization occurs when a person hears or watches an account of horrendous, shocking, or sickening events and is traumatized from the hearing or seeing rather than from being a part of them. I spent eight years as a refugee adjudicator/human-rights decision maker with the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, listening to stories of […]
In this latest chapter in my Ascension ethnography, having changed my vote from image management and hard bargaining to the divine qualities and their source – love – I find my life very disoriented. I know that I can expect resistance, in the form of vasanas (core issues, memories of early childhood trauma) going off. […]
Having committed to the divine qualities, as a way of anchoring myself in them, what next confronts me are the reaction patterns that vasanas (core issues, early childhood trauma) give rise to. Up till now, I’ve been mainly concerned with my vasanas, and not with the automatic reaction patterns they give rise to. Commitment does […]
Gabor Maté: “Our job, as human beings, is to learn from our suffering.” By Travis Lupick, Yes, November 15, 2021 https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/a-new-social-justice/2021/11/15/addiction-childhood-trauma-compassion “I’ve always been a rebel,” Gabor Maté says in The Wisdom of Trauma, a new documentary about the acclaimed physician’s groundbreaking work in mental health. “In communist Hungary, in grade six, my teacher wrote […]
