Spirituality, Archetypes, and Trauma: Peter Levine

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The treatment of trauma is fraught with many pitfalls and “tight corners.” Generally overlooked, however, is an innate relationship between trauma, archetypes and spirituality. Understanding and applying these intimate relationships can suggest therapeutic strategies and support the genuine transformation of traumatic experience.
The “awe-full” qualities of horror and terror may share essential structural, psycho-physiological and phenomenological roots with those underlying transformative states such as flow, awe, presence, timelessness and ecstasy. Our organisms are designed with primitive-instinctual-proclivities that move us to extraordinary feats of focused attention and action when we perceive that our lives are threatened. The bridging and “owning” of these survival capacities of readiness, “slow motion” perception, and intense, focused, alertness with more “ordinary” states of consciousness promotes the experience of “timelessness” and presence sometimes referred to, in meditation systems, as “the eternal now.”
In addition, the effect of trauma involves a profound compression of activation. The ability to access, and integrate the rhythmic movements of this “bound energy” determines whether it will be destructive or potentially vitalizing.
In the Yoga’s of the East, awakening of the “Kundalini” has long been utilized as a vehicle for spiritual transformation. In trauma, a similar mobilization of (survival) activation is evoked, but with such intensity and rapidity that it is overwhelming. If we can gradually access, titrate and integrate this “energy” into our nervous system and psychic structures then the instinctual survival response imbedded within trauma can also catalyze authentic spiritual transformation.
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[@mackenziej.leavitt3897]

The movie Life of Pi is all about the dynamics expressed here in this talk. Would highly recommend it in this context.

[@mih2965]

Peter Levine is a genious.

[@Ayman-te7wf]

I hope more of this are coming out on RUclips, we dont know how much is Mr. Levine gonna be around.

[@TruthInMotionStudios]

I very much appreciate your teachings!

[@HMALDANA]

What a profound talk! Thanks for sharing.

[@andruc93]

So beautiful explained! Thank you! 🙏🏻❤

[@RubyRoseFox]

With all due respect, without a solid definition of “self” these metaphors become complicated and convoluted. I think the dual vortices are a much more complicated metaphor than what is actually happening. Then, to compare them to other vortices is as lazy as Q conspiracists. We have no evidence that those cultures were using those symbols in this same contact (dissolving trauma). Sigh. I think we need to be very careful in this work not to fall into projecting our ideas onto ancient culture unless very specific evidence is given.

[@hitoshura2800]

I agree with you on what you said about our problem of projecting. The only thing I think he could have meant by self is that, if you watch his videos, he describes the version of us that is unbridled by trauma. The part of us that isn't an automatic trigger response and that's curious, thoughtful, and at ease. Of course, I have no idea what he really meant im just spitballing

[@lilah3078]

He has never claimed that they used those symbols in the same context. He just found it interesting that it's been used in various cultures, often within a spiritual context. It sounds like you haven't followed his work or read his books and are jumping to conclusions instead.

[@nononouh]

Horse wild; daoist poetry

[@nononouh]

Vitalism, trauma can return us to?

[@lynnequity7296]

My animal body became angry that there's always a white male voice telling me what is happening. No disrespect intended, this is what happened for me. Unity without diversity is what exactly?

[@peggyharris3815]

It's scary.
It's the hive.